Post #177136 by purple jade on Wed, Aug 3, 2005 6:55 PM

Granted, I haven't seen any of the actual clues, but I'm confused enough by the preamble on the website. Is any of that info pertinent to the hunt? Is it intentionally written circularly? I suppose there's a possibility that these are not discrepencies, but red herrings. Solving a mystery involves deductive reasoning and so a few things have me puzzled:

Being as how Dagmar is a female name, is he a transexual or traveling in drag? Does this have anything to do with his "funny ways while imbibing"?

If a ship runs ashore, doesn't that mean it's on land or at least in shallow water? How then did it sink?

And if it ran aground, wouldn't it have done so bow first? How then could it have sunk bow first? Assuming it did slide back into deeper water, wouldn't it have done so stern first, after taking on water in the lower decks (and thereby completely submerging Dagmar)? Or did it back into the shore? This sinking sounds a lot like the Titanic, but the physics don't quite match up.

Is a "pension" for rum anything like a "penchant"?

And are the extra and/or missing letters in the text clues?

Or am I just thinking more than is actually required?