Sherlock holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles In this game you can be only a dozen or so moves from victory, and 1 move from defeat.
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To see a map of the Dartmoor estate, drawn quickly by Watson, from what he could identify, he could not draw it completely neatly, as that would be too much of a advantage for the game, and too hard for a old map to have, but from what he could identify, press here, but it will be of use, you see the map of it while passing into the dining room that day.
You walk in towards the large house, and the door is opened by a butler.
You then enter, and have your coats hanged up, on a coat hanger, in the bright sparkling room, with a high chandaleer.
You both then see the lighted up dining room, you see a man with a beard, the owner of the house, Mr Anderson, call you. So you enter and are offered a drink, for which you take one each, and then sit on a sofa by the fire, where you start to hear what is happening. And more about the story.
You are told that over the last year more and more people have been going missing. Mr Anderson, a rational fellow who owns the mansion, after marrying the local lady, is really searching for a explanation other than it being the fabled Hounds of the Baskervilles. But more and more villagers keep saying that they have seen the creature. He states though that he belives his gardener and his Butler, that these are just people who are getting it wrong, and are mistakenly thinking the foxes are huge dogs. And that the dissapearnces, are as of a extra strong amount of rain, making bogs a bit larger, and more dangerous. He is giving you a couple of weeks, or so, depending on what he chooses to come up with a conclusion.
Dr Watson, says My Dear Holmes, this sounds to me like another myth that needs exploding.
But the more you hear, the more you think there is so much more to this story, than the last one. You thumb through a history of the Estate.
It has been held by the same family since the Norman Conquest.
So for it to last such a time to the year 1902, is a amaing feat.
You then have a read of the history of the estate, and Dr Watson tells you what he has just read in a 1870s history of the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, in these parts. It has similarities to the case of the Baskervilles, and the hound that Sherlock solved in 1901, but this one, seems all together a longer history.
The Baskergoin family arrived in 1066, with the Norman Conquerers, and took this area for themselves, They set about as Lords of this small portion of Dartmoor. The official history says how they claim to have improved the area, and to have turned a wooden church into a stone one, how they used to live in a mansion in the South East of the estate, which is now ruins, as of bogs surrounding and covering the area some centuries ago.
Different families have married into this family, but as of some change in the 1300s, to help attract villagers, the name changed to the Baskervilles.
The story about the dogs is different. It is a book, in a more remote part of the library from books, The Scottish accented, Anderson says he uncovered in a downstairs room locked away. He says the books are nonsensical 19th Century folklore, and not for a modern age. But says you should read the books, to see what we are up against. It states that the legends, state that in the 11th Century, the local Norman Lord, used Dogs to help control the populace. this Anderson in a conversation agrees, is plausible, But there is no more mention of these creatures, till a medieval manuscript says that Baskerville Hounds, killed a man, in the neighbouring estate. in 1327. Around the time, when a new less millitaristic nature took over the family. From then there are odd reports of the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, like in the 1420s, with villagers said to be scared to leave their villages. Not much more is said about the legends, till the 1660s when lords here stated that there were no witches, or wearwolves here, to some witch burners, during the era of the later Stuarts. But the legends carry on.
Anderson wiping a piece of chocolate off his moustache, deduces that was is happening here, is that in the 1060s the lords did use dogs. As is shown on the symbol of the Lords behind him. But that in the 11th Century this process stopped. And that the later legends are to do with the coat of arms being about dogs, and how dogs have always been a big part of life here, plus foxes. and many other creatures. He says that most people have never seen a big dog, and those who have, are probably mistaken. Dr Watson, and yourself, feel from his body language, that he is open, and honest, and everything he says seems to stack up.
The lady Anderson married seems confident, but a bit like embaressed, even nervy, as the most cosmopolitan of the Baskervilles, about the dog stories And eventually gets round to getting ready the shopping list again.
The mansion old lady, (not to be confused in this story, with the southwest farmhouse old lady, or west farmhouse old lady, or Vicar's wife,) and one of Anderson's wife's brothers, carry on saying, the dog stories are the myths, of simple country folk, saying this with patronising nasty faces, as she cleans some kind of fat off her hands. Just after entering the kitchen, and talking to the cooks. The cook, says she does not really believe the dog stories, but feels their may be a ravid fox around.
The wife of the brother of the wife of Anderson, and says she does not know, and is unsure if the creature exists. their child is not interested, as she eats a lamb pie.
Dr Watson has a talk with these 2 people, one already you have already talked, to on the above paragraphs, which he feels is interesting, While the brother of the old lady of the Mansion, and the brother of Anderson's wife, both sometimes return back from the nearest town to this area, from their large trading shop they own, one of them will be going tomorrow, they say, the one less connected and slightly dissconnected with the family and it's traditons, despite their differences, both abrubtly do not really want to talk about it, also says the whole things is a myth.
That child's great uncle, who lives here at the moment, is too weak as of old age, to really answer questions.
The Churchmen, of which one is a cousin, say they think the dogs are legends, like many of the legends, and say you should not even be investigating, as it is all probably a lie.
The next day you talk as much as you can with local who claim to have seen the dog. There seem to be about 6 sightings a year normally, but 12 this year.
9 are claims from the North of the estate, normally it is about 3 from the North. With 1 other usually in the neighbouring estates, or the south or east.
The sightings have to Dr Watson and your scoffings, unusual differences, Some claim the dog is large and orange, like a lion, some that is like a big cat, but others that it is a big grey or brown dog, The clearest was of somebody who claims he saw the dog jumping over a 2 metre high wall, running away from him.
So you have allot of information. and now you can decide what to do.
P.S Dr Watson says, that he feels that it is unlikely that there is dog.
But you think there may be, as there are so many cases. But feel it may also be a conspiracy. like last time.
So that is what happens, you met all these people in the church down in the village, and in the mansion, now you go to sleep for the second time at night.
You then had a discussion, on whether it is possible to have a hound here, for what the legends seem to indicate, centuries.
Watson, says that Anderson has a good point, when he says how Dartmoor is full of legends, that state that anything from ghosts to hounds, to monsters inhabbiot the moors, and says this is a good point, But you wonder, after all there are 1000s of sheep here, you state there would have to be breeding, so maybe 7-17 dogs could survive in the midst of this area, feeding on a sheep a day, and not harm the areas that much, Especially with the bogs to the south, able to be used, or hills in the north or south.
One last fact, to be said, is this, some people every so often once a fort night hear howling, such as in the Central Eastern Farm house, where there is a large family, and in the North, and in the western hills farmhouse. But that is explained away by this, the fact that there are normal sized dogs in the mansion, as guards, that sometimes escape, and how the monastery rather unusually makes a howling noise, as the win travels through it, on windy nights.
So what do you do now it is the morning.
Check around the mansion for more books on the subject, you are trying to solve.
Go with Dr Watson on a tour, around the estate. on your own,
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