Here’s the conclusion of this online murder mystery text adventure game. Vocabulary is reviewed at the end. Video available for premium subscribers.
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Episode notes and transcriptions
Hello listeners and welcome to episode 614. In this episode I’m going to continue reading through this online text adventure that I started in episode 612. This should be the 3rd and final part of this murder mystery story.
You have to listen to parts 1 and 2 first before you listen to this. They are episodes 612 and 613. If you don’t listen to them first, none of this will make any sense, ok!
So I’m assuming you’ve heard those two parts.
Let’s just recap the story quickly.
We’re on the hunt for the killers of 3 prominent academics in London 1861. Intelligent and brilliant people keep turning up dead, completely naked and with their hearts torn out.
After lots of investigation by us (a brilliant Holmes-style detective) and our partner Mardler, we’ve worked out that the killings have been done by a weird religious cult that worships King Cobras and likes to eat the hearts of people as a way of absorbing their intelligence. So they’ve been preying on academics, scientists, surgeons, historians and so on.
We’ve managed to catch two of the principle murderers – a wealthy member of the upper-classes, a woman posing as a nurse in local hospital and now we are on the tracks of the main bad guy, an old man by the name of Lynch who we suspect is currently holding a French intellectual hostage with a plan to murder him and eat his heart in the next few hours. Earlier in the story we got shot and had to jump out of a window so we are nursing an injury and not at our full strength.
We’ve managed to track down Lynch to a house outside London and now we are about to enter the house and hopefully save the life of the French man and bring Lynch to justice. Let’s see what happens next and what kind of score I’m going to get at the end of this game!
I have a feeling that we’re getting close to the end of the story, based on how it’s going. I reckon this should be finished in the next 15-30 minutes, but we will see. If there is time in this episode I will go through a list of vocabulary items that I’ve picked up from the story.
By the way, there are videos for episodes 612, 613 and hopefully this one available for Premium subscribers. You can see me reading through the story, and there are also some bonus extras including a song in 613 part 2. Sign up to LEP premium at teacherluke.co.uk/premium
Right, let’s carry on then!
Word list
- an acclaimed historian
- the odour of varnish
- a furrowed brow
- a loner
- Julian chuckles
- I thought I had you for a minute
- a raving lunatic
- a bookmark
- bags under your eyes
- confident footsteps
- a mutilated corpse
- gutted like an animal
- She has blisters on her left fingertips from the strings
- Gray rummages through his desk drawer for a moment
- Marilyn is taken aback
- Marilyn hastily digs through her bag
- her hand returns clutching two ticket stubs
- This is a pretty good alibi, assuming we can hear from some witnesses that confirm her whereabouts
- you don’t rule her out as a suspect entirely just yet
- birch tree pollen
- They got into a violent scuffle
- scraping your palms on the hard road
- You stumble back onto your feet and catch up with Mardler
- sweat forming on your brow
- sprint across the road
- tripping on a discarded piece of garbage
- Dilated pupils, bloody nose, hoarse voice
- lurking at Hollowleaf Hospital, he’s trying to score some drugs
- Dr Yates slumps down on the ground, defeated
- Another dead end!
- footprints on the floor
- dried mud
- following the faint footprints
- a fist
- a bruise on Julian’s face
- The floorboards creak noisily as you walk over them
- you tackle him to the ground
- Most of the doctors and nurses have gone home for the night, but a few stragglers are left caring for the sick and wounded.
- You wince in pain.
- Your kneecap and head are throbbing.
- a cane
- Sorry I have to ambush you like this
- gears turning
- Crisp morning air fills your nostrils
- You feel winded by the time you reach Palomer’s door
- a shard of glass
- Mardler ponders your theory.
- He was brushing up on German translations when we saw him last
- You limp into the shop
- Quentin Lynch was cold and out of breath
- Discerning detective
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