If you check the map in the basement, you're able to speak with Carol about the sacrifice. Not that you need to check the map, but there is a spider icon showing that the player can speak with her. I guess you already figured that out, though!
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ok, if that's the solution then i think i definitely encountered a bug, and I'm not just talking about the spiders (which technically aren't even bugs, but i digress). Whenever i talked to Carol after getting the girl to her the only dialogue i got was about having a girl's night and them having a less transaction-based relationship, nothing about a sacrifice.
I tried recreating the issue, but everything worked as expected:
- Waited for the girl to crash outside the house, brought her to Carol
- Made it to 10PM, got Bat-Son to help place Rudolph on altar
- Went to the kitchen and took the empty wine glass
- Headed to the basement, spoke to Carol, and was given blood for the ritual regardless of which item slot the glass was in
- Used blood on Rudolph at the altar
- Triggered 11PM and game continued as normal
I also tried completing the Don sidequest before speaking with Carol, and she still offered to fill the glass. Is there anything I did differently that you can think of?
Wanna say upfront that I appreciate your thoroughness and dedication to your craft for taking the time bothering with this, and i hope it isn't too frustrating that i'm a bit uncertain on the order i did things as i was kinda just poking around everywhere and seeing as much as i could find. If i had to guess i think the most likely thing that screwed things up for me is that as far as i recall when i went to the kitchen and saw the sparkles over the cabinet i went through two interactions before they disappeared, picking up the chalice and making the fried rat (the 1st one, i believe) . I may have not talked to carol again until after I'd completed the feeding rat mission(s). Also, and i don't know if this would affect things at all, but i know i probably took longer than most people to exorcise the toilet phantoms. I didn't realize i needed to get the hairpin blessed and died once for that, and then gave up for a bit when i got it blessed and still couldn't kill them cause i was pressing "enter" instead of "z". I only came back to them after either completing half or all of the rat feeding quests. Hope this helps.
NVM I just returned to a previous save state and was able to recreate the issue.
It just comes down to trying to find Rudolph after already bringing his body to the altar. It triggers the same cutscene we saw before (definitely an unintended bug). Before triggering this bug, the help text on the items menu talks about bringing him back to life, and talking to Carol triggers the cutscene where she gives you the blood. After the bug, it changes the text to "we have everything we need", and talking to Carol triggers the "girls night" dialogue and it's impossible to collect the blood.
Hope this helps!
This was a bug that never got resolved, so thank you very much for the info! I will look into it soon.
I tried to make sure the game was fully polished before release, but clearly didn't find every issue. I'll at least make sure this gets fully resolved for the cartridge release, but there will probably be an update to the web version before that, too.