Two Items of Note, and Last-Minute Reminders for Game:

[Dreams of Thorn and Sand Lead Storyteller]

First, this upcoming game, we'd really like to push the idea of a 'Stuff fund'. Just a few bucks or your change will do to help us buy supplies for game. If you guys have ideas for food, I may be able to help - Anything I can grab from Costco that people are willing to pay some share of, I will gladly purchase for next game. 

Nametags have been printed. If you didn't send me the details, we'll find you a blank. We should have enough court tags for everyone.

The suggested donation to the stuff fund for getting an awesome name tag is 2$, but I feel like they add to the game regardless so no-one will be denied one. Please consider where you might be able to put a safety pin on your costumes, or how else you may attach or wear your tag. 

We're also experimenting with some fold-over mini sheet character sheets, and may be willing to give a few out to Players to test run. 

Following this game, since we'll actually have a month gap, I'd like to try and step up recruiting. Anyone who is willing to help print and post fliers would be appreciated, especially around campus. I plan to leave a page of tear-off's at Espresso Art on University and check in on Hats and Game Daze. 

I'll try to have Eegees this time. -Really-. A buck or two from each player will cover this and encourage future foodness. We are, as always, thankful to all of our players who bring delicious, delicious food and snacks. 

Before moving on, I want to remind people about the Character Binder. Please bring one or two copies of a description page. It may look something like Bruin's, which you can all view at http://bit.ly/qQN1o0. The idea is to have a binder where people can be much more verbose about the details people see interacting with the character, while the nametags are just reminders or shorthand. 

Secondly, two pieces of lore. #1 is from the newspaper. Some of you might read this in your antiquated ways and a name almost kinda sorta jumps out at you. 

Headline: LOCAL ARTIST NAMED AVANTE-GARD HERO FOR VANDALIZING OWN GALLERY.

Tucson, AZ - Art gallery representatives are descending on a local gallery this weekend, following a unique act of guerrilla artwork by a local artist. Nicholas Sprague, known for his spectacularly flat, picture-realistic portraits, is being visited by fame after his own publicity stunt ‘backfired’. When a police investigation into vandalism of his works on exhibition revealed that the artist himself had snuck into the gallery through an unlocked access door and apparently smeared paint thinner across the works on display. A red-faced Sprague admitted he had tired of the pieces and wished to branch out into edgier fields. Art critics from afar have praised the work as a tour-de-force of performance art signaling a shift in styles away from the realism of the human experience, the melting, running faces that now grace his gallery called a new direction in portraiture. A local news report has gone viral on Youtube, earning a hundred thousand hits overnight. When asked what he would say when curators from famous art galleries, including a rumored visit by the head of the Museum Of Modern Art might visit, Sprague smiled and said he’d be honored if they asked for his paintings, which represented ‘A transition into a new era of his life and career.”

Number two is something new Changelings may not know, but established courtiers have almost certainly heard of: One of Tucson's greatest threats, a reason that Southern Arizona is truly the Wild West outside of the city limits, The Lord of Black Iron.

Lord of Black Iron

He is known by the black metal mask, ankle-biting leather cape, the rattle of manacles and the crack of the whip. Only madmen speak his name in good company for fear of his towering ears knowing the lips who called him, and the fate of those who have seen him in the flesh is known to be sealed in obsidian manacles.

He is the Lord of Black Iron, arguably Loyalist or Privateer by turns, self proclaimed yet unchallenged lord of a dangerous trod known only as the Black Iron Road, a route that supposedly leads back into the heart of faerie, dominated by silver train tracks spaced ten yards apart atop ties of granite and gravel of bones.

Alongside him are the Riders in Red, his numerous right hands and dutiful servants, creatures swathed in crimson atop fantastical mounts brought from the depths of Faerie or the Hedge, powerful destriers of power and grace enough to chase down all but the swiftest of quarry and drag them back to The Road and it’s Lord.

Rumor has it that a long abandoned trestle south of Tucson serves as the ideal gate to travel to the slaver’s camp.  As such, few risk crossing to the hedge via any archway associated with the train that run through Tucson, or it’s tracks.

Much less clear is what earns the enmity of these slavers. They seem to keep to themselves, not so much foes as fears of the urban Lost. Yet now and then they stir to action, and instead of chasing Changelings alone and on the run in southern Arizona, they find reason to take issue with civilized Fae.

When it happens, they come in force, and offer those they do not seek ample opportunities to clear the way, before they take what they came for and return to the Black Iron Road, then to points unknown in Faerie.

Changeling and Hob alike serve the Lord, but he himself is rumored here and there to be one or the other. Some Changelings speculate that no Lost would willingly turn so completely on his own kind, but then, others know all too well that it is not so hard to believe.

To the Lost of Tucson, it is best to ignore the Lord of Black Iron and his Riders in Red, lest one gathers their attention and brings the city to their attention. However, those who go looking find that it is all too easy to deliver information and letters anonymously to the Lord of Black Iron’s camp, from almost anywhere in the state - But down that route lies madness, and to even know such a thing is to risk terrible enmity of Tucson’s older Lost.

With my peace and piece said, I will see you all around 3:00! 

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~o~Dreams of Thorn and Sand Lead Storyteller:~o~
~!~Ruining Everything You Plan ~!~
~!~Since August, 2011~!~

~~"You say, there's no place you'd rather be. When you're lying next to me."~~ "Don't you mean 'Laying'?" "No, you were definitely lying." (Changeling Problems #1 - Too Much Empathy)

[Jason Ard]

Same spot as last time?

On 9/10/11, Dreams of Thorn and Sand Lead Storyteller
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[Dreams of Thorn and Sand Lead Storyteller]

Eeeyup.