If you’ve been following the ongoing saga of my until-yesterday missing Shroud of the Avatar box – the physical reward for backing the game on Kickstarter some six years ago – then you’ll hopefully be happy to learn that the long wait is over. As of about 4:00 PM on August 7th, according to the Stamps.com tracking portal, the box has been in my hands…and I was quite happy to retrieve it from the post box as I took the Kidlets out for an evening bicycle ride.

Of course, I didn’t get a chance to open the package until today.

It’s worth noting that the package itself was in good shape. Inside, a boxed copy of the game and a hastily-“folded” cloth map were to be found.

Okay, it may be a tad too charitable to call the map “folded”, though it’s none the worse for wear. There’s also a note from Chris Spears offering an apology for the delay in getting the box mailed out.

Caught up in the folds of the map was the special collector’s coin.

And there’s the box in all its glory, with the Collectors Edition sticker.

I’m thinking I’m going to keep this box in its wrapping for now, so I can’t verify whether its contents are the same as what’s in the box that Dark Wraith Dragon sent me. But I am happy to remove the counters from the site header, and to finally come to a resolution of this long wait. For the record, the most interesting result from the counters was that this box arrived four weeks (to the day) after the box from Dark Wraith, and over a week shy of Portalarium’s self-defined deadline for backers to receive their rewards by.

Many thanks to the folks at Portalarium for making the effort to get outstanding physical rewards sent out, and to Chris Spears for the note of apology.