#taith talks

TaDC is inspired by I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, where a group of humans are tortured for eternity by a sadistic AI. The key differences are that Caine is a 'nice' ai, and he honestly likes the gang. (He still tortures them, because he can't understand humans and can't see that he's ignorantly evil)

"The Professor says that if we can so treat the Count's body, it will soon after fall into dust. In such case there would be no evidence against us, in case any suspicion of murder were aroused. But even if it were not, we should stand or fall by our act, and perhaps some day this very script may be evidence to come between some of us and a rope."

I'm again reminded why Dracula became (and remains) such a hit. The suitors and Van Helsing's days-long hunt of Lucy seems normal enough, to us who know of vampires now, but when the book was first released, Van Helsing would've come across as blasphemous and ungodly for what he asks of them. Something that's reflected in all the boys' reactions, and only slowly drawn away as pieces of evidence are shown, and rebutted, and reexamined, until finally they believe him - and then commit, and reach some measure of peace as Lucy is at last laid to rest.

"I implore your pardon, madam. have read your letters to poor Lucy, and know how good you are and how your husband suffer; so pray you, if it may be, enlighten him not, lest it may harm. Again your pardon, and forgive me."