 Okay, here is the box. The UPS truck came and went without me noticing, which is always frustrating. How does he do that? I don't understand how that happens. Anyway, it's here and problem number one is which side is the top of the box? The labels on the small edge here, and it was sitting next to my door like this. I'm assuming this must be the bottom, so we'll open it this way. Let's see what happens. I do not have access to proper lighting today, so I apologize. But that's how things go. I think we'll be able to see okay though. Yeah, that's the top of the box. Here we are. It's nice and tight. It fits well. The edges of the inner box are decorated with concept and design art. There's pictures of the statues and more stuff on the side. That's cute. Okay, we've got the rule book here. Quick play guide. Players proceed clockwise around the table. I want your turn to go through the following three phases. Roll two dice, move that many spaces, resolve any effects of special spaces. Combat, destruction. Play continues until someone opens a sixth gate or successfully completes a doom action. Each phase is described in more detail inside the rule book. Okay, I hope this isn't too complicated. I am not an experienced RPG player, so there may be a bit of a learning curve here, but we'll see. I've got two weeks or so before tabletop day. I'll give the book some study before tabletop day and then we'll be ready to play. Banishment. That's always good. Alright. Okay, so it looks like every player has their own little work table here to hold their cards and to keep a record of their progress. Okay, so this game will require more table space than just the game board. Okay, and there's art on the backs of the work tables here. Now, this looks like the game board. It is. There's the game pieces. We'll get to those in a second. Oh, wow. It has a really strong smell of plastic. Really strong. Kind of a zoom back out a little bit here. Well, almost can't fit it in. Okay, this looks to me like it's a little bit larger than a typical board game size. I might be I might be mistaken, but it looks large to me. This is really really beautiful, really colorful. The back of the board doesn't have any detail on it, but this certainly does. The front certainly does. The four corners are dark omens. Draw one doom card. Syzygy, draw whatever those are. We'll have to figure that out later. Banish by the elder sign is over in that corner and past the me go. Draw some other cards over here. And it looks like each of the colored triangular segments is the home of one of the one of the eight gods. There are spaces here for the different cards. Chant cards and discarded chant cards, providence cards and discarded providence cards and providence. That's cute. I'm assuming that these are that these are real places, real street names in I guess Providence, Rhode Island. And there's a gate in the middle of each side. Are these spaces that you land on? I'm not sure. And on each side there's a space for, looks like drawing a card, and a space for making a sacrifice. Wow, sacrifice. Okay. Alright, let's look at the stuff inside. I know you want to look at the the gods themselves, but let's save those for last. Here are the reference cards. Wow, these are big. Conquest of unknown cadath. Wow, cadath. These are big. These are a lot larger than the other cards. Four times the size. We'll unwrap those later. Here are I guess the chant cards. I guess when you make these chants you get to you can either take actions or add or subtract, add or subtract what do you call them, hit points or so on I guess. And these I guess are, these must be the providence cards. I don't see anything written on these cards. I may have to open this up. No, these are just pictures of the elder gods, Cthulhu, obviously Neyarlet Hotep. Yeah, just pictures of the gods. We'll obviously have to figure out how those work. Okay, there's little plastic silhouettes of people. I guess these are, these are your sacrifices. The work tables over here have faint markings to keep track of how many cultists you have. I don't know if you can see that. There's cultists and that's what these shapes are apparently. And then there are houses you can keep track of over here. Oh, there's more cards down there. Okay. Yeah, these are houses, obviously. It's pretty straightforward. So, oh the king and yellow. Wow. Ah, these are the providence cards. Okay. So the god cards, I don't know. I don't know what those are. The king and yellow. Have you seen the yellow sign? It means yield. Ha ha ha. Ha. Look at those later. And then here we have two different kinds of game pieces here. The magenta ones are shaped like a house and the green ones are, I guess, tentacles. Yeah. Look, there's a small number of those. And we have dice. Oh. And instead of a one, there's the screaming retro girl. Very cute. Hmm. Oh, it's very important, I'm sure. Now the gods. Is there anything under here, first of all? No, there is not. All right, let's start with Cthulhu. Wow, this really smells. This stuff really, really smells. This is small. This is only about two inches tall. I was thinking they were going to be larger, but these are highly detailed. Yeah, very detailed. Lots of detail work here. This is really nice. Every vertebrae is carved out there and detail on the face. Claws on both the hands and feet. This pedestal. Yeah, very nice detail. The spaces for them to rest in here are perfectly formed. I remember seeing Cryptozoic online. I remember the people at Cryptozoic posting that they were very concerned that these spaces, some of these spaces were not right. And they sent the forms back to be redone and they did a good job. It's an excellent work. Here is a Shugoth, I assume. Lots of detail. Every side. And this, this is, this would be Azototh. Okay, is this his back? Or is that his front? Can't really tell. This must be his front. Yeah, see his claws hanging over the front of the pedestal. Yeah, very detailed. Very nice sculpture. This would be Sathagua, the lazy frog god. One of our favorites. Look at that face. Looks like he's got teeth not only in his mouth but all over his face. Yeah, fur and everything. Wow. This would be Shubnagarath, a cow skull face. Looks like intestines with teeth hanging on the front. Okay. Wow. Look at the detail. Wow. Oh yeah. A haster. Okay. This one is practically human or humanoid. Nice flowing lines down the cape. That's beautiful. Okay. This is Ithakwa. Do I have the right one here? Ithakwa? Yeah. Yeah, that's Ithakwa. There's the face. Until I hold it up close, it's kind of hard to tell where the face is. It's all uniform gray and detailed on the flowing hair there. And finally, Nyarlathhotep with his scarab decoration. Yeah, all that hair. Wow. Those tree roots down at the bottom. And the rest is hair. Wow. Beautiful panting hair. Oh wow. Look how delicate this top of his staff is. Yeah, that's really delicate. Gonna have to be careful with that. Okay. Well, there we go. There are your game pieces on the game board. I have to say I like the way the game board looks better than I liked it. The better than I like the photos I was seeing online. When I was seeing the photos online, the game board to me looked too, it looked too brightly colored. I felt it needed to be darker and more brooding. And in person it is. Here are your control tables or whatever you want to call them. All the God cards, houses, the sacrifices, various cards. There it all is. The Doom dice. I'm gonna open up these big cards. See what these are all about. They're called reference cards. Well, there's a lot of them. Well, some of these are called Doom cards. Okay. Reference, reference, reference. Gate cards. All right. Tome cards. Okay. So I guess you have to acquire these cards during the course of the game to take these actions. And the reference cards, okay. The reference cards are exactly that. These are just for each individual player to consult when they have questions about, quick questions about gameplay, I guess. Conquest of Unknown Cadath. Copy Cataclysm. Cosmic Wipeout. The DeLuge. End of the Line. Oh, look at that. Fright Club. Last Chance. Ha, ha, ha. Necropolis. Out of Time. The Penultimate Gate. Sudden Death. These, um, this little cartoon character looks, looks like a Yithyan to me. That's cute. Sunder the Vale. Ultimate Sacrifice. Hmm. Wow. Sacrifice 12. Wow. Urban Blight. Vampire Victory. The Yellow Sign-off. Ah, cute, cute. Double the Gate Toll. These must be the, oh, Tone cards. Okay. Those are the Doom cards I was looking through. These are the Gate cards. Okay. These are the various books, I guess, that are referenced in the various Lovecraft stories. This is the King and Yellow. Okay, all the books are here. Yeah. Necotic Manuscripts. The Book of Toth. And then we've got the, uh, the Gate cards. Carcosa. Okay, so I guess this is how you get to, you get to the various, uh, Outer Realms. The Gate to Lang, Nikai, Ulyae, Shagai. Yeah, okay. I'm glad I opened those up and looked at them. I guess I'll take a little more time and open up these Providence cards. As to how the game will actually play, I'll wait to do that on, uh, on Tabletop Day. That's April 5th. Flabby Claws. Really Deep Ones. Revolting Voltage. Vale of Falness. Okay. Event. The Lurker at the Threshold. The Opener of the Ways. Gasly Gibbering. Blasphemous. Yeah, that's definitely a Yithian. Do I have that right? Yithian? Yeah. Three Eyes. Clawed Hands. Pedestal. Uh, Single Foot. Cyclopean. Tentacular. The Demon Sultan. Formless Horror. Betrachean Terror. Non-Euclidean. Oh, the Call of Cthulhu. Oh, you can draw from the discard pile. Good ol' Cthulhu. So discarded cards never die, they only sleep. Dagon's Demolition Team. Yah, Yah, Yellow Sign. Sisterhood of the Yah, Yah, Yellow Sign. Okay, okay. Ah, Thousand Young. Shingles. Black Goat of the Woods. Noisome Vapors. Noisome means, uh, it means smelly by the way, not noisy. Uh, Male Order of Dagon. Uh, uh, I think that's called Amazon these days. Memorous Wings. Cron Chaos. Formless Spawn. Squeamish Unearthly. Alright, it's cute stuff. Alright, I think that's gonna be it. Thank you for watching, and I hope you will come back on April 5th when I hope to live stream a full game or two. So, uh, look for news about that. Thank you. Bye.