We're approaching the last 48 hours!

Great news! We've unlocked the expanded Parallel Play mechanics by getting enough digital community copies to meet our goal. So i'll be finishing writing those this week.

Don't forget that the community share goal unlocks book plate stickers for all physical pledges and downloadable ones for digital, now is a great time to share and help us get our last few Stretch Goals met.

With the first draft submitted to Brent (our glorious editor) I took a short pause on writing and had a go at digitising some of my playthrough (you can see why Nala is the best person to do the game layout) as seen in the main campaign image.
 
I struggle with pain in my hands so cutting and sticking is not something I can personally do easily, same with handwriting for long stretches, so I keep the sources i'm using together in a folder and in some cases hand write or voice record and then type.

However you chose to make your journal is up to you, the key is to make something you can keep in some form.

 If I visually digitise the whole playthrough after finishing, I might remove the background images and print a copy on some fun paper, which I may very well see if sewn binding is something my hands will let me do, alternatively i'll get good with my stapler!

For a close up and to scroll through these as pages head over to thirdvaultyarns.com (this is a direct link to the playthrough which is hidden on the website otherwise).

The playthrough currently follows the initial set up where you establish your Curator, which will help you to start finding the voice your journal entries will take. Then task entries, with some of the entries for the mystery solving prompts interspersed with day to day tasks like building a window display and cataloguing an intake. 

Books that I've included in the digitised playthrough are Shigidi and the Brass Head of Olubafon by Wole Talabi and The Secrets of the First School by Tendai Huchu. I'm reading my next book We Set The Dark on Fire by Taylor Kay Mejia and hope to get more free time to finish it ahead of plans to roll a new task and pull a card to present my friends with, so I can borrow a book from their collection when I visit :P

In the game book there is an appendix section dedicated to finding books and a separate one about finding sources and how to use them. Especially when you might need to focus on preservation because they are rare or precious to you.

In my digitised playthrough i've scanned in the sources i'm using and digitally manipulated them - in this case a french pronounciation guide that I picked up in not amazing condition and a readers digest also picked up at the Barras market second hand bookstore in Glasgow. Along with a collection of musicals I acquired for free that you see on the first spread. The art for the window display on the last page was a bit of image manipulation, noun project icons and quick digital drawing. 

If you are working in a physical journal, you could do something along the same lines and photocopy the pages you'd like to use and then cut up the photocopies or take pictures of the items and include the pictures instead, saving you from destroying the original source if you don't want to.

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We'll be joining the Weird Place Zine Month Round Up Stream today along with several other great creators so swing by at 11am PST/ 2pm EST/7pm GMT/8pm CET youtube.com/@weird_place

I also had a chat with Todd of Third Kingdom Games in the latest episode of Sabre Rattlings. I apologise my laptop fans being a bit loud makes my audio quality not the best, but it was a great chat! so you can check that out here https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-j54rm-1a52d31