The AEGIS Reports
over 10 years ago – Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 09:23:22 AM

WOO! I really shouldn’t be surprised at how amazing you all are, but yesterday and today have been AWESOME! You blew past another THREE stretch goals, and are still chugging away on track for a fourth! You’re stupendous! Fantastic! Marvelous! (I don’t think that last one is copyrighted. Yet.)

Stretch Goal #20 UNLOCKED: Spiderweb, by Mark Diaz Truman

Because we’ve reached $65,000, Mark Diaz Truman will write our fourth playset: Spiderweb! There’s no one better equipped to tackle adding street-level stories to Masks than Mark. Between Urban Shadows and Cartel, he knows how to tell compelling stories about crime and communities like no one else I know. We’ve often joked that when we run the game Apocalypse World, I’m all about the weird freaky psychic monstrosities and phenomena, and he’s all about how the people you’re living next to really want the things you have—and it’s that sensibility that I’m really glad he’s bringing to Masks. I’m excited by how excited he is for Spiderweb, and I can’t wait to see how Mark brings street-level stories to Masks!

Stretch Goal #21 UNLOCKED: The Brain, by Cam Banks

Because we’ve reached $67,500, Cam Banks will write our SEVENTH(!!!) limited edition playbook: The Brain! A bunch of people in our community have asked for a playbook that could do something like this, and when Cam pitched a version of the Brain defined by superiority, and the guilt that came with creating a terribly dangerous supervillain, I knew that he had the perfect take. I’m thrilled to have Cam’s experience, creativity, and know-how for this playbook!

Stretch Goal #22 UNLOCKED: The Newborn, by Alberto Muti and Tim Franzke

Because we’ve reached $70,000, Alberto Muti and Tim Franzke will write up our EIGHTH limited edition playbook for Masks: The Newborn! I’m thrilled to have this playbook added to our overall set—it brings a new lens to the possible characters for Masks, and it opens up still more of my favorite characters from young adult superhero stories. Alberto and Tim proposed the idea, and I knew it made perfect sense for the game. Their design ideas are already exciting and clever, and I can’t wait to see what The Newborn looks like when it emerges from their mental grow-vats!

In Our Next Issue…

You ripped through all our stretch goals! Good gravy! That means it’s time to release more, and we’re going to release a whole CAVALCADE, aimed at a FOURTH BOOK!

The Secrets of A.E.G.I.S.

All of our next batch of stretch goals are aimed at filling out a fourth book—Secrets of A.E.G.I.S., all about the internal files of Halcyon City’s own metahuman protection agency! All the reports will come with custom moves, plot hooks, and more to give you all the tools you need to open up A.E.G.I.S.’s files for your own game.

Some of our upcoming stretch goals are still classified, but we want you to have some idea of everything coming along as we head into these crazy final days of our Kickstarter!

Stretch Goal #23: Old Dogs and New Tricks, an A.E.G.I.S. Report by Shoshana Kessock

If we can reach $72,500, Shoshana Kessock will take up the task of writing up a full A.E.G.I.S. report about a significant change to one of Halcyon City’s oldest super teams. Over the years, Halcyon City has seen countless superhero teams come and go, and it has tracked every single one of them. It marks their ebb and flow, their successes and failures, and any dangers they might pose to the city. When an old team attempts to resurrect their position and status, reinventing themselves for the modern age while pursuing celebrity through social media, it’s enough to immediately set up a dozen red flags in the A.E.G.I.S. systems.

Everyone who pledges at least $10 will get a full PDF copy of this A.E.G.I.S. report.

Stretch Goal #24: The Halcyon Plaza Disaster, an A.E.G.I.S. Report by Julia Ellingboe

If we can reach $75,000, Julia Ellingboe will declassify her investigation into the Halcyon Plaza Disaster incident. Whenever superheroes cause damage to the city, it’s immediate cause for an A.E.G.I.S. report, and the Halcyon Plaza Disaster is one of the most significant incidents in recent memory. Rumors and conspiracy theories abound concerning the disaster. It’s commonly known that three younger heroes, none of them paragons of heroism or virtue, were directly involved with the Halcyon Plaza Disaster, but the specifics have been locked down...until now.

Everyone who pledges at least $10 will get a full PDF copy of this A.E.G.I.S. report.

Stretch Goal #25: [EXPLETIVES DELETED], an A.E.G.I.S. Report by Eric Mersmann

If we can reach $77,500, Eric Mersmann will provide the A.E.G.I.S. report on one of Halcyon City’s more provocative hero teams. The team, whose name even A.E.G.I.S. doesn’t feel comfortable repeating, has a hostile attitude toward the press and the Halcyon City PD. That hasn't earned them much in the way of civic praise, but has earned them notoriety, cred, and even a few fans. A.E.G.I.S. keeps a close eye on the team, in case their actions ever veer towards danger or destruction...and also to discover if their efforts to keep super-powered villains and heroes alike out of their neighborhood actually result in peace, or just more strife for the residents of The Heights.

Everyone who pledges at least $10 will get a full PDF copy of this A.E.G.I.S. report.

Stretch Goal #26: The Dragon, an A.E.G.I.S. Report by Travis Scott

If we can reach $80,000, Travis Scott will unredact his file on one of the most dangerous developments in Halcyon City’s underworld: The Dragon has landed in Halcyon City! Leader of the Nine Scales Syndicate, a superpowered global crime organization profiting from terror, he has seized control of vast swathes of the Halcyon City underworld in a bloody coup that lasted just one afternoon. Worse, A.E.G.I.S. has no idea why! Is this another one of the Dragon's clever deceptions, or will this supervillain menace add Halcyon City to its hoard? A.E.G.I.S. is unsure of how to tackles this problem, and fears that the best possible solution is near unthinkable—to team up with the petty remants of Halcyon City’s organized crime families!

Everyone who pledges at least $10 will get a full PDF copy of this A.E.G.I.S. report.

Stretch Goal #27: Agents of A.E.G.I.S., a playset by Brendan Conway

If we can reach $85,000, Brendan Conway will write up our fifth playset: Agents of A.E.G.I.S.! This playset will detail the history, purpose, and structure of A.E.G.I.S., and will give you all the custom moves and rules tweaks you’ll need to play young heroes working on the behalf of the agency. A.E.G.I.S. hasn’t been able to deny the rise of younger heroes, and instead of simply locking them down or ignoring them, it’s trying out a new strategy—recruiting them. Training them. Dispatching them on missions. And all the while, monitoring them. Agents of A.E.G.I.S. will give you everything you need to play a Masks game with your characters acting as young recruits of A.E.G.I.S., but who do you really work for? Can they really be trusted?.

Everyone who pledges at least $10 will get a full PDF copy of this playset.

Secrets of A.E.G.I.S. Compiled!

Also, if we can reach $85,000, then we’ll put together a physical version of our fourth book, compiling all the Secrets of A.E.G.I.S. materials—the A.E.G.I.S. reports, the Agents of A.E.G.I.S. playset, and both the Newborn and the Brain limited edition playbooks! You’ll be able to get a softcover copy of Secrets of A.E.G.I.S. as a $20 add-on, and we’ll also make a way for you to get a hardcover copy of the book along with all the others!

What’s more, we’re not done—we’ve got more planned for this Kickstarter, including more A.E.G.I.S. secrets and some special goals for the last few days!

Ultimate A.E.G.I.S. Access

If we can reach $85,000, we’ll make a whole new reward tier for you to get EVERYTHING Masks related all in one fell swoop!

 MISSION REPORT

We’re so close to adding 8 more cards to the Deck of Villainy! Two more missions, and the deck will hold 44 total cards!

Here are the remaining missions:

• 1000 Facebook Likes: We only need 73 more! 
• $75,000 in funding: We only need $5,000! 
• 25 Villain Selfies: We only need 6 more! 
• 1 video of a Halcyon City press conference (at least 2 minutes long) 
• 1 group photo of ten costumed people, each one representing a different base playbook 
• 10 individual drawings of a young hero directly engaging a threat: We need 7 more! 

If we can accomplish just two more missions, then that’s 8 more cards! And then we’re into the end stretch, with the potential to unlock another 10 cards!

And in the mean time, check out this awesome Halcyon news report from Sean Riedinger! That's one whole mission knocked off, with STYLE and PANACHE! Thanks, Sean!

Declassifying the Future

We still have three days left, and we’re going strong! Please, keep tweeting, posting, and talking about Masks! There are some goals I’m really excited about coming up, and I can’t wait to see if we can reach them together! As always, thank you all so much for your support!

Our Final Issues
over 10 years ago – Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 09:10:33 AM

Here we are! We’re in our last week, with about five days left, and you’ve kicked over yet another milestone stretch goal! We’ve crossed over the $60,000 mark…which is unbelievable! You all rock.

Stretch Goal #19 UNLOCKED: The Apocalypse Sonata, by Darren Watts

Because we’ve reached $60,000, Darren Watts will write up a new playset—our third!—all about The Apocalypse Sonata! I knew that I wanted at least one playset to be all about the crazy, insane, cosmic side of comic books. Some part of me was enamored of the idea of a young adult Guardians of the Galaxy dancing around the stars! And when Darren proposed The Apocalypse Sonata, I knew this was exactly what I had been hoping to find; the young heroes will get a chance to be at the center of a galactic struggle!. I can’t wait to see the crazy, cosmic-sci-fi that Darren puts together for The Apocalypse Sonata!

Masks: Unbound, Unlocked!

And, because we’ve reached $60,000, that means that we’re going to print a third book in the Masks line: Masks: Unbound! Unbound will include all three playsets unlocked so far in a 6” x 9” full-color book. And if we unlock Spiderweb at $65,000, then it, too, will be added to Unbound!

If you want a softcover copy of Unbound, then you can just add $20 to your reward tier, and at the end of the campaign select your add-ons through Backerkit. There’s another option, though...

New Reward Tiers!

We’ve added a bunch of new reward tiers to make adding on the new books really easy! Here’s a quick run down:

$70 - FANCY MASK: You get all the PDFs, including stretch goals. You also get a 6" x 9", SOFTCOVER, full-color copy of Masks (approx. 200 pages). And you get a 6" X 9", SOFTCOVER, full-color copy of both the Halcyon City Herald Collection and Masks: Unbound, the two supplement books unlocked in this campaign. 

$90 - FLASHY HERO: You get all the PDFs, including stretch goals. You also get a 6" x 9", HARDCOVER, full-color copy of Masks (approx. 200 pages), and SOFTCOVER full-color copies of both the Halcyon City Herald Collection and Masks: Unbound. 

$100 - ICONIC MASK: You get all the PDFs, including stretch goals. You also get a SOFTCOVER copy of Masks, along with a pair of Masks dice, the Hero Deck, and the Deck of Villainy, and SOFTCOVER copies of both the Halcyon City Herald Collection and Masks: Unbound. 

$120 - BEST-COSTUMED HERO: You get all the PDFs, including stretch goals. You also get a HARDCOVER copy of Masks, along with a pair of Masks dice, the Hero Deck, and the Deck of Villainy, and SOFTCOVER copies of both the Halcyon City Herald Collection and Masks: Unbound. 

 And, finally, a very special offer— 

$150 - THE FULL UTILITY BELT: You get all the PDFs, including stretch goals. You also get a HARDCOVER full-color copy of Masks, a pair of Masks dice, the Hero Deck, the Deck of Villainy, and HARDCOVER full-color copies of the Halcyon City Herald Collection and Masks: Unbound. 

That’s right! Pledge at the Fully Utility Belt level and you can get hardcover copies of the Halcyon City Herald Collection and Masks: Unbound! We won’t be making these hardcovers add-ons for the time being, so if you want a hardcover copy of those supplemental books, the Full Utility Belt level is where you want to be. We’re only going to be printing up a limited set of these hardcovers, so get them now! 

The additional books may take a couple of months more than the core book to be completed, but we’ll ship everything out to you when it’s done—all at no additional cost. That means that your order of the Masks core book won’t be held up if the Halcyon City Herald Collection and Masks: Unbound aren’t finished yet.

In Our Next Issue… 

Spiderweb, the next playset by Mark Diaz Truman, is still coming up at $65,000, bringing street-level stories to Masks! Want to battle the Spider for control of the streets of Halcyon City? Want to save the city from itself? Want to fight corruption at every turn? Spiderweb is for you!

And now, time for two more stretch goals...

Stretch Goal #21: The Brain, by Cam Banks

If we can reach $67,500, then Cam Banks will write a new limited edition playbook (our seventh!) for Masks: The Brain!

You’re brilliant. You have no powers of your own, but you create tools and gadgets to give yourself an equal footing with your teammates. You create the team’s vehicles, equipment, maybe even the headquarters...but that’s not all you’ve made. You’re responsible for creating something truly dangerous—something that is going to plague you and your team for a long time to come. Whether it’s an artificial intelligence, a dangerous weapon, an unstable technology, or even the circumstances behind some terrible villain’s rise to power, you’re the source of a great threat, and that guilt’s going to be with you always.

The Brain might seem smarter than everybody else, but they still make just as many mistakes, and their errors may have even greater consequences. Their superiority complex is tempered only by their own failures...and buy the words of their friends. When will they accept that the perception of their peers is as valid as their own? How will they overcome their greatest failure? And why do they try so hard to belong to a group that they feel superior to?

The Brain is inspired by characters such as Tony Stark, Sue Storm (from Ultimate Fantastic Four), Reed Richards, Moira Mactaggart (X-Men),Hiro (from Big Hero 6), Brainiac 5 (from the Legion of Super Heroes), and Velma (from Scooby-Doo), among others.

If we reach this stretch goal, everybody who’s pledged at least $10 will get a PDF copy of The Brain.

Stretch Goal #22: The Newborn, by Alberto Muti and Tim Franzke

If we reach $70,000, Alberto Muti and Tim Franzke will together create our eighth limited edition playbook: The Newborn!

You’re a brand new thing; a new life just coming to know the world. You already have enough data to function—no stumbling around asking, “WHAT IS LAMP” for you—but actually understanding the world will take significantly more effort and learning. You’re more than just a strange being; you’re a blank slate, and more than almost any of your teammates your choices will determine exactly who you are as you navigate this new world.

The Newborn is an android, alien being, or other creature that just came to life. They’re unaware of social complexities and nuances in the world around them, and they have none of the (admittedly limited) experience that their teammates can draw on in their adventures. Who will the Newborn, the ultimate blank slate, become as they navigate their new life? Will others, including those who created them, take advantage of them?

The Newborn is inspired by characters such as the Vision (Young Avengers), Silk (Spider-Man), Superboy (Teen Titans and Young Justice), Red Tornado, and X-23 (X-Men).

If we reach this stretch goal, everybody who’s pledged at least $10 will get a PDF copy of The Newborn.

MISSION UPDATE

AEGIS is pleased with your progress—the escaped villains are getting captured at an astonishing rate!

You did it! You knocked out another five missions, which means another 8 cards will be added to everybody’s copy of the Deck of Villainy, for a total of 36 cards! There’s still more to do, too—here are some missions within easy reach:

• 1000 Facebook Likes: We have 887! Only 113 to go!  
• 25 Superhero Selfies: We have 19! Only 6 more to go!
• 10 individual drawings of a young hero unleashing their powers: We have 7! Only 3 more to go!
• 1 video of a Halcyon City press conference, at least 2 minutes long: We only need the one!
• 1 video of a Halcyon City news report, at least 2 minutes long: We only need the one!

If you can knock out all 5 of those missions, then you’ll unlock 8 more cards for the deck, bringing it all the way up to 44 cards! We’re especially interested in those Halcyon City videos. We’d love to see you all put up some awesome news for the good citizens of Halcyon City!

Here’s an updated hero selfies picture to inspire you:

And here are the dastardly villains of Halcyon City who continue to taunt you!

The Series Finale Cometh

We’re headed towards the end of our campaign, and I couldn’t be more ecstatic about all the success we’ve had so far. And it’s all thanks to you amazing people. You’re brilliant, and I couldn’t be happier to have such a supportive, interested, invested and awesome community.

As we plunge forward in this final week, please—tweet about Masks! Facebook about it! G+ post about it! Let everybody know how awesome you’ve made this project! Let’s bring Masks home with one superheroic explosion!

The Day of Vanquish
over 10 years ago – Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 02:46:46 AM

MISSION ALERT! MISSION ALERT! MISSION ALERT!

A.E.G.I.S. has intercepted a message sent via Internet channels—and as best we can tell, it’s from Vanquish!

Vanquish is an interstellar conqueror, commander of the Voidcrusher dreadnought, and constant foe of the Earth. He’s been fought off many times before, but he keeps coming back, through need or obstinacy. Last time he was defeated, we captured him and held him in the Spike, but during the jailbreak he escaped and found a way back to Voidcrusher! And now it looks like he’s making another invasion attempt, even connecting with Earth-based villains to succeed!

This message was sent to Nano, another dangerous villain escaped from the Spike. He’s a young man, son of one of our greatest heroes, Mantank, and capable of incredible feats of technological control with his internal nanite systems. What Vanquish wants from Nano...we can’t be sure. Not unless we can crack his code.

We need your help! Please, help us to decipher this message and find some way to stop Vaniquish and his invasion!

[begin cipher text]

FSFG.QGMSJWSOAKWZMESFLGUGEHDQ.OZWFEQHDSFKUGEWLGXJMALAGFQGMOADDZGDVSHDSUWGXVGEAFAGFGNWJLZWWSJLZ.

XGJFGOYGLGTAL.DQ/1EPYE7J.WNWFLZAKEAKKANWUDWNWJDQZAVVWFOALZAFQGMJWSJLZAFLSJFWLKAKFGLKSXW.LZWJWQGMOADDXAFVEGJWAFKLJMULAGFK.LZWHSKKOGJVAKGMLGXHDSUWAFLZAKEWKKSYW.AWPHWULQGMLGXMDXADDQGMJWFVGXGMJSJJSFYWEWFLHGKLZSKLW.

[end cipher text]

THIS IS YOUR TWENTIETH AND FINAL JAILBREAK MISSION! DO WHAT YOU ALWAYS DO, HALCYON HEROES—SAVE THE DAY!

Discovering the Web!
over 10 years ago – Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 09:56:34 AM

And with another epic crash of thunder, our noble heroes broke through yet another stretch goal, bringing great justice and hope to the land! 

You did it! You’ve broken through our Creative Commons stretch goal, and we’re very, very close to unlocked still more cards for the Deck of Villainy! Amazing!

Stretch Goal #18 UNLOCKED: Creative Commons, ePub, and .MOBI

Because we’ve reached $55,000, Magpie Games will release portions of the Masks text under a Creative Commons license. What’s more, we’ll also release the book in ePub and .MOBI formats, making it easier than ever for you to take the text of Masks with you wherever you go.

Since we’ve gotten a few questions about it, we want to clarify what will and won’t be released. Basically, we’re going to keep the rights associated with all the art in the books, the characters presented in the playbook images (we’ve got plans for them!), and many of the official villains and NPCs. But Halcyon City itself, the mechanics (including the playbooks), and many characters will all be yours to use, reuse, and remix for your own commercial products.

I have high hopes for what this means for Masks! I would love to see a community full of hacks, new playbooks, custom moves, and more, and I think this license will help foster that community. I can’t wait until new playsets and pieces start springing up!

In Our Next Issue…

The Apocalypse Sonata by Darren Watts, with its awesome mix of cosmic adventure and Kirby-style mythology, awaits us at $60,000. And now, for our next playset—our fourth!

Stretch Goal #20: Spiderweb, by Mark Diaz Truman

If we reach $65,000, Mark Diaz Truman will write a new playset: Spiderweb. The Spider is a dangerous man, a figure spoken of in whispers and oblique references. Many aren’t even sure he exists...but he does. His reach extends from the slums to skyscrapers, tendrils of influence and control that arise from the muck to capture the innocent and guilty alike in a web of crime and corruption.

When the heroes of the city are dealing with dimensional rifts and alien invasions, it’s easy for them to overlook the machinations of one man. But that’s where you come in—young heroes who hail from the parts of the city most wrapped up in the Spider’s webs, determined to break those threads…or die trying. These are your streets, and you’ll be damned if you let him continue to feast on their suffering.

In Spiderweb, Mark will detail the street-level of heroics in Halcyon City, inspired by the adventures of characters like Daredevil, Luke Cage, The Crow, the members of the Bat-Family, and more. All of the characters, custom moves, rules tweaks, and locations you’ll need to play young heroes in a street-level struggle against the crime that plagues their home.

Everybody who pledges at least $10 will get a full PDF copy of Spiderweb as part of Masks: Unbound. If we reach $60,000 and make printed copies of Masks: Unbound, Spiderweb will be included in each and every one!

MISSION UPDATE

We’re three more accomplished missions away from adding 8 more cards to the Deck of Villainy, for a total of 36!

Here are a few more missions we’re getting close to completing:

• 1500 Backers: We currently have 1439!
• 1000 Facebook Likes: We currently have 843! 
• 10 Villain Selfies: We currently have 8! (And remember—you can do a villain selfie even if you’ve also done a hero selfie!) 
•  10 individual drawings of a young hero unleashing their powers: We currently have 7! 
• 1 video of a Halcyon City Press Conference—it just needs to be 2 minutes long! 
• 1 video of a Halcyon City News Report—it just needs to be 2 minutes long!

3 more missions until 36 cards! Make sure that if you go after any of these missions, you tag your post with #MasksRPG and #Halcyoncityjailbreak!

Also, I put together this image from all the hero selfies we’ve received so far—you’re all awesome (except for that guy in the upper left corner, he used too much lens flare). Go team!

The Continuing Adventures

We’re still going! We have about 10 days left until we’re done, and that’s still plenty of time to reach and unlock some more amazing stuff! Keep sharing and talking about Masks, and go after those missions! I can’t wait to see what fun stuff you post!

Stories Never-Ending!
over 10 years ago – Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:48:40 PM

SO. MANY. AWESOME. THINGS.

You all have been so amazing, between punching the Masks Kickstarter ever higher into the stratosphere, and ripping through Jailbreak missions like bosses! It’s tough to keep up—but not so tough that I can’t update on some awesome stuff we’ve unlocked!

Stretch Goal #17 UNLOCKED: The Harbinger, by Fred Hicks

Because we reached $50,000, Fred Hicks will write up our sixth limited edition playbook: The Harbinger! Stories of young superheroes often deal with time travel and parallel dimensions because they’re all about “what might be.” None of the basic playbooks explicitly require those elements to be in play, though—The Outsider can introduce those ideas, but doesn’t have to; most often I’ve seen The Outsider be an alien. I love the idea of the Harbinger for how it focuses explicitly on these parts of young superhero stories, and I couldn’t be happier that it’s Fred Hicks who’s going to be putting it together! Fred is a fantastic designer, and when he pitched The Harbinger I knew that I wanted him to put it together! Can’t wait to see how this one turns out!

In Our Next Issue…

We’re headed towards reaching our Creative Commons licensing goal! I’m really excited to open up Masks and see what the community can do with it! And it’s time to release our next stretch goal...

Stretch Goal #19: The Apocalypse Sonata, by Darren Watts

If we reach $60,000, Darren Watts will write up a new playset all about The Apocalypse Sonata!

The Apocalypse Sonata isn't just music. It's THE music, the music of the spheres, the rhythm and tones that one-dimensional superstrings dance to in the quantum field. It's the music that made the universe, and if and when the entire Sonata is played, it creates an entire new multiversal reality. Of course, if that happens, the old universe gets overwritten—in fact, that's precisely why Ominus wants it.

Ominus, ruler of a massive superworld in distant space, seeks ultimate power, and since his discovery of the existence of the Apocalypse Sonata he's searched for it everywhere. Unfortunately for him, the being who kept it secret scattered the individual pieces of the music across the galaxy, and much of it still remains hidden from Ominus. However, he's recently discovered that that very guardian himself is now dead, and when he died he still carried with him some of that very score. And where did he die? Oh, some insignificant mudball. The locals call it Earth.

The Apocalypse Sonata is our third playset, another 10,000 word piece meant to take Masks into an all new environment. The Apocalypse Sonata is full of expies and unsubtle references to Jack Kirby's work for both Marvel and DC, with Darkseid/The New Gods and The Eternals/Deviants/Celestials as major sources of inspiration. The playset will come with many villains, NPCs, and story hooks designed to connect the base playbooks into the cosmic adventure and the villains alike.

...And, Masks: Unbound!

What’s more, if we reach $60,000, we’ll put together our existing playsets into a whole new book: Masks: Unbound! This book will collect all three playsets we’ve revealed so far—The Phoenix Academy by Rob Wieland, Iron Red Soldiers by Misha Bushyager, and The Apocalypse Sonata by Darren Watts—along with other playsets we may unlock along the way!

Everyone who pledges at least $10 will get a full PDF copy of Masks: Unbound. If you’d like a physical, softcover, 6” x 9” copy of the book, you can add it as a $20 add-on, just like the Halcyon City Herald Collection.

MISSION UPDATE

AEGIS is impressed with your work! (Seriously, they’re taken aback. Agents spilling coffee everywhere. It’s a mess. They’ll need to buy themselves a new submersible base soon.)

Five missions down! That’s awesome! That means that the Deck of Villainy now has 28 cards! Everybody who is getting a copy of the Deck of Villainy will get the additional cards at no extra cost!

Here are a few more missions we’re getting close to completing:

• 1500 Backers: We currently have 1342!
• 10 Superhero Selfies: We currently have 8!
• 10 Villain Selfies: We currently have 7!
• 10 individual drawings of a young hero unleashing their powers: We currently have 6!
• 500 members of the Masks G+ Community: We currently have 481! 
• 1000 Facebook Likes: We currently have 795!

If we can just finish off 5 more missions, then we can add another 8 cards into the Deck of Villainy!

Infinite Vistas!

We’re about halfway through the Masks Kickstarter, but we’ve still got plenty of time left to unlock still more awesome pieces and additions! You’ve been fantastic so far—we couldn’t ask for a better, more interested, more invested, more awesome community! Please keep on doing what you’re doing—talk about Masks, keep playing, and knock off those missions!