The Narrative This Week - Oct 25th, 2026 (Patreon)

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Last Week at a Glance

Thurston was back on Monday, but he came down with con crud, so Rotgrind on the 21st was postponed.

We used the 19th and 21st to record both Mothership sessions with SpeakerD; they’re now in editing.

Most of the week went into restructuring: bringing in help, spreading out workloads, and cutting down on single points of failure.

Rebuilt the content calendar. Most of next year is now tentatively scheduled out.

Mothership Is Coming for Halloween

Both Mothership sessions are recorded and off to editing, where we’re adding music, sound effects, and plenty of spooky atmosphere. Session one is planned for Halloween on the Gold tier, with session two following after. Once we hold our big meetings in December about restructuring and redistribution, we’ll look at moving these into the pipeline for a possible public release on YouTube. For now, they’re Gold tier.

The character creation audio is already up for Gold members on Patreon, with SpeakerD walking through character creation and Game Mastering Mothership.

Team & Production

Animation: Mikura is nearly finished with another animation; just a few more pieces to go. We’re also looking for a second animator so we can work toward two animations a week. Mikura is staying with us; this is about not stressing her out or destroying her fingers.

Uploads & posting: We’ve contracted someone to come in and handle pre-scheduling, uploading, and posting videos across platforms, working from our templates and usual process. That takes it off the team’s plate so we can concentrate on making the show.

Compilation editor: Morris is stepping away from compilations for now to edit a sponsored video.

Art: An artist meeting is coming up. Skelly is lined up for overlay art and character reaction images for Warhammer 2nd Edition, Warhammer Fantasy, and Secrets of Grayce, with Mikira handling reaction images and overlays for Secrets of Grayce. We’re also pulling the overlays back a bit. Less clutter, more play area, with the emphasis kept on character portraits and their idle and talking animations. That keeps the workload manageable and makes one-shots much easier to produce.

Show Updates

WarHams: A Chaos Odyssey

We’re recording today, October 26 the second-to-last episode of the show. If you want us to revisit Chaos Odyssey in the future, let us know in the comments. It won’t be soon, since we have other things planned and want to try new things, but we’re open to coming back if you want it.

Rotgrind

Rotgrind is on for the 28th.

November

WarHams: 2nd Edition is planned for Mondays in November. We’re tentatively still streaming those, but we may switch to offline recording, I’ll check with the crew and see what they’re comfortable with.

PDFs and the Bestiary

Thank you for all the feedback on the last post! It genuinely helps to know how you feel about this stuff. Based on it, we’re changing how we handle monster releases. Instead of rushing out single-monster PDFs, we’ll compile them into properly formatted collections with dedicated lore, good art, and clean copy fitting. If you’d rather just get the stat block as a PNG in the meantime that’s easy to do too so just let us know.

On the production side, I’ve been reworking our PDF/Design templates to make the process more efficient and sustainable alongside book work, rather than rebuilding source files every time.

Looking Ahead

Next year is largely scheduled, though plans tend to change fast once things start moving. We’re building in more flexibility for sponsorships and setting up show structures for 2027. I’m also hoping to move the big restructuring meeting up from December to sometime in November so we can act on decisions sooner.

Thank you all so much for your support. There’s a ton of content coming and a lot getting planned so next year is going to be a big one.

Thank you all for your continued support!

— Zoran & the Narrative Declaration Team