Old Hellfire Club Update: Week 1
almost 5 years ago
– Wed, May 15, 2019 at 12:53:51 AM
What-Ho Hellfire-ites!
Fancy a surprise?! I’m literally writing our first production update from a hospital bed!
That’s right - on top of moving house this week I seem to have developed an infection in my hip and so have been confined to The Royal Surrey Hospital since Friday last week.
This said - I am letting NOTHING get in the way of making progress on THE OLD HELLFIRE CLUB! In spite of being on an IV at least four times a day and through the haze of opiate painkillers I have...
reviewed the Backerkit setup (so surveys should be coming your way shortly after I’m discharged!)
started final discussions with suppliers to line up production to hit go as soon as we can!
started finalising the BONUS CARDS for EXCLUSIVE and IMPERIAL backers! These may be put to a vote so stay tuned!
been inside an MRI (not strictly relevant, but it was WEIRD!)
drew up the final component lists and slotted them into a new production timetable! We’re still on track for December for physical copies, but thanks to being stuck in hospital delivering the PNP in May is looking ambitious - I’m so sorry about that. It will be with you ASAP!
about halfway through contacting you lovely people to check of a few preliminary questions and offer my very sincere thanks once again!
As always - there’s loads to do and I can’t wait to share it with you! As promised - I’ll be back in touch with you wonderful people in a week!
In the meantime - our fantastic Choose Our Own Adventure continues on Twitter and you can still decide the rollicking exploits of our inestimable heroine by casting your vote - more details below!
All my best,
Jamie
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CHOOSE OUR OWN HELLFIRE ADVENTURE VI – CHP 16
By the offering of a lady-to-lady kiss to The Queen I became quite a celebrity!
Suddenly FORTUNE AND GLORY beckoned!
Now - as a face about town - I revelled the night away with my new best friend ISABELLA BEETON!
She had just finished a damning drunken review of the latest invention - kebabs - when I espied out of the corner of my eye...
CLICK HERE TO VOTE - https://twitter.com/oldhellfire/status/1128247637243846656?s=21
Old Hellfire Club: Zero Hour (Minus a Bit)
almost 5 years ago
– Tue, May 07, 2019 at 02:24:42 PM
We did it!
YOU did it!
I cannot thank you enough. That’s a flat statement - I can’t. I had no reason ever to expect that a game that I had made would ever get turned into a real thing that got sold in shops, but you made that happen.
Thank You.
As you would rightly expect - steps have already been made towards getting The Old Hellfire Club into your hands! A Backerkit page is in the process of being set up, I already have quotes for shipping, fulfilment and manufacture, and I have drafts in place for the graphics upgrades!
In the next two weeks I want to reach out to each of you individually to thank you, to catch up on the messages you’ve sent, and check a couple of details alongside the backer survey. I hope you’ll forgive that little delay - the universe decreed that I had to move house this week so I have a little bit extra on my plate for the next few days!
Finally - thank you again. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
All my best to you and yours!
Jamie
Old Hellfire Club: Extraordinary Update
almost 5 years ago
– Tue, May 07, 2019 at 10:37:00 AM
You only went and did it!!
WE HAVE REACHED 100% FUNDED!!
THANK YOU!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
I am genuinely choking up a bit at the astounding generosity and belief of friends, family and perhaps most amazing of all strangers who have never met me but decided to take a chance on an idea and a dream!
YOU ARE AMAZING!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
Old Hellfire Club: 3 Days Left!
almost 5 years ago
– Tue, May 07, 2019 at 10:36:16 AM
What-Ho Hellfire-ites!
The records are starting to fall almost too fast for me to be able to keep up with them!!!
THANKS TO YOU - and I REALLY mean that - we’re almost at £4800!!
** THAT’S 90% FUNDED!!! **
We have a few short days left, but I’m feeling SO good about our campaign! It’s looking like we’ve made it and I cannot thank you enough!
If you did have time - I would be totally delighted if you could spare just a few seconds to have a go at one of these quick and simple ideas to bring a few more equally fantastic gentle men and women into the folds of The Old Hellfire Club –
LIKE AND RETWEET THIS TWEET - https://twitter.com/oldhellfire/status/1123598485000019968?s=21
LIKE AND SHARE THIS FACEBOOK POST - https://www.facebook.com/184884775641998/posts/422913948505745?s=36816971&v=i&sfns=mo
LIKE AND SHARE THIS INSTAGRAM POST - https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw7Hc2iDEfk/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1ki10xooi2thj
RESIGN FROM YOUR CURRENT PLACE IF WORK AND ENTER INTO THE SERVICE OF THE NEAREST LAIRD, MARQUISETTE, BARON OR COUNTESS, SEDUCE THEM AND INSIST THEY BUY HUNDREDS OF COPIES OF THE OLD HELLFIRE CLUB OR ELSE YOU WILL SELL THE STORY TO THE TABLOIDS***
AS ALWAYS – you could just instead vote on what happens next in our Choose Our Own Adventure - that’s always massively appreciated too!
CLICK HERE - https://twitter.com/oldhellfire/status/1124306557972439040?s=21
Thank you all again - so much! Jamie
*** Please DON’T do this. Blackmail is a really mean spirited thing to do - but by all means seduce as many members of the aristocracy as you can! The Old Hellfire Club is DEFINITELY pro-equal opportunities! And what could be more Victorian than equal opportunity loving?! After the death of her beloved Prince Albert, Queen Victoria did fall passionately in love with her gamekeeper John Brown - or so rumour has it!
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CHOOSE OUR OWN HELLFIRE ADVENTURE VI – CHP 14
By offering of a lady-to-lady kiss to The Queen I became quite a celebrity!
Suddenly FORTUNE AND GLORY beckoned!
Now - as a face about town - I revelled the night away with my new best friend...
CLICK HERE TO VOTE - https://twitter.com/oldhellfire/status/1124306557972439040?s=21
Old Hellfire Club: Four Days Left
almost 5 years ago
– Fri, May 03, 2019 at 04:09:14 AM
What-Ho Hellfire-ites!
I woke up this morning absolutely ELATED that today was the day that I could announce that we had broken the £4000 mark... AND THEN YOU ONLY WENT AND BROKE THE £4500 BARRIER TOO!!!
I’ve said it before, but it’s still utterly heartfelt - you are possibly the best group of backers I could ever have wished to have had and I appreciate every single one of you! I had only dreamed that we might make it to 85% FUNDED - YOU made it a REALITY!!
If you did have time - I would be totally delighted if you could spare just a few seconds to have a go at one of these quick and simple ideas –
LIKE AND RETWEET THIS TWEET - https://twitter.com/oldhellfire/status/1123598485000019968?s=21
LIKE AND SHARE THIS FACEBOOK POST - https://www.facebook.com/184884775641998/posts/422913948505745?s=36816971&v=i&sfns=mo
LIKE AND SHARE THIS INSTAGRAM POST - https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw7Hc2iDEfk/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1ki10xooi2thj
HEAD TO YOUR LOCAL NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OR ZOOLOGICAL PARK, FIND AN ANIMAL YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT AND OVERFEED IT WHILST LOUDLY EXCLAIMING THAT YOU ARE DOING IT IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE AND THE OLD HELLFIRE CLUB ***
AS ALWAYS – you could just instead vote on what happens next in our Choose Our Own Adventure - that’s always massively appreciated too!
CLICK HERE - https://twitter.com/oldhellfire/status/1123554299022315520?s=21
Thank you all again - so much! Jamie
*** Please DON’T do this. Overfeeding animals is really cruel - but frankly REALLY Victorian thing to do! In fact, being fat was seen as a sign of being wealthy to many in Victorian England as you could clearly afford food, so putting on the pounds was highly fashionable. It’s this that led to ‘prosperous’ being a synonym for ‘overweight’! But it wasn’t just people who over indulged, farm animals were also encouraged to gorge themselves and depictions of the prize-winning cattle of the period are REALLY hard to distinguish from zeppelins with legs. However - the title of most hilarious example of over-inflated fauna from the nineteenth century has to go to a walrus held by the Horniman Museum in Dulwich, South London. Having never seen a live walrus and not realising that the arctic mammal naturally came with a massive, loose, fat-laden skin, the taxidermist charged with preserving the specimen simply continued stuffing the corpse with more and more sand until the body became taught. It looks like a permanently surprised rugby ball and can still be seen on display today!
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CHOOSE OUR OWN HELLFIRE ADVENTURE VI – CHP 13
I gave chase only to find that Imhotep had checked himself into the Royal Suite! Damn - I would never sneak past the complimentary Butler!
I would never sneak past the complimentary Butler!
Unless... I created an almighty distraction by BLACKENING MY FACE and made an offering of a lady-to-lady KISS to QUEEN VICTORIA HERSELF!
Suddenly...
CLICK HERE TO VOTE - https://twitter.com/oldhellfire/status/1123930077530591233?s=21
