Strange Aeons: KS vor Auslieferung

Uncle Mike, der Workaholic.

Unterstützer des Strange Aeons Kickstarters können ein diabolisches oder ein leicht entrücktes Grinsen aufsetzen.
Wenn man den letzten Updates trauen kann, steht der Kickstarter kurz vor der Auslieferung. Damit liegt Uncle Mike fast im Zeitplan. Eine kleine Verzögerung von drei Wochen gab es dadurch, dass die für die Regelbücher beauftragte Druckerei für Mike etwas überraschend Betriebsferien machte. Die Ferien dienten dazu, ein Western-Festival zu besuchen, was noch im nachvollziehbaren Rahmen liegt.

Unfortunately, the printer isn’t ready for the book, as, to our surprise, they have just shut down for a three-week break. And it turns out that pretty much all the printers in Calgary do the very same thing, at the very same time, thanks to the annual event of the Calgary Stampede: 10 days of country music and public drunkenness that’s great business for bars and divorce lawyers, but apparently not so great for printers. So poor, in fact, that they just close their doors for a few weeks and take a vacation.

Inzwischen laufen die Druckerpressen anscheinend auf Volldampf und sobald fertige Exemplare bei Mike eingetrofen sind, werden die ersten Bestellungen verschickt.

Minis, Minis und noch mehr Minis

So, how do things proceed from here? We expect to take delivery of the Rulebooks and Flipbooks (or at least enough of them to start packing orders) next week. While we’re waiting on them, we’ll be getting the last few outstanding miniature sets bagged up and ensuring everything is lined up for shipping. As soon as the books are in our hands, we’ll start packing orders up immediately. First up will be those packages heading to the UK and Europe, which we’ll then load onto a pallet and send off via truck/ship to our UK-based shipping partner. Wave 2 will be US orders, which will also be transferred over the border in bulk (a simple half-day truck trip in this case though – no seafaring required) and then dispersed via local carrier. Last, we’ll cart our Canadian orders and those destined for other parts of the world down to the local post office. There’s a possibility we’ll also use sea freight for Australia/New Zealand and neighboring countries, with distribution from Australia – still some research to be done on that front. In the event we do opt to go that route, those orders will be packed ahead of the US wave on account of the increased transit time.

Die Quick-Reference-Flipbooks

Link: Strange Aeons auf Kickstarter.com