#1155; The Passive Pining Stratagem

Comic Transcripts

[[A young fellow, ARSTUR, speaks to his father, BLORTHINGTON, who sits at a desk covered in papers.]]

ARSTUR: There’s this great girl I cross paths with at school. I’d love to get to know her better.
BLORTHINGTON: Here’s what I did when I was your age!

BLORTHINGTON: There was a WONDERFUL girl I knew. I was terrified of letting her know I liked her, so I would never make eye contact with her, never say more than a few words to her. Always played it cool, you know?

BLORTHINGTON: She was GREAT. Very friendly, even a bit flirty…but I never let on how much I crushed on her. Didn’t want to seem like a creeper — wanted to let HER make the first move, from a place of comfort. This went on for YEARS. Man. She was AMAZING.

ARSTUR: Wow. And that’s how you met Mom?
BLORTHINGTON: Oh, no! I found out later this girl never even learned my name. Your mother and I met in a support group for sufferers of INVERTED PATELLA SYNDROME. So if you’ve ever wondered why your kneecaps are concave, well, you do come by it honestly

#1155; The Passive Pining Stratagem transcribed by in

[[A young fellow, ARSTUR, speaks to his father, BLORTHINGTON, who sits at a desk covered in papers.]]

ARSTUR: There’s this great girl I cross paths with at school. I’d love to get to know her better.
BLORTHINGTON: Here’s what I did when I was your age!

#1155; The Passive Pining Stratagem 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!