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Many of the products in this section contain a level of Wyrm-taint, even when a consumer doesn’t get a beer containing a Bane, or cos­ metics with a hidden twist. Each product listed gives an indication of how much an unwilling patsy must use the product before Gifts such as Sense Wyrm can detect it, and the difficulty of removing that Taint with a Rite of Cleansing. Some of the Wyrm’s tools sink deep into their users’ souls, so a Rite of Cleansing may have unintended side effects.

currency (IGD — the Inter-Galactic Dollar) to buy, sell, and trade large quantities of minerals with different large quantities of minerals. In space!

Players can also work together, forming corporations that serve the shipping and production needs of this engaging universe. These corporations are just like the real thing, complete with customizable employee hand­ books, public relations nightmares, sexual harassment lawsuits, and a detailed and intricate tax filing simulator. Designed by several out-of-work economists, the simula­ tion in Space Accountant is meticulously intricate and well detailed, reacting just like the economy of the real world would (if people in the real world mined asteroids and built spaceships).

People from all over the world log into the state-of-the-art client to argue the finer aspects of bulk shipping and mass production. They build their own ships that transport materials to and from various space factories to make more ships that ship more materials! At higher levels corporate officers can engage in tax record fraud, security scandals, and money market manipulation. CEOs fight each other through tense, months-long negotiations over entire percentage points. Occasionally, thousands of employees show up in a sector of space, ready for a tense and exciting tax code seminar or even an educational conference on updated spreadsheet coding.

Players praise the complexity of the game design. They rave about how long it takes to make a starting character, the authentically tedious contract creation process, and the gorgeous spreadsheets that render thousands of intense calculations using the latest 3D graphics. If you’re willing to spend just a couple of months learning the basics, Space Accountant can provide you with years of engaging and enthralling tutorials to make

even the most mundane tasks an exciting challenge to uncover — along with a slow buildup of Wyrm-taint that any passing werewolf will notice.

Space Accountant is free to install and every update is also free. Just provide a credit card for the monthly subscription fee, and you too can start crunching num­ bers! In space!