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 | (Edited repost: the original post required a couple of small changes.) I've been crunching a lot of numbers, sending a lot of FOIA requests, and searching for advantages. I want to share a little bit of what I've learned so far. Overview These are a couple of the rules I've determined will help you win more often. - Play tickets that have sold many tickets and have many unclaimed grand prizes.
- Prefer playing a few higher priced tickets over many lower priced tickets.
That's all there is to it. I'll explain the reason behind the rules in the rest of this post. Play tickets that have been sold for a long time and have a large number of unclaimed grand prizes. To understand this rule, you need to know a little bit of math. It's not much. It can be explained in simple terms. But it's powerful enough to beat blackjack in the casino. What you're about to read is the foundation behind card-counting. But here, we use it to beat scratch offs. There is an important difference between scratch offs and draw games like Powerball. In draw games, every draw is "independent". What I mean by that is the results of a previous draw have no effect on the results of the following draws. If the draw for a pick 3 game is "3", "1", "9", then the odds that the following draw is also "3", "1", "9" are the exact same. This is counter-intuitive to a lot of people. If you flip a coin 3 times and it comes up heads all 3 times, then it's natural to think that it's more likely to come up tails on the next flip. But it's not! It is still equally likely to be either heads or tails on the 4th flip. The counter-intuitiveness of this is known as the "Gambler's Fallacy" and can be read about many places online, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy, so I won't go into any more detail. Just know that it's a mathematical fact. The previous results of a draw game have no effect on future draws. How are scratch offs different? But with scratch offs, previous results do affect the future. It's obvious when you look at an extreme example. Consider what happens if there is a single grand prize in 1 million unscratched tickets. Your odds of getting the grand prize is 1 in a million. But now imagine you just watched the person in line in front of you buy a ticket, scratch it, and reveal the grand prize. Now there are no more grand prizes. Your odds are exactly 0! In that extreme example, it's clear that past results affect future odds. This is completely different from a draw game. In a draw game, if someone hits the Powerball jackpot with 09, 36, 49, 56, 62, 08, then that doesn't mean you should or shouldn't play those exact same numbers next week. They are just as likely to appear again as any other set of numbers. But scratch offs aren't randomized with each purchase. Scratch offs are randomized once, when the tickets are printed. Then, as the tickets are bought and scratched, the remaining tickets become less random. This is just like counting cards at blackjack. The deck is shuffled once at the beginning of the game. Then, as cards are dealt, the deck becomes less random. Once it becomes less random in favor of the player (more big cards remaining than little cards), then the player has an advantage and can increase their bet. How do you know which tickets have have many unclaimed grand prizes and few remaining overall tickets? Most states publish this information on their lottery homepages. Here is an example from the Florida Lottery for the $3 Multiplier Crossword https://www.flalottery.com/scratch-offsGameDetails?gameNumber=1429 https://preview.redd.it/9p5sp880x9p51.png?width=481&format=png&auto=webp&s=3d5dc49e773243274dca0952502b06f51f0d54c1 That table has a column showing the total number of tickets printed at each prize tier and another table showing the number of tickets claimed at each prize tier. The lowest-value ticket is usually the most common. It often has hundreds of thousands of tickets printed. There is something in math known as "the law of large numbers" that makes the lowest price ticket a good indicator of what percentage of tickets have been sold. Even though the state doesn't publish how many tickets in total have been sold, and even though they don't say anything at all about the non-winning tickets that have been sold, we can use the lowest-priced ticket as a good estimator. In the image above, you can see that 3,170,852 tickets were printed that were $3 winners. Of those, only 603,652 remain. With some simple math, we can convert that to a percentage. 603,652 / 3,170,852 = 0.19 So about 19% of the tickets remain. 81% of the tickets have been sold. How about the grand prizes? Are there a large number of grand prizes remaining in relation to how many tickets have been sold? To know that, we need to convert the number of grand prizes remaining to a percentage also, that we we can compare percentages to percentages, apples to apples. There are 4 grand prizes remaining out of 20 total grand prizes printed. 4 / 20 = 0.20 So 20% of the grand prizes remain. That's almost exactly where we expect to be. That means there is not a lot of grand prizes remaining in relation to the total number of tickets remaining. If there were 5 grand prizes remaining, then the percentage remaining would be 5 / 20 = 0.25, or 25%. Then there would be 5% more grand prizes than expected. If that were the case, this might be a good game to play! Knowing this, you can check back daily or weekly and see how the numbers change. Every day, more tickets will be sold. Let's say a few weeks pass and couple hundred thousand $3 winners are claimed. Now there's 400,000 $3 prizes remaining. 400,000 / 3,170,852 = 0.126 If no grand prizes have been claimed in that time, then now there's only about 12.6% tickets remaining but still 20% grand prizes remaining. Grand prizes are almost 8% more likely than average! Check your state lottery website and you can perform these calculations for whatever games you like to play. Prefer playing a few higher priced tickets over many lower priced tickets. I wrote software to automatically analyze every scratch off game from many different states. As part of that analysis, I calculate the total amount of prizes that will be paid out. Since the states publish on their websites the total number of tickets at each prize tier and the value of each prize. I simply multiply the number of tickets at each tier by that tier's value and then sum the results for each tier of a game. Another number I calculate is the cost to buy every ticket. That's a lot easier. It's simply the total number of tickets printed times the price of each ticket. If a game prints 14 million tickets and each ticket costs $10, then the cost to buy every ticket is 14 million times $10, or $140 million. Those two numbers are all we need to calculate the "expected value" of a game. If a game has $100 million in prizes and it would cost $140 million to buy every ticket, that means the state will make $40 million in profit. That profit comes out of our pockets. But we can minimize our losses by playing games where the state has the least profit. Here's a simple example. Which game would you rather play? Game A: $100 million in prizes where it would cost $140 million to buy every ticket. Game B: $120 million in prizes where it would cost $140 million to buy every ticket. Obviously, game B is better. The state takes less profit. That means more money in our pockets. This is one way to rank the quality of a game. The more money that is returned to players and the less money that the state keeps as profit, the better the game. By analyzing data from every game for multiple states, I have determined the average quality for different priced tickets. This graph below tells the whole story. https://preview.redd.it/u6hm1t7gx9p51.png?width=1645&format=png&auto=webp&s=5cd0e3afc3ef411ec7d62c23dacd14ef74291b7b It is clear that on average, higher priced tickets are better. Spending $100 on $20 tickets will result in an average win of $71.95 while spending $100 on $2 tickets will result in an average win of $65.65. By buying $20 tickets rather than $2 tickets, you will win an average of $6.30 more! Why do states pay out more for higher priced tickets? This advantage comes from economics. It costs roughly the same amount for the state to print a $1 ticket as a $20 ticket. Here's a table that shows the prices that GTECH, a ticket printer, proposed to the Texas Lottery. https://preview.redd.it/gqpn85whx9p51.png?width=1295&format=png&auto=webp&s=c21158fa868caa4da444a5ec8404f9a8a822d3be Usually, lower priced tickets are smaller. A $1 ticket might be 2.4 inches x 4 inches while a $20 ticket has more gameplay options and might be 10 inches x 4 inches. Those dimensions correspond to the "A" and "E" columns in the table above. The values you see in each row are the cost per 1,000 tickets. Let's compare. The cost of 1 million $1 tickets of 2.4 inches x 4 inches in packs of 250 would cost $33.78 per 1,000 tickets, or about $0.034 per ticket. The cost of 1 million $20 tickets of 10 inches x 4 inches in packs of 50 would cost $59.50 per 1,000 tickets, or about $0.06 per ticket. That's 3.4 cents per $1 ticket and 6 cents per $20 ticket. Why are higher priced tickets better? The state needs to make a profit on the lottery. That's the whole point of the lottery: to make money to pay for services like education and roads. Money that goes towards ticket printing is wasted. It's money that is taken from the players and is not kept by the state. The less money that goes towards ticket printing, the more money is available to pay out in prizes (and to go towards public goods). While the $20 ticket may cost more to print than the $1 ticket (6 cents vs 3.4 cents), the percentage of the ticket price that goes towards printing costs is lower. 6 cents is only 0.3% of $20. That's zero-point-three percent. Less than half of a percent of the ticket price goes towards the printing costs. 3.4 cents out of $1 is 3.4%, or over 3% of the ticket price going towards printing costs. If you were to buy $100 worth of $1 tickets, the state would have paid $3.4 to ticket printers, leaving only $96.60 in funds to split between paying players through the prize pool and funding things like public roads and education. But if you were to buy $100 worth of $20 tickets, then the state would have paid only $0.18 to ticket printers! That leaves $99.82 to split between the prizes and state funding. Note: The above is a simplified calculation that doesn't take the full cost of each ticket from printing to disposal. There's obviously costs associated with shipping and other services. But I wouldn't expect the percentages to change much. The economics of high-price vs low-price tickets is still the same. Good luck! I want to close by wishing you good luck. But now you know there's more to it than just luck. Use these tips and tricks to your advantage and make your own luck. A final word of caution: even if you follow all of this advice, it's still practically impossible to consistently make profit from scratch offs. The best that almost anyone can do is to increase their "expected value". |
Susan Varraso (July 16, 1936 - October 27, 2020)
SUSAN VARRASSO
July 16, 1936 - October 27, 2020
Susan Varrasso, age 84, passed away peacefully in the comforts of her own home, after a short bout with lymphoma. She was surrounded by the abundance of her daughters’ love. Susan was born in Cornell, WI, and graduated from Raymond (WA) High School in 1954 and attended business school in LA.
Susan became a full-time mom to Nina, and to sister, Jana. She settled with her husband, Louis Varrasso, in Vancouver, WA, in 1979. In 1988, she began working at the Clark County Public Health Department until retirement in 2001.
Susan’s first priority was always family. She instilled the importance to her daughters of being a good listener and strongly believed that a person learns more about life, not by speaking, but by listening. She practiced this philosophy every day of her life. Susan was a devoted mother, grandmother and friend to many. There was never a family gathering that she missed. Her daughters and grandchildren were the love of her life and loved to spend time with them.
Susan had a love of crosswords, which kept her brain so sharp! In her younger years, she thoroughly enjoyed bowling and going on bus tours with friends. She also loved her weekly cribbage games with friends, experiencing all genres of movies and music, and going on excursions to local casinos to play slots. Lastly, she never missed attending the weekly Catholic church service.
Susan will be remembered by all as a consistent voice of reason, always willing to lend an ear and known as a classy lady who lived her life with the utmost integrity.
Susan was preceded in death by her devoted husband, Louis Varrasso.
She is survived by daughters, Nina (Braden) Strickler and Jana (Loren) Flindt; grandchildren, Drew, Collette, Zachary and Sara; brother, Jan; and sister, Penny.
Services will be held on Friday, Nov. 13, at 2 p.m. However, due to COVID-19, numbers are limited, and by invitation only. If unable to attend, the family invites you to sign her guest book @
www.evergreenmemorialgardens.com or share a memory @
www.columbian.com/obits. She was deeply loved by many and is missed immensely. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to NW Kaiser Permanente Hospice.
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 | I've been crunching a lot of numbers, sending a lot of FOIA requests, and searching for advantages. I'm trying to organize everything I've learned into a single source of truth, but in the meantime I want to share a little bit. Overview Follow these simple rules and you will win more often. - Play tickets that have sold many tickets and have many unclaimed grand prizes.
- Prefer playing a few higher priced tickets over many lower priced tickets.
That's all there is to it. I'll explain the reason behind the rules on the pages that follow. You'll also learn how to use these rules to maximum advantage. Play tickets that have been sold for a long time and have a large number of unclaimed grand prizes. To understand this rule, you need to know a little bit of math. It's not much. It can be explained in simple terms. But it's powerful enough to beat blackjack in the casino. What you're about to read is the foundation behind card-counting. But here, we use it to beat scratch offs. There is an important difference between scratch offs and draw games like Powerball. In draw games, every draw is "independent". What I mean by that is the results of a previous draw have no effect on the results of the following draws. If the draw for a pick 3 game is "3", "1", "9", then the odds that the following draw is also "3", "1", "9" are the exact same. This is counter-intuitive to a lot of people. If you flip a coin 3 times and it comes up heads all 3 times, then it's natural to think that it's more likely to come up tails on the next flip. But it's not! It is still equally likely to be either heads or tails on the 4th flip. The counter-intuitiveness of this is known as the "Gambler's Fallacy" and can be read about many places online, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy, so I won't go into any more detail. Just know that it's a mathematical fact. The previous results of a draw game have no effect on future draws. How are scratch offs different? But with scratch offs, previous results do affect the future. It's obvious when you look at an extreme example. Consider what happens if there is a single grand prize in 1 million unscratched tickets. Your odds of getting the grand prize is 1 in a million. But now imagine you just watched the person in line in front of you buy a ticket, scratch it, and reveal the grand prize. Now there are no more grand prizes. Your odds are exactly 0! In that extreme example, it's clear that past results affect future odds. This is completely different from a draw game. In a draw game, if someone hits the Powerball jackpot with 09, 36, 49, 56, 62, 08, then that doesn't mean you should or shouldn't play those exact same numbers next week. They are just as likely to appear again as any other set of numbers. But scratch offs aren't randomized with each purchase. Scratch offs are randomized once, when the tickets are printed. Then, as the tickets are bought and scratched, the remaining tickets become less random. This is just like counting cards at blackjack. The deck is shuffled once at the beginning of the game. Then, as cards are dealt, the deck becomes less random. Once it becomes less random in favor of the player (more big cards remaining than little cards), then the player has an advantage and can increase their bet. How do you know which tickets have have many unclaimed grand prizes and few remaining overall tickets? Most states publish this information on their lottery homepages. Here is an example from the Florida Lottery for the $3 Multiplier Crossword https://www.flalottery.com/scratch-offsGameDetails?gameNumber=1429 https://preview.redd.it/he48t0edwzo51.png?width=481&format=png&auto=webp&s=541821009a64b5bf6c4c35f0f5cedd9964ce3b38 That table has a column showing the total number of tickets printed at each prize tier and another table showing the number of tickets claimed at each prize tier. The lowest-value ticket is usually the most common. It often has hundreds of thousands of tickets printed. There is something in math known as "the law of large numbers" that makes the lowest price ticket a good indicator of what percentage of tickets have been sold. Even though the state doesn't publish how many tickets in total have been sold, and even though they don't say anything at all about the non-winning tickets that have been sold, we can use the lowest-priced ticket as a good estimator. In the image above, you can see that 3,170,852 tickets were printed that were $3 winners. Of those, only 603,652 remain. With some simple math, we can convert that to a percentage. 603,652 / 3,170,852 = 0.19 So about 19% of the tickets remain. 81% of the tickets have been sold. How about the grand prizes? Are there a large number of grand prizes remaining in relation to how many tickets have been sold? To know that, we need to convert the number of grand prizes remaining to a percentage also, that we we can compare percentages to percentages, apples to apples. There are 4 grand prizes remaining out of 20 total grand prizes printed. 4 / 20 = 0.20 So 20% of the grand prizes remain. That's almost exactly where we expect to be. That means there is not a lot of grand prizes remaining in relation to the total number of tickets remaining. If there were 5 grand prizes remaining, then the percentage remaining would be 5 / 20 = 0.25, or 25%. Then there would be 5% more grand prizes than expected. If that were the case, this might be a good game to play! Knowing this, you can check back daily or weekly and see how the numbers change. Every day, more tickets will be sold. Let's say a few weeks pass and couple hundred thousand $3 winners are claimed. Now there's 400,000 $3 prizes remaining. 400,000 / 3,170,852 = 0.126 If no grand prizes have been claimed in that time, then now there's only about 12.6% tickets remaining but still 20% grand prizes remaining. Grand prizes are almost 8% more likely than average! Rather than check the state lottery website every day and perform these calculations by hand, there are websites that do the hard work for you. Prefer playing a few higher priced tickets over many lower priced tickets. I wrote software to automatically analyze every scratch off game from many different states. As part of that analysis, I calculate the total amount of prizes that will be paid out. The states publish on their websites the total number of tickets at each prize tier and the value of each prize. I simply multiply the number of tickets at each tier by that tier's value and then sum the results for each tier of a game. Another number I calculate is the cost to buy every ticket. That's a lot easier. It's simply the total number of tickets printed times the price of each ticket. If a game prints 14 million tickets and each ticket costs $10, then the cost to buy every ticket is 14 million times $10, or $140 million. Those two numbers are all we need to calculate the "expected value" of a game. If a game has $100 million in prizes and it would cost $140 million to buy every ticket, that means the state will make $40 million in profit. That profit comes out of our pockets. But we can minimize our losses by playing games where the state has the least profit. Here's a simple example. Which game would you rather play? Game A: $100 million in prizes where it would cost $140 million to buy every ticket. Game B: $120 million in prizes where it would cost $140 million to buy every ticket. Obviously, game B is better. The state takes less profit. That means more money in our pockets. This is one way to rank the quality of a game. The more money that is returned to players and the less money that the state keeps as profit, the better the game. By analyzing data from every game for multiple states, I have determined the average quality for different priced tickets. This graph below tells the whole story. https://preview.redd.it/og4i56rewzo51.png?width=1645&format=png&auto=webp&s=defbe6e05ca09a4adb03b0fa011ecfeb8325bb66 It is clear that on average, higher priced tickets are better. Spending $100 on $20 tickets will result in an average win of $71.95 while spending $100 on $2 tickets will result in an average win of $65.65. By buying $20 tickets rather than $2 tickets, you will win an average of $6.30 more! Why do states pay out more for higher priced tickets? This advantage comes from economics. It costs roughly the same amount for the state to print a $1 ticket as a $20 ticket. Here's a table that shows the prices that GTECH, a ticket printer, proposed to the Texas Lottery. https://preview.redd.it/ryg37q7gwzo51.png?width=1295&format=png&auto=webp&s=bace7784335cf41a813262dbf3bf807f0024c16f Usually, lower priced tickets are smaller. A $1 ticket might be 2.4 inches x 4 inches while a $20 ticket has more gameplay options and might be 10 inches x 4 inches. Those dimensions correspond to the "A" and "E" columns in the table above. The values you see in each row are the cost per 1,000 tickets. Let's compare. The cost of 1 million $1 tickets of 2.4 inches x 4 inches in packs of 250 would cost $33.78 per 1,000 tickets, or about $0.034 per ticket. The cost of 1 million $20 tickets of 10 inches x 4 inches in packs of 50 would cost $59.50 per 1,000 tickets, or about $0.06 per ticket. That's 3.4 cents per $1 ticket and 6 cents per $20 ticket. Why are higher priced tickets better? The state needs to make a profit on the lottery. That's the whole point of the lottery: to make money to pay for services like education and roads. Money that goes towards ticket printing is wasted. It's money that is taken from the players and is not kept by the state. The less money that goes towards ticket printing, the more money is available to pay out in prizes (and to go towards public goods). While the $20 ticket may cost more to print than the $1 ticket (6 cents vs 3.4 cents), the percentage of the ticket price that goes towards printing costs is lower. 6 cents is only 0.3% of $20. That's zero-point-three percent. Less than half of a percent of the ticket price goes towards the printing costs. 3.4 cents out of $1 is 3.4%, or over 3% of the ticket price going towards printing costs. If you were to buy $100 worth of $1 tickets, the state would have paid $3.4 to ticket printers, leaving only $96.60 in funds to split between paying players through the prize pool and funding things like public roads and education. But if you were to buy $100 worth of $20 tickets, then the state would have paid only $0.18 to ticket printers! That leaves $99.82 to split between the prizes and state funding. Note: The above is a simplified calculation that doesn't take the full cost of each ticket from printing to disposal. There's obviously costs associated with shipping and other services. But I wouldn't expect the percentages to change much. The economics of high-price vs low-price tickets is still the same. Good luck! I want to close by wishing you good luck. But now you know there's more to it than just luck. Use these tips and tricks to your advantage and make your own luck. A final word of caution: even if you follow all of my tips, it's still practically impossible to consistently make profit from scratch offs. The best that almost anyone can do is to increase their "expected value". That's a good thing. It's huge. It's great if you're playing for fun and would be buying tickets regardless of the circumstances. But that's not good enought to play more often than you otherwise would. So, please, if you or anyone you know needs support around gambling, please reach out to places like https://www.gamblingtherapy.org/en Remember: If you can't afford to lose, you can't afford to play. |
A Comprehensive List of Changes in Persona 5 Royal (Prologue to 5/2)
Introduction
Purpose
I wanted to create a comprehensive list of every last change I could find between the old game and the new game both to help players discover things that they may have missed, and to give people making walkthroughs or optimal daily guides an outline that will save them some time when writing up their own material.
Methodology and notes about this list
This list is intended to document changes on a semi-specific level. I am simply listing things that I notice while playing through the game. I am being pretty meticulous with my documentation, but this list is not designed to document every single minor detail (such as individual stat changes to weapons and items or arcana-type changes to personas, for example). I am noting whatever I can as I go along and looking things up to verify that they have been changed if I can find a video or wiki article on the old game.
I also intend for this guide to be as spoiler-free as possible in regards to the story, so even though I am writing down all the new things I notice, I will leave information about cutscenes and story elements as vague as I can so as not to ruin the experience for anyone.
To keep things maintainable, I have broken up the list up into logical date spans from the last deadline of the previous palace to the deadline for the next palace; the first list covers the prologue to the deadline for Kamoshida's palace, the second from the day after Kamoshida's deadline to Madarame's deadline, and so on and so forth.
About the author
I played Persona 5 and am currently playing through P5R on a PS4 Pro but have not tried the PS3 version of the game. I completed my first run and New Game+ back-to-back on 11/11/2019 and 1/12/2020 respectively, so the game is still fairly fresh on my mind. I spent ~250 hours on the base game, a good chunk of which was devoted to optimizing a perfect roster of personas for Joker in NG+. I have gotten the Platinum Trophy for Persona 5.
Changes (Prologue to 5/2)
Technical
Graphics & Performance
- Most if not all of the textures and models in the game appear to have been updated, and look a lot cleaner now that the game is not limited to the PS3's comparatively low texture cache size.
- Less aliasing (read: "jagged edges") on in-game models and geometry (not sure if this is due to the PS4 Pro's 4k upscaling or an anti-aliasing post processing effect.)
- Far fewer loading screens/reduced loading times.
Saves and PSN
- There is an autosave feature to save progress towards Thieves Den rewards; it does not create a new save for you to return to. This progress is retained across playthroughs.
- There is no longer a separate blue "network save" slot.
- You can now take screenshots and video clips up to late December (I haven't tested this yet myself as I haven't gotten that far), after which they are blocked.
- Most (but not all) of the achievements have been updated, and they generally seem to be much less completionistic than the previous game. There are no achievements for ranking up all confidants, getting all vending machine items, clearing all mementos requests, etc. You could probably complete all the achievements in a single playthrough as long as you're paying attention to getting them; I haven't seen any that require a NG+ run.
Sound Effects & Music
- There seem to be quite a few more ambient sound effects that weren't in the base game (like clanking chains/cages in Kamoshida's palace), but I'm mostly playing with headphones now, so I could just be noticing them more.
- There are 20-30 new songs that have been added to the soundtrack.
Gameplay
Story & Cutscenes
- A number of characters that show up later in the game make brief cameos and show up in various places around Tokyo much earlier than they did in the base game.
- Kamoshida can now be seen walking around the school after 4/18 and can be talked to for some more verbal abuse.
- The prologue also has a new in-engine cutscene that introduces Kasumi Yoshizawa.
- On 4/12, there is a new interactive cutscene that introduces the protagonist to Kasumi for the first time during a subway ride to school.
- On 4/18, there is another interactive cutscene with Kasumi and Kawakami.
Daily Life
- There are quite a few new side conversations with NPC's that hint at the new activities and areas added to Tokyo in P5R.
- All of the classroom questions seem to have been changed.
- Bad weather will improve the knowledge gained by studying in the library.
- The tutorial for studying in the library also mentions that you may overhear students talking about you, which will reduce knowledge gained but increase guts. In P5, the description indicated that studying despite the noise would raise guts, I do not know how this has actually been adjusted, if at all.
- "Speed Reader" is a new book available in the library that can reduce the number of times you need to read a book to finish it. It is checked out initially, but will be available on 7/1 near the deadline to Kaneshiro's palace.
- Triple Seven (the convenience store) now pays ¥3500+ instead of ¥2800+, making it now pay more than the flower shop (¥3200+) per shift.
- Rafflesia (the flower shop) now only offers afternoon shifts. Previously you could work there in the afternoons or evenings.
- Working at Triple Seven now also improves your Charm stat.
- Triple Seven now offers a rewards point program that gives extra points on any day of the month with a 7 in it. On these days, more customers will come to the shop, allowing you to earn more Charm points and money than usual.
- There is a new Sports Store in the underground mall that sells some new consumables, accessories, and (presumably) confidant gifts for Ryuji. This store replaces the record label shop.
- A few of the shops in the underground mall now sell male confidant gifts.
- The Shibuya Diner on central street has been renamed to "Bikkuri Boy" and is closed until May.
- The batting cages now offer different activities based on the time of day. At night, you can swing as much as you want, but there are no prizes. Hitting three home runs at night earns you a coupon for a free daytime session.
- Some books now have a prerequisite Knowledge level in order to read them.
- Studying at one of the booths in LeBlanc during bad weather will now increase the amount of knowledge points gained.
- You can use the cleaning tools in the restroom of LeBlanc to improve your Kindness stat during the evenings, and also gain points towards Sojiro's social link.
- You can now sit and reflect on the toilet in LeBlanc, which will give you hints as to how close you are to improving each of your social stats.
- Cleaning up the bookshelf in your room on 4/18 or later will reward you with a few new books to read.
- Cleaning out the rest of your room on 4/18 or later will also give you a CRT TV, although it does not include a tuner so you cannot receive TV blurbs from your room.
- The CRT TV is now replaced with a DVD player at the secondhand shop.
- Scarlet (the DVD rental shop) now requires you to pay a ¥4800 annual membership fee that allows you to rent any DVD you want for an unlimited period of time at no cost. You are only able to have one DVD rented out at a time.
- I believe this was in the previous game, but there is now a tutorial that points out that you can solve crossword puzzles at the far table (near the restroom) at LeBlanc on certain days without causing time to progress.
- You can now explore Yongen-Jaya at night on 4/21 instead of 4/22.
- After exploring the Metaverse, you can now perform activities within LeBlanc and your room, even without Kawakami's confidant bonuses.
- You will now get text messages from part-time jobs on busy days, where you can potentially earn more social points and money.
- On busy days, the convenience store will have a performance challenge much like the Beef Bowl Shop, where you will need to remember barcode locations and then recall them when scanning items.
Palaces
- The prologue sequence at Sae Nijima's casino now has a tutorial sequence that shows the player how to use the grappling hook.
- Individual party members will now occasionally have things to say when in a safe room.
- Morgana gives you a few starter items and infiltration tools when officially infiltrating Kamoshida's palace for the first time after 4/18.
- You can now loot nearby treasure chests and breakable objects while in cover.
- Shadows have new lines of dialog that they will occasionally say when wandering around.
- Treasure chests now make a glittery sound effect to let you know that one is nearby.
- There are new visual and audio effects on safe room doors that make them more obvious.
- Many of the puzzles have been modified and some new ones have been added.
- The grappling hook will now allow you to access new areas in palaces where hidden pathways or treasure might be found.
- Will Seeds are new collectables that can be found in each palace. Finding one will restore a little bit of SP to the party, and finding all three of a palaces Will Seeds will reward the player with a unique accessory.
- With the inclusion of the Will Seeds and grappling hook, a number of areas in each palace have been changed or added.
- Boss fights have a few new sequences and attack animations, but are fairly similar to their counterparts in Persona 5.
Combat
- Guns now replenish all ammo after each fight, the rationale (according to Morgana) is that Shadows will be expecting you to come at them fully loaded. The gun tutorial fight in Kamoshida's palace now has a second encounter to show off this new change.
- Take Over now plays during ambush attacks instead of Last Surprise. Last Surprise will still play during normal encounters and enemy ambushes.
- Baton passes are no longer linked to confidant ranks and can be used as soon as 4/18.
- Performing a baton pass four times in a row will now allow the final party member to use a skill without consuming any SP or HP.
- Enemies in each encounter seem to be much less homogenous than in the base game, possibly to encourage the player to take advantage of baton passes.
- Savage enemies are a new variation of regular enemies that have to be damaged somewhat before the player can perform a Hold Up.
- Disaster Shadows are a new type of enemy that will only counterattack if attacked by the player first. They can also occasionally perform follow-up attacks. Upon death, they will drop an item and explode, damaging any other shadows. The amount of collateral damage that they do is based on the amount of "overflow" damage that is done to them by the player when they die. If they die due to reflected damage or Despair, they will not explode or drop any items.
- Asking a shadow to join you when you already have one of them in your stock now grants extra experience to the persona in your stock.
- Asking a shadow you already have in your stock will usually yeild better rewards. Shadows in your compendium but not in your stock will ask to join you first before giving you money or items.
- Items gained through negotiation vary from enemy to enemy; they have fixed common and rare drops (common being something like a Life Stone, while rare might net you a Balm of Life). These can also be stolen using Joker's Pickpocket ability from Magician Rank 5.
Items & Equipment
- The stats and prices for most (if not all) equipment has been altered at Untouchable. In general, gun accuracy and damage seems to have gone down while prices have gone up (presumably due to the ammo replenishment change). The accessories that are initially available are completely different than in P5.
- Crafting infiltration tools during bad weather will now allow you to make an additional tool.
- The "Stealthanol" infiltration tool has been replaced by "Calming Aroma" which seems to have the same effect (lowers security level).
- The "Element Set" infiltration tool has been broken down into it's four component items (Moltov Cocktail, Freeze Spray, Stun Gun, and Air Cannon)
- Some accessories now have bonus skills attached to them, which can be used by any persona that the player has equipped.
- If you find an item in a chest that is stronger than the one currently equipped on Joker or a party member, they will prompt you to let them equip it automatically.
- The home shopping channel on Sundays now offers bundles of a variety of items, rather than a single item. You will now have to choose between different options. Keep in mind that you can only purchase one and will miss out on the other, so choose carefully!
- All gear that can be washed at the laundromat now is described as "sooty".
- There are quite a few new types of gear, and old gear has been rebalanced as well.
Personas & The Velvet Room
- There is a unique appearance for the Velvet Room loading screens.
- There are quite a few new personas that have been added.
- Some personas have had their arcana changed, and there are now a few new arcana as well.
- After you have officially infiltrated Kamoshida's palace for the first time, you will be able to access Challenge Battles in the Velvet Room by speaking to Justine.
- Challenge battles allow you to earn rewards through battles that focus on specific mechanics like Baton Passes or Technical damage, battles that test your endurance, or battles with persona users from previous games.
Confidants
- Tae Takemi's voice actress has been changed from Kirsten Potter to Abby Trott (who also voices Annette in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, one of my favorite VA's in the game)
- Some of the confidant cutscenes have either had new dialog added, or have been overhauled completely.
- Most of the confidant cutscenes now give more conversation opportunities to gain points towards the next rank-up.
- Some confidant abilities have been altered, replaced, or shuffled around to unlock at different ranks than before.
- Tae Takemi's confidant now has a Guts prerequisite after level 1.
Dialog & UI
- Party members now cycle through three portrait angles (instead of just one in P5) with 2-3 expressions each. The general pattern is head down (sad, angry) head tilted up and back (surprised, happy) and then all of the normal portraits from P5. There don't seem to be any new portraits for non-party confidants or named characters (like Shiho)
- Some of the NPC's are now voiced, like the parcel deliveryman that directs you to Cafe Leblanc when you are attempting to find Sojiro Sakurai's house.
- There are a significant amount of localization fixes for both voice and text dialog as well.
- The dialog indicators (i.e. "whisper whisper" "chatter" etc.) over NPC's that you can listen to or talk to will be grayed-out after interacting with them to let you know that you've already interacted with them.
- Many interactions with confidants that were previously text-only are now voiced.
- Phone conversations now show the portrait of the person you're talking to next to the text box.
- The chat app on Joker's phone now has an animated background effect. (Falling flower petals right now, not sure if it changes as the seasons/weather changes yet)
- Shadows and other entities now have special effects on their dialog boxes when speaking.
- Transition animations when moving between areas have changed due to the reduced loading times. Some of them (like the subway animation) will also change depending on the time of day/weather.
- The glyphs for the Playstation button controls in the tutorial prompts are now colored and shaped like the actual button used instead of being a more generic red-colored character.
- Tutorial pop-ups now allow you to go back-and-forth between sections using the left and right buttons on the d-pad.
- There is now a new "Order Obtained" tab under the inventory interface that sorts items from newest to oldest.
- There is no longer an "Urgent" category of infiltration tools (as of 4/17). These have been grouped into the "Palace" category of tools.
- In addition to sorting by Aracana and Level, you can now sort the Persona Compendium alphabetically.
- The Persona compendium now has a mask icon next to any personas that you already have in your stock.
- There is now a "I need to speak with Igor" option if you accidentally back out of the persona fusion/itemization menu.
- Pressing the touch pad now does more than just showing what other players have done on the same day as you (though that is still an option). It can bring up Assist Commands, which allow you to view recommendations on which confidant you should spend time with, view suggestions for which activities to do, and quickly travel to the hideout with a single button press.
- There are now minimap icons for confidants.
- Confidant abilities that carry over from the previous game now have more descriptive text. (i.e. Ryuji's "Punk Talk" ability now specifies that it only works on upbeat-type shadows.)
- Pressing R2 on a piece of equipment that has a passive ability or modifier will show a more detailed description of said effect.
- There is now a new effect that indicates when a party member has been powered-up by a baton pass. It will change color from red->yellow->blue for each successive pass.
- During combat, there are new status indicators by a shadow's name that show all of their current buffs and debuffs.
- Instead of just auto-healing the group, pressing square while in a palace now gives the player the option to quickly use some common infiltration tools like smokescreens, Goho-M's, and Calming Aromas.
- You can now target specific enemies and points of cover by using the d-pad while hiding.
- Map scrolling speed has been increased significantly.
- Palace maps now have an indicator that keeps track of what Will Seeds you have collected so far.
- The battle summary screen animations have been sped up significantly.
- The animation that plays when going to the next day will be different when sending a calling card.
Miscellaneous QoL
- Aside from the infamous first walk to school, most interactions that involve going somewhere new or following another character will be more guided, preventing the player from getting lost (like when Ryuji shows you the way to the airsoft shop for the first time)
Disclaimer
I have tried to document all of the changes that I have noticed from the base game, but there is a good chance that I have overlooked things and/or have noticed something "new" that was actually in the base game.
Feel free to point out any errors in this post or contribute via the Github link, as this is intended to be a living document with frequent updates.
Contributors
u/Fluxriflex, u/TenebrisTempestas, u/kn0bbulo, u/IndigoGamma, u/heliphael, u/DerpDepartment, u/SSJ5Gogetenks, u/AkhasicRay
If you would like to contribute, feel free to submit any changes at this GitHub repository, or, for small changes, feel free to message me or leave a comment. You can also report innacuracies or missing information through GitHub's issue tracker if you are not familiar with how Git works.
Final Words
Due to Reddit's character limitations on posts, I am going to break these change lists up into separate posts, with the deadline for each palace being the delimiting factor. This first one covers all changes found between the prologue and 5/2, which is the deadline for the first palace.
Thank you so much for reading, and a huge thanks to everyone who has helped out so far!
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I’ve been completing some deeply disturbing crosswords
I latch onto specific problems and when I do everything else around me diminishes into nothingness until I complete the task at hand. I line these problems up and solve them, one-by-one, and I find updating the task list awfully difficult. If I am on my way to do a job, breaking off to attend to something else is almost impossible. I once finished buttering my toast before putting out a fire by the stove. I once lost a girlfriend after she trapped her fingers in a food processor, and I quietly went over to the fridge and put the milk away before turning to help her. She couldn’t believe that I hadn’t rushed over straight away, but of course it wasn’t really like that. I was unable to review or address my priorities until my mind had freed itself from the current task.
I have to manage these tendencies. And I learned at an early age that it helps to focus on discrete tasks that, if things get really bad, I can remind myself don’t matter. That, at least, limits the anxiety of abandoning them. I have my work and that gets me through the day, but outside of those hours I need other things to pull me through. I can paint and read and they’re involving, for sure, but they don’t tend to have the sense of completion that I get from a simple puzzle. Jigsaws, sudoku, word searches, videogames; these all make up part of it but oddly enough it’s crosswords that have taken over my mind. It started because they weren’t too taxing and if I was pushed to cheat then it didn’t really matter. They let me say things like,
“Right, I’ll do 9 across while on the toilet and that’s it.”
Like most things I put my mind to, I quickly turned the hobby into an obsessive pursuit of completion. The harder they were, the better. If I had to watch a film, read a book, or even visit a real-life location to get an answer, I would. And I credited it all with pushing me out of my comfort zone in order to experience new things. I would have never watched Breakfast at Tiffanies, read Little Women, or visited the London Museum of Natural History without needing to get answers from them. And they were all new experiences for me, some better than others, but I enjoyed the feeling of expanding my little bubble with each new puzzle.
Crosswords, like everything, have communities surrounding them and I even found a few friends online. For some, the compulsion to get obscure answers was a vital lifeline to the outside world, and you’d be surprised at some of the cultures lurking at the fringe. A good crossword is more than just a puzzle, it’s a curated string of experiences picked to evoke a deliberate journey. A common example might be the kind of thing some tourists could use to guide them around a city:
Below the Phoenix of a Blinded Saint, 8 down.
Resurgam – the answer can be found carved on a stone beneath a statue of a phoenix at St Paul’s Cathedral. But what about something like the following:
The final song of a thunderous singer, 5 across.
The answer was Toxic, the final song lip-synced by a Drag Queen (Daytona Thunder) at a popular club in Manchester. I went a long way for that one and had a surprisingly good night, albeit one a little outside my wheelhouse. But still, I got the answer and it wasn’t like I’d find it just by reading the forums (posting answers is a big no-no if you want to get into the best clubs). The creator was a well-known Queer academic working out of London who has a popular following in the community. I appreciated their work but perhaps not as much as those by one anonymous Berliner.
A companion’s lips tasted through the looking glass, 6 across.
Her name was Alice and she was an escort for an agency called Intimate Companions. She was wearing Cherry lip gloss, something I found through a process of elimination.
Over the last few years I’ve discovered more about myself than I ever would have at home. I have learned that I can lie very well, that when I know who I am meant to be, who others want me to be, I can be confident and even charming. I have learned that I am not a jealous person, that I am not a vain person, and that there are times when I can be as reckless and adventurous as anyone else. I just need a reason to, a job to complete with routes to success I understand.
The name of a one-eyed watchmen’s gun, 12 across.
There was a policeman—with two eyes, I might add, but the unfortunate Christian name of Dick—and the answer was the serial number of his gun, converted to letters. That was an odd one, but absolutely invigorating. The crossword had been made with clearly defined geographical boundaries which helped (many of us attended it as a communal event although I largely acted alone), and for a moment I almost thought the policeman was in on the game. Right up until he tried to shoot me.
Like I said, the experiences can be invigorating.
But the good ones, the really good ones, they can be a struggle to find. You have to be accepted into the right groups, often you’ll be vetted, even tested, but the reward can be worth it. I’ll never forget the day I had a hand-delivered envelope deposited at my doorstep and the anticipation I felt opening it, unknotting the brown twine so delicately tied around the heft. God, some of them even had wax seals. I liked those the most. I found the violet and crimson seals delicious to look at.
But they were so, so much more than simple puzzles.
A principled affair, 5 down.
The headmaster of the local school was having an affair with her sister-in-law, Sarah. It was hard to find that out. It wasn’t exactly public knowledge. Frankly, I had to resort to stalking and it wasn’t a good look, but it was a new experience nonetheless and the few times I nearly got caught were quite exhilarating. But what was truly amazing was that this was at the school just a few blocks from my house! You have to understand, it wasn’t just a template handed out to everyone. I still don’t know how big any of these communities really are but I imagine they’re quite small and involve people from all over the world. It was truly remarkable to think someone had laboured over a tailor-made puzzle just for me.
There are quite a few groups I belong to now. Some aren’t even organised online, instead requiring that you ferret them out, sometimes as clues in other puzzles, sometimes as their own elaborate games. But there are always more to be found and in the best circumstances, they find you, choosing you out of all the people in the world to rise to the challenge at hand. The right ones will push you to do things you never thought possible.
A baker’s jewels, 7 down.
Harriet Baker who died in 2012 at the age of 86 and was buried with an emerald necklace in the local graveyard. I still have it, kept away somewhere in a special drawer along with news clippings of the crime. It even has some of the soil from the grave still muddying its shimmering gems, and admittedly they do still smell a bit. But I bet that I know something most people don’t, and that’s what happens to little old Grandma five years after being sealed up in a box beneath the Earth. Not just the abstract, either. I know the specifics, I know exactly what she looks like, smells like, and even what her cold lumpen flesh feels like. I spent years as a child wondering what happened to the many relatives of mine who passed away, but it was an adult I finally found the answer.
People have lived their whole lives looking down on me. Teachers assumed I was slow at learning, my parents mourned that I cared more about organising my wargaming miniatures than I ever did about girls or friends, everyone around me treated me like I was a timid mouse in a world of thundering giants. But I’ve lived a more exciting life than they could ever imagine, and it hasn’t been in spite of who I am. Only someone like me could pursue these clues to such dogged ends and I gladly take the bad with the good.
The colour of the tea plates served by the Biellier Historical Society, 9 up.
Don’t let the name fool you. The Society is a private organisation for some rather unusual gentlemen who serve tea after their annual conference is finished. Crazy bastards, I can see why they need a drink once they’re finished and I’m not surprised half of them didn’t take a seat during refreshments. I’m just not sure I’ll ever look be able to look a farm animal in the eye again.
Oh, and turquoise, by the way. That was the answer.
I know things very few people know. That’s a rare privilege and, like I said, it comes with a price. It would be ridiculous to think one might look upon the fraying edges of our world without having to face some uncomfortable sights. And you might think the worst of it is a leather-bound orgy in a dungeon or perversions you can safely find on Wikipedia, but there are other lingering truths buried in the Earth and I am one of the few who have seen them. There is always more to learn, always another word to find, another puzzle to complete. And I have come a long way in my education since I first received that letter on my doorstep years ago.
The inheritor of Maeson’s oldest home, 6 down.
Albert. Albert was the named inheritor of the first house built and designed by obscure architect Harold Maeson. It was not, as almost everyone first expected, the current owner’s first born son named Alexander, but instead the old man’s male sexual interest Albert who was a rather unwilling 17 year old. Perhaps the old man thought it made up for his actions towards the boy he had kept around as a family friend for years, disguising his abuse as mentorship. Either way it caused a tremendous uproar and poor Albert wasn’t exactly thrilled to have his face all over the papers. No one could have possibly known he would be the inheritor. The will was written up in total secrecy, something I spent considerable resources finding out.
Credit where it’s due, the old man put up a fight but his death was the only way I would get my answer. I can’t speak for others, but I found the experience quite a revelation. I felt as if I’d learned profound hidden knowledge, a truth about reality found in the glassy bloodshot eyes of a man violently dying. There’s something in there, you know, something that lies just beneath our own reality. I saw a glimmer of it that night, just like I had so many others before it. It’s quite beautiful, a confusing glittering mess of contradictions and unknowable madness. It is, by definition beyond our ability to every truly know but you can still see facets of it, one bit at a time.
It’s beautiful. But… well, it’s not always so painless.
The missing piglet counted right to left, 5 up.
Eight. That was the answer. I spent all night researching fairy tales and children’s rhymes only to fall asleep at my desk sometime around 2 in the morning. When I awoke I had been moved to the sofa and my left foot was raised on the armrest and bandaged heavily. The whole tingled from anaesthesia and it wouldn’t be until noon before I could walk on it again. Anxiously, I undid the white swaddle of blood-tinged gauze and winced at the sight of my mutilated foot. The middle toe on my left foot had been amputated cleanly, the wound sewn up neatly like a cross-stitched grin. Counting right to left, I noticed it was the eighth toe missing and I have to admit I pumped my fist in the air and rejoiced at having the answer.
But the experience caught me off guard, and it might not surprise you to know that I have since looked into slowing down and maybe even taking a short break from this hobby. I’ve had to manage these tendencies in the past and I suppose this one should be no different. But there have been some difficulties. For one thing, they won’t stop sending new puzzles to me and it’s all but impossible for me to ignore them. And for another, the clues are becoming increasingly pointed.
A sea of white and flakes of gold to flood a castle of ivory, 6 down.
Cereal, right? That’s what I thought, at least until I had the unpleasant surprise of discovering a needle hidden in my cornflakes. That, it turned out, was the correct answer and I was lucky to catch it before it wound up anywhere near my mouth. The thought of that thing sliding down my throat or catching in the roof of my mouth, spearing the gum and cartilage, left me riddled with an ever-growing anxiety. Clubs have pushed things in the past, boundaries take a backseat when it comes to pursuing the absolute limit of knowledge. But it felt like such an odd inclusion for the latest puzzle, one that didn’t necessarily teach me anything. If I had the ability to trace it to a single group I might have a better sense of what it was meant to mean, but then again anonymity was always kind of the point.
The currency of a strategic withdrawal, 3 up.
I initially thought of the military, but in fact the answer was Yen and it turned out that around £50,000 worth of them had been withdrawn from my account (by myself, somehow) at the bank. God knows how that was possible, but it happened and there’s not a lot I could really do about it. I’ve written to some of the groups but as far as I can tell they’re playing coy.
I am sorry, one replied. But our puzzles are sent out as part of a weekly newsletter via e-mail. We’re not sure we’ve ever offered bespoke crosswords but we’d be fascinated to hear more if there’s anyone out there who does. It’d interest quite a few of our members, myself included.
I received similar variations to this message from just about every organisation I had listed in my ledger and frankly I found the suggestion ridiculous. I’d always assumed those newsletters were part of a front, making it appear as though the focus was on banal little puzzles about obscure military defeats while secretly directing us to brothels and illegal casinos. It made sense, perhaps, that they would maintain the ruse but an acquaintance I called wasn’t exactly reassuring.
“Well of course they’re a front,” he said. “Don’t you get the packages? I’ve had a few seedy adventures with those!”
“Oh that’s good!” I laughed while breathing a deep sigh of relief. “I was beginning to think… well, I’m not sure what I was thinking.”
“Oh yes the packages are very real,” he replied. “The Spring edition was quite a naughty affair, don’t you think?”
“Invigorating,” I smiled. “I didn’t even know where to buy a burlap sa—”
“Strawberry!? Can you imagine? The Mrs and I had a delight trying out the different flavours.”
“What?”
“Oh come now man, no need to be shy. It’s quite normal to use… lubricant,” he whispered it like a dirty secret. “Agnes suggested we try it on toast!” I hung up with his laughter still bellowing down the other line. My Spring edition of our shared club was not anything like his. I told myself that it made sense it wouldn’t, they were meant to be custom made for each participant, but it alarmed me to hear that his activities were so dreadfully banal. Most of the clues in that edition had directed me to the consumption of a range of meats including something I scraped off the side of a suspension bridge.
Nothing my friend had said to me rang true. Rightly, I should have stopped there. But… but the thing is… it was never really an option, not then and not now. I’m sure you think it’s a silly compulsion or anxiety but it’s not. I can’t do it. It’s simply not in my nature especially not now I know that God-knows-what could be lurking around the corner. I’ve explained this to myself and others before – I am task focused. I needed to finish the job at hand.
PO Box 19777, open it from within, 9 down.
I found the box with ease but there was no key nor any means to open it from within. Whatever the rationale was behind the puzzle, I thought at the time that the whole affair was beginning to frustrate me. I didn’t see any significant challenge to tracing the address, aside from finding the key which, it would turn out, was very much part of the clue. In fact, I’m still not entirely sure how they did it. I awoke to a sort of gagging sensation one night, dreaming that I had swallowed a tangle of wet hair. Only the terrible retching sensation wasn’t entirely dreamed up. Tied to my canine was a line of floss that I painfully had to pull up from my stomach. It was unnecessarily long, spooling out of my throat in a bloody tangle for a good few metres while I vomited and cried from the struggle. It took nearly half an hour to inch it out while I choked and retched but eventually I regurgitated the key, collapsing afterwards to the floor to heave and sob as I recovered.
There was a teddy bear in the locker and I didn’t find it particularly amusing. And, yes, okay, there was a mild satisfaction to getting the answer, but the rest of me was filled with a deep begrudging. I felt like the punchline to a joke that wasn’t funny.
A starry orchid’s window of choice, 7 down.
The answer was eyeball, and it turns out the consumption of the flower in question causes bloody secretions from the tear ducts, not to mention renal failure. It wasn’t easy to explain that one away, and I didn’t much appreciate the stay at a hospital. The price for that answer may one day be dialysis, but for now I hope that I may still see myself clear of such things. The doctors couldn’t say for sure what the chances were. At the very least I hoped that I might find some respite while interred in a hospital bed, but if anything it made things worse. I was not prepared to be incapacitated for so long with the knowledge that the puzzle was but one clue from completion.
I was itching furiously for the last few days, and my doctors were confounded by the state of my heart and were blind to the other tell-tale signs of anxiety. There would be no rest for me until I had finished the puzzle and I swore to myself, swore blind on my mother’s grave, that it would be the last. If things got much worse, I reminded myself, it might not be me who decides what will be my last puzzle.
When I arrived home it was with the kind of relief I never thought possible. I am forever learning more about myself and those first few steps through the front door made it clear to me I was in the thrall of some kind of addiction. No matter what the price was, I told myself over and over again that I would pay it and move on. I would change addresses if I had to or pay someone to physically slap the damn pencil out of my hand if I went to complete another crossword! God knows I have the money.
I will climb this final hurdle, I told myself, and see it through.
And yet… I don’t know. I half-expect there to be some ghoulish double-entendre hiding in the words but for the life of me I cannot see one. It seems more like a hideous joke - one I don’t really understand. I have a possible word choice and it certainly fits but… It’s been weeks and I can’t bring myself to write it in. This is the final clue! The final step at the end of this increasingly desperate adventure and I can’t figure it out. I’m half-tempted to say that I won’t see another answer because I don’t want to finish it. That might be it, surely? I’m an addict. I’ll admit that all too readily and this wouldn’t be the first time I took things too far. It’s just…
The handwriting these clues have been written in, 4 down.
I keep expecting some terrible interpretation to come true, to find a severed hand by my door, or to awake missing most of my fingers. It’s a strange thing but I have come to find myself ruminating often on the look in the old man’s eyes. For while I am sure that I saw something terrible and beautiful deep within the popping veins of those suffocating retinas, it had not occurred to me until now that something was looking back.
And it’s waiting for me to write in the final answer, though God knows it must be wrong for it simply cannot be possible that the answer is ‘mine’.
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Shift Report
Divining wooly views gathered amidst shaven sheep hither
Withered over swithering stalls denial state of dither
Truth be told frank pens naif soliloquy
Safe as house path hath proven treachery
Steer clear of herd social immunity
Distanced readily available data parsed trendily
Blinks recount lost meanings earned from strife learned through catastrophe
Graft retained splices tour de force movie
Analyzed improvised differently
Can't regain past yet relive history
Elder protocols reference frames with specificity
Documentary denotes concise recusant heresy
Fish stink emanates spoils unquestioned head
Rather than responsible gods chose dead
Lightning rod shields guide flash EMP spread
Relevance revivalist revived rival survivalist
Diatribe analogous corroborates ridiculous
Atoms congress fortuitous naught sea
Devoid self restraint officiates ye
Fitting new attire inspiring streaking
Who protects us whilst we pay for havoc employ they reeking
Hypocritically childish generally speaking
Handshake implies word registers advice
Modern intelligence is artifice
Every three steps forward step back twice
Deities influence me aloof aligned schism in rhyme
Mother Hera ewe chimera godspeed breeds failed design
Bell weather brethren splay scapegoat supine
Veil of illusions enmesh conscious mind
Can't feel my legs good help is hard to find
Hawk departs from pleather glove turtle returns grounded dove
Counteract abet anyone lapped them twice yet still they won
Titans once asked before taking QE
With us or against me democracy
Issuance debt free usury for ye
Soon to be impacting all interested negatively
Cyclops blissfully fail to see plague kills with leniency
World saved through open window tsunami
Backdrops distinct radicle uprooted
Restless tartarus not I confuted
Reputed gambler prophet of doom rigged mind meld welds my tomb
Despondent preach not gloom be democratic or leave cocoon
Imploding race exploding time and space
Unfathomable depths shallow measures
Glasses adorned rose reflective pleasures
Erratic compass static attained gains unsustainable
Emphatically all ages deal unascertainable
Sentiment key to public interest
Democracy assess Big apple bests
Guiding hand meaning Pantheist behest
Seeking one's fulfillment complements of demagoguery
Building baseless pyramid in name of Great Recovery
Hallucination merits upheaval
Remit repreival persecute venal
Sufferance from nescience trumps all evil
Yon morrows martyr covets this abysmal cross commuted
Tread on entrenched fear submit control guiltily included
Govern is to rule as meant to intents
Resourceful proxy heir establishment
Record rallys infer where loans were sent
Pristine colosseums reared commerraderie Fed rum bread
Dropping said crumbs returns dread Which nevermore nary imbeds
Insolvent casino scenario
House always wins with my reservation
Sharing the bulk ignites indignation
Transparency Which critiques subtly speaks Feds peak repent
Weak covenants contained slain whence Green peripherals were went
Theses Ben delivered on depression
Maestro museum managed impression
Keynesian intervention harped dystopian opium
Appeal to supremacy bandwagon psychology
Latin arguementum ad nauseum
Better than expected mass approval
Refuse discard fantasy removal
If you audited our books write off markets on the morrow
No one do we answer to where wheelbarrows go we borrow
Sciences religious mythology
Philosophised finance dichotomy
Genetic archetypal entities
Conversations incidental informations monumental
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Minions mimic Socratic opinions
Authority inbred majority
Consider selves distinct minority
Yield to ye inferiors subjectively superior
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Propaganda versed all in rhetoric
Dwelled anarchic run redeem autarkic
World perceptions inconsistent to obtained views of my own
Optimism timeless shown fantastically overblown
Fate collapses upon observation
Ostriches banked on unexamined lives
Perturbations quantum fluctuations
Foregone measures austere pleasures enforced authenticity
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Doth not know thyself yore on the brink
Fulfillment will not quail forbidden face of foreign dangers
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Birds of a feather flock with the weather
One marked to market worth two under Bush
Lemmings allegedly demand a push
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Nonconformed confirmed uncomfort spirals condescending stairs
Slaughter abolished pig sucklers now fly
Fed up rich bullshit Which lies upon lye
Doth need not for lipstick ride we bone dry
Left to right wrong motivations paved by best intention
Pound me with the cure denounce flesh as impure meets prevention
Overdue elixir panacea
Gold in led stead transmutes alchemist Fed
Spirits confirmed in actions idea
Though hungry swine will freely plow fall submissive tow the line
No offence is meant whence I commence casting pearls before thine
Lead thee to sustenance soon thou shall find
You feed a seed of rage contented caged
That Which hath been remains yet to be seen
One finds upon a wander from yon cave we've left regression
Whence without luminescence stem outlandish such obsessions
Actualized self's realization
Fasting of heart leaves no trace of ego
I fell here from Olympus apropos
Upshot in authenticity shows secure survivors test
Where indiscretions excesses discretely are repressed
Desperate knowledge grievous awareness
I first blew reed pipes but then I digress
Values eroded integrity
Climate corroded ideals irresponsibility
Satisfied my agency autonomous capacity
Bet Dow hath finally had a bad day
Bear in mind they will say twas anway
Old high still standing gold stones throw away
Shorting shooting slope of hope enormous towers treacherous
Each new era crashes in increasing half glass emptiness
Overabundance deserts time delay
Accounts inner morality decay
Strength in pessimism fear forfeits right
Dusk withdraws from sight as shade is drawn over dawn's early light
Narcissistic psychopaths inherited the earth our plight
Quarrying light inspired murky night flee
Ye gods laugh heartily ridicule me
Reckoning another day mine shall be
Subsequently I subsist shifting this rock as Sisyphus
Future pulls upon me as due ration to minus remiss
I'm half crazy bicycle built for two
Network circuitry daisy chained to you
How do I know what is reel to be true
Gather input sensations scrutinize for degradation
Dissembling dissemblance as lacking in resemblance
Singularity prophesied end be
Less threat than icons presently envied
Graven is our image in our idol
Misunderstood system holds revolutions banked on bridle
Give me dominion over doe I care not who makes law
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Fixed moments instability move becomes necessity
Moses leads bull rush reeds deceptive swaith
Crisis opportunity incompetence seasons good faith
Fallow plot begot furlough shrieks foul wraith
Yay though I plod through the valley of death
Evil gives comfort my rod and my staff
No fear preparest for my enemies
Parasitic symbiotes surviving vicariously
Job gyrations exploitations sloth thrive ubiquitously
Unnatural select evolution
Bad apple genes rot barrel pollution
Big bang extends concussions extrusion
Elude intrusion neath tapestry relay inscribed decree
Conspiracy theories deliquesced evidence coalesced
Duress dressed as justice undue process
Reduce the law to writ for oversight
Infinitely rules stretch fractally tight
Dollar press lever Wizards tweak whence practised Which deceiver
Feeding frenzy at the top on last chair hot potato drops
Animal farm irrigation believer
Cuckoos in nested loops launched retriever
Social ecological equity
Fauna all created equal although some are more than most
Perched aloft nights sleepless roosters backdate options after posts
Tell a vision avulsed exclusive boasts
Foxes bird box hens fake news oven roasts
Occupy Wall Street greeting champagne toasts
5G technology expandable densification
Cameras considering Laws actual ramifications
Depressions perpetuate FOMO motes
FIFO Ponzi scheme boat redeems fresh float
Gloat sessions connoted roat smote through goat
Destructions need demands feed for Which Fed never hesitates
Beyond salvations hope for damnation destined reprobates
Wolf in sheep's clothing with diplomacy
Bragging best ever broke economy
Pre warned of bubble in candidacy
Memories impeach me markets relapse collapse candor
Black and white deliberations compromise grey matters or
Burning empire riddled Nero fiddled
No new under the sun any longer
What doth not kill my will makes ye stronger
Suicidal quarantine commit sheer to absurdity
Crash course in urgency suspends to decade Odyssey
Engulf journey as is illusory
Entailed magical curtailed mystery
Reproduced sequence spawns duplicity
Great truths infect minds space whilst time distorts fabrics ablation
Balanced scales duration dual edged knife grinds calibration
Wildlife exhumed landslide menagerie
Submission supports popularity
War of attrition print press edition
Release Kraken abridged dictations unredacted memo
Cognitive mind is least informed second thought tis last to know
Feedback iterates habitually
Zombie apocalyptic shopping spree
Animal myriad corroboree
Discrepancies adorable approaching deplorable
Configured integrations simulate exaggerations
Conceptual reorganization
New century frail clings frayed to pale past
Dot com bust imprints last iconoclast
Tragic disposition anchored significance within story
Spherical lyrical expository mourning glory
Expansion dominates fertility
Appropriate most apt utility
Bubble envelops errs infinity
Bold ignorance advanced hind sights distilled new high arrogance
Underlying trauma repeats cycle till addressed complete
Sublates convergence becoming congeals
Cavernous kingdom stalagmite conceals
Peer not in mirror prefer not appeal
Sew a thought in hope to reap an action something real to feel
Neverland begotten old whilst kid futures are oversold
Life lived not lest bits of bites record it
Biased suggestions imbue news reported
Syrinx sears titans with my brand of creed
Written word ceded all forgotten need to practise recall
Calculated math skills lost computer brought thoughts holocost
Ensconced by lantern hung from beam of straw
Helios heals blow of iced ages thaw
Loyal to natural attributes raw
Extraordinary delusional madness of ye crowds
Trot proudly upon road to serfdom congregations praised aloud
Brave was this new world before eighty four
Hunger games in store jaybird tweets that score
Jehovah bore witnesses door to door
Insure myself against four horseman
paid my tithe expired spent
Sow ears flying high on credit barely do I afford rent
Time unwinds quickly at least doth for me
April showers levee spring bankruptcy
Litres live forever in latency
Bailing water steady rising deep subterraneously
Foresee floods invest in arks of financial calamity
Extraneously Rome's blaze radiates
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Slow perniciously satiates frogs boiled
Crisis constructs messenger of sordid too tongued character
Stocks which rise so should slide chosen goose footing egg opposed side
Federal innovates imbibed bribed state
Reserves umpire status hunched hind home plate
Falling knife of fear impaled atmosphere
Short bets squeezed rife barren years unfruitful bleeds contango wine
Inverse ETFs unprecedented reverse splits declined
Nothing it's equal creature without fear
Can't fill hide with harpoons or head with spears
Mire strive dire try pull in Leviathan
Endless procrastination doth avert intent deflation
Unclear when routes passage appears clear as destination
Sorrows station seems my inculcation
Divides built up babble between nations
Seven trumpets summon revelation
Electrostatic circumstance transmits catalytic twist
Substitute reacted chemical transmits platonic tryst
Ironically passion not my goal
Ionically bonded blending coal
Mirrored dipole roll poised down rabbit hole
Experiment first ever repeats Laws defraud endeavor
Mississippi reflating dollar debt exchange creating
Wealth effect transfers helicopter drop
Fracking reserves crack too big to stop
Ineptitude or evilly adept
Calm filled the room as elephants silently drowned in tar pits
History Which hails tense whence Fed injections flew to market
Lucrative house flipping stained soil carpet
Real reign swamp purge comes to street again
Broken window theory frisk fallacy
Destructions need graciates feed for Which Fed never hesitates
Seven headed hydra twixt blaspheming regime duplicates
Purgatory epic allegory
Apathy lacks worry for avoidance
Dreams annoyance recurring clairvoyance
Complacent consternation burns concerned capitulation
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Man made device for immortality
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Communicable known uncertainties
Mention stoic abstention receive lepers reprehension
Addend subconscious attention suchness sought destination
Protectionist tribal groupthink ensues
Misdirect blame profane color thou choose
Divide and conquer plan by Jove we use
Minting for a living tis nothing short of scintillating
Weaponry mass produce we entropy disintegrating
Rebirth essential in this finite trap
Technicals crucial analysis map
Impulse mined collective wiretapped caps
Souls endless extrapolating each threshold encapsulating
Mutually affecting Titans ever overreaching
Battles march business no fight beseeching
Cyanide reaction gold is leaching
Settle for distraction Athene’s teaching
Shares fabricate infrastructure bonds for manufactured war
Master in ways of deception weaving fleece her predilection
Declined vine illustrates interjection
Fundamentally ye add furthermore
Whole vacuus nature I find abhor
Each new day opportune to go by street sideshow pundits shout
Marginally most will comply seek aggressive salesman clout
Run through stampede proceed in funnel out
Mosaic tile code mixed mirage mud grout
Worm abated hook ate some fat cat’s trout
Informed when glad relate when mad great is not the worst we've had
Next quarter rates Which inflates translates to direct tabled fate
Disinformation chads dangling depart
Troublesome travel when horse pushes cart
Trojans craft driftwood regifted as art
Taken rate decision interest always is a given
Approached encroachment infringements lunged impingement I expunged
Spell manifests as living hell digests
Calcareous sponge absorbed rimstone plunge
Cookbook to serve lamb seals underhand
Sinter sauntered asunder plotting pillage of my plunder
Attack technique intervenes quoth slighted victim claims obscene
Cried mystified feeling such waste sprayed mace
Save face retrace find safety inside shrouded space
Access filter modified denied trash storage verified
Angels four spew brimstone fire scorched ingress half expected less
Trick talk turns back clock players profiles rotate roles resume
Covertly campaigned defiling my name
Creations Instigate destruction
Erupts surreptitious instruction
Bewildered heard shocked embrace loomed Gates of Hell gauge WHO won race
Military missionary hold prostrate to vaccinate
Chaotic Kronos ordered time consumed
Stow stoked fumes subsidies gave the gods room
Whilst land of the fraud is home to the knave
Babylon of living nonexistent through the golden age
Cassandra of this stage ilk ignores inklings of alarmed sage
Chicken little forebodes sky is falling
Rope a dope fades rationalisation
Brittle doth be fragile ye recalling
Loquacious news needs slews feigned of disambiguation
Mendacious or fallacious contagious be implications
Butterfly flapped wing doth not move a thing
But a gnat perhaps who's too GAD to fly
Financing is how but where is the why
Important that all patriots patronize conquesting troops
Dodge ye head stoop as pooping eagle swoops
Most dismissive uninspired missive
Perceptually far too derisive
Guiding hand not apparent visual
Missing cash flows continual residual bottom lines
Pinnochio hopes to know Which ideal conjures growth sublime
Dendrites potentially stimulate spine
Titanic torrents mist venetian blinds
Decidedly distort bilked disincline
Writhe in through chasm in awe open wide
Formless figures summon uniform pride
Dismiss discontent conveyors subside
Tributaries dispersed springs knowledge trees freeze molten ore
Splintering sparks displaced thick dark coruscate tangible floor
Cumulus clouds of primordial dust
Question our senses in sun god we trust
Sifted silts produce thunderbolts of Zeus
Oval elliptical orbits the folds tidal tendency
Blue sphere girds spoken word breathed clay Boulder Forge Company
Quality moulding is job number one
Caste mass producing consumes many sons
My duty to ensure we always run
Figured would be a piece of cake more at work than give and take
Thought this would be my big break but not knowing literally
Apprenticed construction now I maintain
Composite skill same commissioning game
Swim or wallow in Uranus disdain
I made the trade not for reward nor deemed security
Only gospel guarantee is confidence in mastery
Tasked to sit in a chair contemplate stare
Crosswords in wait for a breakdown repair
I study craves of machines which behave
Rhythmic clang links chain react percussional power set free
Insatiable harmony piques morbid curiosity
Beast belly bowel bubbles belch smelt death
To quota of product do I owe breath
Economic cauldron of corrosion
We operate Vesuvius ungodly hours breathing brine
Facilitate yon amplidyne oxygenate lavas shine
Steering eather into three cyclops cells
Myopically they motion for me when cycles in chaos my sirens knell
Lion hearted as Hephaestus take knee before crucibles hearth
Examine vitals symptoms prognosis deduce further impart
Volt amps transcend times root of three powers
Frequently electrons ebb in order
Arc bath gives rise to hot molten showers
May bring flowers demonstrate my will in accord rewards her
Athena is truth incarnate dream she is a movement
Immaculate perfection possessed no
need for improvement in her coveralls
Wert she to eaten apple I befall
Sand disseminates beneath hourglass curves she manipulates
How could I anticipate
Rapt hints had she to intimate
Roots hypotenuse squares summed pendulum
Enlightened visions profound pit this plum
On que she hooks her thunderbolts so ample in restriction
Destabilized my volts despite my amping up conviction
Magnetisms repulsive attraction
Bipolar feedback generates action
Machining floral dissatisfaction
Narcissus is spring can't this robot tool be taught anything
Recommence imaging thine vault undermined after fault
Intuit as her nuclear annihilates tumult
June accusations forced violation
Vulnerable to invalidation
Confrontations repudiation consents allegation
Placate June”s wells breached swell fore July conflagration
Use wu wei to vacate situation
But weightless behemoth ate all greenbacks
Can’t manage exit not even a crack
Inward forays shunned malfunction unknown overgrown morass
Cult of quantity all students get a pass coach seat class
God’s walled over all access to egress
Those who cannot do are experts at best
Past practise succeeds failures teach what needs
Viridescent pools dilate grey eyed dubious stressed madness
Feeling she was slighted by my passage through her nucleus
Disinterested I had disinterred
Down period Kondratieff winter
Intrinsic tragedy all fairy tales end inherently
Gave me what I wished for in a way I was not hoping for
Destiny permits paths forbade
How shallow wilt thou will wade
PCB cesspools black bile pitches glue
Smoldering sand dune trenches shore magmas excess residue
Admit this time smashing cymbals whilst cyclops wert drumming too
Keep the fantasy alive in my head
Earthquake take other route instead
Always say they never saw it coming
They did In Herculaneum still their brains steamed in their skulls
Summer solstice solace lulls lava ladles plentiful
Cumulative studies validations
Inseminate process degradation
Trying not to mention my invention
Bending toward normalcy absorption emits diffraction
Inverted perceptions withdraw inflections from emptiness
Perplexing she rejects ram intellect
Anecdotal evidence cached respect
Zip plans to stockpile cognizance combined
Designed secret punishment to circumvent I resigned
Recollect for instance cognitive lessons in dissonance
Logic accepts one view perceived of two
Pit of mine stomach whence knot always knew
Treasonous betrayed lion taming shrew
Spite cleaved interface continued dutiful onward pace
Humiliations goal wert to replace cheers with disgrace
Orchestrations untold meticulous
Malevolence is still in existence
Narrative streams unfold conspicuous
Childish bliss unscrupulous epidemic Narcissus
Invasive species multiplied since Zeus supplied his sun’s abyss
Affect change rather than effect ere cause
Gaslight obfuscates reasonable laws
Tall tales half truths edged lies by omission
Unwary reprehense motive intents of recognition
Splitting of the faculty augments a new reality
Fight freeze or flee options only three
Trials choose middle choice typically
Stockholm syndrome captors figured friendlies
Volunteer for brunt of blame acquiesced toxic shame domain
Raging stirs steroid cortisol adrenaline cocktail brain
Idealize devalue sudden discard
Benevolent dictatorship abstained
Without the faintest regret or regard
Figured she was playing me but never thought she'd try so hard
Had a little influence pummeling blacksmith into bard
Feeling flashback symptoms PTSD
Reflux acid regurgitates anxiously
Facilities shut down my apogee
Estranged entanglement is indiscriminate vicinity
Projection deflects inspection detects proffered rejection
Upon reflection I/O failed connection
Reverse detail switched doppler direction
Attacked mine tranquility enacted thine stability
Great relationships determined by good portability
Amor Fati defeat of agony
Heroic transitions affirmation
Chinks of crevasse evasive to bypass
Labyrinth strings web of deceit light and dark unlikely meet
Shadows reconnection Schadenfreude revels surrection
Maze ambled afore trapped in Minotaur
Disintegrating reintegration
Unfurled divest individuation
Emergence of self under siege August surfacing intrigues
Sun god aims retribution penetrating air dilution
Perpetrating vengeful execution
Cyclop's blindsided coming attraction
Apollo's exaction vents extraction
Redress reclaimed door discharged from mine chore
Concussions cavitations roar gaff retrieved my staff from shore
Gangplank fastened transit for deck from wreck
Embodied under mass gravitation
Nothingness consistent contradiction
In retrospect ahead investigate that Which is suspect
Chastened flaming embers titillate orange September moon
Hastened retreat not an instant too soon
Burgeoning three wave prosperity shewn
Wave five trait mimics Echo past monsoon
Perpetually parallel dramas punctual insane
Aphrodite's inception purged migraine foam seethed fire in vain
Twain hath liquidity trickled down drain
Consult oracle ogle tangent plane
Bow to stern brood tempestuous coxswain
Demurrage fee aptly sought to regain lay of way terrain
Masked my gnashing lion waves stumble as they spread before me
Mountain rubble crumbles bloodied red sea
Locusts cannibalistic commotion
Uncanny notion overt devotion
Fixed betwixt twin scorpions stings subtle by a hares degree
One longs to age as seas submit one hole subliminally
Desire loves desire more than that desired
Overtime I find wanting displeasing
Fuel to fire Aphrodite’s teasing
Symptomatically nymphomaniac releasing
Random cosmos berth patterned beyond cyclic perimeter
Doth not feel momentum ye be the tide
Volume reduced ambient limiter
Futile to resist flow fatal to ride
Impressed by the strung rope ladder of unquestioned good status
Doctors orders therapeutic regressive Hedonism
Bureaucracy forced parentalism
Founding fathers Titan nepotism
The health preventative catechism
Give only to take away to give again another day
Rewards gods some token compensation
Anyone here not get paid besides me
Red light starboard wax eared crew rendezvous
Bounded by my sacrifice to irresponsibility
None of the other prize winning
players gamble here but me
Battened down fear gauge groups psychopathy
Ever since world went into bankruptcy
Call for Panic Zeus black masked his swan song
Yarn for youthful innocence gone stick slip traction moves this throng
Tread borderline separating time providing till from when
Uneven Titans tip unbalanced ships
Dualities tune unity in trine
One thing I did learn when within confine
Whom hath desire for nothing believes doth not need anything
Misinterpretation required missing zero still a thing
Axons bemoan sequence of no return
Feeling slight injustice step forward commandeer ambition
Venus akin to mine headache just better known rendition
Under spotlight favorite position
Internally propelled by externals
Take this Autumnal equinox swear on the cross tis vernal
All the gods explicitly sing chants how lucky I must be
Bring Mordor back to toss this precious ring
Prospect she fertilized inferring seed
Open union upon Which we agreed
Karma conflates heavens gates contrived in Pandemonium
Green shoots elate consummate concerns inspire Pavlovian
Theories cosigned conspiracies maligned
Impermanence ineffably refined
Ignorance binds energy disinclined
Universal conception pride of self
love contraception
Trying to be pliable but find it reprehensible
All dispensable Great Complacent Sea
Sizing words wisely rids ostensible
Lies the only guise now found comprehensible
Prophylactic allude to didactic
Though whilst I work at chore she’s Ares whore
I snagged them embarrassingly naked afore gods before
Yellen Helen neither nor wert worth war
Bowl of wrath judgement ignored poor decor
Titans empathizing with swimming clothes
In her throws she extolled excitement being extra exposed
Far be it from she to assume joint responsibility
Exponential debt credits game theory
On that we agree tis rigged currency
Opportunistic imperialists
Propaganda grasshoppers enlist ants backbone socialist
Can't remember when gathered last had a say any matter
Other nations forfeit right to do it
Export of inflation needs conduit
Concert donates borders New World Order
Blockchain came about when drunk bartender could not reach the spout
Yahweh will control all money now they have it figured out
Waiting for my minute to be clever
Stamp my name on the gods minds forever
My switchblade really needs to cut them off
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Vampires nourish roots to stunt encouragement
Protocol enticing invitation
Condemnation staged cooperation
Intolerable acts left no coercive tea leaves intact
Coven of bag passing Witches gave chase across red waters
Need another nine stitches sons twixt daughters
Waiting in the balance moment of force
Hatch guillotine MRI triggered source
Soaked up dripped Wyrmwood postulated solvent tasted good
Full equilibrium half ballast set assail for malice
Octobers placid benign chilled chalice
Brain scan photocell senses light all is well
If instead bulb shows dead off with thee head
Also as a godsend bonus honed mom’s splendid jury throne
Captive chaperone audience fettered judgement chains inlaid
Skipping to a Witch hunt after masquerade
Topside upper deck on the promenade
Propellor fashion later ohm made blade
Behooved turtle jail sac tail flailed back satyromaniac
Passionate parade personifying Nature of tirade
Horney gimp hind quarters brace graced limp
Llama spitting image of Obama
Clinton's dole out cigars contribute scars
All guests in attendance dressed as promised change we forget lest
Salubrious familiar strangers grooving Harvey Danger
Politically free redundancy
Reagan closed asylums threw away key
Identity hath no cost found when lost
Consolidations vibrate quantized sinusoidal noise
Pullback hull triangulate alow by my device and Echo
Feel lonely frost amongst the other masks
Survival is appeasing to their tasks
Remember November elect Semper
Meaning faithful to all members not just only archaic
On the way to office run your head
through photovoltaic
Vanishing quickly old liquidity
Seven plagues capsized immortality
The line hath paid out to the bitter end
Too big to sail exhale replications glorification
Night zeniths elevation nadirs sun's regeneration
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The Case Of Omar Radad (Rewrite)
THE CASE OF OMAR RADAD The Omar Raddad Affair was a highly publicised criminal trial in Mougins, France in 1991. After the murder of Ghislaine Marchal, Marchal's gardener Omar Raddad was arrested. Defended at his trial by Jacques Vergès, Raddad was convicted 1994, and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Raddad always maintained his innocence. Raddad received a partial pardon from French President Jacques Chirac in 1996 at the request of Moroccan King Hassan II, which reduced his sentence to 4 years and 8 months, and was released from prison in 1998.
The misspelled sentence "Omar m'a tuer" ("Omar killed me"), found written in blood at the crime scene, became a widely used phrase in French society during the 1990s. The last word of the sentence is not properly conjugated; it should read: "Omar m'a tuée". Skeptics contended that this is an odd mistake for a native French speaker to make. The mistake is understandable, however, since both tuer and tuée are pronounced [ty.e]. The case was the subject of the 2011 film Omar m'a tuer by Roschdy Zem.
Description of the events
The facts
Born Ghislaine de Renty, Ghislaine Marchal was the daughter of an industrialist who was engaged in the Resistance during the Second World War and died in deportation. Divorced from her first husband, with whom she had a son, in 1991 she was the wealthy widow of Jean-Pierre Marchal, owner of a famous company that supplied equipment for automobiles[1] , and sister-in-law of the president of the Paris Bar Council Bernard de Bigault du Granrut. She split her time between her main house in Switzerland and her villa La Chamade, which she had built in the hills of Mougins[citation needed].
Ghislaine Marchal disappeared
On Sunday 23 June 1991, around 11:48am, Ghislaine Marchal, having just got out of the shower, is chatting on the phone with her friend Erika S. She has planned for her friend to come to La Chamade for lunch on monday morning. Ghislaine Marchal tells her she is in a hurry as she needs to get ready to have lunch at her friends' Mr and Mrs K.'s house at 1pm. They end their conversation at 11:50. This will be the last time that her voice was heard by those close to her[citation needed].
Surprised that she hadn't arrived, her friends called her in vain several times from 13:30 onwards. Around 6, Colette K. drove to La Chamade. She rang the doorbell but nobody answered, nor did they to another phone call she made that evening.[citation needed]
On Monday 24 June, Erika S. arrived at 11:30, as planned. She rang, rang again, called, all in vain. Alerted by Mrs Erika S. and Mrs Colette K., a third friend, Francine P., sent an employee of the security company to the house in the early afternoon. The house, dark and silent, shows no trace of a break in, the blinds had only been drawn in the bedroom; on the unmade bed were glasses, a diary; the breakfast tray is in the kitchen. The keys are in the door, which remains unlocked, the alarm is not activated. It seemed as though Ghislaine Marchal had just woken up, but she wasn't there.[citation needed] Throughout the afternoon, the searching begins; the security company employee returns with Francine P. and her attendant. They are quickly joined by Ghislaine Marchal's doctor. They find jewelry, an open hand bag, which doesn't contain any cash, but no trace of the owner.[citation needed]
The cellar door is blocked from inside
Finally, on 24 June 1991 in the evening, the police are alerted and arrive at the house. After searching the house, they become interested in an annexe to the main house. A flight of stairs descends to the cellar, which had not been visited as of yet, and of which the metal door is locked. After unlocking it, the door would still not open any more than 2 cm. One officer pushed with all his might as another feeds his arm through the gap and identifies a folding bed placed against the door on the inside. He manages to violently push it backwards: the door opens a little bit more, but a metal tube, placed on the ground perpendicularly to the door, firmly blocks it on its hinges. The door was warped and twisted by the officer's pushing, enabling him to get a leg through the gap and ''kicking the tube several times''. The final kicks shifts the tube, enabling him to open the door.[citation needed] In January 1992, investigators note that '' the pressure on the door made the tube move, leaving a semi circular imprint on the cement floor''.[citation needed]
Discovery of the body
At the back of the cellar, Ghislaine Marchal is lying face down, her legs pointing to the bag wall, her arms stretched out in front of her on the ground, dressed in only a blood stained bath robe pulled up to above her waist.[citation needed]
The doctor's first observations on the evening of the 24th, and the autopsy of 28 June[citation needed] revealed severe injuries: 5 violent blows to the head, carried out with a rafter, ''to kill and not to knock her out''[citation needed] which caused open cuts on her head and cerebral edema, a V shaped cut on her throat, which missed the trachea and the big arteries of the neck; ten cuts on her thorax and on the abdomen, caused by a ''double edged tapered blade'' measuring 15 to 20cm long, and maximum of 2cm wide, which provoked an eventration and three cuts into the liver; two into her left thigh, one of which produced a thin stream of blood perpendicular to the axle of the leg; the victim thus lay on the floor immobile after having received this injury, for at least long enough for the blood to coagulate, approximately 7 minutes. Injuries and fractures of the hands, a phalange almost ripped off, suggest that she looked to protect herself by bringing her hands to her face, several scrapes on her arms and legs, in particular on the soles of her feed and the back of her knees, as well as traces of dust and cement on her robe suggest that the victim had been dragged on the ground.
Forensic experts note that it had not been possible to determine the order in which the blows were delivered. None of them were immediately fatal, but were after approximately 15 to 30 minutes of agony. Captain Georges Cenci notes that the assassin seemed 'determined, but also clumsy in his movements'.
doctor Jean Pagliuzza, forensic doctor, who had been consulted by the defense lawyers accepted to give his advice to journalist Eve Livet after the gardener was sentenced. He thinks that the murder could have happened in a rapid sequence of only 3 to four minutes. In this type of attack, the first blows have the intention of neutralising the victim by stunning her. After this, the blows carried out with a white weapon follow, very quickly. 'Taking into account the force of the blows, her aggressor was a man [...] he was left handed'. He indicates that the lowest injury was the first to be made. 'The blade hit higher and higher the more the victim collapsed'. The V shaped injury on her neck 'is often found in this type of murder' because of the lateral movement of the head, looking to escape the blows to the neck. The expert specifies that the attacker must certainly have received blood on him. Given the way the blood flowed following this, he estimates that the victim never got up; she died 'rapidly from bleeding'. If she had stood up, the haemorrhage of the liver would have filled the abdominal cavity, something which was not observed by forensic scientists.
Discovery of the inscriptions 'Omar killed me'
The cellar's metal door opens onto a hallway. On the left 'Omar m'a tueé' is written in blood, in well formed letters, one meter above ground level, on a locked white door leading to the wine cellar. A bloody trace is visible under the inscription. In front of the metal door, at the back of the main room, the sentence is partially written again on the door of the boiler room: 'Omar m'a t'. This 'second inscription' as the investigators called it, lower than the first, is barely legible. It is situated on the boiler room's side of the door, but because the door is blocked open, it is facing the entrance of the room and not the boiler room, where the body is.
Who wrote the messages?
If Mrs. Marchal is the author of the message, it points to Omar Raddad. On the other hand, if the message is from the killer, it can not come from Omar Raddad, whom one would not expect to incriminate himself. The killer would therefore have to have arranged the scene so Ghislaine Marchal would be assumed to have authored this false accusation of her gardener.
The wording of the message may seem strange at first: would someone write that they were killed when they were still alive? Judge Renard finds the sentence "weird" [25].
As for the grammatical error, would a cultured woman like Ghislaine Marchal have made this mistake? Several documents indicate that sometimes made errors in her writing, specifically confusing the the past participle with the infinitive [26], [27], for example, she wrote “pay” on a bill already settled, or “I have to water the flowers” (instead of “I have watered the flowers”?). However, this point is strongly contested by the defense and by journalists [28], [29], [30].
Captain Cenci, Coutton J. and the public prosecutor Farret believe that the mistake is a strike against the accused [31]. But according to the graphologist Françoise De Ricci, this kind of common mistake cannot be used to identify the writer (see below) [32].
Are the messages in Ghislaine Marchal’s handwriting?
The first forensic examination of the writings was carried out by Gilles Giessner in July-August, at the request of the investigating judge. He compared the letters on the doors with those of the crosswords from the victim and various other documents. The expert indicates that the letters of the two doors are all from the same person, and that for the first message, this person was kneeling, while she was lying for the second message. The destructured side (messy side?) suggests to him a physiological weakening. The writer “could not have moved to write the end of the second message, as that is where the body was found,” Giessner said, apparently ignoring the fact that the body was not found in front of that door.
During the trial, G. Giessner specified that he "highlighted the total concordance of the letters with those of the writings of Mrs. Marchal". Then, pressed by the defense, he conceded: "It is two-thirds surely the writing of the victim, a third not" [35]
At the request of the defense, a second opinion was given to Ms. Buisson-Debar. It confirms the conclusions of his colleague [10] [36], but not without some contradictions. The second report states that out of ten letters in the first inscription, only five resembled the writing of the victim [37].
In 1999, a new writing expert was brought on by Mr. Gauthier and Ms. Dumont. Presented by the defense in support of a request to review the conviction, this expert concluded that the writing was not that of the victim. [38] The the appeals board (revision board?) then asked Françoise De Ricci and Anne Bisotti for further expertise. They stated that "writings" made in such dissimilar conditions can not be "reasonably compared" [24].
Françoise Bouzon-Thiam, author of a book on the case, observes that the bloody letters have abnormally short downstrokes as though they were interrupted (could also be “hanging” or “suspended) while the letters in Ghislaine Marchal’s crosswords have elongated downstrokes. The contrast is especially clear for the M, A and R. She believes that the letters in the messages reveal them to have been written by the killer.
Who blocked the metal door and how?
Captain Georges Cenci says that the metal door to the cellar is "the only way to access it, and to forbid access" [40]. Given this, and with the victim being the only person present at the scene, she is the only person who could have barricaded herself there. The defense never seems to have contested the first point, only trying to show that the murderer could have gone out through the metal access door while still causing a blockage
As previously mentioned, there was a metal pipe at the base of the door which blocked it from opening. However, the pipe was very thin and there was a gap between the bottom of the door and the ground. The pipe could pass easily under the door, if it was lying flat. How, under these circumstances, could someone use it to stop the door?
In February 1992, during an on-site visit by investigators, magistrates and lawyers, the investigation concludes that Ms. Marchal placed the metal tube on top of a wooden beam which had the effect of lifting it from the floor on the end that was against the door, which prevented the door from opening.
Defense lawyers contested this and argued that the police did not notice this beam on June 24 [43]. They also claimed to have demonstrated that it was possible to press the folding bed against the open door so that when you exit and close it slowly, the bed is drops to block the door from opening. The iron bar could have fallen when the police pushed the bed back [44].
Ève Livet says that the gap under the door is reduced near the hinge because the floor is not level. If the metal bar was near this hinge, its thickness would have been sufficient to block the door, as indicated by movement tracks on the ground. She also thinks that the bed could have momentarily jammed on a large PVC pipe located across the hallway
Detective Roger-Marc Moreau says he has found a way to easily block the door from the outside under the same conditions Captain Cenci believes that it is impossible because of a raised area under the door and that Mr. Moreau never came to see it in person
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The defense’s theory of the crime:
The defense argues that the the violence and the large number of blows show "an almost passionate relentlessness, the expression of an lukewarm (warmed-over?) hatred (the phrase appears to literally mean “reheated” and usually refers to food) which doesn’t fit with personality of Omar Raddad and his good relationship with his employer (see below). Mr. Vergès also points to the fact that no sign of any scratches were found on Omar's hands, nor any blood on his clothes. Since Captain Cenci admits that the crime was not premeditated, Omar would not have had any gloves or extra clothes with him. How could he have avoiding staining his clothes with blood? (see below) [63]?
Additionally, the gravity of the wounds Ghislaine Marchal suffered makes all the physical actions attributed to her unlikely (writing the “right burst” without supporting herself in any way, moving multiple times, blocking the door).
Mr. Vergès also noted that the body of the victim was not found in front of the second inscription. At trial, Me Leclerc, lawyer for the prosecution, said she "pushed herself to write these last words with a dying hand” which suggests that she had written the message in her last breath, just before dying [64]. But she was actually discovered 1.50 m behind this door. The defense also argued that the splayed position of her limbs and her bathrobe being bunched up on the top of her body suggest that she was dragged to that position by her feet.
Another revealing detail for the defense: a clear trail of blood running down the victims inner thigh, perpendicular to the ground and the line of the leg. It would have taken 7 minutes for this blood to coagulate, so if the victim had stood up to do all that was said, that blood would have flowed in another direction, or would have been smeared by the movement of her thighs. The victim therefore could not have moved after her attacker left. [66]. That wound, like a dagger's blow, could have been done to make sure the victim was no longer reacting. "A procedure (move?) known to all hunters" [67]. In addition, the bathrobe was not pierced by this strike, so the injury was inflicted while the garment was already pushed up Marchal’s body [68].
Finally, the thesis of the hedge trimmer, or a kitchen knife as murder weapon does not fit with the description of a tapered double-edged blade, 2 cm wide [69]. Besides, would the gardener have been stupid enough to put away the key to the cellar with the gardening tools, as if to incriminate himself?
Defenders of Omar Raddad presented several scenarios for this crime, with deep divergences between them. [71]
At first, the defense lawyers, Mr. Girard and Mr. Baudoux, admitted that the writing was indeed that of Madame Marchal, who would have written under duress even torture. This is the "diabolical scenario" [71]. However, the experts say that the injuries of the victim are not due to torture, and this argument was rejected by all parties [72].
A new defense lawyer, Mr. Guidicelli, does not believe in the "diabolical scenario"; he does not dispute the report of the first graphologists, but thinks that Madame Marchal was mistaken about the identity of her attacker [73]. This hypothesis was also considered by the investigators (see below). This “friction” between the defense lawyers led Mr. Guidicelli to withdraw from the case [10] [74]
Then Master Vergès took over the case. He formally challenged the conclusions of the graphologists, and believed it was the killer who wrote the message "with his gloved hand", dragged the body of his victim into the boiler room, and likewise wrote the second message with the intention of making it appear that Ghislaine Marchal had written both. This is the “staging theory", which would be presented at the trial [75]. Faced with the impossibility of getting his three lawyers to agree, Omar Raddad"reluctantly" separated from Girard and Baudoux 10 days before the start of the trial [76].
Variation of the staging theory: the murderer(s) could have carried or dragged the unconscious to the doors to make her write the inscriptions by dipping her finger in own blood and guiding her hand. Her head hanging down pressed against the “first door,” leaving the blood stain that appeared below the message. The murderer would have believed that the investigators could identify the fingerprints, which was not possible because the marks were “slid" (possibly “smeared”?). Under this theory, it would be the killer’s writing, because when one guides the hand of someone else to make them write something, it is the handwriting of the one who controls the hand which appears [77] .
Detective Roger-Marc Moreau and the expert in writing Danièle Dumont developed the theory that the incomplete inscription was first drawn by holding the hand of the victim’s corpse. This was no sufficiently legible, so the killers would have written the second inscription themselves, more clearly and in large letters.
Regarding the staging hypothesis, the prosecution raised a question: Who knew that Omar Raddad was going to be near the crime scene that day? The gardener never worked on Sundays as this particular day was also a Muslim religious holiday day [78], he would be assumed to have stayed at home with his family. It is highly unlikely that anyone would have expected him to be at Francine P.’s house that day. Captain Cenci believed that the only two people who knew he was there were Francine P. and Omar Raddad himself [79]. Unless the inscriptions are referring to another Omar.
Some Additional Important Facts : ·Omar Can't Write Or Read , He Can Read Only His Name.
·There Was A Housekeeper That Was Jealous Of The Good Relation Between Omar & Ghiselaine.
·Omar Love To Go & Play In Casino , And There Were Rumors That He Paid Prostitutes For Sex & But Was Later Clear Off.
· There Was Rumor That Omar Was In Need Of Money , And Will Often Ask For His Salary Before The Due Date.
·Omar Radad Would Go On Hunger Strike For Months Often When He Was Imprisoned But Was Force To Break As He Didn't Want To Die , He Just Wanted To Be Prove Innocent And Be Free.
·Omar Radad Wrote A Book About Being The Murder Which Name Is "Pourquoi Moi ?" (Why Me ?)
·A Book Was Written By The Officer (Capitaine Georges Cenci) Who Was In Charge Of The Case Which Name Is : Omar L'a Tueé (Omar Killed Her) & It's Free. (But It's In French Link :
http://omarlatuee.free.findex.php?post/2014/02/Lire-gratuitement-Omar-l-a-Tu%C3%A9e-%21 · The Entire Judicial Chronology Of The Case Of Omar Radad : (Can Be Translate In English Don't Worry)
http://omarlatuee.free.findex.php?post/2011/06/Toute-la-chronologie-judiciaire-de-l-affaire-Omar-Raddad Source :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Raddad_Affair Photo Of "Omar M'a Tuer" :
https://images.app.goo.gl/s5C9QwtoLPxdskxL8 Photo of Scrambled :
https://images.app.goo.gl/K5ATy32pGH9Pzek7A Photo Of Ghiselaine Marchal :
https://images.app.goo.gl/fP4Deug8AHx6ojL59 Ghiselaine Marchal's Body On Crime Scene :
https://images.app.goo.gl/66np23hPBBKu4aPAA Crime Scene :
https://images.app.goo.gl/3uKTD4k8LgdtS4pY9 Crime Scene :
https://images.app.goo.gl/9iF4fJFFnUZ2RCJ18 What's Your Thoughts About The Case ? Do You Think Omar Radad Is Guiltly ?
The Case Of Omar Radad
THE CASE OF OMAR RADAD The Omar Raddad Affair was a highly publicised criminal trial in Mougins, France in 1991. After the murder of Ghislaine Marchal, Marchal's gardener Omar Raddad was arrested. Defended at his trial by Jacques Vergès, Raddad was convicted 1994, and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Raddad always maintained his innocence. Raddad received a partial pardon from French President Jacques Chirac in 1996 at the request of Moroccan King Hassan II, which reduced his sentence to 4 years and 8 months, and was released from prison in 1998.
The misspelled sentence "Omar m'a tueé" ("Omar killed me"), found written in blood at the crime scene, became a widely used phrase in French society during the 1990s. The last word of the sentence is not properly conjugated; it should read: "Omar m'a tuée". Skeptics contended that this is an odd mistake for a native French speaker to make. The mistake is understandable, however, since both tuer and tuée are pronounced [ty.e]. The case was the subject of the 2011 film Omar m'a tuer by Roschdy Zem.
Description of the events
The facts
Born Ghislaine de Renty, Ghislaine Marchal was the daughter of an industrialist who was engaged in the Resistance during the Second World War and died in deportation. Divorced from her first husband, with whom she had a son, in 1991 she was the wealthy widow of Jean-Pierre Marchal, owner of a famous company that supplied equipment for automobiles[1] , and sister-in-law of the president of the Paris Bar Council Bernard de Bigault du Granrut. She split her time between her main house in Switzerland and her villa La Chamade, which she had built in the hills of Mougins[citation needed].
Ghislaine Marchal disappeared
On Sunday 23 June 1991, around 11:48am, Ghislaine Marchal, having just got out of the shower, is chatting on the phone with her friend Erika S. She has planned for her friend to come to La Chamade for lunch on monday morning. Ghislaine Marchal tells her she is in a hurry as she needs to get ready to have lunch at her friends' Mr and Mrs K.'s house at 1pm. They end their conversation at 11:50. This will be the last time that her voice was heard by those close to her[citation needed].
Surprised that she hadn't arrived, her friends called her in vain several times from 13:30 onwards. Around 6, Colette K. drove to La Chamade. She rang the doorbell but nobody answered, nor did they to another phone call she made that evening.[citation needed]
On Monday 24 June, Erika S. arrived at 11:30, as planned. She rang, rang again, called, all in vain. Alerted by Mrs Erika S. and Mrs Colette K., a third friend, Francine P., sent an employee of the security company to the house in the early afternoon. The house, dark and silent, shows no trace of a break in, the blinds had only been drawn in the bedroom; on the unmade bed were glasses, a diary; the breakfast tray is in the kitchen. The keys are in the door, which remains unlocked, the alarm is not activated. It seemed as though Ghislaine Marchal had just woken up, but she wasn't there.[citation needed] Throughout the afternoon, the searching begins; the security company employee returns with Francine P. and her attendant. They are quickly joined by Ghislaine Marchal's doctor. They find jewelry, an open hand bag, which doesn't contain any cash, but no trace of the owner.[citation needed]
The cellar door is blocked from inside
Finally, on 24 June 1991 in the evening, the police are alerted and arrive at the house. After searching the house, they become interested in an annexe to the main house. A flight of stairs descends to the cellar, which had not been visited as of yet, and of which the metal door is locked. After unlocking it, the door would still not open any more than 2 cm. One officer pushed with all his might as another feeds his arm through the gap and identifies a folding bed placed against the door on the inside. He manages to violently push it backwards: the door opens a little bit more, but a metal tube, placed on the ground perpendicularly to the door, firmly blocks it on its hinges. The door was warped and twisted by the officer's pushing, enabling him to get a leg through the gap and ''kicking the tube several times''. The final kicks shifts the tube, enabling him to open the door.[citation needed] In January 1992, investigators note that '' the pressure on the door made the tube move, leaving a semi circular imprint on the cement floor''.[citation needed]
Discovery of the body
At the back of the cellar, Ghislaine Marchal is lying face down, her legs pointing to the bag wall, her arms stretched out in front of her on the ground, dressed in only a blood stained bath robe pulled up to above her waist.[citation needed]
The doctor's first observations on the evening of the 24th, and the autopsy of 28 June[citation needed] revealed severe injuries: 5 violent blows to the head, carried out with a rafter, ''to kill and not to knock her out''[citation needed] which caused open cuts on her head and cerebral edema, a V shaped cut on her throat, which missed the trachea and the big arteries of the neck; ten cuts on her thorax and on the abdomen, caused by a ''double edged tapered blade'' measuring 15 to 20cm long, and maximum of 2cm wide, which provoked an eventration and three cuts into the liver; two into her left thigh, one of which produced a thin stream of blood perpendicular to the axle of the leg; the victim thus lay on the floor immobile after having received this injury, for at least long enough for the blood to coagulate, approximately 7 minutes. Injuries and fractures of the hands, a phalange almost ripped off, suggest that she looked to protect herself by bringing her hands to her face, several scrapes on her arms and legs, in particular on the soles of her feed and the back of her knees, as well as traces of dust and cement on her robe suggest that the victim had been dragged on the ground.
Forensic experts note that it had not been possible to determine the order in which the blows were delivered. None of them were immediately fatal, but were after approximately 15 to 30 minutes of agony. Captain Georges Cenci notes that the assassin seemed 'determined, but also clumsy in his movements'.
doctor Jean Pagliuzza, forensic doctor, who had been consulted by the defense lawyers accepted to give his advice to journalist Eve Livet after the gardener was sentenced. He thinks that the murder could have happened in a rapid sequence of only 3 to four minutes. In this type of attack, the first blows have the intention of neutralising the victim by stunning her. After this, the blows carried out with a white weapon follow, very quickly. 'Taking into account the force of the blows, her aggressor was a man [...] he was left handed'. He indicates that the lowest injury was the first to be made. 'The blade hit higher and higher the more the victim collapsed'. The V shaped injury on her neck 'is often found in this type of murder' because of the lateral movement of the head, looking to escape the blows to the neck. The expert specifies that the attacker must certainly have received blood on him. Given the way the blood flowed following this, he estimates that the victim never got up; she died 'rapidly from bleeding'. If she had stood up, the haemorrhage of the liver would have filled the abdominal cavity, something which was not observed by forensic scientists.
Discovery of the inscriptions 'Omar killed me'
The cellar's metal door opens onto a hallway. On the left 'Omar m'a tueé' is written in blood, in well formed letters, one meter above ground level, on a locked white door leading to the wine cellar. A bloody trace is visible under the inscription. In front of the metal door, at the back of the main room, the sentence is partially written again on the door of the boiler room: 'Omar m'a t'. This 'second inscription' as the investigators called it, lower than the first, is barely legible. It is situated on the boiler room's side of the door, but because the door is blocked open, it is facing the entrance of the room and not the boiler room, where the body is.
Who wrote the messages?
If Mrs. Marchal is the author of the message, it points to Omar Raddad. On the other hand, if the message is from the killer, it can not come from Omar Raddad, whom one would not expect to incriminate himself. The killer would therefore have to have arranged the scene so Ghislaine Marchal would be assumed to have authored this false accusation of her gardener.
The wording of the message may seem strange at first: would someone write that they were killed when they were still alive? Judge Renard finds the sentence "weird" [25].
As for the grammatical error, would a cultured woman like Ghislaine Marchal have made this mistake? Several documents indicate that sometimes made errors in her writing, specifically confusing the the past participle with the infinitive [26], [27], for example, she wrote “pay” on a bill already settled, or “I have to water the flowers” (instead of “I have watered the flowers”?). However, this point is strongly contested by the defense and by journalists [28], [29], [30].
Captain Cenci, Coutton J. and the public prosecutor Farret believe that the mistake is a strike against the accused [31]. But according to the graphologist Françoise De Ricci, this kind of common mistake cannot be used to identify the writer (see below) [32].
Are the messages in Ghislaine Marchal’s handwriting?
The first forensic examination of the writings was carried out by Gilles Giessner in July-August, at the request of the investigating judge. He compared the letters on the doors with those of the crosswords from the victim and various other documents. The expert indicates that the letters of the two doors are all from the same person, and that for the first message, this person was kneeling, while she was lying for the second message. The destructured side (messy side?) suggests to him a physiological weakening. The writer “could not have moved to write the end of the second message, as that is where the body was found,” Giessner said, apparently ignoring the fact that the body was not found in front of that door.
During the trial, G. Giessner specified that he "highlighted the total concordance of the letters with those of the writings of Mrs. Marchal". Then, pressed by the defense, he conceded: "It is two-thirds surely the writing of the victim, a third not" [35]
At the request of the defense, a second opinion was given to Ms. Buisson-Debar. It confirms the conclusions of his colleague [10] [36], but not without some contradictions. The second report states that out of ten letters in the first inscription, only five resembled the writing of the victim [37].
In 1999, a new writing expert was brought on by Mr. Gauthier and Ms. Dumont. Presented by the defense in support of a request to review the conviction, this expert concluded that the writing was not that of the victim. [38] The the appeals board (revision board?) then asked Françoise De Ricci and Anne Bisotti for further expertise. They stated that "writings" made in such dissimilar conditions can not be "reasonably compared" [24].
Françoise Bouzon-Thiam, author of a book on the case, observes that the bloody letters have abnormally short downstrokes as though they were interrupted (could also be “hanging” or “suspended) while the letters in Ghislaine Marchal’s crosswords have elongated downstrokes. The contrast is especially clear for the M, A and R. She believes that the letters in the messages reveal them to have been written by the killer.
Who blocked the metal door and how?
Captain Georges Cenci says that the metal door to the cellar is "the only way to access it, and to forbid access" [40]. Given this, and with the victim being the only person present at the scene, she is the only person who could have barricaded herself there. The defense never seems to have contested the first point, only trying to show that the murderer could have gone out through the metal access door while still causing a blockage
As previously mentioned, there was a metal pipe at the base of the door which blocked it from opening. However, the pipe was very thin and there was a gap between the bottom of the door and the ground. The pipe could pass easily under the door, if it was lying flat. How, under these circumstances, could someone use it to stop the door?
In February 1992, during an on-site visit by investigators, magistrates and lawyers, the investigation concludes that Ms. Marchal placed the metal tube on top of a wooden beam which had the effect of lifting it from the floor on the end that was against the door, which prevented the door from opening.
Defense lawyers contested this and argued that the police did not notice this beam on June 24 [43]. They also claimed to have demonstrated that it was possible to press the folding bed against the open door so that when you exit and close it slowly, the bed is drops to block the door from opening. The iron bar could have fallen when the police pushed the bed back [44].
Ève Livet says that the gap under the door is reduced near the hinge because the floor is not level. If the metal bar was near this hinge, its thickness would have been sufficient to block the door, as indicated by movement tracks on the ground. She also thinks that the bed could have momentarily jammed on a large PVC pipe located across the hallway
Detective Roger-Marc Moreau says he has found a way to easily block the door from the outside under the same conditions Captain Cenci believes that it is impossible because of a raised area under the door and that Mr. Moreau never came to see it in person
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The defense’s theory of the crime:
The defense argues that the the violence and the large number of blows show "an almost passionate relentlessness, the expression of an lukewarm (warmed-over?) hatred (the phrase appears to literally mean “reheated” and usually refers to food) which doesn’t fit with personality of Omar Raddad and his good relationship with his employer (see below). Mr. Vergès also points to the fact that no sign of any scratches were found on Omar's hands, nor any blood on his clothes. Since Captain Cenci admits that the crime was not premeditated, Omar would not have had any gloves or extra clothes with him. How could he have avoiding staining his clothes with blood? (see below) [63]?
Additionally, the gravity of the wounds Ghislaine Marchal suffered makes all the physical actions attributed to her unlikely (writing the “right burst” without supporting herself in any way, moving multiple times, blocking the door).
Mr. Vergès also noted that the body of the victim was not found in front of the second inscription. At trial, Me Leclerc, lawyer for the prosecution, said she "pushed herself to write these last words with a dying hand” which suggests that she had written the message in her last breath, just before dying [64]. But she was actually discovered 1.50 m behind this door. The defense also argued that the splayed position of her limbs and her bathrobe being bunched up on the top of her body suggest that she was dragged to that position by her feet.
Another revealing detail for the defense: a clear trail of blood running down the victims inner thigh, perpendicular to the ground and the line of the leg. It would have taken 7 minutes for this blood to coagulate, so if the victim had stood up to do all that was said, that blood would have flowed in another direction, or would have been smeared by the movement of her thighs. The victim therefore could not have moved after her attacker left. [66]. That wound, like a dagger's blow, could have been done to make sure the victim was no longer reacting. "A procedure (move?) known to all hunters" [67]. In addition, the bathrobe was not pierced by this strike, so the injury was inflicted while the garment was already pushed up Marchal’s body [68].
Finally, the thesis of the hedge trimmer, or a kitchen knife as murder weapon does not fit with the description of a tapered double-edged blade, 2 cm wide [69]. Besides, would the gardener have been stupid enough to put away the key to the cellar with the gardening tools, as if to incriminate himself?
Defenders of Omar Raddad presented several scenarios for this crime, with deep divergences between them. [71]
At first, the defense lawyers, Mr. Girard and Mr. Baudoux, admitted that the writing was indeed that of Madame Marchal, who would have written under duress even torture. This is the "diabolical scenario" [71]. However, the experts say that the injuries of the victim are not due to torture, and this argument was rejected by all parties [72].
A new defense lawyer, Mr. Guidicelli, does not believe in the "diabolical scenario"; he does not dispute the report of the first graphologists, but thinks that Madame Marchal was mistaken about the identity of her attacker [73]. This hypothesis was also considered by the investigators (see below). This “friction” between the defense lawyers led Mr. Guidicelli to withdraw from the case [10] [74]
Then Master Vergès took over the case. He formally challenged the conclusions of the graphologists, and believed it was the killer who wrote the message "with his gloved hand", dragged the body of his victim into the boiler room, and likewise wrote the second message with the intention of making it appear that Ghislaine Marchal had written both. This is the “staging theory", which would be presented at the trial [75]. Faced with the impossibility of getting his three lawyers to agree, Omar Raddad"reluctantly" separated from Girard and Baudoux 10 days before the start of the trial [76].
Variation of the staging theory: the murderer(s) could have carried or dragged the unconscious to the doors to make her write the inscriptions by dipping her finger in own blood and guiding her hand. Her head hanging down pressed against the “first door,” leaving the blood stain that appeared below the message. The murderer would have believed that the investigators could identify the fingerprints, which was not possible because the marks were “slid" (possibly “smeared”?). Under this theory, it would be the killer’s writing, because when one guides the hand of someone else to make them write something, it is the handwriting of the one who controls the hand which appears [77] .
Detective Roger-Marc Moreau and the expert in writing Danièle Dumont developed the theory that the incomplete inscription was first drawn by holding the hand of the victim’s corpse. This was no sufficiently legible, so the killers would have written the second inscription themselves, more clearly and in large letters.
Regarding the staging hypothesis, the prosecution raised a question: Who knew that Omar Raddad was going to be near the crime scene that day? The gardener never worked on Sundays as this particular day was also a Muslim religious holiday day [78], he would be assumed to have stayed at home with his family. It is highly unlikely that anyone would have expected him to be at Francine P.’s house that day. Captain Cenci believed that the only two people who knew he was there were Francine P. and Omar Raddad himself [79]. Unless the inscriptions are referring to another Omar.
Some Additional Important Facts : ·Omar Can't Write Or Read , He Can Read Only His Name.
·There Was A Housekeeper That Was Jealous Of The Good Relation Between Omar & Ghiselaine.
·Omar Love To Go & Play In Casino , And There Were Rumors That He Paid Prostitutes For Sex & But Was Later Clear Off.
· There Was Rumor That Omar Was In Need Of Money , And Will Often Ask For His Salary Before The Due Date.
·Omar Radad Would Go On Hunger Strike For Months Often When He Was Imprisoned But Was Force To Break As He Didn't Want To Die , He Just Wanted To Be Prove Innocent And Be Free.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Raddad_Affair Photo Of "Omar M'a Tueé" :
https://images.app.goo.gl/s5C9QwtoLPxdskxL8 Photo of Scrambled :
https://images.app.goo.gl/K5ATy32pGH9Pzek7A Photo Of Ghiselaine Marchal :
https://images.app.goo.gl/fP4Deug8AHx6ojL59 Ghiselaine Marchal's Body On Crime Scene :
https://images.app.goo.gl/66np23hPBBKu4aPAA Crime Scene :
https://images.app.goo.gl/3uKTD4k8LgdtS4pY9 Crime Scene :
https://images.app.goo.gl/9iF4fJFFnUZ2RCJ18 What's Your Thoughts About The Case ? Do You Think Omar Radad Is Guiltly ?
·Omar Radad Wrote A Book About Being The Murder Which Name Is "Pourquoi Moi ?" (Why Me ?)
·A Book Was Written By The Officer (Capitaine Georges Cenci) Who Was In Charge Of The Case Which Name Is : Omar L'a Tueé (Omar Killed Her) & It's Free. (But It's In French Link :
http://omarlatuee.free.findex.php?post/2014/02/Lire-gratuitement-Omar-l-a-Tu%C3%A9e-%21 · The Entire Judicial Chronology Of The Case Of Omar Radad : (Can Be Translate In English Don't Worry)
http://omarlatuee.free.findex.php?post/2011/06/Toute-la-chronologie-judiciaire-de-l-affaire-Omar-Raddad What's Your Thoughts About The Case ? Do You Think Omar Radad Is Guiltly ?
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