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AIUK was deep into the licensed adventure game world, but when I spoke to Mike Woodroffe about this a couple of years ago he claimed that it was more of a coincidence: he and Elvira had the same talent agent! I'm not sure what a software designer needs with a talent agent though. HorrorSoft was their next iteration as you pointed out, thanks in part to their licensing deal with Elvira but I don't know which came first. You played 'Seas of Blood' some time ago which was from the same company. They localized the Scott Adams-published games and released a number of their own such that they outlasted their originator. The origin of the company was 'Adventure International UK', the international franchise of Scott Adams's US-based 'Adventure International'. You asked why they used the generic 'AdventureSoft' after this and the answer is more about what they did before rather than later. Most of this stuff will end up in my inventory.

I walk out of the room with a scarab beetle brooch (found in a chest), a dagger, a lamp, a bowl, a beaker, a stylus and ink block, two pieces of papyrus, three baskets, six jugs, a jar of oil, and a mat.

I hope there's no limit to my inventory, then.

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The manual says that 'Drop' is supposed to be an object action when I click on an object, but it never appears. Clicking and dragging them back to the environment doesn't help.

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At this point, I realize that I can't figure out how to drop things. I do it anyway, mostly because I want to see if the 16 items the window holds are all I get, or whether it scrolls. Unlike Elvira II, there's no spell system here that's going to make use of all these items, so there's probably no point in loading up my inventory.

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The room is full of baskets, jugs, pitchers, and other objects, and it turns out that, just as in Elvira II, you can pick up just about everything. Determined to lift the curse, Boris also funded a dig at Vlad's castle in Walachia and recovered a crystal ball from the impaled corpse of Ixona. It was these very individuals that Uncle Boris chose to populate his waxworks. Generations later, other twins in the family included Torquemada, the Marquis de Sade, and a female witch burned at the stake in Salem. In retaliation, he chopped off her hand, for which Ixona cursed the family: 'In every generation in which your family bears twins, one shall belong to Beelzebub.' The curse nearly immediately came true, when one twin son of the family became Vlad IV of Walachia, or Vlad the Impaler, who lived up to his name by tracking down and impaling the witch. The protagonist remembers a tale that Uncle Boris once told, about a family ancestor who caught a witch named Ixona stealing one of his chickens.

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