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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6610932" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Sure, why not? This isn't professional chess with a chess timer--as long as we haven't moved on too far, I allow retroactive action declarations. It's way quicker that way because the players don't have to be paranoid about dotting every i and crossing every t in every single interaction before moving on.Since it's a hypothetical situation, it never happened. I've had somewhat similar situations occur in game, but there's never been a case where there weren't any clues to find, only cases where the players weren't picking up on any clues. I can only assume that they assumed there were clues that they could possibly find, theoretically, but they weren't making any headway and I wasn't about to insist that they keep at it when they weren't having fun any more--keeping the murder investigation "in scene" would have been railroadey IMO. So the short answer to your question is "No, when it happens they probably know that clues are in there somewhere, but just don't care that much."</blockquote>