Well... the long and the short of it is that Simon didn't make it. Tests seem to point towards a metallurgic poisoning, and history of Howard and Otis seems to point to water, the only thing they had in common contact.
Hrm... I blogged once before. That was a disaster. Three entries in three days, then never again. Of course, that was back when my life was going down the shitter, and it very nearly took me with it.