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[[A hip, young individual talks with a much older woman, who seems to be working on some sort of knitting.]]
Youth: Have you seen my pen?
Senior: Here, I have a pen.
Youth: No. My SPECIAL pen. The pen I got in Amsterdam.

Senior: What’s special about this Amsterdam pen?
Youth: I got it in AMSTERDAM! From the HOTEL ROOM! When I went with JANINE!
Senior: No. I haven’t seen your HOTEL ROOM PEN.

Senior: This is why I don’t assign sentimental value to normal things. You spend all your time worrying about these OBJECTS that don’t matter.

Senior: Did I lose my PEN? Where’s my LUCKY SILVER DOLLAR? Oh NO, Grandpa’s rusty old RAZOR got cracked, now I feel AWFUL!
Senior: Just use things for their purpose. SIMPLER that way. You never have to rent a STORAGE UNIT because you can’t bear to part with a lifetime’s worth of PSYCHIC ANCHORS.

Youth: Whenever you wear that shawl, with that top, with that bonnet, I’M going to remember it as your ARGUMENT OUTFIT.
Youth: It’s going to remind me of this day, and this conversation, and the lovely time we’re sharing as friends.
Senior: YOU KEEP YOUR WITCHCRAFT AWAY FROM MY ACCESSORIES

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{{alt-text: It was a nice pen, though. White barrel. Ballpoint. Blue ink. Said ‘Marriot Amsterdam’ on the side in red printing. Probably a PaperMate.}}

#1024; In which a Pen is lost transcribed by in

[[A hip, young individual talks with a much older woman, who seems to be working on some sort of knitting.]]
Youth: Have you seen my pen?
Senior: Here, I have a pen.
Youth: No. My SPECIAL pen. The pen I got in Amsterdam.

Senior: What's special about this Amsterdam pen?
Youth: I got it in AMSTERDAM! From the HOTEL ROOM! When I went with JANINE!
Senior: No. I haven't seen your HOTEL ROOM PEN.

Senior: This is why I don't assign sentimental value to normal things. You spend all your time worrying about these OBJECTS that don't matter.

Senior: Did I lose my PEN? Where's my LUCKY SILVER DOLLAR? Oh NO, Grandpa's rusty old RAZOR got cracked, now I feel AWFUL!
Senior: Just use things for their purpose. SIMPLER that way. You never have to rent a STORAGE UNIT because you can't bear to part with a lifetime's worth of PSYCHIC ANCHORS.

Youth: Whenever you wear that shawl, with that top, with that bonnet, I'M going to remember it as your ARGUMENT OUTFIT.
Youth: It's going to remind me of this day, and this conversation, and the lovely time we're sharing as friends.
Senior: YOU KEEP YOUR WITCHCRAFT AWAY FROM MY ACCESSORIES

{{header: save that WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: It was a nice pen, though. White barrel. Ballpoint. Blue ink. Said 'Marriot Amsterdam' on the side in red printing. Probably a PaperMate.}}

It was a nice pen, though. White barrel. Ballpoint. Blue ink. Said 'Marriott Amsterdam' on the side in red printing. Probably a PaperMate.

#1024; In which a Pen is lost

  — April 29th, 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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