The word "bold" reminds me of a brown letter k. That might seem tenuous, but I have to cast a fairly broad net—hacking together all these puzzles requires making some pretty unlikely connections:
Answer Checker:
Hints: This all has to do with a certain computer game, whose name appears in the vicinity of the emdash. The "brown letter k," "white letter A," et al are NetHack monsters. As you can get "bold" out of "kobold," you can get other words from the ends of monster names. The number in parentheses refers to the letter you should extract from the (shorter) word.