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I knew T.I.M.E Stories would differ from standard board game fare when I sat down to my first play and saw that one of my character choices was a young girl… with a cannibal fetish. In a 1920’s French insane asylum. Where a temporal rift was in danger of being opened.

“Kids,” I told my two older children as my board gaming group arrived, “better head up to bed.”