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Vote Thread for Ack's Omake Corner

Discussion in 'General' started by Ack, Feb 18, 2015.

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  1. Dan Tobias

    Dan Tobias Know what you're doing yet?

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    [X] Slippery Slope - 6
    [X] I, Panacea - 5
    [X] Hostage Situation - 4
    [X] Recoil - 3
    [X] War Games - 2
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 1

    Up for voting and I'd like to see it, just not quite enough to get a vote this time...
    [] One More Trigger
    [] Wyvern

    Not eligible for votes but I'd still like to see it:
    [] Entanglement
    [] Taylor Hebert, Medhall Intern
    [] MirrorVerse
     
  2. epiccuttlefish

    epiccuttlefish Epic Cuttlefish

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    [X] Collateral Damage - 6
    [X] Wyvern - 5
    [X] Hostage Situation - 4
    [X] One More Trigger - 3
    [X] Reality Intrudes - 2
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 1
    [] I, Panacea -
     
  3. Diraniola

    Diraniola I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 4
    [X] Collateral Damage - 3
    [X] Hostage Situation - 2
    [X] I, Panacea - 6
    [X] One More Trigger - 1
    [X] Recoil - 5
     
  4. Ack

    Ack (Verified Ratbag) (Unverified Great Old One)

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    Ack (Verified Ratbag) (Unverified Great Old One)

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    Ack (Verified Ratbag) (Unverified Great Old One)

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    [X] Wyvern - 6
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 5
    [X] One More Trigger - 4
     
  8. Ack

    Ack (Verified Ratbag) (Unverified Great Old One)

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    Prustan I didn't do it!

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    [X] Wyvern - 6
    [X] I, Panacea - 5
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 4
    [X] Hostage Situation - 3
    [X] One More Trigger - 2

    [] Afraid of the Dark
    [] First Telkan
    [] Snek is a Good Boy
    [] Taylor Hebert, Medhall Intern
     
  10. Fizzfaldt

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    [X] Recoil - 6
    [X] I, Panacea - 5
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 4
    [X] Wyvern - 3
    [X] Reality Intrudes - 2
    [X] Collateral Damage - 1
     
  11. ribbons8

    ribbons8 Getting sticky.

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    [X] I, Panacea - 6
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    [X] Wyvern - 3
    [X] Reality Intrudes - 2
     
  12. Ack

    Ack (Verified Ratbag) (Unverified Great Old One)

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    New chapter of I, Panacea is up.

    Voting is CLOSED.
     
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  13. Threadmarks: Vote 208: Wyvern
    Ack

    Ack (Verified Ratbag) (Unverified Great Old One)

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    Thanks, as always, for voting.

    Voting points this round: 578

    Announcements
    Throne3d 's vote counting system seems to not be working, so it's back to hand counting. Any mistakes are mine.


    Novel is PUBLISHED. [Welcome to Utopia]
    Link to get, if interested: https://books2read.com/u/b68xeZ
    Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=welcome+to+utopia&ref=nb_sb_noss_2


    Sequel (part 2 of 4) is PUBLISHED: Shadows Over Utopia
    Link to get, if interested: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1146304
    Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Over-Utopia-Utopian-Dreams/dp/0648729664/


    Also, I have a free novel on Smashwords, called The Uncle Tal Stories.

    Any votes to any stories not on the list will not be applied to any stories, on or off the list. The stories that have been taken off the list will not be abandoned, just put on hiatus until I've actually finished a significant number of stories that are actually still on the list.

    MirrorVerse 1140
    Bait & Switch 1164
    Junior Hero 140
    Enter the Nemesis 161

    A Darker Path [0] (Taylor has triggered with a shard called Path to Ending. She can kill anyone or anything. Also, she has no more fucks to give. Have a nice day.)
    Afraid of the Dark [0] (Danny is an expy of John Wick. Taylor just went through the Locker. Be very afraid.)
    All Alone [25] (Emma dies in the alley, so Taylor makes a new friend. Sophia Hess. But after some very bad decisions. she's all alone again. Or is she?)
    Another Way [0] (Marquis beat shit out of BBB, then spent the next eight years in Boston. Now that his daughter has triggered, he's come back. She's having a ball.)
    Conflict [0] (It's 1980. Contessa managed to shank Eden without getting nerfed. Doctor Mother now has Eidolon's powerset, without the insecurity complex. They've got two years to prepare before Scion shows up.)
    Earning Her Stripes [0] (Sophia has gotten three power vials. Emma and Madison took two, and they're aiming to make Taylor into a villain with the third.)
    Entanglement [0] (Taylor has her bug powers. However, she is now randomly body-swapping with a Taylor from an Earth without super-powers. Both are rather confused.)
    First Telkan [0] (A crossover with the massively popular Reddit serial First Contact, by Ralts Bloodthorne.)
    Fuck Worm! [0] {NSFW} (A double SI, where a couple gets dropped into the Wormverse on opposite sides. Only just started.)
    Gravitas [0] (A crossover fanfic with a novel I'm in the process of writing).
    One Bad Day [0] (Sophia murders Grue. Taylor murders Sophia and Madison. Lisa murders her new team leader. Amy mindwipes Vicky. It's one hell of a bad day.)
    Prodigal Daughter [0] (Taylor isn't quite right. But that's okay. She's Jack Slash's daughter. Brockton Bay is in for ... a time.)
    Snek is a Good Boy [0] (The adorrifying adventures of a large snek in and around Brockton Bay.)
    Yet Another Way [0] (A spin-off of Another Way, where Carol killed Amy. The BBB is now out of the picture, and Marquis has managed to adopt the Dallon and Pelham kids.)

    A Friend At Winslow - Non-Taylor-centric, but involving Taylor.
    The Centre Cannot Hold - Taylor gets a really weird power, and makes full use of it. Crack.
    Dinah Alcott, Ruler of the World - Exactly what it says on the tin.
    EverYthiNg YoU kNow iS WroNg - The Birdcage is a luxury resort. Marquis was sandbagging. It's all a LIE, I tell you! Pure crack.
    Force Projection - A sequel to my original fiction Number Two.
    Hostile Takeover - Marquis had a son. He's just come back to Brockton Bay.
    Identity Theft - An international freelancer needs to hide out in Brockton Bay. Guess who she looks like?
    Isel - Prequel to my original fiction King's Man
    Parallel - A time travel story, involving Taylor's son from after Gold Morning.
    Living in Brockton Bay is Suffering - A perfect storm of bad events happens, leaving Tagg in charge of the PRT, based in Brockton Bay.
    Library Blues (working title) - A massive AU where Taylor is an adult, working in the library of Winslow High. Brian is the principal, and Sophia is the head coach.
    Terminal: A cancer sufferer triggers with powers. His life does not improve. News at eleven.

    User Errors:
    None at the moment (woo!)

    On to the main event.

    Alea Iacta Est 234
    Collateral Damage 219
    Hostage Situation 261
    I, Panacea 72
    One More Trigger 240
    Reality Intrudes 238
    Recoil 192
    Slippery Slope 438
    War Games 418
    Wyvern 0 (632)

    Wyvern hits the tape far ahead of anything else. Next up is likely to be War Games, then The Slippery Slope, then ... probably Hostage Situation, though it's anyone's race after that.


    Check out Sleepyfoo for a reasonable prediction.

    Note: As Collateral Damage and Reality Intrudes are based on short, sharp chapters you'll be getting two 3-4K chapters each time either one comes up, instead of one 7K+ chapter.


    Anyway, thanks again for voting, and I hope you enjoy reading the stories as much as I enjoy writing them.


    For anyone who hasn't voted on this thread before, the voting rules go as follows:

    Vote format looks like this:

    Thank you.

    Voting is OPEN.
     
  14. Index: Choosing a New Fic for the List
    Ack

    Ack (Verified Ratbag) (Unverified Great Old One)

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    Okay, everyone.

    I, Panacea will be finishing as of its next post, which is likely to be later this year.

    In the meantime, I'd like people to vote for the new fic to replace it, from the following list:

    Conflict [0] (It's 1980. Contessa managed to shank Eden without getting nerfed. Doctor Mother now has Eidolon's powerset, without the insecurity complex. They've got two years to prepare before Scion shows up.)
    Entanglement [0] (Taylor has her bug powers. However, she is now randomly body-swapping with a Taylor from an Earth without super-powers. Both are rather confused.)
    Prodigal Daughter [0] (Taylor isn't quite right. But that's okay. She's Jack Slash's daughter. Brockton Bay is in for ... a time.)

    (The following are concepts I'd like to write fics for, given the chance)

    Seeing the Light
    Kayden Anders has just discovered she's pregnant. She's decided she wants a better world for her kid to grow up in, and she's decided she's against the whole crime thing the Empire's into. So she splits from Max. At the same time, she tries to break from the entire racist Nazi mindset. In canon, she fails, falling back into the old ways of thinking even while she tries to make the jump into heroism.
    What if she doesn't fail? What if she meets a nice understanding guy who offers platonic friendship and a shoulder to lean on, and (most importantly) a new viewpoint for her to work on to get away from the other mindset? What if she actually manages to get there, and work her way through it while she's pregnant with Aster, so that by the time her baby is born, she's ready to become an actual hero with the help of her new best friend (who is also the godfather of her baby)?
    Of course, there will be challenges; Max will threaten her with taking Aster away from her, her old Empire friends will try to drag her back into that life, but she's done with that, and can see through it all. And of course, she's got her new friend backing her up ...
    ... Legend.

    World War Scion
    Scion appears over Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. Due to the savage ferocity of the attack, and the number of people who would otherwise be casualties, a whole bunch of US servicemen end up as capes on the very first day of the new stage of the war. The Japanese carriers are quickly located and sunk by these new capes.
    However, as the war progresses, each time the capes on one side start to present a formidable advantage, this triggers capes on the other side. The war begins to stretch on ... and on ... and on. Capes are now the major combatants, making surprise raids into enemy territory. And when it looks like hostilities are starting to wane, monsters (with vague national markings) appear and attack in defiance of truce, starting things up all over again.
    So, the year is 1971. It's been thirty years, and the war is still ongoing. Taylor Hebert, aged fifteen, is undergoing testing for potential to trigger (this will get her drafted). Unbeknownst to the testers, she already triggered when she was shoved into her locker, and she has no desire to go to war ...

    EDIT: To clarify.

    The current voting round consists of these fics:

    Alea Iacta Est
    Collateral Damage
    Hostage Situation
    I, Panacea
    One More Trigger
    Reality Intrudes
    Recoil
    Slippery Slope
    War Games
    Wyvern

    Vote for them in the following format (but using whatever titles and order you like):

    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 6
    [X] Collateral Damage - 5
    [X] Hostage Situation - 4
    [X] I, Panacea - 3
    [X] One More Trigger - 2
    [X] Reality Intrudes - 1

    Note that the numbers are vote points. I will be adding up the vote points for each title.

    I would like the next replacement fic to be voted for in the same way, in a separate vote to the current voting round fics. Note that there's only five of these, so the highest number is 5.

    [X] Conflict - 5
    [X] Entanglement - 4
    [X] Prodigal Daughter - 3
    [X] Seeing the Light - 2
    [X] World War Scion - 1

    Note that this is an example only. Note also that the numbers are vote points, so it's not "number 1 comes first". It's "five vote points is more than one vote point".

    If we can vote similar to the above setup, that would be awesome.

    Thank you.
     
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  15. Bluesnowman

    Bluesnowman I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    World War Scion
     
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    Ack (Verified Ratbag) (Unverified Great Old One)

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    Don't forget that you can also vote for the ongoing stories.
     
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  17. anwan7

    anwan7 Know what you're doing yet?

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    [X] Reality Intrudes - 6
    [X] Recoil - 5
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 4
    [X] Wyvern - 3
    [X] I, Panacea - 2
    [X] War Games - 1


    [X] Seeing the Light - 5
    [X] Prodigal Daughter - 4
    [X] World War Scion - 3
    [X] Entanglement - 2
    [X] Conflict - 1

    Edited to include second poll instead of top choice.
     
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  18. andriska97

    andriska97 Making the rounds.

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    [X] Reality Intrudes - 6
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 5
    [X] I, Panacea - 4
    [X] Wyvern - 3
    [X] Hostage Situation - 2
    [X] Collateral Damage - 1
     
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  19. Kclcmdr

    Kclcmdr Know what you're doing yet?

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    Seeing the Light

    [X] A Darker Path - 6
    [X] Recoil - 5
    [X] Prodigal Daughter - 4
    [X] Snek Is A Good Boy - 3
    [X] I, Panacea - 2
    [X] War Games - 1
     
  20. Resprom

    Resprom Making the rounds.

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    World War Scion!! I like the others as well, but this one sounds like gold (pun intended). I mean, the idea is out there. I need to read it.

    [X] Recoil - 6
    [X] Wyvern - 5
    [X] I, Panacea - 4
    [X] Collateral Damage - 3
     
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    DrWhoFan13 Lurker who made an account for a few fics

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    Seeing the Light
     
  22. Bluesnowman

    Bluesnowman I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Oh then defiantly
    1, Are You Afraid of the Dark?
    2 A Darker Path
    3 Hostage Situation
    4. Alea Iacta Est
     
  23. Corwyn-Ulhar

    Corwyn-Ulhar Making the rounds.

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    [X] Recoil - 5
    [X] Are You Afraid of the Dark? - 4
    [X] Snek Is A Good Boy - 3
    [X] I, Panacea - 2
    [X] War Games - 1
     
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    cl20 I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    World War Scion

    [X] War Games - 6
    [X] Wyvern - 5
    [X] Reality Intrudes - 4
    [X] Recoil - 3
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 2
    [X] One More Trigger - 1
     
  25. Togashi Rogi

    Togashi Rogi Getting sticky.

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    [x] Recoil - 6
    [x] I, Panacea - 5
    [x] Alea Iacta Est - 4
    [x] Hostage Situation - 3
    [x] Wyvern - 2
    [x] One More Trigger - 1

    Prodigal Daughter
     
  26. EJH

    EJH Know what you're doing yet?

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    [X] War Games - 6
    [X] One More Trigger - 5
    [X] Reality Intrudes - 4
    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 3
    [X] I, Panacea - 2
    [X] Wyvern - 1

    [X] Prodigal Daughter - 5
    [X] World War Scion - 4
    [X] Entanglement - 3
    [X] Conflict - 2
    [X] Seeing the Light - 1

    Two questions:

    1) Is there any particular way you wanted the new fic vote formatted?
    2) Are you deliberately changing the date of the Pearl Harbor attack? Because historically, it was December 7, 1941.
     
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  27. Aleh

    Aleh Destroyer of Faith in Humanity

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    [X] Seeing the Light - 5

    [X] I, Panacea - 6
    [X] One More Trigger - 5
    [X] Collateral Damage - 4
    [X] War Games - 3
    [X] Wyvern - 2
    [X] Hostage Situation - 1
     
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  28. Alkeniw

    Alkeniw Violence and Silence, that's my Virus

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    [X] Seeing the Light - 6
    [X] A Darker Path - 5
    [X] Recoil - 4
    [X] Are You Afraid of the Dark? - 3
    [X] Snek Is A Good Boy - 2
    [X] World War Scion
     
  29. Sto Odin

    Sto Odin Only a very distant relation

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    [X] I, Panacea - 6
    [X] The Slippery Slope - 5
    [X] Reality Intrudes - 4
    [X] One More Trigger - 3
    [X] Hostage Situation - 2
    [X] Wyvern - 1

    (Edit )
    [X] Entanglement - 5
    [X] Seeing the Light - 4
    [X] World War Scion - 3
    [X] Conflict - 2
     
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  30. Diraniola

    Diraniola I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    [X] Alea Iacta Est - 2
    [X] Collateral Damage - 1
    [X] I, Panacea - 5
    [X] Recoil - 4
    [X] Wyvern - 3
    [X] Prodigal Daughter - 6
     
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