The World of Depleted Inner Cloister

As the future becomes more fascinating  in the World of Depleted, as we’ve learned more about the Cymbrogi, Gavin, and other secrets of this World, the Knights of Xeno have been trying to strike back.  Even though they hate technology, they’ve enlisted the help of spammers to try and create false groups throughout the Depleted contributor site.  Only the shrewdest of Dark Dreamers will be able to distinguish them.  Do you have what it takes to find and join one of the true groups of World of Depleted?

Lots of folks have been waiting for us to make some of the great video content from Depleted available to our Contributors to re-edit.  Well, that is about to become a reality!  People signed up in the different groups will get access to different video content.

Despite the fact that, come the beginning of the year, the regular Depleted: Day 419 DVD will be sold at Amazon.com for $19.99 plus s/h, we’re releasing the collectible Digital Secrets Edition 1 DVD (MSRP of $34.99) for the 50% off holiday pricing of $17.49 plus $3 S/h from December 26th through January 15th. We know you’ll all be getting money that you want to spend on something you can really appreciate, that’s why we’ll be offering this deal right after Christmas!

As a special reward for people who order during this time, every order sent out will have a unique and individual message from Jenna’s mentor, Gavin Hesterdale, encoded in QR, hidden inside, with clues as to what he’s been up to between Season 1 and Season 2 of the Gavin Hesterdale Journal. Some will even have links to special voicemails you can hear from Gavin.

That’s on top of the other great things you get with the DS-1 collector’s edition:

-3 Special Uncompressed Tracks from the Soundtrack, including two custom Remasters from Oakwood Sound Design
-The Original Sonic Sketches for Skeletons of Depleted MP3 Collection (these were the actual tracks created by David Todd Singleton that the score was sculpted around, so this gets you into the raw original mindset before the 2012 final CD)
-30 HQ Behind-the-Scenes Day 419 photos suitable for printing and framing (HR .JPG)
-3 High Rez 300 dpi T-Shirt designs (including two designs that are in both color and black and white) that are suitable for reverse printing (HR .JPG)
-10 1600×1200 HR Computer Backgrounds (HR ..JPG)
-Special Flash Video Collection of:
–Early Rough Cut of the Ending
–Color Grading Comparisions of key scenes
–4 In-Depth Interviews with lead actress Kat Carney (Jenna Whitmore), lead actor Eric Henninger (Nash Fitch), and armorer Gabe Kinerknecht.
-Special Collection featuring:
–Day 419 Shooting Script (PDF)
–2 “Day of the Attacks” news radio scripts (PDF)
–Full Blood of Martyrs Short Script (PDF)
–The Official Day 419 Novella (both PDF and EPUB, for smart devices)
–The Official Day 419 Epilogue (PDF)

Don’t miss out!

This Halloween, you can look forward to the newest Canonical World of Depleted story, WoD: Family Retreat.  A delightfully delicious story that looks at the hidden Cymbrogi faction with their Gothic roots, and gives more hints to Gavin Hesterdale and the factions of Tekothik, Order of the Steel Rood, and the Reapers!

This Halloween it’s treats before treats from us at World of Depleted!

-Jeremy

We’ve been listening to a lot of thoughts from our contributors about navigation in the Contributor area and we’ve moved on to adjust some of those things to simplify things a lot! Top things we’re doing:

1) Got rid of the redundant navigation for logging in and out in the top bar.  The sidebar has your login for the contributor site, so we pared it down simply to an “Outer Site” link at the top for you to return to the main World of Depleted area

2) Since the World area is supposed to have all of the pieces of Depleted in one location, we’ve put the Challenges, the submission links, and the resources into the World navigation along with the content.  This should make things much easier for our contributors!

3) Finally, we’ve got an About link which allows people to find out more about the concept of the community, info about contributing, and contact info.

Take a look at the new changes and see if they make more sense to you!

-Jeremy

With the beta testing of the World of Depleted Inner Cloister, we’ve found a number of things people would love to see made more user friendly!  (Special thanks to all of you who’ve brought up changes you’d like to see or the confusion you’ve felt!)  As such, we’ve been working to get out a new beta that should have almost all of these improvements and streamlining in them!  We look forward to giving you a chance to help us finalize this community and roll forward with new content!

-Jeremy

Secret societies and cabals have long since made some of the most interesting perpetrators in stories and novels.  Recent stories by Fred Koskin have hinted at one quasi-secret society, but, as you can imagine, there are more.

After receiving some questions about this, I am now willing to confirm that, along with a variety of public and private factions within the World of Depleted, there are indeed some secret factions and invisible societies.  Hidden from search or public awareness, these factions will privately recruit members of other factions and bring them into new secrets within the World of Depleted, so long as they gather information for the secret society in question.  Although technically sworn to secrecy by these secret groups, it would be unlikely if no plot information or secrets ever trickled out from some of these group members!

If you’ve been trying to sign up with a yahoo account, we’ve had people email us that they haven’t gotten an activation email and can’t get into the Inner cloister.  This is most likely because Yahoo’s spam filters are so brutal that they have a tendency to squash anything that’s not a personal email.  As such, look in your Yahoo spam folders and see if you find the following email:

[The World of Depleted Inner Cloister] New User Registration

In this email will be your activation code that will get you into the World of Depleted Contributor site.  If you cannot find this email, email me at: info@worldofdepleted.com with your preferred login name, actual name, and email.  I will then set it up for you directly!

Thanks,

Jeremy

Sign ups are now corrected so you should be able to log in just fine.  Additionally, the Reply To glitch has been taken care of, so communication between everyone should be restored.  If you haven’t signed up and requested to be in the Dark Dreamers group, I would encourage you to do so, as we just made the Blood of Martyrs script available to read to Dark Dreamers.  (Eventually, each group will have access to source materials that are different than others to give people a feel for the way in which information is distributed in this type of world and to encourage basic role playing to gather information!)

-Jeremy

Hey guys,

If you tried to sign up here in the Inner Cloister and couldn’t get a confirmation email, we are getting this fixed even now. We do apologize for the inconvenience, but it should be handled soon!

Thank you for your patience!

-Jeremy