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Pledge Tiers and Housekeeping
We can now measure the time until launch in hours, and it's getting a little fraught here! I thought I'd take this opportunity to preview the pledge tiers that will be available when the campaign goes live on Wednesday 20th, at 12PM London time, and to do any other bits and pieces of useful housekeeping.
## Pledge Tiers
Here's how they stand at the moment, You'd be wise to read the real thing carefully on the day, because I can't promise there won't be some movement within these between now and then:
**Cultist** — £19. The series, digitally. If you just want the show, this is your tier.
**Historian** — £49. The series in hi-res Dolby Atmos, plus the PDF scriptbook and a digital dossier of in-world case documents. You also get instant access to "The Secret History of the World" which is going to be my filing system for research, ideas, notes and scribbles throughout the process of putting this show together - I'll be filling that up as we go.
**Adventurer** — £99. Everything above, plus a physical softcover scriptbook and the deluxe six-disc CD box set.
**Pendragon Club** — £299. Everything above, plus a physical case-file of in-world documents and the Pendragon Club Membership Pack, which already has some serious goodies planned for it.
**Librarian** — £499. Everything above, plus five Collectors Edition hardback script-books, one per Lovecraft Investigations season: A4, full-colour, Smyth-sewn, with full scripts, new essays, behind-the-scenes photographs, notebook scans etc. Signed bookplate included for the Call of Cthulhu book.
**Red Hook Stories Investor** — £999. Everything above, plus an Associate Producer credit, a Red Hook Stories t-shirt, a ticket to the Live Reading (should we reach that stretch goal), and monthly live Zoom calls with yours truly throughout the writing process.
**Executive Producer** - £4,999
Everything in previous tiers PLUS:
* You will be named as Executive Producer on the show and all relevant materials. You get two tickets to the Live Show, should the stretch goal fire.
* You will become part of the Pleasant Green Universe. We'll work together to create a canonical character connected to the events of The Call of Cthulhu: named for you, or for someone of your choosing, and real within the world of the show. How visible they are, and what form their involvement takes, we'll work out together. You'll receive their Department of Works file: classified, personalised, and yours.
* You will also receive a numbered limited edition print by Carl Pugh, the artist behind some of the most striking imagery in the Pleasant Green Universe. It arrives pre-mounted, with a card addressed to you and signed by the full cast and crew set into the mount below. Hang it up. You made this show happen.
* Finally, you'll join a small, separate monthly conversation with me. Not the group call. Just the Executive Producers, a considerably shorter guest list, and a more personal conversation about how the production is going.
And then, on top of all that, we have tote bags, T-shirts, hoodies, baseball caps... Want to see? Oh go on then, just a peek...
These are all mock-ups, as close to the real thing as we can get.
## Housekeeping
For those of you who live a long way away (from me, I mean, you presumably live incredibly close to you), I have made the decision to cap shipping at a somewhat reasonable rate (you start trying to ship five 2kg books to Australia and you don't even want to know what that costs!); I'll pick up the tab for a chunk of the delivery cost so that no one is excessively penalised for their generosity.
I have also enabled paying in instalments, which means the more expensive tiers have the option of paying in four monthly instalments, rather than all in one go. As I understand it (read the small print!), there is no interest charged on this, so it's not credit, just a payment plan to make higher tiers more accessible.
We also have some instant rewards set up (again, subject to change) that trigger if you back in the first 48 hours, or if you backed Crowley. I'm not ENTIRELY sure I trust that last one, because Crowley was done through Kickstarter. Backerkit MAY know who you are, or they may not. And you might be using a different e-mail. Do me a favour; if you're a previous backer and you DON'T get a reward, drop me a line and we'll figure it out.
Stretch goals (called Achievements in Backerkit) are set up and you'll see those when the campaign launches. The one worth mentioning, though, is the one that hits when we go BIG: at £250,000, we drop the Peck Lectures into everyone's package - it turns out that, some years ago, Eleanor Peck gave a series of short lectures on various aspects of folklore. We have uncovered those recordings and will be making them available if the campaign goes stratospheric.
Lastly, a few people on Crowley said that they wished they could give more (love those people!). It occurred to me to set higher tiers, but then there was the question of what to put in them and how much they should go for, etc etc. I know there are a few people here who really love what we make and would like to be more involved, so what I can do, in consultation with you, is create a bespoke tier that could allow for greater investment in return for more targeted rewards. If this is interesting, or something you want to explore in more detail, drop me a line at bespoke@pleasantgreen.co.uk
Until Wednesday, then...
