Fantastical Deduction
The detective
had his suspects lined up in his mind. He mentally juggled them. All
of them had their own motives to kill the wizard. The ghost who had
been imprisoned by the wizard had the most obvious motive. But after
his prison sentence the ghost had been released, and the ghost had
been a model citizen on his parole so he seemed truly reformed. That
and he had a rock solid albi. Over twenty people had reported seeing
the ghost that night. The corpse of the wizard had been burnt. This
implicated the demon and dragon the most, though magic fire was an
ability possessed by species of the shadow realms and could be
emulated with the proper spells if the beings without magical
abilities.
The magic fire
had been an obvious frame job, an effort to pin the murder on the
wizard's own pet dragon. Recently there had been cases of dragons
going mad and attacking their owners, some kind of plague, and the
actual murderer tried to blame the murder on this. When the detective
had his team run another set of tests on the body and the scene of
the crime they found fairy dust that they traced back to an imp named
Klilli, one of many imps who dealt in stealing magic and magical
items, a robbery gone wrong the imp confessed to the detective.
Loved the detective angle! A wealth of novel ideas here!
ReplyDeleteYeah, thought it would be fun to do this kind of thing, though I don't think I had enough time to do a full fledged mystery story, if I had more space I could have made a better mystery, but maybe in the future. I would love to see this kind of show on TV. Though the magic would have to be very consistent for the audience to play along with the logic. (And I mean beyond stuff like Fringe, like a more light-hearted fantasy detective show)
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