We're into the final day and a bit of Mothership Month 2025.
This one has really pinged by for me.
Last year I fired out these updates at least once a week, bright-eyed and full of sci-fi pith and vinegar. There was cheeky, choose-your-own-adventure style polls, hidden backer-only sections; the lot. This time I've felt more like a wizened vet, chewing on some kind of matchstick thing at the back of the room while others get the buzz of crowdfunding for the first time. A Backerkit version of that fisherman in Jaws, but not as useful.
I'll keep some more in depth updates on what's going into the module for my monthly(ish) updates as we go through development. This will be things like the workings of the Cult of the Hippocrene (think Eyes Wide Shut crossed with Needful Things), or more about the 4 individual modules that you can weave into a rollicking conspiracy.
Some bits of news:
Stretch Goals
Today we hit the 17k stretch of a FREE digital pamphlet for all backers, written by DG Chapman (Haunting of Ypsilon 14), and we've got one more left - 19K will net all physical backers a print version of the pamphlet. So tell your friends about the Hippocrene, or gift your mum a copy for Christmas (2026).
(Fun unofficial stretch goal: if we hit 20K I should be able to fix the hole in my roof that had rainwater pouring in through my office ceiling this morning.)
Cross collab
The other way to squeeze as much out of this project is to also back Waco Matrixo's Prospero Protocols, which Hippocrene is cross-collab'd with. Cross-collab is a cool feature from Backerkit, where if you get exclusive rewards if you back both projects. In our case, it's going to be a pdf pamphlet about the hunt for a cryptid in the area that will go on to become the Malvolio District, the setting for Drink From The Hippocrene.
It's not a competition by any means, but we've got 56% of our backers backing both projects:
So that's pretty cool - I think the zines fit together well and grabbing both will get you a bunch of cool stuff to run at your table. Waco wrote Decagone, so 'nuff said really.
That's it really.
Thank you all for your support as always; it is still pretty mind-blowing for me to get to be able to work on something as exciting and creative as this, and I really will try my hardest to make Drink From The Hippocrene the best zine about greedy, obsessive, rich cultists slowly descending into destructive madness that you have in your Mothership collection.
Cheers, Andrew
Angus is like 'my guy shuuuut uuuup wake me up when Overtime is over.'
