#danger by design
Nancy Drew Posthumous Characters||Danger By Design
Noisette Tornade
Some people said that during the war she took various pieces of artwork …. mostly from churches … and stashed them away somewhere so they wouldn’t fall into enemy hands. The artwork remains lost to this day. No one knows exactly what Noisette took — or if, indeed, she took anything. You see… From 1932 until the liberation of Paris, Noisette worked as a translator for the Germans by day and an encoder for the French Resistance by night. This, as you might imagine, made everyone suspicious of her, both French and Germans alike.And after the war, things got ugly. Especially when people found out she was romantically involved with a German soldier. His name was Hans, Hans von Schwesterkrank. Hans left Paris after the war and never returned, leaving Noisette to fend for herself. She was tried as a collaborator in 1946 and acquitted, but the experience left her quite bitter. She never married, you know. Very private person. She served as Paris’ Director of Public Works for more than twenty years, yet not one person has been able to tell me what her favorite color was.
In any case, Noisette was terribly hurt that the city she loved had turned on her like that. After her trial, she told the press that the truth of what she’d done during the war resided in her and in the person and place she loved the most. And that was that. She never spoke about her wartime activities again.
Johannes “Hans” von Schwesterkrank
I was not a traitor, nor was Hans. He helped me because he knew it was the right thing to do.
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nd in 2d: minette’s house of design
more: theft of the pacal(SSH),nancy’s desk(ASH),the great hall of castle malloy(HAU),magnus’s cabin(SEA),the witching hour(TRT),dear sweet charlotte(GTH),the hot kettle cafe(DDI),ma ‘n pa’s general store(TOT),mel’s room(WAC),luminous infusions(MID),the lilac inn (CLK), ravencrofts emporium (MID),the tower(TRT),the lost queen(TMB),linda’s room(CUR),maxine’s diner(SCK)
I was thinking about the ranking of ND suspects by @aniceworld (if you haven’t seen it then go check it out because it’s the best) and felt inspired to do something similar.
Methodology: I included characters who left us puzzles to solve. I judged STFD, CRE, VEN, TOT, and ASH as not having characters who met those criteria. CAR was the only game with two. I lumped all the Penvellyns together because ain’t nobody got time for that. If I forgot anyone, let me know. All rankings are personal taste.
28. J.J. Thompson (FIN)
Does he count? Between fucking over Louisa Falcone and betting against Harry Houdini pulling off a trick, ol’ J.J. just can’t overcome his P.T.-Barnum-knockoff origin story.
27. ??? (CAP)
To be honest, I spent this whole game trying to figure out how I could break up with Ned and ask Frank out, so I don’t remember who put the puzzles here. They were stupid, though.
26. Ezra Wickford (TRT)
You can’t just adopt a kid and then disown him if he has behavioral problems. And I frankly don’t believe your claim that you invented chocolate milk. Enjoy your hidden sadness shrines, you sack of shit.
25. Lizzie Applegate (MHM)
I guess I’m just not sure why she left the treasure in the floor instead of using it at any point. Sorry your outlaw husband ditched you, though. Dirk Valentine would never do a thing like that.
24. Trapper Dan (ICE)
Apparently Lizzie Applegate is the one who told Dan to riddle the Lodge with puzzles: a pointless callback in an overwhelmingly frustrating game.
23. El Toro (RAN)
The hourglass puzzle makes me cry, but he deliberately died in a ridiculous position so his corpse could trigger a booby trap, which I respect.
22. King Pacal (SSH)
The scribe’s desiccated corpse has haunted my dreams for years, so while I appreciate Pacal’s level of loopholed pettiness, I hate him.
21. Ramses II (TMB)
I’m not particularly impressed by anything Ramses set up to guard Nefertari’s tomb, but at least his actions were justified in-character, and I minored in classical civilizations so he gets an automatic bonus for Ancient Egypt.
20. Rita Hallowell (WAC)
Her motivations are unclear at best, but she gains rank for clearly being an emo lesbian cat lady.
19. Kasumi Shimizu (SAW)
Maybe just tell your daughters that they can leave the family business instead of making them solve a nonogram to find out. No wonder your family fell apart.
18. Kate Drew (SPY)
Many parts of this game are beautifully, emotionally moving, but up until the new engine fuckery, Nancy’s mom being a spy was the dumbest idea HER has had since RAN.
17. Rolfe Kessler (CAR)
I’m sorry that neither your wife nor your era could handle your mental illness.
16. The Forgery Ring (LIE)
I love the culprit in this game, but everyone’s first clue that they weren’t a real theater troupe should’ve been their requirement to solve complex puzzles to do a goddamn set change. Hire a prop manager to keep all those dumb pieces in order.
15. Charlotte Thornton (GTH)
The audacity of entrusting a vital clue to finding her will to an approximately five-year-old child just proves that Charlotte was not fit to run the family business. It’s hard to like her when all she does is murder me while I am actively avenging her.
14. Jin Soo Seung (MED)
I don’t know how or why Sonny’s grandpa hid these artifact pieces all over this specific area of New Zealand. Unfortunately, I am one of those people who loves Sonny Joon enough to put up with a fair amount of bullshit.
13. Captain Lawrence (SEA)
Like the Penvellyns, it is amazing that his treasure-hiding gambit was even marginally successful. However, that skeleton hands post helps him skate all the way to spot #13 on my list.
12. Brendan Malloy (HAU)
His double-agent scientist backstory is the only redeeming thing about this absurd game.
11. Noisette Tornade (DAN)
Great name, cool job, noble deeds, but did you need to lock me in the basement after I went to all the trouble of solving your encrypted clues?
10. Jake Rogers (SCK)
Jake Rogers decided to be a blackmail kingpin at the age of 17. Minus points for being skeevy about Connie (her secret is that she can beat the shit out of you, dude, please have more foresight), props for sheer ballsiness. Is he the one who left all the weird rhyming clues everywhere in SCK1? Because if so he would shoot up at least five spots.
9. Penvellyn Family (CUR)
Props for dedicating their lives to continuing this convoluted, pointless gambit. It’s just impressive none of them fucked it up over the last few centuries. However: if the point was for your family members to solve an elaborate series of puzzles to find the treasure, why trap them in a box to suffocate at the end?
8. Darryl Trent (CAR)
He clearly made a lot of poor decisions in his life, but leaving his daughter a baffling robot to remember him by makes up for most of them.
7. Jake Hurley (TRN)
I need a private sadness train with a mystical gemstone contraption, like, yesterday.
6. Bruno Bolet (CRY)
What a fucking weirdo. If it weren’t for the crystal skull thing he might rank higher, because all of his other obsessions are positively delightful.
5. Josiah Crowley (CLK)
I have a bunch of nerdy internet friends who use nicknames for each other, so I appreciate his group of radio Mechanicals. Also disguising yourself in drag to mess with your friends and neighbors is hilarious. Truly a man ahead of his time.
4. Niko Jovic (DED)
Turns out that he was kind of an asshole, but I’ve got to love him for the steampunk lair he built under a privately-owned facility.
3. Dirk Valentine (SHA)
If I were Frances Humber, I would’ve left Shadow Ranch the day after I met Dirk and had like eleven outlaw babies with this king of romance.
2. Hilda Swenson (DDI)
When I’m a bored widow, I hope I become so disillusioned with the rest of the world that I fuck off and force anyone who wants to talk to me to solve a bunch of puzzles I scattered around my old town.
1. Mickey Malone (DOG)
All I aspire to be is a 1920s gangster who owns a private speakeasy under my cabin in the woods and hangs out with my four giant dogs whom I adore.
has anyone considered that perhaps minette is autistic and that’s why she’s always having meltdowns over things that seem inconsequential to other people. and instead of being diagnosed with ASD, she’s probably been diagnosed with a myriad of other disorders but traditional treatment hasn’t gone well with her so she has resorted to a tea therapist because at least this person is willing to listen to her very specific preferences and reactions to various stimuli
25 ND OUTFITS CHALLENGE: day 3, your favorite game from 11-21
minette and her tea, from danger by design.
I’ll be honest, it was really hard to pick a favorite from this set of games, but i really do love minette, and the music and atmosphere of DAN can’t be beat imo.
from the 1930s onward, europe was awash in the dramatic events of world war ii. france surrendered to german conquerors in june of 1940, but french involvement in the international conflict was far from over. the germans installed a vichy puppet government in a concentrated area of the nation without much outward protest.
however, some brave souls organized themselves into a coalition known as the french resistance (la résistance française) to rebel against their teutonic captors. though some resistors (called “maquis”) were more violent, aspiring to hurt and even kill germans, others were more proactive in the war effort. these men and women endeavored to break enemy codes, pass helpful information along to the allies, and disrupt german militant communication.
though much credit is given to ally troops for liberating france on june 6, 1944 (”d-day”), french resistance fighters were actually instrumental in freeing themselves from german control.
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