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What a sweet weekend. My two applications up for approval both went through this weekend.

* Ignore (a sweet devotion from the Carthian book)
* Carthian Status 3

Of course, there goes 15xp. I think it's points well spent, though.

This is Josh speaking, not Sam. This post is pretty much completely unconnected to the Camarilla, but I felt the need to share.

I woke up this morning to find a wonderful email in my inbox from Jim Flowers, my business partner at RedBrick Ltd., and line developer for Earthdawn:

After a (too) long wait, we are pleased to advise that printed editions of RedBrick's Earthdawn books are now available from:

http://www.lulu.com/redbrick

At time of writing, only softcover versions of the Player's and Gamemaster's Compendiums are available. Ardanyan's Revenge will be added soon, and hardcovers are going through a final proofing cycle now. We will advise separately once they become available.

Should you wish to leap in and grab copies of these books, there are some gotchas that you need to be aware of.

Firstly, the shipping costs on the books vary markedly depending on where in the world you live. This is something that is out of our control, but we would recommend that you play around with ordering single books as well as multiples to see if you gain from it. Also, if you have a group, consider pooling your purchases to save on shipping. We are now able to work through the process of getting our books into the distribution channels -- via Amazon, at a minimum -- but we felt that you needed to know up front that there is additional cost here. We have no ETA as to how long Amazon, et al, will take; best estimate is 4-6 weeks at time of writing.

Secondly, Lulu partners with printers in the United States (for US customers) and Spain (for International customers). While RedBrick Limited has made every effort to ensure that you receive a quality product from a content perspective, because of the nature of POD (Print On Demand) printing, we cannot guarantee that books from two sources will be identical. Also, please make sure that you keep a record of your Lulu transaction and if you experience any problems with print quality, you will need to complete a Trouble Ticket. Details on shipping and Lulu's return policy are available from the Lulu web site at this link. RedBrick will be happy to help as best we can with any problems you might have, but you do need to be very aware that we have no direct hand in the printing process, and we are not in a position to replace books.

All-in-all, however, we are extremely happy with the quality of the POD books. We hope you are as well!

For those who don't know, I'm one of the contributing editors/developers for these books, and they have consumed a healthy amount of my free time over the last couple of years. The news that they are finally "live" and available to the public gives me a wonderful feeling.

Hi all. A new episode of "The More Things Change" is available on the feed. You can also directly download it from the website.

http://walkabout.lore-merchant.org

Until later.

-- Sam "Walkabout" Walker

Tonight was rather... eventful.

But not, overall, in a good way.

(For more, visit http://walkabout.lore-merchant.org )

http://walkabout.lore-merchant.org

Show Notes

* Intro (Music: Blue Man Group -- "Time to Start")

-- Local News --
* January Gathering
* Still searching for VII
* St. John's Church
* Serge's final death

(Bumper music: Barenaked Ladies -- "Testing 1, 2, 3")

--The Rant--
* The two-sided coin

* Closing (Music: Samantha Murphy -- "I Wanna Go Home")

Download the episode. (9:23, 8.6 MB)

I have set up an actual "More Thngs Change" blog as a sub-domain on my website. Point your browsers to:

http://walkabout.lore-merchant.org

I recommend people bookmark (or syndicate) the feed on that site, since I plan on using that as my primary IC expressive source. I will still post stuff here on occasion, but the "walkabout" subdomain will be considered the primary source.

-- Josh

Hello all. Just finished up production of "The More Things Change: Episode Four". Here's the link for you.

http://www.lore-merchant.org/audio/change_011906.mp3

So here's the deal... I'm planning a special episode of "The More Things Change" in memory of Heinrich.

If you want to contribute to the memorial, let me know. You can either write a few words, which I'll read for you, or (if you're so inclined), you can record the piece yourself and I'll edit it into the show. (If you're local, I can set up some time for you at my studio.)

I'm looking to put this together over the next week or so, so let me know. Thanks.

Bangor has suffered a great loss.

Heinrich is dead.

Not much else to say right now, as I'm still in shock. Expect more details in the coming days.

EDIT: Here's a link to the transcript (PDF) Heinrich's people had delivered to me last night.

Just to clear up a point or two here (as a result of some sloppiness on my part)...

** In character, the audioblog I've put together is hosted on a secure server.

** As are the IC blog entries in this journal. I incorrectly referred to it as a "Livejournal" in some message or other, and this caused a bit of a stir. I'm rolling with the punches on that one (I'm not one to shun controversy).

** While I want as many people as possible to listen to the boradcast, please respect the division of IC/OOC knowledge. This whole thing is kind of an experiment on my part, and I don't want it to cause all levels of grief.

** For more notes on Sam and IC-related stuff for this, please check out the notes included in my profile.

Thank you.

-- Josh Harrison (US 2002-07-6345)
aka Sam Walker, "The Voice of Bangor"