Hello, welcome to another journal entry 
Turned out I was a little too picky with locations in Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. There are plenty of unique spots and interiors in the starting village, but some of the subsequent areas are less suitable for memory journeys. The third section is a farm with just one house and a few barns, and the fifth and sixth one are rather dark. Hence I revisited the first two areas and increased the number of locations there, from 375 to 610.
I also took the opportunity to make the journey smoother whenever possible. Meaning the next location is within 180° and not too far away:
In other words, when I’m standing in front of a location, then the next one is already in sight, or at least in the corner of my eye. This makes all the stations feel like a single journey! Walls and other obstacles don’t matter here, I just ignore these.
By the way, I always try to structure locations in groups of five. Let’s say there’s a room. Then I try to find exactly five spots before moving to the next room. This helps me a lot to avoid skipping a station. When there are no natural borders like room walls, then I try to create imaginary ones. For instance I divide a garden into a front part and a back part.
Six hundred locations are enough to practice not only Images and Numbers, but also Words! In my experience journeys need to cool down at least 48 hours after Words in order to avoid ghost images, so I’ll do two-day cycles now: The first 300 locations on the first day, the next 300 on the second day.
In the past I played Words in German because that’s my mother tongue. But I think I’ll switch to English now because that’s probably more interesting to watch for an international audience.
Regarding number system repetitions, the enter key on my keyboard is showing first signs of exhaustion. I don’t want it to break completely, so I changed my shell program to advance automatically after a certain amount of time. It’s a bit like the auto advance feature on Memory League Numbers, but with the difference that it also shows the ‘solution’ for each number after the time ran out.
Number system repetitions:
4100 this week + 30.400 previously = 34.500 total
Memory League practice games:
Images: 9 this week + 101 previously = 110 total
Numbers: 7 this week + 25 previously = 32 total
I did less practice this week because there were two family celebrations at the weekend. They also needed some preparation and thus claimed a lot of time 
