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Vote Thread for Ack's Omake Corner

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[Χ] 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
 
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[X] Recoil - 6
[X] Confrontation II - 5
[X] One More Trigger - 4
[X] Wyvern - 3
[X] NSW - 2
[X] Trump Card - 1
 
[X] Wyvern - 6
[X] I, Panacea - 5
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 4
[X] All Alone - 3
[X] Trump Card - 2
[X] One More Trigger - 1

[] It Gets Worse
[] Price of Blood
 
[X] Trump Card - 6
[X] Recoil - 5
[X] Wyvern - 4
[X] War Games - 3
[X] Hostage Situation - 2
[X] I, Panacea - 1
 
[X] Recoil - 6
[X] War Games - 5
[X] One More Trigger - 4
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 3
[X] Confrontation II - 2 (traded)

Will trade for Recoil and War Games.
 
[X] Trump Card - 6
[X] I, Panacea - 5
[X] Wyvern - 4
[X] War Games - 3
[X] Hostage Situation - 2
[X] Recoil - 1
 
[X] Recoil - 6
[X] I, Panacea - 5
[X] Hostage Situation - 4
[X] Confrontation II - 3
[X] Trump Card - 2
[X] Wyvern - 1
 
Thanks for the great stories Ack - I've really liked all I've read so far, but I think Trump Card is my favorite so far.
[X] Trump Card - 6
[X] Wyvern - 5
[X] I, Panacea - 4
[X] One More Trigger - 3
 
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Announcement:
The story One More Trigger will be wrapping up with its final chapter to be posted sometime in the next week or so (my schedule gets really hectic for a bit, so I can't match times with my beta for a while).

In the meantime, feel free to adjust any votes you have made toward it into another story, because it is coming to an end.

Sorry about how abrupt this is, but I've come to the conclusion that any more chapters will simply be repeating a conga line of villains to be beaten. Besides, I have other stories to write.

So, to repeat: One More Trigger is ending. Any votes you have made toward it will be lost. You have maybe a week to reallocate said votes.

Thank you.

Changed my mind. Carry on.
 
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Ack said:
Announcement:
The story One More Trigger will be wrapping up with its final chapter to be posted sometime in the next week or so (my schedule gets really hectic for a bit, so I can't match times with my beta for a while).

In the meantime, feel free to adjust any votes you have made toward it into another story, because it is coming to an end.

Sorry about how abrupt this is, but I've come to the conclusion that any more chapters will simply be repeating a conga line of villains to be beaten. Besides, I have other stories to write.

So, to repeat: One More Trigger is ending. Any votes you have made toward it will be lost. You have maybe a week to reallocate said votes.

Thank you.
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That is... extremely, extremely sad.

(If mostly because the only ending that quick I can see at this point is "the S9 succeed at killing the hero team, um, forgot what it was named again, the one with Taylor in it, and this is the end because the nice characters are dead".)
 
january1may said:
That is... extremely, extremely sad.

(If mostly because the only ending that quick I can see at this point is "the S9 succeed at killing the hero team, um, forgot what it was named again, the one with Taylor in it, and this is the end because the nice characters are dead".)
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It could simple be an "And the adventure continues..." ending. An open ending, basically.
 
AntonioCC said:
It could simple be an "And the adventure continues..." ending. An open ending, basically.
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That would require fully resolving the S9 fight plotline, which might not be possible in under a chapter.

(Also, "conga line of villains to be beaten" is part of what I like Ack's stories for. But that's just my personal opinion.)
(...Actually, come to think of it, isn't that pretty much what It Gets Worse is about? Maybe Ack just mixed up the two stories? It definitely would make sense, as of the current setup, for that story to get wrapped up with one chapter.)
 
Ack said:
Announcement:
The story One More Trigger will be wrapping up with its final chapter to be posted sometime in the next week or so (my schedule gets really hectic for a bit, so I can't match times with my beta for a while).

In the meantime, feel free to adjust any votes you have made toward it into another story, because it is coming to an end.

Sorry about how abrupt this is, but I've come to the conclusion that any more chapters will simply be repeating a conga line of villains to be beaten. Besides, I have other stories to write.

So, to repeat: One More Trigger is ending. Any votes you have made toward it will be lost. You have maybe a week to reallocate said votes.

Thank you.
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That's... extremely distressing. One More Trigger is my second favourite of your active fics, and it really doesn't feel like it's within one chapter of a proper resolution. I can understand wanting to tie it off before it wears out its welcome - while I'd be perfectly happy with watching Team Actually Competent crush villain after villain under the iron fist of Actual Training, I know not everyone would be - but please, give yourself the time and space to do a proper job of it!
 
Uh ... you have read the latest OMT chapter, yes?
 
SwiftRosenthal said:
...Not since it came out, no. :oops:
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Same. I read all the new chapters when they come out, by which point I usually need to re-familiarize myself with the ongoing plot by reading the previous few chapters.

And the last scenes I do recall from the plot were the S9 messing up the hero team's counter-plans by taking Greg hostage, and Bonesaw escaping from said hero team's poisons because she was that ludicrously prepared.

And, of course, the only way I can imagine the plot finishing in one chapter (or even one and a half chapters) from that is by (the remnants of) the S9 actually subverting the rest of whatever countermeasures the heroes still had, and/or unleashing an incurable plague (or something similar) in the process. Nice convenient wrapped-up bad end.
(Well that or an outright deus ex machina - Eidolon might work, I guess - which might not be quite as sad but would be a ridiculous cop-out and a major anticlimax for the otherwise excellent story.)

That said, of course it's perfectly possible that all of that happened three or four chapters ago and the whole thing had already been long since resolved as of wherever they actually are in the story.
 
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And the last scenes I do recall from the plot were the S9 messing up the hero team's counter-plans by taking Greg hostage, and Bonesaw escaping from said hero team's poisons because she was that ludicrously prepared.
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That's the chapter before the last one.
 
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Uh ... you have read the latest OMT chapter, yes?
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Oh, the Return of the Slaughterhouse Nine arc could be closed off in a chapter, sure. It was basically resolved and only needed an aftermath anyway. But the fic as a whole... well, it just doesn't seem like it's done. The S9 didn't feel like a concluding arc, but a middle one. It's a great fic, and it deserves a final arc that was written as a finale; ending it now would make it feel like a TV show that got cancelled abruptly at the end of a season, after they'd finished the current plot but without time to tie everything together into a satisfying narrative conclusion.
 
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