Cryptic Compendium
CREATOR
5 months ago
Project Update: Smoke tests sent out, rest of surveys go out tomorrow
- You'll notice all the pictures are of the finished pins except for the dango and the moths. That's because they are actually all approved already:
- Most of them are finished fully, some are still in production. The pictures aren't the best, but you can finally sort of see the detail for the bonbon and what was intended for the bobas. But lemonade really is much bigger now because they needed the extra space between the eyes.
- If I made any mistakes with the survey please tell me!
- Since there are 8 available spiders, the "set of 6" options don't automatically include any specific ones, you'll have to choose and there is the option to do that. If you choose any of the dango spiders as 1/6, you need to choose the other two also because I'm not separating the sets
- I did pay half of the balance of the dango in advance because the survey was taking so long to get out, so they are mostly done. The white one is fully approved with print now actually, where it's dyed off-white and printed white but the green and pink ones they reversed the dye color with the print color...making the highlights shadows. Sooo they're redoing that for the 2nd time because they just keep printing darker and darker...
- The moth is the only other pin not yet in progress because having to remake the mold was an unexpected expense (had the old mold ship to current manu and it doesn't work with their machinery which is I guess different from the previous one) and doubles the cost of the pin. Then on top of that, we're now having a ton of issues with this manufacturer so since I didn't pay for that yet and the mold has now been trashed already I'm getting them made with someone else. And they're even more expensive unfortunately. So the neon moth, and the green sour gummy that's free to anyone who has 10 or more pins by the end of the survey collection, will be late because they're made with survey funds (which are also paying for the 2nd half of dango cost, and packaging supplies)
- The dango's stars were finished already and we have them, that was mentioned in the last update, but we didn't get chains yet. That'll be done after the pins arrive to make sure they fit the posts. The dango will also be coming with gold locking back clasps and not rubber ones just in case anyone wants to convert to keychains or something
- Backers who backed both me and Midnight Springs were given a credit to their survey that is $6 and will fully nullify your shipping cost if you're in the US, so you'll only be charged shipping with hers. If you're in another country, please fill out the survey anyway and I can adjust the credit applied before charging you!
- Survey deadline is October 10th end of day, please fill out by then and make sure your card info is correct! I'll be charging 3 days later at 3PM EST (October 13th). This is to get you your stuff ASAP, I can't stop you from taking longer but it's not going to get you in the first wave of packages
Because of the extended timeline from unexpected issues, anyone who qualifies for moths or ordered from both me and Midnight Springs probably won't get them in time for Halloween. Only a few of her pins have been approved, they've been giving her a lot of trouble with her proofs and printing things really wrong mostly, so they won't be ready as soon as mine were/are. They're shipping the finished spiders to me first without charging extra shipping thankfully
The manufacturer's quality has gone downhill this year unfortunately. So the pins are all limited to 10 claims each (this doesn't count for what was already claimed during the campaign runtime, you're fine), because I'm worried about the standard grade count
Because of these manu issues and burnout from work it's unlikely that I'll be able to finish my designs in order to cross-collab with the 2nd monster girl riot, but I'm still working on them on and off. I do have a lot of ideas but juggling fulltime work and this is hard even though I'd prefer to do this instead.
Thank you for your patience!! Please ask questions about specific orders via email but if it is general and you think it would benefit others to see, you can ask in the comments because I'll keep checking this post daily for about a week to make sure I don't miss anything. Thanks
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