Hello friends,

I'm Seven, I haven't been around for this campaign much at all, leaving it to the incredible Confluence team. And they had quite capable hands! But now that the project is done funding, it's my turn to take up the mantle of showrunner for these updates. 

So hello! I'm the Publishing Goblin, the person behind the project who paid all these amazing people to recreate this world from my old material. I tried to fund Confluence three times years ago, each time it did rather poorly. I didn't have it right just yet, the system was large and clunky, and I didn't have this amazing team. I was doing it all on my own. So needless to say, I am quite excited to see the project here and now.

Apologies for the radio silence as well, conventions have been quite busy for me and I'm home now, settling in and sighing a sigh of contentment with my good cat, Tom Bombadil, who has missed me ever so much.

While I was in Philadelphia this weekend, we sent out Surveys to you all! These let you grab extra items if you wanted, put in an address, and get all ready for the future. Now, at this time we are quite a bit from shipping, or manufacturing for that matter. The team has recently gotten back to work on bringing in our Alpha/Beta testing feedback to the game system, layout, and Atlas. 

That means we'll be sharing monthly updates from here on as we head toward our manufacturing sometime next year. You will be made aware of our estimated schedule as we go, but our goal is to have games in people's hands in 2025. If in this next year of time you move, no worries-- simply go into your survey and adjust the address. We will be able to do that all the way up to when we head to shipping.

Also a reminder that we haven't added shipping to your orders yet, and that will be done and charged when we're more certain of when we're shipping, and the final weights for all items.

While we wait, consider showing friends the pre-order store! https://confluence.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
People can put in late pledges here as pre-orders. Please note these are not your surveys, and if you place a preorder it will be separate from your pledge, and thus will charge for separate shipping and ship separately when it happens.

Then if you need ways to convince people, consider watching/sharing the incredibly awesome AA Voigt video on our Ephemeral canon... (text version here)

Or the time we were on Polygon's front page!

Or over on Bell of Lost Souls!

Or this video from Goblin Mixtape!

Or our release notice on Rascal!

Or when Kandi and Laya were on Dicey Banter with Valiant Dorian!

and I'd be remiss to not mention the currently live Misery Tarot here on Backerkit!

You can pledge to that here today, if you so desire!

Thank you for hanging out with us, we'll have updates on Confluence to share in the coming year!
Happy New Year our friends,

7DA
your pub gob