Hello Mercenaries, 

TL;DR: Work is progressing as expected, translation is running in parallel and will be accelerated starting this month, we're testing a new collaborator for layout, and I'm planning to host a Play by Discord game of Valraven, read below for more info!

Time flies when you're having fun, and we're already in October, so it's time for another update. Alberto is finishing up the restructuring of the Core Book, which is more extensive than originally planned, making this pretty much a new edition of the game rather than a simple translation. He should be done next week, and will then move on to finishing the Tarot deck. I've continued translating the Scenarios: we have one new one finished and one in progress. 

As we send our previous crowdfunding project, Broken Tales: Lost Stories, to the printer in the next ten days or so, I fully plan on accelerating my translation work once the files have left my hard drive and all we can do is wait for the books to be printed. If you added Lost Stories as an add-on to this campaign, you'll also receive the final digital files before the end of the month. If you missed that completely, you can still access the Late Pledge, but be fast! It closes on October 6th. 

I've been talking to a new potential collaborator about helping with the layout: he's now got the files to try things out, and I'll hopefully get the first tests in the next few days. If all goes well, I expect this will speed up the workflow and allow me to delegate some of the work, as the current amount is enough for 2-3 people. 

(Imagine this in the Saw puppet voice)

We have had some success with Play by Discord games on our server, with both Broken Tales and Dead Air: Seasons, and I'm itching for a Valraven game as well. 

Play by Discord works a bit like the old Play by Forum games: I write a move, players respond in the next day or so, and the game continues. The game system lends itself well to this, this style of play can ignore time zone differences, and it's also easy for others to follow along if they wish. 

I'm now calling for up to four players, with priority given to those who haven't played with me before. If you are interested in trying Valraven out and want to know how this works in detail, join the #game-sessions-eng channel on our server, look for this specific announcement, and let me know.