Hey gang! We’ll be broadcasting a Google Hangout tonight at 9:00 PM EST (8:00 Central, 7:00 Mountain, 6:00 Pacific), barring technical difficulties. I’ll update this post with a link to the video chat shortly before it starts.

We wish we could get you all in there, but that might be a video streaming madhouse. In the meantime, or during the broadcast, if you have questions or comments you’d like us to answer or discuss, send them via Twitter, using the hashtag #sabrechat. I’ll be corralling these during our discussion, and we’ll do our best to get to as many folks as we can!

ONE:
Behind FARROW, reveal.

The SMOKE has lurched forward out of the darkness.

The SMOKE is a dragon. Very big. Very old. Very powerful.

Oozing malevolence. We’ll discuss this further on the phone, since I don’t want the script to give away too much to everyone reading (hi, everyone!), but there’s a lot to him, and it should very much inform his design.

Just THE SMOKE’S head alone should dwarf FARROW, there should be no doubt that he could eat him like an amuse bouche.

1. THE SMOKE/effect: Your manners.

FARROW doesn’t know which direction he should be facing to speak, so he’s trying to subtly speak to all directions at once.

1. FARROW: My apologies for keeping you waiting…

2. SFX/all around/faint: ssskkKHhhsssshhhhsss

TWO:
FARROW in the midst of the SMOKE, looking around. He can hear something skittering along the floor.

3. FARROW/above/small: …I came as…ah…

THREE:
FARROW’S pant-leg, the cuff. Something has just skittered over his shoe, and we can see its long, slender, scaled tail still trailing after as the creature disappears into the darkness and SMOKE.

4. FARROW/small: …ah…

FOUR:
On FARROW, looking up, reacting, he’s almost relieved. The voice is coming from the darkness before him; at least he’s got a direction to face, now.

5. FARROW/small: …a-as soon as I could, sire….

6. TAILLESS/effect: You know what I like about you, Farrow?

7. FARROW: No, sir.

These new Stretch Goals are pretty swank, in our opinion. Please take a look and spread the word about them if you can.

At 90K – A Better Book For All – This is an across-the-board alteration to the Lady Sabre & The Pirates of the Ineffable Aether Vol. I trade. If we make this goal, we will increase the thickness of the covers to make them more substantial; move to a higher paper weight on the endpapers, and also be printing these in color; and we’ll improve the interior paper weight to better hold art and reproduce said color.

At 100K – The Cartographer’s Craft

At 120K – Deckplans

We’ve also been trying to direct some support to other projects that we’re finding particularly interesting or invested in. I’ve talked about the AR-K Campaign a fair amount, the video game I’m writing with Gato Salvaje Studios in Spain. It’s an adventure-puzzle game with a – surprise! – female lead who, while not quite as fabulous as our own Lady S, can certainly hold her own.

Additionally, Rick’s doing the cover art for the new Dirigible Days project, which is now very close to funding. The Dirigible Days crew feel very much like brothers-in-arms to us, and not solely because we share a love of pirates, steampunk, and flying frigates. If you haven’t seen what they do, you by all means should, and consider giving them some Lady Sabre love.

You guys… you guys…

…you guys are amazing.

Hold fast!

Greg

Doesn’t mean it’s not working.

NO COPY.

TWO:
On FARROW, reacting – jumping slightly as he hears something move in the darkness.

1. SFX: sskKKCHhhhllmmp

THREE:
Almost stet. A GUST of SMOKE has been disturbed, rising around FARROW.

FARROW is tugging at his collar. He’s fighting the urge to run. It’s a primal, deep-seated urge. He’s mastering it.

For the moment.

2. SMOKE/off: Closer.
3. SMOKE/off: Come closer.