Goodness! It’s been a long time since I let you folks know what’s been going on.

Last I stood, I had been working on the last of the main components of the Character Manager backend system. This was delayed by two things. One, the coding for the restrictions between ages, races and heights was taxing to say the least. Two, I took a tree branch to the eye which left me hardly able to see what I was doing.

The eye has recovered after getting a contact lens bandage for it but this delayed me until the mentor faire. Congrats to the mentors on a job well done! Most of the new prizes that you may have seen there were designed by mentors and coded by myself. The mentors have been reviewing their events and coming up with some new ideas and games for next year. Preparing for the faire delayed me from further work on the Character Manager before I was presented with a visit on short notice from my distant sister and her two kids. It was a great time but preparing for their arrival and spending the week with them also stole my time from working on in-game things.

After that I has a week to recover and lock down the house and make sure it was set while I went away for a week with my other two sisters to my dad’s hunting cabin upstate. I was tasked with loading a trailer and a truck load of goods and tools that we needed and with cutting up logs to give my dad a nice 7 or 8 cords of wood for the fire. It was grueling work and I pulled a muscle in my hand from all the heavy lifting but we had a great time going fishing, 4 wheeling, mini-golfing, toasting smores and my nephew shot his first game - a chipmunk! Since returning I had more cleanup and recovery of neglected housework to tend to as well as a slightly injured hand.

In the rare time I had during all of this to spend on the game I’ve gotten a couple of things done. First, I’ve been preparing items for the upcoming auction. There’s a couple of nice things started that I hope folks will like. Just one question - doesn’t anyone have ideas for items that aren’t weapons!?!

I’ve also been researching some ideas for advertising our game. I spoke to some of the Home Office people about the Buddy Referral program to see if it can be re-initiated for us. I also found a way to earn free advertising links for us by using some PTC (Pay To Click) advertising websites. I’m not sure if these have any real chance of roping in new players but it’s essentially free and is worth a shot. If you have any other advertising ideas then please be sure to post a comment here so that we can look into them!

For now I’m still focusing on my auction items. Thanks to Jostinian and Xxenos for some inspiring ideas. If you have other ideas then send them to aoh-jubalee at play dot net or post them on the message boards. I just want to get back to the Character Manager so I can reveal the sweet new features you all will be able to use!

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