Below is an overview for backers in each location so you can skip to the section that matters to you:

Books are landed, packaging tests are completed. 

Aetherworks sent a final delivery address check out today, so parcels should begin to be packed, wrapped and sent on their way from Monday of next week!

We have 5 Australia orders with the Tactical Map. These items are still delayed arriving at the Australia warehouse. We will fulfill the rest of your shipment as planned, and when these arrive we will send a second parcel separately.

Freight arrived, was unloaded, inspected and finally passed customs clearance yesterday. It will be with our EU fulfilment partners between tomorrow and Tuesday.

We have initiated discussions over packaging checks, to make sure that the goods arrive in great condition.

We intend to lock addresses for EU backers (including EEA, and Near East) by the end of next week (30th October). You will receive an email from BackerKit when this begins and have 48hrs to check your addresses and make amendments.

UK boat docked yesterday and the goods have been unloaded already. Paperwork is sorted, so it’ll soon be with our fulfilment partners at Peregrine Coast Press. 

A reminder that PCP will handle all of the books and boxes, but if you have ordered pins or the coin these will be shipped separately from our usual UK warehouse.

PCP have begun looking at packaging checks ahead of the expected goods arriving at their warehouse early next week.

We intend to lock addresses for UK Backers by the end of next week (30th October). You will receive an email from BackerKit when this begins and have 48hrs to check your addresses and make amendments.

US boat is due to port this weekend. The team is ready for customs paperwork & assessments. Fortunately, we don’t have to worry about any Amtrak trains for this one - once it’s off ship it’s going straight into the delivery trucks to the warehouse, which should speed that part of the journey up. We remain waiting until customs clearance is confirmed before we move forwards with USA, Canada or Americas Backer processing.

Current expectation is that we’ll be able to lock addresses for North America Backers (including Canada, USA, and Middle and South America) in the week commencing 2nd November. There will be another update shortly before we send the BackerKit ‘Lock Addresses’ email. If we can move quicker, we will.

Hi, Chant here. While Alex is monitoring the Books On Boats situation, the rest of us are having a grand old time shouting about Hollows all over the internet.

The first episode of our Hollows podcast, in which Grant, Chris, and Maz say all the things they couldn’t fit in the book, is available now. 

There’ll be another one every Thursday until we run out of things to say. If you see Chris Taylor online anywhere, please thank him profusely for the audio editing he’s been doing to get episodes ready.

We’re also running a Hollows game jam! Come and make us a monster! 

Internal testing on the VTT continues. Jinn, Maz, Chris and I have been having a lot of fun with it. We’ve made Hunters and Entities, figured out how the tactical grid works (really straightforwardly, actually), and are very close to being able to run a fight in it. In fact, an hour after this update goes out, the dev team are running a demo for us so we can go through our questions. This is a very big, and meaningful, step towards getting it out to you for testing.

Thank you for supporting this project, folks - it’s been a fantastically huge creative endeavour and we couldn’t do this without you. We’d love to see pictures of your parcels as they start to arrive - you can tag us on Instagram, Bluesky or Facebook, or pop links in the comments here. 

Or join our Discord server and chat to others about all things Hollows? 

As always, there’s a risk things will get dinged, damaged or lost in transit. 

If that happens to you, we want to put it right. If anything goes wrong with your parcel, get in touch with Jim or myself in the Customer Service mines by emailing [email protected].

Expect more communication in the next week or two,

xoxo

– Alex, and everyone at RR&D