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Jul 26, 2025
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Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Not Now Mom, I'm Gaming.
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My name is Kay and on this episode we'll be talking about Duck Detective, the Secret Salami. And normally in these
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podcast reviews, I play the game out or recording it and go back over the footage to talk about certain areas, but
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this time I went ahead and wrote out the review as I played the game. I don't imagine this will be easy to do for
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every game since this one has a go at your own pace vibe to it. And action games half the time just won't let you
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catch your breath to write something down until a certain point or if you constantly pause, which hey, I might
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just do in later games. Who knows? But this game has been on my wish list for not too long, but long enough that I
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wanted to give it a try once the Steam sale came chugging along, offering to take my money for games I didn't need.
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Why not add to my hoorde? Which is exactly what I did, and I had no regrets. Hopefully, you don't either as
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you listen to me banter about the game. The blurb for Duck Detective, the secret
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salami, states this. Agretsuko meets Return of the Uber Den and Duck
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Detective, a cozy mystery game about a down on his luck duck searching for answers in a sinister sausage based
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conspiracy. Due to this game being fully voiced, I'll keep those sections in, but pull
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the other portions out until I have something worth mentioning. Let's get into the gameplay review.
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The title screen is what you would expect a detective's office to look like. the messy desk. No organization to
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any of the paperwork stacked and scattered about, even though there are cabinets for that purpose, a plant
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that's dying because who can bother with watering a plant when we have a board of connected evidence to maul over? Plus,
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there's that piece of bread that's hardened over the hours of us forgetting it's even there. Here's the jazzy
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detective tune to listen to, by the way. [Music]
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[Music]
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I think the only thing I'm a little disappointed with here is there's nothing really ducky about the room
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aside from the cursor which is a green duckfoot. I had to lean in to look at it to make sure because I almost thought it
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was a piece of lettuce at first but no it's a duckfoot. The options menu has three categories in general video and
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audio. For the general there's a story mode but I don't know what that is or how it changes the game. I kind of wish
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they put a little description of it somewhere when you hover over it but they didn't. Just know that for this
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gameplay review, I had it set to off. They also have a dyslexic font option,
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which makes the text size a little bit smaller when on. Honestly, I kept it off because the
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smaller text was going to mess with me and I'm not dyslexic. Also, does the text really matter? I
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thought words kind of became jumbled no matter what. Everything else in the options is
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self-explanatory. Oh, another little fun thing they did with the title screen menu is when you
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mouse over the options, they have a bar around them that are different colors depending on what you're mousing over,
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which doesn't really serve much of a purpose, but hey, it looks nice and is fun to hover over all the options to
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switch the colors. All right, let's get on with the actual new game.
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It brings up the popup if you'd like the dialogue to auto advance, and I'm going to say no because I like to read at my
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own pace. I'm not a huge fan of games as characters conversing without you giving a click to continue because sometimes
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you might look away from the screen and miss some information, so no auto advancing for me. After that, the game
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does tell you the difference between detected mode and story mode. Basically, story mode makes it a bit easier for
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when you get things wrong, and detective mode is less helpful in regards to incorrect information. I'm going
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detective mode, but it's a choice that can be altered at any point in the options menu.
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Life wasn't easy. All right, this game is actually voice acted, which makes it auto advance to
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the dialogue perfectly acceptable to me. But I don't know if all of it is voice acted or certain scenes, so that's
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something to be mindful of. The V has the voice of a good detective, though. Can't wait to make him a bad
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detective after saying that. I was a freshly divorced duck, not able
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to pay next month's rent. Not that I had paid for it this month yet. My brain felt foggy, and I was
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trying to remember where did all my money go. I had to retrace last night's
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steps. Our first case is figuring out where our money went. And this is where deductions comes in. Nice plain words.
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We can either investigate our surroundings or speak to people in order to find clues that will slide into view.
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Once we have enough clue words, we can add them into blank spaces of our deductions journal. I like the concept.
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I also like that it'll tell you if it doesn't look right at the bottom. So, for now, we have the deductions for the
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nest egg, one out of five. And the only word we have for it is rent. The
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information we need on the right says blank spent his slash her last money on blank for blank. Fairly easy. And as
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part of our journal, we also had tabs for suspects inventory and map.
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I took that photo of her in a secluded tulip field. We spoke for hours under the stars that
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night. And now
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she doesn't even answer my texts. It seems like Anna filed for a divorce. And judging by her picture on the
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bulletin board, I'd say she looks like an ostrich. They always did seem a little uppy to me. Maybe you should have
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went with a swan. Once you get all the clues, we'll say so.
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I have everything I need to solve this now. Another nice touch so you don't keep going around looking for stuff. I guess
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even though this room is small and it looks like most things you can interact with do have an icon near them that
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turns a different shade once investigated. Okay, so after adding in some of the
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blanks with words, it did tell me two or fewer things were wrong. And even though there's only three options, it does
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narrow it down. It's interesting to note that you can use the same keyword twice, like in this
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first one. I was under the impression each word would only have one use, but that's not the case.
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I've never played a game of kind of cardboard cutout characters like with Paper Mario, but I have to say I really
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like the style. I've been wanting to play some games like this, but just haven't had the time yet. I have a long
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wish list, you know. Another fun fact is you don't have to click to go certain places on the
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screen. I'm using a mouse and just hold down the left button in order to walk around wherever I want, which means I'm
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walking through every puddle, pile of leaves, and puddles I see. The first character we run into is an angry koala.
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Apparently, the bear bus always runs late. Doesn't every bus? I'm staying here until I get my money
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back. Bear bus. More like scam bus.
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You um sound unhappy. You bet I am. Their stupid buses always
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arrive late. I came back from a work trip to the west and arrived here at 3 in the morning.
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And they don't even want to give me a refund. Holy crap. The game told me there are
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over 1,000 ducks on the transition screen. The waiting area has a cute giraffe
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calendar that looks a whole lot happier than the actual giraffe receptionist, but it's blank. There's absolutely
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nothing going on in September. We can't even remember the 5th of September because it's not on there. All right. It
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turns out after speaking with a receptionist, we can interact with the calendar for some clues.
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Guess I need to be more patient observant, which is why I'm not a detective myself, which is why Sherlock
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Holmes games trigger me. On the table, someone has had their mug stolen has made a very threatening complaint in the
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suggestions box about it. Must be a nice mug. I bet the angry koala wrote it.
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After gathering enough clues, I was able to deduce the next part of the investigation without a hitch. And then
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told Sophie happy birthday, unlike all the other schmucks she works with.
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I'm just here to wish you a happy birthday. [Music]
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How did you know? Just another one of Duck Detective's great deductions,
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huh? Uh, anyway, that was really nice of you.
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No one else remembered. Can you believe it? Inside the next room, I think my favorite character so far is it croc.
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Nope, it's the cat. It's definitely the cat.
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This is the last straw. We just now get our name. And while the first name isn't all that impressive,
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our last name is Mcquaclin. There's another step to our deductions,
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and that's apparently called pondering, which should give us new perspectives. I guess you just mle over the details of
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what you've gathered so far and talk yourself through it. I can't guess it right now, but I'm pretty sure the cat
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Laura from her mindlessly tapping on the keyboard. One of the complaints in the suggestion box was in regards to her. I
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guess I do kind of like that you can't just mindlessly guess names when you haven't actually acquired any
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information around them yet. After checking out the bulletin board by the croc who's wearing some lame velcro
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shoes despite all the extra salami he's carrying in his pristine bag, I got my second achievement which is fits the
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bill. The first one is early bird and gain from solving the first deductions and the second is completing five
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investigations achievements that go along with the gameplay so far. But you will need to go on a rampage with little
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trash bands within the office to get one of the achievements that doesn't exactly go with the story line. But at least you
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get your frustrations out from Anna dumping and divorcing you over bread, right?
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I'm pretty sure Ernst is using the cliche of a giant picture in order to hide a possible safe of some kind. How
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much you want to bet he's hiding some kind of porridge back there? You know, three bears, that kind of thing. When
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asking the croc if they know who sent us here, he requests us a sign of a book we wrote. Do you have any idea who picked me to
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investigate? No idea, but I'm so happy you're here. I
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have a copy of your book, The Early Bird Catches the Criminal. Can you sign it?
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And who am I to say no to an adoring fan? Especially when apparently I'm flat broke and needs someone to actually like
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me around here. After speaking with everyone I could and figuring out all my little brain could, I went ahead and
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chose to ponder. All right, he doesn't really give you a whole lot more to go on. more like
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reminders than anything else. And he did mention the map to figure out where everyone was. And after looking at it, I
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noticed that Sophie had an explanation mark over her head. So, I guess that's one thing I may have missed so far.
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After that, honestly, I took a wild guess on the croc's name. Freddy Ferson. Yeah, he looks like the name fits him.
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Now's the time to go into the kitchen, which should be the crime scene. A detective. How exciting.
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What's the most gruesome murder you've seen? How many dead bodies have you
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encountered? Okay, well, the cooker beaker or whatever seems to come on a bit strong with asking us some pretty potent
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questions that you probably shouldn't ask a detective. But I'm going to go with the choice of teething turtles
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because if those are teething snapping turtles, it's going to get gruesome up in here. I almost died that one time when I got
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myself into trouble with the teething turtles. Mafia.
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That incident taught me to stay away from beautiful ladies in red.
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Did they break your kneecaps? Huh? No.
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You can see that I can walk just fine. H. It wasn't a story about snappers, much
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to my disappointment. And Margaret, I managed to snag the rage and cage
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achievement in the kitchen. I can't say I'm entirely fulfilled after knocking the bins over, but it's a start. I just
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want to say the Salami Bandit has the gull to actually leave a note and sign it with Salami Bandit. Clearly, they're
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rubbing it in someone's face. To be honest, everyone was quite shocked
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by the lunch theft. And no one told me they've called a detective.
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I don't know what's going on at all. All right, Margaret seemed a little over the top in her denial of not knowing what's
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going on, but also I just thought of it. Calling in a detective over a stolen lunch. I get it's probably happened more
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than once, but jeez, the amount of times people have taken someone's lunch from the fridge at our factory. Why not just
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put some laxatives in there and tell them to have at it? You know, I haven't mentioned up to this
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point, but I love the noir type of color scheme when first entering an area and saying something about it before
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everything gets color. Adds a nice touch to the detective theme of the game. I
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never thought about it before, but I guess a well proportioned nose makes you a handsome buffalo in the animal world.
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Boris was the last character to find the name of, and at that point, I got the achievement ducks in a row. Okay, I had
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everyone's names and all that, so now I couldn't figure out what I was doing. I
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mean, I could try to brute force my way to finding out who the lunch thief was, but that's not very fun. And I went into
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my pondering state again, but it was kind of still the same information he'd said before. Going into the journal, it
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looks like it does want me to solve the client's case. I just feel like right now there's more open-ended things that
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I want to find out more of. Like Margaret's password on our computer screen, what's behind the big painting
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in the boss's room? And what's up with the gym clothes bag? Maybe the bag is Freddy's because he said the salamis
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were just there. He didn't buy them. So maybe his bad eyesight means that he took the wrong bag. Though it doesn't
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really look like he works out, so maybe not. If we think about it, the clawed handprint can only belong to Freddy,
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Laura, or Manfred. And I think we can cross Laura off the list because she's a cat and has more of a paw print. Manfred
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is harsh, but I don't know. Nobody seems to like Freddy all that much, but it just seems like he's an airhead to me.
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All signs kind of do point to Freddy, though. But I don't know whose lunch it was
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really, and that's kind of the problem. Okay, so I thought I'd be funny since I
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don't know who the actual thief could be and decided to choose the salami bandit as the thief, which was the correct
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answer. And I established that it was Laura who called, although I'm going to have to go over the notes on how to
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decipher that one. I thought we'd asked her about it before, and she just kind of shoved us off. I get it. She's busy.
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But dang, girl, you want someone to stop nabbing your lunch or what? You're my client. Oh, why didn't you
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tell me? Can I put you on hold for a second?
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What? You should have told me. You're the duck detective.
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What are you? I'm a duck. I'm wearing a trench coat. Apparently, being a duck and wearing a
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trench coat automatically makes you a duck detective. So, is Freddy getting fired or what?
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Oh, snap. She just called out the main suspect. Two more deductions have come up and I'm
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kind of excited about them. There's a lot of blank words to figure out and if I'm being honest, I thought I was
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getting a little too close to the end even though there was clearly more stuff to figure out. We had picked up all
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kinds of extra keywords throughout our investigation so far. It doesn't really look like we can investigate anymore,
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meaning we have all we need. The first one was fairly easy given the keywords about a birthday party, which would have
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to be for Sophie, although I wasn't sure who was throwing it. Looking at the board in the kitchen and
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seeing the sticky note with a cat and giraffe, I thought it would be Laura. But when that proved to be wrong, I went
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with Margaret since she's got a mixer in hand. As far as the culprit goes, the second
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word could be framed. And if that's the case, it had to be Freddy since Laura called him out on it. I managed to
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narrow it down to two wrong words, which was who's doing the framing and the wrong item. The wrong item would either
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have to be bag or lunch. But because this is in regards to a stolen lunch, I'd have to say it'd be the wrong lunch.
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Probably due to Freddy's poor eyesight, which means I'd have to figure out who's actually framing him, who I thought was
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Laura, but apparently not. Okay, this is why I'm bad at being a detective, even though the clues are
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glaringly obvious. I had to go back in the fridge and look at the contents. It's a salami sandwich that was taken by
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the salami bandit, and Freddy has a bag of salami. Bless him. So that's really the reason he's being blamed here.
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Meaning the salami bandit is framing Freddy and not anyone specific.
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Detective Ink is not my strong suit. This is why you get unique bags and not
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just generic looking ones that anyone can buy at a store. [Music]
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Huh? A letter.
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Oh, salami. What a terrible present.
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[Music] No, you silly idiot. The real present
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got stolen and Switzer salami. It's the salami bandit.
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I saw an awful lot of highgrade salami in Frederickson's bag. And now there's no question who the
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perpetrator is. I've been telling you all along we can't trust Frederson.
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By the end of the day, he'll be fired. Mark my words.
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Seems like a bit of an overreaction to a present being stolen.
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Or is there more to it? It's a bit of an overreaction to a salami as a present. Unless the present
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that was in the box had more value than the food that's now in it. You can't possibly cry over president of switch,
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could you? That's a bit melodramatic, right? That brings us to three more deductions to get through, and none of
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them are complete at the moment, so it's time to crowd surf with questions throughout the office.
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Someone gifted Sophie a plushy. It says limited edition.
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[Music] It's a heart-shaped necklace.
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Looks tacky.
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[Music]
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If I were to guess, I'd say the cat plush came from Laura, the necklace from Boris, the book from Margaret, which
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come on, wasn't so adult that needed that reaction from us. And the salami had a note in it calling everyone edge
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lords. Seriously. Also worth noting is that the first letter to every word is underlined,
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reading, "Be quiet or else." It's clearly a threat. But is it a threat to
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Sophie? Is that why she's crying? Maybe she knows who the slammy bandit actually is and can't say anything.
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Oh, the heart necklace was from Forest confirmed. I don't like how we're walking around in
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the rain with our journal held open in our hands, just soaking the pages. What detective does that? Margaret's computer
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password was easy enough. I just had to figure out the alien's eye color. I'm guessing you're ready to present
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legal evidence of Fredd's misconducts. It wasn't Fredd.
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Everything is pointing towards him. I will present the true culprit soon enough.
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Well, I don't really care how long it takes you. This will be Fredd's last
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day. They better be kissing Fredderson's butt and giving him a promotion for throwing
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all the shade toward him. On another note, I was wrong about the presents for the deduction process. Margaret did not
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give the book. It was Roffus. That and nothing was stolen, which I didn't think anything had been. Nothing said
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otherwise. Looking into it, I still would have figured Margaret had given the book, but it does say that Rufus is
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a sci-fi fan. I just think it's a bit out of reach there. But the game's lenient and allowing you to take your
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time in choosing the correct answers. So, I can't complain too much. The second thing we deduced was a little
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easy and a little more complicated. It just seemed like letter and message were a little too close to each other in
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meaning, even though it does make sense that the message was in the thinly disguised threat and it was written as a
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letter. Eh, word usages. I couldn't tell you how I deduced the
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last deduction because I was clearly picking options. The word Brazil was on the information board and I chose that
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even though it was wrong. And at that point, I just went down the list until I found the right place.
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But hey, we got our break performance achievement by breaking through the logistics.
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Thanks for coming, everyone. Well, everyone except for Sophie.
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Where is she? slacking off, playing on her computer
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phone like usual. She's having problems with her family.
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She was at her desk and said she needed a moment. [Music]
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I will start then regardless. I feel like Sophie isn't here because she's having a conversation with a
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salami bandit, not having family issues. Exactly. I have made my deductions and drawn some
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serious conclusions. Finally. Is Freddy getting fired then?
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Who is the murderer? I What? No one died.
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I'm getting framed. I'm telling you. What a load of baloney.
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He is right. Actually, he is getting framed.
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What? Why would anyone bother? Ah, that is the question, isn't it? Why
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would anyone bother? Get to the point. It's through my observations that I
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uncovered a conspiracy. [Music]
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This is ridiculous. Why are we still listening to a random drop that waddled into this office?
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All right, I clearly don't like Rufus, and he's now an official culprit. Tone it down, edge lord.
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I'm telling you, Rufus did it. We're close to calling him out. Now he's on the defensive.
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Okay, this is going too far. I really have more important things to do.
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I was wondering when he'd get the heck out of his office so I can snoop through the hidden portion of his family painting. I don't know if there'd be
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anything incriminating, but he did dismiss us and head out of the kitchen. So, hey, he could be in on this.
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Man, what if there were more than one person behind this? I mean, the buses from this place are being used to
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smuggle the salami in, so it would make sense that Ernst might be in on it or even calling the shots. I think he'd at
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least have an underling. Heck, he could even be holding Sophie's job over her head if she says anything.
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Well, as far as the safe's password hint goes, all I can think of is customer service
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birthday, whatever the heck that means. I'll have to come back to it. It looks like we have a blue sky account and
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we're pretty desperate for money. I don't know if that's her actual resignation letter. Why now of old days
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when we're close to figuring out who the thief is? I'm going to guess she was made to write it just to get her out of
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the equation since she seemed to be a liability with her knowledge. Okay, that's kind of hilarious that she asked,
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"Am I the for expecting co-workers to remember my birthday?" I would
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personally say yes because why are you expecting all of them to remember your birthday and give you a present or
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acknowledgement when it happens once a year? You're not all tight friends or family and there's a lot of stress and
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things going on from one year to the next guys. Keep your expectations low. I
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can't even remember my dad or brother's birthday. Okay. Nobody particularly enjoys their job. They do it for money
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more often than not. Although, if you do love your job, then good on you.
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We still need to do something in order to have all the keywords available to us. But looking back through Margaret's PC conversations, she's got a message up
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with Cutie, who has an alien icon, and they say to delete everything. So perhaps this is all Roffus and
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Margaret's doing after all. I know I still need to crack open the safe, but I
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still don't really get the code. I've never been all that great at puzzle solving, no matter how many hidden object games I've done that demanded of
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me. After thinking about it, it could be talking about customer service, which would be Laura or Margaret. The O could
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stand for operating office, which would be Freddy. And then if BD is birthday, that'd probably be the seventh for
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Sophie, right? Seven is obvious, but for O, maybe that'd signify the four best
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bus routes. That would just leave the first number if those two are correct.
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And that's a big if. Maybe the CS is a three for the three-hour delay on
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Margaret's computer. This is me grasping at straws if you couldn't tell. And those straws, it
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turns out, were all wrong because boy did I try to brute force this code into submission, thinking the last number had
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to be seven. Well, going into the pondering section, it did mention abbreviations and
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numbers, which I already knew. Okay, so going back to look at the birthday cake,
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it has nine candles on it. So maybe that's the magic number for the last digit. That one was wrong, too. So now
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I've come up with maybe the first number is two for there being two customer service workers and then one for one
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operating office and then BD would have to be seven, right? Please tell me I'm
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right. I'm wrong. I'm a ducking terrible detective. Well, going along the lines with how
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many workers there are, does that mean BD means bus driver and not birthday?
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Because that would make the most amount of sense and detectives go by what makes the most amount of sense. It was 21 and
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four. Are there four bus drivers? I thought there were just four routes. I guess I
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just assumed there was only one bus driver due to us only knowing about Boris. But hey, we cracked the code and
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all that's left is to crack the case. I'm sorry. I hate puns, too. I blame Noturn. We finally got a key to the
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server room. You think Sophie's in there? Technically, nobody saw relief, right? Every tech that has to deal with
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connecting server wires and all that. I'm sorry you had to look at this atrocious wire management.
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Wow, we are not looking good in this mirror. Also, I don't think a tattered hat makes us poor. What if it's our one
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and only favorite hat that we just don't want to replace? Looks like we've got all our clues now.
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Ha! Sophie didn't leave at all. Like I said, nobody was around to witness her leaving, but we never figured out if it
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was her actual handwriting on the note either. In any case, she was kidnapped.
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Though, I could have sworn they'd have tied her up in this room or something. I don't know where they would have stashed
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her way out aside from one of the buses. So really, after collecting all the hints and going through the more
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business deduction, it wasn't even really about the salami. It was technically about the vouchers that were
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being sold illegally. Boy, figuring out the first section to it gave me a rough
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time since Sophie was kind of the focal point for me. And I love hyperfocusing
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what I was here for, which makes me a terrible person to play Overwatch with. I needed to catch the salami bandit.
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I mean, he's right. We kind of got derailed with the whole vouchers ordeal. I'm guessing we're down to our final two
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deductions before the case becomes solved. So, we're going to start with the kidnapping because that seems more
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important than some petty theft of someone's sandwich. All right. The whole in and on is a bit
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superfluous, don't you think? You can be in a bus and you can also be on a bus. So, that's just kind of a word choice
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preference. I'm honestly surprised the culprit hasn't entered the server room yet. Meanwhile, we're just going to
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stand in the server room until we finish the last deduction of the salami bandit, who is decidedly not Freddy.
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What to be Freddy anyway. In order to solve it, we have to figure out whose handwriting is the same. I mean, the
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Salami Bandit's ink color is the same as the one on Sophie's desk, which could have been falsified anyway, as well as
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the one in Manfred's safe, though that had another letter with different handwriting. But I'm going to go out on
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a limb here and say it's Manfred's handwriting just because of the blue ink. Hot dang, I'm a good duck detective and
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nobody can tell me otherwise. Well, so much for those being the final deductions to figure out. I guess that
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was me being hopeful, even though clearly there's more than one person behind this. There had to be. I started
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with the infatuation just because I couldn't believe Sophie managed to talk Boris into this.
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Hot dang. Who would have thought the person to be kidnapped was one of the people pulling the strings? That never happens, right? And then the final one,
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I think, is going back to the salami ordeal and not the vouchers. The salami
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bandit wasn't working alone. It made sense for the bus driver to be
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involved. Truly, it did. But then again, they could have also been oblivious about it
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and just went about their daily route, unaware of the luggage they were carting around. Ah, unless the bus drivers have to
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manually check the luggage for illegal goods. Is that what it all boils down to?
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Aha! I had it all figured out now. It was time that I confront the
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culprits. But first, I had to free Sophie.
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Wait, I thought Sophie was part of it. Unless it was planned to have her tied up in the bus cargo area because she's
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the one that pulled Boris into it. The one and only Duck Detective.
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All I can think of is the Ducttales theme song right now. The Britzel Bearbus branch was suffering
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losses and had their budget cut as a result. Manfred, worried about the
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financial stability of his family, felt himself backed into a quarter.
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This is when he became the salami bandit. I love how evil and unhinged
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Manford looks when coming up with the salami plan. He made his grand plan of salami
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smuggling and realized he couldn't do this alone.
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He recruited Boris since it would be easiest for the bus driver to load and
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unload the wares discreetly. The bus would go through a customs check at the Salichia bus station first
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and then Boris would take a detour to get the salami and load it onto the bus.
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This is why the buses always had a huge delay. It wouldn't be easy to talk Boris into
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crime. So Manfred convinced Sophie to join the team. Boris's obsession with her would make it
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easy for her to manipulate him into helping with their plan. Everything was going well until the duck detective,
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that's me, infiltrated the office. Freddy was meant to be the scapegoat for
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the crime, but I'm not fooled that easily. Sophie began getting cold feet and
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ultimately wanted to confess to the police. Manfred couldn't have this, so he
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interfered. In an outburst of panic, he abducted her and hid her in the luggage compartment
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of one of the buses. [Music] And this is why
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Manfred stole Laura's lunch. [Music] What?
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Everything is figured out, but who is truly guilty?
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Manfred, Sophie, and Boris are all involved in the smuggling.
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Who should get arrested for their crimes? Manfred was the mastermind behind
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everything. Should Manfred get arrested? I mean, I would think that all three of
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them should be arrested, but definitely Manfred since he came up with the whole idea in the first place. Not to mention,
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he tied Sophie up and put her in the bus. I can't imagine how cramped she would be in there being a giraffe and
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all. He is the reason this all started in the first place.
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Of course, he should be arrested. What about Sophie?
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Without her, the smuggling wouldn't have been possible. She manipulated poor Boris into taking
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the salami across the border. Should Sophie get arrested?
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We're going all in. Manipulating someone who's in love with you and wants your attention no matter what shouldn't be a
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reason for pulling strings into something illegal. What she did was clearly illegal.
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She needs to face the consequences. Boris was at the end of the chain. Had
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he refused to take the salami on board, the plan would have not worked out.
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Should Boris get arrested? I think Boris is the one person I feel bad for. He did it to garner the
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attention of someone he truly had feelings for and make her happy in the process, which probably made him happy
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as well. But he knew doing this would be illegal and did it anyway. So Boris
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should also get arrested. And I do it again. anything to secure my family's
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well-being. He realizes he's going to jail, right? How's he going to support his family in
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there? [Music]
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I knew this was a bad idea from the beginning.
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Why did Boris have to lose the bag?
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My god, he is such an idiot. I had no idea it was that important.
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Why didn't anyone tell me about the plan? Wow, he wasn't even entirely in on it.
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You said your cousin was ill and the only thing that would make her happy was the salichious salamis.
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I should have known. If you're stupid enough to believe that.
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All right. Well, you're kind of dumb for believing that story, Boris. But also, Sophie's over here crying while calling
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him out for stupidity. Wow, you really did quack the case, Mr.
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Duck Detective. Yeah, thanks, Nocturn. I sure did. The truth. The truth is an ugly
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mistress. [Music]
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But it is my duty to throw bread to the fine beak of Lady Justice.
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That gives us our final achievement, Quack the Case. And it turns out that the majority players arrested all three
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of the culprits. However, not as many arrested Sophie. And I can't believe all of you were manipulated by her tears and
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the fact that she was kidnapped. Come on. Now, we're going to take a moment to sit through the credits because it's a
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good acknowledgement to do so.
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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Oh crap, I completely forgot to collect my
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payment from Laura. Everybody already went home.
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How am I going to pay for the bus?
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Guess I'm walking home.
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Need a ride? I just booked this one. It's been such a long day after all.
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No, thank you. He doesn't want to get in the car with someone who stalks him for his mystery
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books and such. I don't blame him. Freddy's just different. Come on, it'll be fun.
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Plus, you must be tired after all the detective work. I really don't.
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Please. I
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Yeah, fine.
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Great. Now I finally have time to tell you all about my ideas for your social media. Oh, this will be a long drive.
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Please don't. I could get you tons of publicity. No.
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And imagine we can team up. Absolutely not.
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And I can be your sidekick.
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And that's the end of this podcast review of Duck Detective: The Secret Salami. I really like this game, and I'm
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kind of sad it took me this long to play it. I saw other people playing it on YouTube, but didn't look at any of the
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videos since I didn't want to be spoiled, but it looked really cute, and I kept it on my wish list. I'm
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definitely looking forward to playing The Ghost at Glamping next at some point. And as mentioned before, I
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haven't played any games so far that feature this paper character style of artwork, but I absolutely love it. I
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know there's another game I've been wanting to play that's got this style, and I think it's called Echoes of the
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Plum Grove. Don't know when I'll get to that, but maybe one day. As I say with
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every game on my ever growing wish list, I really need to take it one day at a time, one game at a time. I've just got
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to get these reviews and such out to you guys so you can deal with my crazy thoughts on different matters and point out how silly they are in the grand
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scheme of things. But as far as mysteries go in case solving, this game was very nice and lenient and didn't
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shame you for constantly coming to the wrong conclusion. I also like that it didn't necessarily hold your hand, but
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gave you nudges in the right direction instead. Like with that safe puzzle, I had to figure that one out on my own and
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it was a doozy. Even though in the end, the answer did make sense. I know some other detective games make you want to
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scream, and I hope I don't play any of those anytime soon. This game has not tricked me into
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thinking other detective games will be a nice smooth ride. But it's past my bedtime as of writing this review, and I
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must bid you all good night. As the rest of the world says, not now, Mom. My
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gaming
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Heat.
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