Hi everyone! 

Hope you have had a good start to your week. 

I just wanted to let you all know that surveys have gone out! Let me know if you have any questions (or can't find them), and thank you again for all of your patience! 

Cheers,
Rick

Hey everyone,

I really appreciate your patience with this one. Honestly, going straight into this campaign after having to evacuate for a week due to the LA fires was pretty rough, and it was a lot to get caught up, and running my next campaign so soon after pushed this back a lot. So I'm sorry for deprioritizing this. 

That said, with the tariff window open, I've been in contact with my factory and we're a GO on production. 

ALSO - I spoke with the backer (who wants to remain anonymous) who pledged for the custom pins, and they've requested that the pin they want to get into production is the Evil Moon/Killing Moon pins. 

They've also agreed to let me offer them to YOU as part of the campaign, meaning if you were hoping these pins were unlocked, your wish has come true. 

I've also done the maths enough and bit the bullet and decided to put the familiar variants into production. So 

the Asp, Nevermore, and Tuxedo familiar variants will also be showing up in your pin selection. 

This does mean that there are now more than 9 pins available, so if you'd like to add those on to your surveys, you most definitely can. 

And that brings me to: SURVEYS!!

I've submitted all the backend stuff (which got delayed as I was waiting to see if I could swing the variants), so I should get approval to send out surveys hopefully by the end of the week. At that point, BackerKit has me do a "smoke test" where surveys get sent out to a small percentage of you. Once they (and I) have confirmed everything is working the way that they should, I can then send it out to everyone. 

Who gets surveys early is totally random, so I can't play favorites here, but everyone should hopefully get their surveys by early next week. 

As a friendly reminder, you were not charged shipping upon pledging, so you will be charged now. I'm keeping surveys open until June 9th to give y'all ample time to get the survey, forget about it, be reminded, and then fill them out :D 

Anyway, thank you again for all the support and patience and understanding, and I can't wait to get these pins out to you! 

Hope you're having a great week,
Rick

Howdy all.

Major apologies on the delays in updates, etc.

So as you likely have heard from so many other crowdfunding campaigns - the tariffs on China (now 145%..absolutely ridiculous) are impacting me, but I'm currently working with my manufacturer to figure out the best way forward here.

As of now, with the tariffs unlikely to increase (although let's be honest, who knows), I'm still going to make the pins and there will NOT be any price increases. If tariffs rise again, it's all sort of up in the air, but at least now it's likely to at least cap at this point. 

As it stands, I'm still unsure whether or not it makes sense to do the familiar variants - which is sort of holding up me sending out surveys. Regardless, it's likely a waiting game to see if the US changes its mind for whatever random reason, and I'll be keeping you updated as soon as I know more. 

Anyway, so sorry for all the delays - I expected things to speed up quickly after I finished the Cult Crafter campaign, buuuuuut, huge economic swings = delays. 

Thanks again for your patience, and I hope to have better news and more updates next week. 

Best regards,
Rick

Hi everyone!

First off, thanks again for all your support with the campaign! I'm super excited to get these pins made and out in the world to you.

Apologies as I've been completely overwhelmed with my next major campaign: Cult Crafter, a card game of demon-summoning, cult-building madness for 2-4 players, but you've probably figured that out already :P

Anyway, I've also been working on getting the vector files all polished up and sent out to the manufacturer, and also working on getting the backer surveys all populated and all of that.

Unfortunately, we did fall a bit short from the familiar variant stretch goal. In the past, I've covered small upgrades like this myself, but things are a bit more uncertain this time around. In the past, a quote would remain pretty firm even if it expired, as they can with crowdfunding.

However, this time with the new tariffs on products from China, I'm not sure where we stand there and how much will change, but if I can squeeze it in, I will.  So this is also part of the waiting game - I want to make super sure that I can offer the familiar variants BEFORE surveys go out.

Once surveys go out, you'll have a few weeks to fill them out, and then we'll be in business!

Thanks again, and I hope you're having a great week!

Cheers,
Rick

PS - I know you don't need to know, but Cult Crafter is kicking off in a week! Make sure to join in on the fun!