Actually, there is hope for that player...

As part of the continued investigation into buttons, I was able to get it (or at least a tracking number for it) from CastingFool. If all goes well, the player should be returning home tomorrow.

Meanwhile, CastingFool is still interested in doing casting for us, but I am not sure if he has or can get access to the resources given his financial crunch. But the possibility remains. He is also friends with the caster Stu was working with, so he was going to check with the other guy to find out what problems he ran into.

_hardcore_ also was going to investigate some possibilities.

I also wrote to Brian, the original artist, to see if he would be interested in going back into the business. I also asked if he was not interested, if he could share the color matching experience and color formulae he used for his previous castings so they can be reused rather than reinvented through trial and error.

No word back on any of these yet.