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Tim Arnot - Flick Carter #1: FREED!
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Jul 20, 2015 03:34PM
Body found face down in the pool in the Botanic Garden, but with a mouth full of yew leaves.
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Is yew deciduous or evergreen?
Funny, I was thinking greenery, too!I bet our Nosemanny and or Kath could come up with something deadly found in a park.
Or MTM would find something in a phnark!
Tim wrote: "Is yew deciduous or evergreen?"Evergreen - and every part of it is poisonous.
Found floating under a bridge with a broken (severed) rope around his/her neck.
Oh, and the lovely upright flowering plant Monkshood is mega toxic. Looks innocent....
Lying crumpled in a flower bed still holding a syringe, after having suffered a massive heroin overdose.
Oh yes. But my plans need time to ferment. Mwhaha etc
Can I suggest more than one method? Or is that greedy?Drug overdose - either something like heroin or codeine or whatever drugs they have access to. Depending on the character, taking a stockpile of drugs they already have access to or buying new ones.
Hanging is a relatively effective one, with the discovery being fairly gruesome at times too. (That's one I've missed so far, thankfully)
Don't leave it too long Rosemary - remember, I'm writing the scene later today . . .Claire & Jim, the issue with drugs is if they need syringes to administer. I'm not sure they'd have the skills to make them to the necessary tolerance with just backyard glassblowers and blacksmiths. But if I can be convinced that it can be done some other way (thorn of a whatever tree etc...)
And yes, poppy-related products would be "rare but available".
I'm thinking methanol poisoning :)Toxic moonshine administered (or indeed plied) in quantities sufficient to kill, whilst everyone just thought the victim was drunk...
Squashed by a runaway steam roller!
Actually you wouldn't need the methanol. 'Dead drunk and drowned in own vomit' would do.Or dead drunk and found drowned in lake in the park. That way the body could be found, floating face down
Boots. Killed by boots.The character has just bought a new pair of boots but the cobbler has made one heel higher than the other, causing a villainous trip hazard.
Whilst crossing a tall bridge the character trips over and goes ker-splat.
Eww! Actually, that brings back the recollection of a lad propped up in a corner by his mates in the student union bar. He'd drunk so much you could actually see the beer swilling around in the back of his throat (so 'tis said - I never got close enough to confirm this) and if they hadn't looked after him, he might have drowned.
Just a reminder, it has to be (or look like) suicide. Accidental death, maybe at a stretch, but definitely not murder.Corporal Fred Scrape and Sergeant Jim Scratch looked up at the town hall clock. The body had been flayed and his skin stretched tight over the clock face. 'Suicide, do you reckon, Sarge?'
probably not ;)
Yeah, jumped off the bridge. But wait! Look at the boots!
Remember the Dr David Kelly "suicide" a dozen or so years ago? (part of the WMD fiasco) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13716127 Just saying ;)
Good news and "other":The good news is that I wrote 2700 words today and broke through 75K. :D
The other news is, he still ain't dead yet, so the compo is extended till tomorrow! :D
Sounds like he needs a shove.
Tim wrote: "Don't leave it too long Rosemary - remember, I'm writing the scene later today . . .Claire & Jim, the issue with drugs is if they need syringes to administer. I'm not sure they'd have the skills ..."
Opiates (like morphine and codeine) can be ingested and have a similar if slower effect. Morphine can be drunk (as oral morphine) or taken as a tablet, codeine tends to be a tablet form. Codeine requires a higher dose than morphine, not sure about the relationship with heroin doses.
Otherwise, sleeping tablets would work drug wise, and could potentially look accidental, suicide or deliberate.
Or the old umbrella trick if you want a drug injected?
Oooh, just had another thought, eating poisonous berries or fruits?
Kath wrote: "Is s/he dead yet?"Like waiting for a baby to be born, isn't it? ;)
Kath wrote: "Is s/he dead yet?"I have the scene open in front of me, and I'm just pondering how Socko gets involved. In the old scheme of things, the Watch would have called in KSI and they'd come and
But in the rewrites/extensions I did the other day, KSI got sort of disbanded and Socko is now distinctly persona non grata. Hmmm.
I need to buy eggs.... ;)
To throw at... whom?
No, for supper - I'm out of them ;)I'm leaning towards berry/plant poisoning as being the "obvious" cause (traces of juice, stained hands, full mouth etc). The scene is set about "now", i.e. mid Summer, so whatever nasty plants are currently in season would be ideal. Anything exotic can probably be found in the Botanic Gardens...
(the "obvious cause" can of course be a distraction for something else)
Brugmansia - also knows as Datura or Angles' Trumpets. Exotic, botanic and deadly. http://io9.com/5841540/10-of-the-worl...
This list includes the Monkshood I mentioned previously. You can check for seasons on there but I know in botanic gardens Brugmansia is in flower now and all parts - including sap - are poisonous. People use it for its hallucinogenic properties but get more than they bargained for.
The deed is did. A short day cos I had to go out. 77000 words reached. :)
So was it murdercide?
It's worse than that, 'ees dead Jim!
Tim wrote: "It's worse than that, 'ees dead Jim!"weren't me wot dun'im in
Its life Jim, but not as we know it!
Tim wrote: "Is yew deciduous or evergreen?"Beige.
Sorry, someone had to say it.
Not sure anyone ever died from beige ...? Bored to death,perhaps.
That's it, "We know it had to be suicide Sergeant, the deceased was found with an open copy of Ulysses and it's obvious he'd been trying to read it.""Poor Devil, what a way to go."
It's another one of me occasionals! (Blows trumpet, or at least little squeaky thing with the roll out flappy paper bit. Surely they must have a name? no idea what it is though)Anyhow, things came a bit off the rails last week from a writing point of view. I got to about 82000 words, then some work work came up, with the potential for contracts etc and those strange portraits of the Queen that I never have and people keep asking for when I try to buy stuff. Don't yet know the outcome, but I'me back to being a part timer at least.
So I'm at 82K. I've raised my target word count for the first draft from 90K to 100K and given myself another couple of weeks, so we'll see how it goes . . .
Well done! They're called party horns, I believe, but we always called them kazoozers!
and the acquisiton of further portraits of our Glorious Queen are rightly to be celebrated
But don't bother framing them.
They barely hang around long enough to be looked at, yet alone framed!
Hurray! Money, money, money. Perhaps. Now that something has turned up, let's hope you get enough to put that other good saying of his into practice, you know the one it = happiness.
Another 4 notched up on the body count . . . (whistles)
Aw.... gorgeous, Jim. Impossible not to smile . Thanks.We don't hear enough whistling these days.
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