Hey there!
I did not played it yet, but I printed it and had a thought while reading the rules that I want to leave, in case I forget later:
I really like these type of games that are somewhat flexible, but have a good amount of strictness to it - I find journaling games a bit too open ended. So this game looks great to me!
I immediately got reminded of this game: Wasted Hours by rommelkot (itch.io) which is my absolute favorite. What I like about it is that I get 2 sheets of paper to fill out and a session is done when the sheets are filled out. and after the session I have 2 sheets of paper for my collection of past sessions.
So, what I thought about reading the rules is that it would probably fit great on 2 to 3 sheets of paper that are designed like this:
- The report
- content: the country, The rumour phase, The investigation phase
- basically a sheet that with a layout of a report
- this could be separated on 2 sheets, or done on one (1/2 of the page for each part)
- part one
- basically the rumour phase as some sort of witness statement. with a date, country, name of the person that reported it or the agent that documents rumours
- part two
- The investigation phase as a report of the investigation, maybe including the date and name again, to add some depth.
- anomaly file
- content: Containment/File writing phase
- I imagine something like a fact sheet they create after seeing, capturing an anomaly. The Layout could be simply like a standard fact sheet. box for a picture/drawing top left, a line for the headline in the middle and then some boxes for text for general information; like "What it does" -> as "Known Behaviour", "How you found it" -> "Entities known by AICB:"
as I said, just a thought because I like the idea of having basically worksheets to fill out instead of a blank sheet of paper
I'm looking forward to play it!