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Feels so far-fetched, like "puzzle for the sake of puzzle"
Here is how you solve it.
First, what happened. There is a ritual to determine rulership. First you take a test, then the winner goes through the rite involving the blade. It is a magic trick where the Lemurians have a person inside the device lower the candidates torso so the blade doesn't cut them in half.
This was sabotaged- someone tossed a bottle that says 'throw me in the eye' and the servant inside has a blue stain on their hand; the various pieces around the island let us figure out that means there was a venomous cricket in the bottle.
Since it was labeled, that means there were two people involve- the person who prepared the bottle and the person who used it. The user has to be the prince (if it was anyone else, they'd be the individual acquiring it and thus not need to label the bottle).
As for who acquired the poison there are hints (the code is in English on paper from a British company), but to pull it off they need to know how the ritual is conducted.
The answer to that is puzzle 1 (where a life is saved) and the part in puzzle two where the Lemurian Saint is offering 'a secret for a life'.
I wasn't joking about esoteric- you are supposed to realize the Englishman knows about the secret ritual of kingship because he saved the guys life in the first puzzle.
I didn't get that the first time so thought the killer was either the spymaster or warrior because the servant girl was the only possible source of information for how the machine works.
Who wanted prince/princess dead? Was it envious prince (who absolutely doesn't sound envious or mad about his sister princess taking part in it)? Was it priest father of an indian boy (forgot the name) trying to sabotage the ritual and ruin relationship between families/regions? Was it father himself, trying to keep the throne for himself? Was it blademaster who was in love with this female slave girl? Was it spymaster who uncovered the conspiracy? Was it boy who got refused love of said slave girl?
SO MANY questions and this scenario really felt like I had to just try every choice possible instead of logically coming to one and only possible particular scenario.
That's what I'm dissapointed about, but maybe it's the point of the game.
But to my taste devs try too hard to make scenarios elaborate and difficult, which makes game less enjoyable.
When you are stuck, I would suggest you put the game away and come back following day. And really, draw your notes on paper (like stick men and arrows, and key objects they have...)
I think it must have taking me at least 2 hours for the 2nd case but I sure did not want to cheat or brute force it as that is the beauty of this game.
Concerning the 2nd one, the only thing that was confusing for me is the blue on the servant's hand which looked more like blue ink than a blue insect. Concerning the "Throw me in the eye", if you "de-zoom", you realise that machine she is in has a sort of face on the outside and the eyes are holes, so the bottle was thrown in the hole and something killed the servant.
Both children of the raja had the note saying "if you fail" so it's clear it's someone who wanted to mess with the Lankra people whichever one was the heir.
The 'eye' of the coffin- it is an airhole.
'Throw me in the eye' was the label on the bottle.
The blademaster has a letter from the princess where she mentions they will wed when she becomes queen. He promises to seduce the servant girl to help the princess with the test and if you click the bushes in the funeral scene, you will see the notes the blademaster gave the princess.
The spymaster is in on the plot of the blademaster.
The raja doesn't know the secrets of the ritual.
The Lemurian father and son don't have an incentive to sabotage the ritual because it gets their head on the chopping block.
The prince and princess both have two pieces of writing- their concession speech and a coded letter. An example is found in the spymaters office- use an image to find the word in each sentence that matches it, with each paragraph making a word.
The letters key is the demon statue brought by the Englishman; it says 'if you fail, look in my mouth'. Given both the prince and princess have it, the implication is whoever sent the letter doesn't care who become ruler, but wanted whoever did the ritual to die.
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If you are having trouble following, it is because the motive isn't revealed until the 3rd case. The Lemurians have a life debt system and the Englishman believes Lemuiran possess the secret of immortality so is trying to set things up to revel that secret.
Edit- note there are two Englishmen; the one who is The Spider (and thus masterminded the killings) doesn't appear in the second case.
The first case is supposed to be setup by him and the notes work with that. The Lemurian beats Bill, Bill tries to cut the Lemurians ear off and Geller trips Bill and saves him.
Then Bill get's stabbed in the back by one of Geller's crew and it turns into a free for all. Still can't explain Carlos Luna's position.
If anyone had any use for the 'Four Vase Maximum' sign, the red footprints and the picture of the different garbs of the Lankan forces I would be interested to hear them. They can maybe be just flavour text / be used in future cases somehow Like I imagine the other new characters introduced in the last case will be , but at the minute I'm not sure what purpose they serve.
I think all this just confuses the mystery somewhat. I also wasn't sure about the motivations of Putra Sun. At first I thought he was actually on the side of the Spider, but he's not...? It was his boss that tipped off the spider...?
What was the motive for Geller to set everything up in the second case? I thought it was to get the secret, but he gets it in the third case because of his actions in the first.
The garb lets you identify the murder victim in the last case.
He is the spymaster- he is just doing his job to find the individual responsible for conspiring to murder royalty.
The spider was tipped off by a person we have no knowledge about; they are only mentioned in the third case. They aren't Sun's boss- the spymaster is directly under the Raja.
The eye on the face on the cart that lowers that the servant of the delegation is hiding in. There's a face on the blade cart that's clearly visible. The ritual of the blade is a sham. It's merely a ritual after the logic test already determines the heir. The Lumerian servant hides in the cart and lowers the person on the top being swung at by the pendulum so only the wooden apron is hit, then paints it with red paint to appear to be a wound they survived, 'proving' they are the rightful heir. That part is not the sabotage, but is a secret. The younger Kerra told this secret to Oberon for saving his life at the card game fight he instigated with Ruben Hendricks.('life for life'). Hendricks (the drunk in the corner) is directly involved. He is a shareholder of the printing company and has a note from the spider (it's in green ink) telling him to arrange any newcomer with Bill. Bill gets violent when he loses and the spider's diary in case 3 says he knows the younger Kerra is a good card player (good enough to beat Bill).
The prince failed the logic test but deduced the Albion clue (Albert's inventory shows he had a 'gift' he's supposed to hide in the mouth of the statue the company previously gave. This was the flask containing a poisonous cricket). The coded message on the "learn Albion" leaflet says "if you fail, look in my mouth'. The flask containing the cricket crushed by the servant says "throw me in the eye". The notes were made by the printing company and Oberon specifically as the notes on them are in the green ink he uses. The prince killed his sister to become raja
Oberon Geller set up the sabotage. He is the spider. He set up the entire chain of events because he knew about the legendary golden idol. The idol is a Lumerian artifact that can give life. The Lumerians have a policy of giving 'life for life'. He didn't care which sibling won the logic contest to become heir, because he was already exploiting the younger Kerra's affection for the Kerra servant. This was used to pin the death of the Princess on Zubi Kerra (the younger) but also would have been the prince if he had died in the ritual. This forced the older Kerra (the priest) to give "life for life" to the Raja and Oberon (for saving the younger Kerra at the card came). He chose to reveal the location of the golden idol as it can give life. Which sibling died would not have mattered, Oberon's setup would have revealed the younger Kerra's affections for their servant and the sham of the ritual, pinning it on him anyway. The blademaster seduced the servant in an attempt to find information. Oberon knew the secret of the ritual because the younger Kerra had told him after he 'saved his life' at the card game bloodbath he had also arranged. His diary in the 3rd case all but says all of this.