Tonight, from 8 pm PST until 11:30 pm PST, five managers--General Manager, Votary Manager, CCG Manager, Production Manager and Online Manager--met online and discussed my future and the future of Mardi Gras 3000. No, not live or die type of future, but the fine details that make life worth living: the how, why, when and what. The nitty gritty. The chewy center of the Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop.
That's right my sweet friends. There have been changes large and small. I've added a fast and speedy link to subscribe to my blog (see the bottom of the sidebar) and my publisher has hired the Fab Five--the coveted manager positions have been filled.
Here's a link to Jennifer's post where she tells the interesting and even snarky and hilarious stories of the applicants:
http://www.mardigras3000.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=140
The MG3K Forum is becoming a fiction hub and the announcements, player registration, rankings, tournament announcements, and all the other great stuff--including places to suggest/request new Instants--is shifting over to the official website to launch at the end of May. Actually, it looks like everything is happening in May! Go, May!
The Starter Deck (retail edition)... In-character fiction... A new sourcebook... A trade paperback sourcebook... The website with chat rooms, characters, free online play... It's all coming in May.
While the managers were doing what they do so well (which is organize and collaborate to incredible ends), Jennifer (publisher) and I were chatting. She reminded me of the evil truth: The Fab Five have sixty days to blow her mind. She's not a big woman. She's barely out of her twenties. But darn if folks are set to shivering by her. At Windstorm, she can veto anything. There's no Board telling her what her to do or taking risk by vote. It rests on her shoulders. All of it. And now, here's five people who really, really, really want these jobs and who have to fight to keep them.
Sound mean? It isn't. The approach is: No free lunch. You want it, you fight for it. Yes, you were better than the other applicants but now show your stuff. Are you all talk or can you innovate? I *love* this part.
Now is when miracles happen.
E.J.
