Rather than using a separate board to track Dracula's movements, Dracula uses a trail of face-down cards, each representing a location on the board. Only his six previous locations can contain any encounters. As he moves along the map, the oldest location moves further down the track until it reaches the seventh position, where Dracula can "mature" the encounter or discard it. Maturing the encounter will have varying effects depending on the encounter itself - it could discarded without effect or in the case of vampires, increase the Vampire track by two, bringing Dracula closer to winning the game.