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* TheVerse: This series and ''TheShivah'' share some elements. Rosangela contacted Rabbi Zelig, presumably for an obituary. Lauren speaks to a younger Sam Durkin in ''Unbound''. Sharming Fashion is mentioned in ''Convergence''. Both games have spam e-mails by Tomo. Then in ''Deception'' it turns out that Rajshree Lauder contacted Rosa to see if her husband's ghost was still around.
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* TheVerse: This series and ''TheShivah'' share some elements. Rosangela contacted Rabbi Zelig, presumably for an obituary. Lauren speaks to a younger Sam Durkin makes appearances in ''Unbound''.''Unbound'' and ''Convergence'' and is slated to return in ''Epiphany''. Sharming Fashion is mentioned in ''Convergence''. Both games have spam e-mails by Tomo. Then in ''Deception'' it turns out that Rajshree Lauder contacted Rosa to see if her husband's ghost was still around.
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* ArtShift: The graphic design changes quite a bit from game to game. David Gilbert has called it a RunningGag on the commentary track, and that told he especially likes the idea of giving the portal to the Realm of Infinity a new interpretation in every game.
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* ArtShift: The graphic design changes quite a bit from game to game. David Dave Gilbert has called it a RunningGag on the commentary track, and that told he especially likes the idea of giving the portal to the Realm of Infinity a new interpretation in every game.
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So far the series spans four games, with a fifth in the works: ''The Blackwell Legacy'', ''Blackwell Unbound'', ''The Blackwell Convergence'', and ''Blackwell Deception''. Check them out [[http://wadjeteyegames.com/ here]]. There's also a couple [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoSaJfgxwf4 promotional]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPn7gnzeG2k cartoons]].
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* ''Blackwell
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* ''Blackwell Epiphany'' (Currently in development, 2013)
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* CompleteMonster: Gavin, hands-down. He's [[spoiler: kept himself alive for [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 200 years]] by feeding on the happiness of others.]]
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* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis:Rosa tries to do this and, as of Deception, has a book out. It's not very popular.
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* CompleteMonster: Gavin, hands-down. He's [[spoiler: kept himself alive for [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 200 years]] by feeding on the happiness of others.]]
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* ShoutOut: Rosa publishes her exploits as fiction, just like a [[VideoGame/GabrielKnight certain writer from New Orleans]].
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A series of independent {{Adventure Game}}s created by one [[http://nygamedev.blogspot.com/ Dave Gilbert]], and Creator/WadjetEyeGames Gilbert]] of Creator/WadjetEyeGames, which features supernatural mystery solving and a unconventional inventory system.
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A series of independent {{Adventure Game}}s created by one [[http://nygamedev.blogspot.com/ Dave Gilbert]], and Creator/WadjetEyeGames which features supernatural mystery solving and a unconventional inventory system.
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** Not to mention the whole soundtrack is reeking of depressiveness. Joey's partnership with Lauren was NOT a happy one.
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* EasilyForgiven: OK, [[spoiler: Gavin]] is one hell of a smooth talker. And the mind control implications do help. Still, Joey forgives Rosangela way too easily after [[spoiler: what she tried to do to him in ''Deception''. Read: [[AndIMustScream eternity in nothingness, alone.]]]]
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The main characters are the introverted unwilling medium, Rosangela Blackwell, and her family's guide to the world beyond, Joey Mallone, a ghost with a MysteriousPast. And together they must help the restless and bodiless souls of New York to move on the next plane of existence, which is rarely an easy task.
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The main characters are the introverted unwilling medium, Rosangela Blackwell, and her family's guide to the world beyond, Joey Mallone, a ghost with a MysteriousPast. And together they must help the restless and bodiless souls of New York to move on to the next plane of existence, which is rarely an easy task.
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So far the series spans four games, with a fifth in the works: ''The Blackwell Legacy'', ''Blackwell Unbound'', ''The Blackwell Convergence'', and ''Blackwell Deception''. Check them out [[http://wadjeteyegames.com/ here]].
here]]. There's also a couple [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoSaJfgxwf4 promotional]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPn7gnzeG2k cartoons]].
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So far the series spans five games (so far): four games, with a fifth in the works: ''The Blackwell Legacy'', ''Blackwell Unbound'', ''The Blackwell Convergence'', and ''Blackwell Deception''. Check them out [[http://wadjeteyegames.com/ here]].
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So far the series spans five games (so far): ''The Blackwell Legacy'', ''Blackwell Unbound'', ''The Blackwell Convergence'', and''Blackwell and ''Blackwell Deception''. Check them out [[http://wadjeteyegames.com/ here]].
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So far the series spans four games: five games (so far): ''The Blackwell Legacy'', ''Blackwell Unbound'' and Unbound'', ''The Blackwell Convergence''. The latest game, ''Blackwell Deception'', has just been released.Convergence'', and''Blackwell Deception''. Check them out [[http://wadjeteyegames.com/ here]].
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[[caption-width-right:337: Rosa (left) and Joey (right). [[TheyFightCrime They lay the dead to rest.]]]]
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* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler: When Joey says that it's a bad idea for Lauren to get back in touch with her brother, he means it. This shifts the ending from [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet]] closer to [[DownerEnding Downer]].]]
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* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler: When Joey says that it's a bad idea for Lauren to get back in touch with her brother, he means it. This shifts the ending from [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet]] {{Bittersweet|Ending}} closer to [[DownerEnding Downer]].{{Downer|Ending}}.]]
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* ShoutOut: Rosa publishes her exploits as fiction, just like a [[GabrielKnight certain writer from New Orleans]].
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* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:Picking a locked door with a paper clip]] in Blackwell Convergence.
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** Ignoring the spirit guide, or refusing to help the ghosts everywhere drives a medium insane. This is what doomed Patricia and Lauren Blackwell.
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A series of independent [[AdventureGame Adventure Games]] created by one [[http://nygamedev.blogspot.com/ Dave Gilbert]], which features supernatural mystery solving and a unconventional inventory system.
The main characters are the introverted unwilling medium, Rosangela Blackwell, and her family's guide to the world beyond, Joey Mallone, a ghost with a MysteriousPast. And together they must help the restless and bodiless souls of New York to move on the next plane of existence, which is rarely an easy task.
The series is technically a ContinuityReboot of a planned series of freeware games called ''Bestowers of Eternity'', of which only part one was released.
So far the series spans four games: ''The Blackwell Legacy'', ''Blackwell Unbound'' and ''The Blackwell Convergence''. The latest game, ''Blackwell Deception'', has just been released. Check them out [[http://wadjeteyegames.com/ here]].
See also ''TheShivah'' and ''VideoGame/GeminiRue''.
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!!The games use the following tropes:
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: All shots of New York are accurate or at least mostly accurate to the era they're shown in, except one. In ''Unbound'', the saxophone playing ghost is playing in a spot where the skyline of Manhattan is visible when it should not be. In the commentary, both the designer and the artist comment on it and claim artistic license that it looks nicer.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Ghosts are supposed to go into the realm of Infinity when they die. Some kind of afterlife is presumed to lie beyond that.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: The Countess, a medium who lost her spirit guide, now spends her days killing people who she identifies as being "in pain."]]
* BackFromTheDead
* BatmanColdOpen: ''Convergence'' and ''Deception''.
* BigApplesauce: All games take place in New York City. Of course, this is subverted when you learn that the designer is [[WriteWhatYouKnow a native New Yorker]].
* BlandNameProduct: Oogle, Rel Day Books, My Phone, etc.
* BlowYouAway: ...Sorta. Joey commands the power of light breezes. [[SarcasmMode Evildoers beware]].
* ButNowIMustGo: Getting a ghost to this point is the entire purpose of the Medium profession.
* ButThouMust: A medium who is cut off from their spirit guide or refuses to perform the task laid before them, will eventually go mad.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Rosa shows shades of this in ''Deception'' when Joey puts the mack on Jamie. Ostensibly, this was to get Jamie to realize she was dead, but there's no denying [[StillGotIt Joey enjoyed it.]]
* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler: Gavin hints that there's a greater organization at work apart from him, and if TheStinger at the end of Deception is any indication, people in power may be involved.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Unbound''. [[spoiler: You actually have to kill someone.]]
* DeadArtistsAreBetter: The antagonist of Convergence relies on this to make money.
* DeadPersonConversation
* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler: When Joey says that it's a bad idea for Lauren to get back in touch with her brother, he means it. This shifts the ending from [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet]] closer to [[DownerEnding Downer]].]]
* {{Flight}}: Joey can levitate high off the ground if he wishes. He rarely exploits this ability, however, since he has to stay within thirty feet of his medium at all times.
* EmotionEater: [[spoiler:Gavin.]]
* FieryRedhead: Lauren Blackwell, for certain. Rosa doesn't quite have the self-confidence to meet the trope, alas.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Alli Montego from ''Legacy''. Despite animals getting very restless around ghosts, she's able to examine a dog without it reacting, while ''being'' a ghost.
* GenderBlenderName: Adrian, Alex. [[spoiler: This is important.]]
* GhostAmnesia: Most ghosts don't realize they're dead, and have to be reminded before they can move on.
* GhostlyGoals: Even ghosts who DO know they've died sometimes refuse to pass before they've accomplished something specific.
* GoIntoTheLight[=/=]DisappearsIntoLight: There's a bright light in the realm of infinity. Rosangella invokes this trope to usher spirits into it.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:The Countess. Sealing away your spirit guide and then letting the Infinity fill into your own skull can do that to you]]
* HeroesWantRedheads: It's suggested that Joey has a more-than-platonic attachment to Lauren Blackwell, not that it does him much good.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: How Joey died.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mitchell_(writer) Joseph Mitchell]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gould_(Bohemian) Joe Gould]], complete with the unusual specifics such as Joseph Mitchell never writing anything after the 60's and Joe Gould composing his oral history.
* ISeeDeadPeople
* IntangibleMan: Common to all ghosts and used for several puzzles involving Joey.
* InvisibleToNormals: Only mediums, [[InvisibleToAdults babies,]] and animals can see ghosts.
* JacobMarleyApparel: Not limited to the clothes. If a ghost was specially attached to an object while s/he lived, s/he will carry around a ghostly version of it. [[spoiler: Sometimes the objects are still somewhat functional, such as saxophones, guns, and phones.]]
* LivingMemory: [[spoiler: The Countess has the memories of a homeless philosopher and a writer for the New Yorker dwelling with her own LivingMemory in a diner somewhere beyond Infinity. ItMakesSenseInContext.]]
* MadnessMantra: Look up Tomo on the Oogle web search
* MostWritersAreWriters: Rosa is a freelance writer by career.
* NoSocialSkills: Rosa, especially in the first game. She refuses to approach Nashanti while she's playing her flute in public, and her dialogue choices throughout often end up as a choice between "mean" and "passive-aggressive".
* ObliviousToLove: [[spoiler: Lauren does not at all recognize that Joey is in love with her (a fact which is confirmed by WordOfGod):]]
-->"Loved? Loved by who?"
* OffscreenTeleportation: In the commentary of ''Unbound'', the designer and the artist joke that this is probably the only way Lauren could get around New York so fast in one night. That, or a jetpack.
* OralFixationFixation: Lauren Blackwell is a hardcore chain smoker to the point where she does not only have an ashtray in every room, but also for all of her everyday activities that require two hands. She's also often in denial about her habit. She often claims that the cigarette she's currently on is her "last one of the night".
-->"During this game, Lauren smoked 38 cigarettes."
* OuijaBoard: They actually work. According to Joey, the results are aways bad.
* PoliceAreUseless: Naturally, when deaths start involving ghosts. It gets lampshaded a bit by Joey in ''Convergence'' when Rosa isn't charged with the murder of an artist despite the fact that she and the murdered were the only ones visibly present at the time. Also, Lauren apparently gets off scot-free for [[spoiler:killing the Countess]].
* {{Prequel}}: ''Blackwell Unbound''.
* PsychicPowers: Mediums don't get any of the flashy abilities associated with some psychics, but they can interact with ghosts in ways that are impossible for most people. [[spoiler: And some have other kinds of powers.]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Gavin]]
* SanityHasAdvantages: This being an adventure game series, out-thinking the neurotic spiritual (or spiritually neurotic) villains is what earns the Blackwell mediums their victories in every game thus far.
* ShoutOut: Rosa publishes her exploits as fiction, just like a [[GabrielKnight certain writer from New Orleans]].
* SpiritAdvisor: All mediums have one of these.
* TaughtByExperience: Joey, Lauren, and Rosa. Dialogue with another spirit guide (the only one besides Joey you ever encounter) suggests that, normally, mediums and spirit guides get a formal education from more experienced people, living and dead. Without a teacher and with nothing but instinct to go on, Joey has apparently developed some... [[IndyPloy unconventional]] talents as a spirit guide.
* UnfinishedBusiness: Ghosts who died in the middle of some activity may need to have that activity wrapped up before they'll notice how dead they are.
* TheVerse: This series and ''TheShivah'' share some elements. Rosangela contacted Rabbi Zelig, presumably for an obituary. Lauren speaks to a younger Sam Durkin in ''Unbound''. Sharming Fashion is mentioned in ''Convergence''. Both games have spam e-mails by Tomo. Then in ''Deception'' it turns out that Rajshree Lauder contacted Rosa to see if her husband's ghost was still around.
** Also, Rosangela's neighbor Nishanthi and Rajshree share the same maiden name, Sharma. And in ''The Shivah'', in the pub there's a certain redhead talking to someone who "isn't there".
* WhoYouGonnaCall: Rosangela decides to set up this sort of business at the end of ''Convergence'' and continues it in ''Deception'', complete with business cards.
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The main characters are the introverted unwilling medium, Rosangela Blackwell, and her family's guide to the world beyond, Joey Mallone, a ghost with a MysteriousPast. And together they must help the restless and bodiless souls of New York to move on the next plane of existence, which is rarely an easy task.
The series is technically a ContinuityReboot of a planned series of freeware games called ''Bestowers of Eternity'', of which only part one was released.
So far the series spans four games: ''The Blackwell Legacy'', ''Blackwell Unbound'' and ''The Blackwell Convergence''. The latest game, ''Blackwell Deception'', has just been released. Check them out [[http://wadjeteyegames.com/ here]].
See also ''TheShivah'' and ''VideoGame/GeminiRue''.
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!!The games use the following tropes:
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: All shots of New York are accurate or at least mostly accurate to the era they're shown in, except one. In ''Unbound'', the saxophone playing ghost is playing in a spot where the skyline of Manhattan is visible when it should not be. In the commentary, both the designer and the artist comment on it and claim artistic license that it looks nicer.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Ghosts are supposed to go into the realm of Infinity when they die. Some kind of afterlife is presumed to lie beyond that.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: The Countess, a medium who lost her spirit guide, now spends her days killing people who she identifies as being "in pain."]]
* BackFromTheDead
* BatmanColdOpen: ''Convergence'' and ''Deception''.
* BigApplesauce: All games take place in New York City. Of course, this is subverted when you learn that the designer is [[WriteWhatYouKnow a native New Yorker]].
* BlandNameProduct: Oogle, Rel Day Books, My Phone, etc.
* BlowYouAway: ...Sorta. Joey commands the power of light breezes. [[SarcasmMode Evildoers beware]].
* ButNowIMustGo: Getting a ghost to this point is the entire purpose of the Medium profession.
* ButThouMust: A medium who is cut off from their spirit guide or refuses to perform the task laid before them, will eventually go mad.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Rosa shows shades of this in ''Deception'' when Joey puts the mack on Jamie. Ostensibly, this was to get Jamie to realize she was dead, but there's no denying [[StillGotIt Joey enjoyed it.]]
* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler: Gavin hints that there's a greater organization at work apart from him, and if TheStinger at the end of Deception is any indication, people in power may be involved.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Unbound''. [[spoiler: You actually have to kill someone.]]
* DeadArtistsAreBetter: The antagonist of Convergence relies on this to make money.
* DeadPersonConversation
* DoomedByCanon: [[spoiler: When Joey says that it's a bad idea for Lauren to get back in touch with her brother, he means it. This shifts the ending from [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet]] closer to [[DownerEnding Downer]].]]
* {{Flight}}: Joey can levitate high off the ground if he wishes. He rarely exploits this ability, however, since he has to stay within thirty feet of his medium at all times.
* EmotionEater: [[spoiler:Gavin.]]
* FieryRedhead: Lauren Blackwell, for certain. Rosa doesn't quite have the self-confidence to meet the trope, alas.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Alli Montego from ''Legacy''. Despite animals getting very restless around ghosts, she's able to examine a dog without it reacting, while ''being'' a ghost.
* GenderBlenderName: Adrian, Alex. [[spoiler: This is important.]]
* GhostAmnesia: Most ghosts don't realize they're dead, and have to be reminded before they can move on.
* GhostlyGoals: Even ghosts who DO know they've died sometimes refuse to pass before they've accomplished something specific.
* GoIntoTheLight[=/=]DisappearsIntoLight: There's a bright light in the realm of infinity. Rosangella invokes this trope to usher spirits into it.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:The Countess. Sealing away your spirit guide and then letting the Infinity fill into your own skull can do that to you]]
* HeroesWantRedheads: It's suggested that Joey has a more-than-platonic attachment to Lauren Blackwell, not that it does him much good.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: How Joey died.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mitchell_(writer) Joseph Mitchell]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gould_(Bohemian) Joe Gould]], complete with the unusual specifics such as Joseph Mitchell never writing anything after the 60's and Joe Gould composing his oral history.
* ISeeDeadPeople
* IntangibleMan: Common to all ghosts and used for several puzzles involving Joey.
* InvisibleToNormals: Only mediums, [[InvisibleToAdults babies,]] and animals can see ghosts.
* JacobMarleyApparel: Not limited to the clothes. If a ghost was specially attached to an object while s/he lived, s/he will carry around a ghostly version of it. [[spoiler: Sometimes the objects are still somewhat functional, such as saxophones, guns, and phones.]]
* LivingMemory: [[spoiler: The Countess has the memories of a homeless philosopher and a writer for the New Yorker dwelling with her own LivingMemory in a diner somewhere beyond Infinity. ItMakesSenseInContext.]]
* MadnessMantra: Look up Tomo on the Oogle web search
* MostWritersAreWriters: Rosa is a freelance writer by career.
* NoSocialSkills: Rosa, especially in the first game. She refuses to approach Nashanti while she's playing her flute in public, and her dialogue choices throughout often end up as a choice between "mean" and "passive-aggressive".
* ObliviousToLove: [[spoiler: Lauren does not at all recognize that Joey is in love with her (a fact which is confirmed by WordOfGod):]]
-->"Loved? Loved by who?"
* OffscreenTeleportation: In the commentary of ''Unbound'', the designer and the artist joke that this is probably the only way Lauren could get around New York so fast in one night. That, or a jetpack.
* OralFixationFixation: Lauren Blackwell is a hardcore chain smoker to the point where she does not only have an ashtray in every room, but also for all of her everyday activities that require two hands. She's also often in denial about her habit. She often claims that the cigarette she's currently on is her "last one of the night".
-->"During this game, Lauren smoked 38 cigarettes."
* OuijaBoard: They actually work. According to Joey, the results are aways bad.
* PoliceAreUseless: Naturally, when deaths start involving ghosts. It gets lampshaded a bit by Joey in ''Convergence'' when Rosa isn't charged with the murder of an artist despite the fact that she and the murdered were the only ones visibly present at the time. Also, Lauren apparently gets off scot-free for [[spoiler:killing the Countess]].
* {{Prequel}}: ''Blackwell Unbound''.
* PsychicPowers: Mediums don't get any of the flashy abilities associated with some psychics, but they can interact with ghosts in ways that are impossible for most people. [[spoiler: And some have other kinds of powers.]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Gavin]]
* SanityHasAdvantages: This being an adventure game series, out-thinking the neurotic spiritual (or spiritually neurotic) villains is what earns the Blackwell mediums their victories in every game thus far.
* ShoutOut: Rosa publishes her exploits as fiction, just like a [[GabrielKnight certain writer from New Orleans]].
* SpiritAdvisor: All mediums have one of these.
* TaughtByExperience: Joey, Lauren, and Rosa. Dialogue with another spirit guide (the only one besides Joey you ever encounter) suggests that, normally, mediums and spirit guides get a formal education from more experienced people, living and dead. Without a teacher and with nothing but instinct to go on, Joey has apparently developed some... [[IndyPloy unconventional]] talents as a spirit guide.
* UnfinishedBusiness: Ghosts who died in the middle of some activity may need to have that activity wrapped up before they'll notice how dead they are.
* TheVerse: This series and ''TheShivah'' share some elements. Rosangela contacted Rabbi Zelig, presumably for an obituary. Lauren speaks to a younger Sam Durkin in ''Unbound''. Sharming Fashion is mentioned in ''Convergence''. Both games have spam e-mails by Tomo. Then in ''Deception'' it turns out that Rajshree Lauder contacted Rosa to see if her husband's ghost was still around.
** Also, Rosangela's neighbor Nishanthi and Rajshree share the same maiden name, Sharma. And in ''The Shivah'', in the pub there's a certain redhead talking to someone who "isn't there".
* WhoYouGonnaCall: Rosangela decides to set up this sort of business at the end of ''Convergence'' and continues it in ''Deception'', complete with business cards.
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