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Vote Thread for Ack's Omake Corner

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Mandabar said:
The Alert system doesn't even keep records of the old alerts I guess. Came it to it saying I had 15 waiting, checked and it only showed one of Ack posting here in this thread. Guess the rest were too old, so didn't see any mentions and etc.
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Next time, try using the Alerts link in the dropdown menu while carefully avoiding the actual Alerts button. (Though it still didn't help me in a similar situation on AH.com...)
 
january1may said:
Next time, try using the Alerts link in the dropdown menu while carefully avoiding the actual Alerts button. (Though it still didn't help me in a similar situation on AH.com...)
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I did check the actual alerts page if that is what you meant, same situation there. I know on SV/SB the alerts popup pulldown menu wouldn't have the same info as the page(s) would.

Thanks though!
 
[X] Recoil - 6
[X] NSW - 5
[X] Danny & Taylor - 4
[X] Meet The Heberts - 3
[X] Trump Card - 2
[X] I, Panacea - 1

Is "Fuck Worm!" a valid entry?
 
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[X] Recoil - 6
[X] I, Panacea - 5
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 4
[X] Wyvern - 3
[X] One More Trigger - 2
[X] War Games - 1
 
Dang it!!! Missed a vote...ah well here it is this time



[X] Nemesis -7
[X] I, Panacea - 6
[X] War Games - 5
[X] Trump Card - 4
[X] Wyvern - 3
[X] Hostage Situation - 2
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 1

Thank you O Spectacular Ack, for all that you do for us - your fans
 
[X] One More Trigger - 6
[X] Hostage Situation - 5
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 4
[X] Trump Card - 3
[X] I, Panacea - 2
[X] Wyvern - 1
 
Apparently the voting is still open (even though it's probably already Sunday wherever Ack is).
So might as well vote (forgot to do it earlier).

As usual, heavily based on my previous vote...

[] I'm Halping - 14
[] The Great Tattletale Caper - 13
[] Entanglement - 12
[] It Gets Worse - 11
[] Price of Blood - 10
[] Are You Afraid of the Dark? - 9
[] One Bad Day - 8
[] Greg Veder, Conquering Hero - 7
[X] One More Trigger - 6
[X] War Games - 5
[X] Wyvern - 4
[X] All Alone - 3 (traded with Anaja for One More Trigger)
[X] Danny & Taylor - 2
[X] Confrontation II - 1
[] Alea Iacta Est - 0
[] Hostage Situation - 0
[] I, Panacea - 0
[] MirrorVerse - 0
[] Trump Card - 0 (and for the record, yes, I'm Russian)

Not particularly interested in most of the rest, sorry - Recoil especially.
(For most* of the others I just don't recall what they're about. What were NSW and Meet the Heberts about again?)

Switched Confrontation II and Alea Iacta Est for the moment. Will rethink once I get anywhere near properly caught up (right now I hadn't read the last chapter of either).


*) okay, both - apparently there's so few remaining stories that I ended up mentioning every single one in my post
 
Vote 122: Recoil
Thanks, as always, for voting.

Voting points this round: 1410

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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.

Really Bad End 185
MirrorVerse 1140
Bait & Switch 1164
Junior Hero 140
Nemesis 161
Slippery Slope 221

Afraid of the Dark [0] (Danny is an expy of John Wick. Taylor just went through the Locker. Be very afraid.)
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.)
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.)
Fuck Worm! [0] {NSFW} (A double SI, where a couple gets dropped into the Wormverse on opposite sides. Only just started.)
Greg Veder, Conquering Hero [0] {NSFW} (Greg actually gets to be the hero and get the girl. Will be short.)
I'm HALPING! [0] (Taylor has a new friend. He's a cute teenage boy, who also happens to be an Endbringer. Cue hijinks.)
It Gets Worse [0] (Taylor has a pre-emptive power designed to rain down havoc on anyone trying to harm her or anyone she cares for. Coincidences get somewhat ridiculous at times.)
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.)
Price of Blood [0] (Taylor's power is responsible for hundreds of deaths. Shadow Stalker is now working for Coil. Things are actually looking up.)
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:
Mafketel - You didn't add a value to your vote for Alea Iacta Est. I've fixed that.

On to the main event.

Alea Iacta Est 921
All Alone 241
Confrontation II 196
Danny & Taylor 1095
Hostage Situation 1258
I, Panacea 712
Meet the Heberts 1355
NSW 480
One More Trigger 1265
Recoil 0 (1398)
Trump Card 297
War Games 1340
Wyvern 152

[If you want to know which of these stories is NSFW, check the first post of the thread..]

That makes 13 stories in the voting list. I think I'll hold it there for the moment. I won't add any more until I've completed a few, though I might will be posting Slippery Slope alongside the regular chapters.
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I'm guessing Recoil up next. Just a guess, mind you :p
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Well, that guess turned out okay. As for the next one .. I'm gonna pick War Games over Meet the Heberts. It will all depend on whether people want to read sexy funtimes or sci-fi funtimes.


Check out Jim Starluck 's spreadsheet for a reasonable prediction.
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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:

1) UP TO six votes. I will not count anything extra, and a write-in will likely be ignored (if I want to write a different story, I will, but at my own discretion). Suggestions are welcome, but I am under no obligation to carry them out. And just remember, the more stories I am writing, the longer it will take for your favourites to roll back around.
2) First vote is worth six points, second is worth five, and so on.
3) You can't vote twice on the same story. The voting code will count the last vote and ignore previous ones.
4) If I say "Voting is CLOSED", then this post comes up, with "Voting is OPEN" at the bottom, then you can vote again.
5) If I say "Voting will continue", it's still the same voting period. Voting has not restarted. You can not vote a second time.
6) If you vote for a story that is not on the voting list, those point(s) will go to the story that got the least number of vote points that round.
6) [current situation] I will be pruning the list.
6a) Each voting round, I will be dropping the story that has garnered the fewest vote points for that round.
6b) That story will be removed from the voting list but not abandoned; it will keep its current total of vote points.
6c) Voting for stories that are not on the voting list will not increase their vote point totals. Those votes will instead be lost.
6d) If a story reaches the top of the list with the least amount of vote points for that round, I will update it then remove it from the list.
6e) When I have a) pruned the list to an acceptable size, and b) finished a few of the current fics, I will look at bringing stories back on to the list.
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Vote format looks like this:

[X] Alea Iacta Est - 6
[X] I, Panacea - 5
[X] War Games - 4
[X] Recoil - 3
[X] Trump Card - 2
[X] NSW - 1

Specifically: SQUARE brackets around an X, one space, and please spell at least the first word of the name of the story properly. Number of voting points comes last. Please try to format your vote properly, so as not to confuse the vote counter.
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Thank you.

Voting is OPEN.
 
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[X] Trump Card - 6
[X] Wyvern - 5
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 4
[X] I, Panacea - 3
[X] Hostage Situation - 2
[X] War Games - 1
 
[X] War Games - 6
[X] One More Trigger - 5
[X] Hostage Situation - 4
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 3
[X] I, Panacea - 2
[X] All Alone - 1

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

Not up for voting but I'd still like to see it:

[] Entanglement
[] Price of Blood
[] Slippery Slope
[] MirrorVerse
[] I'm HALPING!
[] It Gets Worse
[] One Bad Day
 
[X] Recoil - 6
[X] Trump Card - 5
[X] War Games - 4
[X] I, Panacea - 3
[X] Wyvern - 2
[X] Danny & Taylor - 1
 
[X] Recoil - 6
[X] I, Panacea - 5
[X] Wyvern - 4
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 3
[X] One More Trigger - 2
[X] Trump Card - 1
 
Ack said:
Well, that guess turned out okay. As for the next one .. I'm gonna pick War Games over Meet the Heberts. It will all depend on whether people want to read sexy funtimes or sci-fi funtimes.
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Probably, yeah. :(

Recoil managed to beat Meet the Heberts in Vote 122 with a margin of 43 votes, when I'd previously predicted a margin of only 14. Now War Games has a predicted margin of 11 votes. Unless a lot of people go all-in for MtH I don't see it pulling ahead. At least it's far enough ahead of the next story that it probably won't get pushed back even further.

Speaking of the next story, Hostage Situation currently has a 14-vote lead over One More Trigger. There's enough time left for a potential upset, but I looked back over previous round predictions and that lead has been steadily eroding. Back after Vote 119 it was 48 votes ahead, but it's dropped by roughly 10 votes each round. At this rate I suspect OMT will beat it to the punch.



My vote:

[X] Meet the Heberts - 6
[X] NSW - 5
[X] Danny & Taylor - 4
[X] War Games - 3
[X] One More Trigger - 2
[X] I, Panacea - 1
 
[X] All Alone - 6
[X] Confrontation II - 5
[X] Trump Card - 4
[X] Wyvern - 3
[X] I, Panacea - 2
 
[X] Danny & Taylor - 6
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 5 (traded with Navrin for Danny & Taylor)
[X] NSW - 4
[X] Wyvern - 3 (traded with Navrin for NSW)
[X] Meet the Heberts - 2
[X] Trump Card - 1 (traded with Navrin for Meet the Heberts)

Just like always I'd like to ask if anyone voting for Alea Iacta Est, Wyvern and Trump Card would be willing to throw some votes to Danny & Taylor, NSW and Meet the Heberts?
 
[X] One More Trigger- 6
[X] War Games - 5
[X] I, Panacea - 4
[X] Confrontation II - 3
[X] Trump Card - 2
[X] Wyvern - 1
 
[X] I, Panacea - 1
[X] War Games - 2
[X] Trump Card - 3
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 4
[X] One More Trigger - 5
[X] Wyvern - 6
 
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