#BoH Spoilers

[hush-house-yard-sale]

There's something in the mirror. Something cold and sharp.

"Do you have a copy of Kitling Ripe and the Moldywarp's Grave?"

[Pulls out a horrifying and arcane device from a History-Not-Yet-Written and consults it dutifully, muttering and cursing the whole time.]

I'm afraid I don't have that one, but I will keep a Watchful Eye out and inform you immediately if a copy enters the collection. I'm unsure how to lend it to you, given the whole mirror thing, but I would be happy to take an afternoon to read it to you once it has been acquired.

[ambrosiafaery]

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

[your-zipper-is-down]

Boh covering Mico's eyes from Andy hshshs

[whiskey-tango-matcha]

hi hello long time no talk, i am writing a fic! it'll be up this evening! i promise! (i'm posting this bc i'm holding myself accountable, it's gonna be up it's been MONTHS since i've written and i'm putting this fic out IF IT KILLS ME)

[onyonyon]

Spreadsheet simulator 2023 gotta be my favourite game of this year.

(BoH Spoilers below)

[omarfor-orchestra]

Ho appena realizzato una cosa molto divertente

[evadingreallife]

The relationship between my old temi di italiano and death and its meanings can be so morbid at times

[wdba]

Book of Hours spoiler related to a certain all-girl group!

That's her, isn't it? The visitor that appeared during a particularly silly goofy season? The seventh Ligeian? Holy shit the girlboss squad is complete.

[janniksnr]

no ma cos'è sta canzone di doberman ??????? ma che è diventata sta serie ??????

[thelightattheendofthistunnel]

a me, onestamente, del passato di crazyj...

[hush-house-yard-sale]

Hey Librarian, I just wanna ask, how fortified is your house against thieves? Specifically people who might take a peek at books? Specifically diaries? Specifically looking for pages that might imply your true feelings for someone and all this "I don't like you" is just an act because you developed affection towards someone but want to push them away cause the m-word is not a place for love and so you just pen these memories away in a book so all that love will not die? Cause I would HATE it if someone sent an expedition of talented followers to break down locks and seduce guards just to infiltrate *my* inner sanctum and read about all these things I actually wrote myself.

I'd hate it and I'm just... Checking how you prepare against those?

-Cul... cumber. CUCUMBER

How... fortified is my house against... thieves? You... you want to know how fortified my house is against thieves? Oh, for the love of—

First of all, Mx... [scoffs] "Cucumber," you should be well aware that there is no need to resort to breaking and entering if you wish to look at books. This is a library. The purpose of a library is so that patrons can come and look at books. No, I daresay that the only reason one would need to resort to breaking and entering is if one were trying to, oh I don't know, bypass the librarian and steal the books for yourself. And I assure you, Mx. "Cucumber," that that is something for which I will not stand!

Second of all, the only book in Hush House authored by me contains my life's work. You are very sorely deluded if you think I have not made arrangements for its publication, should my endeavors succeed! If you want to read my "diary," as you so dismissively call it, you can purchase it from any reputable retailer of occult works in 2-4 business years. But frankly? I doubt you will even bother, given the disdain you've had for my "nerdy essay." At best you'll flip through it searching for confirmation of this theory you've concocted to fill the void left by the Forge-of-Days' various rejections, and fall back to your opium when you find nothing of the sort. I could translate it into— into Vak if I so desired and it wouldn't make a difference to the amount of information you'd retain upon reading! Perhaps I shall! Perhaps I already have!

Furthermore, for all your obsessions—oh yes, I know all about your obsessions. Do you truly think yourself subtle? Or clever?— you clearly have no pride and no self-respect if you intend to send your followers to discern my feelings for you. Did your followers also write this letter for you? Do they choose the people you woo? When you kiss your lovers, do they position your head for you? There are some things that must be done personally Mx. "Cucumber," if they are to be done at all. And if you will not then you are a coward, and have no hope for earning even a crumb of my respect.

You may be obsessed with me, for what reason I cannot possibly fathom, but you have shown that you have no respect for me, no respect for my library, and no respect for my life's work! You hide behind a false name, and pretend that I am too stupid to see through it. No, I know only one person this callous, this self-centered, this entitled, this... immature.

YOU ARE THE DESPICABLE THIEF OF THE HISTORY OF INKS!!!!!!!!

You will receive no further correspondence from me until the tome is returned.

Firmest disregard,

The Yard Sale Librarian

Post Scriptum: Please inform your followers that my legion of guard vipers is ever-growing. And soon I will overthrow the world.

Post- Post Scriptum: Every last one of them is asexual.

[ambrosiafaery]

I want to check if I'm still missing any incidents for achievements but I don't want to be spoiled for ending achievements 😔

I suspect I'm missing two "secret" endings but I'm also not sure if anyone's discovered them yet either, or if the thing hinting that there are is simply a red herring.

I'm getting close ish to speed running a symurgist ending, which I think I'll be doing for all the remaining origins and then just extending play on random files for getting the tarot. That's another 7 achievements for unique endings.. and I have 7 tarot so far... but only 20 achievements remaining? So not all major arcana are in the game? Or they don't all provide achievements

[your-zipper-is-down]

Mico worried for her friend

[anonbinaryweirdo]

I'm gonna cry

[onyonyon]

I've been playing a lot of Book of Hours

Something I find really fun about Book of Hours is the contingent and sometimes almost accidental seeming restrictions of the crafting system, and how they sometimes produce really strange realizations.

Spoilers below

If I want to recall the melody of the Hive's Lament, I can't just go nuts on the drums, because my drumming skills evoke the Heart too much and the Nectar not enough. I have to first smell a Flower, and then read a book that recalls a memory of impulse to strengthen my Nectar, and only then the right melody will come to me. Or, if I wanna craft a Pale Mommet - a little doll that's almost alive - I need to invoke enough Grail with my skills of Resurgences & Emergences. But I also need a piece of Fabric to craft the doll. Only, none of the crafting stations that lend themselves to using Grail are good for crafting with Fabrics. But in the sacred spring of the tridesma hiera, deep below the library I can use the remains of something living to craft with Grail. Incidentally, a lock of human hair counts both as Fabric and as the remains of something living. So the game didn't tell me this outright, but through the design of its crafting system, I've come to the crazy and occult conclusion that to make one of those little dolls I need human hair. No other fabric will do.

[uu-tella]

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