Two girls ate dinner together. They both ordered iced tea. One girl drank them very fast and had finished five in the time it took the other to drink just one. The girl who drank one died while the other survived. All of the drinks were poisoned. How did the other girl who drank the most survive?
(On top of my head) She had accidentally taken the antidote without realising? Could it be something she had eaten or drunk earlier? Could her thirst be a side effect of the antidote?
What is the poison? From there we might be able to help a bit better. As it stands, there are a few theories, one hinging on the fact that one of your women has built up a tolerance to a variety of caustic compounds and therefore unaffected by the poison. Though in reality she would most likely be dead for having ingested such lethal things, long before she sat and drank 5 glasses of ice tea.
*puts on Alan Creek hat* Girl 2 who drank 1 tea was on medication that reacted with said poison. Also poison wasn't nut free and she had a nut allergy. Also the poor girl was born with two types of dwarfism where one was acting after the other—she was beyond tiny, thereby making the concentration high...and...she was only 3 years old too, which added to her susceptability. Girl 1 who (seemingly) drank 5 teas was on medication that was the natural antidote to the poison. Also her genes, by chance, gave her a natural tolerance. Also (again) the lucky girl's genes saw her blessed with Amazonian giantessness that combined with her penchant for food to see her be 3 times the size of the average full grown woman., thereby making the poison v. dilute..and...she secretly spat two of the drinks into a houseplant when noone was observing her. It's obvious really.
After giving it some thought, it could be a 'Princess Bride' type maneuver. Adding in an accomplice to the woman who would clearly have reason to cover her tracks by having every cup poisoned. It is a little more plausible than it being an allergy, considering most people know what they are allergic to and would avoid them. Again this all is dependent on the poison along with tolerance and metabolism being a factor. So it would not be much of a stretch for the survivor being lager than the victim. How ever it would be a stretch for her to be 3x the size of the average woman (Unless she is a demigod (engineered or mythic). The realistic conclusion if she were to be considered 3x the other woman would be if she had Amazonian physique and stature, while her friend were a midget or dwarf. If that were the case of having two women with vastly differing physique, then the midget/dwarf would not need as much of a dose to be affected by it, versus her counterpart. This would be the most reasonable explanation for a healthy woman to be poisoned to death. Unless she happens to have a compromised/dysfunctional immune system, but that is a whole other back of cats.
The poison was in the ice cubes. The fast one drank her teas out before the ice cubes melted. Sorry, that's an old one. ^ ^
I think QueenOfPlants has it. I am assured that all of the necessary information is in the posted story.
A bit of a slog I'd say for the casting agency! And who's Alan Creek? < Mixing fantasy and reality there (I was ) methinks. I've noticed we don't appear to have many mystery writers on this forum—anyone know where they all are?
Most of the kids want to write fantasy these days, I thinks. Or something with world building. Honestly, I don't think many of them would pick up a pen (figuratively) if there wasn't a chance to build a world with magical races, magical systems, magical swords, vampires, etc....
The One Drink Girl was murdered by Colonel Mustard with a candlestick in the courtyard. You guys suck at this.
Aye, could be said we're in fantasy's golden age. I just had a delve to see if murder mystery detectivism is incorporated into fantasy... came up with Pratchett's 'Guard' series, 'The Thraxas' (Millar/Scott), and ended up at some of the works of Lovecraft. < I was reading a wiki page on him, some music on in the background. Weirdest thing happened > Music was Soft Cell (don't judge) < a song called Frustration < inside the song the two words from the lyrics 'love stories' just popped themselves out of the speakers as per. But, and this is the weird thing, their arrival was EXACTLY in sync with the moment I read the words 'love stories' on the Wikipedia page. I've tried to calculate the odds of this happening by chance and the nearest I could get to an answer was 'impossible'
