Well, you could replace the comma after Lord Vrul with a period, and you'd be correct. In fact, I'm not sure that my comma there is correct, now that I look at it again.
"Blast! Does anyone have a spare battery?" is the complete quote. So even when it's interrupted by extraneous information, it retains its "original" punctuation and capitalization within the quotation marks. said Lord Vrul is parenthetical information that interrupts the entire quote. It can't stand on its own as a sentence, so it's not capitalized.
"Blast!" said Lord Vrul.can stand as a complete sentence, so if you want to end it with a period, that's fine. Then "Does anyone ..." is clearly its own sentence, and therefore takes a capital.
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Date: 2007-12-18 07:49 pm (UTC)"Blast! Does anyone have a spare battery?" is the complete quote. So even when it's interrupted by extraneous information, it retains its "original" punctuation and capitalization within the quotation marks. said Lord Vrul is parenthetical information that interrupts the entire quote. It can't stand on its own as a sentence, so it's not capitalized.
"Blast!" said Lord Vrul. can stand as a complete sentence, so if you want to end it with a period, that's fine. Then "Does anyone ..." is clearly its own sentence, and therefore takes a capital.
Good questions.