Per the previous revisionism of viewtopic.php?p=145928#145928 (10/5/09)
"Actually, it was the Cthulhu fanbase that thought this was something much more than it actually was.
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The ms. sold for about $40 and was water under the bridge for the D&D collecting community. Then a few days after, the Call of Cthulhu fanbase discovered the ended auction and were bemoaning the fact that they had missed out on something they thought was "important". They talked it up quite a bit and even tendered some buy-out offers to Invincible Overlord in the hundreds of dollars range."

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viewtopic.php?p=20497#20497 (3/26/05)
"I contacted several members of the CoC board to advertise to them. They brought it to the attention of the whole board. Even Sandy Peterson chimed in, confirming the manuscripts importance to the development in the game.
The CoC board knew about it well before the auction end and just basically blew it. One guy promised if he won it, he'd post it as a free PDF. Now they regret it and the post auction frenzy is on. Sad to say but you can only sell unique items once. Invincible had the proper conviction and he won. Good one Mike."


As mentioned in passing (PM or email) last month, Doug, that should be the other page;
viewtopic.php?p=21646#21646 q.v. ("first issue; page 3") & Mike/IO's post following.

The description as provided on the certificate is misleadingly anachronistic, given that that's a "hindsight" view onto a timeframe long before anything in Stephen's collection as disposed.

Personally I'd stay well clear if I were you, since correcting other people's mistakes at your own expense is a pretty thankless task. The only "plus point", as before, might be to destroy or alter yet another misleading "certificate of authenticity" so that there's no further confusion in future.

Sounds like the Rod of Seven Parts or a season of Dragonball . . .

JohnGaunt wrote:Sounds like the Rod of Seven Parts or a season of Dragonball . . .

Probably get more XPs for surviving such quests?
Or Key to Time, even...

(thanks for the smile, I think...)

Don't get me wrong; there's a considerable amount of good material and quality ideas in Stephen's work but piecing back together what could easily have been preserved as a more cohesive whole, and having to work out those interconnections blind without seeing the remainder is hardly "best practice" for getting anything into print. (Yes, the current state of play is still better than "just throw it all in the bin" as might well have happened, but not really where it /deserves/ to be, IMHO).

mbassoc2003 wrote:So where does City of the Revenant fit into the Cupric Texts mess? Is it purely a by-product? And as I recall, there was a single typed MS sheet amongst the detritus I had entitled 'Cupric Text' or some such. I passed that along, maybe to Faro.

It would be interesting to see the 'whole picture' once this thing is put back together. Can't help thinking this item was 'pulled apart/destroyed' purely for personal gain. Seems a little incongruous with the ethic and integrity of the seller. Hope it was a genuine error.

Knowing how Paul works, and the state of the items he got when he agreed to auction Steve's stuff (pages and piles of manuscript), I'm sure it was an honest mistake.

Mike B.