Carnaval Delay

[kebechet]

Good morning, all! I want to thank everyone for their patience with the Carnaval release. It really does seem to be a series plagued with hiccups!

 

At BPAL, timing plays a huge role. We’re a very small company, and if something goes amiss in the machinery it slams everything up. We time updates in a very specific way: we have to take many things into consideration, including inventory, component availability, production’s capabilities, art and graphic design deadlines, my capacity to write and create formulas... and Carnaval even moreso because there are SO MANY facets to it. If we fuck up in our timing, and a problem in any one of these areas can throw off the timing, a scent or an entire series can go wonky.

 

We’ve had trouble getting Carnaval live for some time, and we were trying to make all the people who had been asking for it for so many years happy. In order to get it live and out the door, the only space available for its release was the time right before DragonCon, so it wouldn’t drown in the subsequent Halloween and Yule updates. It was either go live, or wait until after Lupercalia 2016. If you’ve spent time on the forums, it’s not hard to see that me waiting until next spring would have been a terrible idea, especially since we had everything in-hand except for the cards.

 

So, I made a decision – for good or ill – and we went live with CD. The cards were scheduled to arrive within days of release. The cards arrived, and the printer had made an error. Because we try to go through other small companies as much as possible, we elected to print the pitch cards through the same person that does our tarot cards, as opposed to going through a large-scale printing service. It costs tons more, but the quality is exceptional. Alas, it’s a one-man operation, and when an error occurs, it takes a significant amount of time to rectify.

 

And that brings us to where we are now. The reprints are scheduled to arrive on Monday, and assuming that there are no problems with this batch of cards, the bottlenecked Carnaval orders will begin to ship immediately.

 

Thank you all so much for your patience and kindness. I cannot tell you how much it means to me.

 

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8/26 update!

 

All the pitch cards have arrived, except for Mme. Moriarty. We're shipping out all the orders in the queue, including Moriarty, but the cards for Moriarty will ship separately once they arrive.