First Anniversary Celebration

The **First Anniversary** **Celebration** of Cursetorn's release was held on July 26th, 2021. It was held a year after the game's initial release, and involved a variety of real world effects and participation from players themselves.

## Announcement Text

"Good day everyone! @Subscribed: Community @Subscribed: Cursetorn

Just a year ago, @necrosishead and I participated in a Game Jam on a whim and it resulted in one of the nicest, most wholesome communities I've had the pleasure to be a part of and manage, while slowly chipping away at the game's actual development. Without further ado, here's some information on Cursetorn & its anniversary!

**Q.:** *Let's talk release date! When will the game come out?*

**A.:** Development has been a bit of a roadblock with both me and necrosishead working on our own projects apart from the game itself, be it actual other media (like their amazing animated series), or life (university and jobs), so it's been very slow - that's to say, Cursetorn will **not** release in 2021.

**Q.:** *When will I receive my postcard?*

**A.:** There have been delays, but we'll send 'em out this week, most likely. Please allow at least a week or two beyond that for your postcard to arrive. As was stated in the event itself - if a postcard is lost in transit, we sadly can't replace it.

**Q.:** *Can you finally gives us some details on what Story Mode will be about?*

**A.:** Story Mode will tell the tale of a doctor, you, who is visited by a nun from the Monastery one day and asked to care for a patient who has fallen sick from unnatural causes. Your goal? Not to cure, but simply keep that patient alive until they come to collect them. You will explore the town and uncover what secrets your patient, the land and the curse that has been ravaging it for aeons hold. And the truth... might be better off untold.

Cursetorn is going to be a Horror / Resource Management / Visual Novel Hybrid, with various intermissions for actual gameplay - the Endless Mode you see today is a taste of what that could look like. With multiple endings and branching story lines, your own personal approach matters and should make the game highly replayable.

With that being said, it wouldn't be a celebration if we didn't have *a little gift* for you all! @necrosishead was hard at work to create a beautiful poster for Cursetorn's anniversary, that features never before seen characters from Story Mode and some details that could give away part of what fate has in store for these chosen few. I'm sure some of you are excited to dig into the story side of things, so feel free to discuss what you find in #lore! General discussion about the anniversary post fits snuggly in #cursetorn! Have a wonderful day everyone~!"

*(Taken from the Cursetorn Discord, from a #news message posted on 26.07.2021)*

## Real World Rewards

Through this event, players were able to input their addresses and be sent a letter celebrating the **First Anniversary**. A total of 50 cards were sent out to participating players, all with individually written notes on them and a number denoting their position in the collected cards. On the front of the postcard there was art drawn of Kein holding hands with a cursed form of themself, and to the side was the text, "CURSETORN: one year anniversary".

The back of the card held the participating player's address as well as the hand written note. There was also a black and white lined reprint of the art from the front of the card, which depending on the individual letter would have an ominous word written around it (written as though it had been carved out of the postcard).

### Mystery of the Postcards

The postcards were confirmed to contain some sort of hidden message when all of the words were combined together. Here is a list of all the words that have been accounted for, in no particular order.

* MAY
* NONE
* RESIDE
* ANGELS
* WHERE
* PROSPER

It was later said that all of the words had been repeated on multiple postcards, in order to ensure that the full message could be deciphered even if a few of them got lost in transit.

Discord user RopsHyde had an additional message written on her card, written in Russian, which reads: вернись домой, или ангелы вернут тебя (Return home or angels will return you.)