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RichK wrote:I was wrong, the GW notification was for Omnia Golden Age that came today. Beyond gorgeous!

Grotesk must be one of two other GW emails.

Hehe at least you got pretty Omnia queens!

Can't wait to recieve Grotesk as well. I'm a fan of Lotrek's decks...

Bruno has been greatly, greedily Grotesk'd here in Oz, he is the happiest recipient of Lotreks darkly menacing Macabre delights ....
Truly shining examples of the Masters devilishly determined and decidedly scintillating Decks !
Awaiting some beaut uncuts ....
And a couple of Hands of the Black Mass for The Darkest Icing on The Darkest Decks ever developed .... ?
Lotrek ....
I Thank You.

Very soon, for just 7 days. Delivery in July, along with Black Mass.

Lotrek, Why must you make me spend my money

Seriously though, these look stunning & I'll be there, just name the time & place

I want it now!

I'm really tempted to say "GUARANTEED" delivery before the end of July but...

Lotrek wrote:I'm really tempted to say "GUARANTEED" delivery before the end of July but...

No jinxing these or original Black Masses!

Hey, there.

So... I'm a heavy backer of your stuff, Lotrek. Heavy. (Not only that, but I spend a lot of money on backing your stuff! Ahahahacoughcough.)

That said, this looks amazing, but I do hope you'll wait until you've fulfilled Icons before launching this one.

Please? Pretty please?

I guess it was a matter of time until you released this.. Looks very good, if I knew of it earlier I wouldn't buy the black mass... would went just for this one... oh hell... more money to spend very soon...

rousselle wrote:Hey, there.

So... I'm a heavy backer of your stuff, Lotrek. Heavy. (Not only that, but I spend a lot of money on backing your stuff! Ahahahacoughcough.)

That said, this looks amazing, but I do hope you'll wait until you've fulfilled Icons before launching this one.

Please? Pretty please?

I second that. Would love to see the ICONS and Blackmass delivered before any new decks. Save my wallet for a bit longer.

Waiting on the 4 remaining ICONS decks and black mass!

rousselle wrote:Hey, there.

So... I'm a heavy backer of your stuff, Lotrek. Heavy. (Not only that, but I spend a lot of money on backing your stuff! Ahahahacoughcough.)

That said, this looks amazing, but I do hope you'll wait until you've fulfilled Icons before launching this one.

Please? Pretty please?

Agreed.

Get the backlog of decks shipped, then start fresh with Black Gold. I think we'll all feel a little better about investing more once we get some decks in our hands.

Launching now was a tough decision: It's far from what I want to do but as things turned out, I must do it now for a series of reasons, personal and family ones included.
I also want to have finished and shipped all my pending projects by the end of July. That's why I'm doing a 7-day campaign which will also limit the number of decks (I'll print only the decks that will be sold during KS).
With ICONS shipping beginning on Friday and Black Gold KS campaign launching probably on Wednesday, I know that some people may be hesitant to get Black Gold too.
I understand and respect that, but I really cannot delay it more. I've decided to risk it and launch now and some backers may also have to decide if they want to risk it. I mean, in case they're wondering whether I'm a genius scammer or not

Lotrek wrote:Launching now was a tough decision: It's far from what I want to do but as things turned out, I must do it now for a series of reasons, personal and family ones included.
I also want to have finished and shipped all my pending projects by the end of July. That's why I'm doing a 7-day campaign which will also limit the number of decks (I'll print only the decks that will be sold during KS).
With ICONS shipping beginning on Friday and Black Gold KS campaign launching probably on Wednesday, I know that some people may be hesitant to get Black Gold too.
I understand and respect that, but I really cannot delay it more. I've decided to risk it and launch now and some backers may also have to decide if they want to risk it. I mean, in case they're wondering whether I'm a genius scammer or not

You're lucky we love your work, haha. Can't wait for all of it. After this though, you definitely need to slow down the timeline, it's punishing your fans that don't make six figure incomes

Lotrek wrote:I also want to have finished and shipped all my pending projects by the end of July. That's why I'm doing a 7-day campaign which will also limit the number of decks (I'll print only the decks that will be sold during KS).
With ICONS shipping beginning on Friday and Black Gold KS campaign launching probably on Wednesday, I know that some people may be hesitant to get Black Gold too.

Hey Lotrek,

Is the planned launch date this Wednesday (29th) ?
Will you offering both designs (Gold & Silver) ?
Could you also give us an idea of the cost ?

Thanks.

@misterharmanko:

Yes, this Wednesday the 29th. Not 100% decided yet, only 99%

I'll offer both Silver and Gold editions and the price will be around $40/deck plus shipment by registered mail . (1 deck is $7, 2 decks is $10 etc). I was thinking to set a limit to the decks produced but as the duration itself will be limited, I don't expect huge numbers. However, if we reach a certain number of decks sold before the end, I have prepared an upgrade that will leave nobody disappointed.

Lotrek wrote:@misterharmanko:

Yes, this Wednesday the 29th. Not 100% decided yet, only 99%

I'll offer both Silver and Gold editions and the price will be around $40/deck plus shipment by registered mail . (1 deck is $7, 2 decks is $10 etc). I was thinking to set a limit to the decks produced but as the duration itself will be limited, I don't expect huge numbers. However, if we reach a certain number of decks sold before the end, I have prepared an upgrade that will leave nobody disappointed.

Sounds good.
Keep us posted

Lotrek wrote:Launching now was a tough decision: It's far from what I want to do but as things turned out, I must do it now for a series of reasons, personal and family ones included.
I also want to have finished and shipped all my pending projects by the end of July. That's why I'm doing a 7-day campaign which will also limit the number of decks (I'll print only the decks that will be sold during KS).
With ICONS shipping beginning on Friday and Black Gold KS campaign launching probably on Wednesday, I know that some people may be hesitant to get Black Gold too.
I understand and respect that, but I really cannot delay it more. I've decided to risk it and launch now and some backers may also have to decide if they want to risk it. I mean, in case they're wondering whether I'm a genius scammer or not

Sorry you have to launch this now because of assorted reasons including personal and family. You might want to state that in the campaign and show any finished cards (test run) proving that you're not a scammer and that ICONS SACRED was delivered.

I'll be ~$90 bucks lighter in my wallet so please hold ICONS #3 for a while if you can.

So with these new cards, they look like the original Grotesk deck but with gold and silver backs? Kind of like a reserve Black Mass?


Black Mass = only foiled faces, normal backs?

Black Gold/Silver = normal faces, only foiled backs?

Bikefanatic wrote:So with these new cards, they look like the original Grotesk deck but with gold and silver backs? Kind of like a reserve Black Mass?


Black Mass = only foiled faces, normal backs?

Black Gold/Silver = normal faces, only foiled backs?

BLACK MASS: Metallic inks on both faces and back
BLACK GOLD/SILVER: Metallic inks on the faces, foil on the backs. Unless... Oh, it's too early to say.

What's the black stock like and what about the finish? Is it comparable to Icons Sacred in any way? The stock on that is nice, but the finish is not very slick, the cards stick together.

Will they also be sorted by hand like Sacred? Hopefully no missing/duplicate cards this time.

$40 is getting pricey but the art is amazing.

joeblow wrote:What's the black stock like and what about the finish? Is it comparable to Icons Sacred in any way? The stock on that is nice, but the finish is not very slick, the cards stick together.

Will they also be sorted by hand like Sacred? Hopefully no missing/duplicate cards this time.

$40 is getting pricey but the art is amazing.

The stock is quite different from SACRED. It's thicker and it has a velvet feel. The finish will be totally different from ICONS, too. Much more slippery if not very slippery.

Yes, they'll be sorted by hand but very very carefully and the decks will be unsealed. You will be able to open and check without destroying anything (just in case). I'll probably use the paper band sealing method I used in Venexiana Gold to keep the lid firmly closed.

This is getting out of hand Charalampos Sandorini (my new thing will be guessing your name ).
At least calm the waters a bit after this project... though I know you will definitely just go ahead and make Hyeronimus the first ever deck with 15 different types of hot foil on the back and front on pearlescent black stock with airsofa rainbow finish, hand made in a remote island in Greece by fifteen orthodox monks who are expert card flourishers during the autumn equinox and whilst planets are in perfect alignment and a supernova hundreds of billions of lights years away sends just enough radiation to give the foil on the cards a special sparkle...


So...yeah, please just hold off a bit on that new project for now.

..... hundreds of billions .... !!!

Wow.
Count me in Lotrek .... !

(autumn equinoxic card flourishing Greek Orthodox monks .... come on, that's a bit of a stretch .... the Greek Orthodox Church does not do that pagan equinoxial stuff )

{ does it ?}

[thanks Pablo !]

Several things are not quite right!

First, the topic's title changed to fulfillment completed, since Black mass is not yet shipped it should had stay "fulfillment underway"!
Second, you said that the launching of the new decks is to be 29th JUNE, but in the image you posted above it says 29th of JULY...

whatever.

I'm wit you Lotreks !

{[(《mmmmm .... Heironymust ....》 )]}

sms69x wrote:Several things are not quite right!

First, the topic's title changed to fulfillment completed, since Black mass is not yet shipped it should had stay "fulfillment underway"!
Second, you said that the launching of the new decks is to be 29th JUNE, but in the image you posted above it says 29th of JULY...

You're right about the topic's title... In my mind Grotesk Macabre and Black Mass are somewhat separated but they shouldn't. Thanks.

With the Launching date. You know. The stupid mistake of the day...

You already know where my ass will be at 5pm plus I hope there's more pics than just the back of the cards. I wanna see those faces as well.

Live!

This was a first for me, Backer #1 (after backing over 400+ things on KS). Woo!