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The Lady Afterwards
In case you missed our recent updates,
Lady Afterwards development continues apace. We shared a lot of Lantern-lore, which may change the way you feel about
Cultist's Diarist.
PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT MANSUS-SPOILERS, DON'T HOVER OVER THE BELOW! For everyone else, Lantern-long...
[spoiler]
can send dreams to trouble an enemy. The better idea the fulgent has of the enemys nature and real-world location, the more likely they are to find them. [Each of these is a bonus from Trivial to Major.]
If the fulgent knows what city the target is in, thatll help. If they know their address, thats much better. If the fulgent has visited the address, thats best.
If the fulgent knows what the target might dream of their hopes and fears thatll help. If the fulgent knows what the target has been doing recently, who theyve met or what theyve eaten, thats better. If the fulgent has met the target recently, in dreams or in the world, thats best.
If the target has fulfilled potential requirements for entering the Mansus e.g. someones been murdered in the room recently, or if theyre a Know then theyre more vulnerable. If theyre in the Mansus, theyre most vulnerable.
However, if the target has fulfilled requirements for entering the Wood, theyre safer. These include cutting a lock of hair; wounding the sole of the foot; or sleeping in the presence of as few colours as possible other than white and black (including hair and clothes).
The more light there is in the place the target sleeps, the more likely the fulgents sendings are to find them.
Fulgents can enter a mirror, lens or light-source in the physical world: a process that has been called transinhabitatation by the Church of the Unconquered Sun, alighting by the Tragulari, and scrining by the Obliviates. An inhabited item of this kind, then, is a scrine[/spoiler]
+10 Fascination.
Here're some WIP photos of
The Lady Afterwards limited boxed edition, as it comes together:

We'll announce an official release date for
The Lady Afterwards soon. Keep your eyes peeled, and make sure you're signed up to the
mailing list! Happy culting, Believers.
[ 2021-08-20 09:03:49 CET ] [ Original post ]