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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.

{{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}}

#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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Bolted! Shipping is UNDERWAY

April 4, 2026 by David Malki !

Bolted! games have been shipping to backers over the last couple of weeks! The non-US orders are (mostly) done and some folks have been reporting receiving them already!

@davidmalki.com My game arrived today!! It looks gorgeous 🙂 Hope you are well 🙂

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— Lar deSouza (@lartist.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM

My US inventory of games is now in-country, but still being staged at the fulfillment centers. It’s being distributed to regional warehouses, so the actual shipping to backers happens more efficiently. I hope the bulk of US shipping will start next week.

These are what the cartons (and games) look like!

bolted! games BOLTED! GAMES (pounding the table) B O L T E D ! G A M E S

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— david malki ! (@davidmalki.com) April 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM

I am also waiting on the bonus cards to be finished printing! I ended up needing many more of those than I had anticipated, so I decided to have the game factory print those too, for perfect matching with the base game cards.

Most people will be receiving two separate mailings: the game itself, and “anything else” (bonus cards and/or add-ons) which will be sent by me personally.

As of today, 86% of backers have completed their surveys so far! That’s pretty good, but it’s not everyone. I know YOU PERSONALLY have already completed YOURS though, so no worries!!

We have now moved OFF of Kickstarter and ONTO BackerKit for any new orders. You can bundle a game with basically anything else I sell on that there website, it’s pretty nuts!


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