It'll be another couple of weeks before it stops feeling like we're in full night at 4:30 p.m. - the lingering early dark is one of the roughest parts of winter. I always feel that here in New York we shouldn't make decisions during two months of the year: February, when it's been cold and dark for so long that we can't remember when the days felt good just being days, and August, for the same reasons except hot.

I knew a cool L.A. band once called The Switchblade Kittens - no relation to this game, I gather. There's some mention of a sequel, and this game appears to come from the Bard's Tale and Wasteland Remastered people, so it may have legs. This is an old key, but newly activated, so it should work like new.

Happy New Year!