Letters & Telegrams

Write to anyone you've met. Post travels at the speed of the era, replies come back in your language, and censors may read along.

Open the Comms desk to write a letter, send a telegram or make a call.

Delivery takes as long as it really would

Each era has its own post. A few examples:

• Rome, 80 AD: a slave courier with sealed wax tablets, a few hours across the city.
• London, 1848: the Penny Post delivers many times a day, so a letter arrives within hours. The electric telegraph exists, but only along the railways.
• The Western Front, 1917: field post takes days, and an officer censors every letter.
• Berlin, 1983: in the East the Stasi may open your letter before it arrives.

The Send button shows how long delivery will take. Telegrams only exist from the 1840s onwards.

Replies

Once your letter arrives, the recipient writes back and the reply takes the same time to travel. Replies come in the language you play in.

Tracking your post

Your letters show In the post, with when they should arrive, then awaiting reply or replied. People you're waiting to hear from are marked when you write a new letter.

Arrivals

When post reaches you, the game tells you at the end of the narrator's reply, sometimes with a censor's stamp or a resealed envelope. Open it from the Comms desk.

See also

• The Newspaper
• Telephones & Technology

Last updated 2026-10-08