Dictated [Open for Action and kisses to the cheek]

[deductiongeek]

 [It hadn't taken Conan long to take note of the sudden infestation of nutcrackers.  It took him only slightly longer to collect a small set of tools and decide on a target.  For the sake of the scientific method he collects several different nutcrackers from different locations.  Some from busy areas and some that had been completely isolated as a control.  He lays them out in a quiet corner of the lobby and props up the journal nearby so that he can keep an ear on the activity in the castle as he works.  Then, carefully and methodically, he begins to take the nutcrackers apart.]

This is interesting, isn't it?  Is this the first time there have been nutcrackers in the castle like this?