Esteemed members of the Fraternity,
The old Celtic traditions say the ghosts of the dead are returning to earth tonight. To commemorate the event, for the Samhain festival, we urge you to built bonfires to summon warmth for the winter and make offerings to appease these spirits.
The Fraternity isn’t of course concerned by these petty folk superstitions, but still a few offerings to the spirits will be made. You see, our last discussion with Lord Godefroy showed us what kind of torment one might have when angry spirits come back.
But before we tire of your lovely trepidation and serve the offerings, we have staff news from the Fraternity of Shadows.
Jason has recently decided to leave the Fraternity to focus more time on his "real life family" and “real life career” whatsoever that might represent. On a more serious note, Jason’s contributions here over the last years have been invaluable, as writer and editor, and his cheerfulness in the Green House (our secret FoS meeting room) will be sorely missed.
We raise our glasses to you, Jason! Please stop by whenever you want!
In addition, you may have also noticed Wiccy too has left the Fraternity to reach the Emeritus status. Wiccy is now focusing more time to his illustrator career, and we sincerely wish him all the best. Wiccy is a fellow contributor since the early days of the Undead Sea Scrolls netbook, and we look forward to keeping in regular contact with him via Drusilla.
We raise our glasses to you too, Wiccy! To your success! Thank you for all these years!
Now as a result of these bodies running off our terror labs, we had to recruit new ... associates. This was hard by the way since the choice of valiant replacements was plenty.
What better to replace two men than one woman, would S from the Doomsday Gazetteer say?
A woman?
We had a hard time discussing the matter with our superiors of the Fraternity to make it work, and we are pleased to say we were finally able to make them change their mind.
Or as S would say, they finally got rid of their infamous “antiquated modes of thought”.
So yes, we are thrilled to announce the first woman to become a Fraternity of Shadows member!
Please welcome Sharon, known here as Rotipher!
We all have been very impressed by her contribution on these boards: her knowledge of the Ravenloft setting is near encyclopaedic and we really appreciate her often stunning creativity and point of views.
Sharon already has a first project for the Fraternity, which she will announce soon...
Please make sure to take the time to provide your well wishes to Jason and Wiccy, and your congratulations to Sharon.
In the meantime, join in the Samhain festivities!
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Ah yes… now for the promised frightful offerings…
We had the pleasure to host a Barovia contest that started on Friday the 13th. While some were very good, there was one entry that clearly set its dread tentacles higher than the others.We are pleased to announce the winner of the contest is … Raphael!
Congratulation for your superb entry based on EtCR! In short, Raphael took two fairly bland EtCR NPCs and made them good adventure hooks, adding a new dimension to the adventure. Raphael, please contact Jason to tell him your choice for your prize!
Thank you everybody for submitting! We will contact all the authors soon to rework their text (without a page limit!) and we will make a short Barovia netbook with the entries.
:misori: Rucht Lilavivat is still working on the zombie invasion scenario and unfortunately it isn’t ready yet… You’ll surely understand Rucht is working on many RPG projects at this time, and this should be a good news for us horror fans.
However, in order to make you dead prone in your anticipation, he is releasing for your wicked pleasure “Child of the House”, a brand new adventure set in Darkon! Do you really want to play with these delightfully horrible dolls? The link to it is here! Thank you Rucht!
In September, John W Mangrum revealed a fairly detailed draft of the grand Death Undaunted project on these boards. We are pleased to host a formatted PDF file collecting all this material. Definitively a great addition to your Ravenloft shelves! The link to it is here! Thank you John!
And last but not least, the awaited FoS Zherisia Report is going through formatting and final editing. There is no date of release yet, but mid-November – December seems for the moment a good possibility…---
Our projects, you say? A lot! You will be asked for contribution for the next year… Let’s see what the next year holds for the Fraternity of Shadows:
- By popular demand, and a few bribes too, the Quoth the Raven serie of netbook is returning, now as an annual netbook. You will soon see a thread about this project, but in short: submissions should be sent at submission@fraternityofshadows.com, you need to send them before September 2007, and the QtR#14 netbook should be out around Oct 31st 2007.
- Yes! At least one Gazetteer-like project! The Fraternity will now embark on a boat and will travel first to the infamous Nocturnal Sea waters to cover the domains of that villainous place. Again, an announcement providing details on this project will also be made very soon. We expect your participation to make this another great Gazetteer-type netbook!
- but this is not all. There are other projects we are still discussing in the Green House, among which the short Ravenloft introductory guide to DMs of other settings!
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In these shadowy times for the setting, be assured the Fraternity of Shadows web site will continue to beam its light in the mists. This community will remain energetic as long as fans will want to explore the mists.
Have a delightfully dreadful All-hallows’s Eve!
Sincerely,
Joël Paquin
For the Souragne Fraternity of Shadows
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