You play as Vizier Jaafar, vizier of his highness, Caliph Harun Al-Rashid, in the fictional town of Farahan. A chest has been found, containing a dead young woman cut into nineteen pieces. It's your mission to find the murderer in three days, or be executed instead!

In a game of more than an hour long, you're going to solve puzzles, answer questions and find the mystery of the woman's murderer.

Short game. Although I probably spent half the time looking up the 4th Abbasid Caliph to answer the first apple riddle. Only to find out the answers are in the library at the beginning. Easy to miss.

The Butcher's Name tag is broken.
Talking to the Tori from the side will freeze the game.
Some minor tileset issues, the biggest being that you can walk off the cliff at the start of the teleport puzzle.
Some of the tigers don't die.
Some inconsistencies with events like asking AngleEar where to find more jewels when she gave you the last one.
The Jeweler's information that the man was a Sheppard seemed like enough to know where he lives, the house with sheep. I think she even said he lived north of town? The snake battle seemed unnecessary, And as large as the town was I got the feeling there would have been more to it. What was the point of pointing out a side door if you can't enter?
Walking around on the map while poisoned can kill you, not really a bug but it makes it possible to get stuck if you save with low heath and can't reach any healing items.

When the Caliph said killing people without evidence wasn't their way, I can't help but point out he was going to execute Jaafar for what reason? I know, that's just how the story goes. Jaafar's daughter bring in the slave at the end is also part of the story, but technically she shouldn't have known anything about the man's motives or the apples if she stayed behind to watch his kids. But apparently time passed because they went from a bloody dungeon to the throne room after the man's story, so it's possible she knew. Or his kids knew what he did and told her, I guess.

First of all, thank you for playing the game, coyotecraft. ^^

I know the game is short, but as I said in the first post, it's only a little more than an hour of gameplay. I would love to make a long game one day but due to me being unable to commit myself to one game, I find it easier to make short games.

Now to reply to your comments,

1- In the beginning, I had the text of books in the library come up at touching, but beta-testers complained that it was annoying to have it come up every time. However, if you talk to the poet (Abu Nawas) in the library, he'll give a hint that you need to read some books (because you'll need them later.)

2- I could swear I fixed the butcher's name tag. O.O Apparently not, hee hee. Sorry about that.

2- The tileset issues were fixed as much as they were reported; I apologize if we missed anything.

3- The Tori bug wasn't reported by beta-testers but I will try to fix it.

4- The tigers' bug is a known issue but I couldn't find a way to fix it. Normally, they should show a corpse but it doesn't happen at times for some reason. O.o

5- I've always disliked the idea of the player being able to enter any house like that, so that's why you can't enter any house unless you have to. I know there could have been more to a town but in reality, you can only access shops and houses you visit, true?

6- The snakes battle was merely added to increase the playtime and action, honestly.

7- The poison can be healed with "Curing Cow Milk" which is found at a desk in Karam's house and the shop.

8- I know about the Caliph executing Jaafar-but it's only a part of the original story.

9- Hana could have been told by the kids as you pointed out. After all, they knew about their father's journey, the slave and the apples as well as her disappearance.

Hopefully, I replied to all points. <3 Thanks for the comment!