Check Out My Bag, And All Its Contents

That backwards explosion in the B bothers me too.

We've gone down the rabbit hole guys. I'm talking way, deep down, even further down than Alice went. Compared to us she's a part-timer, with the OB gang all being veteran spelunkers. This is a level of geek I never thought I would get to, but here I am, figuring out how best to min-max my Agricola farm with the rest of the crew, in this dark, warm hole...

We got custom dice. 

That's not so bad, right? Lots of people get custom dice, for lots of different things! It's geeky, but it's not that geeky...

We also got custom dice bags.

Yeh. This is pretty damn geeky, I know, but I'll be damned if I care! I'm happier than Bunny Jesus in a rainbow robe riding a lamb, whilst eating a chocolate egg on a Sunday! The blog has been running for longer than two years now, and on a whim I asked the guys; "Wuts Ur pheels on kustum dyce, yo?", too which I received the reply; "NOW.NOW.WHERERTHEDYCE?NOW.NOW!"

Cubes of Dreams / Nightmares

I may be paraphrasing a touch, but you get the idea. We were keen. A quick search on the internet ensued, and after contacting a couple of suppliers I landed on the global super power known as Chessex Dice. After getting in touch, I sent over an image that we wanted to use, and Joseph (the dice man at Chessex, who I imagine to be a giant dice with eyes in the dots on the '2' side. What kind of chair would a giant cube use? I guess it would be a stool, problem solved) adjusted it to be suitable, and then BAM! The order was in!

Price wise, at 120 dice (ten black and ten grey each) it worked out to be $0.60 a dice, which I consider to reasonable. There were a couple of stings in the tail however; international shipping coming through at $35 from the states was an unpleasant surprise (did they fly it by Dragon?!), and then the delightful people at custom's decided they wanted to play Liar's Dice with our cubes of wonder, which cost another £18 (a terrible player paying off their gambling debts, I suppose). I'm going to blame the Tories, although this may be the one price increase which George Osborne had no dealings with. Perhaps.

All in all the process took a long, excruciating 4 weeks, but it was worth the wait! They are just perfect, and seem to roll pretty well too, with the black ones edging out the grey so far.

The ordering of the bags however seemed to be much easier, perhaps due in part to Mike ordering them for us all. He had seen a post over at Hand Of The Sphere, in which the bloger Sazu had a company named KOed make him a bag, complete with deck storage. In the same vain as the dice, Mike sent over an image and the nice lady at KOed applied it to our bags, and voilà! The cost per bag ended up at about £20 including shipping, which although not cheap seems to be the going rate of dice bags weirdly. An exotic commodity, apparently.

Needless to say we're all stoked with our purchases, and I suggest, nay, direct you all to delve down our rabbit hole of wonder and revel in your geek with us! For all you Bombanites out there who would like some dice, or even perhaps a bag, it's unfortunately tough. That is, unless Sgt Slaughter fails to pay me, and then in which case I have 20 dice with someones name on! In seriousness, if any of you mad bastards want some then email me, and perhaps with enough demand we can magic something up.