Dear people of Soledad,

thank you so much! Another stretch goal has been reached and now the Locations that make up Soledad have increased to 25.

Why not use that same energy to give one last boost to the Drama deck?

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Meanwhile, our character poll from the playable demo says your favorite is Diana Alvarez, the Shunned Fisherwoman. Last time we played, Oscar had a blast with her: her final scene was with her Duende, The Double. It was her twin, a twisted version of all her worst instincts she herself had summoned into being. It sat by her side at the edge of the Laguna de Aguavita, a dark, deep Mountain Lake. It encouraged her to enter the waters where so many had drowned. Together they went under the water... And when someone played the Aftermath Drama card, we saw only one Diana come out-- no longer an old crone, but a young woman. For one final twist, another player added the Fertility Drama card: it is touched by Duende, and it let them describe Diana's sudden, inexplicable pregnancy. Her Act 1 ended with a second chance at life, with the promise of the child she had always wanted. But was it really her or her Double that emerged from the waters?

This is just a brief example of what the combination of seemingly simple prompts can do: raw, unscripted, powerful storytelling. Let's make sure you have as many tools as we can give you to do this.

On a completely different note, we also want to point you towards a project by Côme Martin, a French game designer and friend: A week with Frog and Rabbit.

Aside from being an endless wellspring of ideas and an author whose work we've had the pleasure to translate into Italian, Côme is another person we found ourselves bound to by the bizarre web of Itras By. In more than one conversation with people playing or asking about Soledad, Matthijs found himself commenting that everyone here has either published Itras By or something for Itras By...

The ways of play are endless, but A week with Frog and Rabbit is much closer to home as a concept. Perfect for playing with children, without dice or cards, it will let you follow along on cosy animal adventures in the woods of Poppy Valley!