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Health-wise, my struggles continue, and the last six weeks have been particularly challenging. I’m not able to feel much in my feet, and somehow I managed to suffer a displaced fracture in one of my big toes, despite feeling nothing at the time. Unfortunately the toe became infected which required a visit to hospital. 

We managed to fight off the infection, but when we finally got the toe scanned and tested, it was already too late: the bones in the toe were infected and had began to dissolve. (Sorry). This week I had the toe and a portion of my metatarsal amputated.

So, I’ve sadly not really been up to accomplishing much of anything other than being disciplined enough to stay in bed with my foot up while I recover. It’s been very rough emotionally, but I have a wonderful support system here, and I’m doing about as well as could be expected.

I appreciate everyone’s continuing support and kindness, and hopefully when I’m recovered from this surgery I’ll finally be able to sprint to the finish. OK, maybe not sprint, but at least get there. :)

Take care everyone,

Jon

Purple Sorcerer Games 

Hey everyone!

As far as a status update goes, my health is still a major struggle, and I’m slowly grinding forward as I can. As always, I’m super happy to refund anyone’s pledge if you don’t wish to wait any longer. That being said, I completely believe in the adventure, which is why i haven’t cancelled it outright. It’s going to be great, but my mind and body currently force me into unpredictably long stretches of non-productivity. It sucks and it’s frustrating.

Also now, for a variety of reasons, we’ll be moving out of our apartment and buying a house in the coming months. That shouldn’t be stressful or taxing, right? (But unlike our last two moves that physically almost killed me, since we’ll be hiring folks to do most of the manual stuff, i don’t think it will really have much of an impact on the adventure side of things).

Regardless, we’ll get there: thank you for your support and patience. Here’s some more pics!

I'd obviously hoped to have the PDF in your hands at this point, but working through my health issues remains a stubborn thing. Things are progressing, albeit slowly, and hopefully the next update will at last include your download codes. :)

As always, if anyone understandably feels the wait has gone on for too long, just shoot me an email at [email protected] with your PayPal email/username, and I'll happily refund your pledge. 

I hope you remain excited for the adventure: here is another batch of images. :)

Jon

Hey all. I apologize for the quiet on our end. Our schedule has been slowed down again because of my worsening health: my ability to type and code, and of late, even manage stuff effectively has sadly stretched out our process. 

We’re finishing up the writing and layout, and the PDF should be ready within the month, with the print codes following about 6-8 weeks later. If you no longer wish to wait, I’m happy to provide refunds: just contact me at [email protected] and we’ll get that setup.

I’m pretty bummed by things: Ben is a fantastic writer with lots of great ideas in the pipeline, but is saddled with a Dad/Publisher whose body (after 13 years doing this!) is breaking down. Coding the free tools has always been a tremendous joy, but I’m running into roadblocks there as well. Sadly, this may be our last project for the foreseeable future unless there is some significant/magical change medically. I had hoped to spread our work around, but process-wise it has proven that there are certain things I have to do for something to be a Purple Sorcerer project, and I’m proving to be the weak link.

Again, apologies. Thanks for everyone’s tremendous support, it has always been very much appreciated.

Jon

Purple Sorcerer Games

(Here is some awesome artwork from the adventure!)