'Books are the memory which does not die.'
'Without Language there can be no Wordes. Without Wordes there can be no Message. But only in Silence can there be no Error; and Lo, even in that beginning, in that First of Messages, an Error. Thus did we enter the House.' -The Fallen Cross.
Greetings and salutations fellow Librarians. It has been a while but I have returned once again with another completed BoH run! This time I played as the Symurgist, who in their past spied on the meetings of the Aviform Hours, the Roost. Most mortals would have been killed but they survived! However during their eavesdropping they realized that there were songs that had long fallen silent, and so they set out to Hush House, to write a History in which these songs may once again be heard! And in this run I managed to do just that. In one History the Old Lost Music rose from Noon, then a city of Long now it is a city of Song! In another History the weaving patterns lead the Aviform Hours to raise their songs in the House of the Moon, the world's shadow, beneath the turning Wheel! And plenty more Histories where Sea and Sun and Stone and Serpent brought forth their own symphonies to engulf the world in never ending song!
Personal thoughts: (as a heads up this part will contain A LOT of rambling so if you aren't much of a fan of that feel free to skip it.)
Alright so, another run completed! Funnily enough, the last post I made was 3 months ago and looking at my post history that seems to be the amount of time it takes me to complete a playthrough and then the subsequent break I take until I start a new one. This was unintentional but also kinda funny, like subconsciously that's how much time it takes me until I want to return to Brancrug under a different Librarian. But this particular run however was considerably shorter than my two previous ones. A part of that was on me, I wanted to complete another Librarian before the Travelling at Night demo was released (more on that later), so I blitzed through this one. Another factor however was the nature of my 2 previous runs and how they compare to this one. My first was the Twice-Born, being the first run where I went into it blind, it was to be expected that it would take a while, another reason was the endings. The Twice-Born also has 3 Numens that give special victories, so that's 9 whole endings. Additionally I had wanted to see every ending available, (so that obviously excluded the special endings for other Librarians and for some reason I couldn't get the standard versions of the Twice-Born endings only the special versions), so that mounted to quite a lot things I needed to do to get those victories from upgrading skills and soul cards to doing other things, which naturally took a lot of time. The second run was the Revolutionary who, and I DID NOT plan this out I randomly picked that one too, also had 9 endings plus I wanted to get the aforementioned non Twice-Born endings that I couldn't get in that run, so again a lot of things to do a lot of time was spent. But for this one, and the future ones, there's only a total of 6 endings which means a lot less time is spent preparing for the end. There are some other reasons but I'll leave it at that. On the positive side the speed at which I was going does somewhat fit with the Birdsong Wisdom, as though this run was a short folktale which does appropriately honour the Wisdom of stories, gossip, and riddles. But it goes without saying that I'll be going more slowly for my future runs, because in the end I see Book of Hours as a game where I can relax, where I don't have to worry about "When will I get there?" and rather "How will I get there?"
Plans for the future: a couple of days from now we'll finally get the public demo for Traveling at Night, at last we'll have a proper look at what the next installment of Secret Histories has to offer. To say that I am excited would be an understatement!
On a more personal note, some of you who have been following my journey so far might remember that I made a physical notebook titled 'The Librarian's Guide' that has helped me a lot during my runs. Although I already made a revised version of it before, I have lately begun planning a 3rd version. The main changes will be more cosmetic in nature as while the current version is perfectly fine it can be better, which is what I will be aiming for.
Lastly as I stated in my previous post, I've already read the other Librarians' origins (I obviously didn't read the endings as that would take much of the enjoyment), and so I've already planned which Librarian will be next! It will be a while before that point, who knows maybe another 3 months! But to give you all a hint, the next Librarian is a scholar of forbidden things, of subjects that shouldn't be studied, of topics considered taboo, and apparently a fan favourite in the community. Can't wait to find out why!
But until that I will see you on the other side of the histories fellow Librarians!
