Here in the real world, it’s Saturday. In the eternal night of
The Longing’s
caves, it’s impossible to tell what day it is. What I do know, though, is how much time remains: 71 days, 15 hours. See,
The Longing
plays out over the course of 400 days, in real-time, while you wait for a mythical king to awake. Just under 72 days? Nearly there then.
It’s been over a month since I last played, but the seconds tick away all the same. The Shade is right where I left him. He rubs his eyes - those huge yellow headlamps - and tries reasoning with me. “Maybe I should return to my home?”
But that wouldn’t be much fun to read, would it? So I send him deeper into the cave system, up a spiderweb that took long weeks to form, in search of adventure.