Merch, Maps and (Proble)Magicians

Hi folks,

Wishing you the very best for the coming week from everyone at Rusty Towers!

Firstly, we just wanted to update you on some plans we have for the future of this Patreon. Our Patreon is now more than five years old, and in that time the platform has changed and grown as much as we have at Rusty Quill. With that in mind, in the coming weeks, we will be making some improvements, to better streamline the benefits you will receive. This will include removing out-of-date fundraising goals, adding extra tiers to allow you more flexibility and options, and even more extra special benefits. Keep an eye on the newsletter for further announcements.

This week we have some exciting updates for Rusty Quill merch! Firstly, you may have noticed that a whole batch of designs have appeared over on our Redbubble store, including The Magnus Archives Tarot-inspired designs by Grace Holsten, several Chapter & Multiverse Masks designs, Enthusigasm logos, David’s Place and “Ooh Tickly” Stellar Firma designs, Cel Sidebottom and an additional Trice Forgotten design. The majority of these have previously been available exclusively on Teepublic, and while some designs will remain exclusive on both Teepublic and Redbubble, we’re very excited to now have these particularly highly requested ones available on both platforms, so you have more options when choosing to purchase merch.

Speaking of having more options for our merch, we’re delighted to be launching a third dedicated official Rusty Quill merchandise store on Crowdmade. We like to offer you as many options as possible when shopping around for merch, especially for more expensive items like t-shirts and hoodies. For those of you who prefer to shop elsewhere from Teepublic or Redbubble, Crowdmade is now an official alternative. Crowdmade offer a wide variety of high-quality merchandise items, including t-shirts and hoodies, and offer select embroidered items, which is something we’ve never been able to offer before. We’re launching Crowdmade with a limited number of our favourite designs across all of our audio drama shows, but have plans to add even more, including exclusive designs to the platform soon. Crowdmade benefits Rusty Quill in a number of ways, as it will offer us more flexibility in things like limited edition items, and is fully integrated into YouTube (depending on your location)! One t-shirt that is currently exclusive to Crowdmade is the embroidered ‘Rusty Quill’ t-shirt, available in red, black, navy and dark green, and we have more exclusive designs planned to release in the future! Head over to our Crowdmade page at this link, and have a look through the available items!

We’d like to give a huge shout-out to the Rusty Nobles who joined us for the Trice Forgotten AMA on Friday. We had an incredible time listening to your questions about the show, and then spending some time with you all. (😎 (sunglasses emoji) - if you know, you know).

In today’s episode of Trice Forgotten stringrays are caught, potatoes are consumed, and a map is purloined. You may recognise several familiar voices in this episode, including Maddy Searle, Karim Kronfli, Ahmed Aljabry, and Lydia Nicholas.

On Chapter and Multiverse this week it’s the penultimate episode of Masks. Armed with new knowledge, our young superheroes continue their preparations. As the final battle looms, will they be ready in time?

Finally, on Friday, we have another episode of Azu and Cel: Problemagicians!

Here is our full schedule for this week:

Monday 15th August

SEAS 3 – Battens Down (Patreon) (4pm BST)

Tuesday 16th August

CHAP Masks 17 – The Ravening (Patreon) (4pm BST)

SEAS 3 – Battens Down (Public) (4pm BST)

Wednesday 17th August

CHAP Masks 17 – The Ravening (Public) (4pm BST)

Friday 19th August

KNIGHTS+ bonus – Problemagicians 3 (Patreon) (4pm BST)

Have a good week all!

The Rusty Quill team