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Vote Thread for Ack's Omake Corner

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[X] All Alone - 6
[X] War Games - 5
[X] Meet the Heberts - 4
[X] Hostage Situation - 3
[X] One More Trigger - 2
[X] Confrontation II - 1

Ack said:
War Games is gonna hurt, given that it's one of my more favourite fics.
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Mine too! Hopefully it stays, but even if it doesn't I'll take hope in the fact that you've spontaneously updated fics in the past (to delightful effect) because you've just wanted to; which is, of course, the prerogative of the non-professional writer.

Ack said:
Thanks, as always, for voting.
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Missing threadmark.
 
m_d said:
Mine too! Hopefully it stays, but even if it doesn't I'll take hope in the fact that you've spontaneously updated fics in the past (to delightful effect) because you've just wanted to; which is, of course, the prerogative of the non-professional writer.
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War Games got a decent boost last round, to be around the middle of the pack. fishbait08 did a quick totals here. Hopefully that keeps up for a few more rounds, and people don't forget about it and let it drop off from neglect.
 
[X] Recoil - 6
[X] Trump Card - 5
[X] Hostage Situation - 4
[X] Wyvern - 3
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 2
[X] I, Panacea - 1
 
[X] Recoil - 6
[X] Trump Card - 5
[X] Hostage Situation - 4
 
I wish ack had playlist's to go with stories. Like for example recoil would be more immersive if there were popular 90s songs like Mr vain or Turn around.

That's what I like about life on Mars, it's ability to use setting erather music and make it relevant to the scene.

Tl:dr [Y] Playlist
 
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Snake/Eater said:
I wish ack had playlist's to go with stories. Like for example recoil would be more immersive if there were popular 90s songs like Mr vain or Turn around.

That's what I like about life on Mars, it's ability to use setting erather music and make it relevant to the scene.

Tl:Dr [X] Playlist
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You realize you just erased your actual vote right?
 
Aww, dammit. Missed a few vote rounds. Gotta pay more attention to this thread. >.<

Ack said:
Meanwhile, All Alone nearly got dropped from the running altogether. It'll be interesting to see if Danny & Taylor gets dropped next vote, or All Alone.

If All Alone gets the flick, then Confrontation II will step up into the front line.
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You must've missed NSW; it's currently pegged (no pun intended) to be 150 votes ahead of All Alone and 300 ahead of Confrontation II for Vote 116. There's also I, Panacea coming up fast; if All Alone hangs on long enough it may win before Confrontation does.


I just want to say thank you to 1986ctcel and all the others working to keep Ack's NSFW fics off the chopping block. We need our Worm smut! :p



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
 
Jim Starluck said:
I just want to say thank you to 1986ctcel and all the others working to keep Ack's NSFW fics off the chopping block. We need our Worm smut! :p



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
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Would you consider putting Danny & Taylor in your 6 slot since that is the next one most likely to go?
 
[X] Danny & Taylor - 6
[X] Recoil - 5
[X] I, Panacea - 4
[X] Wyvern - 3
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 2
[X] Hostage Situation - 1
 
To reiterate; voting is not closed. Having had a look at the number of votes currently registered, it's obvious that some people haven't yet voted. So I'll give it another day or so.
 
...huh. Looks like Slippery Slope is on the verge of getting voted off, just as it was announced to be 'in addition to the winning vote' for a little while.
 
As typical, heavily based on my previous vote - with some NSFW story saving as well...

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

Not particularly interested in most of the rest, sorry - Recoil and Slippery Slope especially.
(For most of the others I just don't recall what they're about. What was Hostage Situation about again?)

As you might have realized from my previous votes, I'm rather ambivalent about Nemesis. So I'm really mostly happy that it wasn't one of my actual favorites (like Confrontation II, One More Trigger or War Games).

However, while I'm also relatively ambivalent about All Alone (slightly on the "like" side), I really don't want it to disappear one vote before victory (especially not when it's so much ahead of everything else that even if it did get pulled from the running it would probably still have more points than anything else in round 116).
Unfortunately, due to it being in my current trade, I can't really push it any higher (Anaja, I can probably put it higher this one time if you allow that quickly enough). So I did the next best thing and pulled its main competitor down (as far as I could, anyway - I still wasn't able to bring myself to pull it off the list entirely).


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HearthBorn said:
...huh. Looks like Slippery Slope is on the verge of getting voted off, just as it was announced to be 'in addition to the winning vote' for a little while.
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...huh, so it is. (And it even looks like All Alone might not be the second lowest either, which is nice.)

That would be an almost perfect result for me - Slippery Slope doesn't mess up the voting, and gets to finish on its own terms, so when the voting list starts to expand again it wouldn't randomly end up back there either.
 
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(For most of the others I just don't recall what they're about. What was Hostage Situation about again?)
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One of Marquis's henchmen tells Amy about Marquis as he's dying.

Amy decides she wants to meet her dad, so she holds the world hostage, by saying basically "get my dad out of the Birdcage, or I'll never heal anyone again."
 
edale said:
One of Marquis's henchmen tells Amy about Marquis as he's dying.

Amy decides she wants to meet her dad, so she holds the world hostage, by saying basically "get my dad out of the Birdcage, or I'll never heal anyone again."
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No, she's holding her powers hostage. She's not threatening anyone else with anything except inaction. :p
 
Okay, that's weird. I did a test count before and I could've sworn I was down near the thousand mark for vote points. Now it's up around 1300.

That's enough for me.

Voting is CLOSED.
 
Vote 116: NSW
Thanks, as always, for voting.

Voting points this round: 1393

Announcements
Throne3d 's vote counting system is awesome.

I will continue to trim stories off the list. Whichever story has the lowest number of vote points this round will be dropped off the list. Any votes to any stories not on the list will not be applied to any stories, on or off the list. The stories 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.

The drop for this vote will be ... (drumroll) ... Slippery Slope. It got 61 vote points (2 less than Meet the Heberts), for a running total of 221 points. It gets to keep this total for when it re-enters voting. But for now, it's out.

Current list of stories that have been put on the inactive list, and their vote totals:
Really Bad End 185
MirrorVerse 1140
Bait & Switch 1164
Junior Hero 140
Nemesis 161
Slippery Slope 221

User Errors:
HearthBorn - Please check the formatting of your vote.

On to the main event.

Alea Iacta Est 113
All Alone 1304
Confrontation II 1141
Danny & Taylor 768
Hostage Situation 750
I, Panacea 1105
Meet the Heberts 977
NSW 0 (1465)
One More Trigger 805
Recoil 345
Trump Card 721
War Games 755
Wyvern 750

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

And that's NSW up, and Slippery Slope dropped from the voting. 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 be posting Slippery Slope alongside the regular chapters.

(I see what you did there).

Next up will be All Alone, followed by either I, Panacea or Confrontation II.


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.
 
[X] Confrontation II - 6
[X] One More Trigger - 5
[X] War Games - 4
[X] I, Panacea - 3
[X] Wyvern - 2
[X] Trump Card - 1
 
[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?
 
Mrouz said:
[] Slippery Slope - No more voting? Grr...
[X] Confrontation II - 6
[X] Trump Card - 5
[X] Wyvern - 4
[X] All Alone - 3
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 2

I'm willing to trade 2 and 1 for Confrontation II or Trump Card.
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Yo! *points to his above vote* how bout slotting in Danny & Taylor or Meet the Heberts?
 
[X] War Games - 6
[X] I, Panacea - 5
[X] Recoil - 4
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 3
[X] All Alone - 2
[X] Confrontation II - 1
 
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