Transmision Thursday: Digital Fulfillment
almost 4 years ago – Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 06:24:25 PM

Agents, urgent, albeit very good, news.

It has been a long, steady process of writing, rewriting, redesigning mechanics, creating art pieces, editing and fixing substantial mistakes in our core rulebook. We would like to thank everyone who has participated in this project. Without your backing and support on our Discord, none of this would have been possible.

PDF books

By tomorrow, you should receive an email from Lair, our digital fulfillment partner, with links and breakdowns of how to get your PDFs of the Core books: Expeditions & Almanac. Essentially, you’ll receive an email with a link that will take you to your Library at Lair, where you’ll find a button to download. Give the site a few minutes while it creates a PDF copy with a discrete watermark and begins download.

If your reward tier includes the digital version of the Core books and do not get your email by the end of the weekend, please contact [email protected] with the subject ”Missing EC rewards”

Physical books

The digital proofs for the books have finally been approved by our manufacturer and we’re moving to printing. First we’ll need to review a preproduction copy which we will receive in a couple of weeks. We think by January we should be able to move to mass production.

Comic Book (Stretch Goal)

We have moved forward with coloring for the Minerva comic which has 15 pages completed. And the artist has started the pencils for the next 15 pages.

Digital Adventure (Stretch Goal)

We are fixing a few mechanics for the Minerva Adventure now titled “The Darkest Hour.” Great progress done and we will commission a couple of extra art pieces for this.

More STL files and Stories coming soon

Additionally, we’re working wirh Lair on a new all-digital kickstarter campaign with new 3D printable files we've been working on and other narrative ventures to further enhance your Eldritch Century experience.

Stay tuned for updates and news.

Things are moving forward

From everyone here at Draco Studios and Lair: thank you.

Transmission Thursday: Digital reward
almost 4 years ago – Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 10:32:58 PM

Welcome back, Agents

As the year —finally— comes to a close, we have some news for you.

The Book

The digital fulfilment of our campaign is almost ready. There are two books, each with three hundred (300) pages coming your way with some excellent pieces of art in full color. Each book in a little less of 100 Megabyte file so that you can start enjoying our world and going in terrible, sanity-defying adventures.

As for the rest of the book, we’re happy to announce that our team has fixed a few issues that arrived on Monday from our manufacturing partners at Panda during file verification on digital proofs.

Additional rewards

Regarding our stretch goals, Minerva HQ, straight from Iceland, has revealed new information. For one, strange signals have been picked up leaving the Lost Continent. We need brave recruits to explore and report back. We have no knowledge of any faction entering lately and the last thing we need is to be out of the loop.  The Minerva Initiative Adventure is well underway. Our first draft should be ready soon, which will lead to a round of heavy and healthy feedback, along with the construction of more high-quality artwork.

Recruitment is a stressful moment for those picked out by the Owls. It takes great challenge, and few people make it through, let alone agree to carry on the increasingly difficult missions given by our organization. One such account is still in study. Our Minerva Comic is halfway through coloring and look amazing. Lettering should be starting soon. In the meantime, here’s more sneak peeks at the progress

Eldritch Century is far from over

Part of our responsibility, if we ever are to stop the fog in its tracks, is to study our Wounded Earth. Thus, we’re working on 3D printable files of the monsters that plague the Lost Continent, along with deep study of the factions and their agents. A new Eldritch Century STL Kickstarter campaign is coming up through LAIR. Keep an eye out for news in our social media and our Discord server.

The pledge will reward you with STL files, along with two all new stories set in our world. First, an anthology of thrilling short stories told from the perspective of members of our different factions. Second, a novel that explores the dark, terrible secrets behind one of the more mysterious characters of the Atlantean Alliance.

We will keep you posted about news for this new adventure. 

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Until next Transmission Thursday

Transmission Thursday: Axumite Halos
about 4 years ago – Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 01:05:22 AM

Welcome back, agents

Today’s Transmission Thursday is, once more, an operational subject; however, we’ll add information on one of the more striking creations in the Axumite Federation: Halos

Halos

 The following is an excerpt from one of our agent's studies of the Axumite Federation

Halos are glass rings infused with Zohar gas which hover above the head of their user. Each Halo has to be individually attuned to the person that is going to be ‘wearing’ it. This can be done fairly simply by having the person touch the inside of the glass ring before the Zohar is pumped into it. This allows the Zohar to ‘taste’ their DNA, so that it will always recognize its owner’s unique signature.

Zohar Halos are only worn by the royal family and the people they choose to honor with them, and are encoded with the user’s DNA by the queen herself. Each Halo has to be authorized by two members of the royal family, as they give the user a small connection to The Gift and its infinite potential. Each of Menelik’s three leading generals has one, as does Eshe’s advisor, Kamali, and two of the scientists working under Bezabish. Each of the seven High Priests also has a Zohar Halo.

Each Halo wearer develops a number of abilities - usually two or three useful but minor ones and one major power. Some experimentation is required after a person receives their Halo to find out what their new abilities are and how powerful each one is.

The Book 

We have good news! Panda, our manufacturing partners, has approved verification of our files. At this stage, Panda will be working on digital proofs before we move on to pre-production copy for approval.

Minerva adventure (Digital)

We’ve had several talks with our former Head of Lore, Rubén Bañuelos, who is now working on our Minerva Adventure along with Daniel Ehrli and Bernardo Alvarez. We’re close to locking down structure and are now breaking down the important events to commission art and plan out design. 

The Comic

Rodrigo Gil, the artist in charge of the Minerva Comic Book has showed us a few previews. We’ve given our feedback, but why not tease you with it?

Transmission Thursday: The Zoo
about 4 years ago – Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:28:17 PM

Greetings, agents

We hope your and yours are keeping safe in what seems an endless year. As it may, we’re here with new information regarding our book and some lore regarding one of the most divisive locations in the Sino-Siberian Mandate

The Zoo

It’s no surprise that even Yermak himself learned of the Miasmic Zoo on the reaches of former Mongolia so late into the history of the Mandate. Even he, like his comrades in the Communist Party of China and Siberia has conflicting thoughts about this project. On the one hand it provides scientists, philosophers and even Monad acolytes with information regarding the creatures of the fog. On the other, it’s harboring monsters on Sino-Siberian Soil.

The following is an excerpt from the Sino-Siberian reports by one of our agents

The zoo is technically open to the public, but the process of getting authorization to visit is so onerous as to be impossible for an average citizen. The zoo is currently home to eleven Miasmic beasts, each of which is in a contained environment, constantly observed by Mandate researchers and guarded by soldiers in full Teslatronic gestalt armor. In theory, the zoo allows for a relatively safe study of Miasmic creatures so that scientists can better understand how they work and what they are capable of. In practice, there’s little to learn… Miasmic beasts are monsters, their physiology is unclear and inconsistent, and if they have an exploitable weakness, it’s not going to be revealed by observation.

Zhu has named the creatures in his menagerie. His favorite is roughly shaped like a tiger, with six legs and violet stripes that glow in the starlight, which Zhu calls “Night Sky.”

The Book

We’re currently working on adjusting a few technical specifications as given to us by Panda, our manufacturing partner. In time, the book will undergo printing and fulfillment. We’d like to thank you all for your incredible support and patience during this campaign and we hope you enjoy the books and the game as much as we’ve enjoyed making it.

The Comic

The new artist has finished sketches for the first 15 pages and it is looking great! We hope to have the finished 30 pages by the end of the year. We will share some screenshots in the next update once the revisions from our art director and head of lore have taken place. 

Great Wyrms of Drakha

Today is our other project’s final hours on Kickstarter. This RPG campaign will see you fighting massive dragons, each with its own identity and epic moveset. Whether you’re in it for the amazing 3D prints or for the challenging epic encounters as designed by our people in Draco, this will take your adventuring party on a never bofre imagined adventure. 

You can find our campaign here.

Just as we did for Eldritch Century, we plan to create stunning art and setting for this book. Here's a preview of the new art:

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Until next Transmission Thursday!

Transmission Thursday: Almanac and Expeditions
about 4 years ago – Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 10:18:07 PM

Agents, we have good news

First of all, welcome to Transmission Thursday. Today will be short on lore, but it speaks about where we are on the books.

Status Report

After a short scare with our data, backups and projects, we’re back on track. We have been diligently taking in your comments from Discord, along with certain adjustments we came up with ourselves.

As we mentioned before, we moved from a one (very long) book situation to two books dealing with both key subjects of Eldritch Century: Chronicles of the Wounded Earth. From this point forward, we’ll refer to them as “Expeditions” and “Almanac”. Expeditions deals with how our system works, how to create your character and how to traverse the fog. Almanac details the world: our factions, the Miasma and the creatures you should expect to find while traversing the Wounded Earth.

Almanac is ready to be sent to Panda, our manufacture partner who will give us technical feedback and suggestions for product quality. Expeditions should be ready tomorrow. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank our graphic design team who have been working incredibly hard on fixing the issues that came up and completing the books’ layout.

Future steps involve taking in Panda’s feedback, tweaking whatever needs tweaking and moving on to printing.

As soon as it is approved, we will send the final PDF to you! 

 Additional rewards

We’ve taken great strides in the stretch goals area as well, along with our future plans for Eldritch Century. The Minerva adventure, which will work to introduce players and Game Masters into Eldritch Century is currently in the works. Every week we see some progress and new areas of opportunity to showcase more of the fascinating elements of our universe and gameplay.

We’ve locked down a new artist for the comic book, as well. Everyone here in the team is really excited about portraying another form of narrative structures and formats where Eldritch Century can thrive.

The Miasma approaches. Are you ready?

Great Wyrms of Drakha

We’d like to take the chance to give another shout out to our draconic RPG campaign Great Wyrms of Drakha. While the project has been funded, it’s still live for its final week and there are more dragons to claim and adventures to embark in. Your 5e adventure could always benefit from impressive, challenging dragons, so if you’re interested in taking your role-playing sessions to a new height, you can find our campaign here.

Remember that as returning backers you will have access to a free loyalty reward! The STL's from the Alpha Generals; but that's not all, if you pledge on the "Hardcover book" tier ($40 USD or above, having any physical reward) you will receive a free dragon miniature too!

Stay safe. Over and out.