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Hi Reader,

Welcome! Please, come in. I put stalks of crown-pink in a jar on the table. If you can see them.

Don't mind the smoke. The raccoons are in the back yard, getting their ship together.

Tomorrow morning at 9 am Eastern, the Kickstarter for Raccoon Sky Pirates: Total Chaos Edition will finally launch.

I made a hilarious video for it.

I can't post it here, because it's too big. But you can see it on the Kickstarter page tomorrow morning.

Yuri Lowenthal, the voice of Spider-Man, narrated it. I said: What if George Clooney gave a mission briefing to the Guardians of the Galaxy? You're snappy and competent, but you know you're talking to three-time losers, and you're really over it.

He knocked it out of the park.

After that, I just had to deliver the visuals. I got into the game's vibe: Take a raccoon meme, dial it to 11, and say you can just live there.

One day I won't be obsessed with raccoons. Today is not that day.

Tomorrow won't be either.

Come check it out. You'll get obsessed too.

xoxoxo
Chrys

P.S. Check out my—our—raccoon obsession here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hecticelectron/raccoon-sky-pirates-total-chaos-edition. You won't be sorry.

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