I still think the biggest thing we were missing was character background. I pre-read my script and got a kinda-spoiler (learning something that made absolutely no sense without the context of lines not in my copy of the script).

My feeling as regards the flash wasn’t that it was too subtle, exactly, but that it dropped in without enough context to make it clearly a flash rather than a generic line. So while it contradicted an earlier statement by the murderer, it wasn’t clear that the two statements were contradictory.

If we assume the flash was the murderer’s key line “It can’t have been me who shot him, I was out running” (it wasn’t, but to avoid spoilers), then there needs to be a counterpoint somewhere earlier in the proceedings which helps lampshade the flash as long as you remember it: an incidental-seeming complaint that the doctors have put them on a strict rest cure after they tore a ligament in their knee playing tennis, say, which lets you go “WAIT a minute!” and get the Flashy goodness* once remembered. Whereas here the counterpoint was more “I run really slowly”, which doesn’t do enough to invalidate the flash statement.

But, aye, it was a nice fun evening. I’d be quite happy to try another Daggerfall. Even though I’d prefer to know my own backstory that’s still a better verdict than anything I could give the Freeform Incidentally-While-You-Were-Here-Investigating-Someone-Unfortunately-Had-A-Fatal-Heart-Attack Mysteries!

Also, we should do more of these anyway…