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Bliss Stage Pre Order

Seven years from now, humanity is in ruins, devastated by a ferocious alien occupier from the edges of our understanding. The adults of the world have been undone by the aliens' seduction, and the future of humanity is now a slowly dwindling population of child survivors.

Bliss Stage is a role-playing game about love and war and hope and coming of age, to be published by the award-winning These Are Our Games this year. Starting now, it is available for pre-order.

But there is still hope for humanity's future. A small group of survivors, led by a still-waking adult, have managed to reverse engineer the alien remotes, and have used this technology to make a new generation of weapons that can be used to strike at humanity's enemies in their world of dreams. This weapon is called an Alien Numina Inversion Machine -- or ANIMa -- and it allows a teenaged pilot to enter the dream world and form a mechanized battle-suit out of the spirits of her friends, lovers, and enemies. With this weapon, she can fight the aliens on their own terms, striking at the very heart of their occupation. Now, after seven years of despair, this brave group of soldiers are striking the first blows of a war that will determine the fate of the earth, humanity, earth, and their own hearts.

In the game of Bliss Stage, you will tell their story.

The cost of the pre-order is $36. Included in that is:

1. Ignition Stage: A limited edition book which will be available only through this pre-order and at GenCon 2007. This is a spartan version of the game with little-to-no art. It, and no future version, will include a unique short-play scenario, FINAL ACT, to get you playing from the moment you receive your book. I estimate that it will be about 130 pages long, perfect bound, about the size of a manga volume. This will be sent before or during August 2007.
   
2. Acceleration Stage: An unlimited edition book with color cover, lavish interior illustrations by Jake Richmond and Shizero Nezze, and design by Joshua AC Newman. This full version of the game will also feature an expanded text. It will be about 200 pages long, and also about the size of a manga volume. This will be sent before or during December 2007.
   
3. Personal messages in the Ignition Stage book, if you want one.
   
4. Special thanks in the Acceleration Stage book, if you want it.
   
5. Future versions of the game, as well as any game-related merchandise, will be available to pre-order customers only at considerably lower prices.
   
6. Free shipping anywhere in the world.
   

There have never been battles more terrible than these battles. There has never been a war more important than this war. No one deserves to see the things you've had to see. No one deserves to do the things you've had to do. But if you can do it, if you can win, then no one will ever have to fight a war again.

And if you lose, it doesn't matter anyway.

Secure your pre-order now by sending $36 via paypal to taogames@gmail.com . Remember to include your shipping information, and if you want have an inscription or special thanks.

Please do spread this to websites, blogs, forums, and so on. I will be updating this post throughout the weeks to come with more teasers and game information.