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Post by omega on Oct 8, 2016 1:07:19 GMT
Portrait of Angelique BouchardIt was discovered in a Collinsport antique shop by Victoria Winters, who felt drawn to it. She purchased it and displayed it in the drawing room at Collinwood, where it held a strange influence over Roger Collins. Barnabas Collins attempted to destroy the portrait, but it returned unharmed. Acting against Angelique, or Cassandra as she was calling herself now, Barnabas stole the portrait and hired local artist Sam evens to alter it, aging the image of Angelique. This had the same effect on the person, who blinded Sam in revenge reclaiming it. This object is similar to the famous Picture of Dorian Gray from the Oscar Wilde novel, an inspiration also used with the Portrait of Quentin Collins. The picture itself and the subject depicted are linked, the picture reflecting its subject and hold an influence over them. Barnabas was able to make his strongest attack against Angelique through her portrait
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Post by silverednickle on Oct 8, 2016 15:59:43 GMT
The Collinsport FlyThis fly made frequent appearances during the show, plaguing murderous vampires, ritualistic chants, dead corpses, and even the occasional romantic scene. While uncredited, the fly showed up through several parts of the series. It and several hundred relations made an appearance in Big Finish's Curse of Shurafa.
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Post by Zagreus on Oct 8, 2016 17:10:06 GMT
Dammit I was gonna do the fly next hahah. Will have to think of something else. Can we do stuff from the audio lineage?
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Post by barnabaslives on Oct 8, 2016 18:19:39 GMT
Julia Hoffman's Notebook. The red leather notebook contains Julia's notes on her experiments to treat Barnabas' vampirism. Dr. Woodward learns of its existence while eavesdropping (338) and steals it from Julia's room at Collinwood (339). The notebook is subsequently recovered, and later Julia tries to use it as insurance against Barnabas plotting her untimely demise (356) by placing the notebook in the safekeeping of a new acquaintance, attorney Tony Peterson (358). Carolyn, under Barnabas' influence, is instructed to steal the notebook from Tony's safe (358) but is caught in the act by Tony. Carolyn tries to convince Tony that Julia wants to use the contents of the notebook to blackmail Elizabeth but Julia manages to dissuade him (362-363).
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Post by barnabaslives on Oct 8, 2016 20:35:19 GMT
Dammit I was gonna do the fly next hahah. Will have to think of something else. Can we do stuff from the audio lineage? Good question! Also, I'm wondering if there's a limit on size or multiplicity of artifacts but I'm not quite sure how to ask without getting way too silly. I'm guessing it's a safe bet that I can't claim the Collinwood mansion itself as an artifact (well, it's certainly iconic) :-) but no less than 3 stairways and a big pile of unitemized lab equipment that once belonged to Dr. Eric Lang all seem to think they deserve a place on my list. Are they overestimating the capacity of the British Museum? :-)
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Post by Zagreus on Oct 9, 2016 17:46:38 GMT
Well on that note... The Crimson Pearl"Wait, hold on... is that... The Crimson Pearl?"
~Dorain Gray, c2600“It’s as if Lucifer plucked out one of his own eyes...”
~Captain Malloy, 1690A blood-red pearl, found on-deck by Isaac Collins after a freak blizzard during the crossing from England in 1690, it became a lesser-known, but still prized, family heirloom. It was passed around, gifted between family members, friends, and strangers over the generations, but always made its way back into the hands of the Collins family. Those who owned it seemed to be, for a time, blessed with good fortune and prosperous whispers. Held onto too long, however, the pearl's whispers were said to grow dark, and the fortunes it supposedly brought turned to dust.
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Post by gregm on Oct 9, 2016 20:33:45 GMT
Dammit I was gonna do the fly next hahah. Will have to think of something else. Can we do stuff from the audio lineage? Yes, of course! It'd be odd to exclude audio matters on a forum that is substantially about Big Finish...
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Post by gregm on Oct 9, 2016 20:57:17 GMT
I go away for a weekend and forget about this thread, so one less object from me. Monday morning (Australia time) and it's time for... Laura Collins' locketWhen they married, Roger Collins presented Laura with a locket that was a family heirloom. It closely resembles, and may actually be, a locket owned by Josette Collins (and pictured in the book of the Collins family history). The charred locket was found in the ruins of Laura's home in Arizona, which had burned down, and yet Laura still had it with her, undamaged, after she returned to Collinwood to try to reclaim David and take him with her. She had kept a lock of David's hair in the locket from when he was a baby. Ultimately, Laura's attempt to use David in her phoenix rebirth was foiled by Victoria Winters (and the ghost of Josette Collins), and Laura apparently perished in a fire. Whether the locket survived that burning is unknown.
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Post by gregm on Oct 10, 2016 20:09:54 GMT
Angelique Bouchard's ouanga
A ouanga is a voodoo charm in the form of a small bag containing items. Angelique's mother, Cymbeline, gave her daughter a ouanga contain the skull of a snake as a protective amulet, and Angelique added other precious items to it over the years - a moonstone, given to her by a youthful Barnabas Collins, and a lock of hair from her friend Chloe (who was killed by Angelique's father). Angelique wore her ouanga around her neck. As Angelique learned witchcraft, she would use the ouanga as a focus for her magic, rather than drawing on her link to the Dark Spirit. This continued up until the time she was at Collinwood as the servant of Josette DuPres. After Angelique cursed Barnabas to become one of the living dead and found that the vampire Barnabas still rejected her love and strangled her, Angelique again met with the Dark Spirit. The Dark Spirit led her to the underworld and all her belongings, including the ouanga, were discarded as part of the ritual where Angelique entered fully into the service of the Dark Spirit.
Note: Durin her time on Martinique, Angelique would prepare ouangas for others, often as love charms. These are ouangas are not the same as he ouanga described above.
(The ouanga appears in the novel Angelique's Descent.)
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Post by Zagreus on Oct 10, 2016 20:40:09 GMT
Can I recommend that the list in the first post that keeps getting updated actually link back to each of the posts with the items in question?
Also this would make a neat coffee-table book.
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Post by gregm on Oct 10, 2016 20:52:14 GMT
Can I recommend that the list in the first post that keeps getting updated actually link back to each of the posts with the items in question? Also this would make a neat coffee-table book. Of course you can make any suggestion you like. I'm guessing there is someway to link to a post (hadn't thought about it) but will work out how to do it and follow your suggestion later today.
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Post by Zagreus on Oct 10, 2016 21:11:39 GMT
Can I recommend that the list in the first post that keeps getting updated actually link back to each of the posts with the items in question? Also this would make a neat coffee-table book. Of course you can make any suggestion you like. I'm guessing there is someway to link to a post (hadn't thought about it) but will work out how to do it and follow your suggestion later today. In the dropdown from the little gear/cog icon in the upper right of each post there is a "link to this post" option.
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Post by barnabaslives on Oct 10, 2016 22:27:05 GMT
Amanda Harris' Brooch. Charles Delaware Tate imagines a piece of jewelry and paints a picture of it - then is astonished to discover upon meeting Amanda Harris that she is wearing a brooch identical to it, which Tim Shaw has just purchased for her from the jewelers Ezra Braithwaite & Sons (822).
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Post by omega on Oct 11, 2016 4:11:14 GMT
Victoria Winters's zodiac bracelet. A bracelet decorated with the signs of the Zodiac, Victoria Winters was wearing it when she took part in a seance that transported her from 1968 to 1795. While she didn't wear the bracelet during the period she spent with that era of the Collins family, Victoria did retain possession of it. Abigail Collins and the Countess Natalie DuPres discovered it while searching Victoria's room for the clothes she arrived in, determining it as enough evidence of witchcraft to summon the witch finder Reverend Trask. After Trask's arrival and Victoria was arrested on suspicion of witchcraft, the bracelet was used as evidence in her trial. Unable to explain how she had obtained it without bringing up her time travel, the testimony played a part in her conviction for practicing witchcraft.
The bracelet was stored in the courthouse after the trial until 1968, where Joe Haskell discovered it and returned it to Victoria, who had returned to the 20th century, provoking the return of unpleasant memories for her.
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Post by barnabaslives on Oct 11, 2016 19:52:24 GMT
Lilacs. The scent of lilacs, or on occasion the actual flowers themselves, were calling cards of the ghost of Daphne Harridge. The Dark Shadows Almanac (Mill. Ed.) notes that "It was also established in Episode 657 that lilac was Victoria Winters' perfume".
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Post by gregm on Oct 11, 2016 20:24:56 GMT
Rose Cottage dollhouseA dollhouse was found by David Collins and Hallie Stokes in a playroom in Collinwood's west wing. It was actually a replica of Rose Cottage, a house on the Collins Estate that had been destroyed in mysterious circumstances in 1840 and forgotten, although Quentin Collins did have a vague memory of it. The dollhouse held a fascination for David and Hallie, who would sometimes act oddly and call themselves Tad and Carrie after being near it. Tad Collins and Carrie Stokes lived in the original Rose Cottage in 1840, along with Flora Collins, her son Desmond, Gerard Stiles, Leticia Faye and Daphne Harridge (governess to Tad and Carrie). The ghosts of Gerard and Daphne were responsible for linking Tad and Carrie to David and Hallie, and eventually drew David and Hallie's spirits to 1840 through the dollhouse, and caused the spirits of Tad and Carrie to possess the bodies of the children in 1970. The mystery around the destruction of Rose Cottage, and the possession of David and Hallie, was resolved by Barnabas Collins and Julia Hoffman travelling to a number of different times through use of the I Ching wands and the staircase into time to prevent the destruction of Collinwood in 1971 and the false 1995 future, where they were told by the insane Carolyn Stoddard that 'the night Rose Cottage was destroyed' was one of the events that led to Collinwood's destruction.
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Post by gregm on Oct 11, 2016 20:26:50 GMT
Rose Cottage dollhouseA dollhouse was found by David Collins and Hallie Stokes in a playroom in Collinwood's west wing. It was actually a replica of Rose Cottage, a house on the Collins Estate that had been destroyed in mysterious circumstances in 1840 and forgotten, although Quentin Collins (who was alive back in 1840) did remember it. The dollhouse held a fascination for David and Hallie, who would sometimes act oddly and call themselves Tad and Carrie after being near it. Tad Collins and Carrie Stokes lived in the original Rose Cottage in 1840, along with Flora Collins, her son Carl, Gerard Stiles, Leticia Faye and Daphne Harridge (governess to Tad and Carrie). The ghosts of Gerard and Daphne were responsible for linking Tad and Carrie to David and Hallie, and eventually drew David and Hallie's spirits to 1840 through the dollhouse, and caused the spirits of Tad and Carrie to possess the bodies of the children in 1970. The mystery around the destruction of Rose Cottage, and the possession of David and Hallie, was resolved by Barnaba Collins and Julia Hoffman travelling to a number of different times through use of the I Ching wands and the staircase into time to prevent the destruction of Collinwood in 1971 and the false 1995 future, where they were told by the insane Carolyn Stoddard that 'the night Rose Cottage was destroyed' was one of the events that led to Collinwood's destruction. And if you think that sounds confusing, wait til you watch the episodes!
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Post by Trace on Oct 12, 2016 3:00:05 GMT
Rose Cottage dollhouseA dollhouse was found by David Collins and Hallie Stokes in a playroom in Collinwood's west wing. It was actually a replica of Rose Cottage, a house on the Collins Estate that had been destroyed in mysterious circumstances in 1840 and forgotten, although Quentin Collins (who was alive back in 1840) did remember it. The dollhouse held a fascination for David and Hallie, who would sometimes act oddly and call themselves Tad and Carrie after being near it. Tad Collins and Carrie Stokes lived in the original Rose Cottage in 1840, along with Flora Collins, her son Carl, Gerard Stiles, Leticia Faye and Daphne Harridge (governess to Tad and Carrie). The ghosts of Gerard and Daphne were responsible for linking Tad and Carrie to David and Hallie, and eventually drew David and Hallie's spirits to 1840 through the dollhouse, and caused the spirits of Tad and Carrie to possess the bodies of the children in 1970. The mystery around the destruction of Rose Cottage, and the possession of David and Hallie, was resolved by Barnaba Collins and Julia Hoffman travelling to a number of different times through use of the I Ching wands and the staircase into time to prevent the destruction of Collinwood in 1971 and the false 1995 future, where they were told by the insane Carolyn Stoddard that 'the night Rose Cottage was destroyed' was one of the events that led to Collinwood's destruction. If the original Rose Cottage was destroyed in 1840, then it wasn't our (1897/present day) Quentin that recalls it, as he wasn't born yet in 1840. That was the FIRST Quentin Collins. Also, Flora's son's name is Desmond, not Carl. (Not trying to be "nitpicky", just making minor corrections--even though it SOUNDS like I'm being nitpicky!)
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Post by gregm on Oct 12, 2016 5:07:02 GMT
If the original Rose Cottage was destroyed in 1840, then it wasn't our (1897/present day) Quentin that recalls it, as he wasn't born yet in 1840. That was the FIRST Quentin Collins. Also, Flora's son's name is Desmond, not Carl. (Not trying to be "nitpicky", just making minor corrections--even though it SOUNDS like I'm being nitpicky!) All good. I can readily see where the error arises from - John Karlen playing both Carl and Desmond, and Carl being the more memorable plus having an easy association (Carl/Karlen) for me. Carl was also Quentin's brother, hence making it seem like "our" Quentin rather than the earlier Quentin to my memory. There's bound to be an issue when there's a bit of a questionable production decision to have two characters with the same name played by a single actor. I'm not even sure that the writers weren't confused - why would "our" Quentin recognise a drawing of Rose Cottage if it was destroyed. Perhaps Quentin had seen something about Rose Cottage as a child? Or was the destruction of Rose Cottage overwritten by Barnabas and Julia's prevention of the 1995 future? It'd take a rewatch of a large chunk of episodes to sort that out, I think! I'll make some changes to my original entry to fix. Also: Just relistened to Return to Collinwood - I had forgotten that Elizabeth left Rose Cottage to "Cassandra".
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Post by barnabaslives on Oct 12, 2016 6:00:42 GMT
I'm not even sure that the writers weren't confused - why would "our" Quentin recognise a drawing of Rose Cottage if it was destroyed. Perhaps Quentin had seen something about Rose Cottage as a child? Or was the destruction of Rose Cottage overwritten by Barnabas and Julia's prevention of the 1995 future? It'd take a rewatch of a large chunk of episodes to sort that out, I think! I ended up with the impression that Quentin II is the reincarnation of Quentin I and has begun to remember things from the earlier life, being that one of things I think Quentin II remembers from Quentin I's life was supposed to be Daphne? I think there's a part where he more or less confirms that (although I'm not very certain if I still have that quest to recover memories sorted out from Grant Douglas' bout with amnesia and don't seem to have a family tree with dates handy to double check if that's historically possible). There's also a part in the story where Quentin II in the present is invoking some serious countermagic that might make one think it's something he could may have picked up in a past life. It's quite the incantation that he seem to just so happen to know somehow. Whether or not Rose Cottage was destroyed is another one I'm foggy on but I seem to recall there being one attempt that was averted or abandoned, so maybe that was subject to intervention along with other things? Hmmm, sounds like I'm indeed due for a rewatch :-)
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