Unflappable Drayk adc. Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Has anyone heard of this? -------- The site is full of information and it's where I've got most walkthroughs on AV3. Anyway, has she participated on the forums? -------- -Harehunter's is also one, Nightwatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Men are from Slars Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Rache was a member here, but that was a very, very, long time ago: close to a decade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 There is a link to it in the header of the First Avernum Trilogy forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Was Rache German, or a big Sherlock Holmes fan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I'm going to guess she was someone named Rachel who had a nickname. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Rache isn't German, but some of the hosting and possibly other site work was done by ef, who is. —Alorael, who still uses that site, which at least at one time existed in two places in slightly different forms, as his primary source of A3 information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasoned Roamer Dire Hobbit Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study_in_Scarlet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Originally Posted By: Actaeon Was Rache German, or a big Sherlock Holmes fan? Somebody else watches Sherlock here? Good, I was beginning to doubt the board's collective taste... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 ... Yes, I do, but as Dire Hobbit observed, the reference stems from the very first book by Conan Doyle (although the Rache/Rachel element is inverted). You might also check out that speech Sherlock gives Watson about a mobile phone and compare it to one about a pocket watch in "The Sign of Four". Moffat is a master of subtle (and not so subtle) references, in addition to being a brilliant screenwriter in general. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I do not watch Sherlock, but you know, there's this funny, archaic medium called 'print'. Believe it or not, it was all text. Like Zork, if you can imagine, only not interactive. At all. But people used to do this thing called 'reading'. And, sometimes, they'd remember what they'd read. A Study in Scarlet couldn't make up its mind about Holmes. On the one hand, he was proudly ignorant of the Copernican solar system. On the other hand, he knew enough German to recognize a random noun, and claim familiarity with typical German handwriting styles. Obviously this just didn't make sense. It was all very well to say that Holmes didn't want to know anything that wasn't relevant to his profession, but in fact any random obscure fact might turn out to be relevant to that profession. And given Conan Doyle's need for publications, it probably would. So by the next installment, Holmes had entirely abandoned his anti-intellectualism, and was a thoroughgoing polymath quoting Goethe at every opportunity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 As there is nothing at all to do in England, ever, I've watched Sherlock and read the texts (well, some of them). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Sherlock uses the fact that Sherlock Holmes keeps only relevant information in his head for the 3rd episode of season 1. He's standing before a painting and trying to figure out how the dead guy knew it was a forgery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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