The Red rose Sylvia Sia Suzie Gan This is the information of the death of Miss Rose, Taiwan citizen. It has been established that she was in her home in Taipei. Estimated time of death 7:00 p.m., August 7,1996. A neighbor who visited her found her body in dinning room. Warm Chang, 28, boyfriend of Rose. Senior waiter in Grand Hyatt Hotel. Alice Wu, 29, colleague of Warm. Ali Hsu , 40, Marine's husband, professor of English Department of National Cheng-chi University. Marine Wang , 35, wife of Ali. She is a history teacher in a high school. Donald Lee , 35, Nancy's husband. He is a doctor of clinic. Nancy Liu ,30, wife of Donald, assistant of her husband. Louis Chen, 32, husband of Lucy. He is a businessman. Lucy Chong, 28, wife of Louis. She is a housewife. Cain Lin, 35, husband of Cindy. He is a manager of a computer company. Cindy Qian, 28, wife of Cain. She is a secretary. Richard Zhao , 38, neighbor of Rose, pilot of China International Airline. Introduction On August 7, a female dead body was found by her sister in beside the sofa in the living room. It was 7:30a.m. when her sister visited her and intended to have dinner with the deceased. The estimated time of death is August 7, 7:00p.m. The dead girl was Rose, 25 years old, bar-girl in a famous pub of Taipei. An autopsy revealed that the death was due to several fatal hits on her back of head, one wound injured by knife was found on the right thigh and two wounds injured by knife on the back. Police pay attention to the murder, the great investigation is underway. Rules: Each player has to use his or her public background to introduce himself or herself to the other players that is you have to interact with each act provides you with some additional clues, make use of them and reveal them to other players at the same time, try to find out as much as possible from the other players in order to find out who the murderer is . Remember, only the murderer can lie, the rest must tell the truth. Be alert, murderer is right beside you! Each of us is a suspect in the murder. Characters Warm Chang , 28, Male Background: Public, You are a senior waiter in Grand Hyatt Hotel. You are the boyfriend of deceased. You knew her two years ago when she had a dinner in your working place. You were attractive and strong to the deceased and you had good impression to the deceased so you two fell in love. You are not as such an industrious man but you like to enjoy your life. Secret, You need a large amount of money, but it is impossible to make this large amount money from your poor salary job. You planned your girlfriend, Rose, the deceased , to seduce men and blackmail them.(Before you have affection with Alice Wu) The plan is: You ask your girlfriend to pretend ill on the way to go home and inquire the passed-by stranger(man) to send her home. Then, your girlfriend offer a glass of drinking with love potion. After that, your girlfriend will have sex with that man and you record all the process by V8 video cassette recorder. You use the video tape to extort the victim, if the victim says no to your will, you are about to public the tape. You are the murderer. In fact, your girlfriend requested you to marry her but you snubbed her. Actually, you have another girlfriend Alice Wu and you just want to get the money from your plan. The deceased was infuriated by your rejection, she also discovered you have another girlfriend--Alice Wu. She made up her mind not to share the blackmail money with you again. You was exasperated and killed her. Act 1, You found extra NT5,000,000 in the deceased's deposit book, but you did not get any share from this sum. You warned the deceased had to share each sum that both of you make together. Act 2, You remembered that Alice had told you she had settled your affair with Rose by herself, but either Alice and Rose didn't want to give up you and Alice had sworn that she would not let you left from her. Alice Wu, 29, female Background Public, You are 29 years old, colleague of Warm. You are beautiful and sexy. You come from Taichung county and stay and work in Taipei alone. You are always give the guidance to Warm on job because you are more experienced than Warm. Secret, You and Warm started your affection since both of you have been working together. You are a jealous woman, you know Warm has another girlfriend and you can't bear it. You asked Warm to choose one of you two, Warm did not make decision because he wants money which you can't give to him. You looked for Rose to settle this affair but there was not came to any solution and you had told this to Warm and you even told Warm that you could not let Warm part from you. Act 1, You saw the deceased visited Warm in your restaurant few days ago on 7th August , you overheard Warm quarreled about money after chatting for a while with Rose. You walked toward them to see what had happened but that just stopped the quarrel when they saw you walking to them. Act 2, 7th August, you dated Warm to shopping nearby your working place after work at 4:00p.m, he promised you but he failed the appointment. If you think you can clear your suspicion, speak out this information. If you do not want to increase Warm's suspicion, you can keep quiet, depend on you. Ali Hsu, 40, Male Background: Public, You are 40 years old and husband of Marine. You are a professor of English Department of Cheng-chi University. You love your wife very much. Your wife is a workaholic and always neglects you. You don't active social life. Secret, One day, you met a girl, the deceased who asked your to send her home because she had terrible headache. When you arrived her home, she invited you to have a drink because you were so kind to help her. You didn't doubt it, actually, the drink had mixed with love potion. After drinking, you felt hot and dizzy and she seduced you to have sex with her and the process of having sex was recorded. The deceased threatened you with the tape, you had to pay money to prevent the tape be sent to your wife and published. Act 1, You try your best to prepare money and pay to the deceased, very unwilling. Act 2, The deceased threatened you again and again, you can't afford it and think she was unreasonable. You warned her to stop her blackmail or you will teach her a lesson, but you never thought to kill her. Marine Wang, 35, Female Background: Public, You are 35 years old, you are wife of Ali. As a history teacher in a high school, you work very hard and you care more about your job then your family. You trust your husband because he is loyal to you. Secret, You find your husband doesn't care you as before. You think he has kept something secret from you, you decided to find out the reason. Act 1, You hear your husband quarrel with someone over the telephone recently. When you ask him what has happened, he just keeps silence. Act 2, You quarrel with your husband about the 'secret phone'. You threaten your husband that you will leave him if he doesn't want to tell you those secret phone. Donald Lee, 35, Male Background: Public, You are 35 years old, husband of Nancy Lin. You are a famous doctor of a clinic near the place of the deceased. You have good name to your patients and staffs, the deceased was one of your patients too. Secret, One day, you was on the way home, you met the deceased and she showed she had a terrible headache. She asked you to send her home, you made no doubt of her and sent her home. When arrived her home, she insisted an inviting you a drink to thank to you, of course, you drank down the drink . Suddenly you felt dizzy and unconscious, you saw the deceased vaguely took off her clothes. When you came over from unconsciousness, you found you and the deceased naked on the bed. She told you that you had an intercourse with her, she threatened you to give money to her or she would published the erotic tape to your patients and your wife. Act 1, Normally, when you are absent-minded or in bad emotion, your wife will show her concern to you, but she shows sullen or indifferent to your absent-minded this time. Act 2, You can't pay the expense of medicine because your money had paid to the deceased. You hate that you were blackmailed by the deceased so you must stop this blackmailing. Nancy Liu, 30, female Background: Public, You are wife of Donald, 30 years old. You love your husband so much, you have a satisfied marriage and you become your husband's assistant in his clinic after marrying him. Secret, You found your husband cannot pay attention on his job and the patients also complained your husband. Gradually, the amount of patients decreased. You discovered your husband hid something from you and you found out your husband lacked money to pay the expense of medicine. You cannot endure your husband to be obsessed with trouble. You start your investigation and detect the deceased blackmail your husband. You went to the deceased's home to stop threatening but she ignored your plead. The deceased has the video tape about the having sex with your husband, if you stop her again to ask for money from your husband, she would make known the tape. You did not know how to do and left her house. When you came out from her home, you saw another two women(Lucy Chong, Cindy Qian) and heard them murmuring over the same matter with you just outside the deceased's house. Tell something you think necessarily. Act 1, You joined Lucy and Cindy to discuss how to help yours husbands, who had suffered same affair, free from threatening. Act 2, You noticed Cindy brought a sharp knife when you three had decided that day to go to the deceased's house together. Louis Chen, 32, Male Background: Public, You are 32 years old, husband of Lucy Chong. You are a rich businessman, and just married with Lucy two months ago and you have a happy marriage. Secret, One day you went to your mother-in-law's house, on your way you met the deceased who asked you to send her home, because she had a headache, you agree. When you arrived the deceased's home she asked you to have a drink, so you entered her home and had a drink, after you drunk you felt dizzy and unconscious. One hour later, when you awaked you found yourself and the deceased were naked lying on the bed. The deceased told you that she had a video tape about your sex intercourse with her. The deceased threatened you to give her money if you want the video tape, otherwise she will publish the video tape. Act 1, You hated the deceased because she blackmailed you again and again, so you want to teach her a lesson. Act 2, You found your knife disappear, and you think it was stolen by your wife. Lucy Chong, 28, female Background Public, Wife of Louis Chen, 28 years old. You married him two months ago. You have a contented life with your husband, you love him very much. All your friend admire you. You do not have job, just stay at home as a housewife. You decided to set up a perfect family. Secret, You found out your husband was not interested in you after that day he fetched you from your mother's place. Every time you desired to know the answer, his answer was always "Nothing." You decided to find out the answer secretly. Finally, you discovered your husband had been blackmailed by a bar girl. You phoned to your best friend, Cindy Qian, who also lived nearby your mother's place. By chance, your best friend's husband also suffered the same blackmail. You two made a decision to deal with the bar girl by yourselves. You stole your husband's carved knife for as a self-defense weapon if ant conflicts happen. Keep this secret unless you were asked. Act 1, Louis became withdrawn, sullen and cold after that day fetched you from your mother's house. You have been lonely and frustrated he has no interest in you. Maybe you could get some sympathy if you tell the group about this now. Act 2, You had discussed this blackmail with your best girlfriend, Cindy. She sound angrily when mentioned the deceased, she even shouted in phone, "She disturbs my husband, she is bastard, I must exile her if she does not want to give up the threaten!" Tell others if you think it is necessary. You have the consent to her speech, but you did not revealed it to Cindy. Remember, this point must be kept by yourself. Cain Lin, 35, Male Background: Public, You are 35 years old, husband of Cindy. You are a manager of a computer company. You grew up at a poor family, so when you know how to make money, you became a miser who loves money very much. Secret, You were blackmailed by the deceased, because she had had the video tape which is about you had sex with her, when you were in unconsciousness. You hated the deceased because she threatened you, if you don't gave her money she would publish the video tape. You wanted to teach her a lesson and stopped her from blackmailing you. You hid this ashamed matter from your wife, you didn't want her to interrupted into this troublesome. Since this affair happened, your temper easily be burnt up by trifles. You even argued with the deceased over the blackmail on the line. You hated the deceased asked so much money from you, she even broke your plan that you want to deposit money for starting own computer company. You want to clear away this thorn in your flesh. Act 1, You found that your wife did not ask any more question about your troublesome. You thought she had not interested in your troublesome anymore. Act 2, You found your wife called her best friend increased recently. Every time you passed her she just stopped her talking until you left. You overheard one day she mentioned the deceased angrily and heard the word 'exile'. Cindy Qian, 28, female Background Public, You are wife of Cain Lin, 28 years old, as a secretary in a small company. The purpose you working was only for money. You had been told that your husband was poor during his childhood, he does not want to live in poverty again. Although be is money-minded, you still love him deeply because he cares about family and he is also your whole life. Secret, :Your husband seemed to be obsessed with something trouble. You overheard the argument of your husband on the line. You showed your concern to him but he just gave you a cold shoulder. Your husband's turning bad temper also scared you. You dared not ask anything from him again. Irritated him brought nothing, so you determined to get the answer by yourself. You carried on your plan secretly and you know what had happened finally-Your husband had been blackmailing for a period of time by a bar girl with a tape with sexual intercourse. You affirmed that your husband was innocent victim, you cannot endure your husband suffered again. You hate the deceased to destroy your family. You resolve to settle with bar girl face to face. Before looking for her, your best friend Lucy called you one midnight, she told you the trouble which disturbed her family. Coincidentally, both of you suffered the same harassment. You two be companion to confront the trouble. Act 1, You and Lucy went to the deceased's house, you saw Nancy just came out from the deceased house and three of you have the same purpose and worked together to urge the deceased to stop disturbing yours families Act 2, Second time, when you three met in a restaurant to discuss how to stop the deceased's threatening. You glanced by chance a carved knife in the Lucy's handbag. Tell this to everyone to clear your suspicion. Richard Zhao, 38, male Background Public, You are a pilot of China International Airline, 38 years old, single, high-educated man. Love woman but hate marriage.(Divorced one time, sworn not to marry again) You enjoy traveling and flying around world. You live next door to the deceased. She was a sexy and beautiful woman to you. Secret, You prefer romance life with women, you have many girlfriends and everyone has sexual relationship with you. Any woman who you desire, you must try your best to win her heart. You never tasted failure on wooing woman. Self-confident man you are because every woman you desire can never escape from your hands. Since your first sight to the deceased, her sexy and beauty impressed you deeply, she was your new desire. You started to woo her and never doubt your glamour. Out of your expectation, she showed no interested in you and rejected anything you asked. She said indifferently, "Who do you think you are, old man? So many men queue for me, save your time!" How furious you were after listening her insult, your pride was hurt, you could not endure it. You swear to take revenge. No one can insult you with impunity. Act 1, One day, it was off day, you just came back from company, you saw three women looked sneaking outside the deceased's door. You did not take much attention to them because they were not beautiful to you. Act 2, It was your off day again on 7th August, you stayed at home. Suddenly, you heard noisy sound came from the deceased's house, you were curios for what had happened next door. You walked out and saw the three women again. Warm Chong confession of the murder. The time I found extra NT5,000,000 in Rose's deposit book, I had suspected that she kept part of money secretly. I argued with her and asked her to share half of NT5,000,000 with me, she cast a hatred sight to me and said, "Wishful thinking!" I never thought she would treat me liked that. I asked her for reason and she roared to me that I cheated her and forced me to dump Alice. Actually I don't love Rose anymore, I kept her beside me only for the sake of money. I determined to forced her to give the money and then leave her. On 7th August, I just off my duty at 4:00p.m., I had promised Alice to go to shopping but I did not go, I went to Rose's place to ask the money. When I arrived her house, I found her door was opened, and the living room was in a messy. Rose lied beside the sofa, blood flooding from her thigh and back, she seemed deadly. When she saw me, she pleaded me taking her to hospital. I exchanged the condition of giving me my share, she just kept begging me and catching my leg tightly became impatient and furious by her willingness of giving my share. I hated her catching my leg, I tried my effort to escape from her catching, but I could not. I did not understand why such terribly injured person that still held my leg tightly. I lost my mind and only thought my money, my mind at that moment was: I want my money, I want her give me my money, I could get my money if she died...... I grabbed the metal decoration on TV set and hit her back of her head as hard as I could, I ended her life.