- Location
- Ireland
Welp the crotch NP was certainly unexpected for me, also terrifying.
- It would be a violation of the Decalogue, but does Guda's POV character have some sort of attachment to Juliet that would justify hostility to a potential fiance? More to the point, it's strange that Guda's POV character is even present at what should be a private occasion ...
Those ten rules of detective novels don't allow for that, though.
Those ten rules of detective novels don't allow for that, though.
I mean, Christie did it anyway, but she could actually write well. I'm not convinced whoever's writing this can.
Ah, but does it really? The relevant rules are:Those ten rules of detective novels don't allow for that, though.
I mean, Christie did it anyway, but she could actually write well. I'm not convinced whoever's writing this can.
Ouch, Mashu.Even though there's no certainty or proof, Mr. Adamska must be the good-for-nothing family patriarch oozing with uselessness.
Ah, yeah, that's true. Though, that's kinda a letter-of-the-law rule lawyering that ultimately violates the spirit of the Decalogue. If indeed the POV character is the culprit, being the detective that solves the case, Guda would end up having to conclude, "Therefore, I'm the only person who could've committed the crime."The person who Guda is possessing is neither someone whose thoughts we have been allowed to follow, nor the actual detective themselves. Guda is possessing them, not actually them. The situation here is closer to them being in a coma, and Guda impersonating them.
Well, we've already violated "All Supernatural or Preternatural Agencies Are Ruled out as a Matter of Course" as part of the premise. Something has tethered Guda's soul to that unknown person, after all. This might be a story that deliberately violates every one of the laws, by spirit or the letter. From what I can tell...Ah, yeah, that's true. Though, that's kinda a letter-of-the-law rule lawyering that ultimately violates the spirit of the Decalogue. If indeed the POV character is the culprit, being the detective that solves the case, Guda would end up having to conclude, "Therefore, I'm the only person who could've committed the crime."
That said, we won't know until later, but there might be time lapses between Guda's POV adoption, allowing for the character she possesses to commit any murders off-screen.
I would argue otherwise....we've already violated these four. This is the Nasuverse, so the first is violated as a matter of course. The second is also likely violated through the first, since the method by which Guda was brought here will likely be explained at the end. We've got at least two Chinese gangsters floating around, and Guda's twin 'Watsons' are Holmes and Moriarty. Who are the exact opposite of open with their thoughts, and are far more intelligent than the reader is.
- All supernatural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course.
- No hitherto undiscovered poisons may be used, nor any appliance which will need a long scientific explanation at the end.
- No Chinaman must figure in the story.
- The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal any thoughts which pass through his mind; his intelligence must be slightly, but very slightly, below that of the average reader
oh lord this won't end wellIncidentally, Eva Violet apparently has a habit of openly flirting with young men in front of her husband. During breakfast, she invites Chris to come and "play" inside her bedroom ...
For easier reading:Interlude - Dear My Little Sister (JP/EN) said:@ ホームズ・Holmes
ーーーそうとも。
-- Indeed.
何せ、かの「ゴーストライナー」だからね!
For such are at any rate those 「Ghost Liners」 aforementioned!
境界記録帯(ゴーストライナー)。
Liminality Record Belts (境界記録帯, kyoukai-kiroku-tai) / Ghost Liners.
人理に紐付けられた英霊なる上位霊格、
[Of those] Higher-Order Spiritual Dispositions (上位霊格, jou'i reikaku) that are as Heroic Spirits bound to the Human Order --
その恐るべき力の一部を瞬間的に借り受ける術式でさえ、
if a Thaumaturgical Formula (術式, jutsu-shiki) were to momentarily borrow even a portion of such frightful power,
たとえば時計塔に於(お)ける分類で言うところの降霊魔術、
it would even amidst what is categorized at the Clock Tower as Spiritual Evocation Magecraft (降霊魔術, kourei majutsu) --
俗に言う召喚術の中でも別格の難度とされている。
or Summoning Craft (召喚術, shoukan-jutsu), in the colloquial -- be of an exceptional difficulty.
低位の魔獣や亡霊の召喚とはまさしく格が違う。
It is of an order entirely distinct from the summoning of lower-standing(低位, tei'i) Demonic Beasts (魔獣, majuu) or Wraiths (亡霊, bourei).
稀有(けう)であり、脅威の存在なんだ。英霊は。
Heroic Spirits. They are as prodigies; existences of incredible menace.
そなものにあろうことかエーテルによる実体を伴わせ、
Were such beings extant, and let to corporealize by use of Ether;
肉体と、生前に近しい人格まで与えて現界させるーーー
manifested (現界させる, genkai-saseru, "surface unto the manifest reality") in the flesh; and bestowed even with a personality alike to what they held in life --
これを奇蹟と言わずして、さお、何と呼ぼう?
if such were not to be called a miracle, what indeed would we call it?
For purposes of comparison, castor212's translation of this on Beasts' Lair:Interlude - Dear My Little Sister (EN) said:@ Holmes
-- Indeed.
For such are at any rate those 「Ghost Liners」 aforementioned!
Liminality Record Belts / Ghost Liners.
[Of those] Higher-Order Spiritual Dispositions that are as Heroic Spirits bound to the Human Order --
if a Thaumaturgical Formula were to momentarily borrow even a portion of such frightful power,
it would even amidst what is categorized at the Clock Tower as Spiritual Evocation Magecraft --
or Summoning Craft, in the colloquial -- be of an exceptional difficulty.
It is of an order entirely distinct from the summoning of lower-standing Demonic Beasts or Wraiths.
Heroic Spirits. They are as prodigies; existences of incredible menace.
Were such beings extant, and let to corporealize by use of Ether;
manifested in the flesh; and bestowed even with a personality alike to what they held in life --
if such were not to be called a miracle, what indeed would we call it?
castor212 said:Ghost Liner. Belt of boundary record. Superior spirit status that is the Heroic Spirits, connected to the Human Order. Among the, say, CLock Tower classification of spiritualism magic or more commonly known as summoning art, even the technique that momentarily borrows a part of such a terrifying power is extraordinarily hard to do.
Says Mirror Moon:Auspicious timing indeed.
-The term Ghost Liner is used to differentiate Servants (recollections of phenomena recorded in the past summoned from human history itself) from familiars created by magus hands. The "liner" part represents that they're like scrolls or books rather than lifeforms. Sanda asked if there was an official term for heroic spirit and Nasu gave him Ghost Liner so that's why it gets used in Case Files.
Is something from the recently released HF BD, and also the term was used and detailed in the latest Case Files.
FATE - Day 03 - 17 said:"Familiar, huh...? Well, Servants are in that category, but they are on a different level. Because that girl over there is a Ghost Liner, considered to be the strongest of all familiars."
"Ghost Liner......? Then do you mean she really is a ghost?"
A human ghost that stopped living a long time ago.
The remaining minds of those with strong abilities, who remain in this world even after they die.
But that doesn't make sense.
A ghost doesn't have a body. A ghost can be only hurt by ghosts.
So, as I have a body, a ghost shouldn't be able to kill me.
"A ghost... huh? She's similar, but Saber would kill you if you compared her to one.
Servants are heroes of the past given bodies. Beings surpassing humans, more like spirits."
"Huh? Heroes of the past given bodies?"
"That's right. A legendary hero was pulled from the past or the present or whenever and given a body.
"Well, it's the role of the Master to summon them, and the Holy Grail does the rest.
It's impossible for a magus to give shape to a soul, so we're assisted by a strong Artifact."