Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25086632-20151123071037/@comment-70.27.71.181-20151124161359

Master Moridin,

About the Lizzie Borden mystery, it's been taken apart and torn to shreds by true crime enthusiasts. John Borden was the town miser, rich as Croesus and the tightwad to end all tightwads. On the day of his death there was a July heat wave in Falls River, and it had gone on for more than four days. I say four days because the guy demanded that his family and maid eat for breakfast the four day old lamb stew which was, you know, inedible (no refrigerator, yuck), but he'd paid for it so they were damn well going to eat it!

Establish him with that kind of character and people will want to see him die. But the two things which can point anyone in his direction would be the rhyme (you could create a rhyme very much like that) and the ax. Give him PTSD about axes. Since they're a fighting tool in Remnant, he'd be sure to come across them regularly, and cringing in fear regularly has to make the ax key to determining who he was. He's certainly the best known person killed with an ax, imo.

Hamlet's best character in the play for the part of the deceased is his father's ghost, unless you want to use Hamlet himself. I'm not sure the supernatural is part of Remnant - yet - but if Hamlet sr. goes around worried that his brother and his wife are getting it on and it's not good for his little boy and heir whose position in the kingdom must be secure, that  might be enough to clue in a few readers. They kept saying how long it took them to crack some of the allusions (Juniper would be hard). You've picked an admirably sinister theme for your team. Get them thinking 'murder victims' and the rest will come.

Are you staging the deaths of the deceaseds?