Numenera: 100th Blog Post, GeeklyInc, Scry Hawk Chronicles Project and Patreon

Iadace internet,

First and foremost I just want to say thank-you for all the support I have had over the past 8 months. Every single one of you have been instrumental in how the core campaign has shaped up and has inspired me to go a lot further than just the blog. I  also want to celebrate that that as of the 1/04/2015 (yes the date is a little suspect) I have reached my 100th blog post on my core City of Needles novel. It's currently  totalling one novel and couple of chapters in to the second. I have never written so much in my life and I have enjoyed every second of it, which has to be a testament to Numenera itself as a story-teller's dream.

Halfway through March, I applied to to be a writer for GeeklyInc and luckily landed myself a position for their Table Top section. As most of you know I've never played another system, in fact I've only managed to play half a game of Numenera as a player. With the Numenera system and setting, along with my Master of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing I've managed to create systems and spreadsheets to help me through the baby steps of GM'ing with narrative design at the forefront. I'll be taking everything I've learned and will be writing up a new series on there, exclusively talking about Numenera. This will include how I fell in love with game as a writer and how its systems, settings and rules help create a game where narrative driven content can be an inspiring and freeing experience for both the GM and the players.

On the back of my 100th post for the core campaign novel; next week I will be launching The Scry Hawk Chronicles over on Twitch. Starting from the week of the 6th of April, I will be running 5, two part adventures, set in the Needles Universe. The adventures all stem from from the organisation known as the Scry Hawks, a black-ops style order of the Hawk-Eye. You can find more information on the campaign itself and my 22 community players over at Scry Hawk Wikia.

The first game and adventure titles are:

Falco: Firday 10th/24th April, 19:00 BST - The Village of Stone

Lanius: Saturday 11th/25th April, 17:00 BST - The Shadow Excavation

Vultur: Sunday 12th/26th April, 18:00 BST - The Grand Orators Tome

Elanus: Tuesday 14th/28th  April, 17:00 BST - The Dodona's Twin

Strix: Sunday 19th April/3rd May, 17:00 BST - Kaledon's Reprise

If you've been reading my core campaign and the stuff on here, there has been quite a lot of work put into it so far. By my best estimate I have over 120k  words for the novel and a diverse range of topics on here. I've decided to set up a Patreon to help further both the blogs and the livestreams. The money will be going towards production costs, time needed to write the blogs and hopefully in the future more productions such as podcasting with your support. The Numenera community has been the foundation for a passion that has been nurtured and grown by you. I don't think I would be in the position today where I could say I've written a novel and a half, GM'd and played my first ever TT-RPG, and now confident, inspired, and perhaps a little insane enough to GM 5 more games.   If you like what you've read so far and want to support me further I would greatly appreciate it.

To close, I just want to say a thank-you to +Monte Cook, +Shanna Germain, the Numenera Community, the G+ Table Top Roleplayers, my core campaign players, my 22 Scry Hawks and everyone else in between. You've changed my life.

/Drew - Tesla