in order to encourage donations, ellipsis created a side comic featuring a goblin character named tempts fate, who is not connected with the main story. at the beginning of each donation drive, tempts fate is faced with a series of obstacles and dangers; whether or not he survives, and how skillfully he does so, directly correlates with how much money the donation drive makes. were the donation goal not met, ellipsis has promised tempts fate will perish, never to be brought back again. tempts fate 11 has been implied to be the character's last and most expensive adventure, netting ellipsis $37,151.67. donation fees in this adventure were abnormally high and ellipsis used all the money raised to help purchase a house. after over three years ellipsis has yet to complete the page the donations were raised for.