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Had a podcast to record tonight, so this is the entire opening bit.
Vote One: Annette Barron. “Unsuccessfully again, I’m sure”
Vote Two: Bret Highum. “My vote is for Bret, but I’d like him to keep submitting stories anyway. That’s not unreasonable, is it?”
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I’m glad I ran this one; it’s always a nice break from the norm to work in a much different style. We got everything from the traditional sonnet about beauty to the highly unorthodox sonnet about a killer prostitute.
First post-merge elimination…always a fun time. But a close vote? Let’s find out.
Vote One: erik sundberg.
Vote Two: Zack Sauvageau.
Vote Three: erik sundberg.
Vote Four: Zack Sauvageau. “Ain’t no sunshine when he’s . . . oh, wait.”
Vote Five: erik sundberg. “Just a numbers game.”
Vote Six: Zack Sauvageau. “Zack Morris. The Bayside preps have been on top for too long.”
Vote Seven: Jonathon Pope. “I assum3 I’m a d3ad man walking but I gu3ss I’ll just vot3 for Jonathon Pop3.”
Going into the jump, it’s 3-3-1, with erik and Zack suffering three votes apiece…
You know, you can write tiebreaker rules, and still end up with ties. There are three immune parties, rather than two. For the next challenge, we’ll expand tiebreakers, just in case.
Some of you felt a little pressed for time here, but many of you used your words to the fullest.
First, a few things on how the game slightly changes after the merge:
1) Nonsubs are a killer. You get three self-votes if you miss a challenge. You aren’t quite guaranteed to go out, but you’re close.
2) Tiebreakers will remain the same, as we will do the second vote and subsequent rock draw if necessary. Nonsubs, though, will be outright eliminated if they’re part of a tie. Additionally – and this is new – if a person who votes for himself or abstains from a vote is in a tie, he too would lose any tiebreaker against anyone other than a nonsub.
So, our challenge, due Tuesday at 9pm Central (a helpful player pointed out that Monday is Labor Day) is Season’s Beatings. Your story will be centered around a holiday. As far as “holiday” is concerned, go nuts with that. Birthdays, Arbor Day or Flag Day are all fine. However, the one thing I expect is that the holiday is a central part of your story. It can’t be about, for instance, a rampage killing that coincidentally happens on Arbor Day. If the killing is related to it being Arbor Day, though, then you’re good.
Word limit is 2000. As a result, expect to wait a bit.
Cheers, Survivors.
This challenge is hard. It occasionally showed, and to be sure, I think it was three different people who admitted huge difficulties with this one before sending it along. However, I read some incredible stuff as a result of this challenge, and medaling was a difficult task.
Five years or so after running it for the first time, I’ve realized that a better name than the plain “Dual Manipulation” for this challenge is “I’ve Got the Power.” Ah, regret. Let’s eliminate someone, though.
Vote One: Jeph Novak. “Sends a message to the group saying he understands if it’s him, then lobbies to get me out?! Dirty pool, old man. I like it!”
Vote Two: Ken Krouner. “Great guy, but I gotta do what’s best.”
We’re going to lose a first-time player tonight…see which one after the jump.
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This is typically one of my favorite challenges, and call it an over-representation of the now, but I’m pretty sure this was my favorite slate of Bulwyr submissions ever. These are dynamite.
Things you said