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Last time on Nancy Drew we grabbed more eyes than a Beholder and made a respectable shopkeeper have a potty emergency. Today we're hoping to finish this game out. I know we're numerically close to the end but I'm not entirely sure how to get there. I think we're gonna need to find an iguana.

( Reptiles are basically snake-taurs. Think about that. )

Hey, sassy gumshoes! Guess what? We can call this...

CASE CLOSED.

Man, this one was a puzzle festival, but the plot tied together neatly at the end I think. More importantly this reminded me of both how fun it is to put together one of these writeups, and how tiring/time-consuming. Technically this was nine days I probably could've banged out two or three games in... but the comments really blew up over those nine days! I forgot how much I missed all y'all tossing crazy theories my way and pointing out how damn GOOFY these plots are!

So while I'm not going back to doing a full-blown writeup for every game I play, I am gonna try to do these more often, like at least one every couple months. It's a good habit and it keeps me connected to the people I care about.

As always, thanks everyone for enjoying this Nancy Drew mystery... and let's look forward to the next one, eh?

I told myself, y'know. I get tired easily. It is winter and I am a yawn factory. Maybe today I'll skip the Nancy Drew post. Have a day off and rest. Just not think about games and stuff for a day. Inside of an hour I had Doom playing on monitor 1, Mega Man X2 on monitor 2, an anime-boobie-themed Wizardry clone on the TV, and (inexplicably) Donkey Kong 94 on my 3DS.

A few hours after THAT I was stuffed down a pit full of vocaloids, rocking out to Corruption Garden and Angel Bullet and Azure Sky and such. I spent so long at that, I forgot I need food to live and wound up super-hungry.

I cannot be trusted with time off. Let's go back to Nancy Drew.

Last time on Nancy Drew, I spent almost an entire update exploring Bruno Bolet's Bountiful Broom Closet of Brain-Teasing Buttdicks. I now hate this man posthumously. This one room kind of entrapped us, and by entrapped us I halfway mean "It was full of weird interesting stuff we needed to check out" and I halfway mean "We are totally sealed in this room with no obvious exits". If I can't figure out how to leave, we may as well stop playing here.

Happily, I worked it out.
( How did I do it? This one weird trick gets you out of secret rooms! )
Tomorrow. We'll call her tomorrow. My brain is sobbing in the corner right now. Maybe I should take a day off...

Last time we discovered that when I describe Nancy Drew games as "usually not being about serious crimes like murder" I am full of crap because this is looking more and more like a murder all the time. I guess the key swing word is USUALLY, huh?

So! We've avoided and put it off as long as we could, but now we're going to have to leave the house. In the game, I mean. I feel odds are good we'll come sprinting right back in the door with something new, because every time I announce what I have a plan to do something comes up to undo it. Still, at least that will be progress. Let's roll out.
( I am running out of words for transitional cuts. )
Since this is getting SUPER LONG and SUPER SCREENSHOTTY, we'll pick up tomorrow.

LAST TIME: We ate a bunch of setup and also a faceful of pass-out powder. Nancy was attacked by a skeleton wearing an ascot, so our main suspect is that dude from the animated Mystery Skulls video. Let's see if we might just be able to make him disappear. (Muh muh muh muh muh muh muh muh.)
( But first... )
Next time, let's get on that trail and start investigating the rest of the house properly.