Help Requested – Alliance Family Member in Need

Editor’s Note: This is reprinted with permission from Alliance Crossroads. Give yourself a second to read this report and see how you can help a family through their crisis. You can find out more here. A member of our community is in need – will you help?

The Story

Scott Auden is a father, an actor, a teacher, a longtime LARPer and a writer – and more than that, he’s also a great guy. In April 2011, Scott was rushed to a local hospital for emergency brain surgery due to what’s known as an AV Malfunction. In layman’s terms, he has had a condition since birth that manifested unexpectedly in his brain, and nearly killed him. In the short weeks since that time, Scott has struggled out of a coma and has begun the very long road to recovery. His rehabilitation may take a year or longer before he is able to return to work and continue providing for his family. As it happens, Scott is not eligible for long term disability and his short term disability insurance only pays half his salary… and he is only eligible for that for the first 100 days. While he happily does have health insurance, Scott’s family is left with a crushing number of bills they simply will not have the funds to pay.

The request

Alliance Crossroads has been proud to call Scott a member of our community since our first event. He has been one of our greatest supporters, and now we want to support him in return. We are asking all of our community members and players to donate to a fund we are establishing with the sole purpose of handling the Audens’ monthly electric bill for the coming year. Their bill is $185/month on a budget plan. To cover this for 12 months, we will need to raise at least $2220. Will you help us?

The Offer

Any Alliance player that donates specifically to this fund will receive 2GS/dollar donated, usable in the Alliance Crossroads campaign. We will be covering the PayPal fees – so the exact amount you donate will be the amount that is paid to make sure Scott, his wife Heather, and their children are able to make it through this difficult transitional period.

UPDATE: Alliance Connecticut has generously offered to match the goblin stamps you are receiving at Crossroads for your donations. Now, for every dollar you donate, Alliance players will receive 2GS in Crossroads and 2GS in Connecticut. In addition, each donor that completes a donation prior to the end of June will be entered in a drawing for one of their Tier 5 Wellfire packages.

Please donate today, donate generously, and help a valued member of our community to make it through some of the darkest days he will need to face. In the past we have been astounded by the generosity of our community, and sincerely hope that today you will once again balance your checkbook with an eye toward whittling out a small amount that you will not miss, but that will make all the difference in this world to our valued community member.   To find out where to help, click here.