St. Jerome's new case

[JackAlsworth]

http://belgianamongtheenglish.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/80/

So far, "Reynald" has been building a bit of a private detective agency. His new case has to do with a missing person named "Leslie Okogwu". Maybe if we help him, he'll help us?

[Lordxana0]

Lets bother Chesire and Mr. A to see if they can help us. Must be some kind of carrot we can dangle in front of them in order to get some help

[Chief Wakamakamu]

How can we help him? Are any of us in England?

[Scarab]

I'm British and in England. My initial google-fu has failed me on a search for the names he mentions, but then I'm not entirely sure what to look for. This isn't exactly a Point and Click adventure, and I'm no detective...

[JackAlsworth]

http://belgianamongtheenglish.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/80/#comment-54

St. Jerome is apparently really insistent that he isn't Poirot.

[Scarab]

Yeah, that's pretty insistent. Poiroit or not, he must be connected to all of this somehow... right? I mean surely no real-world detective would post details regarding a case like that on the internet? As he himself admits, that isn't good policy, and if he were a detective with the force, it'd probably get him fired.

Although... I don't know, maybe I'm just starting to see something weird everywhere... thanks, paranoia.

[Dryunya]

I've posted this on TV Tropes: I have some suspicions that Poirot deliberately misspells the names.

[JackAlsworth]

New post

[Dryunya]

To be honest, I can't stand the guy. For all these supernatural shenanigans, he is too mundane.
Just to confirm for the newcomers: he is Hercule Poirot. There was a placeholder post at his blog when we had just discovered it, which called him by name. So...

[VicariousShaner]

What would happen if we attempted to confront him with this information? Does anyone here have some sort of screencap they could use?

[Dryunya]

He doesn't seem to like when we keep following the topic of "fictional characters are totally real". I don't think it's a good idea.

[Sicon112]

Theory: What if his rage whenever fictional characters are brought up is an a attempt to hide the fact that he IS one? HE knows who he is, but he is afraid (rightly so) that if he ever does anything to prove his true identity that he will be forced to leave.

Hmmm.... We need tinfoil hats here...

[Dryunya]

Why would he even need to draw our attention to the characters, then? Also, escaping into the real world has never seemed to be his actual goal.

Also, ARG-wise, he is fictional...

[Sicon112]

Erm... are we talking about the same person? I was under the impression this was a thread to talk about St-Jerome, AKA Poirot.

He hasn't really drawn our attention to ANY other character's, which is why I don't get your statement.

[Dryunya]

Ooops, wrong thread.

[Sicon112]

If I had a dollar for every time I've done something like that...

Though mostly it's using the wrong chat channel in chatrooms and MMOs.

[Dryunya]

Just an update, in case somebody missed. Les Okogwu is dead.

[Lordxana0]

Wild Mass Guessing here guys but our Belgian friend takes on mysterious that should be straight forward and they turn into murderer mysteries. Is he Sherlock Homes?

[Sicon112]

As mentioned on the TV Tropes thread by Minyalos, the tall, well-dressed man is likely the dude with the cane on the cover of the comic. Also, I think that Poirot's client is more involved in this case than we think. My Genre Savvyness is going on red alert.

[NeverSlender]

I just put this on tv tropes:

I find it strange that a man he spoke to by coincidence was looking for someone who happened to know the butler of the place Reynald is staying.

Maybe his client recognised him.

[Sicon112]

Possibly. Though you have to suspend disbelief to an extent with the ways detectives get their cases. After all, if the detective doesn't get an interesting case, where would the story be?

However, in this instance, I totally agree. I have read approximately 200-300 detective novels of various levels of complexity plus innumerable short stories, with almost 85% of them being Fair Play Whodunnits, and everything I know about the genre is screaming "INCOMING PLOT TWIST!"

[NeverSlender]

You could suspend disbelief in a story, but he's here, in our reality. I don't think it's a coincidence.

EDIT: I have barely read any detective stories so you're probably better suited than me for this.

[Sicon112]

Well, I started reading at an unnaturally young age, and the very first books I read were detective stories. Been reading them ever since. Even had one of those phases where I wanted to be a detective. In retrospect, that may be partially responsible for my Awesomeness By Analysis moments.

[Scarab]

Well, I started reading at an unnaturally young age, and the very first books I read were detective stories. Been reading them ever since. Even had one of those phases where I wanted to be a detective. In retrospect, that may be partially responsible for my Awesomeness By Analysis moments.

Dude, having read THAT many detective books, even over a course of a life, is pretty impressive on it's own, if you ask me.

You could suspend disbelief in a story, but he's here, in our reality. I don't think it's a coincidence.

Who knows, if characters are appearing in reality, what are the odds of fictional RULES starting to play a role in our world, too, at least with regards to the fictional characters' actions? The missing person being found dead is probably not an unusual trope in that genre. Still, you're probably right, it's far more likely that this is NOT a coinscidence, which raises several questions, including WHY he was so afraid of Reynald (or possibly the professor who hired him).

[NeverSlender]

I started a thread for discussing the client.