Hello all! Nic & co. here.

It's been a while since the last update, but we've been busy! Everyone except for the folks with annotated copies should have received their games or have an active tracking number. If you are not one of the people with an annotated copy and you 1- haven't received your items and 2- your tracking number hasn't updated for a week, please reach out to us - something has gone wrong! 

Backers with annotated copies - your rewards are currently with Sylvan, who is working on annotating them! I already got my grubby hands all over those bad boys and let me just say, what an experience! It's a bit surreal, writing about my writing, but Before the Flood is rather good, so that helps. 

Before the Flood is also up for sale on Indie Press Revolution! If you would like another copy, or your friends think your copy is so cool they want their own, that's where to send them. 

Last thing, y'all may remember the bookmarks and stickers that were stretch goals for the campaign! I... did not remember these. Well, they arrived shortly after we had sent out all the packages, and therefore will be sent out to all of you in envelopes very soon. Apologies for the oversight! 

Again: if you are not waiting on an annotated copy, and have not received your package, message us!

Thank you all! 

Hello everyone! Nicholas & crew here.

As the title says, shipping has begun!

You're all going to receive tracking numbers throughout the next week. Some of those emails will come from Indie Press Revolution - that is your Before the Flood package! IPR is doing the fulfillment on BtF.

Orders with annotated copies are not going to ship just yet - I've got to send all those off to Sylvan to get their notes as well before they're sent to you! I'll post another update when Sylvan has taken your orders to the post office. 

Please give your tracking number three to five days to begin moving! This includes if it seems to get stuck somewhere down the line or if the package has been marked as delivered but is missing. If it's still not moving after a few days you can reply to your tracking number email and IPR will sort out what has happened to it. 

If your reward was damaged in transit you can also reply to your tracking number email with that info!

If your address has changed, please try to set a forwarding address with the USPS, and (once again) reply to your tracking number email to let IPR know. 

As always, thank you all for your tremendous patience on this project. We're really excited to see it finished and in your hands. 

Hello all! Nic here for another short update; TDLR things are starting to arrive!

We've got the map template posters, postcards, and the special editions at IPR. The cards, boxes, and Book of Legend should be here soon as well!

Pictures are worth a thousand feathers, or however that saying goes, so here's some shinies for you: 

Backerkit doesn't support videos, so if you would like to get a proper look at just how pretty the deluxe edition is head over to my Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/omophagic-beast.bsky.social/post/3likmcq5vls23

Thank you all for your continued patience! I'll post again once everything else has arrived. We expect for the boxes, cards, and trifolds to arrive by the end of next week, at which point we'll start assembling all of the boxed editions. Thank you for your continued patience!

Hello all! Nicholas here.

January was simultaneously 500 years long and also is already over, so that was fun! Our layout artist had a few medical emergencies this month and during December which delayed things, and there was a long-running miscommunication at IPR that was entirely my fault. Sylvan also ran into some hair-raising customer service hell with Stripe, but the good news is that everything is ordered, from boxes to cards to postcards and more, and scheduled to arrive at IPR mid-Feburary, at which point fulfillment will start for every single tier.

The signed and annotated copies will take a little bit longer, because I will have to mail them to Sylvan, at which point they'll mark the books up and mail them back to me, but everything else will be shipping the moment it arrives at the warehouse.

Apologies for all the delays, and thank you all for being patient with us. The next update should include many pictures of all the above mentioned items!

All the best,
Nic and co

Hey folks, Sylvan here!

First things first: my profuse apologies for not updating all of you sooner! It has been a crazy couple of weeks over at Clawhammer, not to mention the busyness of all our day jobs. Regardless, it's not fair to keep you waiting to hear from us, and although there are likely not many more updates to be had in the future, I will do my best to be more prompt with them. Today's agenda includes three main components: Delays, Gratitudes, and Legends.

Due to a variety of complicating factors, we're going to have to push back our fulfillment  until early/mid January. Our original timeline was ambitious, but it's really important to me that the team can take their time and get everything perfect than to rush even a single aspect of the product. I'm confident that when you see the finished product, you'll feel the same way. It's possible that we'll have books and boxes shipped out even sooner than mid January, but I don't want to make promises.

That being said, fulfillment for the basic tiers is starting this week. IPR has been in con season, which means that they've been running all around the country for weeks on end with nary a moment to rest (bless their hearts), but with Pax Unplugged concluding this past weekend, they're back to their usual schedule and can proceed with BTF fulfillment.

With the holiday season comes the obligatory period of light, warmth, and comfort that contrasts the cold and dark of the outside world. Personally, I've always loved winter--it's my favorite season, and I am at my happiest during the shortest days of the year. It's times like this that make me especially grateful for all of you. Making art, especially art that requires a group of audience members, can feel both lonely and isolating. Games are only games once they are played, and it can often seem like when I am writing, I am tossing ideas off a cliff and hoping someone at the bottom will walk by and catch one.

So... thanks for catching one. Thank you for sticking around. Thank you for being you, and for supporting countless other artists just like me, like Nic, like Reese and MC and Dominique.

It's finally time: I am proud to announce our Book of Legend guest writers! Aside from Nic and myself, our guest contributors are:

The work that these three have done on the book already is outstanding, and I'm more and more excited about the final product every day. It's also looking like the book may be even longer than we initially anticipated... instead of 50 pages, we might be looking at closer to 75 or 100!

Thank you again for all of your patience and understanding. Stay safe, stay warm, stay bright.

With lantern lit and fireplace roaring,
Sylvan