gth as text posts part 3: the final part (hopefully)

more gth text posts because actually i can't stop

@kylermalloy if you did that for these posts i'd be indebted to you forever

i was supposed to print out my updated resume and three professional references instead i spent an hour making too many ghost of thornton hall textpost memes 🤡

behold the fruits of my labor

this will forever be my favorite conversation in the game

Process video for my Ghost of Thornton Hall piece, hope you like it 💕

Clara Thornton - Gillian Anderson

Jessalyn Thornton - Nina Dobrev

Wade Thornton - Michael Huisman

Harper Thornton - Helena Bonham Carter

Colton Birchfield - Dan Stevens

I wanted to be her when I grew up. But then one day I was older than my older sister - and older still today.

MHM, TRT, FIN, SSH, DOG, CAR, DDI, SHA, CUR, CLK, TRN, DAN, CRE, ICE, CRY, VEN, HAU, WAC, TOT, SAW, CAP, ASH, TMB, DED

nancy drew game: light&dark aesthetic

planning my sisters bachelorette party. wish we had a haunted island to explore and accidentally find out dark family secrets :/

GTH Unused Escape

In Ghost of Thornton Hall there was going to be another way to escape a certain situation right after collecting a certain item in the basement. Wade was going to help you escape.

I asked one of my friends (an electrical engineer) for her thoughts on this, and she has yet to respond. Still holding out for her thoughts.

this does work, lemon or citrus fruit batteries can produce electricity.  these specific materials allow for a chemical redox reaction to occur, just like in standard batteries. placing the oranges in series with the alligator leads increases the voltage to be in an acceptable range for phone charging.

I just started replaying Ghost of Thornton Hall. When Savannah calls at the beginning, Nancy asks what time it is. I made a joke to my sister that Nancy didn’t know what time it was because her phone didn’t have a clock.

Since Nancy has had a clock on her phone prior to this, it was originally just a goofy comment because the time didn’t appear on the screen like it does on real phones (even during calls).

However it turns out she really doesn’t have a clock in this game.

No time, no alarm. Nothing

It’s also impossible to tell the time of day since it’s always dark. Nancy occasionally sleeps but that’s more attributed to potential carbon monoxide poisoning than circadian rhythms.

Time means nothing in this game, a complete illusion. It’s especially disconcerting since the game comes immediately after The Deadly Device when Gray shares that the thing that caused him to wig out a bit many years prior was exactly this. He tells Nancy “Time is an illusion. It’s nothing, it doesn’t exist.” Turns out he’s right.

It is certainly interesting to contemplate as part of the setting of the game, this manufactured disorientation you don’t even register until you do. It’s a relatively small detail but very effective in adding to both the spooky vibe and the carbon monoxide poisoning story. Whether intentionally done or not, as a writer I appreciate that it adds to the ambiance.

Time is an illusion (and so are pants).

Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall, 2013

The way Nancy treats Wade is so weird from the get go.

Like she tells him “that’s pretty philosophical for a guy wearing boots” and “you don’t look the type [to go into a bookstore]” with zero reason to make those assumptions. She’s literally just met this dude and knows nothing about him but keeps telling him to his face she thinks he’s an idiot?

Does Nancy just assume all southerners are idiots? Just all southern men? Why doesn’t she call Colton an idiot then? Wade is nothing but helpful and even tells her some incredibly personal information he was under no obligation to share?

His character is really one of the more interesting ones, an only child raised around his female cousins (all incredibly dramatic in their own right). He has an interest in genealogy, history, and ghosts while maintaining respect for the dead in a way a lot of ghost hunters don’t. He has a lot of respect for the living as well, even going to jail in an effort to end some pretty shady human rights violations perpetrated by his family (or at the very least his family’s representatives).

Then he says stuff like this that makes me question how the game could get an E10+ rating:

Just a little casual joke about Depression era bankers killing themselves, nbd. Kids don’t know what Black Tuesday was right? It’s fine.

All in all an interesting character I wish we learned more about.

YES OP Wade, unappreciated character. 

Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall, 2013