The Key's Curse

The Key's Curse
Region	Ocean City
Unlocked by	Uncursing the cursed key

The Key's Curse wants you to play a detective, solving a murder on a train with great powers of deduction and observation.

That's right. Wants.

Uncursing

• Speak with the coroner, then with the three other passengers in the car.
• Activate DETECTIVE MODE with all three of them.
• Talk to the coroner again and announce that the victim was
  • poisoned...
  • by Yume Ryuokenshi...
  • with exotic poison from the Almodovar rubber tree...
  • to void Martin Perry's CAR DUNCE grade so he could make tires for Mr. Andretti.

The coroner — the curse — is pleased and gives you a mysterious owl ring. Not just in the curse world; it's in your inventory, as you sit there in the antiques shop. Go play with it if you like.

But you're not done here.

• Give the coroner another story; anything other than the correct one.
• Give another incorrect deduction.
• Tell him Yes, you really do want to live in the dark.

You've spat in the curse's face, and it takes the owl ring back before collapsing. You gain 25 and your uncursed key upgrades to +50% Item Drops.

Deductions

The victim was...	by...	with...	...
stabbed shot poisoned blown up clobbered smushed	Niccolò Andretti Martin Perry Yume Ryuokenshi me you a giant dog	(see below)	out of greed. out of jealousy. out of lust. for revenge. out of sick curiosity. to shut him up. to protect someone or something. to void his CAR DUNCE grade so he could make tires for Mr. Andretti.

stabbed with	shot with	poisoned with	blown up with	clobbered with	smushed with
a claymore a dagger a falchion an icicle a katana a greatsword a needle a stiletto	a blunderbuss a cannon a gatling gun a mortar a pistol a mortar and pistol a rifle	arsenic cocaine cyanide hemlock opium mandrake strychnine exotic poison from the Almodovar rubber tree	combustible flour gunpowder dynamite nitroglycerin TNT	big hands big feet a falling piano a falling anvil an oversize mallet an elephant