Joined: Apr 29, 2003 Posts: 1831 Location: Chengdu, China
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:18 pm Post subject: Secret Shoggoth IV
It’s time for the Secret Shoggoth again. That special time of year when we trade tribaubles to grow as a community.
Yog-Sothoth.com Secret Shoggoth IV.
Here’s how it works:
You send me a private message that includes:
Your name
Your address
Where you would be willing to ship a gift be you can choose anywhere or one or two countries or whatever. There are plenty of Yoggies around, so if you don’t want to send something over any oceans that’s fine we always have more people willing to ship anywhere than we need.
Then, buy a gift, the price ought to be $20-25 or so. If you want to wait to see who you get then that’s fine but the closer to December the worse the shipping time becomes.
On Nov 23 or so, I’ll assign you someone to gift and send you their address.
Also, around the 22nd I’ll need some people and the chatroom so we can roll to see who gets who, think of it as rolling on the treasure table from the old DMG.
As soon as you get your assigned shoggee, send them a gift, the gift should arrive by Dec 15th.
If for some reason something goes wrong let me know. Immediately, maybe sooner.
Rules:
1. Gifts ought to cost around $20-25 USD. The price of some monographs, others cost more or less. Price is before shipping.
2. The gifts ought to arrive by Dec 15. If there is a problem with this, let me know.
2a. If you can get a shipping number, that’s cool. You don’t have to but it will make trouble more avoidable. Also, you don’t have to but when you get your package, it’d be nice of you to note it here so your shoggoth knows that everything arrived.
3. If for some reason the gift won’t arrive or something goes wrong. Contact me immediately.
4. You must have been a member of Yog before Oct 29th China time.
You guys are better than this but let’s put it out there.
6. Keep it clean and legal, no shipping booze to kids, guns to Britain, lock picks to Canada or midget-shoggoth porn to anyone.
7. For the love of Cthulhu, contact me if something goes wrong. Again, the sooner I hear from someone the sooner I can fix things.
8. There’s precious little anyone can do to you if you don’t send a gift. But we’re Yoggies and above that kind of thing.
Thoughts:
Let’s assume that everyone already has their copies of Uttati Asfet and the Bermuda Triangle.
You might want to send your real name along unless you want a package showing up for some dude named Ten_Inch_Psudopod.
You may want to post a quick idea roll about what you want but you have no promises as to what you’ll get. You may also want to post about what you have, if say you already own every monograph, then you’d want to mention that so you don’t get another copy of The Abby to adorn your Dark Ages shelf with.
Also, the gifts don’t have to have anything to do with Cthulhu, I understand many people love tea and Doctor Who, though you might want to look into things your shogee likes.
Those of us who live in far flung and fantastic locations may find it extra good to post a short list of electronic things we lust after, the Chaosium eBook explosion and DrivethroughRPG both will be happy to get an ecopy of a book to Antarctica much faster than the standard messenger albino penguin.
And as always:
Note: For some reason old Yog has been moving slow for me so this year expect my responces to be a little Sluggish.
Joined: Apr 29, 2003 Posts: 1831 Location: Chengdu, China
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:26 pm Post subject:
The List
This is everyone who has signed up so far. Check the date on the bottom to see when it was last updated. If you sign up and don't see you name here after the next update let me know.
CAThompson
Lammomedes special "in before the list" winnner
archimedesuk
cjearkham
WinstonP
JeffOkamoto
Gol-Goroth
Pookie Who's soo cool he counts for two
Khelbiros
Badger even if he won't send a PM...
PaulFricker The man makes mugs. They are good.
Jabonko
glyph
PoC
Nollvane
Fin
Fallorn
Mysterioso
andyb
Donnovan_Sunrider
JonHook
johnnyhamper
Finn123
CharlesDexterWard
LadyM
HPLHS
tlynch999
Kadath
Karloff
simsmith
cpt_machine
DoctorBob
gloomhound
sapper-joe
neorxnawang
Nemo235
PetersKill
I'm pretty sure we've passed the number of people from year one. We're at 37 now, not quite a record.
Nov 13 China time
Last edited by CAThompson on Sat Nov 14, 2009 6:08 pm; edited 14 times in total
There is a problem with UK based involvement. Not that we won't do it but just we can't guarantee that parcels will arrive before Xmas because we're in the throws of a protracted postal strike. _________________ Bring Back the Kult of Keepers!
"Gibber, gibber, meep", as the Ramones would have said had they read Lovecraft.
Joined: Mar 22, 2007 Posts: 125 Location: Marlboro, NJ
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:48 pm Post subject:
GBSteve wrote:
There is a problem with UK based involvement. Not that we won't do it but just we can't guarantee that parcels will arrive before Xmas because we're in the throws of a protracted postal strike.
Are there delivery alternatives? Here in the states, we have United Parcel Service (UPS) and Federal Express (FedEx), and many vendors allow you to choose one of them instead of the US Postal Service. _________________ Chris Jarocha-Ernst
There are alternatives but they are all more expensive because they incur VAT whereas the Royal Mail doesn't. And some of them use the Royal Mail in part of their service. _________________ Bring Back the Kult of Keepers!
"Gibber, gibber, meep", as the Ramones would have said had they read Lovecraft.
Joined: Feb 23, 2004 Posts: 596 Location: Queens, New York
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:37 pm Post subject:
I'm in again! This is one of the things I enjoy most about the holidays! _________________ Oscar "Osk" Rios
Associate Editor & Staff Writer
www.miskatonicriverpress.com
Joined: Feb 27, 2004 Posts: 1526 Location: Deep One colony next to Alameda, CA
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:15 am Post subject:
My first response was "good gods, already? Is it that time again?", followed by "hell yeah!". I'm in!
-=b _________________ The only way to escape terror is to bury yourself in it.
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In the last two years I've included a "homemade" scenario or article as part of my gift - so I'd better get my thinking cap on and keep up the tradition!
Joined: Oct 23, 2007 Posts: 119 Location: Sheffield, Yorkshire
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:54 pm Post subject:
This is my third year too. Don't tell my friends and familly but I actually look forward to opening the SS present more than any other ones. Very exciting. _________________ Think on.
Joined: Feb 27, 2004 Posts: 1526 Location: Deep One colony next to Alameda, CA
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:53 pm Post subject:
I don't think my props last year were very well received, so i'm going to have to think of something else. Andy, i may have to swipe your idea...
-=b _________________ The only way to escape terror is to bury yourself in it.
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