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		<title>A Comedy of the Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 11:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Minor spoilers for Travelling at Night, inconsequentially minor spoilers for Book of Hours! Three years ago, I sat down to write an in-game letter for each Wisdom. The one below was for Hushery. We were going to release it as part of the Book of Hours marketing run-up, but it was a particularly opaque effort. […]]]></description>
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		<title>To Superintendent Wynford, of Nocturnal Branch —</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[At the turn of the century, the Nocturnal Branch of the Metropolitan Police was responsible for protection against ‘troubles unseemly and occult.’ After the fallout from the Ortucchio Incident, the Branch was dismantled and its functions absorbed into the civilian Suppression Bureau.]]></description>
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		<title>Reverend Timothy Speaks, Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[“BOOKS ARE THE MEMORY THAT DOES NOT DIE.” – Inscription above the door of Hush House As Lottie and I work on BOOK OF HOURS, we’ve become better acquainted with the long and layered history of Hush House, the library where the game takes place. Lottie’s worked on recapturing the House’s look and feel over […]]]></description>
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		<title>Tabriz, January 1866: My dear nephew -</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 17:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Tabriz January 1866 My dear nephew What a surprise and a pleasant one to hear from you. My warmest congratulations and wishes to your new wife, except that it is a year since the date of your letter and so I suppose no longer new. I hope indeed by now you are blest with children. […]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Feast and the Last Duel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 15:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[“Each century in the Mansus is a great hall. The Hours feast in the thirty-fifth of its kind. In its last year, they’ll close it up and move on. In our dreams, we can visit their abandoned halls. In our dreams.” – Meredith Blaine Aficionados of the Secret Histories may recall that Blaine was killed […]]]></description>
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		<title>'The Sweet Bones', Brancrug, June 28th, 1929</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 09:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[From an anonymous F. to Christopher Illopoly, this letter is remarkable for a number of reasons. First, that it explains with more clarity than usual the purpose and abilities of the Librarian of Hush House. Second, that the ‘secrets of inks’ are discussed with the candour of assured destruction. Third, that the letter was evidently […]]]></description>
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		<title>Dec #2: YELLOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy advent, Believers. It’s been a helluva year. We have a bunch of announcements coming up in 2020, ranging from Mobile DLC to Other Cultist Stuff to New Stuff to Stuff That Isn’t A Game At All. We’ll also be able to reinstate our production roadmap, to give you all a much clearer idea of […]]]></description>
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		<title>"Got your book. Pretty good condition, too. Bit blurred round the edges, but the little fellow's taken good care of it..." (January 15th-ish, 1906)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2019 12:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes! This should really be called ‘NOV #1: WESTENRA’, but this producer is Off The Rails. You can’t stop me. I’m naming this sprint update after the rather curious case of D and The History of Inks, written to a Dr. Serena Blackwood at the Office of the Curia. Click to read photographs of the […]]]></description>
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		<title>THREE SECRET HISTORIES</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2018 12:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[A compendium of the notes, extracts and books Alexis wrote as part of our Kickstarter campaign, all the way back in September ’17. Now with added visuals! Transcripts linked in the title, and if you would like to read Travellers to Italy in its full 19th-century glory, click on the image for a bigger one. […]]]></description>
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		<title>Weather Factory at GDC; and ACTUAL TANTRIC PHRASE OR OCCULT INVENTION</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Lottie and I are off to GDC next week! This will render us quieter on social media than usual. Probably quieter when we get back, too, and I’m recovering from sharing atmosphere with all those other humans. If you’re also at GDC, do come say hi. I’m doing a talk about running an indie studio […]]]></description>
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		<title>"Fucine was spoken in the dry country. It is the language of witches. It shares words with High Aeolic."</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Addendum excised from Sir William Colt Hoare’s Hints to Travellers in Italy, 1815. MARRUVIUM was the chief city of the Marruvii, a mountain people who rebelled many times against Rome. The city was established as a colony after their final pacification. Today it is a little provincial town, San Benedetto dei Marsi, which has not […]]]></description>
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		<title>"Theresa Galmier wrote to a dear friend describing, elliptically, her experiences in the port of Noon."</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>"Around 1890, in the Third History, the Crowned Growth could be perceived through the White Door."</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2017 13:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Oriflamme’s, Lot 5, Auction 5th May ’57. Fragments of the notebooks of ‘Parsival’, recovered from the wreck of Mr Strathcoyne’s private library. “Madame, Herein I have set down my recollections of my time with the Society of the Noble Endeavour. I write in haste &amp; may be lacking clarity. Make what you will of it. […]]]></description>
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		<title>Fanworks: Illopoly, Galmier and Coseley: an analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2017 12:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Cultist Simulator contains a fifteen or so occult books (it’ll be about a hundred and twenty by the time the game is complete). Here’s an exegesis of three of them by Anne Auclair from the Fallen London forums. I’m reproducing it without comment, and can’t vouch for its accuracy. The Locksmith’s Dream, Teresa Galmier “I […]]]></description>
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		<title>The Orchid Transfigurations: a Private Viewing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[So I visited a certain seaside town, where Teresa Galmier had been before me. Some of the things I found in the Parish History museum: A dusty display case of flint tools; a stuffed hare; an inexplicable box of yellowing wool; a full-sized model of Queen Victoria, who visited in 1885; and this. It’s the […]]]></description>
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		<title>"Will there be same-sex romances in Cultist Simulator?"</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi @alexiskennedy A quick question before I sign up on your thunderclap: will there be same-sex romances in Cultist Simulator? Thanks! — elidoo (@elidooooo) August 17, 2017 The answer is ‘yes’, but this is a sensitive and complex topic, so I want to respond honestly and to make sure that player expectations are met. In […]]]></description>
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		<title>The Orchid Transfigurations, on the South Coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I mentioned the package I’d received from ‘A Well-Wisher’, containing two volumes of the 1925 edition of ‘The Locksmith’s Dream’. I also mentioned also that the package included a postcard from Galmier herself, from a seaside town on the south coast. Since then, I’ve realised two things. Firstly, the town named on the […]]]></description>
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		<title>The Locksmith's Dream (1923 edition)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[If you lived in the first half of the twentieth century, and you wanted to find a way into the Mansus, you probably owned a copy of this book. It began life as a catalogue of unusual parallels in the dreams of artisans, but by the time of Volume 2 (‘Portions and Proportions’) it amounted […]]]></description>
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