#644; The Nocturnal Imposter

Comic Transcripts

HANS: You were in my dream last night!
PHIL: No, I was safe and sound in my own bed. A synaptic construct that resembled me may have been in your dream last night.

HANS: Well, so far as my dream-self was concerned, it was you. And you did some weird stuff.
PHIL: But it wasn’t me! It didn’t have my childhood or my kinks or my aspirations or any of the unspoken fears that color the real me’s daily decision-making.

PHIL: You invented a dream-me out of your personal, and thus by definition limited, understanding of who I am. Anything that shadow-puppet did in the bony cavern of your imagination reflects not on me, but upon your perception of me.

HANS: Apparently deep down I consider you a psychopathic ostrich farmer.
PHIL: Sure, I could see that.

{{alt-text: Your dream-me is within two standard metaphor-derivations of how you really feel about me.}}

#644; The Nocturnal Imposter transcribed by in

HANS: You were in my dream last night!
PHIL: No, I was safe and sound in my own bed. A synaptic construct that resembled me may have been in your dream last night.

HANS: Apparently deep down I consider you a psychopathic ostrich farmer.
PHIL: Sure, I could see that.

{{alt-text: Your dream-me is within two standard metaphor-derivations of how you really feel about me.}}

#644; The Nocturnal Imposter transcribed by in

The vast majority of Bolted! game shipments are already shipped, but I understand if you don’t have yours yet, who cares. Here’s a progress report:

Total orders | 1052
Surveys completed | 992
Fully shipped | 946

Incomplete surveys

Obviously, if I don’t have your shipping address, I can’t ship your game! Let me know if you are missing a survey link. As new responses come in, they are rapidly added to the shipping queue.

Orders containing certain add-ons

Some of the add-ons proved more popular than expected — which is lovely! But it meant I had to reprint some stickers, make all the individual comic prints, request a shipment of books from offsite storage, etc, etc. So, any orders which contain an out-of-stock item are still waiting to ship.

All that missing stuff, though, is en route to me at this very second! So those orders will be going out pretty dang soon!

Custom items

I’ve already been in touch directly with the backers who ordered custom collages! Those will be created (and sent to you) after all the other shipments are complete. I’m excited for those, they’ll be fun! My pleasant dessert after the hearty meal of all the other orders.

Anything wrong?

I’m very grateful to the few folks who’ve contacted me to report some kind of issue with their shipment! Thankfully, problems are rare, but when they do occur, I would like to solve them. Please don’t hesitate to send me an email (replying to your shipping confirmation works great) if there’s anything about your order I can correct.

Reviews & photos

On BoardGameGeek are highly appreciated!

Unless you hate the game! You are entitled to that opinion, but please send that review directly to me instead of telling anyone else, so I can eat it and bury it in the yard and watch it grow into a twisted, gnarled tree. Or whatever!