Detective Barawa and the Escape from Storm Island
An unusual letter has been sent to Barawa inviting him to a mansion, suspiciously covered by heavy storms. Despite getting the stink eye from all the other detectives due to a lack of a relation to the mansion's owner, they changed their tune after checking the invitation letter as legit.
More suspiciously, the owner of the mansion hasn't shown up despite these invitations, causing the detectives to crash in for the night. The owner did eventually show up the next morning, except in the worst way possible, in a convenient manner for a murder mystery...
Tropes
- Absence of Evidence: Despite how detailed Edgar is with his locked-room murder mystery plan, there's no signs of him plotting the serial murders. This leads to the crew concluding that Edgar has an accomplice that did the actual dirty work.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: The serial murderer responsible for killing all the detectives is Norman, an airship pilot under Edgar's payroll that has a personal grudge against him and detectives in general.
- Faking the Dead: Ultimately subverted. The first known corpse was assumed to be Edgar until the crew looks through his plans showing that Edgar is supposed to keep tabs on the detectives in his Mirage disguise. However, the culprit has already killed him as Mirage by the time the crew finds out.
- Freudian Excuse:
- Edgar was just an unknown writer until he struck gold by creating the Detective Report after seeing Shere. Despite that, the novel only made him a one hit wonder, causing him to choose more questionable methods to generate more hype content.
- Norman was originally happy with Shere's work on finding his wife's murderer. This turned into pure hatred of detectives in general when Edgar has gotten word about the case and changed the narrative to make Norman's wife appear more sinister.
- Irony: Luck's special ability is sensing flags, which is attributed to his experience back during the Auguste of the Dead event. After revealing this trait to the crew, he sets off a flag himself, purple color and all. No surprises that he becomes the next murder victim.
- Lack of Empathy: The crew is taken aback by the lack of a reaction to the victims the other detectives have. Once Norman reveals himself as the culprit, he states that he also finds the detectives' lack of empathy to be repulsive.
- Polar Opposite Twins: The Erune detective twins, Oui and Non, don't usually work together for one reason. Non goes for the I Work Alone methodology while Oui is more willing to be a helping hand. This is also reflected by their names being "Yes" and "No" in French.
- Puzzle Boss: The two enemies has to be defeated by following the script provided to the player. In both cases, Sarya serves as an additional helper if the player needs a hint or a reminder. As standard to the game, the non-story versions removes all of the puzzle elements.
- The Disturbed Guardian enemy requires the player to follow Shere's instructions on attacking the proper weak points, which translates to targeting the correct enemy. The non-story variants have one singular enemy instead.
- The Unsolved Mystery enemy is just Barawa deducing who is the main culprit of the murders. His first skill starts with a question, his second skill provides the answer to said question, and his third skill leads to the conclusion.
- Sequel Hook: After all is done, the crew remembers one important question that remained unanswered. Who invited Barawa to the mansion in the first place? Their conclusion is that it's someone with a personal grudge against Barawa himself, which the next scene shows one person that fits the bill, Reinbach.
- Ten Little Murder Victims: The entire event follows through with this plot pattern and ends with one of the listed outcomes on the page: the plot is just a simple Dwindling Party scenario caused by a villain the crew has never known about until the end.
