The Unfortunate Accident at the Raja's Court

**The Unfortunate Accident at the Raja's Court (⚁)** is the second stage of *Golden Idol Mysteries: The Spider of Lanka*.

## The Unfortunate Accident at the Raja's Court

###  Victim

* Anula Gamini
* Arri Sukerra

## Plot

After the events of The Overly Enthusiastic Card Game Tournament in the Yellow Lily, Zubiri Kerra honored the Lemurian "life for life" principle by telling Oberon Geller the secret of the rebirth ritual, which put descendants of the raja in a near-death situation to prove they were worthy of being heir. To sabotage this ritual, Oberon sent Albert Cloudsley to Klusapur to deliver a statue of a devil and place a bottle containing a venomous cricket inside of its mouth. The bottle had a label instructing the holder to "throw me in the eye". Additionally, Oberon gave the two possible heirs, Anula Gamini and Tissa Gamini, a poem with an encoded message telling them to check the mouth of the statue if they failed the testing procedure, which decided which descendant would undergo the rebirth ritual. Both siblings believed that they were the only one to receive the poem.

Anula worked together with Jayan Ji to cheat the testing procedure and ensure that Anula would be heir. Jayan seduced Arri Sukerra, who was responsible for evaluating the potential heirs' tests, into revealing some details about the answers in confidence. He wrote down everything he was told on a note and left it in a bush as Anula instructed him to. He then wrote a letter to Putra Sun, who presumably wanted Tissa to pass the test instead. He admitted to attempting to seduce Arri to obtain test results, but claimed that his attempt failed, and that he otherwise would have given the answers to Tissa.

On November 16, 1741, Anula passed the testing procedure. In his failure, Tissa followed the instructions of the poem, finding the bottle Albert had placed in the statue and throwing it into the eye of the mechanism that the rebirth ritual would be performed over. The cricket bit and killed Arri, who was stationed inside of the mechanism to lower the platform and allow Anula to survive the swinging blade. Without Arri's influence, Anula was also killed during the rebirth ritual. Abhaya Gamini, deeming Lemurian delegate Yupik Kerra responsible for Arri and Anula's deaths, ordered the death of Yupik's son, Zubiri. However, Yupik told Abhaya the location of the Golden Idol, satisfying the life for life principle and convincing him to call off Zubiri's execution.

## Clues

* cricket
* centipede
* scorpion
* spider
* beetle
* spymaster
* blademaster
* raja
* room
* mouth
* secret
* statue
* Klusapur
* Jambapur
* Lankapur
* Gamini
* Vijaya
* Jaffna
* Abhaya
* Anula
* Tissa
* Arri
* Sukerra
* Zubiri
* Yupik
* Kerra
* Putra
* Sun
* Jayan
* Ji
* Albert
* Cloudsley
* killed
* revealed
* loved
* seduced
* failed
* succeeded

## Thinking panel

### Left panel

* Tissa   Gamini   killed   Arri   Sukerra  using a  cricket  which he found in the  mouth  of a  statue . It was delivered by  Albert   Cloudsley . This resulted in the death of  Anula   Gamini .
* As a result,  Abhaya   Gamini  demanded  Zubiri   Kerra 's life, but instead  Yupik   Kerra   revealed  a  secret  in exchange.

### Upper right panel

Lemurian delegation consists of  Zubiri   Kerra ,  Yupik   Kerra  and  Arri   Sukerra .

### Middle right panel

* Abhaya   Gamini  is raja
* Putra   Sun  is spymaster
* Jayan   Ji  is blademaster
* In the city of  Klusapur

### Lower right panel

* Anula   Gamini  filled this in and  succeeded
* Tissa   Gamini  filled this in and  failed