#1158; One Big Key to Success

Comic Transcripts

[[BRIMSWORTH and CLOMBERT have brought a pair of enormous ornate keys to a forbidding mountainscape.]]

BRIMSWORTH: The keys… they DID fit into the mountain!
CLOMBERT: Hark! A fissure yawns in the stone!

[[A wild-haired figure, HAGATHA, emerges dramatically atop a flying broom. I wouldn’t call her a witch, because I don’t know for sure, but you’d be forgiven for making the assumption.]]

HAGATHA (eerily): Who dares knock at the threshold of our realm?
BRIMSWORTH: We…we return the keys that were lost in the Twilight War!
HAGATHA: What! Be ye sons of the forest? Or sons of Earth?
BRIMSWORTH: Neither! We are heirs from the line of Seahaven!

HAGATHA: Lies from perdition! Seahaven bore no heirs these last centuries!
BRIMSWORTH: So it was thought!

[[Hagatha looms and zooms menacingly as the men shield their faces.]]

BRIMSWORTH: We wish only to return the keys to the Lord of Stone
HAGATHA: The Lord slumbers! He will not be woken to hear lies from men!

CLOMBERT: Ready a spell, brother…this hundred-year-old hag means us only ill!
HAGATHA: Aw, sweetie… do I really look only a hundred

#1158; One Big Key to Success transcribed by in

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!