Progress Update (Patreon)

It's time for a quick update on our progress towards going live. We've been offline for the last few days as we move stuff between rooms, but that just brings us closer to going live!

STUDIO
Our garage is now having its foundations checked to determine if the work can progress as planned.

Basically that means worky chaps doing exploratory surgery (digging big holes!) in the concrete flooring. Which is great for security as it crosses the boundary of the current door.

We'll get all the results back from that from the architect later.

TEMPORARY STUDIO
So, the livingroom is now completely empty excepting some stuff piled up on the fireplace.

Took us quite a while to get to this point. If you look closely, you can see Lindsay cleaning the floor in the reflection on the mirror. 

Why are we spending so much time cleaning it?

Well, Andy Leask, one of our players (and an award-wining WFRP4 writer, too!) is extremely allergic to cats, so this room has to be deep cleaned to remove all contamination from our Siberian Forest cat. Siberians may produce drastically less Fel d 1, the primary allergen present on cats, but Andy still reacts to it. So, deep cleaning and the banning of cats is the current point of order.

Once that was done, we dropped in a carpet for £FarTooMuch, something many out there may regard as a crime given our lovely hardwood floors. We know many folks love bare floors, but it's far too echoey for streaming. A carpet was a must for the sound quality in the stream.

So, down went the carpet and up went Ralph Horsely's original art from the WFRP Starter Set.

Yay! Carpet! And also the mess around the fireplace I made when making one of the chairs! I could have staged the photo better, but we're all about telling it as it is here at LAWhammer! So the mess stays!

It turns out having a carpet also captures allergens and as it stops them free-floating through the room. An actual allergy expert told me this (one of our daughters is asthmatic and allergic to a lot, so we were referred to experts for advice), so it must be true. The carpet will hopefully make it easier to vacuum up any future cat infiltration, which combined with our new air purifier should have us covered.

And the cat really wants to infiltrate! We piled some stuff in front of the livingroom door to make it harder for Shadow to push in. So, he just sat on those and gazed longingly at the forbidden room, occasionally yowling or scratching at the door.

But, to no avail.

So far, all Shadow's attempts to get in the room have failed. Largely because the new carpet has a deep enough pile that it makes the door much harder to open. 

Not that it's stopped him trying...

That'll do for the mo'. There is much more to say on the rules and campaign side (and about our Cultists!), but I'll cover that in the next post.

Until then!

Andy Law