tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post6359216636154583781..comments2024-03-29T05:52:53.051+11:00Comments on The Adventurers Guild: Dracula Unleashed - Three Murders and a FuneralThe Tricksterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01419316208187255801noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-67319959122947365032023-03-07T02:37:11.052+11:002023-03-07T02:37:11.052+11:00Maybe he can taste the difference much like connoi...Maybe he can taste the difference much like connoisseurs can tell different wines apart?<br /><br />Ken Brubaker<br />https://kejabrsoftware.wixsite.com/kejabr-softwareKen Brubakerhttps://kejabrsoftware.wixsite.com/kejabr-softwarenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-5117864238333212023-03-04T08:06:54.183+11:002023-03-04T08:06:54.183+11:00One of Dracula's defining character traits is ...One of Dracula's defining character traits is being far behind the times. How does he know something that no one else in that time period does?Sabrina (M)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17139028621163063257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-22006039278065925392023-03-04T03:54:43.992+11:002023-03-04T03:54:43.992+11:00In "The Dracula Tape" by Fred Saberhagen...In "The Dracula Tape" by Fred Saberhagen (1975), blood typing was one of the plot points he used to help turn Dracula from an evil character into a somewhat good character - his drinking of Lucy's blood was actually keeping her alive while the blood transfusions were killing her.<br /><br />Ken Brubaker<br />https://kejabrsoftware.wixsite.com/kejabr-softwareKen Brubakerhttps://kejabrsoftware.wixsite.com/kejabr-softwarenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-64270047085017402652023-03-03T05:01:12.994+11:002023-03-03T05:01:12.994+11:00The game does follow the book's plot VERY clos...The game does follow the book's plot VERY closely, so Juliet dying would be akin to the death of Lucy. For that reason too I would doubt that it could be avoided. ShaddamIVthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024540172370536692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-68779552121954980472023-03-02T03:13:42.429+11:002023-03-02T03:13:42.429+11:00Sorry, I don't know why the blogger login has ...Sorry, I don't know why the blogger login has been so unreliable...<br /><br />Good to see you're making progress, Joe! Meanwhile in BloodNet, I'm still stuck at Grant's Tomb and gave it another 20 shots but frequently Ransom Stark dies at the last minute (once after all of the thugs died at the same time which was quite frustrating). I'll give it another try soon.Will Moczarskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509711497671899834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-14479692870744777462023-03-02T00:50:18.919+11:002023-03-02T00:50:18.919+11:00>>Two other newspaper articles are equally j...>>Two other newspaper articles are equally juicy. The first is another murder, this time at the dockyards. The victim was “Earl Kranston”, but I have no idea if he was an earl or if his first name was “Earl”.<br /><br />Hm.. no idea if the developers of the game had that in mind, but "Earl" as a given name is mostly a US-American thing, and even then it only really came into use from around 1890 onwards (I don't think it was used much, if at all, before 1880 at least, and outside of the US not before the start of the 20th century). Given that the game is set in late-19th century Britain (and assuming the dead Earl Kranston was an adult), I would wager that the "Earl" in question was most likely a title of nobility.El despertandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05118364076533041282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-4663129113785580062023-03-01T23:03:18.668+11:002023-03-01T23:03:18.668+11:00I suppose you already know this Joe, but for every...I suppose you already know this Joe, but for everyone interested in the history of the telegraph, there is this wonderful series written by Jimmy Maher in The Digital Antiquarian: <br />https://www.filfre.net/2022/01/a-web-around-the-world-part-1-signals-down-a-wire/Leo Vellésnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-64040114585093145142023-03-01T22:50:55.783+11:002023-03-01T22:50:55.783+11:00Juliet's death is so close to Lucy's that ...Juliet's death is so close to Lucy's that I doubt it can be prevented; a clue that it is not preventable would me if in the next day there are scenes of characters reacting to her death or if there are events similar to what happens in the novel after Lucy's death, because I doubt they had the means to shoot scenes for two parallel plots, one in which Juliet is death and other in which it is not.Agrivarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01733066579117350220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-58034980489863708072023-03-01T18:05:10.868+11:002023-03-01T18:05:10.868+11:00Anisette disposing of the garlic in Juliet's r...Anisette disposing of the garlic in Juliet's room parallels the actions of Lucy's rather idiotic mother in the novel, who also throws out the garlic Van Helsing sets up in Lucy's room, though in that case she is merely misguided rather than becoming a vampire herself. (As I recall, Lucy's mother dies of a heart attack on seeing Dracula in wolf form appear at the window of their house in Whitby.)<br /><br />The Reverend is an original character created for the game, though it would certainly make sense to have a priest among the vampire hunters. In Stoker's novel, Van Helsing is the one who provides wafers of the Host to crumble up and use as protection against Dracula by drawing magical barriers with it - showing a much more Protestant than Catholic attitude towards the Body of Christ, I might say! Van Helsing airily brushes off the matter by claiming that "I have an Indulgence", which is rather odd; even taking him at his word, I think such unusual uses of the Host generally require dispensations from the Pope himself, or at least the higher-ups in the Vatican bureaucracy.<br /><br />Holmwood's wife is a minor character who is mentioned briefly at the end of the novel; evidently Holmwood met and married her after the destruction of Dracula, since Lucy was his fiancée before she turned into a vampire. The novel doesn't even give her a name; "Regina" is the game's invention. So it makes sense that she wouldn't be at the meeting of the vampire hunters.<br /><br />On the other hand, it doesn't make sense at all that the group would be so blasé about a new vampire or vampires stalking London after they killed Dracula (the first time?). As Van Helsing declares in the book, their aim is nothing less than to prevent vampires taking over Britain by invading steathily and slowly building up a critical mass of the population. Dracula alone, left unhindered, might have been enough to accomplish this, and it's very clear in Stoker's novel that any vampire is to be treated basically as a demon to be hunted down and destroyed. (On the other hand, when Mina is bitten, Jonathan himself decides that if she can't be cured, he would gladly join her as a vampire rather than let her suffer alone - something which is likely a deliberate echo by Stoker of Adam knowingly following Eve into fallenness by eating the apple after she does in Paradise Lost.)<br /><br />I know, I know, the game probably just wants to punish you for not solving the puzzle properly in this case. But it's an odd bit of writing that hardly chimes with the original book.<br /><br />Doing blood transfusions without any knowledge of blood types is also something from the original novel. As you say, the existence of blood types hadn't been discovered yet, so there's much emphasis on giving Lucy "good, strong, healthy blood" to try to keep her alive as Dracula is draining her. Lucy's donors include Quincey Morris, Dr. Seward, and Holmwood (who all proposed to her on the same day), as well as Van Helsing - and the sexual symbolism of Lucy sharing blood with each of her suitors is remarked on in the novel.ATMachinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15341546353974246136noreply@blogger.com