Hello and welcome to a new solo RPG series, switching up tone completely and exploring the wonderfully cozy journaling game Koriko: A Magical Year by Jack Harrison & Mousehole Press, creators of other incredible solo games like Artefact, Orbital, and Bucket of Bolts (Jack also did layout for Notorious & Outsiders, so clearly he knows what he's doing)!

Koriko is a game about a teenage witch leaving their home village to spend one year in a new city where they will work their craft, expand their horizons, and learn to be the witch they are destined to become. Very obviously paying homage to its inspirations, Koriko is a beautiful book in both art and writing, and I'm very excited to break away from my usual method of solo journaling strictly through audio to actually write in a journal to create the incredible artifact that sticking to this ritual will become.

Volume 1: Departure introduces Eugenia "Genie" Finch, our young witch with excellent style, wild ginger hair, and a three-eyed mink familiar named Mog who is leaving her northern forests village of Bonetto to find somewhere new.

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Music in the Episode:

Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands

Handel Improv by Monument Studios

Mindfulness Harp by Monument Studios

Elven Glade from TabletopAudio.com

Magic Shoppe from TabletopAudio.com

Secret Garden from TabletopAudio.com

Wizard's Tower from TabletopAudio.com

Large Book, Manual, Page Turn 5 sound effect from ZapSplat