So today at 10:17 AM MST, the Wandering Oracle of Secrets came. The clues were all in one paragraph, and I guess plenty of you figured it out!
All you curious folks figured it out pretty fast last time. Very well done! Yesterday, at 3pm MST, the Oracle of Play visited with 10 slots for $17 decks. I am thinking future clues will be less revealing, I think. I'd even go so far as to bet 24 on that. I don't think it's any secret who the next oracle will be. You already figured out the time zone, so I won't give that up a second time.
That was the paragraph, and I bolded the clues for ya if you missed them! I said they sold for $17 which is incorrect, they sold for $15, so that was the clue that the number was important! I italicized the 'am' to be AM, and very hamfistedly threw in '24' to note the 24th. I'll try to be more clever as the oracles begin to come more frequently the further we go, but for today, a simple one:
I believe 4(5-2)*2+2-13+15 is a kind of clue. I know you're not six, but Parentheses and Multiplication and all that shouldn't be too hard even if you've been out of school a while. Just be sure to not take the alley on the way home, who knows what might be lurking in there!
New Add Ons!
ThePublishing Goblin's Oracle Dice $30
The Oracle Dice
This is the 2nd Edition Oracle Dice Set featuring the 22 dice in a satin bag, with the velvet double-sided reading cloth, and the 260 page guidebook to learn to read them with! People requested the dice without the wooden box, so here we are. Note that you will be able to buy the set for $35 when we put them on the www.alleymantarot.com site in June, but the small discount on this accounts for the fact that they won't ship until your Alleyway Oracles set ships in March 2024.
The Oracles Three $120
The Oracles Three
You all asked for it, so here it is. The $120 3-deck bundle pledge tier, now as an add-on. Hope it helps get more decks into the world! : )
Alleyman Podcast Book and CD Set
The Alleyman Myth Book $15
This hefty 2-lb book features the scripts for the Alleyman Podcast's first season, as well as small 'after the episode' entries about the episode as a whole, as well as featuring footnotes throughout with behind the scenes information about the episode. Limited to 50 slots. The Two Podcast items will uniquely be shipped as soon as the campaign is over, rather than waiting for March 2024. Backers who got these items will be reached out to by me 2 weeks after the campaign ends to get early addresses for these.
The Alleyman Podcast 6-CD Set $35
This 6-CD set of the first season of the podcast features the gorgeous art of the 13 cards found inside throughout the packaging, as well as the full credits and of course the 13-episodes on CDs! Limited to 200 slots. The Two Podcast items will uniquely be shipped as soon as the campaign is over, rather than waiting for March 2024. Backers who got these items will be reached out to by me 2 weeks after the campaign ends to get early addresses for these.
The 8" Alleyman Statue! $80
The 8" Alleyman in White Resin
This item is $80, and is a 3D printed, 8" Alleyman with a slotted base so you can set two tarot cards before him to think on them for the day. This comes in a standard, un-painted Resin for you to decorate as you wish.
The Painted by Seven Alleyman Statue! $170
Some of my Warhammer miniatures I've painted!
This is the above Alleyman $80 statue, but I will be hand-painting on it, writing on it in chrome paint, and otherwise customizing it. There are just 3 slots, as I'll already be handling some Carried by the Alleyman decks and don't want to put too much in my lap, but because it's so few I'll be taking requests on how people want their statues messed with!
I'm not the best painter in the world, but sharing some of the miniatures I've painted in the last year so you know I will be doing something interesting on the statues with at least a little skill! : )
How to Add an Add On to Your Pledge
I've seen a lot of folks confused about how to add items to your pre-existing pledge, so I made a guide!
Step 1
The first step is just to go to the campaign page for the project. There, it shows you at the top corner a new button that tells you that you can manage your pledge. Click that green button to 'Manage Your Pledge'.
Step 2
On this page, you want to select the purple/blue button that says 'Change Your Pledge', it's at the bottom of the screen next to the smaller 'Cancel Your Pledge' button-- don't click that one.
Step 3
Once you do, you'll be brought to this page. It's asking you to select your 'Reward'-- this is choosing your pledge tier. You can stay on the one you already selected, which will automatically be at the top of the page. Note that the top of the page shows "REWARDS > ADD-ONS > CONFIRM". Right now we're on the REWARDS page, and when you click the green 'PLEDGE $XX' button, it will take you on to the ADD-ONS page. Do so now.
Step 4
And now we're where you want to be! It can be easy to miss if you're going quickly, but this is the ADD-ONS page. At the top it's showing you the pledge tier you picked-- in this case the Oracle of Secrets. But if I scroll down, I will have a full, continuing list of the add-ons. You can select ADD next to each one to add them to your pledge.
When you've grabbed everything you want, hop down to the bottom right and click 'CONTINUE', and you're good to go after confirming on the last page.
What's Coming Up?
I think I'm a bit behind on sharing the new cards coming into the decks, so that will be coming on the 26th, alongside the Community Copies pool! I'll explain more about that on Friday-- see you all then!
7DA
your pub gob
A Quiet Start... Week 2 Approaches!
over 1 year ago
– Mon, May 22, 2023 at 06:53:39 PM
First off, I am so sick. I have a brutal cold and I'm so stuffed up I'm dying here. But that's no excuse for how slow the project got already-- I guess I'll have to kick it into gear here!
For those wondering the clue from last update about the next wandering oracle still stands, and hasn't come by just yet.
New Add Ons!
On the 24th when I have a visitor, I'll be releasing a BUNCH of add-ons-- but I'm letting you all know now so people might be ready! : )
First off-- the 8" Alleyman Statue will definitely be happening. I love him so much. Talking to New Titan about how much we can price it at, but it will have 2 slots for cards to display. There will be a standard unpainted add-on and a special hand-painted by me slot with just a few slots. I'm imagining the unpainted version will be 80$, but I have to confirm these costs. If we know we'll make a bunch we could price it a little lower, but I don't think it could get much lower unfortunately. How much do you think would be fair? Is the $80 mark out of reach? With the size I think it'd also be a nightmare for shipping internationally for sure-- some logistics to consider before we add it on.
The 8" Alleyman!
And for people who loved the miniature version of him, he's in the Tulsa add-on bag! So be sure to gnab him!
While I won't be offering alternative items from the Alleyman's deck set, just the one full set, I do think we can offer the Oracle Dice without the wood box! I will be putting that up here at $30 I think.
And by the end of day tomorrow, I will know how many Podcast CD Sets and Script Books I have left, and I will offer those as well here with the caveat that they will ship as soon as this project is over-- not with your full order.
I saw the requests to do add-on bag bundles and 3 deck add-ons at the $120 price point. I'm still mulling it over. The add-on bags are already underpriced for their cost, so I don't think I could offer a meaningful bundle price discount that wouldn't also make them bring in basically no money haha-- and the triple deck price reduction likewise isn't enticing just yet. But I'll give it some more thought before Wednesday.
The $625,000 Goal
Now, over on the next goal after $500,000, I have it noted that we'll have a new/returning booster pack. I do now have the full assent of everyone on that booster pack so I can reveal it-- The 13-cards of the Alleyman Podcast CD Set are returning here as an add-on!
I only just got the CD Sets in to ship them out a week and a half ago, and I was so disappointed to find out the cardstock on those cards is just terrible. They're so thin and feel like it. To remedy this for all the backers of that project, I told them that if they pledge on this project, I will get them a reprint of the set of cards on better stock with new card backs, and now I can 100% make good on that promise.
So when we reach the $625k goal, and we will in the coming weeks, know it is an incredible set of 13 cards that I will be sharing here fully when we are heading to unlock it!
Giveaways, Community Copies, Instagram Live Reading Sessions, Artist Chats, and More!
Stay tuned, we're gonna kick this next couple weeks in the butt to keep this campaign moving! Stay up to date with the updates as you can, there will be lots of info coming soon,
Regards and love,
7
End of Day 5 | The Alleyman Miniature... Or Statue? | Wandering Tiers
over 1 year ago
– Sat, May 20, 2023 at 07:28:55 PM
We are wrapping day 5. Yesterday was a solid day with $24k more! Today was a fair bit slower, but that's to be expected. The first few days are where the hype lives. No worries, we have fun things still planned, and some big reveals!
The Miniature
I am so excited to share this one--
The Alleyman Miniature!
Alleyman Miniature 3dModeller: Victoria Jeffrey (Hit Point Press)
This miniature was based on the Alleyman design we had in the first project, at the back of Booster Pack 1, and came out incredible. It's being printed at 35mm, a nice little Alleyman for your desktop or shelf. But I did ask New Titan what it might look like to make it larger... like... a lot larger.
The Alleyman... Statue?
What do we think about 8" statues? And what if I offered a few that were hand painted by yours truly? Not to toot my own horn, but I think I could do some really fun things with some painted Alleymen! They're not cheap to print at that size, unfortunately, but I think we could do a few as a special add-on!
Maybe it needs some slots in its base to hold cards...? : )
Wandering Tiers!
All you curious folks figured it out pretty fast last time. Very well done! Yesterday, at 3pm MST, the Oracle of Play visited with 10 slots for $17 decks. I am thinking future clues will be less revealing, I think. I'd even go so far as to bet 24 on that. I don't think it's any secret who the next oracle will be. You already figured out the time zone, so I won't give that up a second time.
Wandering tiers are meant to be a bit fun. Don't feel bad if you missed out, the people who want to figure out the clues and hunt it out are having their fun. So let's let them!
What's Next?
Our next goal at $500,000 is for earning more money for the artists. Then at $625,000, some new cards and a new(ish) booster. Something tells me these numbers might shift around a little as we see what kind of lull is ahead of us, but who knows. I hear the Alley folks are pretty good at taking care of one another, and we may well have another surge here this coming week.
So see you then.
Regards friends,
7
End of Day 3 | Astrological Booster | The Wooden Box, Revealed! | Wandering Tiers!
over 1 year ago
– Thu, May 18, 2023 at 06:10:46 PM
Wow! Here we are friends, end of day 3 and quite a ways in already!
First off, I should note that the $375,000 stretch goal-- the Astrological Booster-- is now unlocked! For $7 you can get 13 new cards in a lovely foil wrapper, all themed around the signs of the stars! And I made it 13 cards to include Ophiuchus, in homage to the Normal Horoscopes.
That stretch goal also added 3 new cards to each of the three decks, putting us to 103 in the Alleyway Tarot, and 63 each in the Oracles! I better get these reveals moving faster if I want to keep up with every little piece, huh? :P
The Astrological Booster Pack!
Shown here are:
Aries from Astro Kitties - Astrology Booster Pack by Alicia Arroyo - Lotus Moon
I have got to do a lot of really cool things since I began publishing full time. I've helped bring to life some amazing things, designed some cool features in books, on cards. But nothing made me as excited as when I sketched out then built the blueprints for the Oracle Dice storage box. So when I began to think about what I wanted out of a wooden box for this project? I knew what it was immediately.
I sketched it out loosely in my sketchbook, then moved to the computer and began working with exact measurements. I made it too big at first, and tightened the space while leaving room for the hinged deck compartment lids to still all be open at the same time. You can see my lovely designs below-- but I mean, look above and you see the more beautiful, more final version.
The plans for the box, side view!
The plans for the box, top view
My favorite thing about Shawn from New Titan is that I tell him I want to do something, and he finds the people who can make it happen. It's why I keep going back to him since the Alleyman's! I asked if we could do storage between the deck spaces, and he got back to me with the magnetized lid suggestion!
So here we are! Now, the 'final' images at the top of this are still not totally finished-- they need ribbons in each deck compartment and lining and hinges and latches for the deck lids, but it's real and it's BIG.
If you buy one, know it's large! It will be a gorgeous table centerpiece, a king of your shelf, or well-placed on your altar. I am still debating if there will be any engraving on the deck compartment lids. I love it so much as is, but I also wonder if you all might want symbols for each deck, unique enough to the decks that you'd know which decks goes where, but open enough that it could hold something else.... What do you think?
The Wandering Oracles
Now, I mentioned a wandering pledge tier thing in the first update. But what does that mean?
My first big(ger) kickstarter was the Normal Tarot. Oh, sorry, "NORMAL TAROT 2: REVENGE" I ran it during the 'Break Kickstarter' event, where we were encouraged to run kickstarters in really abnormal ways. The way I did it was by having constantly moving pledge tiers that came and went. We also weren't sure we could raise enough money to do the full tarot deck, so we broke the deck into 5 pieces and had parts of the deck itself be stretch goals.
On this project, we have a set of Wandering Oracles. The Oracle of Play, the Oracle of Secrets, the Oracle of the Alley, and the Alleyman themselves. At strange and seemingly random times on strange and seemingly random days, they will appear with limited slots for greatly cheaper decks. I'll do my best to leave some clues before they happen, but even if people figure the clues out, I think part of the fun is letting it be your little secret.
Alrighty now, see you tomorrow! : )
7, your Pub Gob
Pretty Quiet Day 2 ...
over 1 year ago
– Wed, May 17, 2023 at 06:28:01 PM
Hello y'all!
As I expected, this was a ridiculously explosive first day that outclassed almost the full first three days of the Alleyman's Tarot! That told me that there was a high chance the project would slow down in a big way on day 2, and there we are. No worries, this is still a bigger day than most of my other projects have ever had, with $50,000+ coming in today!
If you're unfamiliar with Kicktraq, it's pretty fun to go check how things breakdown, and compare to old projects.
Our first day here wrapped with $274k! The first three days of the Alleyman's Tarot combined was 297,891, just 25,000 more. So I think we're well on our way!
Now if only there were fun things and images I was showing today... gee. Guess you'll have to wait for tomorrow, when we break that $375,000 goal! ;)
