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June the 28th, once again.

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studio ghirbi production. just a morass of incomprehensible landscape imagery against silent cherenkov blue glow. at the end lies the terrible massive golden head of ghirbi, jawless, never-sleeping. it weeps as glass petals fall to the ground around it, reflecting the cobalt glare into the camera. (mercy, they seem to hint, is found only in shadow)

whatever this is, it isn't miyazaki. you double check the jacket on the film and throw it to the floor in disgust; that'll teach you to buy bootleg in the future

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book of hours is a game for people who get sexual thrill from editing spreadsheets

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June the 28th, once again.

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From the replies:

My current theory is that each of these five new aspects represents one of the five secret histories instead of being aggregated under a single pseudo principal.

This chimes well with An Introduction to Histories:

Hersault identifies Blood, Silver, Design and the Worms as the central axes of each of the Histories, and claims that the so-called Second History is the true one

Blood is Nectar, Silver is Moon, Design is Sky and Worms are Scale. I've never noticed before that Hersault was only aware of four Histories, but I suppose the remaining one would be Rose.

The Earthly Powers

I wanted to talk about a pet theory I've had for the presence of the powers of Sky, Scale, Rose, Moon, and Nectar, specifically why they're present in Book of Hours and not Cultsim, which has confused me for a while.

Initially I thought they may have been recently classified in the time between the games, but it seemed like a drastic change to add five new powers to the roster in that time, until I saw the posts talking about the differences between the librarian and the cultist, particularly how the librarian is much more grounded in the world around them. Maybe these powers are rarely present in the Mansus, and instead powers of our world, and potentially viewed by the cultist as useless as a result, powers unrelated to the power of the Mansus, of magic, that do not contribute to their ascension.

What use is the Sky and Moon of our world, not visible within the Mansus? What nectar, what blood, flows through a land not of the living? What relevance is scale, the immensity of the earth they seek to leave behind? What value is a compass rose in a land which cannot be mapped?

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#...Could an edge dyad be any combination of colonel/smith/wolf?

Given that the Exile can ascend under the Colonel, who is also Duffore's patron, it does seem that dyads aren't limited to one Colonel initiate and one Lionsmith.

*walks up to an Edge dyad* so which one of you is the Colonel and which is the Lionsmith?

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My favourite one of these is how the Cultist very sniffily says of spintria "Don't expect change, this isn't a grocery", while the Librarian just ... gets change when they spend spintria.

I know they could just be having Denzil perform the Service of Division and it's expedited out-of-universe for gameplay reasons, but it's more fun to assume the first merchant the Cultist gave a silver spintria to just massively ripped off the naive new kid and they never figured it out.

loving the genre of book of hours posting that's just everyone looking at the cultist now that they have the librarian to compare them to and going "wow, you are really fucking unhinged"

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I am very glad there's a load button, because doing all that again would be much less fun the 30th time.

(I'm not going to post screenshots of every victory, since it looks like I'm going to get a lot of slightly different ones just by repeatedly reloading and making small modifications).

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Finally got tired of making spreadsheets and went for a victory. And it only took four months and eleven days.

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and by the way, christmas sun-in-rags, be happy for him today

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Dumb Cultsim/Book of Hours memes I made for some reason

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The Rowenarium is your friend.

Blackbone: https://uadaf.theevilroot.xyz/rowenarium/element/t.theascendant https://uadaf.theevilroot.xyz/rowenarium/element/t.thecrossingtonoon

Nothing on Girbirago, though.

As for a comprehensive Enigma document, this is everything in the second circle: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i-VHLk0Zsu3dWqBYIiVAI2sNebX01JX6hfm7IsbzzWM/edit#gid=0 I'm afraid I don't have anything to hand with the whole Enigma, but somebody on the Discord (https://discord.gg/KC4GZSKZ) probably does.

Can anyone point out the exact location in Cultist Simulator, Enigma, Book of Hours, or anything on the Weather Factory site that mentions the names/words "Blackbone" and "Girbirago"? UNLESS it's exclusively endgame/hidden book spoilers.

I can at least find mention of "Chione" and "the Snow" in a couple of books, but the others seem to completely escape me. The closest I can spot is the guy who is the Stag Gate and the name of Bitterblack Salts. I only know about the actual Hours because of mentions from other players

Also, if anyone had like. Any comprehensive documentation of Enigma in general and felt like pointing me to it, that would be amazing.

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You might want to take a look at the last PDF in the folder.

The Wakefield papers

Without getting too deep into specifics, I just found some PDFs in the game files that are worth reading. They don't contain any spoilers, but do contain some ... enlightening information.

EDIT: Having read all of them, they're mostly pieces that have already been on the Weather Factory website, and it wouldn't surprise me if the others have also been there, and I simply missed them. On the other hand, there's a letter from a certain TG dated 1932. As somebody currently playing a Twiceborn librarian, it raises interesting questions.

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-Julian Coseley, The Six Letters on Necessity

wormless behavior from some of you. absolute lack of dirt and burrowing. rethink 

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im sorry snow is a what.

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Just discovered that in addition to the properly-signposted ability of Mr Kille to gain aspects from wood, the painter to gain aspects from pigments, etc., the poet can be inspired by flowers.

I'm going to have to experiment further, but I'll go out on a limb and guess the engineer uses stone and somebody's going to use glass.

Weird that only some of them are mentioned in their descriptions.

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I am so here for 1930s British Columbo Douglas Moore.