Discussion: Sleeping With the Enemy and Miscalculation

Two fatesplit threads that have surprised me with their popularity. So why don't we start to talk about them a little bit, to try and work out why they were this popular in the first place and what people want to see from them.

Thread Voting: Closes 6th January

Apologies for getting to this so late in the day, but here it is now. Have a great New Year's celebration everyone, but do try to show enough common sense to survive the season.

Tainted Cube Voting Closed: New Poll will begin shortly

So Haruhi made up for last week by charging out of the gate and maintaining a solid lead over everything else.

Story: Tainted Cube: The Power of Kings

Whew, ran this a little late this week. But here it is! I hope it turned out alright, let me know what you think. It looks pretty damn certain that Haruhi will win the vote this week, so discuss along those lines please.

Story: Urusei Yatsura World Processor

So I saw an Urusei Yatsura fatesplit earlier in the week, and decided to take advantage of it. Here goes!

Story: Love Normal: New Manager

Here is the second of this week's winners. I hope you enjoy them both. Now I have to get to Tainted Cube, which will be tricky as it means resisting the allure of my Christmas haul.

Story: ANDFR: Privacy

Here is the first of the two winners for this week. Enjoy.

Story: A Likely Tail

Merry Christmas everyone! Here is a To Love Ru piece that I hope you enjoy. I'll start working on ANDFR shortly, and will post it whenever it is ready.

Discussion: ANDFR/Love Normal

What's this? What's this? Two threads have won this week? What's this? It's really quite unique! What's this? Is Lumitiel celebrating Christmas in his own special little way?

And so on. I can't be bothered doing the rest of the song, I'm sure you get the idea. But yes, I decided earlier this week to give you a Christmas gift of also writing whatever second place turned out to be, and it turns out the top two are ANDFR and Love Normal. Don't celebrate Christmas? Well, then happy whatever holiday you may or may not celebrate this time of year even if it's not the most important holiday of your culture.

As for me? I like using it as an excuse to give people gifts so that I can watch their faces light up. So... Gift! Accept it please!

Let's discuss both threads here.

Thread Voting: Open Until 30th December

Merry Christmas everyone! Get those votes in and have a great last week of the year.

Story: Monster Senshi

Saw this fatesplit made yesterday, decided to do something with it. Even if it was already along similar lines to something I was already working on.

Story: Hentai Crystal

Continued from here.
Sometimes I browse through the addventure and see things that surprise me for not being taken forward.

Tainted Cube Voting Closed: New Poll will begin shortly

This week was outright fascinating to behold in action. It looked very much like Haruhi had a very strong lead at the start, but was rapidly overtaken by Code Geass around the middle. From there, it was pretty obvious what the winner would be.

Tainted Cube: Believe that Promise!

This one turned out longer than I was expecting, but that's pretty much universally been the case with these so far. Since it looks like Code Geass is pretty much unbeatable at this point, you can discuss under the assumption it is what's going to win.

Story: Demon's Test: Starting School

Here's Demon's Test! I don't think I got things as perverted  as I might have liked, but the story is definitely pushed forward a little bit. I've also given a direction or two to latch onto for myself or any other contributor that is interested in doing so.

Please suggest improvements if you see anything that really needs it.

Story: Worst Demon Hunter In History

Here's a little introduction to another thread, and I hope you all enjoy it. Wrote it before falling ill, but wanted to tweak small things before posting it. Like, working out what the options might be. I'm taking suggestions on that front.

Discussion: Demon's Test

I will warn now that I'm sick as a dog. Head pounding, limbs weak, stomach whispering tales of death and destruction, throat drier than a British newscaster's wit. Lumitiel is not a well man this weekend.

In spite of that I will soldier on and try to open discussion over what should be done with Demon's Test.

Thread Voting Now Open: Will Close 23rd December

Another week's voting thread opens up. I apologise for lateness, but I fell rather ill last night.

Story: Concubine Factory: Many Girls, Many Seductions

Sorry this took so long, it took me quite a while to figure out exactly what I wanted to do with this. Enjoy and give feedback, then I'll put up all this last week's stories on Monday.

Tainted Cube Voting Closed: New Poll will begin shortly

After several weeks of second place, Rosario + Vampire is the winner! I don't really have anything else to say at the moment, except that next week should be particularly interesting with both Sailor Moon and Ranma 1/2 back in the poll. Clearly we're not entering into a cycle of the same series time after time, which I find very encouraging.

Story: Tainted Cube: A Little Knowledge

Let's see what you make of this one. It looks a lot like Rosario + Vampire is gonna take it this week, so feel free to speculate about what could happen with that.

Story: Change-Switch Fever

I got this written up earlier this morning, so let's see what you make of this To Love Ru entry. I'm not used to writing in this setting quite yet, but

Discussion: Concubine Factory 1/2

Wow, has it really been a year since I touched this one? Well, let's see what sort of ideas we can come up with for this one!

Thread Voting: Thread Will Close on the 16th December

This week's thread is now open. Let's see what wins it this week.

Tainted Cube Voting Closed: New Poll will begin shortly

In a rather surprising turn, Love Hina came from behind to take the lead by two clear points. As a brief confession, I have to admit that I was privately rooting for it to win, but only because it was the underdog.
For the first time since this started, a series is added back into the mix for the coming week. This means we wind up keeping things nice and stable at five series a week.

However! I am concerned by the notion that we'll just wind up with these four series on a continuous loop. Though I would gladly write Sailor Moon if it turned out to be the most popular, I would like to ask that all participants carefully consider what series they really think could benefit from being the next winner. If you think that's Sailor Moon? Great! If you think it's typical second place thus far Rosario + Vampire? Fantastic! Any of the others? Go for it! I fully expect to see all eight series come into play at some point, and the sooner they interact with the plotline the better. On the other hand, it might be interesting to see Sailor Moon actually be altered in some direct manner. It's really all up to you.

I would also like to remind you that I am accepting votes for individual spinoffs from any of these threads, so long as you specify which one you want.

Story: Ero Space

Here's the first of the second batch of fatesplit stories. Enjoy.

Story: Tainted Cube: Measure of a Man

Sorry this is so late up. But here it is! I hope you enjoy it. If there's nothing wrong with it, I'll post it over the weekend. The likely winner will be Love Hina or Rosario + Vampire, so please feel free to discuss among those lines what possible direction this could take.

Story/Further Discussion: Wild Ride For Ranma

So I came up with a bit of backstory for what was going on. Then I realised it was kinda short and felt compelled to do something else with it, so I think I would like to make a sequence involving Ukyo immediately follow the background stuff. Originally it would just go to options about who was hit next, but I figure Ukyo makes the most sense.

I'll discuss more following the story.

Edit: I have now removed the discussion portion and added the Ukyo section.

Discussion: Wild Ride for Ranma

I have a confession to make regarding this thread. I was rather afraid of when it inevitably did reach the top, because I didn't have the faintest damn clue what direction to take it in. What would I do with it? How could I satisfy those voting it up without a concrete ground to stand upon? Something like this was inevitably going to happen eventually, and I dreaded that this might be the first. The individual episodes were okay, but I didn't really have much of an idea what to do next.

Then a miracle happened. In what was likely a calculated move to guarantee the thread won the week, it was updated the day before it would have won the vote anyway. And with that new episode came a couple of potential directions. Let's see what you think.

Thread Voting: Open Until 9th December

This week's thread is now open for voting!

Tainted Cube Voting Closed: New Poll will begin shortly

That's this week's Tainted Cube poll closed! A new one will be open momentarily. This week's was a lot more obvious than either of the previous two weeks which would be the winner, and I was tempted to call it early. Heck. I'm writing this fifteen hours before the poll actually even closes, and I doubt that either Code Geass or Rosario + Vampire will be able to make up the considerable distance in that amount of time. It's almost like there was a battle royale between those three, and Shinji decides he'll bring Unit 01 along with. This wasn't a poll. It was a slaughter.

As of this week we are down to the more normal numbers that will occur for this series of threads. I would also like to remind you that I am not accepting votes on the regular poll around Tainted Cube... unless you would like to see a particular thread spun off, in which case I insist that you specify which one.

Discussion: Haruhi's Ero Space

So begins the second (larger) batch of stories from fatesplits, consisting of Haruhi Suzumiya, Sailor Moon, Rosario + Vampire and To Love Ru. In this case we start off with a tale in which Haruhi becomes interested in dating sims and inadvertantly alters reality to accomodate her new fascination! Let's talk about how this could be best represented in the first episode.

Story: Tricked Himself Into It

Here is the last of the original batch of fatesplits I set up a few months back. As of next week I'll start working on the next one, beginning with Haruhi Suzumiya's Ero Space.