Here we are, the KD:M holiday upon us, another year over, the discounts plentiful. And it was another looong night when you are in the EU. I guess I could be doing worse, I slept less than I had wanted to, but for longer than I anticipated.
The Feline Entity just had to thoroughly check the cupboard – I get it, I usually don’t sleep at that hour and she was concerned. There is no telling what those plates could have been up to.

But nobody wants to hear all that, you are here for the update! And, honestly, so am I. Even if this might be mainly a formality amongst the hectics of purchasing stuff & reading the big update.

Here we are – as of typing this (5 a.m. gmt+1), the sale has been live for a bit and the first items are already sold out – overall it seems there isn’t a lot of stock for quite a few things.
Besides Core the old Expansions of Death 1 entries also all seem rather anemic. But, a ray of hope for those new to the game/hobby:

You are able to pre-order the Core game for the duration of this sale! (approx. until Monday)

The shop as a whole has been slightly restructured and we got both dedicated spaces for Pre-orders and items on sale. The Pre-orders page is meant as an alternative to bakerkit, and I’d wager it is a step towards integrating the Dark Treasury further into the process and to keep things more in-house for them.

Highlights for now:
– Annual Sun-stuff go brrr (Sunlion Erza back up, Sun-Percival hardplastic and WOE Grimmory beta release)
– 15th Anni survivors at 50% discount is pretty incredible, Black Knight and Frogdog as well!
– New Wanderer up for pre-order
– Indom bundles by year
– Vignette bundle
– all naked future bundles re-appeared

Edit: how could I forget the Ashbloom “bust”..? More like “bu(s)tt”..

Regarding the pre-order section: we get a glimpse at more realistic release estimates than before, even if Adam seems adamant to hold on to “everything by 2027”:

2026 Q1: Wanderer – Preacher
2026 : Screaming God, Promos of Death, Death Armor, Honeycomb Weaver + Titan Bee, Super Survivors (that would be super early compared to earlier predictions), Campaigns of Death (I do still doubt that)
2027: Oblivion Mosquito, Nightmare Ram, First Hero, Starbound, Heliocentrism, 3D Terrain
2028: Gryphon, Silver City, Pathfinders of Death
2029: Inverted Mountain
2030: Abyssal Woods, Ivory Dragon

As for what I got for myself this time: both Sun Erza and Percival together with Xell to round out my indom collection; 2 sets of stone face bases (all my survivors have them if they would be on plain bases otherwise & hopefully I won’t need more in quite a while) and the Pin-up Dragon Goblin (f); and finally, I pre-ordered Preacher.

There are a couple of things I am still eyeing, some of the pre-orders as well, but other items were sold out too quickly for me to snag them like Snow in EU or Brave + Hollow.

GCE has once again been just slightly outside my budget (I might get it on Sim, and not that I’d need it content-wise right now).

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After about an hour later the update also dropped.

Abyssal Woods in all its glory – so much stuff .. and so much interaction with the Sparrow Goblin/Dragon Goblin/Death Chicken.
The Settlement is presented as a Fairy Tale with a Werewolf/Blood on the Clocktower twist and that might be exactly what is happening. Drawn into the darkness to prevent calamity within the community instead of merely the instinct to advance to survive, it feels very much like a grand illusion. Even the characters we get presented as as starting survivors are fairy tale characters – Little Red Riding Hood, the Huntsman, Sleeping Beauty and the Prince.

The Flower Witch has long since been set as the core monster for this campaign/expansion and we know that the core of a campaign shapes it to the largest degree. Especially with the language used throughout the blurbs, I am thinking of an illusion cast by the witch in the service of the “balance” she seeks to cultivate.
Potentially dispelling the illusion upon defeating her around LY20+, tumbling further into danger. Or maybe even earlier via event? There are also pictures of what looks like regular starting survivors.
Could it all just be a long prologue? The more I read about it, the more I want to read into it. There is a strong theme of deception vs revelation throughout all we get shown (and with the Sparrow Goblin in general) and we are might even get a campaign with different possible endings depending on whether or not/when we dispell the illusion.

And the biggest addition are clearly the Moths.
(Muscle-mommy-moth alluded to as a far-off stand-alone expansion?) …

Of course I actually mean the addition of 100 new hunt events.

There are also pictures of new Vermin as well! And they are gorgeous! A weird thing to say about KD:M bugs, especially with the brain-bug images so close.

Next in the update are the Titan Bee and Honeycomb Weaver, but its mainly a collection of images of the models with no bigger new insights if you have seen the Bee fight from GenCon.
It did mention survivor blind spots though.

Screaming God (and Parasite Queen) feature new terrain, including an Antelope Stampede. Parasite Queen seems to be able to releport around the board with them.

This does remind me, we got a difficulty evaluation a little while ago by a Team Member. How this will hold up, we will have to see, but if in the Watcher fight (I know its “just” a Core) the players get to Embolden upon crits or certain events, and for the Godhand you get to Embolden once per round, the Parasite Queen should require 3 Embolden each round. This sounds terrifying and like an incentive to build extra armor sets and weapons (trying to be positive here).

3D-terrain Nightmare Tree to balance your Phoenix on!

CoD bits got thrown out there as well. DBK high on shrooms!
Adam has mentioned on Lantern’s Reign that CoD will be increased in price for the pre-orders tomorrow (as of writing this) – so there is a sort-of early-bird bonus currently going on.

Phobia (the KD:M comic) gets further volumes! 5 more to fill out the authors vision of 6 in total.

Discord got some stickers/emotes!

No KD Sim Kickstarter … BUT GCE on the sim – right now! Get it, try it, die to heart failure against the croc!
Took them long enough.

I am sorry that my thoughts are even more scatter-shot than with other updates but it has been a long day and I am trying my best to take all in as well.

I do sincerely hope that you managed to get everything you were looking for this sale! Have a good rest of your day and subsequent weekend, I hope you enjoyed Thanksgiving, a regional equivalent or at least a decent Thursday (?)… I might put something together on Abyssal Woods based on the preview, but that will take a bit .. and I’d rather push towards Pariah and Braal next week.
Thank you very much for your time, I don’t think its a good idea to let the muscle-mommy-moth sit on you whilst you are sleeping.
Amathul

Edit.: We did also get Iron Succubus art on the discord as well as a render of a new Flower Knight sculpt.
Holy Hovel (Preacher innovation) has also been shared to the discord. “+1 Survival Limit; survivors can only participate in intimacy if they have a partner; on departure all devout survivors gain +2 survival/insanity”