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Progress Update: The Slow Climb toward Normalcy

G'monday, all y'all helpful humans!

Let's all take a moment and just... breathe.

The new video is officially out, things are officially going to be okay. At least in terms of t...

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"The Wilting Sound"

 

All spindle sylph are born with a twin; a mirror image of themselves who shares the half of their soul. But there's a revelation that's sweeping through their lands, chang...

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Update: Reward Scheduling

Just a quick update to let all of you know about how we're going to be handling rewards moving forward.

Many of the simpler rewards that require no preparation will continue to go out immedia...

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Sneak Peek: Of Thumbs and Nails

In the final stretch of production, now! Just need to add the music and the outro, really.

I'm so eager to finally share this thing with all of you.


—Benji

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The Forge: Understanding "Author Voice"

 
Hello, all you Helpful Humans and Engineers!

Session by session, we've been moving through a lot of Terry Pratchett's work in preparation for the forthcoming Terry Pratchett series...

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Progress Update: A Cup of Something Warm

G'morning, maintenance crew! And for those who are celebrating, happy holidays!

This week, at long last, we have a turn for the positive. It feels like things are finally, genuinely beginning...

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The Forge: Starts in 30 minutes!


Just a last-minute reminder! Come join us in #the-foundry-forge on our the Tale Foundry Discord server to discuss Terry Pratchett's book, Hogfather! 

Find all the details he...

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Update: OFFICIALLY DONE—


—with this short story.

Some final touch-ups, and then I spend a big portion of the evening recording, because this story is massive.

Overall it's been a really interesti...

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Sneak Peek: Story Art

Hello, helpful humans!

Today I want to share with you what may be my favorite story art for any of the short story videos we've released. My artist, Felipe, has totally knoc...

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The Forge, Reminder: "Hogfather", by Terry Pratchett

 
Hello, Helpful Humans and Engineers of the foundry!

Our next Forge session is in a mere two days! That means it's time to finish up your reading if your following along, or squeez...

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Progress Update: The Neverending Story

HAS FINALLY COME TO AN END.

That's right. I'm making real progress with the show again. No more floundering in the mud with this impossible project in the middle of my worst period.

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Update: My thanks, and my plans

Alright everyone, first things first, you are all incredible.

Thank you so much to everyone who threw in at such short notice to help this show survive while I figure out what to do in the ...

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ATTENTION: Tale Foundry's in Danger

Hey everyone,

for any of you who follow other Youtube creators, this shouldn't be too unfamiliar of a story. Despite the excellent platform they've created with Youtube, Google has a bit of a histor...

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The Forge: "Hogfather", by Terry Pratchett

 
Hello, Helpful Humans and Engineers of the foundry!

It's time to announce our next read for the Foundry Forge, this time something appropriate for the season: Terry Pratchett's "T...

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Progress Update: Where the needle's pointing


G'morning, helpful humans one and all.

Last week we had a bit of a zinger, and this one will be mor...

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Progress Update: Human Recalibrations


G'monday, helpful humans and all.

This is going to be a little different from some of the other progress updates I've shared here. I've been alluding to some "difficult times" in a lot of posts ...

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Sneak Leak: A Tour through Whisperworld

Heyo, helpful humans!

Today we're doing something a little different. As plug away at this short story, I find it hard to have good material for these sneak peeks. So instead, today, we're going to ...

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The Forge: Guards! Guards!, by Terry Pratchett

Hello, Helpful Humans and Engineers of the foundry!

I've already done a little bit of reading, and I can tell you immediately that this book is not going to disappoint. After the last sessi...

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Tale Foundry Fest!

Attention, lovely humans and friends of the Foundry!

The incredible community on our Discord server is going to be running their first ever server-wide event soon: Tale Foundry Fest! 

Joi...

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Progress Update: Stiiiiill writing...

Hello, helpful humans! 

Welcome, very unofficially, to winter. 

Last night we received about 6-7 inches of glorious sky-fluff in my area, weighing down branches, taking out powerline...

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Snert Pert: Getting Drafts Wrong

Welp, these things happen to the best of us.

I'm officially re-writing this short story. Not necessarily from the ground up, but close to it. Art can be that way sometimes. It's never as cooperative...

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The Forge, Reminder: Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

 
Hello, Helpful Humans and Engineers of the foundry!

I've been having an immensely good time reading Good Omens over the last couple weeks and I'm absolutely stoked to chat about it with al...

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Progress Update: Through the Jungle

G'monday, y'all helpful humans!

There's not much to say this week, as I'm still deep in the jungle of story-writing, which is at best a reclusive activity, at worst a complete departure from reality...

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Poll: How do you feel about the video Sneak Peeks?

Greetings, helpful humans!

I come bearing a question. The video sneak peeks take a lot of effort to create and upload (3-5 hours). I enjoy them, and it's great to have something for you guys in the ...

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Sneak Peek: Bookmark Progress 2

Hello, helpful humans!

This week the bookmark journey continues! Who knew getting one single piece of merchandise made could be such a lengthy process?

Things are looking up, though! We're jus...

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The Forge: Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman


Hello, Helpful Humans, Tinkerers, Engineers, and all!

The last forge session came upon us rather quickly, but there's plenty of time before the next one! If you want to read up so you can contri...

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Progress Update: Adventures!

G'monday, all you helpful humans! I hope your week is off to a roaring start.

As I'm still in the middle of writing a short story, this should be a pretty sparse update. Still, there are some intere...

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Sneak Peek: Beautiful Machine Bookmark Process

Hello helpful humans!

For this week's sneak peek, we've got something a bit off the beaten path. The talented artist behind the bookmark we've long been hyping (and will soon be releasing) was kind ...

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The Forge: Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett

Hello, Helpful Humans, Tinkerers, Engineers, and all!

I'm pleased to say we'll be having our first ever Foundry Forge Session in a couple of days! I wrote a little bit about this in View Post

Progress Update: Firing the Forge

Hello, helpful humans! 

It's a new week, and I've got some news for all of you. Nothing earth-shattering this time, but exciting nonetheless.


Where are we?

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