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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spyscribe" data-source="post: 2476354" data-attributes="member: 5808">Well, given that you do want your players to solve the mystery, you don't want the frame-up to be too good.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> It's a clever plan, although the barmaid/assassin takes quite a risk that Darius wouldn't walk into the room and do something non-incriminating such as call for help or walk out again--not having seen the body.  Although I will grant you that his knife being stuck in the body isn't going to look good under any circumstances.Is there a reason why she doesn't let him get into his office?  She delivers his drink as usual, kills him with the dagger, then prestidigitates herself clean and goes to get her fall guy.Better yet, she goes back to work, and a minute later the whole bar hears the owner bellowing from the back for her to send this guy in to his office.  (major image off a scroll will pull that off.  She can cast while she was out of sight and then trigger the shout later.)Now you've got a pile of witneses (including the accused) who are sure the owner was alive before Darious went back there.If you're worried about speak with dead, she can cut his tongue out, slice his throat, etc.  If the corpse doesn't have apparatus to talk, it can't say much.It's not quite as cool as turning him into a zombie, though.</blockquote>

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