Murder At the Watcher’s Council (1/2, rated 15, logic puzzle)

[booster17]

Title: Murder At the Watcher’s Council
Rating: 15, based solely on Faith’s language.
Setting: After Buffy season seven.
Summary: Giles and Faith - together they solve crimes. Could this be the dawning of a new detective partnership?
Author's Notes: Written for empressvesica’s birthday. Happy birthday hon, and I bet you don’t get much sleep tonight. *winks*

Comments

[elementalv]

Okay, this is fun, and if I didn't have writing obligations, I'd be sharpening my pencil.

My only quibble is the use of left and right instead of north, south, east and west. I don't see anywhere that indicates all the rooms were along one side of the wall, so in addition to determining placement side-by-side, there would also have to be placement across the hall, which is where compass points come in handy. There's also the bit that if I'm facing north in the house and you, the author, is facing south, right and left are going to be reversed.

Also, don't worry about deleting this comment if you have to.

[booster17]

Aha! Now this is where I really could have used a picture or icon I think. All directions are in relation to the five by five grid that Giles and Faith have up in front of them.

Trouble is that this is a logic puzzle as a story - not a murder mystery story. But it is fully solvable from those clues given. *crosses fingers*

[elementalv]

I think you need to include the grid, because I'm still not visualizing it. But that may just be me. Was your beta able to solve it without the grid?

[booster17]

Haven't heard back from her, alas.

Have re-discovered unfortunately that I was correct in my assessment of my drawing/Paint abilities - I can't even do a grid with words down the side.

[empressvesica]

Okay an hour and nine million interruptions later, I have to say YES, this is solvable. But only if this is actually correct.

*is proud she got to AN answer, even if it's the wrong answer*

*wanders off to read more fic since SOMEONE went nuts with the E-mails*

[booster17]

*coughs*
“Well,” said Giles, struggling to find his place again. “Talking of Slayer hearing brings me back to Jenny. She too, heard someone underneath her in the attics.” He flicked through the papers again. “Ah, yes. Just as she was picking up that fountain pen we mentioned, she could hear Sinclair in his bedroom beneath her.”
*coughs again*
Giles sighed. “I have found that Helen mentions finding a credit card receipt off to the right of a fountain pen but that could be anywhere in the attics.”

But apart from those couple of things.... you did well! When do you want the answer/part two posted?

[empressvesica]

*shrugs* Sadly my method - and the fact that was three hours ago and I can't remember three minutes ago - makes it impossible for me to figure what's wrong without starting back the beginning. Considering I have a headache and am STILL at work...I just can't.

Still - go me. :)

And whenever you like...

[empressvesica]

God, I have OCD. Better?

[curiouswombat]

Gave up trying to solve it as I can visualise a 5x5 - it looks just as fffutures says, can see the five floors, can almost see a house with five rooms in a row, but can't then work out where the stairs would go, or the corridors. Having said that, it's still very readable and I'm awaiting the answer, and the Why Done It, with bated breath!

[booster17]

Ignore the stairs and the corridors - they don't matter. It's just five rooms per floor, and one thing per room.

And thanks for taking part! No-one goes away empty handed - here's your Blankety-Blank chequebook and pe