#Cultist Simulator

[chromodorid]

Honey-Haunted Pumpkin Pie

"Harvey Hattington, perenially suspicious of the Blomberende-kind and their cuckoo-honey, nevertheless championed pumpkin pie made with cuckoo-honey as 'the Herald of Savour.'"

Recipe and notes under the cut!

Ingredients

The ingredients to make this pie in-game are a Soft Amber Pumpkin, dough, and spices. I couldn't find pumpkins that had the honey already in them, though, so we're using the pureed stuff from a can instead and adding the honey separately :p

Pie Crust

1 cup (two sticks or 227 grams) butter, cut into cubes, cold 

About ½ cup of ice water

10 oz (284 grams) flour

1 1/2 teaspoon salt

Pie weights (1 cup dried beans or rice work as well)

1 egg, beaten

Filling

1/4 cup (85 grams) honey

5 tbsp (70 grams) butter

1 15 oz can (425 grams) pumpkin puree

1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated sugar

1/2 cup (95 grams) brown sugar

3 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

3/4 cup (178 grams) heavy whipping cream

1 tsp ground ginger

1 tsp allspice

1 tsp cloves

1 tsp nutmeg

1 tsp salt

3 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground black pepper

Instructions

Making the Crust

In a food processor, add flour and butter and pulse until mixture resembles wet sand. Transfer to a large mixing bowl. 

If you aren’t using a food processor, add flour to a large mixing bowl. Cut butter into smaller cubes and combine with flour using a fork. Stop when butter chunks are about the size of a pea.

Add ice water to flour and butter mixture two spoonfuls at a time until the dough can hold its shape but is still slightly dry, around 16 spoons of water. This will vary depending on temperature and humidity in your area. Knead the dough into a single mass, cut in half, and wrap both pieces in plastic film. Form each into a disc and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

After chilling, preheat your oven to 400F (200C). Roll out the dough to about 1 inch wider than your pie pan of choice and transfer to the pan. Trim the dough so that it fits your pan, decorate the crust as desired, and poke holes into the dough with a fork. Cover with foil and add weights. 

Bake dough for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and brush the entire crust with an egg wash, and then bake again for another 10 minutes. Remove from oven again and set aside to cool.

Making the Filling

In a large saucepan, melt 5 tablespoons (70 grams) of butter on medium-low heat, stirring occasionally. Once the butter begins to bubble and sputter, continue cooking for another 5 minutes or until the milk solids turn brown and the mixture begins to smell sweet and nutty. Remove from heat and whisk in the honey immediately until the mixture is consistent. Set aside to cool.

In a saucepan, cook pumpkin puree over medium heat for 5-7 minutes. This will intensify the flavor of the pumpkin. Set aside to cool.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together granulated sugar, brown sugar, eggs, whipping cream, salt, and vanilla extract until combined. Mix in cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger powder, allspice, cloves, and black pepper.

Once the honey mixture and pumpkin have cooled, gradually add them to the rest of the ingredients and whisk until smooth. 

Assembly

Preheat your oven to 400F (200C).

Pour about half of the filling mixture into the par-baked crust. Brush the outer portions of the crust with egg wash again and then place the pie dish on a baking sheet pan. Bring the sheet to the oven and then pour in the remainder of the filling. Place the entire baking sheet in the oven on the lowest rack possible.

Bake for 45 minutes or until the edges of the filling have set but the center is still wobbly. After baking, crack open the oven slightly to allow the pie to cool gradually. This will reduce cracks in the surface. After one hour, remove from the oven to cool for another two hours. 

(Optional) Draw a little ghostie on a piece of paper and attach it to a toothpick. Stick the ghostie decoration into the pie at an angle to make it cuter! It'll also look more like the art from the game :)

Notes

On Cuckoo-Honey: I used buckwheat honey for this recipe, but any type will work just as well! Buckwheat honey has a very earthy, sharp sort of flavor to it that I thought would suit Cuckoo-Honey’s additional Scale, Edge, and Knock. It’s not essential to the recipe, though! Use whatever honey you like best!

Par-baking the crust helps prevent sogginess once the filling’s added. The extra egg wash also helps keep the filling from seeping into the crust. 

Depending on the size of your pie pan, the filling might overflow. A deeper pie pan can help prevent this, as can making two smaller pies instead of a single larger one

[vio-lenceee]

"Lying on your bed, looking at the ceiling. Waiting for something to happen and knowing all the time that you were meant for something better. Feeling it. Wanting it. But how much can you take before you snap?"

[imageartifacts]

I think my favorite piece of cultsim trivia is "professional occultist has said they can't play it because it's too close to their actual job"

[nephriteknight]

book of hours gets you in character with it's limited UI and emphasis on the passage of time and the weather; cultist simulator gets you into character by luring you in with the Glory until you realize its 3 in the morning and you're frantically re-reading lore while juggling four different tasks and trying to combat fascination while a hunter is on your tail and you still haven't done the dishes in your real actual life

[jammed-one]

This took entirely too long for what it is

[s-che]

Parasitic Games

So I've been rewatching Gravity Falls, right? And reading the Book of Bill, of course. And also playing a lot of Cultist Simulator? Which is a weird one but also a very specific combination of vibes.

Anyway I blacked out and finally wrote a twin pair of journaling games, A CALAMITOUS COINCIDENCE and THE ALCHEMIST. I wrote them in my dark basement research center (apartment) while remembering only occasionally to fulfill my obligations to the outside world (still going to work, I guess) while attempting to string together the clues and assemble, at last, my magnum opus (get them on the actual page, or screen I guess).

Anyway, let's do some normal ad copy.

Calamitous Coincidence is based on stories of lonely investigators, clever children, and inescapable tragedy (like A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Mysterious Benedict Society, and Gravity Falls) while The Alchemist lets you jump right in to bullshit esoteric thinking inspired by absolute freaks like John Dee and Aleister Crowley (or Cultist Simulator and Susanna Clarke's Piranesi, which are the reasons I actually wrote it).

I'm really putting that religion degree to good work, huh?

Both games give you the tools you need to figure out who you are in the world, what you're looking for, and where you think you'll find it -- neither give you the answers you're looking for. You'll have to find those yourself.

Both games are prototypes, currently available on Patreon for anyone paying $3 or more. As always with my patreon stuff, I extremely, extremely encourage you to sign up for a month, download the stuff you're interested interested in, and then cancel. It still means a lot.

Both games have been setting my brain on fire for the last month and a half, and I'm glad to get them out into the world (even if they are still a little broken).

I hope you like them:)

[aeolianasio]

reads like warning text in cultist simulator/book of hours that i would simply ignore

[kaine719]

marzipan but in cultist simulator style👀

[goldstarknight]

Book of Hours x Disco Elysium - Which one is your signature skill?

First time posting here. Have mercy on me. :)

Here are some portraits of the elements of the soul from BoH in the style of the skill portraits from Disco Elysium with a little character creation mockup. After posting this on the Discord server, I was encouraged to post it on r/weatherfactory. There I was encouraged to post it on Tumblr.

[ivehadanapophany]

The most impressive part of the cultist simulator/book of hours universe is the amount of insane theological discourse all these different groups were having, genuinely fascinating to read about the different ways the Hours were worshipped. It's also impressive because this has meta-game consequences to where I will see an in game piece of lore and go "ah no i disagree with that interpretation of the solar hours I don't think the Door-In-The-Eye can be counted among them" and I'll realize I've fallen for the trap.

[kath-trashh]

the faintest rumblings of a cultist simulator au on the horizon

general notes here

daniil’s based off my own aspirant playthrough but i’ll have to play out my exile playthrough a bit more before deciding if he should do an obscurity or defiance run i think.

the key note is that these two runs are inexorably linked bc i want burakhovsky posting no matter what. cheers

[frot-vember]

When your knowledge of the Invisible Arts has grown advanced enough that you can accept occult treatise commissions in exchange for spintria, the currency of the secret world

[vio-lenceee]

come under my wings, little bird come under my wings I swear that there's nothing up my sleeves

[lunarlillieuwu]

moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth moth

[loraculis]

something is simmering in my mind

[motherfucker-unlimited]

Dumb Cultsim/Book of Hours memes I made for some reason