News breaks

Merry Monday folks!

A very warm welcome from Rusty Towers to everyone, especially to the all new folks around here. If you have joined up recently, I would suggest you take a look through past news updates (all helpfully tagged as 'News') to familiarise yourself with the goings on around here.

However, as a quick rundown of what's happening:
- Rusty Quill Gaming & Giving 2019, a 12hr livestream in aid of Mind, the mental health charity, kicks off at 10am BST on Saturday 7th December 2019. Tune in at www.twitch.tv/rusty_quill for games, shenanigans and special guests!
- Season 2 of Stellar Firma kicks off on Friday 6th December 2019 (and a day earlier for early access).
- The 2K milestone new audio drama miniseries is in pre-production, called Freaks' Rollcall, and is a darkish supernatural comedy, written by Tom Critch and edited by Alexander J Newall. Currently slated for release next year.
- Work is well under way on our own Tabletop RPG system, codenamed Ensemble. The plan is to initially release a base ruleset and then accompany that with specific settings that build on those rules.  The design team of Ben, Jonny, Sasha and myself are gearing up for a big rules shakedown, and we hope to be able to announce an alpha playtest release for Patrons soon.
- Our Marketing Officer, Callum, is putting together a new plan for Patreon to improve our current offering and make it more sustainable in the long term.

Thanks to everyone who submitted questions for the Season 4 TMA Q&A episode - we'll be recording that very soon. Going by the responses, Season 4 has sparked many imaginations to the tune of 619 responses! This does mean, I'm afraid, that we're going to have to be selective and won't be able to answer everyone's question. For a start, we'll be excluding questions that may be spoilery or have been asked in previous Q&As. So, apologies in advance if yours doesn't get asked.

We're also finalising what else we're going to bring you during the season break - thanks for your suggestions, they have proved very useful. Suffice to say there will still be plenty of voices, some familiar, some less so, over the break. But one thing I will say is, you might want to get your writing implements ready ;-)

And, here's what you can expect from us this week (all shows release at 4pm UK time):  

Tue 12th November
RQG - Apocalypse World Special, Part 3 (Patreon)
OUT202A - Secrets of the Bedchamber (Public)

Wed 13th November
RQG - Apocalypse World Special, Part 3 (Public) 

Thu 14th November
OUT202B - Interview with SEVAN (Public)

Fri 8th November
Rusty Knights Bonus - Rusty Bits #10
Rusty Nobles Bonus - [SURPRISE]

Have a great week folks!

Anil
Community Manager