If Pete Abred and Loretta Jenkins are Ghosts of Raven’s Cove, how did they manage to leave the island after death only to be found and brought back to the Cove by pirates? If they’re able to, does that mean the other Ghosts can do the same? I’m fairly certain El Patron and anyone associated with him cannot, as they are bound to the Mines, but that still leaves many questions about the townsfolk.
The crashed ship near the mineshaft elevator apparently belonged to Robert Bistol, the late husband of Loretta, but his spirt has yet to be seen. Is it possible that he somehow survived?
The colors of Ghosts do little to help solve these mysteries. It’s possible that green are for those who are innocent and never took a life, but Old Sooty was a cannoneer. He most certainly blew people to smithereens. Doctor Belrog and Kudgel are also not our friends by any means, but I suppose their professions as a professor and a Navy soldier respectively make them more innocent.
Orange is given to El Patron’s crew and Captain Cromwell, all of whom were cutthroats, murderers, and looters. Obviously, their selfish traits carried over, but note that Captain Walter appeared as an orange ghost at one of the last Story Times in the original game before it closed. He was initially blue, so what does this mean? Was our good Captain succumbing to darkness?
Red is for those who felt sorrow and rage after death, and let it consume them. Obviously this would be over a grudge towards Roger and Beckett, so why wouldn’t Widow Threadbarren become a Rage Ghost? Obviously she’s extremely vindictive, demanding you sink many ships in Jolly’s fleet as a form of vengeance, yet she is a green ghost.
The black ghosts such as Foublerto, Cicatriz, El Patron, and his other lieutenants are likely those who were directly affected by the “Evil Curse of Doom” from El Patron’s weapons. This does not bode well for anyone who completed the Raven’s Cove Story Quest if it means we will suffer the same fate.
The most baffling of all, however, are the blue Ghosts. The other Ghost GMs I mentioned took on this blue form, and so did Captain Walter after his death. What does this mean? Perhaps blue is simply the color of lost souls who needed others (in this case, us) to guide them. Alternatively, they could be those who have unfinished business. Constance Sorrow and John Moses were reunited by pirates, and they passed on to the afterlife together. It is important to note that these two were not from Raven’s Cove. Constance’s spirit persisted after death because of her grief for John when he was unjustly hanged. His spirit was freed when pirates slew his undead self, which had been enslaved by Jolly Roger. Once they were together again, they moved on, as the reason they had been kept in the mortal world had been resolved.
The same could be said for Captain Walter. He could not pass out because he appeared before us telling pirates to help the Marceline Guild “find the truth.” His business with Rott and the others was not complete. We never found out what this “truth” was before the game closed, so he never passed on. I suspect it had something to do with the duel he lost against Rott.
The last blue Ghosts are the ally Traitor Ghosts, who hid one of the idols sealing El Patron away so that his evil could never escape the Mines. My theory is that they felt responsible for the atrocities their Captain committed, so they tried to do the right thing by ensuring no one else was harmed. Once we help them and take the idol from them, they disappear for good. They likely knew hat we intended to defeat El Patron, and they could pass on happily knowing that their vigilant watch over the Mines was at an end, for we would put an end to Humberto Diaz’s torment.
There are holes in these explanations, but until they are filled, this is the best I can do. Are there any contradictions I missed?
