Interplay's #Stonekeep has a brilliant box design: a dungeon door crowded by skeletal holograms. Imagine my sorrow when I discovered my copy had been crushed, perhaps because the holographic budget required using the thinnest cardboard ever invented. As one does, I've held a small funeral, with several other blobbers paying respects to their fallen friend. May she rest peacefully in the great grid-paper notebook in the sky.

In better news, the clothbound novella, Thera Awakening, is in mint condition! This is all the more surprising given that I read it often as a child, when for a period it was one of my favourite books (seriously) I remember this having a much more thrilling storyline than the game proper... something about bloodsucking hell-wasps. Scared me senseless. I've opened to a relevant page, using a weird claw grip to avoid bending the spine. Enjoy!

(Also, I'm going to say it: #AnvilOfDawn was better.)

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Small addition to my Mother Goose post: I hadn't remembered until I dug this out today, but the game's manual is formally titled a "parent guide." (And it's a surprisingly low-quality glossy paper manual, quite unlike those in other early Sierra games—I guess the cardboard map used up the feelies budget?)

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