Well hello there, Burt Backerkit! What the world needs now is another update on The Dose Makes The Poison!

Sorry you had to go through those opening sentences, I will try and do better in the future.

But aaaaanyway - I figured since the February update landed in March, you good folks are still due a legit update for this month, so here we go.

Zine

We're knee deep in layout and additional illustrations now. We're sitting at a confirmed 24 page zine now, which is cool. The first half of zine is The Dose Makes The Poison module, and 2nd half features a bunch of lore and plot threads about Hope's Pharma, including a cross section of the corporation head office, The Home of Industry. This is where head honcho, Aneurin Hope, resides along with his ever enthusiastic 𝚌̶𝚞̶𝚕̶𝚝̶ workforce, The New Industrial Union, so hopefully there's plenty more retro weirdness here for you to develop into your games once the initial module is completed. 

Additional print bits
We've also got a draft of the A4 poster on the go (included in the Lethal Dose pledge tier or as an add on) as seen above. This takes Inspo from those early 20th century ads that had doctors telling you smoking was good for you and the like, that you would see when sitting in your GP's waiting room.

The bookmark for all physical backers (as a reward for all MM project funding) is also in development, the back of which can be seen above (I love the ratio of 1/3rd instructions for use 2/3rds disclaimer text that Norg create for this, his copy is hilarious too). This leaves the sticker and the additional pamphlet as the two outstanding items to be worked on in April.

Audio & Video Files
I've had a good run at some of the accompanying audio bits over the past month. By way of an example here's a short snippet of a speech from Aneurin Hope, the founder of Hope's Pharma that you should be able to download off my Google Drive. A big thank you to @Squinch from the Mothership Discord for the voice acting work on this - thank you!

The animator is also putting the finishing touches to the Hope's Serum video ad as we speak, it's looking great as you can see from the couple of gifs in this update. Next for that is updating the audio and adding in some sfx.

These audio and video files will be available to all tiers with digital stretch goals and above.

Incomplete Surveys 
There's still 3% (30) of you that have yet to submit your survey. I'll be locking addresses around mid April time and charging cards for shipping around the start of May, so get your survey updated before then. All seems on track to ship in May as planned, although it might be towards the end of May rather than the start.

That's it from me, for now.

Cheers,
Andrew