Links have to be interesting but based on intrinsic quality of the linked elements and not the player experience as far as I remember but the rules are kept deliberately fuzzy in the book anyway. I don’t think the game is ever played outside of Castalia. I’m not entirely sure to be honest with you.

I do remember that Hesse description of how the past colours our experience of the present and his thoughts on both the nature of subjectivity and the place of spirituality made a strong impression on the young me at the time.

I probably should read this book again. It seems like the time is right.