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I *HAVE* to share this dialogue I’ve never heard before while I was playing DAN yesterday 🫢

So I’m at the part where Nancy just finished making the cookies and returns to the Moulin to find that Heather is gone and needs a stuffed parrot. Minette is busy pinning JJ in the studio with a DND sign on the door.

When the phone rings, a “Guy with German Accent” answers the phone. He wants to speak to Minette and you can choose 2 options: “She’s unavailable right now” OR “May I ask whose calling?”

I’ve always picked the unavailable line, but yesterday picked the other. This gave me, as Nancy, the option to put the man on hold and go speak with Minette.

So I go to the door, knock, and Minette yells, “What do you want?” And Nancy replies, “There’s someone on the phone who wants to speak to you. He sounds kind of angry.” To which Minette gets really fed up, “Go away or you’re fired! I am busy!” Lol. (Oh also, JJ will shout and say something about being poked with a pin. And Minette says something like, “Oh cmon on, it doesn’t hurt. It’s just a pin.”

You can go back to the desk and see that the phone has a blinking red light because we left him on hold. But my brain thought: I wonder how long we can leave him on hold?

Sooo I went to go open the Dodo box instead. HE WAS STILL ON HOLD AFTER I DID THAT WHOLE PUZZLE.

I wanted to keep testing the waters, so I tried to leave. Nancy then says out loud: “Oh shoot, I left that guy on hold. I can’t just leave yet.” I tried again and she gave another dialogue of “That guy is still on hold! I can’t leave yet.”

I go back to the phone and try to answer it, but he hung up. Nancy says “Hello? Hello? Hm, I guess he hung up.”

AND BECAUSE OF THIS ONE DECISION—BUTTERFLY EFFECT. Because every conversation was different after this. I talked with Bess and George, they ask me about the guy, Nancy admits to leaving him on hold too long so she doesn’t know. I talk with Frank and Joe and same deal. They ask about this guy, but Nancy doesn’t know. I even talked to Minette about it, and she asked Nancy, “Well what’d he want?” And Nancy replied similarly, “Well he hung up.” And Minette says, “It must not have been that important then.”

Never. Ever. Have I experienced such a gold mine of dialogue. 🫨

**OH AND TO ADD: Also when I called F&J at JJ’s instead of the studio, Joe had a whole freak out that Nancy is staying with THE JJ Ling and even asked to put her on the phone. She actually wasn’t in the apartment at the time I called, but that didn’t stop Joe from asking AGAIN when I called him from the apartment later in the game. And this time, she was present, and even interjected in the convo and said, “Are you talking about me on the phone?” 🫠 I was shook.

lol. What rare dialogue awaits us and we don’t even know it? Ahhh **not to mention this game also has the JJ electrical book convo that’s super hard to unlock (still haven’t done that one yet)

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How different would the “Secret of the Old Clock” game be if the culprit was someone different? Who would you choose?

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Sometimes the biggest mystery in Nancy Drew is what I'm supposed to be doing in the unhelpfully labeled save.

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i just found out i didn’t need to lock the door every time i left the ca (where nancy is staying) in ven… i literally always locked it. is this a joke

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The Hardys have been through it all

The train era. Joe loves cheeseburgers, Frank is wearing a hat made of someone’s hair

The ugly era. Yaay Frank and Joe look like humans!albeit ugly ones.

Concept art-only era. Joe is a cutiepie awww, Frank looks like someones uncle whos aging backwards

Sleep paralysis demon era. No Joe, you are not forgiven

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New Theory: Charlotte and Clara are Actually Sisters

okay maybe I'm crazy but I had a thought on Clara's father... the incest theory always bugged me bc a) EW I just don't want it to be true lol and b) I don't think that Charlotte's first reaction to finding that out would be immediately going to write her out of the will. You hear about her compassion throughout the game and I would assume she would first try to offer some help to Clara, maybe counseling or something before immediately thinking of herself and her will. SO what if Clara's father is....Charlotte's (and Harper's) father? You hear at multiple points in the game how in love Charlotte's parents were and how they had the perfect relationship. Maybe Clara's mom refused to say who the father was because she knew she would be completely ostracized from the family for sleeping with her sister's beloved husband. I think this also would explain why Charlotte would be so adamant about changing her will - if Clara was actually her sister, she would have a much more legitimate claim to the Thornton fortune, and there would be urgency in changing the beneficiary to Harper. It would also explain why Clara would be so upset about it - in her mind she is the rightful recipient (she may even be older than Charlotte, the family tree lists them both being born in 1968), and Charlotte is undercutting her.

The HeR email giving additional context to the night specifically mentions that Clara was threatened by Charlotte's place in the family and "Charlotte had the family and childhood she wished she had. Her insecurity wasn't just a personal flaw, it was a response to her uneven upbringing." I think the juxtaposition between their childhoods is made even more intense if they actually shared a father. Charlotte got everything Clara wanted, even her own dad, and then tries to write Clara out of her will, alienating her once again.

If this all came out, I think it's a much bigger justification for starting the fire rather than discovering your grandpa is your dad. The latter would leave me absolutely destroyed and disgusted, not at Charlotte, but at Jackson. In this case, Charlotte is the direct beneficiary of the lies and coverups between Clara's parents, and is taking an action to continue that pattern - it makes a lot more sense why Clara would then direct her anger to Charlotte in that moment. I know the incest theory is very popular and has been around since the game came out so I don't think I'll convince everyone, but this makes a lot more sense to me narratively and in the context of what HeR would put in a game meant for younger audiences. What do you think? (also I'm sorry if anyone came to this conclusion before me and this is nothing new lol. If that is the case take this as my two cents in the ongoing conversation!)

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Tex, Shorty and Dave have prepared a song for you

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I love how whenever the clue crew goes through a hiatus we just turn to big island Mike, just in different forms

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Haven’t posted original content in a bit, take this 🤲🏻

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ND themed ask game with (hopefully) more rare questions

Most controversial game you like

Most controversial game you don’t like 

If you could change the culprit of a game, what game would you pick and you would you make the culprit be?

Character you least want to catch you snooping in their stuff

Game that takes you the longest to play

Game you can finish the fastest

Choose a phone contract: a) Ned  b) Frank & Joe  c) Bess & George

Favourite second chance

Something you find scary in an ND game that people don’t talk about

Character you are most similar to

Most utterly mediocre game that you have very little opinion about 

Do you like the explanation of the ghost in GTH? If no, what would you rather the explanation have been?

Have you played MID? if so, thoughts?

Thoughts on Fox & Geese?

Do you believe in ghosts?

Favourite non-food related mini game?

Favourite meal to make in ICE?

Loulou or Coucou?

Favourite ND soundtrack?

TRT or MHM?

Francy, Nedcy, or neither?

Most underrated game

Most overrated game

Most confusing plot

Least realistic game

Most stupid motive

Best mystery

Favourite place to snoop (I.e. dwayne’s office, brenda’s van, etc)

Favourite way to stop a culprit

Favourite chore

LIE or SPY?

If you had to get rid of one game and instead combine it with another one, which games would you combine and why?

What did Nancy put in the time capsule in ASH?

Would you Vote 4 Holt?

Would you rather be sentenced to 5 hours of snowball fights with Freddie (ICE) or 5 hours of games with Jane (CUR)?

Fishing or necklace-making? (CRE)

Most disappointing ending

Most pointless/irrelevant (in person) character

Most pointless/irrelevant phone contact?

In which game do you have to use the most second chances?

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you: heeeeeere’s johnny!

me, an intellectual: heeeeeeere’s shorty!

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now… who the fuck did that….

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secret of the scarlet hand cast ♦️ such fun suspects in this one

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heyyyy clue crew!

my name is vion, im 23 and have been a nancy drew fangirl since i was like 5 when my older brother would rent the games from the library and play them with me!

i didnt beat most of the games as a kid cuz i wasnt good at puzzles so now as an adult with a slightly better grasp at puzzles im on a quest to complete them all 😎

i wanted to join the community on tumblr sooo hiiii!

my fav game is DOG and my hottest take is that I really like TOT

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I would pay GOOD MONEY to play all of Jane Penvellyn’s flash games

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Top: TRT

Bottom: GTH

I have nothing to say about this, just pointing it out.

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Nancy Drew Dream Games → Road Trip Edition

Nancy, Bess, and George (and Togo, too!) hit the road for a trip through all 50 States to celebrate their graduation from River Heights High. They meet old friends – and a few old foes – as they journey East, West, North, and South in quest of adventure and a little old-fashioned bonding. Of course, as they’re chasing good times, mystery chases them…

VERMONT → The Real Scoop

How could anyone turn down an invitation to the Burlington Arts Festival? Especially when it comes from the elusive Poppy Dada herself?

When the River Heights girls get to Vermont, they click well with the bespectacled Poppy and her pink-haired posse: impressionist Eloise, no last name, and mixed-media maven Tanishe Jordan. Finally, a week without a mystery!

On a fun night out on the ice cream trail before the Arts Festival’s official opening, though, Togo returns to the Bed & Breakfast with blood on his muzzle and a priceless tube of medieval Ultramarine carried in his teeth.

Is the Burlington Arts Festival just a cover-up for the black market trade of art?

GAME FEATURES:

→ Paint abstract works without just filling in the lines with prescribed colors (more creative than DAN). → Serve and sample ice creams! → Finally meet Poppy Dada and see her art. → More than one Nancy-Day! → Nancy’s learned about archaeological provenance, but now she explores the dark world of stolen art.