perfunctory- done as a duty or routine but without much care or interest.
"we had a sort of perfunctory supper together and i think it cheered us all up somewhat" - Sewards Diary
there is an attack on dracula at one of his hiding spots and they barely even strike dracula only jonathon gets a piece of him and sends the counts money flying around the floor which dracula quickly picks up and leaves and gives the men a erie message about how they can never defeat him and he has already taken their women to be his jakals so that he may feed as he pleases later they return home and hypnotise mina so see if there is a link between her and dracula there must be because mina reveals draculas location which is a ship which the men will try and find
