This mention made me realise something – which was that the copy of this game I’d ordered more than a year ago had never arrived, despite my having ordered it with Trailblazers which did arrive. They’d both been pre-orders at the time and I remembered that they both ended up being very delayed, but by my recollection they were being held together until everything was in stock, so I was confused to realise I had one and not the other. I figure I hadn’t thought about Vaalbara at all for about a year.
Yesterday I thought about writing to the store to chase it up, but I didn’t get around to it.
Today a package arrived containing Vaalbara and Trailblazers!
I now have two copies of Trailblazers.
I’ve come to the conclusion that at some point I thought I’d cancelled the pre-orders, and re-ordered Trailblazers as a drive-by purchase when I bought a copy of El Grande, and that Vaalbara must have been unavailable for this store for the entire time, until a matter of days ago…
I guess I’ll just on-sell the new copy at the next Wellycon!