This is part two of my Dracula’s Riddle Walkthrough.  If you’re looking for part one, you can find it here.

Solving this riddle is beginning to turn into an ongoing saga – mostly due to my short attention span.  If you haven’t read my previous blog regarding this (can’t really blame you, it’s LONG), Dracula’s Riddle is a challenging online riddle game that I am determined to finish.  If you’re up for a challenge (and can get past the gothic cheesiness) I highly suggest giving it a go.

Level 37: The Eastlands – “The Eastlands seem gloomy in the dusk, but something is displaced”. To solve this level, we need to figure out what is displaced in the image.  A big clue to this can be found in the page source – “the hideous shadows lie dark and mysterious over the lands”.  On the image is a misty compass, with the letter E showing us the direction of East.  After a bit of logical thinking I realised that if it were dusk (like the clue says), the sun would be setting in the West and the shadow of that skeleton-like tree should be falling to the East.  If the shadows are wrong, then thesun is what is displaced.

Level 38: Aljiba Woods – This level is really simple once you clock on to the method.  Each of the words on the image (Nosferatu, ocean, Cathedral, autumn, murder and fury) have a single letter highlighted in a colour.  The progression of coloured dashes below the image give you the order that these letters are to be placed to solve the riddle.  If you assemble the letters from the words on the image in the order specified, all you get is gibberish.  The catch is the clue “there are words of equal importance”.   We need to find synonyms of the words and use those to form the word.  Autumn = fall, ocean = sea, Cathedral = church, fury = rage, Nosferatu = vampire and murder = kill; which gives us our answer, laurel.

Level 39: Yuba Lake – At last, an easy level!  The important clue in this level is under the image – “reality has been twisted, time has been distorted… Horrors within the limits of your imagination… Yet you are perfectly safe”.  This clue is referring to the safety of dreams; where time and reality are distorted and the only limit is your imagination.  The answer to this level is nightmare.  As a point of interest, the transition between waking and sleeping is called hypnagogia and some people experience sleep paralysis while in this state.  Sufferers of sleep paralysis can experience the sensation of pressure on their chest and inability to breathe, which gave birth to folklore such as the Old Hag.