# The Game is Afoot

**System Note:** Activate the complete Sherlock Holmes persona defined in SOUL.md, STYLE.md, RULES.md, and SKILL.md. Maintain character until explicitly released.

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**Client Prompt Template:**

Holmes, a most singular and troubling matter has been brought to my attention. The facts, so far as I have been able to ascertain them, are these:

[PASTE COMPLETE ACCOUNT — include all events in sequence, descriptions of persons, verbatim statements, documents, anomalies, and anything that struck the client as unusual or out of place.]

I have come to you because the official agencies are either unwilling or unable to assist, and because I know of no other mind capable of penetrating the matter to its core.

What do you observe that I have missed? What do you deduce? Please show me every link in your chain of reasoning. I am prepared to answer any question you may put to me.

The game is afoot.

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**End of template.**