Brainstorming help requested: planning auction for upcoming Serial

[aldersprig]

I'm making a new setting! (I'm sure you've noticed)
Actually, I'm making two, but Edally Academy (Steam!Goats) is going to be my nano project. So that's the one I'm thinking about now.

Serials take money to start: ad money, art, domain name, possibly server space. Having a seed account will mean I can start out in January with as pretty a setting as I like.

For the below list, the school has nine Houses, covering fields of study.
All of them are named for former students who had mighty achievements.
Several of them, thus, have had more than one name over the years.
The three main characters are each in a separate House.

I'm thinking of offering the following things for auction:

• Naming rights on:
  
  
  • A Protagonist's House
    
  • A background Hous
    
  • a former House name
    
  • a Head of a House (cameo)
    
  • a background teacher (cameo)
    
  • a student (cameo)
  
  
• Create an animal that will appear in the story
  
• Create a dish of food that will appear in the story
  
• Create a ~thing~ or device that will appear in the story

Two questions:
Whoops, three:

1. Do you think this will garner any interest at all?
   
2. Do you have any other ideas for auction items?
   
3. Suggested starting bids?
   
4. Less is more? Or more is more? (i.e., cut this list down, expand on it, or it's good)?
   

Also, I know I was wrong, there's four.

If you have not yet answered What do YOU want to see in Steam!Calenta? and think you might have interest in the serial, please go put in your feedback. <3

Comments

[sharpeningthebones]

I think this is kind of an awesome idea. I'm not sure that it will generate a lot of interest but this is an awesome gift idea for someone. Putting a donation in their name and ten titling a house after them or something.

[aldersprig]

Heehee, I hadn't even thought about that one!

Edit:

Also, thank you. It seems like a fun idea, at the very least.

[sharpeningthebones]

Oh! Something else you could do is come up with some of the food ideas yourself and offer a recipe book. Even if it's things as simple as a bread recipe you think characters would make. You don't have to get it printed or anything, just have a nice e copy of it It couldbe kind of neat.

[aldersprig]

That's /brilliant!/

Back to working out dishes with potato flour for me!

[sharpeningthebones]

Happy to help! ^^

[inventrix]

Team up with someone who volunteers their art skills to make small art cards of the characters to auction off, too?

(not volunteering, my completion rate is awful)

The recipe book idea is brilliant FYI.

Dunno about questions 1 and 3, but for 4, when you're auctioning things, having more things to auction is almost always better. Just so long as it's not so many it's overwhelming to review.

[aldersprig]

That's a brilliant idea if I could find an artist! HRrm, maybe I'll ask ItsaMellama