• Physical copies: Printing is complete and all physical copies of both No Gods, No Masters and Sphere of Influence are currently crowding up my house. I’m working with TKG and the NA/EU warehouses to get the materials out to them and stored for distribution. 

• Dossiers & Warden Reference Sheet: The player-facing dossiers on the C-Suite members have been completed and approved by TKG. They’re currently with TKG for distribution via BK, so keep an eye out for those soon. Additionally, after some feedback from folks playing the module in the wild, I put together a Warden Reference Sheet to act as a quick guide on the Levels Table, Alternate Panic Table, and the Bad News Table. Hopefully these items will make the module easier to run and more evocative for players.

• Digital availability: If you missed the campaign or the pre-order store, both No Gods, No Masters and Sphere of Influence are now up for digital sale on itch, DriveThruRPG, and RPG Trader. You can also grab a community copy of Sphere of Influence on itch if you don’t currently have the funds.

• Michael Kramer (of Grim Merchants fame) has a new tri-fold out for Mothership by the name of Cathedral of the Red Immortal. Originally put together as part of the TripTech 3 game jam, he’s done a lot of work to get the module cleaned up and really singing. This is an extremely cool module, and you can grab a copy here: https://inky-drafts.itch.io/cathedral-of-the-red-immortal

• And Tomorrow Games has a new crowdfunder up for Trapped on Schrodinger’s Moon. This one looks like a really fun throwback and I’m eager to see what they put together. It’s currently up on Backerkit here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/and-tomorrow-games/trapped-on-schrodinger-s-moon-a-module-for-mothership-rpg?ref=bk-discover-recommended&utm_campaign=bk-discover-recommended&utm_medium=discover&utm_source=backerkit

• I absolutely adore Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, and the Inferno from said collected poem perpetually lingers in the back of my mind. I’m an absolute sucker for any adaptation of the Inferno (including the kind-of-awesome, kind-of-awful Dante’s Inferno videogame that came out back in 2010), so I’m stoked to see that EpicQuest.ch is working on an anthology for Mothership inspired by the same. It looks cool and weird and you can find it on Backerkit here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/epicquest-ch/9circles-a-dante-inspired-mothership-rpg-anthology?ref=bk-discover-recommended&utm_campaign=bk-discover-recommended&utm_medium=discover&utm_source=backerkit

• Bliss plays with memory and restores Fear 
• Illumination plays with reason and restores Sanity 
• Hell is a blame game and may increase a random Save (but may also get someone killed)

• Per amica silentia lunae - Through the friendly silences of the moon
• Sub nives obliviosa - Beneath obliviating (forgetfulness-inducing) snows / beneath the snows of forgetfulness 
• Ad somni cor - To the heart of sleep

Progress Report

Hello hello hello,

First of all, apologies for the radio silence - I can assure you all that work has continued on Certain Fathoms and we're very near some finish lines!

Ahead of the jump, the Certain Fathoms PDF will be releasing before the end of September, Hostile Takeover + Viewer Discretion PDFs following shortly behind in late September or early October. From there, Employee of the Month + Echo Chamber PDFs will be in the month of October, followed lastly by the Secret Levels PDF in November.

As for physical releases, all physical vendors have been prepped for files and are ready for them when I send them out. Even though the writing / editing / layout has been a little slower than I would have liked (life, amirite?), rest assured that the fantastic physical vendors we're working with have been standing by for when they're ready. Expect more on this in a couple weeks, before the end of September.

The two things I want to touch on this update are a follow-up for the Certain Fathoms Soundtrack and an explanation of the delays. Read on to find out more.

Certain Fathoms Soundtrack Now Streaming, Lossless Files Coming This Friday (9/11)

Last we chatted, I teased how the soundtrack was going to be streaming on a few major platforms. Well, as it turns out: music distribution is pretty dang easy! And cheap!

So, Certain Fathoms (Original Game Soundtrack) is available basically anywhere that you can get music. You can listen to it on all the big, popular ones. You can listen to it on Pandora like it's 2011. You can even add it to the background of your TikToks, Snapchats, Instagram Reels, etc. Truly, more options than you could ever want.

NOTE: Bandcamp is coming soon - it's the only one on the list that isn't automatically distributed and instead requires a bit of background work. I have to manually set prices for tracks and the entire album, design a page, and do the nitty gritty work to make sure everybody's getting what they paid for. 

Since the soundtrack is licensed for reuse, here's the exact credit line to use so you stay compliant and we stay credited. Copy this as-is:

[Track Name]" by Colin Whitehurst and Nate Whittington, from the Certain Fathoms (Original Game Soundtrack), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

For the whole album rather than a single track, swap the track name for Certain Fathoms (Original Game Soundtrack).

One more note on the soundtrack: Those of you who have been listening to the original MP3s sent out a while back will notice some differences between those tracks and these updated ones. Those original MP3s you can consider "demo tracks" and the new ones the "official tracks". In creating the lossless files, there was enough editing required across the board that Colin elected to simply re-record the files in all their modular synth beauty.

Some tracks are nearly identical to their originals. Others are quite a bit different. For those who want both versions, you have until this Friday, September 11 to download the MP3s before they're overwritten with the new versions. Call it our gift to you for being so patient with us.

Okay, time for the elephant in the room: obviously we're running a little behind schedule on things.

Part of that is outside of our control, but there's absolutely a bit of it that's on me and that's the communication on the delay.  Trust me when I say that releasing things a few months later than what was initially planned IS the right decision, but it's a tough one to make and you ought to be looped in when that happens.

Sorry for keeping you all in the dark on that! Files ARE coming soon, I can promise you that. And as a bit of a peak behind the curtain, here's a couple (relatively) spoiler-free pages ...

... AND the MS Word manuscript final counts (post-edits, pre-final-layout)...

Talk soon!

-nate

• Player's Survival Guide
• Warden's Operation Manual
• Ship Breaker's Toolkit
• Unconfirmed Contact Reports
• Dead Planet
• A Pound of Flesh
• Gradient Descent
• Another Bug Hunt
• Wages of Sin
• Megadamage 01
  
  

Shipping Status

What Happens Next?

Is This The End?.....

Hey all! 

Here are the final products!

U.S. and RoW fulfillment has been sent out to TKG for distribution!

UK & EU fulfillment is just waiting on approval from the fulfillment center; then it's out the door as well.

I'll be sure to update further on this project and any developments.

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