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GRIMATHON: Raising money for a IPV survivor

Posted by grimachu on

You can donate via https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JDesborough
Or: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/grimathon

A very dear friend of mine was recently assaulted by her partner and spent several days in the hospital. While there, she reached out to me for help, and I did my level best to get her into a safe place and to put my friends and acquaintances to work to provide care and assistance.

Everyone stepped up, without exception, offering help, advice, even money.

At this point, we have her in safe and secure accommodation, at least for the next month. I am, however, tapped out (and beyond) of the money and resources that I can throw at the problem.

That’s where you come in.

I would like to secure accommodation for her for at least another month, and to help provide for groceries, medication, etc, while she is unable to work and is in recovery (she’s in the USA, so this is obviously more of a problem than elsewhere). It would be nice to put a dent in the medical bills and help her secure more long-term accommodation as well.

To that end, starting at midday UK time, I am going to do a ‘Grimathon’ stream to try and raise money. I’ll have various people on, do various activities, and no doubt end up humiliating myself for donations. We’ll probably end up discussing all sorts of things, and since this is my community, we’ll also be talking about games a lot, and maybe do a few flip-throughs.

Because of the delicacy of the situation, a degree of trust is necessary here. I cannot disclose the who, the precise where, or other details. If you cannot or will not help under such circumstances of security and trauma concerns, I understand completely, but please at least spread the word or come and hang out.

You can donate via https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JDesborough
Or: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/grimathon

Q&A

Q: Why isn’t this on your main channel with the bigger audience?

A: Because mixing streaming with regular content tends to negatively affect your channel performance and thus income. In the potential long term I can help more (and other) people if the channel income stays higher overall. Plus this is a one-off.

Q: Why can’t you give us more details?

A: Because she doesn’t want me to, and her needs have to come first here. Wanting privacy and control is not uncommon in these situations as it has been explained to me by experts in the field.

Q: Which is the best way to donate?

The PayPal link is best, because of immediacy, but I will understand if you don’t want to donate to me directly, though I will be as transparent as possible.

#RPG – Dragon Warriors Game Stream is Recruiting Players

Posted by grimachu on

Hello there!

With people starting to trickle back to work, our regular twice-a-week streamed game of Dragon Warriors has gotten a little thin on the ground. After having to had to miss a week due to illness, we had to cancel a game tonight due to lack of players.

That’s a shame.

As such, I’d very much like to extend an open invitation to anyone who’d care to join us on either our Tuesday or Saturday game slots, one or either (we just ignore the continuity error if a player can’t make it). We have space for, maybe, one or two more players.

We play from around 7:30pm UK (2:30pm EST), to around 10-11pm UK, depending how people feel. We run on Hangouts, and stream to Youtube. You don’t need to show your face – if you feel shy.

The system’s simple to pick up, and the best way to do so is to play, plus we have pregenerated characters to pick from, so all you really have to do is show up!

I intend to keep this going – running games online – into the future, long past COVID, running other games of all kinds. So if DW doesn’t take your fancy, perhaps something else will.

Drop a comment or hit me up on Twitter @grimachu or anywhere else you can find me.