The Belated One would wish you a "Happy New Year." I, your bedraggled scruff-strewn creator, shall not, for I cannot aspire to the spiritual power of the Belated One. Instead, I will merely regale you with a celebration (or presentation) of the next step.
But first, a mountain.
Mountain 6: Clouds flit across the white cowl of the heights, tenebrous messages for the nephomants of the valley below.
I spent my two-weeks-and-change away from the labors of Our Golden Age doing something completely different ... uh ... besides walking the dog and changing diapers and feeding little humans, that had to happen every day irregardlessless (that's how one spells it, yeah?). I drew and painted mountains. Some of them came out quite nice.
I doubt any will fit into the OGA books and zines, but one could use them very easily with my Longwinter ttrpg icebox, yes, very easily indeed. Wink wink, nudge nudge.
The other thing I did was nuke my existing website (www.wizardthieffighter.com) on the way to its rebuild. It'll be back online in some form soon enough, but because my priority is the Golden Box of Our Age, it's not going to be in the driver's seat.
hwoo ... hwoo
Let's review where we're at:
Our Golden Age is with our munificent editor, the most wordie lexical M. B. Stoddard, accummulating instructions for its further perfection. Subsequent to that editing, I will review and revise the grand file and assemble the Index and End Pages, completing the tome for a semifinal pass and the printing of the proof copy. That's where real live humans with naturally selected intelligences will read words on paper to see mistakes I have made (like the line missing in UVG 2E because I covered it with a piece of art - mea culpa). The editor has already found a spot where I seem to have gargled up two spreads.
The Vastlands Guidebook is also with the aforementioned M. B. Stoddard for a last pass of some revised spreads before I finalize the endpapers and it goes for proof-printing.
I'm going to prepare the Two Bonus Zines for your delectation: the Biomantica, a tome of spells biological and chirurgical and archiatric, and the Pananthropy, a bestiary of creatures human, citizen, and personable. I haven't precisely decided which of the two I will complete first since I am tackling them together to ensure they comply in style and content with one-the-other and the two books of OGA and VLG. It's a fair question: which would you like to see first? I would be a falseling if I said your preference on that subject did not matter to me.
Then, after those are done and art'd, I'm going to tackle the poster adventure, the cards and finally the adventure journal. Step-by-step, to the end. Which is now in sight.
I haven't even mentioned ongoing tweaks, like fixing up some art, adjusting the final map (I've added roads), revising the box art (it's secretly a map, shhh), and other details. That's just par for the course.
I don't really have many pretty spreads or texts to share right now, since I just got back to working last week. I guess the fair play at this point is to challenge y'all - which do you want to see first? The flesh magics or the bestiary of all humans? Comment-pete in the comments, since this is not a poll.
Welcome back to the new year and looking forward to chatting with you in many many more updates from the project quarries ... ah, it's good to be out of the mines and see the Green Sun again!
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