there'd better be a goddamned good reason why me and stephen were the only ones here tonight.

Fantasy world, as agreed upon on 10/13

- As stated, this is a fantasy world.
- Low tech (iron age-ish) - swords, shields, bow & arrows, javelins, pikes...

RACES
- Three races: ogres, gnomes, and humans
- Ogres are scientifically advanced and sophisticated
- The ogres live in a sort-of feudal society (head monarch, warrior nobility, peasant classes)
- Their country is very mountainous, and the ogres have hollowed out the mountains and built their vast empires underground
- Herd enormous cave-chickens (approx. the size of an ostrich)
- Ogres also farm inside of the mountains through a series of mirrors that catch the sunlight from outside and magnify it greatly. This is also where the ogres get their light for seeing and their heat for cooking as well staying warm
- Ogres harness the vast underground lakes and rivers with ships. Some fishing takes place, and even large naval battles between different ogre societies

- Humans play a 3rd world minority type; unintelligent, small in numbers compared to ogres
- Partly a nomadic hunter-gathering culture, following the migration patters of mountain goat herds
- Humans also have a matrilineal culture (power, wealth, and land passes through the female)
- Occasionally will steal from ogres
- Due to their relationship with the gods (mentioned below) humans are the only culture to have fire and keep it

- The gnomes are somewhere between these two; they are dumber than humans, but liked more by the ogres
- Also, more populous than human beings
- Gnomes live completely outside of the mountains, adapting to the harsh (Antarctic) weather patterns
- The gnomes hate humans, and will eat them if they are able
- Also, they are equipped with nasty, big, pointy teeth

RELIGION/MAGIC
- Only humans use magic because magic is derived from prayers and incantations to the four elemental gods: earth, wind, fire, water (sorry, no heart) and the gods only like humans
- These deities are very smiteful and wicked, and all the natural disasters are caused by their malificent attitudes
- The gods always side with humans, giving them the only magic

Now, hear me out, dammit

I got an idea that might help us raise money for the book (probably not the full $500 clams, but a dent, anyhow). How about an all-night sci-fi/fantasy movie marathon? Maybe a small price for admission, charging for concessions and bathroom privileges? Also, if we know any people with too much money on their hands, we could have sponsors donate money for some inane competition. Just a thought...

GREAT NEWS

Just received an offer from Authorhouse(our potential book publisher).

THey've offered, if we sign up by the end of the October, to publish the book for $300 off. That means, instead of paying $775 for the book to get put together and ready to be sold, it is only going to be $475.

Be thinking of things we can do to raise this kind of money!

It shouldn't be that hard, now that the price is lowered.