Where are the holystones?

A warrior clutches stone to breast...

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The goal was to make larger and more realistic versons of #squareenix magnet stones that came with the deluxe version of #Ivalicechronicles.

Hand sculpted and made into master molds.

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The game was set in a "before the world became what it is today" setting, and among other things the codex-style book wasn't really in use. When talking about life on a ship, the game author devoted excessive wordcount to explaining how the rocks could still be called holystones in this setting. 3/

4/3 With odds stacked against him @johnnydoyle.bsky.social finds missing photos in a matter of hours:
IWM Q 20833, showing German U-Boat SM UC-5 after capture.
IWM Q 17933, Bluejackets scrubbing decks of HMS Royal Oak en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_UC-5

Holystones rasp the deck above you, a bosun's whistle sounds. The watch calls; six AM and all's well. You have forgotten about throuples. "Trump" only stirs the memory of card games at home. And is a "Doge" some creature of Stephen's? You forget, happily. Coffee. "Killick, Killick there!" you roar

In real world history, sailors would scrub wooden ships with flat stones the rough size and shape of a book. Specifically, since it was the main book sailors would be familiar with, the Bible. So the Bible-shaped stones were referred to as holystones. The problem came in during work on a TTRPG. 2/