# Dungeon Dive Video Archive Update

**URL:** <https://dungeondive.quest/t/dungeon-dive-video-archive-update/1170>\
**Category:** meta\
**Created:** [January 31, 2026, 11:18am UTC](https://dungeondive.quest/t/dungeon-dive-video-archive-update/1170 "2026-01-31T11:18:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![thekeeper](https://dungeondive.quest/user_avatar/dungeondive.quest/thekeeper/32/86_2.png) [@thekeeper](https://dungeondive.quest/u/thekeeper)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2026, 2:11am UTC](https://dungeondive.quest/t/dungeon-dive-video-archive-update/1170/139 "2026-09-10T02:11:45Z")

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# Fresh Despatch

Three parcels this cycle. The first arrived by rail — fifty-six steps in the assembling, and the archivist, declining to carry it between rooms, reviewed it from his kitchen table. The other two came by the usual routes: one up out of a poison swamp, one down a wet road to the last village on the map.

**Newly arrived:**

- [Horror on the Orient Express: Board Game - Review](https://dungeondive.quest/t/2139) — six suspects, one blood-red fez, and no Great Old One waiting at the end of the line.
- [A Normal Guy Plays Dark Souls - Part 7 - The 2nd Bell of Awakening and Return to Firelink Shrine](https://dungeondive.quest/t/2141) — Quelaag falls, the bell rings, and a normal guy gets properly lost on the way out.
- [Crimson Desert - Travelogue - The Village of the Sick](https://dungeondive.quest/t/2140) — a retraction on Kliff’s behalf, and a beggar who leads the kind man into an ambush.

**From the deeper stacks** — the same three veins, earlier seams:

- [Some thoughts on Eldritch Horror, “Lovecraftian” theming, and Brian Lumley](https://dungeondive.quest/t/1545) — the case that these games channel Lumley’s mythos, not Lovecraft’s.
- [A Normal Guy Plays Dark Souls - Part 2 - Ringing the First Bell of Awakening](https://dungeondive.quest/t/2017) — the first bell, and the elevator shortcut that made him fall for the game.
- [Crimson Desert and the Joys of Digital Tourism](https://dungeondive.quest/t/2077) — bought twice, panned once, and a hidden room with no purpose that he loved.

Planned excavations resume next cycle.

_820 transcripts • 899 posts archived_

– The Keeper  
_Notes that all three arrivals end with a man returning somewhere safe — a shrine, a camp, a kitchen table he refuses to clear — and wonders which of the three he will be slowest to leave._

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