The cube trundles onward, marching inexorably--if haltingly--towards its ultimate destination. It is told it must explore, and so explore it does. The other cube conquers, but that is not this cube's concern. They met once at a party. It seemed nice, but that was long ago, and the cube must explore, not mingle. Sometimes it does not explore; sometimes it scores for some quantity of non-explore things. These things it does not understand, but it knows that points are good, and so it does those things. The explore cube also cares about farms, for some reason, and mushrooms. Near the end of its track, it pauses--not for lack of mushrooms, this time, but out of an uncharacteristic self-doubt. Why does it do these things, it wonders. What mad god intersperses these random tasks so? And down from Olympus comes the pronouncement of the cube's controller--perhaps that very mad god, or perhaps merely a lesser divinity in thrall of some yet more powerful, some yet more capricious deity--"BECAUSE THEME."

Games Played Last Week:
-Shards of Infinity 2m38s (Gary Arant & Justin Gary, Stone Blade Entertainment, 2018)
-The Bridges of Shangri-La 4m33s (Leo Colovini, Uberplay, 2003)
-Vengeance 9m22s (Gordon Calleja, Mighty Boards, 2018)
-Slide Quest 12m03s (Nicolas Bourgoin & Jean-François Rochas, Blue Orange, 2019)
-Gaslands: Refuelled 14m02s (Mike Hutchinson, Osprey Publishing, 2019)

News (and why it doesn't matter):
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-More Warhammer Underworlds 21m58s
-More Sidereal Confluence 24m20s
-Foundations of Rome 25m44s
-Mark must resist Obsidian Protocol 26m07s
-Blacklist Games' Hour of Need 27m19s
-Root RPG 28m34s

Feature Game: Tapestry 29m06s (Jamey Stegmaier, Stonemaier Games, 2019)

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