The Halcyon Light: Advent RPG for Two

A cozy journaling RPG for two played as a 24-night advent: two lighthouse keepers on a winter rock write side by side, wrap gifts for each other, seal secrets in a tin and wait out a great gale before Christmas Eve.

Players and time: 2 players; 24 short evenings of 15-30 minutes from December 1 to Christmas Eve, or two to four longer sessions at any time of year. Needs a 52-card deck (no jokers), two d6, six tokens, a small tin, two pens. Characters can be any age 'from teens upward'; player age not stated.
Pages: 55
Format: US Letter + A4
Language: English, Italian (Il Faro dell'Alcione - GDR per Due)

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Premise: two keepers of a lighthouse on Halcyon Rock, two miles off a winter coast, for the darkest month of the year
Ishbel Marr's letter to the new keepers and the legend of Alcyone and Ceyx (the halcyon days)
How You Know Each Other (d12): strangers, siblings, rivals, old sweethearts, a parent and child and more; Knacks (d6)
Each night: open a door of the Keepers' Calendar, each draws a card, write side by side, read aloud, roll to light the tower's windows (In Step on matching dice)
Shared Warmth (6 tokens); Diamonds = wrap a gift for the other keeper; Queens = Sealed Notes for the Tin; Kings = Storm Signals
Tower of fifteen windows on five floors: The Landing, The Kitchen, The Stair, The Watch Room, The Lantern
The Keepers' Calendar: 24 doors with Coal Nights, two Sealed nights, the barometer falling on the 12th and the longest night
52 prompts in 4 suits: The Two of You, Gifts & Stores, The Light & the Work, Sea & Storm
Oracles: Places on the Rock, Gifts from the Rock (d66), What the Sea Brings, Ships in the Night, Messages from the Shore; Names of the Coast
Gentle Seas mode, Playing Kindly (lines, veils, pause signal), Opening the Tin ritual
Printables: Gift Tags, Sealed Notes, tracker, Advent Log, 24-night Keepers' Log