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October Poll Results
🕑 Added 2023-10-11 21:48:25 +0000 UTCOkay! Poll results time...mostly! As I made clear in the poll itself, because the Haven's Port/Holiday Poll is about December's content, I will let it run through the end of the month. The Short Story and Mixed Media Short polls came to a close at midnight last night, however, so time to cover the results of those!
October Short Story Poll
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Andrea of the Silver Key: 103
The Starship Promise: 50
Alyia and the Magic Shop: 45
An App for That: 40
The Ruler's Companion: 20
Eros Academy: 15
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Well! By the time poll weighing was done, the results were certainly hilariously unambiguous! Andrea of the Silver Key took more votes than the next two stories combined. Talk about a comeback story with that...er...story! From not being updated for a year+, to winning two months in a row! Since the Poll Story is the next thing on my to do list, I'll likely get started on it tomorrow :-).
Mixed Media Short Poll
-_-. This, on the other hand, had a ridiculous outcome. It came out as a three way tie. Improbable as is was, each story got exactly 33% of the vote. Note that, because it was tied, I explicitly refrained from voting in the poll myself. That means that I can simply cast my own vote, I suppose, to pick form between them...not that there's much of an alternative.
Part of me wanted to jump back into Virtual Trap, since that's the story that's more story, and I enjoy working on it the most. Unfortunately, I hesitated to do that because of how much time/focus I'm putting on the last Full Haven's Port build this month. The Virtual Trap is by far and away the most time consuming of the three stories. That leaves A Bet Maid and Xanadu Emporium and, after some debate, I decided I'd give Xanadu Emporium the victory this time.
This wasn't without reason. Technically, A Bet Maid would actually have been easier. But since I just recently shifted the description/direction of Xanadu Emporium to be much closer to the Silas Station model, I felt actually doing one on that model while I have the chance would be for the best. That way everyone had a frame of reference for the slightly new direction going forward.
For those reasons, Xanadu Emporium will be the Mixed Media Story updated this month!
