Monday, August 20, 2012

Calling all Santicore's Little Helpers....


After the "award-winning" success of last year's Secret Santicore and the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of requests for more of the same I would like to announce that very soon I will announce Secret Santicore 2012.

BUT BEFORE THEN... I need to get a few things in order.

Basically I was able to wrangle Santicore into shape last year because:

a) I had no idea what I was getting into
b) I was pretty much unemployed and had time to burn
c) it was my first foray into rpglandia and I wanted it to work
d) you would have all laughed hearty mocking laughs if I had failed to deliver.
BUT I DELIVERED (a couple of days late but you were all too fat and full of santicoremas lard and pudding to care).

HOWEVER I COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT without the generous contributions and support of an awesome team of Little Helper Elves. Who are only now returning from the round-the-world tickets they scored (not from me).

This year things are a little different cause:

a) I know what I'm getting into
b) I am now so overworked I clock in about 4 hours of sleep a night as it is.
c) There might be a few more people who want to give give give (and receive) so it might be a little bigger
d) I just happen to be selling my house, moving overseas, looking for a job and wrangling devil midgets all before Santicoremas.

SO... if Secret Santicore is to happen again, I just can't shoulder as much of the burden as I did last year. So a coupla things: one, I know no-one's feeling all Santicorey yet, but the sooner I get this thing rolling the better so I can have a couple of months to get this thing sorted instead of 3 weeks, and two:

I NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

If you are:

• an rpg artist who'd be willing to contribute an illustration or two or three;
• a graphic designer willing to layout a couple of articles in Indesign;
• an editor with an eagle eye willing to proofread a few pages;
• a project wrangler happy to oversee some of the production; or
• just an awesome slab of humanity willing to give blood, sweat, bones and thinkmeat to the cause...

LET ME KNOW ASAP by emailing malignicant at geeeeee male dawtcalm with an indication of what you think you'd be willing to contribute.

MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE TO ALL WHO HEED THE CALL. Santicore is watching the rest of you veeeeerrrrrryyyy closely indeed.

AWESOMELY NIFTY SS LOGO by the unestimable Jeremy Duncan. HE WHO NOW SITS BY SANTICORE'S TREMBLING KNEE. FEAR HIM.

Bewdy

Jez

UPDATE: Just to be clear, this is a call out for people to help organise and create everything around the actual Santicore requests and articles, not the articles themselves; that call out for those requests will come soon.

19 comments:

  1. I will happily contribute numerous scrawlings

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  2. I will happily take them all.

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  3. also you put award winning in quote marks like it did not win a "real" award. Whats with that Jez? Way to swallow the hegemonic Kool Aid.
    SANTICORE
    !!!FTW!!!

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  4. show me the copper earmuffs.

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  5. I'm neither an artist or a graphic designer, but I would be willing to help in any of the other capacities.

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  6. Count me in for editing. I've got plenty of experience doing that.

    I may be able to do a few doodles as well, but my style is fairly cartoony. If that's no problem, I'll gladly contribute art as well.

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  7. I would help any way I can. I Draw passing good in the OD&D pen and ink style but am a terrible editor and lack tools for design work. Not sure what "thinkmeat" is but I'd gladly give up at least a Lb of it to help on a project as good as Santacore.

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  8. I can proofread pretty well. I'll be an editor.

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  9. I will contribute some terrible b&w line art or cut and paste nonsense, or badly proofread, or mail you vials of blood and sweat (bones and thinkmeat might be a little harder; my significant other probably wants me to hold onto those?)

    I dunno I guess just drop me a line or whatever once you know better what you need.

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  10. the copper earmuffs come from within. Seriously though, Prestigious Yavin Award yo.

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  11. I know nothing of those useful skills but I can propably make some stuff up.

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  12. I have a little skill in InDesign, but I would probably be better suited to making a map or two. I would love to contribute to this.

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  13. Assuming everyone involved is contributing freely and there isn't a secret monitization plan, I would gladly contribute drawings. Just e-mail/G+ what you wish illustrated.

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  14. the only money that will be involved will be to pay for a non-profit lulu version if people want a hardcopy of the finished product.

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  15. I can do some janky pen drawings if you want. eMail is: nekokunartist {at] hohtmayl

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  16. hey there, if you're one of the most excellent folk who've offered to help out and you haven't sent an email to malignicant at geeeeee male dawtcalm could you please do so? THANKS HEAPS!

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  17. So I'm still a student and learning to do all these things still, but I work pretty much full time at my university's paper editing, putting things together in Indesign and drawing cartoons. I would be willing to help out in any of those fields.

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  18. Jez:
    You know I'm up for editing and proof-reading. Save me a place at the table and I'll sharpen my red pencils.

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  19. Durrr... I feel so stupid for seeing the update like, just now.

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