The expansive gentleman in the picture below is (probably) the naturalist Pehr Kalm:
He was a widely-travelled eighteenth-century Finnish naturalist, and the genus kalmia was named after him:
. Pehr looks cross in that picture. It might be that his handsome waistcoat is too tight, it might be that the pinecone is spiky, or it might be that the flower named for him was later nicknamed kill-kid. This is less horrible than it sounds, because 'kid' is also a juvenile goat, and kalmia is also nicknamed lamb-kill and sheep-poison. It's stuffed with neurotoxins, is what I'm saying. Don't let your goats near it. Or your kids. If Cultist has taught us anything, it's the unwisdom of putting something in your mouth just cos it looks pretty. Over to Chelnoque for the patch notes for KALMIA. These are pretty bland, because he's done a lot of work behind the scenes on content import and logging that isn't interesting to write about. We've also just put the LONGIFLORUM release on the beta branch, which is a bit funner, especially in that it makes games more resistant to the notorious Cat Jumped On My Keyboard bug. But I'll post the patch notes for that one when it goes live. 2022.9.k.3 KALMIA - Several minor typos in slot requirements are fixed. - Blank credits panel in Russian localisation is fixed. - HOTFIX: The game started to treat some save files as if they were corrupted. They, in fact, weren't, and this all is now behind us. - HOTFIX: Newly-spawned verbs no longer snatch a single random card from their birthplace. - HOTFIX: Newly-spawned verbs no longer snatch a single random card from their birthplace. - MODDING: Greatly increased the vigilance and informativeness of JSON import logs. bonus content: The Monastery of the Fifth Cup box. It's sold out, but there's some lore here that people got excited about.
The Locksmith's Dream. Pictures from the beta!
Have a spooky day, as they say on that one podcast. - AK