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[[Two people are waiting for an elevator. One is wearing a hat (similar to a cowboy hat). The other is wearing plaid pants. They wait, saying nothing.]]

Cowboy: You know, we could just take the stairs.
Plaid: We could also continue waiting for the elevator.

Cowboy: We could also try to scale the building.
Plaid: Or we could rent a helicopter and a parachute.
Cowboy: We could pump our bodies full of helium until we start to float.
Plaid: We could start a CULT that requires people to CARRY us places.

Plaid: We could SET UP CAMP in this elevator lobby and live here FOREVER, making a new home for ourselves in the ashes of the world soon to be swept away.
Plaid: We could be priests of the new order, sanctifying the METAL CUBE ROOM as an ORACLE and allowing only OURSELVES access, and only then on the solstice, and only THEN following a blood sacrifice from throngs of peasants who’ve made desperate pilgrimages to hear the faint, muffled strains of the MUZAK version of THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA.

Cowboy: I guess there’s lots of things we COULD do.
Plaid: The secret is learning to prioritize.

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{{alt-text: If you never manage to get upstairs, just invent a religion with the foundational tenet being that the thing upstairs is forbidden for everyone! Until the young apostate generation demands to scale the fire stairs and then you get to have a HOLY WAR}}

#1019; In which there are Choices transcribed by in

[[Two people are waiting for an elevator. One is wearing a hat (similar to a cowboy hat). The other is wearing plaid pants. They wait, saying nothing.]]

Cowboy: You know, we could just take the stairs.
Plaid: We could also continue waiting for the elevator.

Cowboy: We could also try to scale the building.
Plaid: Or we could rent a helicopter and a parachute.
Cowboy: We could pump our bodies full of helium until we start to float.
Plaid: We could start a CULT that requires people to CARRY us places.

Plaid: We could SET UP CAMP in this elevator lobby and live here FOREVER, making a new home for ourselves in the ashes of the world soon to be swept away.
Plaid: We could be priests of the new order, sanctifying the METAL CUBE ROOM as an ORACLE and allowing only OURSELVES access, and only then on the solstice, and only THEN following a blood sacrifice from throngs of peasants who've made desperate pilgrimages to hear the faint, muffled strains of the MUZAK version of THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA.

Cowboy: I guess there's lots of things we COULD do.
Plaid: The secret is learning to prioritize.

{{header: going up to WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: If you never manage to get upstairs, just invent a religion with the foundational tenet being that the thing upstairs is forbidden for everyone! Until the young apostate generation demands to scale the fire stairs and then you get to have a HOLY WAR}}

If you never manage to get upstairs, just invent a religion with the foundational tenet being that the thing upstairs is forbidden for everyone! Until the young apostate generation demands to scale the fire stairs and then you get to have a HOLY WAR

#1019; In which there are Choices

  — April 14th, 2014

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New ways to get Bolted!

July 24, 2026 by David Malki !

In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one,  except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.​

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.


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