Well, mostly! We need to pick up like 6 more zebra haunches from the storage unit, and we are going to be dropping off packages in the morning so not all the tracking has updated to In Transit, but! That's otherwise a wrap on Carrion Baggage!!! Thank you all SO much! I know the campaign struggled in the crowd for Pintopia 2025, and I struggled a lot this year too with exhausting challenge after challenge kicking my knees backwards. I'm really lucky to have had all your support and patience. As much trouble as I had I have to realize things did get there, and that is thanks to all of you supporting my business and all the helpful people in my life!

Many of you have already received your bags and other items! The rest of you that don't have a zebra haunch in your order (and most of you who do) should have received a tracking number tonight or will tomorrow, and you should see it start moving either Saturday afternoon or Monday evening. If you don't have a zebra haunch and still don't have a tracking number it is 1 of 4 things:

Christmas shipment deadlines have already passed, so please do not expect them to arrive before then. I'll be returning to all the tracking in January after I finish vending at Further Confusion to see how things are progressing. It is a very hectic time of year for mail services and tends to remain so until a bit in to February.

Before we continue I wanted to show you what's next for Carrion Baggage: Gnawesome Predators and Carrion Baggage: Second Bite! Gnawesome Predators is going to be my Pintopia 2026 campaign, and many of the mini meat magnets should look familiar. If you want some cool pins to season your bag these should be fun to pepper them with! I'll just share the ones with meats shown in this campaign, but you can see all the planned pins over at the launch party.

Carrion Baggage: Second Bite is exactly what it sounds like! I'll be making more bags in this line, starting with the popular Premium Cut bags that didn't make it, and now with upgraded hardware! There will be brand-new concepts up for grabs too. I'll share some concept art for a couple of favorites. We'll be launching in March instead of in the middle of Pintopia, which will hopefully give us a better chance of unlocking more designs!

 Thanks for taking a look at those c: Now on to the less exciting stuff that applies to fewer of you!

Item changes/refunds:
Some of you may have noticed partial refunds or gotten alerts about changes to your add-ons. That's because between getting them and now I straight up managed to lose a bunch of the extra fulfillment items. I have no idea how it happened and after spending multiple days tearing my house apart looking for them I'm afraid they got thrown out, because I had them in a very specific box in a particular closet and they were simply Not There. My wife says she never touched it and I know I didn't, which leads me to believe one of us somehow managed to throw out the whole box. I'm pretty upset and can't really afford to re-order all those materials, so I went through unfulfilled orders and refunded the items that were paid for and removed freebies.

I'm really, really sorry y'all. I figure you'd probably all prefer to get the bigger items you paid for than have them held on to for months so I can save up for and re-manufacture a bunch of freebies and tiny things. If you paid for these things you have either already been refunded or I will have to reach out to you to find an alternative way to refund you because I was unable to simply re-issue it to your chosen payment method.

Items refunded or removed as freebies include:

With any luck they will re-appear because the borrowers in our house got sick of them or something and I'll have a bunch of surprises to send out, but I'm not holding my breath. Luckily the vast majority of these things were just freebies.

You should not be missing any of the following items, and if you are you should let me know!

Anyway! I hope these meats will serve you well for whatever baggage you have to carry through 2026! Are you ready for the new year? I can't wait honestly. My wife quit her job to do Lairbrew full time which is a dream come true. I'm looking forward to Lairbrew's 6th year, and our 1st year doing this together all the way. I have 1 other Backerkit plan to share with you before we part!

Deadweights will be launching later next year, but the prototypes are all almost done already! Some of you might be fans of the macabre but would still appreciate something cuter than meat. Maybe something weighted and cuddly with species choices both familiar and unusual? If that's your thing I hope I'll see you there! We'll be doing a collab with Living Biohazard LLC, I'll share more details elsewhere on that when I've got 'em.