#Book of Hours Game

[astraioskosmos]

I decided to replay some Cultist Simulator while downloading another game and holy shit I've forgotten how unchill it is compared to BoH.........

My Librarian : [looking out the window] Ahh, what a perfect day to read a book or two. Perhaps I shall send an invitation to a few friends, it's been awhile since I've hosted a dinner... I also need to brush up some of my skills, but I'll have time in the evening. Oh, if I host a dinner I'll have to clean up the old garden and get some vegetables! Now, about that book...

My poor Aspirant : WHAT DO YOU MEAN I GOT DEMOTED?! OH FUCK I NEED TO PAY RENT, I DONT HAVE ENOUGH FUNDS! I NEED MORE BOOKS, I NEED TO FINISH MY COMMISSIONS, I NEED-- WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN LEO GOT INJURED ON HIS EXPEDITION??? I DONT HAVE TIME TO TEND TO HIM RIGHT NOW TELL HIM TO WAIT OUTSIDE MY OFFICE-- WHY DO I HAVE SO MUCH RESTLESSNESS AND DREAD?!?!!???

[ruffed-grouse]

The narrator also has opinions on the mushroom meringue.

This is such a horrible dish with an abysmal bonus, but I love it nonetheless. I hope Zachary enjoys it.

[artificial-radiance]

the flint --- dead god from stone, thought to have held the principle of proto-forge before the forge of days eclipsed it

i've always represented the gods from stone with less humanoid, more mythical traits, and the flint was one of the few i posted in color with a reference. i chose to use unicorn iconography for no particular reason other than i love them, but i wanted to convey her with a somewhat humanoid body shape and some semblance of a face, as she and the wheel do eventually spawn humanity -- or at least have mortal children. our dear dead mom <3

[aeolianasio]

reads like warning text in cultist simulator/book of hours that i would simply ignore

[cuddledemon]

Found some principles in the wild (at a flea market)

Bought myself the Forge one

[4denthusiast]

People keep saying the librarian in Book of Hours is more of a normal functional person than the cultist, and that may be true, but my librarian at least has somehow acquired a hundred-odd occult skills and 15 languages and gotten to the point where they can write a history of their choosing with enough force that it becomes the truth (or at least one truth), but still hasn't worked out how to clean their dirty laundry from that time they fell ill while moving in a decade ago. There are a bunch of these little things that it feels like there must be some way to do with their own unique mechanics but nothings I've tried seems to work. I spent an excessively long time trying to collect serpent eggs in the forest before working out how to get chicken eggs too.

[ambrosiafaery]

tfw when you forget to check the date and Skill Upgrade Day lands at the first day of the season

[transhueylong]

I just completed a playthrough of Book of Hours. My eighth? I was the Revolutionary, and I got The First Defiance ending. I like it! As revolutions go it feels restrained - not overly ambitious, but resilient (fitting for a heart-principled ending)! But I wanted to know more and so I checked it out on the wiki (I'm not afraid of spoilers at this point; I want to better understand the world).

There are 99 endings in this game. I thought there were maybe half that? Not only does each background have its paths to choose from, but each path has the three ways to complete it, which each give a distinct flavor of that history - that ending.

Immediately I wanted to look up the other variations of my favorite ending (the Artist's An Art of War). It's just so vile a thing - my partner compared it to Duchamp's Fountain when I shared it. They're also very good, and much more participatory, but I think I like mine the best. The fact that you won't see your handiwork (directly at least) just adds something to the Artist's character.

[brightergreendandelions]

after 53 hours of playtime, i somehow managed to figure out you can use inks to help with reading books. (yes it took me that long)

and the one question i have is: what is the Librarian even using the ink for?? does she like take margin notes in it? how does having an appropriate occult ink on hand make it easer to understand books 0_0

[hush-house-yard-sale]

The Hush House Card Catalogue

@baja-blasted @terephin (please ignore the crabs)

//So the software I'm using to keep track of my books, lore bits, etc. is called Seatable! It wasn't my first choice for this project, I'm more familiar with Airtable (I've used it professionally), but Airtable's free plan doesn't let you color-code :c

//Seatable is a website that looks a lot like google sheets, but instead of building a spreadsheet, you're building a database. I knew I wanted a database rather than a spreadsheet for my card catalogue because it became pretty apparent early on that a spreadsheet would mean a lot of duplicate entries and be a lot more work to maintain, as well as monumentally more work if I wanted to use it for reference.

//My database isn't finished, and so I'm not really comfortable making it public, but I'm happy to walk through some of the things that I like most about it, that made me choose to make a database rather than a spreadsheet.

//The main things that were really important to me was being able to have (and filter by) multiple items in the same column, having lots of cross-linking between the different sheets in the base, and having different views depending on what I was looking to reference.

//These are my different tables right now, and the way they work is that each table has the most detailed information on each item, e.g. Books has the most detail on books, and Skills has the most detail on skills. But I have columns in each table that allow me to crosslink between them.

//So for each book, I have listed the skill and memory they give, but instead of writing each out individually it links to the corresponding entry in skills/memories

//And then over in the memories tab it has all the detail on the aspects, which wisdoms it can be committed to...

//...and every book this skill can be found in and every item it can be used to craft. And those boxes can be expanded so they're easier to read as well!

//I can also group and sort things in different views. My default view for books, for example, splits them into two categories—whether I've read the book or not—and then sorts the books in each category alphabetically. But I also have one that groups them all by mystery and then sorts them from low to high, and I have another that groups them by topic. Each of these views also omits columns that aren't relevant to that particular view, for example, if I'm searching for books by mystery to give to a visitor, it's important to know the author because it's fun to give people books they themselves have written, but I don't really care about what memories that book gives, or when I'm trying to connect lore dots, it doesn't matter whether or not the book is cursed and I don't need to include books I haven't read yet (and thus don't have topic tags for). The rows on the topic one are also bigger so I can better read the blurbs.

//Well, the topic one actually groups by location, because when I group it by topic, it splits it into every combination of my topic tags, rather that giving me "here are all your books about the mansus" "here are all your books about Longs and Names" so I've stored them all in different places in the house depending on what books I think are relevant to one another.

//It's still in progress, I don't have everything written down yet, and I want more data for workbenches, and I want to try and see if there's a way for it to, say, auto-match skills/souls to workbenches for committing to the tree or crafting certain recipes. Also my color-coding is in shambles bc I'm waiting for a friend to recover from covid so that they can make me a greasemonkey script to make it a little less... corporate...

//But yeah! I like it a lot, and it works really well for my purposes. I highly recommend trying it out, and I'm happy to answer questions!

[astraioskosmos]

Waking up on Numa has GOT to be one hell of a fucking trip. There's this thick dream like brume, people look more like imitations of people or shadows rather than themselves, letters jumble together into something impossible to read, some of the most notorious Long come out of the fog like out of thin air at your doorstep and you don't even remember anything of this all the next day.

I always wonder what becomes of the people of Brancrug during Numa. Does Denzil still work over his smithy, eyes glazed and movements not his own as if he were possessed by the Forge of Days itself, shaping and reshaping metal in patterns and shapes that come from deep within dreams? Does light still flood the Rector's vision even with his eyes closed, his skin almost translucent and shining with the strength of a Sun hidden behind the thick fog and long divided? Does Mr Kille lie still like the dead in his bed in silence, thinking of things dead but not quite, of the snow of winter and the lower heavens? Does he even breathe then? Does Mrs Kille sit and weave with blood red fabric to soothe the urges of the Grail, the urges of her bloodline, her needles clicking together like a rythmic drum beneath the Earth's skin?

[ruffed-grouse]

The narrator is throwing shade.

[strikeslip]

Started a new history for House of Light, got my writing case, my first visitor arrives... and it's Hokobald. ಠ_ಠ

[cuddledemon]

Once in 9 seasons British people can witness mysterious and mythical weather - sunny sky

[fancy-feast-official]

sometimes you're having a normal day and then you become the unwitting father of 20 creepy dolls

[ambrosiafaery]

my librarian, who has mastered every wisdom, but is still too stupid to cure their maladies