The unicorn allows you to immediately get the full silver value of all of the stuff in a floor of your dungeon without it being lost. Last time I did this I got enough silver in one go for about six new floors. But there's nothing else good to do with them, other than just generating more silver for more floors. I appreciate the cunning addictiveness of the design and the artistry of the game but I reckon I've had enough.
Another game I've been playing a bit of is Cut the Rope. In this you have a piece of 'candy' on a set of strings suspended over a little monster named Om Nom:
He doesn't like to move to eat so you have to cut the ropes with a swipe to get the candy to swing into his mouth. Extra challenge is added by trying to make it swing so it also intersects with stars for bonus points. Good puzzles.
Jelly Defense is a fairly standard Tower Defense game but with a nice art style and some interesting mechanics:
In essence you have to build towers to kill wave after wave of jelly monsters of different types, so it's all about strategic placement and use of resources. There's also the fact that red towers only kill red jellies, blue kill blue and there's some mixed ones too. Some of the interface is slightly clunky - I often find my finger is in the way of something I need to see - but nothing too vital.
Wind-up Knight is a very pretty racing platformer thing. Not much to say other than it being fun but that it locked my phone up.
Listening to audiobooks continues regularly. At present it is Company of Liars:
This is about a group of traders, musicians, etc, trying to escape the bubonic plague. It's very nicely done and has lovely turns of phrase - "They giggled, delighted by terror" and "As the yawns multiplied around the group" - and some interesting history. Lots of stuff about religious and political persecution of the Jews and other minority groups, some bits about Venetian glassblowers being banished to an island in case they gave their secrets away and all sorts. It's interesting to see the sorts of scapegoating going on - blaming the Jewish population for the bubonic plague, rather than having to accept their own powerlessness. Some of the characters are despicable but most of them are compelling and the book is read wonderfully by David Thorpe.
A physical book I've been reading has been Mouse Guard. It's a graphic novel about the hidden society of mice, hunted by just about everything and protected and guided by the titular Mouse Guard. It features a dual-wielding dagger mouse named Sadie:
That is probably all you need to know to rush out and buy it.
We had a bit more rat sickness. Arya is doing fine after her antibiotics but Nightcrawler has since needed some. Furthermore, Fran noticed a lump on Sansa's neck on Wednesday, prompting us to go to the vet's last night. Sansa remains impossible to handle so the vet wasn't able to diagnose exactly so we just booked in for an operation next Tuesday. We took some antibiotics home and mixed them with some apricot jam to get them to take them. This necessitated keeping Sansa in her own cage for the time being so she actually eats the dose we want her to have.
Upon getting up this morning and examining her, the lump is gone! There's some crusty skin around it so it looks like she burst it. No sign of any pus or blood either. It had been bothering her and she was scratching it a lot so she must have dealt with it herself. Clever girl! Chased her around with some antiseptic to make sure it doesn't get infected but with minimal success. She can stay on her own for a little bit as it might do her good.
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