Greetings, vislae—

It seems like just a day or two ago that we announced our latest stretch goal, and now, thanks to your efforts, we’ve already unlocked it! Invisible Sun: Indigo is now getting a lustrous foil box that really shows off the beauty of this game. This is a backer exclusive—it’s just for you, backers of this campaign. Gamers who purchase Invisible Sun: Indigo in the future (from MCG, a local game show, Amazon, or wherever) will get the standard version. It’s magnificent, but your copy will be even more so!

As happens with every stretch goal, you’ve also unlocked a bonus reward: a bookmark with evocative Invisible Sun art and useful reference information—in this case, for Teratology, Invisible Sun’s bestiary. 

We have another stretch goal lined up, but first:

There are thousands more vislae, here among us in Shadow, who have not yet rediscovered their true selves. We are working to find them, but we cannot do it without your help! Spreading the word about this campaign, and about Invisible Sun, is the only way to make this campaign reach new vislae—and new stretch goals.

If you’re a veteran Invisible Sun player (and, based on the number of backers who are only pledging for The Electric Sun, that’s many of you), won’t you help others discover this wonderful game? More on this below.

Where might your exploits in the Actuality take you? Invisible Sun narratives are rarely as simple as the adventures you might experience in other TTRPGs. This is in large part due to the baked-in impact that the player characters’ motivations have on the game, creating intricate, intertwining subplots and giving the game a life of its own. But it’s also down to the unique and surreal nature of the Actuality and the many beings that inhabit it.

To give you some examples—and perhaps a touch of inspiration for your own narratives, Monte put together this list of plot hooks. You can download it for free right now!

The Electric Sun is a hardcover book describing the advent of a whole new sun, with associated magical praxis, its own warden, and new locations, creatures, characters—and conflicts. It’s a hardcover book, and we’ve already expanded it once, adding a new playable order of vislae to stand alongside weavers, makers, goetics, and vances (and, of course, apostates). There’s so much more that Monte and the design team would like to do with this title, though! So for our next goal, we’ll again expand The Electric Sun, this time with a bestiary of creatures associated with this new sun. If you’re familiar with Invisible Sun (or perhaps even own Teratology), you know these creatures will be mind-blowing and surreal, and have a variety of interesting motivations and ways to impact your narrative. We’ll unlock this substantial expansion to the page count of The Electric Sun when we reach 1475 backers.

In our last update, we unveiled a couple of potential designs for the new set of wicked keys funded by this campaign. By a narrow margin, you chose this one:

You gave us loads of great feedback and comments—so let’s do it again! Here are two more preliminary designs. We’ve launched another poll in the comments—head over there and let us know which one you like best!

Every time we unlock a stretch goal, we add a reference bookmark for one of Invisible Sun’s many inspiring and useful supplements as a free bonus reward. When we unlock the current goal, we’ll add a bookmark for Enchiridion of the Path to the rewards of every backer.

Enchiridion of the Path is a sourcebook taking you on a tour of the Path of Suns. It’s chock-full of information about the Silver, Green, Blue, Indigo, Grey, Pale, Red, and Gold realms. What makes it particularly unique is that the entire book is a handout—every page is made to be removed and given to players who have uncovered key information about these worlds.

Every backer, regardless of pledge level, will get the bookmark for Enchiridion of the Path, and all unlocked bonus bookmarks, added to their rewards for free!

Only you can make this happen. Invisible Sun is a truly magical game—but most gamers don’t even know it exists! Help us spread the word to reach this goal and expand The Electric Sun—and unlock who knows how many goals beyond that? Here’s how you can help:

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Thanks for your support!

—Team MCG

Greetings, vislae—

Thanks to your help finding new vislae trapped here in Shadow, we have reached our next stretch goal and unlocked an upgrade to The Electric Sun—one of what we hope will be many! The Electric Sun will now include a fully playable new order of magic, giving you a new option beyond the choice of goetic, maker, vance, weaver, or apostate. You’ll have everything you need to build and play characters in this order—it’s a substantial upgrade to The Electric Sun’s page count!

And, of course, as a free bonus every backer also gets a bookmark—in this case, for Secrets of Silent Streets. As gorgeous as this is, the real value lies in its utility. Although it isn’t shown in the image (the design work isn’t finished yet), it will be loaded with useful reference info for that title.

This successful conjuration opens the path to another. But before we discuss the next stretch goal, let’s talk about wicked keys.

Wicked keys, rare items that fall from the sky during stormy keyfalls, can unlock anything that stands in your way. Not just buildings or vaults, but creatures and even people. They are potent and highly sought-after. Pictured above is a set we summoned when the original Invisible Sun Black Cube was crowdfunded. Those have long disappeared into the hands of industrious vislae, so this campaign is conjuring an all-new set.

The new set, available as an add-on or part of THE BREADTH OF THE ACTUALITY pledge level, includes nine keys. Like the original set, they’ll come in a variety of designs and finishes, so that no two keys in a set will be the same. 

This is where you come in. Throughout this campaign, we’re going to unveil some of the preliminary designs for the new wicked keys, and you can help us choose which designs to make. Let’s start right now:

Which design should we make? We’ve opened a poll in the comments; let us know which is your favorite!

Our next goal brings a bit of the Actuality’s unearthly beauty here to the Grey. It’s also a special reward for the vislae who have helped call Invisible Sun: Indigo into being—that is: you, our backers.

With this goal, we’ll give Invisible Sun: Indigo a foil box—it will be printed on an iridescent material that amplifies the vivid brilliance of its colors. It will be an even greater beauty than the standard box, and a true collector’s item because it’s exclusively for the backers of this campaign. The version available in stores or from MCG in the future will retain a standard-printing finish; only this campaign’s backers will get the exclusive foil finish.

We’re so excited to add this element of beauty to Invisible Sun: Indigo. We’ll unlock this beautiful foil box when we reach 1376 backers. We had a great weekend, so we're already a big chunk of the way there!

Every time we unlock a stretch goal, we also extend a gift to every backer: a reference bookmark for one of Invisible Sun’s many inspiring and useful supplements. When we unlock the Indigo box upgrade, we’ll also give every backer a bookmark for Teratology:

Teratology is the bestiary of the Actuality; a hefty and awe-inspiring tome of creatures, characters, and other beings from the length of the Path of Suns. It’s an astonishing source of utility and inspiration at the game table, and this bookmark will make it that much more useful.

Every backer, regardless of pledge level, will get this and all unlocked bonus bookmarks added to their rewards for free!

Crowdfunding campaigns soar—they only soar—when backers like you spread the word. Stretch goals for this campaign are based on the number of vislae we pull from shadow—the number of new backers who discover and support this campaign.

Here are a couple of graphics you can share on social media. (Right-click to download them.) Be sure to include this link to the campaign: mymcg.info/indigo

With your help, we can unlock this goal quickly and move on to even more upgrades to The Electric Sun and Invisible Sun: Indigo—and perhaps a few surprises!

Thanks for your support!

—Team MCG

Greetings, vislae—

Thanks to your efforts, we have pulled hundreds of additional vislae out of Shadow and brought them back to their true home: the Actuality. We have passed 999 backers, and unlocked our first upgrade to Invisible Sun: Indigo.

Invisible Sun: Indigo will now include a set of four bookmarks, one for each of the corebooks in the game: The Key, The Way, The Path, and The Gate. Each bookmark will include valuable reference and index information, making it a useful aid above and beyond its ability to mark a page in a book.

This is the first of what we hope will be many unlocked goals. We’ll explore the next one in just a moment, but first we wish to unveil a bonus for you!

The bookmarks we just unlocked are going to be quite handy—so handy, in fact, that we wish there was a similar resource for each of the many Invisible Sun supplements already in print. So we’re going to make them! And we’re going to give them to you as free, bonus rewards—one with each stretch goal we unlock.

From this point on, every time we unlock a stretch goal we’ll also make a new bookmark. And every backer will get it, automagically. So no matter what pledge level you back at, you’ll get a bonus bookmark with every unlocked stretch goal, even if that goal upgrades or unlocks an item that’s not part of your rewards. You get something with every goal.

Many of Invisible Sun’s existing supplements are more than just books. Some include cards and handouts. Others come in unusual formats that let you use them in cool and surprising ways. (Like Enchiridion of the Path, every page is removable for use as an in-game item.) The Nightside even comes in a warded cloth bag, to protect your other books from its malign influence!

The Electric Sun is currently envisioned as a conventional book, but Monte always has bigger and more innovative ideas. We hope to expand it—and maybe even alter its form—through this campaign’s stretch goals.

As the Electric Sun’s influence spreads through the Actuality, it introduces a whole new magical methodology—and a whole new vislae order. When we reach 1,277 backers we will add an all-new, playable order to the world of Invisible Sun. The book will get bigger, as the designers create and add everything needed to build and play vislae members of this order.

As we explained above, every time we unlock a stretch goal, we’ll also unlock a bonus bookmark. 

Along with the upgrade to The Electric Sun, we’ll make a bookmark for the first of Invisible Sun’s wonderful supplements: Secrets of Silent Streets. This title is filled with in-depth information on Satyrine, the City of Notions. The heart of the Actuality. The city under the Indigo Sun. The hefty tome is filled with places, characters, creatures, events, and items, and details the seventeen districts of Satyrine, plus the ruined expanses that wend between them. This bookmark, with handy reference and indexing info for the book, will be a handy addition. And like everything Invisible Sun, it will also be striking and beautiful.

And every backer will get it as a free bonus reward!

Remember, this campaign’s goals are based on the number of vislae we help free from Shadow—the number of backers that back this campaign. And a crowdfunding campaign soars when—and only when—its backers help spread the word.

If you're looking for something to say about this campaign, drop by any of our social media accounts. You'll find loads of posts you can share, grab images from, or use to inspire your own online musings!

Thanks for your support!

—Team MCG

Greetings, vislae—

What an exciting launch this campaign has had! Invisible Sun: Electric and Indigo is now funded—so let’s talk about stretch goals!

Every crowdfunding campaign lives or dies by the enthusiasm its backers bring to it. If you’re excited about Invisible Sun, sharing that excitement is the best way—the only way—to help us reach stretch goals. Our first day has been dominated by vislae who have already escaped Shadow—backers who are already playing Invisible Sun. We need to reach new vislae to really break Shadow’s grip!

We have some shortcuts you can use to help spread the word below.

Invisible Sun is a rich, dense tapestry of a game, with hundreds of pages of lore and information. It’s also an astonishing physical production, loaded with both beautiful and useful components.

Through stretch goals, we’d like to increase and expand what you get within the Invisible Sun: Indigo box. And we’re always interested in components and design elements that make a sprawling, information-dense game easy to play and access.

So for our first stretch goal we’d like to add four bookmarks to Invisible Sun: Indigo, each themed to one of the four corebooks (The Key, The Way, The Path, and The Gate). These will be handy not just for marking a spot of interest in the book, but also because they’ll contain index content right on the bookmark. They’ll help you more quickly find information you’re looking for.

We’ll add these bookmarks to Invisible Sun: Indigo when we reach 999 backers. We look forward to making additional upgrades to Indigo—and unlocking many other things—through future stretch goals.

Invisible Sun unlocks the Actuality for vislae trapped here in Shadow. Our goals are set not on currency (as base and false as everything else here in the Grey), but on the number of vislae we free. We unlock stretch goals by reaching more backers. Here’s how you can help:

This is going to be an exciting campaign. Thank you for your support, and for helping to spread the word!

—Team MCG