Your personal "mystery person" you didn't get until late in the game?

[thejuiceweasel]

For me it was the guy with the "captain's hat" and the Amish beard. He took me a damn long time because I really didn't read his visual clues well enough, and his uniform really threw me off.

Also, the bald dude in the lower left of the upper picture. Didn't occur to me he was from the place he was from.

What a fantastic game. Instant GOTY for me.

[NoSoup4you]

Originally posted by Ancalagon:

Yeah, I'm still confused about that leg scene as well. His fate was one of the last I solved as well, because I had the wrong cause of death. When I slotted in the "proper fate and who did it" for the guy who lost a leg, I was still pretty surprised.

Does anyone have a good explanation for that scene?

It was death by sword, right? The captain's steward freaked out over the cursed cargo and tried to break in, fighting the guard in the process. You can see a sword on the ground next to the body. At least if I remember right.

Regarding George Shirley, if I recall he was one of three bodies you can vaguely see flying through the air in one of the kraken battle scenes. Rewind a bit and look at who was in the rowboat nearby. I kind of fudged it though, not sure which of my last three people was George. Also, it's generally reasonable to assume "fell overboard" for a lot of them.

[Barking Sands]

George Shirley (nickname "Crapshoot") was blasted with a cannon by either a beast or by Abraham Akbar. The bodies flying through the air are Nathan Peters, Alexander Booth, and Duncan McKay. You can say they fell overboard, they were torn apart by a beast, or they were devoured by a beast. I believe all three fates work across the board.

[NoSoup4you]

Originally posted by Barking Sands:

George Shirley (nickname "Crapshoot") was blasted with a cannon by either a beast or by Abraham Akbar. The bodies flying through the air are Nathan Peters, Alexander Booth, and Duncan McKay. You can say they fell overboard, they were torn apart by a beast, or they were devoured by a beast. I believe all three fates work across the board.

Oh yeah. I went with the most literal interpretation on everything, but it's cool that it counts other reasonable options.

[Katerwaul]

The Bosun's Mate and the guy who got knifed by the captain in The End gave me a fair bit of trouble. I figured out the former because I happened to see him helping the bosun in a random scene in The Doom while looking for something else, and I worked out the latter through process of elimination using the bunks, since it was narrowed down to only two Englishmen eventually.

The Chinese topmen actually didn't give me too much trouble since I worked them out using their shoes that poke out of the hammocks.

[emkay]

it was carpenters for me. I missed them working at the workshop for some reason. i had to check every single memories to find them.

[Magnus Gray]

For me it was the gunners mate, ended up figuring him out mostly through a process of elimination.

[Tenebrais]

Originally posted by Barking Sands:

George Shirley (nickname "Crapshoot") was blasted with a cannon by either a beast or by Abraham Akbar. The bodies flying through the air are Nathan Peters, Alexander Booth, and Duncan McKay. You can say they fell overboard, they were torn apart by a beast, or they were devoured by a beast. I believe all three fates work across the board.

For those three it will also accept Drowned by a Beast.

Cop one more for the Bosun's mate. I wasn't actually thrown by the red herring, because I'd noticed that guy was unblurred before the Bosun even appeared - so there must have been a different clue to his identity before that. It took me ages to find who the frenchman really was, though, even if I could have taken an educated guess in his very first appearance.

The Purser for me too. I missed any other hints to his identity (I guess I just never paid too much attention to what he was doing) until all the other officers had been eliminated, and he was too fancy for general crew.

In terms of method rather than identity, it did take me a long time to figure out what had done Beng in. How do you qualify stuck your hand in a jar of magic as one of the options? I guess the Bargain chapter kind of hints at how the answer came about, but still not really.
Unless it accepts more than just Poisoned as a valid answer for that death and I just never considered it.

[NoSoup4you]

At first I assumed Beng died of old age/had a heart attack or whatever. After that didn't go off for some time, I switched it to "burned" and it accepted it. It didn't really look like he was on fire for very long though.

[Ancalagon]

I also put that Beng had burned to death, after looking through all the available choices. It was a hard one to pin down but it was the best choice I could see.

[Aquillion]

It accepts either burned or electrocuted, although IMHO electrocuted is even less appropriate. Really, there should be a "dissolved by acid" option, which seems closest to what happens to people who touch the contents of the chest.

[Pckables]

I had the most trouble with Nathan and Samuel Peters. I wasn't aware that there was a second scene with hammocks that occured later in the story to help identify who is who.
I admittedly also confused O'Haigen with one of the russians for a good amount of time, thinking "He wouldn't be shouting to a dead guy would he?" Even seeing the hammocks in chapter 2, i thought he just swapped beds with someone so he could play cards. Eventually I went Occam's Razor and realized I'm making too many excuses when a simpler answer was "Yes, he didn't see O'haigen die."
If anything, i'm fairly proud that I found out how to differentiate the chinese topmen.

The Bosun's mate had me for a short while, but what tipped me off was When he carries away the captain's steward. Aside from directly assisting the bosun in that scene, he's also participating in an area clearly off limits to people of low rank. The Gunner's mate is blocking others from entering the area, so clearly this big oaf is more than a lowly Seaman. Following his memories further into The Doom confirmed it.

[vainglorious1994]

Peter Milroy took me a while to figure out - I recognised that he gets mentioned by name by Thomas Lanke, but I had to go back and forth with death scenes to realise that they were tethered to one another when Peter explodes during The Doom .

Speaking of Thomas Lanke, It took me AGES to figure out who killed him - it didn't click with me that there might be a third person present during Olus Wiater's death scene, and that Lanke was stabbed during the scuffle .

[Ancalagon]

He was stabbed by the Gunner's Mate because he was listening outside their door.

Then it seems everyone is killing everyone due to misunderstandings in front of the Officer's mess.

[Adamantium93]

I had the same issue with Maba that most people had. His tatoos looked Celtic to me so I kept swapping in every Irish, Scottish, or Welsh crewmember to try and figure out which he was. In the end, I realized that Pope was going for New Guinea with him.

I also thought Hamadou was Asian based on his photo, so that took me a while to realize.

I also missed Charles Hirshtick because I skipped his name and thought that Charles Miner was the only Charlie for the longest time. Then I realized he was a midshipman and it fell into place for me.

[Cenon]

Yes, the Bosun's mate. Though I got suspicious quite early since the original guess didn't seem to open with other fates. The second dimwit thought was that the guy who detonated in the Kraken scene, was actuallly torn in the explosion, so he might have been it.

For half of the game I thought there was a priest as a passenger , for the white collar. Then I figured, what is this purser here in the list, and why he is not hinted any apparent way in the events.