// help wanted 2 game play spoilers //
Watched the HW2 game play preview and NOOO HELPY!!!!!! He’s just a little guy!! He doesn’t deserve this :(
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dropping the manga if anything happens to him DO YOU HEAR ME GEGE
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Letters From Watson: Scandal in Bohemia
Part 1, the fun bits:
- There are (at least) three major cases between Watson's marriage and this case.
- Watson has returned to private practice: presumably he has recovered considerably in the last eight years and has the funds (possibly due to his marriage to Mary?) to set himself up in a practice.
- Holmes doesn't give a shit that he's got a client coming, he's not wasting the chance that Watson came to visit.
- There were apparently reference books listing out companies: some sort of yellow pages equivalent for an era where you had to write to a company to order things?
- Astrakhan is a fleece, or a fabric made to resemble fleece. A vizard mask is a plain black mask that covers the upper half of the face (there are also ones that cover the whole face but this one is not one of them.)
- A two year guarantee of secrecy would expire in March 1890 (if given on the canon date in 1888) but if my proposed timeline holds, a date of march 1889 wouldn't prevent publication in 1891.
- Holmes' scrapbooking clippings for name recognition reference really feels like a wikipedia assembled out of period newspapers.
- If Irene was born in 1858 she's either 30 (1888) or 31 (1889), very close in age to Holmes (Who by my estimate was born some time in 1857-1859)
- I always love it when a client buries the lead - you came to ask Holmes to burgle you back that photograph, Ormstein. You should have started there!
- Ormstein has had people burgle Irene's house twice, had her luggage stolen, and had her "waylaid." Without the presumption that Irene was an unrepentant blackmailer, how would Holmes and Watson have reacted to that admission?
- Here's that fictitious king of Scandanavia again. Presumably, if this is referring to the same person as referenced during Noble Bachelor, his reviews of Holmes' work were good enough for other european nobility.
- Spoilers, but considering the timeline: If Irene did threaten to publish the photograph on the day of Ormstein's engagement announcement, we have no evidence that she did not do it after at least one attempt on Ormstein's part to have it stolen from her. After all, what we learn of her motivations and present circumstances (getting married and leaving for America) directly contradicts the idea that she's at all interested in Ormstein's future so long as he leaves her alone.
- One thousand pounds (total) to start the investigations is more than 100,000 pounds (120,000 ish USD) today. Fuck it, I'd take this case for that. It's not sketchy enough from this description that Ormstein couldn't be telling the truth.
- The pancake recipe attached in the Letters from Watson mailing sure sounds like crepes.
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