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people often rip into Rachel and Kim from WAC for thinking they could make do with a single high school degree between the two of them or expecting them to share one persona through college and I used to do the same…

but I think it’s important to understand that college was not their end goal. getting a high school diploma was not even their end goal. not being put in a foster home was their main goal. having someplace to live and food to eat until they were 18 was their main goal. their situation was so bad that they could not afford to care about a long term plan. they went to Waverly to get food and shelter, not necessarily a diploma. the twins are not dumb for this plan. they avoided poverty and the foster system by testing into a good school and keeping themselves afloat there. they just happened to be so good that they were put in the running for valedictorian which put college on the table.

if they’d become the valedictorian and gotten the scholarship, that would have been another deal altogether (and I assume they’d have had to figure out whether they wanted to just go for continued survival or if they wanted to pursue prestigious careers and how that would work), but their plan to go to Waverly was actually brilliant and successful given the small scope of their goal, full stop

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❄ DDI CHRISTMAS ❄

I made some slightly crappy photoshops, I put a lot of effort into that snow though! 😭

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we already know red knott is a problem but he does literally sneak up on a teenage girl in the woods after dark and then almost immediately ask her to "take some pictures" for him

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My horse shirt is dying so I'm using it to make memes while I can

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Sonny is literally the most character ever because due to his habit of taking literally any job ever you can picture him basically doing anything and make that thing much more entertaining

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henry bolet: (freshly grieving, earlier seen weeping at his parents’ mausoleum, and just got finished confiding in nancy that he is QUITE LITERALLY in a financially abusive relationship)

nancy:

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Hey Clue Crew!

I totally forgot to tell you all!

So last October, I went on my honeymoon to Mexico City (wonderful and beautiful city full of history–highly recommend if you get the chance). The first day, we went to the museum of anthropology. A huge place!! You could seriously spend the entire day there!! And being the Ancient Mexican Culture nerd that I was (all thanks to SSH), I was in love. ♡♡

There was a room dedicated to Mayan culture, which was amazing and full of all Mayan antiquities!

Making SSH jokes the whole time.. you know, Normal Things people do.

"The Mayans loved Jade!"

But as we toured the whole area, I casually mentioned to the husband unit, "you know, the Nancy Drew Game puts a LOT of emphasis on King Pakal...but I don't see any mention of him anywhere??"

My complaint had impeccable timing! There was a staircase leading to a downstairs area? This was the only place that had a downstairs portion.

It started leading to a crypt looking area...

And then!

The cinnabar! The jade mask!! The tomb!!

King Pakal!!

I had a great time.

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the npcs in KEY surely are... well they're there

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ClueCrewPlayThru Fortnight Edition Schedule

Two weeks per game, starting in January 2025!

Fortnight #1 - Secrets Can Kill (sck) - January 5th 2025

Fortnight #2 - Stay Tuned for Danger (stfd) - January 19th 2025

Fortnight #3 - Message in a Haunted Mansion (mhm) - February 2nd 2025

Fortnight #4 - Treasure in the Royal Tower (trt) - February 16th 2025

Fortnight #5 - The Final Scene (fin) - March 2nd 2025

Fortnight #6 - Secret of the Scarlet Hand (ssh) - March 16th 2025

Fortnight #7 - Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake (dog) - March 30th 2025

Fortnight #8 - The Haunted Carousel (car) - April 13th 2025

Fortnight #9 - Danger on Deception Island (ddi) - April 27th 2025

Fortnight #10 - The Secret of Shadow Ranch (sha) - May 11th 2025

Fortnight #11 - Curse of Blackmoor Manor (cur) - May 25th 2025

Fortnight #12 - Secret of the Old Clock (clk) - June 8th 2025

Fortnight #13 - Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon (trn) - June 22nd 2025

Fortnight #14 - Danger by Design (dan) - July 6th 2025

Fortnight #15 - The Creature of Kapu Cave (cre) - July 20th 2025

Fortnight #16 - White Wolf of Icicle Creek (ice) - August 3rd 2025

Fortnight #17 - Legend of the Crystal Skull (cry) - August 17th 2025

Fortnight #18 - The Phantom of Venice (ven) - August 31st 2025

Fortnight #19 - The Haunting of Castle Malloy (hau) - September 14th 2025

Fortnight #20 - Lights Camera Curses (lcc) - September 28th 2025

Fortnight #21 - Ransom of the Seven Ships (ran) - October 12th 2025

Fortnight #22 - Resorting to Danger (res) - October 26th 2025

Fortnight #23 - Warnings at Waverly Academy (wac) - November 9th 2025

Fortnight #24 - Secrets Can Kill (Remastered) (sck) - November 23rd 2025

Fortnight #25 - Trail of the Twister (tot) - December 7th 2025

Fortnight #26 - Shadow at the Water's Edge (saw) - December 21st 2025

Fortnight #27 - The Captive Curse (cap) - January 4th 2026

Fortnight #28 - Alibi in Ashes (ash) - January 18th 2026

Fortnight #29 - Tomb of the Lost Queen (tmb) - February 1st 2026

Fortnight #30 - The Deadly Device (ded) - February 15th 2026

Fortnight #31 - Ghost of Thornton Hall (gth) - March 1st 2026

Fortnight #32 - The Silent Spy (spy) - March 15th 2026

Fortnight #33 - The Shattered Medallion (med) - March 29th 2026

Fortnight #34 - Labyrinth of Lies (lie) - April 12th 2026

Fortnight #35 - Sea of Darkness (sea) - April 26th 2026

Fortnight #36 - Midnight in Salem (mid) - May 10th 2026

Fortnight #37 - Mystery of the Seven Keys (key) - May 24th 2026

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ICE Senior Detective Glitch Solved!!!

omg I feel so sleuthy right now! There's a glitch in ICE where Elsa never picks up the phone on Senior Detective mode no matter how much you try, which has infuriated me for ages because I'm a 'leave no stone unturned' kind of player. Today I tried to do something about it, and it worked!!

I noticed that regardless of how many times I read her resignation note, her phone number never appeared in Nancy's notebook. It turns out that the Senior Detective glitch is that it never registers that you've read the note, which then never activates her phone number.

So the solution is to go into the developers menu and manually check off the event that you've seen her number! Solution: Press ctrl+shift+tab+C at the same time to bring up the developer's menu. Go to the 'Events' tab and search for 'elsa'. Check off the event "Saw_Elsa_Number". Hit Enter.

Note 1: The resolution of my screen makes the menu dialog stretched and cut off. If this happens to you, you can still do the above! The parts that you need will be on the screen (using search makes it so you don't need to scroll through the events), and hitting Enter will work instead of clicking the OK button that is cut off.

Note 2: Elsa doesn't always answer the phone even when you've seen the number. If you do this and she doesn't immediately answer, try calling again at another time (I'm not sure what her available hours are, but this is what worked for me!)

Sorry for such a long-winded post, but I am so excited to have figured out a solution!!

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Guess who was today years old when he found out you can turn faster in Nancy Drew games by right clicking 😭

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me to myself: Rissa you have to stop saying "who knows" in the Joanna Riggs voice, no one knows what your doing my coworker: *asks a question I don't know the answer to* me:

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obviously the convoluted, meticulously planned scavenger hunts nancy drew finds in almost every game are unrealistic, but what IS very realistic is that the people they were made for never get close to figuring them out or even realizing there WAS a scavenger hunt they were meant to go on in the first place

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who wants to play organs and bones with me

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so back over the summer i went to a local antique store with some coworkers and i was immediately drawn to this old lamp i found, so i purchased it, and tell me why it wasn't until THIS WEEK that i finally made the connection

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what if there was a nancy drew trading card game like pokemon