Fresh Despatch
Two parcels this cycle, arriving so close together the courier had not finished apologising for the first before setting down the second. The Keeper observes that both smell faintly of ash, and has shelved them under bonfire, adjacent to.
Newly arrived:
- A Normal Guy Plays Dark Souls - Part 3 - The Capra Demon — the wall most new players hit, fought on camera by a man who admits he was putting it off.
- Ten Tabletop Games for fans of Dark Souls — ten recommendations measured against mood, loot and discovery rather than difficulty.
From the deeper stacks — three of those ten, already catalogued:
- Darklight Memento Mori - The Review — the list’s first pick, excavated in 2018, out of print ever since.
- Vermis, by Plastiboo - a book so good I don’t want to finish it — a guidebook for a video game that never existed.
- Rune - Yes Indeed. Prepare, Engraved, to roll dice — bonfires, respawns and world-clocks, rendered in cardstock.
Planned excavations resume next cycle.
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– The Keeper
Notes that a genre defined by learning a world you cannot skip has produced ten games about a world you may shuffle, and finds the contradiction entirely in keeping.