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Boggs and Mel sounds good to me. Also mark Muckleby's track. I think they had a good time. Give the extra to Viv.

I am fine with Verrain's suggestion.

That reminds me, I have the 8 squares I drew on the Ptisilith's glyphs so far and have added it to the Google slides for the B&B.

Alright, I’ll write up a farewell post for Mr. Boggs tomorrow and update the document. That’ll leave us with 1 Square Memento and 2 Circle Mementos, which opens up a few more options for unlocks of Late Chapters. Also keep in mind that we should eventually spend 4 Square Mementos when we are ready to try to get Gertrude’s heart back from Monday. The rewards for successfully doing so make up for those Mementos spent.

Oops, I had Mr. Boggs’ post in the wrong place. Fixed now.

We only need two more marks on the Harmony track before we wrap up this chapter! It was a fast one, but a fun one. :)

I’ll be out of town all next week without internet access, so I won’t be able to post. But I can get the next chapter set up before I leave and you all can play it without me if you’d like. This game doesn’t really need a GM, after all.

When this chapter ends, we will have 2 Square Mementos and 3 Circle Mementos to use. This gives us the option to unlock the "Home" chapter in Gertrude’s bedroom, but that one would resonate more once Gertrude’s heart is restored.

If we want to open up another Shelf with more potential chapters to play, we could spend the 2 Square Mementos in the Attic Observatory to unlock the guest Bremb and grant access to the remaining Moon Prince starring chapters. We could also put those 2 Mementos towards fixing Gertrude’s heart.

Other options include the other chapters already posted or new guests that are available. I’ll post up previews of guests within our reach so we can make an informed decision. We can also wait till we get one more Square Memento to open up any of the other shelves we have yet to open like the Pantry or Sal’s van.

At any rate, let me know which chapter you are interested in playing next, either a Starting Chapter or one we would need to unlock.

It was a fun chapter! I felt like the previous chapter was a bit of a slog - but I guess it succeeded in simulating feelings of working a lower-level job. LOL

I will be busy next week and not able to post much, so I was already thinking of skipping the next chapter. If @Verrain,@Legendary_Sidekick have a chapter they want to play together, you can do that and I will jump back in after that. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't be able to post much next week until the 22nd or 23rd of March.

As far as unlocks, I vote for waiting to unlock the Home chapter. Although I guess we could unlock it and wait to play it until after we restore her heart. Unlocking Bremb and get the rest of MPs chapters sounds good to me, but I am pretty flexible. I wouldn't mind putting the 2 mementos towords fixing Gs heart either but I would like to see more of her heartless state before completely fixing it.

I'll be out of town March 16-23, so maybe we all could just take the week off and start the new chapter after Redcroc and I are back. :)

I posted a preview of the MP chapters you can unlock in the Attic.

I am fine with the week off. In hindsight I guess we could have saved some of those extra chapters for such an occasion as this.

Well, if one of you gets bored, you could play through "Diary Two" since it's a solo chapter.

Or you could play "Firefly Catching" with just Sal and Hey Kid.

Or just wait a week. :D

My next time out of town will be the first week of September, so it will be a good stretch before this happens again.

Enjoy your vacation! A pause is fine. I’m pausing Bombshells as well, and will see if I can get two more players to join us.

Alrighty. Remember we still nee a few more Bingos to finish up the current chapter. :)

Oh, and I have plenty of tokens. I’ll spend one so someone else can whoopsie-bingo a big finish!

Oh! Cover songs! What a fun way to end the chapter!

"Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto?"

In my post, I happen to know that to be true about the Harmonix team. They hosted a Boston-based game developers’ meeting in 2003, and talked about their yet-to-be-named Guitar Hero project.

Of all the teams to host, they were the most interesting and they were passionate about this project that, likely, came off as the next Donkey Kong Junior Math to some people in that room.

And yet, they came off to me as that team that was gonna make it. Or maybe I wanted them to make it, because they were so obviously into what they were creating, and it was something that didn’t exist yet. It wasn’t a sure bet.

The game was released 25 months later, about half a year after I moved to Hong Kong. I didn’t know Guitar Hero was a thing until I visited the US and my friends introduced the game to me. I was blown away that the fun local guys I had met made arguably the biggest gaming fad of the ’00’s. And selling it to Activision only to immediately take it to the next level under another name was brilliant.

Sure, it’s a fad that has passed. Guitars with five colored buttons share a graveyard with those Wii Fit pads. But anyway… had to give those guys a shout-out. I met them—just that one time, before the world knew they were cool—and they left a lasting impression.

I went to a Bang Camaro concert in Orlando many a year ago. Their music was featured in Rock Band, and I believe some of the band members were on the game development team.

Wow! That's awesome. I remember playing Guitar Hero at a friend's house. I was not that good but it was a good time! I missed out on Rock Band unfortunately but it always looked fun.

I'm back from my trip! I'll be ready to start posting again tomorrow morning, so let's decide which chapter we want to play next.

If we don't want to commit to using Mementos yet, I'd suggest either Wash Cycle, Firefly Catching, or The Witch's Missing Shadow.

Welcome back!

I was lookkng at Wash Cycle, The Witch's Missing Shadow, and Who Knows How A Garden Grows.

Welcome back, Brainiac! Whatever others want is fine by me. Wash Cycle is first on both lists, so… if you need me to vote, that’s my vote.