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We have shirts! They are available here:
http://skreened.com/twilightheroes

First, note that you can pick any color or style of fabric to go with any of the designs. I just picked samples that seemed nice, or which showed off the text well. Dark colors will NOT work particularly well.

Second, I will probably do a few more designs, but I'm not sure when. Possibly a couple of weeks, possibly longer. I'd like to test a few with graphics, but need to actually create and order one to make sure it's okay. If you have any specific requests for designs, let me know, but realize I may not be able to act quickly or meet all requests.

Third, I have ordered a few different samples of these to test before putting them up for sale. The shirts are about as comfortable as advertised, and I'm a huge snob when it comes to soft fabric. I tried the "fitted" tee, the "organic" tee, and the "athletic" tee, and all were fine. Fitted is pretty normal fabric. Athletic is very soft but kind of thin--I liked it, but figured it may be worth mentioning. Organic was just a tiny bit stiffer or less soft. (All the shirts I got were American Apparel, if that means anything to you.)

Fourth, PLEASE use the sizing chart, as all of them were a touch tighter than I'm used to. I normally wear an XL that's fairly loose, and while these still fit me, they're definitely fitted and not loose.

Fifth, in case it matters, I don't know anything about the printing process but the lettering itself is very soft. It doesn't have any texture that I can detect, or it's very minimal. I like that. It also means this style of printing can only put a darker image on a lighter fabric. It's apparently not possible to have a light color overtop a darker fabric, so recognize that's out.

Pricing: I'm not really selling these to make much. Mostly I'd love to get some out there just for your fun, and for advertising. Most of the cost is printing and shipping by the manufacturer. For that reason I picked the "fitted" tee as the default on all the designs, since it's least expensive. Other styles are going to cost more, and again that's just manufacturer markup. That does mean you can have a hoodie or baseball tee or other style if you like.


Bounties

To help subsidize these early purchases, I will be offering a bounty, once I figure out how it works. Anyone who buys a shirt and can provide me evidence (the shirts are shipped third party, so I may not get anything from them; this may require a photograph, still trying to figure this out) they have a shirt will get 5 silver stars.

The second bounty is for anyone who may be going to KoL-Con in mid-September. If you can send photographic evidence of yourself at that convention wearing a TH shirt, I'll give you 5 additional silver stars for a total reward of 10 silver stars.

Any chance of a T-Shirt design contest to celebrate the new shirt availability and the Retcon announcement? I am sure many of us would be thrilled to put our meager art skills to work at such a task.

It's a distinct possibility. But I'm not quite ready yet. I need to see how they handle graphical designs at all, before I get people too excited.

Also as a note, this thread is global and shows up in all sections of the forums, but it's locked in the uppermost one. If you want to reply to the topic, just go through gameplay discussion or any section but the top one and it's not locked. Very strange forum behavior.

Could we get a "Justice Served Nightly" shirt that has the URL? I'd kind of like to help advertise the game when I wear the shirt, I think, but that one doesn't look like it has the URL.

Also, that is the shirt I most like at the moment. Besides the URL bit.

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Hm. On that shirt I didn't think it fit on the front, and they charge you another $3 to put anything on the back. I'd actually started thinking the URL was mostly unnecessary -- ideally if a shirt is funny or interesting enough people will ask you what it's about, and you'll be able to tell them without needing it printed.

I'll give it a day or two to think about it. Let me know if you buy my rationale or think that's crazy talk.

Eh. I don't know. I personally wouldn't think to ask someone about an interesting shirt, but I might be in the minority.

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Part Spock, part Yoda... a bit of a freak, to be sure!
Of only one thing can you be certain...
He DEFINITELY has pointy ears.

I would never ask, either. I am very much not the kind of person that just says things to random strangers, though.

Is it safe for me to assume that both of you are implying you know you would, upon seeing such a shirt, take out a little notebook, write down the site name, and go visit it later?

I wouldn't write it down, just do my best to remember it. I may have a 50% success rate on that.....

Frankly, I'm mostly assuming it'll be a conversation starter with people you already know, not just complete strangers, so you can also then go on at great lengths about how awsomely spectacular TH is. But your point is noted.

Ah, but for that I have a nice little plaque that someone made me about a year ago. I'll have to grab a picture of it for you, but it basically just says "Twilight Hero" and has some stars in one corner. You'd be surprised how many people have asked me about it just sitting on a shelf in my office.

Nice! I smell a merchandizing opportunity.

Actually, oddly enough, I've also been considering a shirt with some graphics that said "Twilight Hero" or somesuch.

Presumably something on it clearly indicating that gay vampires are completely unrelated?

Hey, it looks like Skreened is offering free shipping for the next few days, if you happen to buy more than one shirt. This is pretty awesome -- shipping is a flat $5, no matter what you order, but keeping the $ in your pocket is always nice.

Note that you do NOT have to buy two of *my* shirts (though of course I think anyone sensible would). They've got lots of other designs and such, or you can use their tools and make up one of your own designs, if you've got your own special message you'd like to share with the world.

Added another shirt to the list, and per request updated the Justice Served Nightly one to have the URL on it. Enjoy!

If anyone wanted one of these designs on a zip hoodie:

I can't find my original note from last year, but the offer I made then stands. If you're going to comic-con and can provide some evidence that you're there wearing a Twilight Heroes shirt, I'll give you a gold star in-game, which is basically getting the shirt for about half price.

Will this offer remain for future KoL-cons?

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