Hello all! Apologies again for delays in getting this to you – it’s been a work-jammed couple of weeks, and I’m just coming up for air! The Return to the Carnival of the Damned at Gamehole Con 13 on October 17th, 2026 was a complete success! Our incredible crew of Judges, Artists and Incredible Volunteers teamed up, and adding in after-event donations, we were able to raise the total to $4,335 for the American Cancer Society! This brings our 7-year total to be $40,416 – we’ve pinnacled $40K! We were enthralled with a record 69 people buying tickets through Gamehole Con itself (which Gamehole donates to the cause!) along with all the on-site Memorial Token entries brought us to that amazing total to help those in need! THANK YOU for making this such a successful event in the challenging times of today. We are so proud that we have been able to bring such awesome people together for a day of fun and love!
We ran the Return for the Carnival of the Damned from 10:00 AM until 8:00 PM (actually, more like 8:30 PM! Thank you Judges and Players!) while they braved their way through the many macabre exhibitions of the Carnival of the Damned! They fought undead, killer clowns, cursed souls, the Black Jester, Emerick himself, and a frightening avatar of Gelos, God of Madness! The carnival was conquered and the children of the village returned safely back to their beds! The Carnival of the Damned is a seminal 0-level funnel for Dungeon Crawl Classics, and we were SO happy to give it the Crawl for the Cure treatment it deserved in 2026! Thank you to the author, David Baity, and publisher, Jon Marr, of Purple Sorcerer Games! It is truly a legendary adventure!
We are working on getting out the prizes with some automation again for Gamehole Con (different spreadsheets) – hopefully in the future we can get through this much quicker – we’re hoping that work is done for a quick turn-around for Ethermeet 2026! We hope the e-mails will go out ASAP, thank you for your patience!
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Don’t forget our next event, the live Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure: Ethermeet 2026 on Twitch.tv dcc_mayhem on Saturday, December 12, 2026! We plan to stream 6 sessions from our incredible Gamemasters throughout the day and raise more money for the American Cancer Society! Keep your eyes open for updates!
Thank you, all, for such a successful event! Please be sure to follow our page, The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure on Facebook for all the latest updates!
Thanks!
Cory, Steve and Hazel
The Jerry Stefek Memorial Crawl for the Cure
