Charity Rune Casting for Earth Day

[the_vulture]

I will be performing rune casting for charity beginning 12:00 AM (AST) and ending midnight on April 22nd. During that time period, if you purchase a charity v-gift (see the list of available ones below), and reply to this post with a link pointing to the profile for which it was purchased, I will consult the runes with a 3-stone draw to respond to a question you pose. The question can be for you or someone of your choosing. Please specify if you want the response to be delivered privately. I will be popping in and out through the course of the day to cast runes and respond to queries. (As this will be my first time doing this kind of event, I will be limiting my responses to the first 30 queries.)

As a bonus (and 'cause I want to support this particular charity on Earth Day) , for the first fifteen responders (NO DONATION NECESSARY), I will purchase one of the Gulf_Aid_Now v-gifts (with the cute seabird and turtle). (Make sure that your profile will accept v-gifts!) Heck, you don't even have to bring a donation and a question to receive one, just show up and say "Hi."

Rune casting is CLOSED.  HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!  :D

Here is the list of charity v-gifts to be found in the LiveJournal gift shop:

Gulf_Aid_Now - National Wildlife Foundation's Oil Spill Fund (I'm highlighting this one for Earth Day.)
Help Australia - Australian Red Cross
Help Brazil - Unicef
Help Japan - Doctors Without Borders
NZ Quake Relief - New Zealand Red Cross
You Are My Sunshine - Special Olympics
Charity - It Gets Better! - Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network
Charity - NaNoWriMo - NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Charity - Pink Ribbon - Pink Ribbon International
Charity: Fight AIDS! - IAVI (International Aids Vaccine Initiative)
PFLAG Rhino - PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)

Retrospect (shortly after): Well, that didn't work out as planned...

There was two things supposed to be going on. 1) People showing up to say to receive a v-giftie (as my donation to a cause) and 2) people donating to a cause  to receive a three stone rune. Evidently, I wasn't clear enough in my explanation, as there were folk showing up to receive a v-giftie AND a three stone rune without the requirement of a donation. if I run another one of these in the future, I'll have to be more careful in explaining stuff.

I can't say I was expecting a huge turn out, but what interest I got, even from my own F-list, was far less than expected. Only a handful of folk bothered to show any interest in this. For those folk, I have purchased a Gulf_Aid_Now v-giftie, to support Gulf cleanup and relief efforts. As I really want to add more support, I'll be randomly selecting 10 other folk from my F-list to receive one. I'll also be performing a 3 stone draw for the folk that showed up, whether they donated or not, to show my appreciation for their interest.

Clearly, though, if I'm to do another one of these style events, I'll have to generate a LOT more awareness of the event with plenty of time in advance. Lesson learned.