A brilliantly conceived murder mystery puzzle box (boat?)

Spoilers to follow obviously, but if you know, you know.

I’m talking about the shoe and hammock revelation.

A sailor sleeps in a hammock with his arm and leg out in Return Of The Obra Dinn

They rarely appear in other scenes, and their general movements are quite hard to pin down.

The same goes for some of the lesser crewmen of other nationalities as well.

The hammocks were numbered.

A crew is pulled overboard by mermaids in Return Of The Obra Dinn

The crew list has numbers too!

Are they the same?

I cannot even compute what’s just happened.

A bolt of lightning strikes the mast of the ship in Return Of The Obra Dinn

Of course, it’s the damn shoes.

Isn’t it amazing?

When did you figure it out?

It’s a real treasure, and I wouldn’t want to forget that for the world.