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From the Volunteers Table of Contents elcome to the first issue of the Kai Progress Reports..............................2 WGrand Sentinel. We hope that this provides you—our readers and fellow fans The Legacy of Vashna............................. 2 —with timely, useful information about War of the Wizards................................. 2 Project Aon and the greater community of Lone Wolf fans. The Magnamund Companion.................. 2 We initially plan to distribute the Kai Grand Lone Wolf Action Chart........................... 2 Sentinel bi-monthly, but as our experience Online Interactive Gamebooks................3 working on Project Aon has shown, the best laid plans of mice and men often go Lone Wolf Poster Painting Book.............. 3 awry. We will send the Kai Grand Sentinel The Skull of Agarash............................... 3 to the members of the Project Aon announcement mailing list, and archive the Help Wanted.................................... 3 information in PDF form on the Project's website. Community News.............................3 We would especially like to thank those Lone Wolf Online MMORPG..................... 3 who have made contributions—financial Gary Chalk's New Gamebooks................ 4 and otherwise—to Project Aon over the past year. Please read the Treasurer's Tower of the Sun.................................... 4 Report to see how we did financially this Mongoose Publishing.............................. 4 year. Here's hoping for—and working toward—a Treasurer's Report........................... 4 bright future for Lone Wolf and the world of Magnamund! Project Aon Volunteers The Project Aon newsletter masthead © 1999-2005 Project Aon. All rights reserved. The text of this newsletter is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/> 1 of 4 Progress Reports contacted and has given his permission for Project Aon to use his work. The scanned The Legacy of Vashna text for The Magnamund Companion had been sitting around on the Project Aon Coordinator: Jonathan Blake server for almost four years, no one ETA: Late February knowing quite what to do with it. The book is currently in the final stages of All these problems notwithstanding, editing. Progress has been stalled due to intrepid Project Aon volunteers began work my own lack of time to devote to the work. on creating a PDF version of The Magna- With my track record of New Year's mund Companion. In December 2004, the resolutions, perhaps I better not call any final illustration was finished and work to goal that I make a resolution, but I will be complete the book drew to a close. working to get The Legacy of Vashna to Currently, the book is undergoing some you soon. last-minute editing and revision. This project could use some more eyes to However, Project Aon cannot yet release it find any errors in our pre-publication because five of the artists are still missing edition. If you want to help, please read in action. We were beginning to wonder the Help Wanted section of this newsletter. whether the book would ever see the light of day. Thanks to some eagle-eyed fans at War of the Wizards the Project Aon Forum, we may have leads Coordinator: Thomas Wolmer on contacting Graham Round, Rob Adams ETA: Early March and Pete Lyon, leaving only Jane Laycock and Richard Hooks. We're hoping to We are currently in the middle of editing contact these three artists very soon, and this book and it will be the next book everyone will finally be able to see The published shortly after The Legacy of Magnamund Companion in electronic Vashna. format. The Magnamund Companion Lone Wolf Action Chart Coordinator: Simon Osborne Coordinator: Timothy Pederick The Magnamund Companion is something Tired of keeping track of character stats by of a Holy Grail for Lone Wolf enthusiasts. hand? Furthermore, tired of StatsKeeper Illustrated throughout, Joe Dever's world and its limitations? Try out Timothy's new was expanded and explained by means of stats-tracking application. It can be histories, maps, short stories, even photo- downloaded from the Books section of the graphy. It has been out of print in the UK Project Aon website under the Tools for about fifteen years. section. You'll need to install a Java It has always been Project Aon's intention runtime if it's not already installed. of making The Magnamund Companion <http://www.projectaon.org/books.htm#tools> available to Lone Wolf fans, but the job of doing so would not be an easy one. Many of the full-page colour illustrations are integral to the book, the text being only a part of its information. Furthermore, of the six artists mentioned on the copyright page, only one—Gary Chalk—has been The Project Aon newsletter masthead © 1999-2005 Project Aon. All rights reserved. The text of this newsletter is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/> 2 of 4 Interactive Online Gamebooks and we hope to contact him in the near future. Coordinator: Pierre Voak Pierre has been working diligently on Help Wanted creating a program to allow you to play the gamebooks online and host your game Calling all would-be volunteers! stats on the server. This allows you to play Project Aon needs more editors to report the games on any computer with access to errors in The Legacy of Vashna and War of the web, without toting around a saved the Wizards. Volunteers don't need to have game file or installing special software. a copy of either book, although it is This project is still in its early stages and beneficial. Your job, if you choose to accept Feedback is welcome. it, would be to read through (or simply play <http://www.projectaon.org/~jonathan/oig/> through) our pre-publication copy of a book and report any changes that you think Lone Wolf Poster Painting Book should be made. Everyone who does this and reports a valid error will be listed on Coordinator: Simon Osborne the Acknowledgments page of the appro- December on the Project Aon Forum gave priate book, immortalized in the annals of hope to Lone Wolf fans who have heard of Project Aon. The Lone Wolf Poster Painting Book but If you would like to help, please contact us. never seen it. The book is large, causing problems with scanning, since each page <http://www.projectaon.org/contact.htm> requires a minimum of three separate scans to cover it. These scans then require Community News being married together to again produce By Jonathan Blake something approximating the original illustration. More on this as the scans Lone Wolf Online MMORPG arrive. One of the first things that any Lone Wolf The Skull of Agarash fan thinks when they learn computer programming is “Lone Wolf would be great Coordinator: Simon Osborne as a computer game!” And off we go to While there are still five books to go before make our attempt with mixed results. Project Aon have published the Grand Here's our chance to see what Lone Wolf Master series, preemptive work has would be like in a digital world, the early already taken place on another rare Lone ZX Spectrum games notwithstanding. In Wolf book. The Skull of Agarash, published case you missed it, Joe Dever is working in 1994, is the only Lone Wolf graphic with Magnamund Studios to create a novel, telling a story of Grand Master Lone massively multiplayer online role-playing Wolf's adventure when Lord Rimoah is game (MMORPG for short) based on the taken captive by Lakuri Pirates. The book world of Magnamund. You can keep up was illustrated by Brian Williams and Cyril with the development by visiting the Lone Julien. Brian Williams has already gra- Wolf Online MMORPG website which ciously given his consent for his work to be includes a foreword by Joe Dever, used, but we have not yet contacted Cyril discussion forums and other fun tid-bits. Julien. An attentive forum-goer has given us potential contact details for Cyril Julien, Lone Wolf Online: <http://www.lonewolf-online.com/> The Project Aon newsletter masthead © 1999-2005 Project Aon. All rights reserved. The text of this newsletter is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/> 3 of 4 Gary Chalk's New Gamebooks Vakeros, the Cener Druid, the Herbalish, and the Shadakine Wytch. They are also Gary Chalk and Jon Sutherland, former selling miniatures to complement their editor of White Dwarf and Warlock books. If you're thinking about buying magazines and gamebook author, have co- some of Mongoose Publishing's new books, created a series of Football Fantasy please help keep Project Aon going by Gamebooks. That's soccer to us Yankees. using the product links from our Help Us From the series' website: page. A portion of the sale price will be “In Football Fantasy you control the used by Project Aon to purchase internet outcome of the match. You choose the hosting services. tactics, whether to attack or defend, find the opponent’s weaknesses and Treasurer's Report dominate the game. You can play the game solo, or with another player. By Jonathan Blake Create your own leagues, cups and We at Project Aon would like to thank competitions.” everyone who made monetary donations There are currently six gamebooks for sale either by purchasing books and other and six more on the way. If this sounds like materials through our Amazon affiliate your cup of tea, check out the website to links or by making a direct donation learn more. through PayPal. Thanks to your generosity, our costs for 2004 have been met. Cosmic <http://www.footballfantasygamebooks.com/> coincidence has left us with a quarter dollar to spare.
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