I can now confirm that Cirsova Publishing has acquired the rights to the entire remaining Mongoose & Meerkat series!
We will begin serializing it one story per issue, beginning with Hunt of the Mine Worm in the winter issue out this December, until all 18 stories in the cycle have run.
If you JUST got into Jim Breyfogle’s Mongoose & Meerkat via our kickstarter for Pursuit Without Asking and want to keep on top of things, the next story in the sequence, The Golden Pearl, was the cover story of our spring issue.
The original illustrations by DarkFilly for Jim Breyfogle’s Mongoose and Meerkat arrived Saturday.
On one hand, sorry for the lousy focus–my tablet is a potato. On the other hand, for those of you who haven’t read the stories, this gives you an idea of the art style without too many spoilers.
We have three days to go for this Kickstarter, and you can still get your hands on one of these original pieces of artwork.
Also last week, Cirsova author, Wild Stars creator, and LCS owner Michael Tierney appeared on a round-table discussion with, among others, notable online comic shop personality Comic Perch and renowned comic-creator Mike Baron.
They discuss the impact of the comic industry shutdown plus DC’s efforts to do an end-run around Diamond to ensure that the comic shops are getting SOME product.
Michael’s central Arkansas stores have been weathering the storm as well as could be expected; he’s managed to stay open for an entire month with no new product, but as you might imagine, it has been lean times in Little Rock.
Now would be a fantastic time to pick up a Wild Stars from him, particularly since you can get the Wild Stars 35th Anniversary Omnibus cheaper from him than from us, due to some issues with Lulu’s platform migration.
I spent a pretty good chunk of the evening working on bonus content for Mongoose & Meerkat!
The result is roughly 3,000 words of gaming content, including:
How to drop the Battlefield of Keres into your hexcrawl map
Suggestions on how to run a short adventure based on Brandy & Dye
Scenario for Sword of the Mongoose
Encounters in Terzol
Statblocks for monsters and encounters, ranging from the Hands of the Bursa and the Terzoli Remnants to Isak Yan and his undead to Keres’s magical anomalies
Much much more!
I’ll be putting the finishing touches on it soon then will be running it by Jim Breyfogle for approval.
Once he gives it the OK, it will be added to the Appendix of the hardcover.
In fact, we’ll be adding all of the bonus material to the hardcover [except for the list of backer names, of course] this week, at which point the hardcover will be officially Almost DoneTM.
Once we have a page-count, we can do the layout for the hardcover’s dust-jacket.
No promises, but this could begin fulfilling by as early as June!
We’re half-way through our crowdfund period, and at this time, we’ve got $250 to reach our $3k stretch goal to create OSR content based on the first five Mongoose & Meerkat adventures.
We appreciate all of the support we’ve been giving during this rough time. This is a huge project for us and for our creative team, who’s been amazing.
We’d love to sell some of these original pieces of Mongoose & Meerkat interior artwork, because the more of these we sell, the bigger a check we can write to our artist, DarkFilly, who has graciously offered us a split on these.
If we sell all of the original art pieces and the opportunities to be written into the upcoming Mongoose & Meerkat stories, this project could easily reach over $5k, which would put Cirsova in a great position for 2021.
Be sure to check out the Mongoose and Meerkat kickstarter. We’re just $650 away from our stretch goal to create OSR content for Mongoose and Meerkat’s adventures.
If we hit $3k, I’ll be writing up RPG content based on the first five stories in case you’d like to try incorporating some of Mongoose & Meerkat’s adventures at your game table. This will be included in the Appendix of the Hardcover format.
Also, if you haven’t already, grab a copy of the latest issue of Cirsova featuring the all new Mongoose and Meerkat adventure, The Golden Pearl! I you have, leave a review!
