Episode 37

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20th Feb 2023

Lonely TTRPG EP 37 - Ghostbox by Marx Shepherd

ghostbox is a solo epistolary game about letters left mouldering in an abandoned postbox for weeks, months, years. You'll write one side of a conversation where the replies never come. You'll track what happens to the postbox over the years. And when the game ends, the postbox and its contents are lost forever.

Thoughts: This is a unique game that uses letters and solitaire to create an interesting experience.

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Transcript
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Greetings, weary Wanderer and welcome back to Lonely, T T R P G,

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the Solo Actual Play and Review podcast.

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This week we are playing Ghost Box by Marx Shepherd.

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There is a post box in the woods near your house.

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It is very old, maybe a hundred years or more.

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The paint is flaking.

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There's rust in places.

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But you think this post is still collected there because they

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close post boxes that aren't used.

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Don't.

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And it is still used.

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People keep putting their letters in there.

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Lovers, spies, friends, humans, they still post their postcards and birthday

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cards and driving licenses and passports.

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The odd person might wonder why something doesn't get there on time,

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but unless everybody realizes, nobody guesses, this post box is abandon.

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Ghost Box is a solo epistolary game about letters left moldering in an abandoned

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post box for weeks, months, years.

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You'll write one side of a conversation where the replies never come.

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You'll track what happens to the post box over the years and when the game ends,

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the post in its contents are lost forever.

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So diving on into gameplay, what you're gonna need is you're

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gonna need a deck of cards.

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You're gonna need some letters or something to write with, and you're

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gonna need a little bit of time.

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Now remember, this is a solo game, so you're in control of your own

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safety from moment to moment.

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Skip any prompts you don't wanna engage with.

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Drop any suits you feel uncomfortable with.

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Stop playing and walk away if it feels like it's too much.

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Playing the game.

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So Ghost Box is a narrative layer built on the top of the Solitaire game osmosis,

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which is known as Treasure Trove.

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If you already know this game, the only difference is that in this version you

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can play through the deck as many times as you want, as opposed to being limited

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to three if you don't know the game.

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We're gonna go through that in just a second.

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When you set up.

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Feel free to choose which card from the exposed cards on the top of each stash

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to play as the first card in the top row.

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You'll be writing the most letters or fragments from this sender.

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So diving on into osmosis, what you're gonna do is you're going to shuffle

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your deck and then you're going to deal three cards, face down with one

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card, face up in two to four rows, and those are gonna be called your stashes.

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Next, you're going to turn over the first remaining card and place it immediately

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in the top right row of this top stash, and that becomes your first row.

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Now the way it works is.

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Whatever card is in your row, whatever suit is in your row is the

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only suit you can play in that row.

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Now the order of cards doesn't matter, so you can go Ace three, two, king

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jack, 10, nine, that doesn't matter.

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But in order to start a new row, the card that you wanna put in, the new

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row has to exist in the row above it.

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So if you have ACE 2 45 in your top row, your second row can only

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contain an ACE two, four, or five

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of whatever the new suit is.

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Now once you have your stash and row set up, the next thing you're gonna do is

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you're going to deal three cards from your deck, and that becomes your hand.

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Now, like normal solitaire rules with your hand, that top card has to be played.

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. So if you can't play the top card, you can't play any of the cards under it.

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That entire hand goes into the discard pile.

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And of course, if you remove a card from your stash and place it in

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your row, then reveal the next card.

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So again, that's gonna be the basic setup for this.

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You're going to deal two to four stashes.

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You're going to set up your first row, and then you're gonna deal your hand,

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and you're going to move your cards from your stash or your hand to the row.

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Now whenever a card goes from a stash into a row, write a letter or fragment

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using a prompt from that card, which are listed by suit and in rank.

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After these rules, the value of the previous card in the row is how

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many days, weeks, months, or years.

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It has been since the last letter from that sender was posted.

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Each sender tells you what timescale to use.

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If you want to, you can also write letters or fragments whenever a

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card is played into a row from your hand or the discard pile.

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And of course, you may always skip a prompt for whatever reason,

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however you play your card.

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Use the prompt to guide the content of what you write.

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There is a text and subtext in each prompt with the subtext, dealing

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with the deeper emotional context.

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Use or ignore either as you.

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For a full letter, address what you write to your subject and

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sign it from the sender themself.

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Remember that the date moves on by as many days, weeks, months, or years

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as the previous card in that row.

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Sometimes the letter in the post box gets damaged by whatever is

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gradually making it unusable so that a fragment is all that is left.

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So if you like, just write a few lines for a prompt.

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Don't feel beholden to writing a full letter each.

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Dilapidation.

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Whenever you have turned over all hands in the deck, then something has happened

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to make the post box harder to use.

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Count the number of cards in the top row and look for that

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change prompt in the list.

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Then respond to that prompt aloud.

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After this, turn over the discard pile and start drawing hands again.

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Ending the game.

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When you go through the whole deck without being able to play

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new cards, the game is over.

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When the game ends, the post box becomes entirely unusable.

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What happens to it?

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Speaking aloud?

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Narrate a short scene showing its final state.

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The senders.

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Each of the four suits in the deck represents a different type of letter loss

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in the post box from a different sender.

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Like a series of letters in a museum, only one side of the conversation is presented.

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You can choose which senders you like to play based on how

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you feel, what they might deal with, and how much time you have.

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You need to at least pick two senders for the game.

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Each description of the sender gives you its suit, its name, some themes

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and ideas, the timescale of the letters, what troubling contents you

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might encounter, and an idea of the emotional overtones of the letters.

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It also gives you three questions answered before you start playing.

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When you do start playing, decide which two or more of

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these senders you'll explore.

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Take out the other suit.

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Remember, jokers are optional

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using the jokers.

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It's an optional rule.

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It helps out with the actual game.

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Makes it a little bit easier to win.

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We will not be using jokers in this play through.

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Also, remember, removing senders means that there are fewer letters

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that you must write, but that you are more likely to have to write.

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The rank of the card within the suit gives you two things.

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The prompt for the letter and how long it's been since the

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last letter from the sender.

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Number cards equal their value.

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Face cards are Jack 11, queen 12 King, 13.

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Now, as for your senders, you have hearts, which is the forlorn, a love

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Lauren writer, over many weeks or even months, these love letters are written,

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sent, never received, never read.

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They might deal with relationships, sexuality, rejection, jealousy,

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infidelity, obsession, coercive control, and other forms of abuse.

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They may be very sad and empty

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spades are the sleeping, penned by an agent given a purpose, never realized.

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These are the reports and missives to a handler who has assumed the right or lost.

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They are sent over many months or even years.

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They might deal with surveillance, police, military trust, betrayal,

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deceit, blackmail, torture, interrogation, warfare, and

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other forms of state violence.

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They may also be very cold and calculating.

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Clubs are the left behind written with love from one friend to another,

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who has perhaps forgotten them or assumed they have been forgotten.

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They are sent over many years.

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They might deal with the life of events of all kinds and

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potentially intensively and deeply.

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These series of letters is more open to your own ideas.

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These letters might be warm and tender.

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Diamonds are the opportune, prepared hastily, but with good intentions.

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These are from any number of chance, passerby and our postcards.

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Thank you.

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Notes and cards of all occasions, birthdays, weddings, funerals,

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graduations, driving tests get well, soon, invitations and so on.

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There is no time scale to these letters.

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They come as they are.

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They deal with life events in a shallow but tangible way.

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These letters might be funny and touch.

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So for today, we're gonna be dealing with

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the sleeping and the opportune.

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So once again, the sleeping is penned by an agent given a purpose.

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Never realized.

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When you choose the sender answer, who is the sender?

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Where have they been sent?

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What was their mission?

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And for the opportune, when you choose this answer, where was this post box?

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Why is it not more used?

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Who gets the opportunity to use it?

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but we're not gonna answer those questions.

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Instead, we're gonna dive right on in.

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So the first card I got starting off my first row

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is going to be the

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Jack of Diamonds.

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So the Jack of Diamonds, a raunchy seaside postcard.

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Why is it inappropriate?

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So this is going to be a postcard from a, a Seaside pier, and.

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It's gonna be one of those tourists, pi think like Pier 39 over in San

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Francisco, but a little off the beaten track where they can get away with

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putting things on their postcard, like give her the crabs that she'll enjoy.

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Now in my stash, I have a five of diamonds and a three of spades.

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So I only have diamonds out on the board, or I only have a row of diamonds up front.

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My three cannot be played yet, so we're gonna go ahead and

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play that five of diamond.

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Again, diamonds are time immaterial, so the timing doesn't matter.

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With a five, we have a shocking letter to an angry aunt.

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What confessions are held within?

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So I think that this letter is, this letter is definitely a

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confession and it is a confession of.

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It is a confession of sorrow and remorse as

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the sender never meant to abandon the aunt and her child.

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and his child actually, that,

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that what happened so many years ago was not,

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was not what meant to happen and that.

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they couldn't jeopardize their life with the aunt's sister,

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but this is all coming from, this is all coming from the father's.

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Other child.

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So the aunt's, the aunt's nephew, is writing this, talking about his

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father and what everybody has learned about the relationship between his

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father and the aunt and the cousin who's actually a half sibling to them.

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And.

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just how messed up up a situation this all was.

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And of course, you know,

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mom, the aunt's sister.

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. Like she doesn't, she doesn't want much to do with the family

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now at this point, obviously.

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But given time.

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Given time, maybe.

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Maybe something can come of it,

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but that's going to be that.

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and we're gonna move on to our next one.

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Now I have an ace of spades and a three of spades out in my stashes.

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I cannot play either of those into a new row because my first

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row again is jack five, so I need either a diamond or a jack or five.

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So I'm gonna have to deal.

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My first hand

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and top card for my hand is a three of diamond.

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So I can play that into the stash.

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Now it is optional whether or not I do a prompt for anything played from the hand.

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We're not going to do that.

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However, that does allow us to play our three of spades from our second stash into

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our second row, kicking off a spades row

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and the three of spades.

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Is going to be, you find someone between you and the target who is in the way.

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It was supposed to be a simple mission in a nice clean shot.

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Get out.

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Nobody was expecting.

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Their wife to be there.

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Now, normally that wouldn't be an issue after all.

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After all, she knew what type of bastard she had married, but the

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issue was how very pregnant she was.

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and

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despite

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the threat that this person poses

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that child, that child deserves a chance to.

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See their father for who he was and to be better and so,

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and so we had to scrub the mission.

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Okay.

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So moving on.

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I have a nine of diamonds, which is the only thing I can play now because again,

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I can't add to my spades unless they exist in the top row and any of the spades

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I have out do not exist in the top row.

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So we're playing the night of diamonds,

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and that's going to be a graduation card.

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, how do you commiserate with them on their poor grade?

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So this is going to be, this is going to be from a, it's gonna be from a

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family member to the graduate, and it's going to say, Congratulations, honey.

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On the graduation we were pleasantly surprised to receive the notice.

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Luckily, state colleges do not put much stock in GPAs.

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I'm sure that you.

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Be able to live a happy life.

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Love passive aggressive family members.

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And these diamonds are supposed to be fun.

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That's why I chose them.

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This is getting this . Next card we have is we have the queen of diamonds,

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and this is also coming from our stash.

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So for the Queen of Diamonds, a letter to your daughter,

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what makes this so heartfelt?

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Not doing that one.

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I'm gonna straight up skip that one.

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I have a daughter and

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this game has surprisingly been putting me in a lot weirder mood than I thought.

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I'm not, I'm not doing anything involving my daughter.

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So exercising safety rule number one.

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Now with that, in my stash, I have an ace and four of spades.

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I cannot play any of those in my hand.

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I have an eight and six of spades.

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Cannot play any of those.

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So I'm gonna start my discard pile and deal a new hand.

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Now the ride side is, the hand I dealt was all diamonds, so that

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can all just go on the list.

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Which allows one of 'em was a six of diamonds that allows me to pull

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the six of diamonds off my discard pile, put it into row two, but it

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does not help me progress the game.

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So let's deal a new hand, two of spades, queen of spades, ace of diamonds.

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So ace of diamonds gonna go up in row one.

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I'm gonna go ahead and put the queen of spades in row two two of spades.

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Can't do anything with, but I can move my ACEs spades from my stash.

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Row two, but that also means that I need to do the ACEs fades prompt.

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And this will be one month later.

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So this will be one month after the failed hit, you know, no reply is coming.

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Why are you determined to carry on your mission?

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It's been one month since my last mission report.

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I don't know if it's because.

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You guys are disappointed in me.

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I don't know if it's because you haven't quite figured out what to do, but

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I'm still out.

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I am a professional and I am still out here, and I'm going to continue

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to do the job that I swore to do.

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If you have any more information, if you have any more missions or

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guidance, You know how to reach me.

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Otherwise, I'm going to continue mission with the last guidance

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and intent that I was given.

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Okay, next up, we're gonna move a eight of diamonds from our stash into row one.

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And that's going to be an envelope containing only money.

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An envelope containing only money.

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That's.

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It's not really much of a prompt to go off with that one.

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No one says who sent it, but like any envelope containing only money, that's

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not gonna have anybody's name on it.

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You know, that's the type of thing that you just drop in there and.

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It.

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It kind of takes care of itself.

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Whoever was supposed to get it should have got it.

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But with that eight of diamonds, I can move my eight of spades from discard two.

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My row,

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but

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I cannot play my two spades from my hand, so I gotta move my two spades to discard.

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I have a ton of spades and a forest spade still in my stash, which

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means I need to deal a new hand.

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And I can play a couple cards from my hand.

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I got a five and seven of spades.

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They match my five and seven of diamonds in my first row.

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Same thing with my Jack Spades.

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All right, here we go.

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Next hand.

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I got myself a four diamonds so I can play that four of diamond.

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Which is going to allow me to play my four of spades from my stash,

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which is going to be another letter.

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Four months later.

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Your safe house has been compromised.

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This is gonna be one of the last letters you received from me for a.

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The safe house has been compromised.

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I can no longer stay here.

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I need to find a, I need to find a new location to hold up.

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I need to reestablish myself.

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We,

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I'm gonna be going under radio silence for a bit at least until, at least

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until I get everything re reassembled.

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All right, so looking at my last hand, I got a 10 of diamonds, which lets me

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place my final tennis spades from my stash and giving me my final prompt.

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You follow a rule contrary to your best interest.

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Why are you upholding the system?

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And we're gonna skip that one as well, because that doesn't feel like

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a good ending, ending prompt, but that

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that is Ghost Box by Marx Shepherd.

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This game was a lot different than what I was expecting.

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When I saw Marx advertising this months ago, I was super excited.

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I was like, oh, a letter writing game that I can do by myself.

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How fun, because I have no friends, so I have no one to write letters.

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Two.

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And that's also not a cry for attention.

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I wouldn't write letters if I had friends.

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I'm very poor at the maintaining social relationships, so like this was

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looking like it was right up my alley, and I was definitely expecting on

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something a little more lighthearted.

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Now, don't get me wrong, I like this.

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This is a, this is a very, this is a very good game.

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But yeah, there was a lot more, there was a lot more.

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Opportunity for darkness.

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You know, I, I ended up hitting a lot of dark notes in the Opportune, which

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I chose that one because it was supposed to be the happy one.

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I didn't actually read through the prompts when I, when I did it

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when I chose it, but, Like that was supposed to be the happy one,

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but no, it was still, it was still good.

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It was still good.

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I, I probably should have gone with my gut and gone with the,

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for Lauren the lovers one.

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But, you know, live, learn, like I said, fun game.

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Definitely, definitely enjoyed it.

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Definitely a.

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I liked the, I liked the add-on to basically playing a game of solitaire.

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You know, as you saw, playing, playing only two suits

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makes the game really short.

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You know, had I had, I realized that at the time I probably would've played

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three suits, but ultimately it's fine.

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You know, I just wanted to give you guys an idea of what the game looked

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like, and it does look like a fun game.

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Really my biggest complaint is that the rules for osmosis are not included with.

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the game pdf.

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Now, they do include the rules for osmosis on their itch page.

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It is included on their itch page.

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You just have to scroll down because it's not with the downloads for the game.

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That's really my biggest complaint right there is.

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not that they base it off another game or that it's, you

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know, it's a hack or whatever.

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A hack of another game or whatever you want to call it.

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You know, because I mean, hell, I've done that with some of the games that I've,

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some of the games that I've made you know, doors and sconces is a hack of the

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breathless system, but include the rules.

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The game.

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That's my big thing.

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But again, that's my, that's my biggest complaint.

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The rules were present on the page.

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You just had to go look for 'em.

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Another super nice thing they had is they had the, they had a file so that

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you could set this up on a virtual board.

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With links to that as well.

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I did not do that because I did not wanna sign up for yet another,

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yet another site that's just going to do nothing but send me emails.

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But,

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but that is an option there for you, especially if you don't have a,

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especially if you don't have a deck of cards on you or something like,

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You know, you can, you can get this file, you can load it up in

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there and, you know, play online.

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But as for the gameplay itself, like I said fun, unique, unique.

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I did like the, I did like the building on a solitary game rule set.

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Again, I played rules as written, but for y'all, don't, don't play with, don't,

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don't play with only two, two suits.

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Play with all four suits.

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That way you have a reason and an opportunity to run through your

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entire deck to redo your discard pile.

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So,

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So that you get the dilapidation, so that you get all of the

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other things for the game.

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Two, two suits is not enough

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to really build on the game the way that I think that the author intended.

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It's fun, it's fine.

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It's doable.

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It allows you to play a game fairly quickly, but if you're gonna play,

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play with all four suits, if you need to take a break, just take a break.

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It's fine.

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It's fine.

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It's gonna be fine.

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Even if you don't finish the game, it's fine.

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Just start over again next time, because again, at the end of

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the day, solo games, your rules.

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Do what you need.

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, but super fun game.

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Definitely worth checking out.

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Now you can find Ghost Box on Itch for $7 at Marx-of-high- water.itch.io/ghostbox,

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or you can check out the link down below.

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If you decide that you want to go check it out and you wanna pick

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up this game, make sure that you tell 'em that SteelStash sent ya.

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But until next time, remember I mustache y'all to stay.

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Lonely TTRPG
A Solo Play Podcast
Lonely TTRPG is a show where I play and review solo TTRPGs.

Every other week, we play another solo TTRPG from across the indie community.

So join us as we roll, draw, and journal our way through some fantastic games.

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Black Dragon Dungeon Company is a TTRPG podcast. We do weekly actual play podcasts and bi-weekly discussion podcasts where we talk about certain things about the TTRPG world.

You can reach us at blackdragondungeoncompany@gmail.com or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bddc_pod