Hail Wanderers!

Bit of a wordy one today as I'm gonna catch you guys up on everything currently going on on our side, we'll start with the most important and relevant bits for you guys to know so we're all on the same page going forward!

We've had a fair few questions, emails, and messages in the discord positing this exact question in some form over the last couple of weeks and we've had a (hopefully) final timeline come through from our manufacturer. With our goods just shuffling through mass production now we know roughly when they will be done and by extension when they'll be hitting our distribution warehouses! Aslong as nothing goes wrong between now and then you should be receiving shipping notifications by the first two weeks in January! (exact delivery dates after this will depend on your location but that should all be present in those tracking emails!). While for sure a little later than expected on our physical goods we were cautious about rushing ahead on physical manufacturing due to a couple of reasons:
First of all, the dreaded tariff situation. While it's been up and down all year it seems that our holding off aslong as we could has paid off, they're finally in a stable (and relatively acceptable) position. We know you aren't all from the US but the vast majority of our customers are and unfortunately whatever effects those guys will effect everyone in terms of timelines but this all seems to have quietened down now!
Next: Holiday shipping, notoriously unreliable and slow. Getting the notifications to you in the new year gives the postal system a little bit of time to clear after the absolute influx of late presents and chunks of coal being posted.
Between these two factors the delays have actually worked out in our favour for the most part, and while of course we want you guys to get your hands on the quite frankly dope final product as soon as possible, that's less useful when it's stuck in an import warehouse or circling the Bermuda triangle during peak holiday shipping. But not to worry! As soon as me and Conor get our hands on the final production run we'll be taking plenty of pretty photos for you to appreciate!

So anyone that hasn't been keeping up with news over here may have missed that as of last Friday we just funded our largest ever crowdfunding project: Lodestar: A Spacefarer's Manual. We had an incredible run on that and both myself and Conor couldn't be more thrilled with the love we got over there including over 400 returning backers! It's such a point of genuine pride of ours that you guys not only took a leap of faith on us for one project, but liked us enough to come back for round 2? Absolutely wild. Those that are only just hearing about this strange Lodestar thing and wanna get involved have no worries over the next couple of weeks we'll be getting the pledge manager and pre-order store set up! However not all is done on Faerie, now Lodestar is funded we'll be moving over to finalizing the final piece of creative work on Faerie: Beasts of Blightmore. Stay tuned for more information on that. 

With the Lodestar campaign and finalizing the production stuff with Faerie the gauntlet has slowed in tempo a little, but going forward we're gonna be working our way through the runnings. Rather than putting an update out for each and every bracket update we'll be posting pings on an update over in our Discord so if you're interested in voting make sure to hop in to make sure your voice is heard!

Okay, that is all from me for this week. I'll be back pretty regularly to update the Gauntlet listings and to give you guys any relevant updates but if you need any help in between then, as always feel free to reach out via the Discord or on [email protected]! Have a wonderful week!

Aston