The Midnight Ocean Tarot

Second to last card; the rosy coffinfish.

Also known as the deep sea toad. They walk along the sea bed on their big pectoral fins, which is kind of awesome. 

As the name hints, they do come in an outrageous shade of red, so its definitely one for the blood moon deck;

The red tones are still a little WIP.

In other news;

We have a new stretch goal!
If we hit 20k then I will definitely make red pins for all the blood moon cards. This is how much I need to feel comfortable about making them all; if we don't reach that far I will still make some of them, how many will just depend on the manufacturer quote.

I've also added a couple of new add-ons as we move into the final few days.

The Blood Moon Supplementary Pack
This is only the blood moon cards, for people who want to have both versions of the cards, but not two whole decks. This does not include the rest of the major or minor arcana; it only contains the red cards. There will be at least ten included; six major arcana and four court cards. There may be more, but these are guaranteed (the firework jelly, the sea angel, the spider crab, the blood belly comb jelly, the rosy coffinfish, ???, and the four court cards).

The Bullshark Mini Pin
It was 3am, I thought he was a juvenile great white. Did the whole design, came back after sleeping and knew immediately I done buggered up. But he's cute and I'm gonna make him anyway so if you want one... There he is. 1.75in with screen print shading.



Gulper Eel Promo Cards
The manufacturer printed a double batch by accident so there are nine more in stock. I'm not getting them made again, I just have twice as many as I expected. 

My long awaited test product order came in, so hopefully tomorrow I'll have some things to show you :)

Thanks for sticking with me ~

 

The poll was super helpful, thank you everyone. 

(Adding the text is the last phase of prepping the card art so excuse all these being blank).

So first things first, I tweaked the colours on the teal card, according to some suggestions. 
(New -- Old)

It was a small change but I do think it made a pretty big difference. This is the card for the default deck. (The pin hasn't been tweaked yet but it will match when I add it to the full collection).

I had a long think about what people said and the poll results, and realised it would be weird to have just one of the red things be red, when everything else is teal. And having just one red card stands out. Red actually is one of the more common colours at this depth, because it reads as black without light so its great for camouflage. Enough so that looking at the collection as a whole, I could add red accents to enough cards to make it cohesive.

So we're going to be offering an additional alternate edition of the deck, where some of the cards are switched out for the 'red' version. Same animals, same card art, only the colours are different and only on some of the cards - enough to make it more of a set. The same thing already exists in the teal collection, where certain shades are only on say half a dozen of the cards so it should work as a cohesive whole. The red really pops on the teal background. The specific palette is still being tweaked, but here are a couple of examples;

I've been calling it the blood moon edition, after the blood belly comb jelly that kicked the whole thing off. 

Anyway you'll be able to freely choose between either version, it won't cost any extra to have one or the other. There'll be about half a dozen major arcana cards with significant changes, and it'll carry over to one or two court cards per suit. I am not 100% promising red versions of all of the relevant pins, but because they share the same mould design as the originals its a solid possibility. 

So to recap; two versions of the same deck with slightly altered colourways. Everything else will be the same :). 

Thanks for sticking with me as we get into the final week! 

Sorry just a quick one, since I've had a few comments but I didn't want to have odd info all over the place.

A loooot of people like the red.
But also I was actually bapped IRL for considering not having the teal card.

We will be having both pins (if you bought a full set, you'll be able to pick which you prefer).

For the cards, well I'll make a big post about it tomorrow. In short though, I will be slightly adjusting the teal version (the values are off) and it will be in the 'default' version of the deck.

But for the red I think we will have options... 

Check back tomorrow :D

Well, we couldn't get away without having at least one comb jelly in the major arcana set. 

The blood belly comb jelly is gorgeous, although quite often it looks a bit... Suggestive. One of its key features though, is its colour (hence the name). Here lies a conundrum. Behold, the teal version;

Its fine. Its nice. It fits the set.

But also for your consideration... The red version;

There's a few tones that carry over in the purples and the pinks, but yes I can see how it doesn't match the set. So we're going to have a poll to decide which one will be included. If its a near even split then we'll have both versions of the pin (if you ordered a full set, you'll be able to choose which version you want) but stick with the teal card (since it matches what we already have). If there's a strong preference either way, then we'll go with that one. If you have opinions, leave a comment!

Also, just a quick thank you to everyone who tuned into the livestream. I'm not sure I conveyed my ideas very well, but it was lovely to see some comments and be involved in the Topia community. The recording is in the community tab and if you're interested in the other projects, you should definitely check it out.