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[+] V4 First Plastic Hammers Part Two

The Basics

Handler Name: CaseyNuge

Your Trademark Character: Rena Peters

Current Status of Trademark Character: Very recently dead.

Favourite Character: Bluh, so many. Right now tied between Raymond Dawson, Annaliese Hansen and Kimberly Nguyen. Formerly Ethan Kent and Simon Fletcher.

Favourite Weapon: Gotta go with Moxie.

Favourite Scene: Ethan Kent disarming the cameras in House of the Rising Sun.

Favourite Death: Tied between Ethan Kent and Simon Fletcher.

Favourite Quote: "Always cheat. Always win."

Favourite Thread: House of the Rising Sun. I'm so predictable.

Favourite Post: That's a hard one, but Richard Han and Simon Fletcher's deaths spring to mind first.

Favourite Location: Anywhere that isn't the Tunnels.


The Plastic Hammer Awards

Most Evolutionary Character: Liam Brook. Maybe not in a good way, but he sure is different.

Most Revolutionary Character: Liz Polanski/ Ethan Kent.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: It's a toss up here, but I'll go with Pandora Black. Because there's nothing quite like a crazy goth girl to brighten your day.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: R.J. Lowe. Because he is real.

Most Heroic Character: Heroic? I have no idea.

Most Villianous Character: I'm gonna go with Aaron Hughes, because he's just enough of a bastard to be really villianous, and not just over the top. Maxwell's the obvious one, though.

Most Tragic Character: There's too many, but I'm gonna go with Raine Schwarz. The girl just wanted to help her friends and be remembered, and all she got was abandoned, dragged around, and brutally killed.

Most Humourous Character: Oh lord. Overall, probably Jimmy Brennan or Pandora Black. Though that last one might not be intentional.

Most-likely Winner : I have no idea. Uh...Aaron Hughes or Rosa Fiametta, I guess. Just because.

Most Epic Character: JIMMY FUCKING BRENNAN.


Characterization

Which character do you relate to the most? Annaliese Hansen. She's eccentric, weird, and makes a ton of nerd references. Gotta love her.

Which character do you feel the most for? Raymond Dawson.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Maxwell Lombardi. He's a killing machine.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Eve-Walker Luther getting brutally tortured puts her at the top of this list.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? Liam Brooks, Clio Gabriella, Sarah Atwell.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? Annaliese Hansen or Raymond Dawson.

Which character do you think has/had it coming? Honestly, Liz Polanski. She got enough people killed to deserve it, and frankly most people who fuck with Danya have it coming too.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? That's really tough, but I guess I feel the worst about Courtney Bradley. I wanted her to last a bit longer.


Drama

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Simon Fletcher's death, for sure.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: I'm usually great with gore, but Lelia Langford's arm breaking in Bloodgarden still sends shivers down my spine. One word was all it took.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: Faraday's Cages/ House of the Rising Sun.

Most Humourous Scene: ...Dave Morrison rapping. I will never stop laughing.

Most Action-packed Scene: The Gully/ Bloodgarden.

Most Drama-filled Scene: The meeting between Kimberly and Liz. In. Tense.

Most Unexpected Scene: The collar detonations caused by Liz Polanski.


Death

Most Tragic Death: Again, Simon Fletcher.

Most Violent Death: Colin Falcone.

Most Disturbing Death: Francine Moreau's always creeps me out.

Most Unexpected Death: Any of the deaths caused because of Liz.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Jimmy killing Phillip with a can of Moxie. Or the inconveniently placed dildo killing Janet Victoree-Ser.

Most Humourous Death: Hands down Richard Han.

Predictions and preferences

Quick; Final Four for v4 - who's it gonna be?
1. Aaron Hughes
2. Maxwell Lombardi
3. Hayley Kelly
4. Raymond Dawson.

Which characters do you intend to follow/currently follow closest/with the most interest? Raymond Dawson and Annelise Hansen. I plan on reading a lot more of Bounce.

Are there any characters you wish you'd interacted with, but haven't? I have no regrets.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Less inactive deaths. I hate seeing characters die like that.



Your thoughts on SOTF v4

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V4? I loved it.

What do you like the most about V4? The writing was stellar, the characters were interesting, and everyone did a great job keeping things interesting.

What do you think could have been better about V4? Like I said, less inactive deaths. But there's really nothing anyone can do to change that.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? I would have to read the original BR first. Yeah, I'm a terrible person.

Do you think V4 is more or less enjoyable than V3/V2/V1, or the same? I honestly think that the writing and the characters are a lot stronger this version then any of the past versions. So, more enjoyable.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? I like it. I wouldn't be here otherwise.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? Probably more enjoyable. Things usually only get better with time, right?

How do you feel about v5? I'm psyched for it.

The Basics

Handler Name: Tagabasa

Your Trademark Character: Simon Fletcher, I suppose

Current Status of Trademark Character: Quite dead

Favourite Character: This one’s hard, but I guess I’m going to have to go with Zach Jamis. But there are tons of others up there. Isbael Guerra, R.J. Lowe, Jeremy Franco…

Favourite Weapon: Kiss of Death (lipstick gun)

Favourite Scene: Mizore and Zach’s coversation in The Moon is Laughing at You

Favourite Death: Ethan Kent’s death gambit

Favourite Quote: "CRAIG HOYLE IS GOING TO RAPE YOU AND WEAR YOUR SKIN AS A COAT!" Oh, Jimmy…

Favourite Thread: Fire on the Mountain, run boy run! Devil’s in the House of The Rising Sun!

Favourite Post: The first post in The Gully.

Favourite Location: The tunnels are a fun place.


The Plastic Hammer Awards

Most Evolutionary Character: It’s between Tabi Gweneth and Maria Graham. Man, those two have changed a hell of a lot throughout the game.

Most Revolutionary Character: Liz and Ethan are both in for this, for obvious reasons.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Jeremy Franco. He’s a wonderful character, and is completely, ridiculously awesome. He tried to start a racket, bought a fedora, and tried to buy Jimmy’s weapon. That is all.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Isabel Guerra and RJ Lowe are wonderful for this.

Most Heroic Character: Ethan Kent and his crazy-ass death gambit.

Most Villainous Character: Maxwell Lombardi has the stats and the psychotic mindset to do even more damage in the game.

Most Tragic Character: A tie between Eve Walker-Luther and Liz Polanski. Eve’s reason is obvious, but I probably have to explain Liz. She just wanted to go to college and have friends, and she got so damn close. Plus, her relationship with Mr. Kwong is wonderfully heartbreaking.

Most Humourous Character: Yes, Jimmy Brennan is great, but I have to give this to Jeremy Franco. He’s the kind of person I really shouldn’t like that much, but he’s just so damn charming.

Most-likely Winner : Ignoring the rolls, I can see Hayley Kelly coming out on top.

Most Epic Character: Once more, Jeremy Franco and his swooooooord-caaaaaaaane


Characterization

Which character do you relate to the most? Gloria Benson for the (currently) living and Petruska Ivanova for the dead.

Which character do you feel the most for? I already mentioned Eve and Liz, but poor, poor Kris Hartman.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Aaron Hughes. Magnificent Bastard.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Maria Graham has no luck whatsoever.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? DANYA! Okay, and Maxwell Lombardi.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? A lot of ‘em. Dutchy, Zach Jamis, Mary-Ann Warren, R.J. Lowe, Peter Siu, Tabi Gweneth, Ivan K-okay, I’m going to stop now. (Also, this list does not include the guys you may escape. I’m rooting for them to succeed)

Which character do you think has/had it coming? Clio had it coming. She had it coming. She only had herself to bla-ame~

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Feo Smith. I wanted her to make the computer, led the group home, tell Ethan’s sisters how kick-ass they were, and have a good life. Also, I miss Rena Peters.


Drama

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Ho boy. There are far, far, too many. But Ethan’s death post and Feo’s post right after it take the cake. The parts that got me were the last line in the letter and the “epitaph” Feo wrote.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Bloodgarden. All of it.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: The one in Morse Code. That’s either going to make or break the Rising Sun Kids’ escape plan.

Most Humourous Scene: This Scene is About a Hat. And hilarity.

Most Action-packed Scene: The Gully. Ho boy, the Gully.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: …I totally answered that.

Most Drama-filled Scene: D-Day was crazy good.

Most Unexpected Scene: Faraday’s Cages. I had to do a double take on that one.


Death

Most Tragic Death: Well, I already mentioned Ethan and Feo a lot, so…yeah. Them. Also, Brock’s death made me cry to, so that gets a mention.

Most Violent Death: Quincy Jones killing Max Neill. Ouch.

Most Disturbing Death: Sarah Atwell’s death machine.

Most Unexpected Death: Reika Ishida. Did. Not. See. That. Coming.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Phillip Ward dying by Moxie.

Most Humourous Death: CURE YOU, GRAVITY! For killing Richard Han, I mean.


Predictions and preferences

Quick; Final Four for v4 - who's it gonna be?
1. Ilario Fiametta
2. Zach Jamis
3. Hayley Kelly
4. Aaron Hughes

Which characters do you intend to follow/currently follow closest/with the most interest? Zach Jamis, RJ Lowe, Mary-Ann Warren, Isabel Guerra and the Rising Sun kids, Dutchy, Jeremy Franco and the current Gully kids, Raymond Dawson, Ivan and Tabi…

Are there any characters you wish you'd interacted with, but haven't? EVERYONE. Okay, I wish I’d interacted more with Gloria Benson, Trevor Duncan, and Isabel Guerra outside of pregame. For the entirety of v4, Rena Peters, Sarah Xu, Raymond Dawson, Pandora Black, Dutchy, and Peter McCue.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? The army would have found the island and everyone would live and everything would be beautiful and nothing would hurt! In all honesty, though, I wouldn’t change a thing. Even Simon’s death coming earlier than I would have liked.



Your thoughts on SOTF v4

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V4? I’m enjoying it~

What do you like the most about V4? The characters! There are too many people to root for.

What do you think could have been better about V4? A steady timeline would be cool, but also really impossible.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? Well, SotF has more detailed characters and less Mary/Marty Sues. So, uh, point to you guys.

Do you think V4 is more or less enjoyable than V3/V2/V1, or the same? More.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? I like it. I don’t know how many more games it can last, though.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? More. I kind of picture it as a grand finale sort of thing. Not that I think the board’s going to die; it’ll just change a lot.

How do you feel about v5? Excited.

The Basics

Handler Name: KillerVole

Your Trademark Character: That’s... really hard to say. In all honesty, it fluctuates day to day. I’m gonna force myself to take a stand here, though, and say Kimberly Nguyen, as she’s the one I’ve written the most for.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Coping with the fact that she stabbed to death the one person she’s met so far that she kinda liked and respected.

Favourite Character: Oh man. That’s really tough. In the end, though, I’m going to have to go with RJ Lowe. Honorable mention to Julian Avery, Mizore Soryu, Nick Reid, Zach Jamis, and a bunch more I’m sure I’m forgetting.

Favourite Weapon: The Hunga Munga.

Favourite Scene: Arghhh... so many. I’m gonna have to say, though, a real standout has been Logan and Daisuke confronting Kris, and Logan’s subsequent realization that he couldn’t bring himself to kill.

Favourite Death: There are so, so many good ones. In the end, though, my favorite has to be Aislyn McCreery, and not just ‘cause I was involved. Runner up is probably Craig Hoyle.

Favourite Quote: "You need a leader so you can all have that guy speak for you and make the decisions and then nobody gets freaked out! And I think I can be that guy because- hear me out here- you're all on the track team, right, which is awesome, and I'm on the baseball team so that means I can run really fucking fast too. So that makes us all brothers, okay? We're all brothers! Except since I'm on baseball team that also means I can hit things really fucking hard, so that means I'm like a notch above you- though we're still brothers and I'm not looking down on you, not one bit- so I think it's best that leadership role goes to me!" – Jeremy Franco

Favourite Thread:

Just one? Well... probably Flowerhead for bringing together a great team with solid writing from everyone.

Favourite Post: Ninjaed by Stark, but snap

Favourite Location: The Docks. Such an atmospheric setting.


The Plastic Hammer Awards

Most Evolutionary Character:

Raidon Naoko. He’s gone from being someone afraid of blood and death to being a cold and logical killer to descending into psychopathy to emerging into a more calculating sort willing to put aside differences with his biggest enemy. Oh, and all with a love plot thrown in.

Most Revolutionary Character:

Liz and Ethan, like everyone else. Both of them have pulled some pretty incredible maneuvers to make things different.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character:

Mizore Soryu. Taking pacifism to the next level, while working with one of the top half dozens killers.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character:

Man... so many. Gotta give it to pre-flip out Brooks, though.

Most Heroic Character:

I dunno... not seeing too many heroes, and I like it that way. Probably Feo Eleri Smoth, though. It takes inspiration to start a plan like Ethan did. It takes real guts to carry it through like Feo did, though.

Most Villianous Character:

Well... there’s killing everyone, and then there’s villainy. I think the most villainous person right now is probably Julian Avery, given his veneer of justifications for his despicable actions.

Runner up goes to Ema Ryan. Hiding behind a murderer without the slightest hint of remorse at their actions while dodging blame and responsibility yourself? Basically just satisfying your own whims and desires without thought to those who get hurt or killed? Flat out agreeing to play and tagging along as someone runs from thread to thread popping strangers for no justifiable reason? Pretty villainous to me.

Most Tragic Character:

Anyone who collarsploded. Didn't even have a chance to see it coming.

Most Humourous Character:

Jeremy Franco, who also maanges to be darn serious when required.

Most-likely Winner :

Most likely? From an IC perspective, it’s too early to say, but someone quiet, unharmed, and decently equipped. From an OOC perspective... mathematical advantage falls to Josie Vernon, assuming she’s Chelsea’s flag.

Most Epic Character:

Kenny the bear. Who else has eaten the corpse of their defeated? (This version, that is)

Characterization

Which character do you relate to the most?

Man, there are no Lennys this game for me, so this is tough. In the end, though, I’ve got to say Nathan Choultard.

Which character do you feel the most for?

Tough... but, again, I think it’s gotta be Nathan. He’s not someone who wants to lead. He’s not that good at it. He just wants things to be okay, but now his friends have gone off and started murdering people.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best?

Ema Ryan. All the advantages of being a psychopathic, bloodthirsty player, none of the direct danger. Second goes to Nick leMonde, for having a group and executing a wonderful ambush. In my opinion, anyone directly playing this early is an incredibly poor player, because all they’re doing is accumulating wounds and enemies. Hard to get far when everyone in the game will shoot you on sight.

Which character do you think had it the worst?

Rena Peters. Almost everyone she met died. Then she was walking through the woods, just trying to bury her friends’ bodies, when she got shot out of nowhere. Then she completely lost herself to violence and rage, and died happy that she was no longer who she’d been her whole life as her shooter beat and stabbed her to death slowly. It doesn’t get much worse than that.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself?

I don’t think I’d kill anyone outside of self defense, which means probably Maxwell or Hayley.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF?

Well, my criteria have been listed in chat, but I’ll repeat, in order of importance (from “highest” to “I hardly care but it’d be kinda nice I guess”):

1. A well-written, good character.
2. Someone with a low kill count.
3. A girl.
4. Not an SI or RL insert.
5. Not a staff character.

That leaves, uh, a bunch, but I’m gonna say Melissa Li.

Which character do you think has/had it coming?

Hayley Kelly, easy. She’s got a truly sickening set of internal justifications. She’s pretty well immoral. Yet, for some reason, no one seems to notice that she’s a horrible person, despite the chain of random shootings.

Which character do you think should NOT have died?

Philip Ward. So much potential was lost with his death.


Drama

Most Emotionally Moving Scene:

Tough... a bunch have. I think, though, it’s pretty hard to top Aislyn realizing she won’t be making it home.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene:

Sarah Tan’s field surgery on Brendan gives me the creeps, as it is very well described and gory in a way not at all typical of SOTF. Disturbing... violent gore doesn’t disturb me much usually. It’s all about the psychology.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event:

Thus far? Collar removal.

Most Humourous Scene:

Jeremy on the mountain. All of it.

Most Action-packed Scene:

The infirmary thread. The one where everyone dies.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene:

Huh. This is here twice. Oops. Still Aislyn.

Most Drama-filled Scene:

Hmm... I’ll go ahead and say Bloodgarden between Leila’s arm breaking and her escape.

Most Unexpected Scene:

Remi pulls his collar. Dallas gets stung by a bee. Reika gets shot.

Death

Most Tragic Death:

Aislyn again.

Most Violent Death:

Hmm... I have a hard time remembering violence and gore. Gonna go ahead and say Jaclyn/Charlotte, though. Simultaneous impalement/face breaking’s gotta suck.

Most Disturbing Death:

Violence isn’t disturbing to me, at least comparatively. I’d give disturbing to Jackie Maxwell. Out of nowhere, she decides she wants to be killed, and requests it before being instantly obliged. Lots of psychological ickiness there.

Alternately, any collar death.

Most Unexpected Death:

Reika.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death:

No way can I give this to anyone but Richard Han.

Most Humourous Death:

Again, Richard Han. Brilliance all around.

Predictions and preferences

Quick; Final Four for v4 - who's it gonna be?

Melissa Li, Julian Avery, Raidon Naoko, Ivan Kuznetsov. I don’t want to see any of our truly major killers in the finals. I would like to see Raidon and Julian finish their business when their truce inevitably breaks down, and I think it’d certainly be endgame worthy. This is, of course, desires.

Mathematically, assuming flags stand the best chance of making it, it’ll most likely be Josie Vernon, Isabel Guerra, Brendan Wallace, and Hayley Kelly.

Which characters do you intend to follow/currently follow closest/with the most interest?

Oh man, I read everything.

Are there any characters you wish you'd interacted with, but haven't?

Some of the dead ones. Most of the others I’ve got eventual plans/possibilities with. I’ve maybe expressed my desire for Aaron to share a thread with a power player someday, though.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?

Hoo boy. This is a biggie. I’d lower the character cap, and, by the same token, ask people not to register fodder characters. This would lead to smaller rolls, tighter focus, less Hero deals, and generally a tighter game with less extraneous stuff. Luckily, most of the fodder’s been burned through now.



Your thoughts on SOTF v4

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V4?

I’ve enjoyed it a ton. It’s an absolute blast to be a part of.

What do you like the most about V4?

I like that we have such a diverse cast. I like that the writing quality is overall quite high. I like that we’re more realistic than past version but still have a sense of fun going on in most cases.

What do you think could have been better about V4?

Lower cap, and, more than anything else, less inactivity. I hate inactive kills.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR?

BR makes a better novel than SOTF would. SOTF makes a better story than BR.

Do you think V4 is more or less enjoyable than V3/V2/V1, or the same?

Tough... from what I’ve seen, ‘bout the same as V2 and 3. V1 looks like it takes the cake, though. It’s clear everyone involved was having a blast pretty much the whole time.

Quality wise, I think we’re up there, but each version has so much diversity it’s impossible to say for sure.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story?

I think it’s quite fun and interesting, and a real kick to be a part of.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same?

With luck, more. We’ve learned a lot, especially about managing with this many characters at once. With luck, it will not have the road bumps we’ve encountered in V4 so far.

How do you feel about v5?

Bring it on! Just, like, not for a year or something, ‘kay?

So I'm just filling this out quickly right now, I'll add links later.

The Basics

Handler Name: Rocky

Your Trademark Character: Reiko Ishida and Bridget Connolly

Current Status of Trademark Character: In Limbo/ up to no good

Favourite Character: I'm probably biased on this, but Sarah Xu

Favourite Weapon: I'm a sucker for the PSG-1

Favourite Scene: Brock Mason's death thread (I'll link hunt later)

Favourite Death: Richard Han, bar none.

Favourite Quote: "You win this time, Gravityyyyyyyyyyyy"

Favourite Thread: That I've been in, Thank You for Being a Friend. Other threads... I'm going to go with Break Up and Break Down for the first 3-4 pages

Favourite Post: Favourite post(s) that I was part of (it was really just one huge post split into parts) would be the ones from Sedation. Outside of that, the first post of House of the Rising Sun.

Favourite Location: Gotta go with the any of the beaches really.


The Plastic Hammer Awards

Most Evolutionary Character: I'm going to have to go with Feo on this one. From start right up to her death, you can really see her changing from thread to thread.

Most Revolutionary Character: Ethan Kent

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Milo Taylor. Special mention to Raina Morales for what could have been if she hadn't died too early.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Hmm... I want to say Sarah Xu on this one. So I will.

Most Heroic Character: Ethan Kent.

Most Villianous Character: I don't think there's really much of a contest on this one. Maxwell Lombardi for sure. Who I think will end up being villianous in the future, when Maxwell finally kicks it, I have a feeling Kimberly Nyugen(I hope I spelled that right) will end up being a big villian.

Most Tragic Character: Anna Chase, for reasons above.

Most Humourous Character: Richard Han, right up to and including his death.

Most-likely Winner : I'm going with either Kimberly Nyugen or Aaron Hughes.

Most Epic Character: Jimmy Brennan. 'nuff said.


Characterization

Which character do you relate to the most? out of left field, Jimmy Robertson

Which character do you feel the most for? Anna Chase, by far.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? going by the numbers, I'd say Maxwell. However, overall I have to say so far, Alice Boucher. She allied herself with (at the time) one of the most notorious killers on the island, which let her more or less coast on Sarah's reputation, keeping herself alive and out of the announcements.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Eve, like everyone else said.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? Maxwell. What a dick >:[

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? Sarah Xu. For villian victories, Hayley Kelley

Which character do you think has/had it coming? Liz Polanski and Maxwell.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Raina Morales for "what could have been" potential, and Eve because she had so much going for her back home.


Drama

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Tabi and Ivan from The Sound of Silence was a preally emotional scene

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: R.J curbstomping Rekka

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: House of the Rising Sun

Most Humourous Scene: I still giggle when I remember Jimmy Brennan pissed himself.

Most Action-packed Scene: The Gully

Most Drama-filled Scene: Kimberly and Liz collide.

Most Unexpected Scene: Liz disabling her collar


Death

Most Tragic Death: Eve again.

Most Violent Death: although it wasn't explicit in it's writing, a point blank sniper bullet is messy.

Most Disturbing Death: again, probably Brock's death. The minimalism did wonders to my overactive imagination

Most Unexpected Death: Remi Pierce. Did not expect that at all.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: For some reason Brock's death keeps coming up for me. Just something about the way that rifle was used makes me shiver.

Most Humourous Death: Richard Han.

Predictions and preferences

Quick; Final Four for v4 - who's it gonna be? Aaron Hughes, Sarah Xu, Jimmy Brennan, Tabi Gweneth

Which characters do you intend to follow/currently follow closest/with the most interest? Sarah Xu (not that hard, since I'm like, always with her), Tabi Gweneth, Dutchy, Maxwell, and others. I tend to click around on occasion,

Are there any characters you wish you'd interacted with, but haven't? I'd have loved to have something with Rena and Simon Fletcher. For people still around, RJ might be an interesting one, and possibly Hayley Kelley.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?
I wouldn't have killed off half my roster so early xD


Your thoughts on SOTF v4

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V4? I've had my ups and downs, but overall I'm enjoying writing in v4.

What do you like the most about V4? the quality of writing, and I'll be the one to say it, the size gives it a more epic feel.

What do you think could have been better about V4? Sometimes I feel it would be nice to know what all is going on with the overall story.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? Too different to compare

Do you think V4 is more or less enjoyable than V3/V2/V1, or the same? I would say v4 is the best version yet, and will no doubt get better down the line.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? It's enjoyable

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? I think we're just going to get better from here, so v5 should be more enjoyable.

How do you feel about v5? I'm not sure if I'm still going to be around for v5, but if I am it should be great.

The Basics

Handler Name: Greg The Anti-Viking

Your Trademark Character: Oh lord almighty, you expect me to say one. I can't, I'll just say my current living characters are Tabitha "Tabi Gweneth, Morgan Leftowitz, and Nathan Choultard

Current Status of Trademark Character: Tabi is kissing people, Morgan is carrying the corpse of the girl he loves to the boat, Nathan is currently blaming himself for causing Brook and Jason to murder.

Favourite Character: Ivan Kuznetsov

Favourite Weapon: Voodoo Doll

Favourite Scene: Colin Falcone's killing of Tony Russo

Favourite Death: Duncan McMahon

Favourite Quote: "You win this time gravitttttttttyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"

Favourite Thread: D-Day

Favourite Post: Ivan's murder of Keith Cristoph

Favourite Location: The Swamp can seriously be one of the most interesting places to do stuff, it hinders, it cleans, it dirties, it kills... I'm just waiting for the chase scene!


The Plastic Hammer Awards

Most Evolutionary Character: Ivan Kuznetsov, think about it. The man is a cold, quiet individual, that back in Bayview could care less about any of his fellow students. Now, he has killed, regretted it and over this time, come to find at least one person that he cares about. More importantly, he has vowed to protect this character from all that the island has to offer. Time will tell if he cares for others too, but for now, this jump is worth the nomination.

Most Revolutionary Character: Ethan Kent, big ol' middle finger to Danya

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Any character that strikes you as highly original or out of the ordinary.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: I can see a Ray Dawson existing in the real world as well as a Leila Langford

Most Heroic Character: Ethan Kent

Most Villianous Character: Brook, yeah he's not the high killer, but god damn. Creapy as fuck he is!

Most Tragic Character: Maria Graham...poor girl...

Most Humourous Character: Jeremy Franco, the smooth-talker himself

Most-likely Winner : boy oh boy...well I guess it could be argued that if he keeps killing, Maxwell's chances keep rising...

Most Epic Character: I second the thoughts of Toben, Kenny the Bear, in fact he could be OP, he's that epic.


Characterization

Which character do you relate to the most?

Which character do you feel the most for? Maria Graham's life on the island has sucked...royally

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Aaron Hughes, man knows how to not die and keep a plan togeather

Which character do you think had it the worst? Duncan McMahon. Hi Maria! *bamdead* secondary mention goes to Jen Romita for similar reasons

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? Mr.Lombardi, you're an asshole

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? I'll abstain, too many good ones to choose here.

Which character do you think has/had it coming? Two come to mind. First has already died being Clio and people have already commented on the poeticness of it all. Secondly, Maxwell Lombardi, is a smug bastard and I eagerly await to see who shall do him in.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? JJ Sturn had so much potential to be a great late gamer, it's a real pity he couldn't last.


Drama

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: No tears, but Colin Falcone's accidental mortal wounding and subsequent euthenization of Tony Russo is very sad.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: The torture of Leila Langford is so eerie to read

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: The Actions of Ethan Kent will have great reprocussions says this Anti-Viking

Most Humourous Scene: If you have not scene the awkwardness that is The Worst Bath Ever, I reccomend that you do!

Most Action-packed Scene: The Gully, shit's going down!

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Ivan's reaction to his killing of Keith Christoph, you totally feel the pain and realization of what he had done in that post. It's really quite frightening really.


Most Drama-filled Scene: Bloodgarden, particualrily the torture of Leila Langford

Most Unexpected Scene: Reika death


Death

Most Tragic Death: Jen Romita, after just admiting her love to someone and kissing someone. Bam. Dead. It's tragic for both the person dying, and the person who is on the other side.

Most Violent Death: Colin Falcone

Most Disturbing Death: GOD DAMN IT BROOK COLINE FALCONES DEATH DIDN'T NEED THAT MUCH JOY *shudders*

Most Unexpected Death: Reika's early death is a shock for sure.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Kenny the Bear: Murderer

Most Humourous Death: Richard Han's death by gravity

Predictions and preferences

Quick; Final Four for v4 - who's it gonna be?
Ivan Kuznetsov, Aaron Hughes, Peter Siu, Sarah Xu

Which characters do you intend to follow/currently follow closest/with the most interest? Quite honestly, I do what I can, but I don't follow a lot of people, I need to do more, I find that the awards tell me a lot about who I should follow though.

Are there any characters you wish you'd interacted with, but haven't? Peter Siu, JJ Sturn, Julian Avery, Sarah Xu, Illario Fiametta, Sierra Manning, Kimerly Nguyen, R.J Lowe the list goes on and on, but eventually it becomes more like I want to talk handlers.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I'd have changed some of my own posts to be better than ever, but more importantly, I would wish for better activity!


Your thoughts on SOTF v4

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V4? SOTF v4 has been such an engaging experience and at the same time, enriching for me as a writer. I can look at my old work and I can look at now and I can see that there is no comparisson, I have improved. And by the same token, others have improvved with it. Making this a project that is wholely worth while.


What do you like the most about V4? I think the biggest thing is it's characters, the characters feel like characters, not charactures or stereotypes, it's great.

What do you think could have been better about V4? Less inactivity

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? I have never read the series, but know enough that Battle Royale pales in comparisson to SOTF.

Do you think V4 is more or less enjoyable than V3/V2/V1, or the same? I think it is more enjoyable

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? It's such a frightening concept really, and I think that's what makes it so powerful. It's the best compliment I can give.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? We can only improve as writers, we keep the impressive crop we have, the series will improve!

How do you feel about v5? V4 now V5 later

The Basics

Handler Name: Tythanin

Your Trademark Character: Since she's the only one left alive, Melissa Li.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Wondering what the hell is going on in the logging road

Favourite Character: I...don't really have one, actually. If I had to choose, it's a three-way tie between Jeremy Franco, Aislyn McCreery, and Kimberly Nyugen.

Favourite Weapon: Don't...really have one of these either. Probably the flare gun, if only cause immolation is pretty awesome (in a gruesome sort of way).

Favourite Scene: The Scene is About A Hat. That stuff was classic.

Favourite Death: Dammit, stop asking me for favorites I never have any of these. I also don't read that much >_> But anyway...Eve Luther-Walker.

Favourite Quote: "CRAIG HOYLE WILL RAPE YOU AND WEAR YOUR SKIN AS A COAT!"

Favourite Thread: Uh... -=points to Favorite Scene?=-

Favourite Post: Now you're just being picky. This one.

Favourite Location: The Parish. There's something poetic about a religious spot being blown up to hell in the first days of the game. Just not sure what.


The Plastic Hammer Awards

Most Evolutionary Character: Like I said, I don't really read much of SotF. As such, don't really have an answer for this one. I mean...I guess Kimberly, but that's within a small pool of characters I bother reading about >_>

Most Revolutionary Character: Liz Polanski. Come on, getting Danya to send the terrorists out after you? Shows you're doing something, at least.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Jeremy Franco. Pretty certain he's the first one to really just treat the whole game like a business and frankly, it's pretty awesome.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: ...A lot, actually. I mean, with such a huge cast it's kind of hard to pinpoint one specifically as being "I would know this person". Pass.

Most Heroic Character: None of the characters I'm following are actually that...heroic. I'd pin Nick Reid for it, if only cause he's a fairly good tragic hero.

Most Villianous Character: Maxwell Lombardi.

Most Tragic Character: Ahahahah. Felicia Carmichael. Man, one friend gets bitten by a snake and dies, another friend yells at her face and leaves, then she has to shoot someone in self-defense, and then finds out said yelling friend got killed? Sucks to be her.

Most Humourous Character: Jimmy Brennan is so over the top insane it's awesome.

Most-likely Winner: Uh. Most likely huh. No clue.

Most Epic Character: Jimmy Brennan likes to think he's epic and awesome, so why not toss him this category too.


Characterization

Which character do you relate to the most? Jennifer Perez, I guess?

Which character do you feel the most for? Felicia Carmichael for all of the reasons I pointed out earlier.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? If by playing the game, you mean murdering everybody in sight, Maxwell Lombardi. If not and you mean the survival part, everyone who's still alive.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Uh...Felicia Carmichael. Maybe I should start expanding my horizons.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? Maxwell Lombardi and Liz Polanski, probably.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? Jennifer Perez, full stop.

Which character do you think has/had it coming? Maxwell, Liz, Hayley, Jimmy, pretty much everyone who's racked a high kill count (since I don't think many of those are self-defense kills). Jimmy's on there cause there's no way someone isn't just going to put him out cause of his attitude. Or at least self-delusions.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Aislyn McCreery. Damn RNG.


Drama

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Pass.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: ...Pass. I haven't read many of these either. Sarah's scalpel kills are pretty damn good though.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: Faraday's Cages, I guess. Actually...it probably won't have much of an effect anymore, but it certainly was important earlier on.

Most Humourous Scene: Jimmy Brennan totally getting laid in the Gazebo.

Most Action-packed Scene: I...wouldn't say it had a lot of action, but In Theory, This Should Be Easy was just damn awesome all the way through. Definitely had the drama and tension down, even if there weren't that many "GET DOWN!" scenes.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: I could swear I had one of these. Totally forgot what it was though. Pass.

Most Drama-filled Scene: It...does tension really count as drama? I'll just put In Theory, This Should Be Easy here again.

Most Unexpected Scene: Faraday's Cages. Come on, another collar neutralization event? Wasn't really expecting that. Does shooting Achlys in the announcement count?


Death

Most Tragic Death: Double Pass.

Most Violent Death: Was there a death where someone just got hacked to pieces? That'd probably be it if one existed. Pass.

Most Disturbing Death: The one where that girl got set on fire with a flare gun. Immolation is kind of fucked up like that.

Most Unexpected Death: Does this really count I mean we see the rolls and I haven't really been following non-rolled deaths. Pass.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Richard Han's falling death. Dude didn't even get kicked off a cliff.

Most Humourous Death: Look above.

Predictions and preferences

Quick; Final Four for v4 - who's it gonna be? No clue, I'm not psychic. As for who I want to be in it, Jennifer Perez, Nick Reid, Felicia Carmichael, and Peter Siu. If Jennifer and Nick make final two, that will be an AMAZING last endgame to read and I want to see what happens.

Which characters do you intend to follow/currently follow closest/with the most interest? Jennifer Perez, Felicia Carmichael, Nick Reid...uh...Kimberly Nyugen. And I should keep track of Jeremy Franco but I lost him like three threads ago or something.

Are there any characters you wish you'd interacted with, but haven't? I wanna have Melissa meet Peter and Aileen again but beyond that...no, not really. Also they're alive. Oh, Cyrille. That would have been awesome to actually have Cyrille and Violetta meet up except I was a doof.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Uh...I would've liked to change the fact that I wasn't paying attention at the beginning of the game and thus wasn't able to Swap Card Violetta when she got rolled. I had a lot more ideas for her than for Andrew, unfortunately. That's probably selfish but whatever.



Your thoughts on SOTF v4

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V4? Jesus christ V4 is so much fun it's great actually being able to play through it instead of adopting a character late-game and getting rolled like two weeks after >_>

What do you like the most about V4? Mostly the characters. Kind of hard to really pinpoint one. It's like a big, fluffy cloud of awesome?

What do you think could have been better about V4? Holy shit less inactive kills. Probably not having a huge cast either...it's pretty hard to manage. I'd say that I'd like the threads I'm in to move faster but that would be hypocritical of me >_>

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? Never read the latter. Either way, SotF is more awesome cause not only do I get to influence what happens but you get so many different ideas and writing styles cause of how it works.

Do you think V4 is more or less enjoyable than V3/V2/V1, or the same? Having only participated in a bit of V3, can't really say.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? Me likey.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? I think the game's just going to get better and better. Problems in previous versions'll just get fixed and ironed out. At least, that's how I think things'll happen.

How do you feel about v5? Can't fucking wait. Can we have a character concept thread up now please?

[Grand Moff Hissa]

[+] V4 First Plastic Hammers Part Three

The Basics

Handler Name: Outfoxd

Your Trademark Character: Raymond Dawson, I guess. Lily didn't do a whole hell of a lot.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Providing two tickets to that thing you like in the Residential Area.

Favourite Character: Probably Jimmy Brennan or Kris Hartmann.

Favourite Weapon: That PSG-1 got used in one hell of a fucked up way. And you can't go wrong with Moxie.

Favourite Scene: Jimmy Brennan getting hardcore on Philip Ward.

Favourite Death: I'm kind of a fan of Rhory Anne Broderick unzipping that kid with the glass.

Favourite Quote: Not really a quote but "Fucking Naked...GIRL."

Favourite Thread: Jimmy Brennan getting some. (Yes, I'm a goddamn fanboy.)

Favourite Post: Aislyn Mcreery's death where she tells Steve to man up? Good shit.

Favourite Location: The Gazebo. Seems like a lot of shit goes down there.


The Plastic Hammer Awards

Most Evolutionary Character: Kris Hartmann for me, just because she's gone from ok to guilt-ridden insanity to OMFG she has lost her shit over the course of her career.

Most Revolutionary Character: From what I've read and heard, Ethan Kent for setting off the events in the dot dot dot thread.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Brook, for going from a woobie that I just wanna hug, to an insane, torturing motherfucker.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: To me, Jimmy Brennan, because I've already expressed the sentiment that he seems very much like a kid I would meet on Xbox Live.

Most Heroic Character: Probably Ethan Kent, for giving himself up to hopefully get some people saved, or Ivan Kuznetsov for staying with Tabi and keeping her from losing her shit.

Most Villianous Character: I don't read a whole hell of a lot, but apparently Aaron Hughes is chessmastering his way through the game. And Maxwell Lombardi, of course.

Most Tragic Character: I remember Cyrile Lablanche as being particularly depressing. And Miranda Merchant, for Renard's flashback death.

Most Humourous Character: Brennan WAS hilarious, although now, not so much.

Most-likely Winner : I have no clue.

Most Epic Character: Again, no clue.


Characterization

Which character do you relate to the most?Honestly, Rena Peters for wanting to break out of her useless mold. Being confident isn't one of my strong suits.

Which character do you feel the most for? I was sad as hell when Alex White killed William.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Pass.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Kris Hartmann's had a conga line of bullshit happen to her.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? Maxwell Lombardi's a cock, and I want him dead.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? No idea.

Which character do you think has/had it coming? Maxwell Lombardi.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? JJ Sturn did seem like he could have done some damage later on.


Drama

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: the Tabi Ivan original kiss had me going a little. Cyrile Lablanche's death got some manly tears out of me.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Any of Brook's Bloodgarden kills, but the newest one where he castrates Vivien with a handgun may top the list.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: The Ethan Kent plan.

Most Humourous Scene: Jeremy Franco getting SWOOOOOOORD Cane, or Jimmy Brennan wigging out in woods of Paranoia.

Most Action-packed Scene: Filling Prescriptions had that nasty double kill. Or the Lombardi thread in the woods with the hand-to-hand fight.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Didn't I get asked this?


Most Drama-filled Scene: I know it's kinda cheating since I was in it, but Jesus Loves the Little Children was tense as hell.

Most Unexpected Scene: The Liz Polanski collar melting.


Death

Most Tragic Death: Cyrile Lablanche.

Most Violent Death: Brook gutting Colin Falcone like a fish.

Most Disturbing Death: Brook's aforementioned kill, again.

Most Unexpected Death: The Moxie kill. Who the hell saw that happening?

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Richard Han's thread jumping death.

Most Humourous Death: Han again, but Aislyn's death did get a chuckle out of me.

Predictions and preferences

Quick; Final Four for v4 - who's it gonna be? Uhh, no clue.

Which characters do you intend to follow/currently follow closest/with the most interest? I continue to follow Jimmy Brennan and Kris Hartmann, I wanna see what Aaron Hughes is about, and I'm curious as to RJ Lowe.

Are there any characters you wish you'd interacted with, but haven't? I'm working on seeing Jimmy Brennan and Isabel Guerra, hell, any of the villains too.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I might have decided to hold onto Lily.



Your thoughts on SOTF v4

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V4? Enjoying the hell out of it.

What do you like the most about V4? The collaborative writing.

What do you think could have been better about V4? Less characters, probably.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? I like it better.

Do you think V4 is more or less enjoyable than V3/V2/V1, or the same? No idea, since I haven't really read the other ones.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? That remains to be seen in the second half, though some serious arcs are emerging.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? Better, because we'll have experience with the continued emphasis on realism.

How do you feel about v5? Bring it. Totally making more than two characters this time around.

The Basics

Handler Name: Fioriboy.

Your Trademark Character: Maxwell Lombardi.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Currently in a confrontation with Sarah Atwell.

Favourite Character: Hmm, tricky... I'm going to have to say, probably Ivan Kuznetsov.

Favourite Weapon: Going to go the selfish route here and say Maxwell's Glock, mainly because its been his only weapon so far which he HASN'T abandoned at some point.

Favourite Scene: Not sure...

Favourite Death: Carol's

Favourite Quote: "CRAIG HOYLE IS GOING TO RAPE YOU AND WEAR YOUR SKIN AS A COAT!"

Favourite Thread: Meet Again was pretty damn good.

Favourite Post: Jimmy's Rant is still a personal favourite.

Favourite Location: The sawmill. SO much potential...


The Plastic Hammer Awards

Most Evolutionary Character: Liam Brooks has gone from a flower loving pacifist into a giggling psychopath. That sounds like a pretty major change in character there if you ask me.

Most Revolutionary Character: Liz Polanski. No contest.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: I'm probably going to have to go with Liz Polanski as well, partially because of the whole dismembering Chris' corpse thing. That, AND getting Achyls killed.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Most of them to be honest.

Most Heroic Character: Ivan seems pretty heroic if you ask me.

Most Villianous Character: Danya. What? He counts!

Most Tragic Character: I couldn't help but feel REALLY sorry for Everett Taylor. The poor guy knew from the very start that he wouldn't last five seconds on the island (And, sure enough, he was right...)

Most Humourous Character: Jimmy Brennan

Most-likely Winner : Too early to say...

Most Epic Character: I'm not going to lie, I thought Staffan Kronwall was pretty cool back when he was still alive.


Characterization

Which character do you relate to the most? Not sure.

Which character do you feel the most for? Anna Chase has been through SO much crap recently, its not even funny.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Uh... Maxwell, maybe? :3

Which character do you think had it the worst? Like I said earlier, Everett Taylor KNEW for a fact that he was a redshirt since the very beginning.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? MUWAHAHAHAHAAA! >:]

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? Honestly, I wouldn't mind if either Ivan or Tabi won. A part of me is also rooting for Sarah Xu to make it off in one piece.

Which character do you think has/had it coming? Other than Maxwell? I'd say that Clio got her just deserts in the end...

Which character do you think should NOT have died? I was REALLY looking forward to seeing Staffan Kronwall make a name for himself on the island... Oh well


Drama

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Again, Carol's death

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Sarah Atwell brutally torturing Eve. That was just plain creepy. 8[

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: Lets face it, Liz deactivating her collar managed to get a lot of people killed, including one of Danya's men. Not many people can claim to have had the same effect on the game.

Most Humourous Scene: Jimmy's opening rant xD

Most Action-packed Scene: ...Ah, what the heck, Fatal Fury. The parts Llama wrote in particular were both cool AND brutal at the same time.

Most Drama-filled Scene: I was literally on the edge of my seat during the moments leading up to Carol's death.

Most Unexpected Scene: Sedation. That is all...


Death

Most Tragic Death: Carol's death.

Most Violent Death: In terms of pure gore-factor, Rober Lerger's death via chainsaw.

Most Disturbing Death: Eve Walker-Luther's... *gulp*

Most Unexpected Death: Chris Richardson's. Killing off one of your characters early on isn't anything new, but TWO? Didn't see that coming...

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Richard Han's. I'm almost jealous that I didn't come up with it myself xD

Most Humourous Death: Again, Richard Han's was hard to beat.

Predictions and preferences

Quick; Final Four for v4 - who's it gonna be? Uh, not sure...

Which characters do you intend to follow/currently follow closest/with the most interest? Lets see... Raidon Naoko, Ivan/Tabitha, Sarah Xu, Sarah Atwell and Maria Graham are the characters who i'm currently following the closest.

Are there any characters you wish you'd interacted with, but haven't? Lots. There are plenty of characters i've been meaning to have Maxwell interact with for ages now, including Raidon Naoko, R.J. Lowe, Kris Hartmann, Jimmy Brennan, Sarah Xu, Aaron Hughes, Ivan Kuznetsov and (of course) Tabitha Gweneth.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I suppose it wouldn't of hurt if I didn't waste my hero card saving Daisuke Nagazawa |:[


Your thoughts on SOTF v4

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V4? Even though i've got a polarising character, I'm enjoying it a lot actually.

What do you like the most about V4? The way all the character interlink with one another. Also, playing a villain is fun

What do you think could have been better about V4? 275 is a bit too many characters... We've only just reached the halfway point, and theres still a LOT of characters to go.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? They both have their good and bad points, but i'm probably going to say that SOTF is better.

Do you think V4 is more or less enjoyable than V3/V2/V1, or the same? No idea

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? Interesting... Never fails to throw a twist I didn't see coming.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? Only time will tell...

How do you feel about v5? I've got one or two ideas in mind...

As a caveat, I really haven't read enough of V4 to formulate well-informed opinions. But I'll try.

The Basics

Handler Name: Chib

Your Trademark Character: Ema Ryan

Current Status of Trademark Character: Swimming. And some other things later on.

Favourite Character: Three-way tie Kris Hartmann, Liam Brooks and Hayley Kelly.

Favourite Weapon: The "raygun" Vektor CP-1 comes a close second, but it has to be Bill's SPAS-12. I do love a good shotgun.

Favourite Scene: The near-death experience in D-Day.

Favourite Death: I was really pleased with Logan's, but it has to be Reika Ishida, in part for being great in its own right, in part for what it gave rise to.

Favourite Quote: "And three; I want a fucking candy bar." ~ Eve Walker-Luther

Favourite Thread: Maybe biased here, but Laisse Tomber Les Filles

Favourite Post: This One

Favourite Location: The Hall of Mirrors. So much potential for that place.



The Plastic Hammer Awards

Most Evolutionary Character: I'm thinking Liam Brooks here.

Most Revolutionary Character: Maybe it's the obvious choice, but nobody's had quite the impact Liz Polanski has.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Toss up between Vivien Morin and *~*Pandora Black*~*, but I have to give it to the latter.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Ironically, I have to say Jimmy Brennan. So unabashedly terrified to start with, then the second he has a gun... fuck yes he has the power.

Most Heroic Character: Hard to say, but Imraan seems to stand out.

Most Villianous Character: Maxwell is such an obvious choice, but playing the game damn well - and even enjoying it - doesn't quite measure up to Liam Brooks mutilating people for the sake of a garden. Honourable mentions for Liz Polanski and Clio Gabriella.

Most Tragic Character: Eve Walker-Luther. Poor thing had the best reason to deserve to survive.

Most Humourous Character: Even with the switch to badass, Jimmy Brennan is still hilarious.

Most-likely Winner: Too close to call, but it's between, Maxwell Lombardi, Naoko Raidon and Hayley Kelly. Maybe Jimmy Brennan, if he keeps up the badass streak.

Most Epic Character: Kenny.



Characterization

Which character do you relate to the most? Excepting my own characters, since they all have at least a little of myself in them... Ridley Landon. Especially in Bloodgarden.

Which character do you feel the most for? Eve Walker-Luther, see above.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? I can't really say Maxwell in good faith, since he's built up enough of a name to be top of every player's hit list now, so even if he survives it all, it's a major thorn in his side. So, I have to agree with KV and say Ema Ryan. All the benefits of running around killing people at random, none of the infamy-related drawbacks.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Again, Eve Walker-Luther. Even her death was pretty much an insult.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? Other than the top killers for their murderous ways, probably Liz Polanski. She doesn't give a shit who she hurts in the process of giving Danya an ultimately pointless middle-finger.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? I love to hate Maxwell, and I want him to win for all the same reasons I couldn't help but cheer The Rizz on in V3's finale. He's worked too hard not to deserve it.

Which character do you think has/had it coming? Maxwell Lombardi, again. He's killed too many people not to deserve it.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? In the interests of not saying Eve so many times, RIP Daisuke Nagazawa. If not for inactivity, you could've gone on to do great things.



Drama

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Pre-emptively, Vivien Morin's death. Normally, the rest of Bloodgarden. Because I can actually see it happening.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: The Gully. No matter what happens there, it's going to have repercussions. Consequences will never be the same.

Most Humourous Scene: I want to say DAMN YOU GRAVITYYYYYY..., but purely for the juxtaposition, in the middle of so many grimdark deaths, Bill and Marion arguing over how many shells were left in the shotgun.

Most Action-packed Scene: Fatal Fury.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Bloodgarden, if fear counts as an emotion. Reading it, I'm legitimately afraid of Brook.

Most Drama-filled Scene: We Are The Sleepyheads, also the (very close) runner up for most emotionally moving.

Most Unexpected Scene: Faraday's Cages bandwagon ahoy!



Death

Most Tragic Death: Two separate biases making me lean towards Logan Reynolds and Kyle Portman, but I'm going for Eve Walker-Luther yet again.

Most Violent Death: Kris Hartmann + Janet Claymond + Wreckage = Oh my.

Most Disturbing Death: I'm not easily grossed out by words, but... again going to pre-emptively give this to Vivien Morin.

Most Unexpected Death: Hard to say when we can see the rolls, so I hearken back to pre-first announcement, with the bee-related death of Dallas Reynolds.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Can't not say Moxie here. Close second is Dallas and the bees, though. Insert Nic Cage quotes here.

Most Humourous Death: Sorry Jimmy, sorry Richard, but this has to go to Bill and his superior skills at counting to eight.



Predictions and preferences

Quick; Final Four for v4 - who's it gonna be?
I wish I could say Ema, but I'm thinking (in no particular order);
Maxwell Lombardi
Hayley Kelly
Naoko Raidon
Rosa Fiametta

Which characters do you intend to follow/currently follow closest/with the most interest? I'm ashamed to say, very few. Sort of following Brook lately, but I just don't know where to start, with all I've missed.

Are there any characters you wish you'd interacted with, but haven't? I wish Logan had met Jimmy Brennan, that would've been fun. And Imraan and the rest of the basketball team, too.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I'd be interested to see where Logan would be now if I hadn't heroed with him, but I wouldn't undo it. I think I'd like to see Clio Gabriella still alive, though, if only for Maxwell to have to kill her later on.



Your thoughts on SOTF v4

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V4? So far, it's been a hell of a lot better than I expected.

What do you like the most about V4? I honestly can't pin it to one thing. Possibly everybody's willingness to roll with what happens. I've been in too many RPs where nobody wanted to be inconvenienced in-character, let alone killed.

What do you think could have been better about V4? Even though it would probably leave me with just one character, a smaller cast. It's not dragging on, so to speak, but the clusterfucks and the delays aren't ideal.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? I'd say it was better. BR's concept was brilliant, but the main cast was a little too Sue-laden.

Do you think V4 is more or less enjoyable than V3/V2/V1, or the same? I only have vicarious experience with the older versions, but the level of realism and writing in general looks better by comparison.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? It does seem slightly made-up-as-it-goes-along at times, but even so, it's engaging enough to want to follow it and see what happens next.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? Personally, more enjoyable, because I'll have a much better idea of what I'm doing and more time to prepare. On the whole, it's hard to say, but if I'm not the only one having a better time of it, it probably will be even better. There is a clear trend of versions being an improvement over the previous ones.

How do you feel about v5? Excited. Even if it's going to be a long time coming.

Handler Name: Storyspoiler

Your Trademark Character: Currently Liz Polanski or Mizore Soryu, though I suspect Alice will be seeing some interesting development soon, especially since I'm about to get Liz out of the way. So this could change.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Trying to knock out every radio relay in the tunnels in The Gully/trying to stop Naoko Raidon from killing anyone else (and Julian Avery from killing Naoko Raidon) in Dead Flag Blues/dealing with the repercussions of slitting the throat of her serial-murderer protector in Cruel Justice.

Favourite Character: Kimberly Nguyen.

Favourite Weapon: Canister of Liquid Nitrogen.

Favourite Scene: Two Roads Diverged In A Dark Hellhole, or This Is A Scene About A Hat.

Favourite Death: Hilary Strand's, From White to Grey or Petruska Ivanova's in Where Is My Mind?

Favourite Quote: Don't have one.

Favourite Thread: The Quiet Lives of Baron Saturday, self-indulgently (it was very fun to write).

Favourite Post: Hilary Strand's Death, Petra Ivanova playing the violin, or Two Roads Diverged In A Dark Hellhole.

Favourite Location: The Residential Area. There are so many things there!


The Plastic Hammer Awards

Most Evolutionary Character: Which character has come the farthest in terms of inner change and development over the course of the game?

Pass. It's like comparing apples and mattresses.

Most Revolutionary Character: Character whom you think has drastically changed the course of the game at any point.

Liz Polanski, if she manages to get down any of the relays in the Tunnels, or Ethan Kent, if the Morse Code people manage to get the message out.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Any character that strikes you as highly original or out of the ordinary.

Fuck me, I'll toot my own horn here. Mizore Soryu, because pacifists don't have to be wussy and art is cool. Also, Milo Taylor.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: A character who you feel that you can imagine existing in real life.

My life experiences, which do not include being thefted by terrorists, leaves me unfit to answer this question.

Most Heroic Character: Who has been most heroic thus far?

Tabi Gwyneth. There are a lot of characters brave enough to pick up a gun. Not many brave enough to put one down.

Most Villianous Character: Who's looking like the biggest villain?

The folk who kill someone and feel morally satisfied doing it. See: Julian Avery, and recently, Peter Siu.

Most Tragic Character: A character who's actions, past, or circumstances can be considered tragic and unfortunate.

Petrushka Ivanova. Something about her short life and early death just had "tragedy" written all over it.

Most Humourous Character: Which character is tickling your funny bone?

Weirdly, non-killing Hayley Kelly, just because I recognize her thought process so well.

Most-likely Winner : Which character of our characters, in your humble opinion, is the MOST likely to win?

I don't know.

Most Epic Character: You know...the kind of character who has the special quality of being just plain 'awesome'. Breathes awesome, eats awesome, sleeps awesome, kills his enemies awesome, that kinda thing.

Jimmy Brennan. Also Mirabelle Nesa.

Characterization

Which character do you relate to the most?

All my characters are self-inserts, but better than me. Except Alice, who might be better than me in the future, but sure isn't now.

Which character do you feel the most for?

The arrogant ones. Eiko Haraguchi, Aston Bennet.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best?

Anyone who hasn't killed and is currently uninjured. Why get into the fray before you have to?

Bonus points if you have loyal allies. This might make it Aaron Hughes.

Which character do you think had it the worst?

Brock Mason.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself?

Danya. Seriously.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF?

Sarah Xu, Aston Bennet or Eiko Haruguchi.

Which character do you think has/had it coming?

Again, Danya. You didn't say "player character", and there's a certain level of bitchiness to say that someone morally unlucky enough to be THEFTED BY TERRORISTS has it coming.

Which character do you think should NOT have died?

Isaiah Garvey or Jessie Anderson. The island needs some selfless people left, and right now, even the heroes are too wrapped up in their own little worlds to really count.

Drama

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Has anything brought a tear to your eyes?

From White To Grey, or Two Roads Diverged In A Dark Hellhole.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: ...Or your stomach?

Eve Walker-Luther's death.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event:Which scene do you think is going to play a huge role in changing the course of the game, further down the line?

Currently, Faraday's Cages, because breaking all the relays in the tunnels is going to have some effect. If team Morse Code succeeds though, it'll be House of the Rising Sun.

Most Humourous Scene: Which scene served as the best comic relief?

All of Aston's posts in Wind and the Willow. Her voice is snarky and delightful.

Most Action-packed Scene: Which scene had the most action going on?

The Gully. Though my personal favorite is Garrett and Mirabelle's fight in the Swamp.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Which scene induced some kind of emotion in you the most effectively?

From White To Grey, or Two Roads Diverged In A Dark Hellhole. You asked this already.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Which scene had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

Pretty much anything with Kimberly in it. D-Day. Hat. Blackout. Theory.

Most Unexpected Scene: Was there anything that you just did NOT see coming?

See "Deaths". I don't mention any that I saw coming.

Death

Most Tragic Death: Which death brought the most tears to your eyes?

Hilary Strand, From White To Grey.

Most Violent Death: Which death do you think brought out the most gore/pain/blood/guts/etc.

Janet Claymont, to Kris Hartmann. More disturbing, because of Kris's fractured consciousness.

Most Disturbing Death: Which death scarred/traumatized/made you want to puke the most?

Jessie Anderson's death to Peter Siu. Until May The Lord Accept This Sacrifice, he'd been--well, a troubled hero, but a hero nonetheless. With Jessie's death--killing her not because she is helping Liz Polanski but because she thinks it's the right thing to do was a face-heel turn. Just the fact that someone who seemed so heroic can think it's acceptable to trick-and-slice-up-with-a-sword Jessie Anderson (one of the few remaining truly kind people on the island) because she thinks different from you and you think she might be a danger…it freaked me the fuck out. It's a weird sort of intolerance.

Most Unexpected Death: Which death struck you the most as totally coming out of the blue?

There are the obvious--collarsplosions, etc. Otherwise, Aislyn McCreery's, because I didn't anticipate it even from a metagame perspective--and until then, Kimberly hadn't managed to lose her precious self-control.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: There are a million ways to skin a cat, and occasionally, you'll get a method that is just...totally...out there. Which one do you think fits the bill?

Richard Han, to the point where after seeing the end of his "GRAVITYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" in Wind and the Willows, I went back and read a number of his posts. Fits perfectly.

Most Humourous Death: If you find such a morbid matter so amusing.

Richard Han's, again.

Predictions and preferences

Quick; Final Four for v4 - who's it gonna be?

Four random people that I couldn't possibly predict.

Which characters do you intend to follow/currently follow closest/with the most interest?

Julian Avery, Naoko Raidon, Garrett Hunter, Zach Jamis, Samya Franklin, Aston Bennet, Sarah Xu, Andrea Raymer, Eiko Haruguchi, Kimberly Nguyen, the late, lamented Sarah Atwell. Am currently liking Hayley Kelly when she's not killing things, as well as recently reading Ray Dawson with some interest.

Are there any characters you wish you'd interacted with, but haven't? (It ain't over till it's over, make those plans, write those threads!)

Isaiah Garvey, Jamie Li, Sarah Xu, Raymond Dawson.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?

The terrorists finding a clever way to subvert Liz's collarplan.

Your thoughts on SOTF v4

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V4?

Whee!

What do you like the most about V4?

Gives me a chance to write every day.

What do you think could have been better about V4?

Give people more time for deaths!

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR?

Never read BR.

Do you think V4 is more or less enjoyable than V3/V2/V1, or the same?

Never played those games.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story?

I'm the escape plan fan here, so this is a cliche…but I love escapes. The complaints I hear about them are that they make the terrorists look incompetent and are "unrealistic", but frankly, the terrorists have THEFTED A CLASS and PUT THEM ON AN UNFINDABLE ISLAND. I hear they even did this FOUR TIMES. Seriously, an escape, succeeded or failed (and I don't really care if they succeed or fail, as long as they do something) is no less unrealistic than invisible island/enormous untraceable orders of explosive collars/the US government not going utterly batshit about random terrorist threats. Basically, where all this is going is "motherfucker, the SOTF story needs more escapes". They're a test of human ingenuity, and they break the binary of kill-die-kill which gets damn boring after a while.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same?

Shrug. Depends on the changes implemented by the mods.

How do you feel about v5?

Whee!

The Basics

Handler Name: Dom "Bigger than the Beatles" Nom Nom

Your Trademark Character: Dave Morrison

Current Status of Trademark Character: Carrying a maybe-unconscious Leila around in "In Honesty, We Didn't Plan This Far"

Favourite Character: Leila Langford / Sierra Manning

Favourite Weapon: Hunga-Munga

Favourite Scene: An oldie (well, it's an oldie where I come from), but a goodie: We Are the Sleepyheads.

Favourite Death: Hilary Strand

Favourite Quote: Fill this in when I think of one.

Favourite Thread: This one too.

Favourite Post: Snap.

Favourite Location: The Hall of Mirrors before you fuckers blew it up.


The Plastic Hammer Awards

Most Evolutionary Character: Leila Langford, surprisingly. She's gone mad development from the bitch she was in Pre-game.

Most Revolutionary Character: Ethan Kent, for reals.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Brook. O_O

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: A lot of characters, but I've gotta say Simon Fletcher, Violet Druce and Thierra Manning

Most Heroic Character: Roland Harte. His heart's in the right place, and he's trying to make a difference.

Most Villianous Character: Brook, Maxwell, Aaron Hughes.

Most Humourous Character: Jay Holland!

Most-likely Winner : The Ultimate Opportunist, Edge.

Most Epic Character: Jimmy Brennan, natch.


Characterization

Which character do you relate to the most? Claire Lambert and JJ Sturn. I don't even know why.

Which character do you feel the most for? Sierra :c

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Aaron Hughes and his Cult of Personality.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Simon Fletcher had it awful :c

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? Liz Polanski.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? Zombie Simon Fletcher

Which character do you think has/had it coming? Clio Gabriella and Maxwell Lombardi.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Hilary ;~;


Drama

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Again, Hilary's death :c

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Vivien Morin's death.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event:If I was one to blow my own trumpet- which I'm not- I'd say House of the Rising Sun, but I'd probably say "Enter the Deathsquad."

Most Humourous Scene: The first half of "Doesn't Matter, I Had Sex."

Most Action-packed Scene: Break Up and Break Down was madness.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Hilary's Death :C

Most Drama-filled Scene: We Are the Sleepyheads.

Most Unexpected Scene: Again, Snap.


Death

Most Tragic Death: Simon Fletcher :c

Most Violent Death: Eve Walker-Luther.

Most Disturbing Death: Brock Mason's

Most Unexpected Death: Remi Pierce, for all the wrong reasons.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death:Tripping over a dildo and drowning. Really?

Most Humourous Death: Remi Pierce.

Predictions and preferences

Quick; Final Four for v4 - who's it gonna be? Can't comment.

Which characters do you intend to follow/currently follow closest/with the most interest? Rannaliese, Raidon Naoko.

Are there any characters you wish you'd interacted with, but haven't? Thierra and Joze, definitely.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I wouldn't have let Team Ego save Liz.



Your thoughts on SOTF v4

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V4?

What do you like the most about V4? Eh, I enjoyed the parts that adhered to the structure of the game. At the risk of sounding hypocritical, I prefer things IC when they go right than when people fuck things up.

What do you think could have been better about V4? Activity, most definitely. Too many people being lazy.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR?Better. Not everyone is a Mary Sue in SotF.

Do you think V4 is more or less enjoyable than V3/V2/V1, or the same? Can't comment.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? Eh, it's alright I guess.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? More, hopefully.

How do you feel about v5? Meh.

[Grand Moff Hissa]

V4 Second ("Almost Over") Plastic Hammers

[+] V4 Second Plastic Hammers Part One

Well, it's that time again: Plastic Hammer time! As always, we'd love it if you filled out these forms as completely as possible, and at as great length as you like. We've edited the Hammers a bit, including a section to talk about your own writing (if you were in V4; if not, feel free to ignore it or put whatever else you want there. Some of the questions there are also not writer-specific).

So, yeah, have at. Links are appreciated, but not required. Have fun, everyone! You know the drill. Code is spoilered at the bottom.

The Basics

Handler Name:

Your Trademark Character:

Current Status of Trademark Character:

Favourite Character:

Favourite Weapon:

Favourite Scene:

Favourite Death:

Favourite Quote:

Favourite Thread:

Favourite Post:

Favourite Location:


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: Which character has come the farthest in terms of inner change and development?

Most Revolutionary Character: Character whom you think has drastically changed the course of the game at any point.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Any character that strikes you as highly original or out of the ordinary.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: A character who you feel that you can imagine existing in real life.

Most Heroic Character: Any character that prominently stands out for his/her good intentions and his actions based on them.

Most Villainous Character: Any character known for his/her not-so-good/honorable actions and intentions.

Most Tragic Character: A character who's actions, past, or circumstances can be considered tragic and unfortunate.

Most Humorous Character: Which character made you laugh the most?


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most?

Which character did you feel the most for?

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best?

Which character do you think had it the worst?

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself?

Which character do you think should NOT have died?

Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming?


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: Which scene made you the most teary eyed?

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Which scene made you want to puke the most?

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: Which scene do you think played a huge role in the changing the course of the game?

Most Humourous Scene: Which scene served as the best comic relief?

Most Action-packed Scene: Which scene had the most action going on?

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Which scene induced some kind of emotion in you the most effectively?

Most Drama-filled Scene: Which scene had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

Most Unexpected Scene: There are always these unexpected turn of events that you could not have seen coming from a mile a way.


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Which death brought the most tears to your eyes?

Most Violent Death: Which death do you think brought out the most gore/pain/blood/guts/etc.?

Most Disturbing Death: Which death scarred/traumatized/made you want to puke the most?

Most Unexpected Death: Which death struck you the most as totally coming out of the blue?

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: There are a million ways to skin a cat, and occasionally, you'll get a method that is just...totally...out there. Which one do you think fits the bill?

Most Humorous Death: If you find such a morbid matter so amusing.


Predictions and Disillusionment

There's five people left - who are you counting on to be the overall winner of SOTFv4?

How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out?

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? Other than obvious factors (different characters, different backstory, different island, different events, new rules)


Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4?

What do you like the most about SOTFv4?

What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4?

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR?

How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4?

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same?

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story?

How do you feel about v5?


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in v4?

Which of your v4 characters was your favorite to write?

Which was your favorite thread to participate in?

What are you proudest of in v4?

What do you wish you could improve?

What is your favorite OOC memory of v4?

What is your favorite v4 memory overall?

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!

[+] Code

Code: Select all

[u][b]The Basics[/b][/u]

[b]Handler Name:[/b]

[b]Your Trademark Character:[/b]

[b]Current Status of Trademark Character: [/b]

[b]Favourite Character: [/b]

[b]Favourite Weapon:[/b]

[b]Favourite Scene:[/b]

[b]Favourite Death:[/b]

[b]Favourite Quote:[/b]

[b]Favourite Thread:[/b]

[b]Favourite Post:[/b]

[b]Favourite Location:[/b]


[u][b]The Plastic Hammer Awards![/b][/u]

[b]Most Evolutionary Character: [/b]Which character has come the farthest in terms of inner change and development?

[b]Most Revolutionary Character: [/b]Character whom you think has drastically changed the course of the game at any point.

[b]Most Unorthodox/Original Character:[/b] Any character that strikes you as highly original or out of the ordinary.

[b]Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: [/b]A character who you feel that you can imagine existing in real life.

[b]Most Heroic Character: [/b]Any character that prominently stands out for his/her good intentions and his actions based on them.

[b]Most Villainous Character: [/b]Any character known for his/her not-so-good/honorable actions and intentions.

[b]Most Tragic Character: [/b]A character who's actions, past, or circumstances can be considered tragic and unfortunate.

[b]Most Humorous Character: [/b]Which character made you laugh the most?


[u][b]More Characterization[/b][/u]

[b]Which character did you relate to the most?[/b]

[b]Which character did you feel the most for?[/b]

[b]Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best?[/b]

[b]Which character do you think had it the worst?[/b]

[b]Which character would you be willing to kill yourself?[/b]

[b]Which character do you think should NOT have died? [/b]

[b]Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming?[/b]


[u][b]The Drama Category[/b][/u]

[b]Most Tragic Scene:[/b] Which scene made you the most teary eyed?

[b]Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: [/b]Which scene made you want to puke the most?

[b]Most Pivotal Scene/Event: [/b]Which scene do you think played a huge role in the changing the course of the game?

[b]Most Humourous Scene: [/b]Which scene served as the best comic relief?

[b]Most Action-packed Scene: [/b]Which scene had the most action going on?

[b]Most Emotionally Moving Scene: [/b]Which scene induced some kind of emotion in you the most effectively?

[b]Most Drama-filled Scene: [/b]Which scene had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

[b]Most Unexpected Scene: [/b]There are always these unexpected turn of events that you could not have seen coming from a mile a way.


[u][b]Death, Death, and More Death[/b][/u]

[b]Most Tragic Death: [/b]Which death brought the most tears to your eyes?

[b]Most Violent Death: [/b]Which death do you think brought out the most gore/pain/blood/guts/etc.?

[b]Most Disturbing Death: [/b]Which death scarred/traumatized/made you want to puke the most?

[b]Most Unexpected Death: [/b]Which death struck you the most as totally coming out of the blue?

[b]Most Original/Unorthodox Death:[/b] There are a million ways to skin a cat, and occasionally, you'll get a method that is just...totally...out there. Which one do you think fits the bill?

[b]Most Humorous Death:[/b] If you find such a morbid matter so amusing. 


[u][b]Predictions and Disillusionment[/b][/u]

[b]There's five people left - who are you counting on to be the overall winner of SOTFv4?[/b]

[b]How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out?[/b]

[b]If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?[/b]

[b]How do you think V5 will differ from V4? [/b]Other than obvious factors (different characters, different backstory, different island, different events, new rules)


[u][b]Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...)[/b] [/u]

[b]How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4?[/b]

[b]What do you like the most about SOTFv4?[/b]

[b]What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4?[/b]

[b]How would you compare SOTF to the original BR?[/b]

[b]How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4?[/b]

[b]Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same?[/b]

[b]What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story?[/b]

[b]How do you feel about v5? [/b]


[big][u][b]Talk About Yourself[/b][/u][/big]

[b]What has been your favorite thing to write in v4?[/b]

[b]Which of your v4 characters was your favorite to write?[/b]

[b]Which was your favorite thread to participate in?[/b]

[b]What are you proudest of in v4?[/b]

[b]What do you wish you could improve?[/b]

[b]What is your favorite OOC memory of v4?[/b]

[b]What is your favorite v4 memory overall?[/b]

[b]What else would you like to share? Anything goes![/b]

The Basics

Handler Name: Nadir.

Your Trademark Character: Steven Hunt.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Dead (accidentally shot in the leg by Brendan Wallace and then bled to death).

Favourite Character: Hard to pick, I like them all too much... but if I had to choose one, it would be Kimberly Nguyen.

Favourite Weapon: Kris Haartman´s grenade launcher.

Favourite Scene: The Eighth Announcement, all the way.

Favourite Death: Mirabelle Nesa. Lived like a warrior, died like a hero.

Favourite Quote: "YOU WIN THIS TIME, GRAVITYYYYYY-"

Favourite Thread: "The Gully".

Favourite Post: I cannot choose, there are too many of them.

Favourite Location: The Docks.

The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: I think that would be Reiko Ishida. She really has come a long way since the game started.

Most Revolutionary Character: Liz Ponlanski, obviously.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Kimberly Nguyen.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Thanks to the realistic writing of V4, I can imagine most of it characters existing in real life. However, I think that Brendan Wallace can easily exist in real life.

Most Heroic Character: Mirabelle Nesa, all the way.

Most Villainous Character: Maxwell Lombardi, obviously.

Most Tragic Character: Raidon Naoko.

Most Humorous Character: Richard Han.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Brendan Wallace.

Which character did you feel the most for? Kimberly Nguyen

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Hard to choose, again (many played the game for good this time!), but I guess it would be Maxwell Lombardi.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Lots of them...

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? Ema Ryan, I guess...

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Liz Polanski

Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Maxwell Lombardi was practically asking for it.


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: Sarah Altwell´s death... I know she quite deserved it, but I just couldn´t help but feel sorry for her (and for Alice and her family back at home, too).

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Which scene made you want to puke the most? Maxwell Lombardi´s comeuppance by Naoko Raidon (horribly scarred and disfigured, a flash grenade stuffed into his mouth, then shot several times and pushed off a cliff... granted, the bastard had it coming). Also, Vivien Morin´s castration scene... that was pure Nightmare Fuel.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: Liz Polanski´s taking off her collar (and later, the Eighth Announcement).

Most Humourous Scene: Richard Han´s death.

Most Action-packed Scene: "The Gully", it literally had me biting my nails. There was extremely good writing from everyone involved in that scene.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Any scene that has a character dying while someone else is trying desperately to comfort them... which are too many.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Reiko Ishida pleading with Sarah Xu to abandon her and escape the island, which culminates in Reiko knocking Sarah unconscious so STAR can take her.

Most Unexpected Scene: Again, the Eighth Announcement (and everything that came after that). Starting to notice a pattern here?


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Orn Ayers, particularly the way Kimberly Nguyen tries to comfort him.

Most Violent Death: Maxwell Lombardi.

Most Disturbing Death: Eve Walker-Luther

Most Unexpected Death: Liz Polanski... I thought she was gonna survive. And Feo too.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Dave Morrison and RJ Lowe... proves that you don´t actually need yourself or anyone else to kill you... your own body can do it itself.

Most Humorous Death: I guess Richard Han, again...


Predictions and Disillusionment

There's five people left - who do you predict is gonna win? Kimberly Nguyen... if not, then Reiko Ishida. C´mon, girls, you can do it!

How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out? I imagine the winner meeting with Greynolds, and then asking about Mr Danya, and then Greynolds refuses to tell him/her anything about what has transpired. Then the winner cracks up a smile, tells the terrorists he doesn´t believe their bullshit anymore, they knock him/her out and send him/her home. Oh, and the other survivors ostracize him/her and refuse to associate with him/her for being a ruthless murderer.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I wouldn´t have killed off Liz Polanski or Danya... those two would have had a cool showdown between them.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? I think it would be more realistic, it would be even more well written (most people who started RP in V4, like me, have learnt a lot about creative writing thanks to this game), and also that there will be lots of more characters to kill off. So far, it soulds like it is gonna be very interesting.


Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4? I enjoyed it inmensely, and still do.

What do you like the most about SOTFv4? I guess the depth some characters are given compared to previous games.

What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4? I don´t think there is nothing much else to improve. Everything to me seems good.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? Hummm, I don´t compare SOTF to BR anymore, because both games have taken very divergent paths, and that´s one of the things I like about it.

How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4? I am shivering with anticipation, my dear...

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? I cannot say... but I think it is gonna be a laugh finding out.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? It is awesome, and it has me hooked. SOTF and Tumblr are my two Internet drugs...

How do you feel about v5? I guess I will have to wait to find out, but so far, so good...


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in v4? Steven Hunt´s death, it was the first death I wrote.

Which of your v4 characters was your favorite to write? I guess Mr Hunt, again.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Peripatea.

What are you proudest of in v4? On dragging along Daniel Kensrue´s body across the Docks.

What do you wish you could improve? The way I wrote Steven... it was the first character I ever handled so I guess I didn´t do him any justice.

What is your favorite OOC memory of v4? Everytime I log into the chat... sometimes we have very interesting conversations down there.

What is your favorite v4 memory overall? Trying to reason with Kimberly Nguyen and calling her "the girl with shark´s eyes"

What else would you like to share? You people are all lovely and I love you all. (Blows kisses to everyone).

The Basics

Handler Name: Flare

Your Trademark Character: Jack McDonald

Current Status of Trademark Character: Still in my mind

Favourite Character: Ooh, hard one... probably Hayley Kelly.

Favourite Weapon: Any kind of explosive, really.

Favourite Scene: This Scene is About a Hat

Favourite Death: Isaiah Garvey, actually one of the first death posts I read on here.

Favourite Quote: "You know what? Maybe I am a bad person. But fuck these guys, I want to live." - Ema Ryan, Dead-End Scenario

Favourite Thread: Again, This Scene is About a Hat

Favourite Post: Ivan Kuznetsov's post after Tabi died.

Favourite Location: The Parish


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: Tabitha Gweneth

Most Revolutionary Character: With all the in game and out game controversy surrounding him, not to mention breaking the kill count record despite only making the top 50, you can't really say no to Maxwell Lombardi.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: There may have been (and probably were) other characters like him in the past, but I still found Jeremy Franco extremely entertaining.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Jennifer Perez

Most Heroic Character: Though he didn't succeed all that much, Marty J. Lovett.

Most Villainous Character: Aaron Hughes, no doubt.

Most Tragic Character: Leila Langford

Most Humorous Character: When he wasn't being extremely menacing, Jimmy Brennan.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Kimberly Nguyen or Bounce.

Which character did you feel the most for? Isabel Guerra

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Ema Ryan, staying with a good ally and lying mainly below the radar before just slaughtering everyone near the end.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Bounce, for a lot of the reasons she explained herself.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? AARON HUGHES

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Dutchy, dang it! *sniffles*

Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Again, AARON HUGHES.


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: Again, Dutchy.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Francine Moreau and the flare gun incident.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: House of the Rising Sun, for escapey reasons.

Most Humourous Scene: Richard Han's death

Most Action-packed Scene: Dead-End Scenario, though I guess that might just be more of a slaughtering.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Again, Dutchy's death.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Ema and Hayley convincing Jay to go on the boats.

Most Unexpected Scene: Talked about to death, but Reika Ishida's death was still totally out of nowhere.

Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Leila Langford, just because she was so dang close.

Most Violent Death: Vivien Morin. Ouch.

Most Disturbing Death: JJ Sturn, though that might've just been because of Jimmy's mindset at the time.

Most Unexpected Death: ... Reika again.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Appendicitis.

Most Humorous Death: Richard Han again.


Predictions and Disillusionment

There's five people left - who are you counting on to be the overall winner of SOTFv4? Gotta go with Ivan on this one. It's close between him and Kimberly, but Ivan has the whole mourning over Tabi thing which I just love.

How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out? Well, I won't go into specifics, but as for the final standings...

1st - Ivan Kuznetsov
2nd - Kimberly Nguyen
3rd - Reiko Ishida
4th - Ericka Bradley
5th - Ilario Fiametta III

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? In game, I kind of wish that the HOTRS had gotten more attention than Liz Polanski, just because I thought that escape plan was a little better. OOC, less inactives and me never having adopted Madelyn.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? Hopefully, as mentioned, less inactives, and overall I just hope the game runs more smoothly.


Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4? Though I didn't get to really play in it, it was awesome to read and just interact with the community, not to mention it resparked my interest in RPing.

What do you like the most about SOTFv4? Just the thought and effort that went into everyone's characters and posts.

What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4? Again, better activity would've made the game a little more enjoyable.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? BETTER, just for having more focus on each character and a lot less Mary Sues (though this is coming from knowledge of the manga, which is the only one I read).

How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4? SUUUUUUUUPER EXCITED.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? I'm gonna go ahead and say more, since this site is always moving forward.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? It's managed to string together really well and feel immersive and interesting, though I'm wondering if the feel of the game will change without Danya in it.

How do you feel about v5? Excited, and hopefully I'll be able to have Jack, Monica, and Maxi put on a good show.


Talk About Yourself

(Edited out most of this because I wasn't really in V4.)

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Well, I think everyone on the site can write really well, and after reading your work for months on end, it'll be a joy to get to write with as many of you as I can. I can only hope that my writing won't pale in comparison to yours. See ya in V5!

The Basics

Handler Name: MORGAN! KENNEDY! KILMARNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!!!!

Your Trademark Character: All of them.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Liam's dead and burnt to a crisp, Felicia's in the hosptial chatting with Ray, Craig smells terrible by now, and Ivan is feeling lost.

Favourite Character: Aaron Hughes and Tabitha Gweneth.

Favourite Weapon: Pancor Jackhammer

Favourite Scene: The Monsters funeral

Favourite Death: Ethan Kent's.

Favourite Quote: Y'know, it's still that line Jimmy spouts about Craig, what with the raping and the skinning and the coat wearing.

Favourite Thread: That I wasn't in? House of the Rising Sun.

Favourite Post: John's (Outfoxd) post in Monsters when Ray is mourning Anna. 'My sister...'

Favourite Location: Coastal Woods. Lots of shit happened there. The Infirmary's a close second, probably.


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: Tabi Gweneth. Started as a scared girl who needed to be protected, died protecting the one she loved.

Most Revolutionary Character: Ethan Kent.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Aaron Hughes struck a chord with me because he was a sneaky variant of the player archtype. Rather than kill everybody he met, he manipulated. Pretty goddamn original to me.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: There were lots of these this go-round, but I wanna throw a shout to Imraan in particular for pulling off the player-killer the way he did. Violent, but still sympathetic.

Most Heroic Character: This is a toughie. I'm going to give this to both Ethan Kent and Liz Polanski. Liz's attempt wasn't nearly as realistic with me and I... really don't like it, but was it heroic? You bet your ass it was. She was trying to break the game so that everybody might live.

Most Villainous Character: Aaron Hughes. Kill count doesn't mean everything.

Most Tragic Character: Like I could answer anything but 'Dutchy'.

Most Humorous Character: I'll be poking Richard Han later. For right now, I'd say Harold Fisher made me laugh a lot. What a way to die, showing off like that.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Dutchy. I'd be scared shitless just like him, y'know.

Which character did you feel the most for? Tied with the above and Tabi.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Aaron Hughes got this far through manipulation and, when it came down to it, finally dirtying his hands.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Felicia Carmichael and Maria Graham basically had their lives shit all over again and again and AGAIN.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? Quite a few. Listing them by name would be 'petty', wouldn't it?

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Tabi, whyyyyy!?

Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Deserving it? Aaron and Reiko. Had it coming? Maxwell, Ema, Hayley and Clio (still).


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: The Monsters Funeral, again. Ray breaks me every time.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Bloodgarden. Because most other things don't even come close.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: There is... a house... in New Orleans... they caaaaaaall the riiiiising sun...

Most Humourous Scene: That goddamn scene about the goddamn hat.

Most Action-packed Scene: The infirmary and the parish both had absolutely brutal moments. Maxwell's death was really John McClane-ish, too.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Sometimes, it's like I'm being asked the same question over and over. The funeral part of Monsters.

Most Drama-filled Scene: There was that one Jimmy kill with the shelves that I really liked. That one played out like a surprisingly suspenseful murder.

Most Unexpected Scene: I'd have to agree/reiterate from before with Reika's death. Blindside, that one.


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Recently, Tabi's stolen that for me. Rosa's was really crushing, too.

Most Violent Death: I think somebody already said Vivien. Yeah, let's go with that.

Most Disturbing Death: Vivien again. I really did like Rosa's death all the way through, though (including that controversial opener).

Most Unexpected Death: Reika's death. Again.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: I don't think we're ever going to see another Moxie kill.

Most Humorous Death: Finally, here we go. Remi Pierce. ... I'm kidding. Richard Han.


Predictions and Disillusionment

There's five people left - who are you counting on to be the overall winner of SOTFv4? Gee, I haven't the foggiest.

How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out? HAVEN'T. THE. FOGGIEST.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Tabi dying.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? Besides the obvious factors? How the hell should I know? A wider variety of characters that defy archtypes, I hope.

Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...) It was great. I really loved it, y'know?

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4? Totally dug it. I'd do it all over again.

What do you like the most about SOTFv4? Heads and shoulders over all the previous ones in terms of quality.

What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4? We had a few blemishes here and there in terms of activity, realism and post quality. I'd like to polish those out.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? HAHAHAHAHA no comparison.

How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4? ... I'll tell you when I do it.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? I think they get better each time, so maybe more.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? I can't wait to see where V5 takes it.

How do you feel about v5? Are you done asking me these things? Yeesh. It's gonna be great, I know it!


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in v4? Bloodgarden. Yeah, you heard me correctly. I stand by that thread to the end, and I'll let it be known. It was so fun to write all that gory shit and put it out there. Theraputic is all hell.

Which of your v4 characters was your favorite to write? Ivan Kuznetsov.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Blooooooooodgarden.

What are you proudest of in v4? How well the Ivan and Tabi dynamic played out. I think they were the best couple in SotF, though I could see putting in a vote for Rannaliese (who were more like siblings, but as a pair...)

What do you wish you could improve? A few posts here and there in Bloodgarden after John pointed out a few things.

What is your favorite OOC memory of v4? Ah, shit, that's a toughie. Uuuummm... I think the birth and short life of the tree branch meme.

What is your favorite v4 memory overall? Some of the fantastic teamwork I got to do with Greg, Julian, and others.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I'm going to kill you. Sleep tight!

Disclaimer: These picks vary hour by hour. I like so many characters and scenes, I can't even come close to listing them all. This is just what struck me off the top of my head tonight. I'd probably get a totally different list tomorrow.

The Basics

Handler Name: KillerVole

Your Trademark Character: Kimberly Nguyen

Current Status of Trademark Character: Waiting in the right place

Favourite Character: This is so tough. I really loved Erik Laurin, though.

Favourite Weapon: Hunga Munga

Favourite Scene: Julian and Raidon try to figure out where they stand after the end of their common goal.

Favourite Death: Ugh... so many. I think, though, I have to go with Naoko Raidon or Nick LeMonde. So many, though. It changes day to day.

Favourite Quote: “I start thinking to myself, every few minutes, 'Why haven't I shot this guy yet?' And maybe I have an answer. Maybe it's even a good one. Don't matter. Eventually I shoot you. Or I don't, cause you get to your gun first. Or maybe I just get so caught up in that dilemma that I don't notice whatever murderer creeping up on us till we're both dead.”

“It's wouldn't be a team. It never would've been a team.”

Favourite Thread: It's Not Warm When She's Away. What? Post-game counts. :p

Favourite Post: snap

Favourite Location: The Docks. I like the sea, and this location always just felt atmospheric to me. It's why I dropped in there so often.


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: Undoubtedly Naoko Raidon. It takes a lot to go from quasi-pacifist to villain to almost antihero. The best thing is, it all flows well and makes perfect sense.

Most Revolutionary Character: Ethan Kent, with Liz a very close runner up.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: You know what? I thought Zach Jamis was a perfect example of how to do something different really, really right. He wasn't a killer, but he was a total jerk a lot of the time. He had a softer side, but he never let it show through in the usual ways. He just ruled all around.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Tough, really tough. I think I'm gonna go with Nick LeMonde and RJ Lowe, though.

Most Heroic Character: That's tricky. V4 has had fewer traditional heroes than most games, I feel. Ivan Kuznetsov is pretty darn heroic, though. He protects Tabi, and (and this is the big bit) he's actually hesitant to kill.

Most Villainous Character: Hmm... Liam Brooks while insane. Nobody can touch that level of gleeful sadism. There's being a psycho, there's killing to win, and then there's Bloodgarden.

Most Tragic Character: I'd say Ilario. He lost his siblings, launched himself onto the killer's path by mistake, and is still convinced that he's in the right.

Most Humorous Character: Trent Savage. I like puns, and Stef had a great hand for being funny even while staying serious.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Probably Nick Reid or Alice Boucher. Both of them made perfect, intuitive sense to me.

Which character did you feel the most for? Funnily enough, I probably felt the most for Julian Avery. He tried to do the right thing, and in the end he was undone by his own rigid ideals.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Ericka Bradley, actually. She flew under the radar while keeping pretty healthy and clearly gunning to go far. She also didn't try to shake up what worked, tactics-wise, which is important.

Which character do you think had it the worst? RJ Lowe. He's the only one who literally never had a chance.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? Still peaceful, personally. A few I wasn't torn up about seeing go, though.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Zach Jamis or Naoko Raidon. Both of them had tons of potential to get even further than they did.

Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Oh man, no one had it coming like Remi Pierce. He was one of the few who is entirely to blame for his own demise.


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: A bunch of fairly decent people get left behind during the rescue. Back when I went "It makes sense for STAR to do this" staffside, I had no idea how it'd actually come out. Suffice to say, it was... pretty depressing a lot of the time.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Not gory, but Joe Rios vs. Alan Rickhall is creepy as heck in all the right ways.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: House of the Rising Sun. That, or when the rescued folks actually hit the ground in Saint Paul.

Most Humourous Scene: Jeremy Franco meets Leila and Jimmy and the Flowerheads. The really funny thing is, all of these characters are quite serious and deep in their own rights. They just happened to also come together for a perfect comedic storm.

Most Action-packed Scene: Jimmy vs. Alex

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Hmm... So many good ones. I already did sad, so I'm gonna pick another emotion and say this was very bittersweet in a great way: Ray comes home

Most Drama-filled Scene: Bloodgarden, once Jason and Nathan show up.

Most Unexpected Scene: Peter Siu murders Jessie. I thought it was coming, just... not like that.


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: This has just gotta be Tabi.

Most Violent Death: Maxwell. Heck, that one may even be possible to prove objectively true.

Most Disturbing Death: Daisuke Nagazawa. He never even saw it coming. Never even had a chance, since he was the first popped.

Most Unexpected Death: Echoing everyone else, but definitely Reika Ishida, with runner up to Dominic Stratford (see? I finally got it right).

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Alan loses a staring contest. This whole scene was very original and creepy. I love the concept.

Most Humorous Death: Richard Han


Predictions and Disillusionment

There's five people left - who are you counting on to be the overall winner of SOTFv4? Can't answer that one.

How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out? Ditto.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? By my count, I killed 32 inactives. I would have preferred that to not have become necessary.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? I think V5 will be different because handlers will have more practice and will be more invested in their characters. I'm hoping that, given the rules changes, we'll see far fewer fodder characters. Also, I think people will keep their hero cards longer.


Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4? I had a total blast.

What do you like the most about SOTFv4? I liked seeing all the different stories unfold, interact, and come together. V4 has been epic on a scale never before seen, and I think there is so much here. There are tons of hidden gems, amazing posts just waiting to be discovered.

What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4? I think there was, in some cases, an unfortunate fixation on being "cool" or "awesome" or "funny" as opposed to being realistic or high quality. Comedy and awesome moments are fine, as long as they fit the character and the story, but V4 definitely had a number that felt shoehorned in for popular appeal. I feel like a lot of characters were hurt by this.

Also, inactivity. I spent most of the game as the list-keeper, and it was not pretty.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? SOTF has way, way more depth. The characters are, by and large, more developed and more interesting. That said, SOTF lacks BR's cohesiveness and accessibility. You can sit down and read (or watch or whatever) BR and get the full story. the same is not true of SOTF unless you're willing to devote a whole lot of time to it. That said, you can follow (almost) any character in SOTF and get a complex, involving story. That's very much not true of BR.

How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4? It's exciting.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? With any luck, much improved. I think most of our handlers have grown a ton, and even many of the people who didn't get to participate in V4 have cut their teeth on the Mini, which means we have an overall higher average skill level going in.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? It's cool and stuff. Whenever I interact with it, though, I'm totally terrified I'm gonna mess everything up.

How do you feel about v5? I'm really excited! It should be awesome.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in v4? Oh man, so many. I had a list of handlers to thank for working with me, but it was, like, half the site. Anyways, if I had to pick just one thing right now, tonight, in my current mood, I would pick the scenes with Erik and Kimberly.

Which of your v4 characters was your favorite to write?
...I actually can't decide. I've written this a couple times, each way, and in the end it's a tie with Jennifer and Kimberly. Jennifer was the character who I wrote wholly without regard to whether she'd be at all popular or interesting or whatever, and just wrote what I wanted with her the whole game. Kimberly let me be a little dramatic and taught me a lot about the virtues of just going with the flow (I don't think her story was ever planned more than a thread ahead of where it was at).

Which was your favorite thread to participate in?
This one (Spoiler: I was Help in that instance). It was cool to be able to interact with such a crazy number of handlers, even if it was totally confusing and chaotic. I love writing with new people, and that thread had so much going on all the time.

What are you proudest of in v4?
That this looks almost nothing like this.

What do you wish you could improve?
All my writing? In seriousness, I have a ton to learn when it comes to writing, still. I'm never really quite satisfied with my work. If I had to pick a specific thing, though, I'd say my pregame stuff. I chose not to edit it, though, even when the section was still open, because that feels like cheating (except that one memory thread I fixed. That was totally fair. ><)

What is your favorite OOC memory of v4?
God, tons. Guessing where Rose's UN came from in chat, Ricky starting to call me "brother" and me taking a week to figure out who he was talking about, Tyth inviting me to join a thread when I was a total newbie and was afraid to post anywhere.

How 'bout realizing the only character relationships I had planned were with Deckmaster? That was a fun time. It actually forced me to open up and interact with the site a lot more, so there was some positive part of that mess.

What is your favorite v4 memory overall?
That's really tricky. Maybe just the sheer enthusiasm, IC and OOC, when the game opened up.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!
I just want to extend a huge thanks to each and every one of you. I haven't gotten half the handlers and characters on this list who need to be here, even with all the questions. Having read all of V4, it's really weird to be sitting here so close to the end, looking over the death list and realizing that I know each and every one of these characters, and remembering all their stories. Everyone has put so much work into this version, and it really, really shows. Thank you all for giving me so much fun reading over these past two years.

An ongoing thing to be edited as I have time.

The Basics

Handler Name: Grim Wolf

Your Trademark Character: I think by this point it's pretty clearly Naoko Raidon.

Current Status of Trademark Character: His body's lying quite dead in front of a house that has a painting, a body, and some rather fond memories in it.

Favourite Character: That's not even...don't do this to me SotF >_< Tie between Mizore Soryu and Julian Avery.

Favourite Weapon: The flashbangs provided me so much fun...

Favourite Scene: Hoo boy. There were so many good ones, many of which I was involved in. Um...let's see...Liz Polanski dies in the Tunnels. I thought it was gorgeous, eloquent, made excellent use of the format, and really brought the Liz Polanski arc to a close.

Favourite Death: Julian Avery, hands down.

Favourite Quote: "But you already know how that ends."

[B[Favourite Thread:[/B] Broken Like the Sun.

Favourite Post: Hate to be self-centered, but Raidon's final post in Retribution was one of my favorite things to write ever.

Favourite Location: That house in the Residential Area.


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: I actually really liked Garrett Hunter's slow development from sort of shallow thug to this much deeper character who struggled on as best he could.

Most Revolutionary Character: Liz Polanski. She broke the game and waged a one-woman war against the system, and really caused some lasting damage. STARS did the most, overall, but given her resources and her character Liz put up a hell of a fight.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Julian Avery. This light-hearted, manic would-be hero had me riveted from first reading.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: I thought Dutchy was actually supremely well-handled; he's naive, idealistic, and sort of doomed from the outset, and that made him supremely lovable and also supremely believable.

Most Heroic Character: Ethan Kent. When time came to make a play against the island, he went all out and put his own life up as payment. Completely self-sacrificing, completely noble.

Most Villainous Character: Aaron Hughes you magnificent bastard.

Most Tragic Character: Ivan Kuznetzov, now that Tabi's death. The thing that made him such a powerful force is now gone, just in time for endgame, and I can't wait to see whether it totally breaks him or gives him the fuel to win. Still, heart-breaking.

Most Humorous Character: Julian Avery, along with being an incredibly powerful character, also floored me sometimes with his superb danger dialogue.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Raidon, actually. I love a lot of the characters on the site, but Raidon's perspective is the only one that had such influence on me I sometimes found myself defending his actions from his perspective.

Which character did you feel the most for? Roland Harte. Reading his death from his perspective left me feeling a little sick inside, and pretty guilty.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Aaron Hughes. He was subtle, sneaky, manipulative, callous, a total bastard, and managed to skirt by practically unharmed.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Liz Polanski could not catch a fucking break.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? Samantha Ridley. Something in me just absolutely rejects assisted suicide, especially the way she was doing it.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Ethan Kent. I really wish he could have found a way to trick the game.

Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Samantha Ridley, Aaron Hughes, Maxwell Lombardi, and Reiko Ishida. Really, Reiko? You had to kill Carol right after Simon did a heroic sacrifice to save you guys?


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: Tabi's death, man. Geez.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Sweet jiggling jesus, Bloodgarden.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: Which scene do you think played a huge role in the changing the course of the game?

Most Humourous Scene: Which scene served as the best comic relief?

Most Action-packed Scene: Which scene had the most action going on?

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Which scene induced some kind of emotion in you the most effectively?

Most Drama-filled Scene: Which scene had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

Most Unexpected Scene: There are always these unexpected turn of events that you could not have seen coming from a mile a way.


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Which death brought the most tears to your eyes?

Most Violent Death: Which death do you think brought out the most gore/pain/blood/guts/etc.?

Most Disturbing Death: Which death scarred/traumatized/made you want to puke the most?

Most Unexpected Death: Which death struck you the most as totally coming out of the blue?

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: There are a million ways to skin a cat, and occasionally, you'll get a method that is just...totally...out there. Which one do you think fits the bill?

Most Humorous Death: If you find such a morbid matter so amusing.


Predictions and Disillusionment

There's five people left - who are you counting on to be the overall winner of SOTFv4? Come on, Ivan, you have god damn earned this.

How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out? Brutally.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Handling Simon. Man. I should've done way better.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? Other than obvious factors (different characters, different backstory, different island, different events, new rules) I think people will shake off a bit of their ridigness and be willing to get even more creative. I'm really looking forward to it.


Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4?

What do you like the most about SOTFv4?

What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4?

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR?

How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4?

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same?

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story?

How do you feel about v5?


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in v4? Everything I wrote with Jonny and story. I had to step up my game so much to match theirs, and it made me really proud of the resulting pieces. Broken Like the Sun, Failing to Reappear, Quiet Lives of Baron Saturday, All's Fair. Radio Nowhere. I think The Gully offered a supremely readable fight scene, with full thanks to KV for writing a fine opponent. But my favorite piece of personal writing are the confrontations with Maxwell.

Which of your v4 characters was your favorite to write? Mirabelle Nesa snuck up on me, but Raidon was pretty obviously my baby.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Quiet Lives of Baron Saturday, Failing to Reappear, and Retribution were all threads I had way too much fun with.

What are you proudest of in v4? I reread Naoko Raidon and realized I'd somehow made a coherent narrative that actually tracked from the outset. That, and I made a character who evolved in response to others and grew as time went on.

What do you wish you could improve? My writing as a whole, of course, but especially Simon Grey. He could have been so much more, and his failure to reach his potential was entirely due to my ineptitude.

What is your favorite OOC memory of v4? My discovery of Homestuck.

What is your favorite v4 memory overall?[ In-game? Geez, dunno. Any of the Soryu/Raidon RPs.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I'm so sad I'm dead because I just wanted to RP with you miserly sons of bitches more.

[Grand Moff Hissa]

[+] V4 Second Plastic Hammers Part Two

The Basics

Handler Name: Ciel

Your Trademark Character: Zach Jamis

Current Status of Trademark Character: ... seriously?

Favourite Character: It's a tie between Nick LeMonde and Jeremy Franco.

Favourite Weapon: MOXIE.

Favourite Scene: Step one, obtain a fedora. Step one, obtain a fedora.Step one, obtain a fedora.

Favourite Death: The Aristocrats, or more specifically, both of the deaths that happen in there. Great stuff.

Favourite Quote: "Biggest monster dies at the end of the book." Julian Avery. I can't get this line out of my head.

Favourite Thread: The Aristocrats. Yes.

Favourite Post: A tie between Karsk's first post with Jackson Ockley and Richard Han's - snrk - death post.

Favourite Location: the parish. That place got trashed to high hell.


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: Alice Blake. Her evolution did not happen all at once. It is a slow, steady descent that eats at her constantly, from her first thread to the escape. I liked her arc, and I'm very interested to see how her postgame will end.

Most Revolutionary Character: Ethan Kent by default. Because of cameras.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character:RJ Lowe. We've had mute characters in the game before, but no one's ever managed it quite as well as RJ. He was original, and he handled amazingly. Mizore Soryu is a personal favorite of mine too. She was unique and original without being outlandish and impossible. I could see her existing in real life. Also Aaron Hughes, for reasons I will be going into soon.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Nick LeMonde and RJ Lowe.

Most Heroic Character: Roland Harte was the most heroic character in v4. Actually, I really wished he ended up doing more on the island. The man clung to his values so tightly that not even the game could break his hold. He was strong, and he was a leader. Risking your life in order to save a complete stranger is the most heroic thing a person could do, and he did it numerous times.

Most Villainous Character: Aaron Hughes. There were far too many villains trying to look evil or badass this season. Not that there's anything wrong with that but... Aaron didn't even need to rank up the kill count to be a villain. All he needed to do was manipulate everyone, and he made short work of that.

Most Tragic Character: Roman Jackson. Jesus christ

Most Humorous Character: Jeremy Franco. Second place goes to all of Little's characters. All of them.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? ... there's a little bit of Kaitlin Anderheim in all of us.

Which character did you feel the most for? RJ. I felt for him his entire time on the island.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Aaron Hughes, most definitely. He went through the game making everyone think he was one of the good guys. Amazing way to play.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Ilario. It is my belief that Ilario wants to do the right thing. He wants to be a good person, a good son, a good brother. He was just pushed in the wrong direction. Now he's too far in to turn back. But what makes this tragic is that... he doesn't even realize this. He still thinks he's doing the right thing. That's just sad as hell.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? ... c:

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Annaliese Hansen. She just missed the escape. Also, anyone who got hit by the rolls consecutively. I mean jesus.

Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Aaron and Ema had it coming. Of the characters left, it is my opinion that the killers deserve to.... wait.


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: Most recently, Tabi's death scene.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: ... Bloodgarden

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: House of the Rising Sun.

Most Humourous Scene: The one with the hat.

Most Action-packed Scene: The Aristocrats.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Ivan and Tabi's moment of peace. I felt... very sad when the rolls came, and it's all because of that thread.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Haha, can't decide man!

Most Unexpected Scene: Liz getting her collar off, most definitely.


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Roman.Jackson. Jeez.

Most Violent Death: Vivien's death was needlessly violent and it really left a bad taste in my mouth.

Most Disturbing Death: Rosa's death made me cringe.

Most Unexpected Death: ... all the ones in the very beginning. Kinda wished there were less, actually.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: haha too many to count, so many odd/original deaths. Butttt.... moxie death?

Most Humorous Death: Richard Han and gravity have a love-hate relationship.


Predictions and Disillusionment

There's five people left - who are you counting on to be the overall winner of SOTFv4? Ilario. He's a personal favorite of mine, and his scenario for endgame would be a break from the norm. His fall from "grace", when he finally realizes that he is no better than the "animals", and how he will chose to respond will be great material for endgame. I have no doubt about that.

How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out? ... I predict that the ending will be amazing, no matter who wins. From all the shit that's happened off the island, I have no doubt about it.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I would make it so that GameMaker would not go inactive, so he could go on to write some of the greatest characters ever.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? To be frank? I think it's way too damn early to tell that! What I can see quite clearly is that there are some passionate newcomers in our ranks.


Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4? oh I loved it. Loved it so much.

What do you like the most about SOTFv4? I like how v4 is just five leagues ahead of V3. In pretty much every way possible. From killers to escape plans. V3 had some great stuff, but it pales in comparison. That's my opinion though, feel free to disagree.

What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4? Only thing, for me? I really hoped we held onto our hero cards. Things might have turned out differently if that were the case.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? At this point we're past comparisons. Sotf is in a different field than Battle Royale. Stating otherwise would be an insult. But I will agree with Toben that BR trumps Sotf in accessibility. If there's one thing BR has, it's great pacing. This is simply not the case with SotF, where there are so many characters with their own arcs that it's hard to keep track.

How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4? No offence, but I feel that we should stop predicting whether the ending is going to be bad just because most of the finalists are passive. Huge names and big killers a good ending does not make. Each one of these handlers are passionate, and dedicated to their characters. I am sure they are doing all they can to write a perfect endgame, and even if it isn't the greatest thing ever? Who cares! V4 was awesome, you can't deny that.

What I'm trying to say is, let the ending speak for itself. Thinking negatively and expecting the worst will get us nowhere. And that's coming from me.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? Can't really answer that. If people are willing to take risks like in v4 without going overboard, then maybe it'll be even greater.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? There's been a huge rise in quality, story wise. I love it. I hope the mods can keep it up.

How do you feel about v5? Five version anniversary!


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in v4? While he was not my favorite to write, I'll admit Zach Jamis's little mental dialogues were a blast to write.

Which of your v4 characters was your favorite to write? Kitty Gittschall. Kitty is my first official villain in sotf. I wanted a lot of things from her. I wanted her to be a horrible, self-righteous bitch who always put herself in front of others, but she had to have some capacity to feel emotion and care for others. I wanted her to be a player, but her reasoning couldn't be that it was 'cool' to kill. I wanted her to be a little off but not a complete nutjob, a girl who's weird but not nearly as strange as people think she is. To me, Kitty was all these things and more. And I enjoyed every last minute writing her.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? The Moon is Laughing at You. It had like fifty people in there, but it did not feel cluttered. I was worried it was going to be hard to follow, but it never got that bad. Everything was spaced out perfectly. Plus, I have to commend Ian and Pigeon for being able to handle their scene. It was funny and it added a lot to the thread.

What are you proudest of in v4? I'm obligated to say Zach Jamis or Kitty. Zach was my best character in V4 bt far, as much as I cringe at some of the shit I made him do, and Kitty was my personal favorite... BUT. I am most proud of the quality of Jessica Pentangeli's posts in her last threads. Especially her last post. I am astonished.

What do you wish you could improve? Everything. I like to carry my pessimism with me at all times. To be specific though. I would change everything about Zach's death. It felt like I was forcing the shit I never got to say in and it came out all horrible. I honestly believe it bogged down Saul's and Raidon's deaths.

What is your favorite OOC memory of v4? Involving me? Getting together with Renard and working on a death. To be honest, it was the best death I've ever worked on OOCly. Renard and me were on the same wavelength the entire time and it was just amazing to write a death was just in sync with both character. Does that make any sense? Probably not.

Not involving me? There are a bunch, mostly stuff from the chatroom, but my favorite memory was when RJ Lowe got rolled for a fourth time, and despite Stark's refusal, people wanted to save him anyway.

What is your favorite v4 memory overall?... gotta give it to the mods, the event happening outside of the island managed to be even more suspenseful and interesting than ever before.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Want to know a secret? Sometimes I go back to my old v4 posts and edit them. Small things I don't care if anyone notices the changes, I do it because I want to. And you know what? No matter what I do, they never look right.

Want to know something else? I put invisatext inside Johnny McDowell's first two posts. It's been sitting there for months and I don't think anyone's noticed. Go look if you want. It might crop back up.

Also also?

Thanks. For making v4 so awesome.

Now watch this.

Handler Name: storyspoiler

Your Trademark Character: All of 'em, for different scenes and different reasons.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Liz is dead in the Tunnels, Mizore's escaped, Alice is dead on the mountain.

Favourite Character: Raidon & Kimberly consistently blew me out of the water.

Favourite Weapon: Liquid nitrogen…wish I could have gotten my hands on that. Though Alice's Nazi gun comes close, just because it's incredibly useless and SO OBVIOUSLY EVIL.

Favourite Scene: Two Roads Diverged In A Dark Hellhole.

Favourite Death: I know I was part of it…but Sarah Atwell's death at the hands of Alice Boucher.

Favourite Quote: "‪Say what you will about God's reliability, but if you ask him for douchebags, he will deliver.‬"

Favourite Thread: Burn On.

Favourite Post: Dead Girls.

Favourite Location: Residential Area.

The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: Charlie DuClare. She started so, so scared, and ended up standing up to Aaron Hughes and accepting death like the bravest among them.

Most Revolutionary Character: Liz, or Ethan.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: I still love my Mizore Soryu, but Zach Jamis was superb. Franco too, as he walked the line between comic relief, scary snaps, and a little bit tragic.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: I hate this question.

Most Heroic Character: Mirabelle Nesa. You didn't always do the right thing, girl, but God knows, you tried.

Most Villainous Character: People who kill and feel morally satisfied doing it really push that button for me. And there weren't many doing that here.

Most Tragic Character: Naoko Raidon.

Most Humorous Character: Hayley Kelly, oddly. She wasn't slapstick, but her snarky humor at her situation was excellent.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Eiko Haraguchi.

Which character did you feel the most for? Aston Bennet. There was a hell of a lot of sadness and gore in these posts…but no one was _frustrated_ like Aston Bennet, the girl who had built herself up to be the best. Every post of hers I read ended with me gritting my teeth.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Tabi and Ivan started as a team, protected each other as a team, and ended as a team.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Helen Wilson. Died right before she got on the boats.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? None of them.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? …all of them? Oh, you mean who do I want in Endgame? Naoko Raidon, obviously. For my dear Mizore. I also wish Kitty G. had stuck around a little longer.

Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Seriously, guys, these are kids stuck on hellmurder island and forced to kill their classmates 'till they die. No one had it coming.

The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: Act II: A Mirror Dimly. Two people, tiny movements, tragic and beautiful. James, Rosie, you're the best people on this board.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Eve Walker-Luther's death.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: "House Of The Rising Sun" and "Faraday's Cages".

Most Humourous Scene: Maxwell Lombardi kills George Liedman while Hayley Kelly spies on them. It's black humor, but Maxwell's and Hayley's narration during this bit are priceless.

Most Action-packed Scene: Any fight scene with Maxwell Lombardi in it.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Petra with the violin. Tragic, strange, and quietly uplifting.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Act II: A Mirror Dimly (again)

Most Unexpected Scene: Announcement 8 and The Cavalry Arrives.

Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Hilary Strand's suicide.

Most Violent Death: Janet Claymont's death at the hands of Kris Hartmann.

Most Disturbing Death: Peter Siu's killing of Jessie Anderson. Unexpected and, when you think through the implications of it, it kind of hurts your head.

Most Unexpected Death: Jackson Ockley, at the hands of Ilario Fiametta. I didn't know what was coming there, read that thread and was knocked out of my seat.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Richard Han.

Most Humorous Death: Richard Han, again. Seriously.

Predictions and Disillusionment

There's five people left - who are you counting on to be the overall winner of SOTFv4? Kimberly Nyugen.

How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out? Some people will die between now and then.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Have more people escape. Also, I would have liked to see Kitty G. become a real player.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? Er…more people?

Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4? Yes.

What do you like the most about SOTFv4? I could let my melodrama out.

What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4? Go away, realism police!

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? Haven't read the original.

How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4? Don't disappoint me, bros.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? We'll find out…

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? Finally, Danya died! I was wondering if the island was invisible or something.

How do you feel about v5? Yes.

Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in v4? "Blackout", with KillerVole.

Which of your v4 characters was your favorite to write? Liz while escaping, Mizore with Raidon, Alice during and directly after Sarah's death.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? The Quiet Lives Of Baron Saturday.

What are you proudest of in v4? Learning how to write Mizore.

What do you wish you could improve? Everything. My writing is…fragmented.

What is your favorite OOC memory of v4? Grim & I writing scenes together.

What is your favorite v4 memory overall? Emotional turmoil!

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I'm awfully excited for all the new blood.

The Basics

Handler Name: Inky

Your Trademark Character: Two - Brendan Wallace & Aston Bennett (although she may not be really mine anymore, given away and all)

Current Status of Trademark Character: Eating a burger and dead respectively.

Favourite Character: Not going to choose - in hindsight, I loved them all equally.

Favourite Weapon: My love of the meteor hammer will never die

Favourite Scene: The Might Sparrow

Favourite Death: Don't make me choose.

Favourite Quote: Rena's breakdown in It Knows Nothing of Whim

Favourite Thread: The Gully.

Favourite Post: See favourite quote

Favourite Location: Both of the beaches.


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: Alice Boucher. Compare pre-game Alice to Alice in her last post.

Most Revolutionary Character: Cope out no.2 - Both Ethan Kent and Liz Polanski had big influences.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Raidon Naoko, in a good way of course.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Raymond Dawson. Same answer and reason as last time.

Most Heroic Character: Peter Siu was, for the most part, so so misguided, but his intentions were good to a point and I can forgive that.

Most Villainous Character: Ema Ryan really stepped up and showed herself. After rereading Hayley/Ema/Kyle, I can totally see where it came from now.

Most Tragic Character: They're all tragic, in a way. They've all done things and had things happen to them to make them each tragic in their own ways.

Most Humorous Character: Milo Taylor had the right kind of humour inside of him.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Robert Lerger, again from last time.

Which character did you feel the most for? Kimberly Nguyen.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Is there any real set-in-stone way to play this game? The only real way to play the game the best is to win, and so far only people who have killed a lot of people have done that. We won't know who played the best until v4 is over.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Dude, they're being forced to kill each other. They all had it the worst.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? Repeated from last time, Julian Avery with a side helping of Peter Siu.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Like I said last time, they all died for a reason.

Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Aaron Hughes.


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: Simon Fletcher and Duncan McMahon's deaths. Holy shit.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Helen performing an appendectomy on herself. I don't think I've ever been more queasy (that does not count She-Bop in v3).

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: Once again, HOTRS and Faraday's.

Most Humourous Scene: It's hard to think about, but most of the earlier scenes. Jimmy waking up, Remi blowing himself up, Dallas blowing himself up...

Most Action-packed Scene: The Gully.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: *douche who can't give one answer* Duncan & Simon's deaths, and Rena's breakdown in the Tunnels.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Finalizing Plans. Yeah, one of my (previous) characters was there, but it was hard to tell what was going to happen. Two rolled characters in a thread - who's going to kill who?

Most Unexpected Scene: Alex White monologues for a book and a half in the tunnels. tl;dr you rarely see in stuff like SOTF.


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Duncan and Simon. Stop asking plz.

Most Violent Death: Robert Lerger - chainsaw is not fun.

Most Disturbing Death: Brock's death.

Most Unexpected Death: The six early non-roll deaths. Apart from Eric and Chris, I wasn't expecting many of them.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: I dunno. Two appendix-related deaths is a pretty good record, both R.J. Lowe and Helen Wilson have that little one-up on the competition.

Most Humorous Death: I do not find such a morbid matter amusing.


Predictions and Disillusionment

There's five people left - who are you counting on to be the overall winner of SOTFv4? Kimberly or Ericka.

How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out? Good I suppose.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Nope. Certain OOC things, but nothing that happened in-story.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? Other than obvious factors (different characters, different backstory, different island, different events, new rules), the tone will be different. Nearly everyone who's in v5 pre game atm has had experience writing in either Mini or v4 or beyond, so I'm pretty sure that keeping a serious and deadly tone throughout (which v4 kinda failed to do with so many comedy characters and scenes) will be an almost non-issue.


Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4? It was fun for my first real writing experience. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

What do you like the most about SOTFv4? Being in v4. And one of my characters making the final rolls (by default anyway, since she was as much Ciel's and infinityhype's character as mine).

What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4? The realism police need to get a life.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? I wouldn't.

How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4? Pretty excited.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? Well, I'm hoping it's better than v4, it will be pretty damn better than 1 or 2, but it has to go a pretty long way to be better than v3.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? S'fine.

How do you feel about v5? Can't wait.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in v4? Brendan/Peter from Peripeteia to The Cavalry Arrives.

Which of your v4 characters was your favorite to write? Different stages. In pre game, it was Paige. At the start of the game was Jacob. Somewhere after Clio's death was Maf and Aston. After a while it was Brendan. After he left, it was Aston all the way. Overall, Aston was my favourite though.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? The Beggar King and The Gully, followed extremely closely by Cracking. You rock, storyspoiler.

What are you proudest of in v4? Aston full stop.

What do you wish you could improve? Every damn thing. I'm a pretty self-loathing writer.

What is your favorite OOC memory of v4? Getting my first BDA nomination. After that, skipping school to evacuate Brendan from the island in the escape thread.

What is your favorite v4 memory overall? Starting it, then being here throughout to the finish.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Every single one of the five handlers in endgame has the potential and capacity to do a fantastic piece of work, no matter what any of you think. From face to MK to TDS, we will see a great end result no matter what from every single one of them.

The Basics

Handler Name: Stark

Your Trademark Character: R.J. Lowe

Current Status of Trademark Character: Never stood a chance, poor guy.

Favourite Character: Ivan Kuznetsov.

Favourite Weapon: Make mine Moxie.

Favourite Scene: The Eighth Announcement. PERMANENTLY CHANGIN' THE GAME, HATER.

Favourite Death: Ethan Goddamn Kent. If you gotta go out, go out in style.

Favourite Quote: "Always cheat, always win."

Favourite Thread: House of the Rising Sun.

Favourite Post: snap. Amazing what context can do for one little word.

Favourite Location: My bias may be showing, but the tunnels have a special place in my heart.


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: While I was never high on Alice Boucher, her character development was, in retrospect, surprisingly fascinating.

Most Revolutionary Character: Ethan Goddamn Kent. I refuse to believe his middle name is anything else.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: I won't lie, I can name a dozen characters off the top of my head who were more unique, but Annaliese Hanson gets the edge for being the most unique character for whom I'd use the term in a complimentary manner.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Hayley Kelly may not sound like the most likely answer to this question, but I swear to god I dated her in college, so I'm going to roll with it. Among those who don't remind me of anyone, though, Nick LeMonde stands out.

Most Heroic Character: Ethan Goddamn Kent died for your sins.

Most Villainous Character: I don't want to go with the obvious answer, but I can't come up with an argument for anyone else that could trump the detached, self-satisfied breed of psychopathy provided by Maxwell Lombardi.

Most Tragic Character: Roman Jackson. Good lord.

Most Humorous Character: He kind of tailed away from it later on, but on the whole, Jimmy Brennan had the best body of work.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Other than the self-insert? I totally feel Ivan's feel. And not for the obvious reasons.

Which character did you feel the most for? Oh man, between Maria Graham, Eve Walker-Luther, and Dutchy, the three of them just absolutely play Canon in D with my heartstrings.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Stop me if you've heard this one before, but Ethan Goddamn Kent. You can try the old fashioned way if you want, ask Dodd and Riz how that worked for them. In my mind, you don't truly win the game unless you break it.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Bias again, but Eve has been my choice from day one for this. I have a thing about teen moms where they're kind of my berserk button.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? R.J. Lowe. What a dick.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Again, Eve.

Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? I could give so many different answers to this. There's been no shortage of assholes this time around, and really, they're fictional, so it's not like I have to feel bad about it.


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: Tabi's death. I'm sorry, I just have sand in my eye, excuse me.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Bloodgarden. The less said there, the better.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: This isn't even a question. Announcement Eight. We're talking left-me-wondering-how-a-V5-would-be-possible kind of pivotal.

Most Humourous Scene: Jimmy Brennan losing his shit. Any given instance.

Most Action-packed Scene: What do you call an act like that?

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: See Most Tragic.

Most Drama-filled Scene: The Escape.

Most Unexpected Scene: Liz Polanski disabling her collar.


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: I think we've covered this, yeah?

Most Violent Death: Vivien's death, carried out with all the dignity and grace of The Human Centipede.

Most Disturbing Death: I didn't want to mention anything I wrote, but the fact that I helped make Rekka Saionji's death possible disturbs me in itself. I hope never to use the word "concave" to describe a human head again.

Most Unexpected Death: Let's be honest. You didn't think they'd really summon a bear, did you?

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: On a sort of meta level, Richard Han deserves credit for creative use of the medium. Story-wise, though, it's always a delight, to me, to see a joke weapon put to effective use, and it's never been done more memorably than Jimmy's Moxie.

Most Humorous Death: Richard gets this one all to himself, though.


Predictions and Disillusionment

There's five people left - who are you counting on to be the overall winner of SOTFv4? As much as I want a girl to win, I want a likeable character to win more, so I'm pulling for Ivan all the way.

How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they all die in the final fight.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I would have read more of the second half.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? Other than obvious factors (different characters, different backstory, different island, different events, new rules) Boy, that doesn't leave much.


Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4? What I was present for, I wouldn't trade for anything.

What do you like the most about SOTFv4? That because we were able to pull off something of this scale to the degree we did, I may never truly be able to objectively answer this question. There were 276 stories to be told, each one memorable in its own way, intersecting with one another like a spiderweb. It's a sight to behold, really.

What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4? While it's come a long way from its humble beginnings with regards to realism, we weren't without our snags here and there, to be completely honest. Also, we could stand to be a bit more active in V5. I'm honestly surprised it was only 32.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? nope.avi

How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4? Just a big congratulation shout out to everyone still in it. Other than that, we'll just have to see how it plays out.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? It will most certainly be interesting to watch it unfold, but I won't speak to comparative quality until more is set in stone.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? That we could satisfactorily conclude with V4, but with confidence in the minds behind the story to make it work.

How do you feel about v5? We'll see. We'll see.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in v4? R.J.'s final note to Mary-Ann is one of the few things I'm truly proud of about my contributions to SotF.

Which of your v4 characters was your favorite to write? Well, I didn't write the other two a whole lot, so...

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Feral Intelligence. Before that, R.J. and Mary-Ann just sort of bounced from thread to thread, trying to get a rhythm going, but once he got there, it was the first time he really felt like he was doing more than just passing through.

What are you proudest of in v4? As above.

What do you wish you could improve? Everything. And really, no matter how much I improve at everything, I'm only going to want to keep improving. So stop bugging me about it. Sheesh.

What is your favorite OOC memory of v4? Never Have I Ever in chat. Truly a learning experience for everyone.

What is your favorite v4 memory overall? Meeting, and having the opportunity to RP with, the best goddamn bunch of writers I've ever seen in action.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I think that's it, actually! Here's to staying put all the way through V5. Cheers!

The Basics

Handler Name: Acidic

Your Trademark Character: None

Current Status of Trademark Character: Being nothing.

Favourite Character: Way too many I enjoyed reading.

Favourite Weapon: Can't think of one.

Favourite Scene: Ah man, so many. I'm going to say when Janet and Jay met in "Grace" Under Pressure. It was the first thread I read, and it stuck with me.

Favourite Death: Too many good ones to decide from, but I'm gonna say Winnie Clark's death.

Favourite Quote: Can't think of any I'm attached to.

Favourite Thread: "Grace" Under Pressure

Favourite Post: I can't remember which announcement it was, but the one where Liz decided to keep breaking cameras.

Favourite Location: Logging Road


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: I dunno, sorry.

Most Revolutionary Character: Liz, Ethan, and Team Ego get point. Also, Dorian (not a student, but you never specified so neener)

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Well, I'm going to say Pandora Black. She was fun to read.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: I think they all did fine for a few exceptions.

Most Heroic Character: Many tried, and for that they get points.

Most Villainous Character: Aaron, Ema, and Maxwell come to mind immediately.

Most Tragic Character: I guess everyone, but those who died the first day, I think, get to me.

Most Humorous Character: Jimmy Brennen comes to mind.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Liz, because when Danya made the "One Camera = One Life" happen my first thought was, "Lets see how many Danya's willing to kill then."

Which character did you feel the most for?

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Aaron and Ema where doing well, and Erika whoe is still alive.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Many had it bad, but Kimberly got shot the first day. That's gotta suck.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? Hayley and Maxwell were obviously mad dogs.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Well, obviously all of them.

Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Of those dead: Aaron, Staffan, Hayley, Maxwell, and Alex White. There were many who needed taking down, but those are the ones who needed taking down. Still alive: I'd only want two to win, and that'll be seen later.


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: It's hard to really hit me, but Jimmy's and Alex's deaths goes here for me. Just the fact they were willing to keep going after each other with all the damage they took was sad.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: See above.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: Liz disables her collar, and the rescue.

Most Humourous Scene: Can't think of it atm, sorry.

Most Action-packed Scene: The Aristocrats again.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Sarah Atwell's death.

Most Drama-filled Scene: The Aristocrats, again. For I'm a broken record.

Most Unexpected Scene: Aaron killed Fiona. I never expected him to kill someone.


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Maria's legit depressed me.

Most Violent Death: Bill Davis being shanked with a broken mirror.

Most Disturbing Death: Jimmy's and Alex's. There probably many I'm missing, and I'm a broken record yhatta, yhatta, yhatta

Most Unexpected Death: Which death struck you the most as totally coming out of the blue?

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: The flare gun death.

Most Humorous Death: There was one that got me to giggle, but I can't remember it atm. Sorry.


Predictions and Disillusionment

There's five people left - who are you counting on to be the overall winner of SOTFv4? Ivan and Kimberly are the only ones I want to live.

How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out? Win if no one goes inactive.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Inactivity. Too many, but I'm secretly thankful since that mean we can get to V5 sooner >.>

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? The newbs like me have been waiting, biding our time in the mini's.


Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4? I would've stuck around if I didn't like it.

What do you like the most about SOTFv4? The diversity of characters.

What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4? So. Many. Characters.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? More in depth with it's characters here than in BR.

How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4? Win.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? More, because I'll be in it. XD

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? Seems alright, but I need to do more reading.

How do you feel about v5? I'm looking forward to it.


Talk About Yourself

I'm skipping this, since I wasn't in this version.

This is when I wish I'd read more of V4...


The Basics

Handler Name: xylophonefairy

Your Trademark Character: Er, I don't really know which one was my trademark...

Current Status of Trademark Character: They're all dead, unless it was Acacia, in which case she's currently having a bitch fight with Alex Jackson in Post-Game

Favourite Character: I don't know! This question sucks.

Favourite Weapon: Trumpet. That thing got loads of people off the island.

Favourite Scene: The Cavalry Arrives

Favourite Death: I suck at coming up with global favourites for things. I quite liked Ema Ryan's though.

Favourite Quote: "I'm fine. And I made it here all alone with no help from anyone. Can you say the same? Can you survive all on your own?" - Autumn McLeary. That one stuck with me for some reason.

Favourite Thread: Escape threads

Favourite Post: 8th Announcement

Favourite Location: Infirmary (I think it's the medic in me)


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: Kitty Gitschall

Most Revolutionary Character: Liz Polanski and Ethan Kent between them managed to change the entire course of the game, so I think they can share this.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: I always though Peter Siu was quite unique.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: We did wonders with realism this time round, so I really don't know!

Most Heroic Character: Ethan Kent

Most Villainous Character: I've got to go for Liam Brooks. He's creeeeeepy.

Most Tragic Character: Leila had a pretty rubbish time of things, but she did survive for quite a while.

Most Humorous Character: I always found the Dave/Isabel interaction amusing.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Well I'd say Helen cos she was a bit of a self insert.

Which character did you feel the most for? Leila Langford, so nearly made it into the final five!

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Everyone who's still alive (including escaped characters) obviously did something right. Also Aaron Hughes.

Which character do you think had it the worst? All the ones who died on day 1. Bad times.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? Maxwell Lombardi. I don't feel like he did the "British villain" stereotype any favours... Heh.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? OH lots. Feo springs to mind.

Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? All the players had/have it coming.


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: There were a whole bunch of death scenes that did this for me.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Maxwell Lombardi's death was kinda gross

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: Rescue threads

Most Humourous Scene: The second part of GRAVITYYYY

Most Action-packed Scene: The ones with the AT chasing Liz

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Annaliese's death

Most Drama-filled Scene: The one with the AT's chasing Liz. The Gully?

Most Unexpected Scene: Liz melting her collar and her neck. I was even in that thread. Still unexpected.


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Annaliese Hansen

Most Violent Death: Some of the Bloodgarden ones were pretty messed up

Most Disturbing Death: Again, Maxwell Lombardi

Most Unexpected Death: The guy right at the beginning, Dallas Reynolds? That post made me jump.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Moxie death. I didn't even know what Moxie was until recently. I like seeing joke weapons used for something though.

Most Humorous Death: Is it really boring to say Richard Han?


Predictions and Disillusionment

There's five people left - who are you counting on to be the overall winner of SOTFv4? I suck at predictions, srsly. Let's say Ericka. TDS has had incredible luck with the rolls so maybe that'll continue!

How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out? I reckon we'll get down to one person left, but Greynolds et al will have already made their escape, so the winner will just be mooching round on the island for days with only dead bodies for company and no one left to kill them, begging the cameras to let them go free but nobody's watching. Oh and I think a girl's gonna win. Just cos of odds.

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I would have read more of it while there was still a manageable amount to read.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? The lack of Danya throughout will change the whole feel of it fairly dramatically I think.


Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4? IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH WAITING A REALLY REALLY LONG TIME FOR!!!

What do you like the most about SOTFv4? Just being a part of it.

What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4? Fewer characters maybe, it was really hard to keep up.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? Ooh, uh, I can answer this now as I've finally gotten around to reading BR. I think it's on a different level, it's just so much bigger. BR follows three characters pretty much, whereas with SOTF you can follow one person through the whole thing and I think that's really awesome.

How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4? Kinda sad actually. My first SOTF coming to an end. Also excited because it'll be awesome.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? Equally or more, depends on what happens really. But I'm also not sure, are we going to go every version trying to be more epic than the one before?

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? -hugs laptop-

How do you feel about v5? Excited, hoping I'm still gonna have time to take part when it rolls around </med student angst>


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in v4? Helen's appendectomy was quite fun I guess.

Which of your v4 characters was your favorite to write? Ummm. I honestly don't know. They were all fun.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? House of the Rising Sun/YYZ

What are you proudest of in v4? Getting to be a part of Team Ego

What do you wish you could improve? Creativity - all the interesting things that happened to my characters were usually a result of someone else having a bright idea. I need to come up with some fun storylines too, return the favour!

What is your favorite OOC memory of v4? Winning a BDA. Sitting in chat during the countdown to the escape plot closing was quite exciting too.

What is your favorite v4 memory overall? Oh, uh, I think it was just the bit about a third of the way though when Maddy was dead (three characters are easier to manage than 4), Acacia and Roman were still hanging out together, Neill, Bobby and Ray were still hanging out together, and Helen was helping with the whole rescue thingy. Just the general character happiness, and feeling involved, that was good.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! <3

The Basics

Handler Name: Mimi, Mumu, Moomoo ANY VARIATION PICK YOUR OWN ADVENTURE.

Your Trademark Character: Probably Sierra Manning?

Current Status of Trademark Character: Inactive killed by her bestest friend :c

Favourite Character: Jen Perez/Aislyn McCreery/Feo Eleri Smith. Clearly I'm a big fat sexist.

Favourite Weapon: Still the tire ironnnn. I'm refuse to leave SOTF until I get my hands on a tire iron.

Favourite Scene: Ohhh, that's tricky. Probably Acacia Salinger euthanizing Roman Jackson.

Favourite Death: Aislyn, bitch definitely could've taken it home had she gotten to the end. The mutual murders of Charlotte Cave and Jaclyn Krushe is right up there too!

Favourite Quote: "And you, behind Duncan. Stop crying, you're embarrasing youself. And by the way, this oar is mine now." Feo Eleri Smith showing that beautiful, beautiful bitch streak <3

Favourite Thread: If That Looking Glass Gets Broke, Rose is good at everything, but she especially nailed it with Dom's descent into crazy-land.

Favourite Post: Hallucinogenic's single 'crack' post really jumps out at me. As far as something more substantial, I'll always love Jen Perez musing in Somewhere That's Green

Favourite Location: The Gazebo!


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: I loved watching Isabel Guerra finally give her dad a good bitching in Post-Game. Pandora Black's evolution from comic relief to serious character was nice as well!

Most Revolutionary Character: Mmm, Ethan Kent for sure. He more or less single handedly saved a good portion of Bayview.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Julian Avery was something pretty new, wasn't he?

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Acacia Salinger! Xylophone is fantastic at capturing how real people would react in situations and I'm super envious of that!

Most Heroic Character: V4 was full of douchebags, honestly. I mean, I guess Ethan and Feo were begrudging heroes?

Most Villainous Character: Oh lord. Master-manipulator Aaron Hughes, of course.

Most Tragic Character: Nick Reid springs to mind, but his tragedy came in the form of creepy-pants crazy.

Most Humorous Character: I remember being super amused by Mia Kuiper.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Anyone who cried and hid.

Which character did you feel the most for? Leila Langford, poor chicky got ruined on the island. Along with Helen Wilson, who died right before getting rescued.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Aaron Hughes and his ability to keep blood off his hands while still getting his way!

Which character do you think had it the worst? Leila and her broken down self!

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? I'm a lover not a fighter~~

Which character do you think should NOT have died? AISLYN, CAUSE I'M A BROKEN RECORD.

Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Liam definitely had it coming.


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: Aislyn's death

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Oh jeez, maybe the imagery of Francine Moreau's death? :s

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: STAR coming to rescue to kids!

Most Humourous Scene: Anything with Team Ego!

Most Action-packed Scene: Mmm, can't think of one at the moment :c

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Liz pissed me off in every scene she was in.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Aaron vs. Aston vs. Tabi & Ivan

Most Unexpected Scene: Leila Langford assisting Hillary Strand's suicide.


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Jessica Pentagelli committing suicide

Most Violent Death: The Bloodgarden murders perhaps?

Most Disturbing Death: Dom Stratford, probably.

Most Unexpected Death: AISLYN. Sue me :c.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Charlotte Cave vs. Jaclyn Krushe

Most Humorous Death: None really.


Predictions and Disillusionment

There's five people left - who are you counting on to be the overall winner of SOTFv4? Ilario better bring it hoooome. I'd say Kim, but it'd ruin my chances to have the first female winner :c

How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out? Not sure!

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Getting two jobs and going inactive.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? Mmm! I think people are gonna be more willing to have different character concepts, less of the 'loner anime fan' things!


Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4? I loved reading every else's characters, but I didn't really enjoy my own too much while writing them because I'd stress about everything having to be perfect and it just took all the fun away.

What do you like the most about SOTFv4? Definitely the characters and the terrorist plot twists!

What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4? There are so many overlooked characters this season, it would've been nice to see a couple of them get the attention they deserved.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? WE DID IT BETTER.

How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4? Should be awesomeee. I had the utmost faith in the handlers involved!

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? On a personal level, I think I'll enjoy it more!

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? What's not to love?

How do you feel about v5? I think it'll be just as good, if not better!


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in v4? Sierra and Josie's relationship!

Which of your v4 characters was your favorite to write? Probably Gracie, I really got to let my bitch flag fly with her.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? We Are The Sleepyheads!

What are you proudest of in v4? Winning the first character of the month!

What do you wish you could improve? I'm going to make a conscious effort in v5 to write for /myself/, not to write to impress other people. Trying to make everything perfection drains the fun, trust me.

What is your favorite OOC memory of v4? MY FACEBOOK MARRIAGE AND SUBSEQUENT ADOPTION.

What is your favorite v4 memory overall? Writing with my Chelseabear!

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I'm really excited for the new Muppets Movie, Miss Piggy is my hero.

The Basics

Handler Name: Jonny

Your Trademark Character: It was always Charlie.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Happy

Favourite Character: Kimberly Nguyen

Favourite Weapon: Partario

Favourite Scene: The one that's about a hat.

Favourite Death: Hilary Strand

Favourite Quote: Hey Kris, just wanted you to know, I forgive you.

Favourite Thread: Burn On

Favourite Post: When Kimberly kills Kris. This is the best post in SotF history.

Favourite Location: Fire swamp


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: Alice Boucher

Most Revolutionary Character: There are only two characters that ever get named for this one and they are both the correct choice.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Mizore had a take on the island that I don't think we've ever seen before. And then she had to fall in love, the nitwit!

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Fuck realism

Most Heroic Character: Mirabelle Nessa

Most Villainous Character: Aaron Hughes

Most Tragic Character: Raidon Naoko

Most Humorous Character: Milo Taylor


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Aaron Hughes

Which character did you feel the most for? Ily

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? I'd go for Aaron again but... that kind of manipulation was always gonna collapse on itself. Ericka's done well for herself, hasn't she? Very dangerous without making herself a target.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Ily again

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself? I kinda don't kill people

Which character do you think should NOT have died? All of them, Raidon being the most salient subset of all of them

Which character do you think deserves to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Stop this nonsense


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: When people didn't get rescued

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Brock Mason's death

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: A couple of boats show up

Most Humourous Scene: The Only Way is Up

Most Action-packed Scene: Max vs Raidon II

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Which scene induced some kind of emotion in you the most effectively?

Most Drama-filled Scene: The Gully

Most Unexpected Scene: Holy fuck there are boats


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Hilary Strand

Most Violent Death: Eve Walker-Luther

Most Disturbing Death: The aforementioned Brock Mason

Most Unexpected Death: Which death struck you the most as totally coming out of the blue?

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Richard Han

Most Humorous Death: Richard Han again


Predictions and Disillusionment

There's five people left - who are you counting on to be the overall winner of SOTFv4? Kimberly

How do you predict the ending of SOTFv4 is going to turn out? Nothing I predict ever comes true

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Would've worked up the courage to tell Toben I love him before he shipped off to the front

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? Hopefully


Your thoughts on SOTFv4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFv4? Enjoyed it pretty well

What do you like the most about SOTFv4? All my threadmates who put up with my bullshit

What do you think could have been better about SOTFv4? Less hostility between members and more of an environment of open constructive criticism

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? BR is a piece of shit and SotF is not

How do you feel about the upcoming ENDING of SOTF V4? TEAM NGUYEN BRING IT FUCK YEAH

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? The overall arc is upward, so...

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? It's as ridiculous of a setup as ever, but I really liked the developments in staff posts this time around.

How do you feel about v5? Excited!


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in v4? Haha you think you can get me to narrow it down well you are wrong. For Julian and Charlie, it was their respective deaths. For Jeremy it was either This Scene is About a Hat or Elizabeth

Which of your v4 characters was your favorite to write? Charlie

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Broken Like the Sun

What are you proudest of in v4? Charlie

What do you wish you could improve? Being better at action and description, not relying on style as much

What is your favorite OOC memory of v4? Any time I told Grim Wolf he was an awesome writer. He gets so adorably humble and bashful it is fucking awesome you should all try it

What is your favorite v4 memory overall? Fuck, these fucking boats

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! TEAM POLANSKI BRING IT FUCK YEAH

[Grand Moff Hissa]

V4 Third ("Finally Done") Plastic Hammers

[+] V4 Third Plastic Hammers

Hey, everyone! Like in V3, there's a final set of plastic hammers for V4. It's been about a year since the last set, and a lot has happened. We've gotten a ton of cool new members, and a ton has happened. Lots of people have read much more of V4 than before. Questions are applicable now which were not in the past. Impressions have changed.

In short, it's time for a new poll. Have at! Links are always appreciated, but by no means necessary. Code is at the bottom of the post in the spoiler, for ease of copy/pasting.

The Basics

Handler Name:

Your Trademark Character:

Current Status of Trademark Character:

Favourite Character:

Favourite Weapon:

Favourite Scene:

Favourite Death:

Favourite Quote:

Favourite Thread:

Favourite Post:

Favourite Location:


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: Which character has come the farthest in terms of inner change and development?

Most Revolutionary Character: Character whom you think has drastically changed the course of the game at any point.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Any character that strikes you as highly original or out of the ordinary.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: A character who you feel that you can imagine existing in real life.

Most Heroic Character: Any character that prominently stands out for his/her good intentions and his actions based on them.

Best Heroic Character: We're trying splitting this off this time. Who was your favorite Hero, even if they didn't necessarily manage the biggest impact/the most heroism?

Most Villainous Character: Any character known for his/her not-so-good/honorable actions and intentions.

Best Villainous Character: Who was your favorite ne'er-do-well?

Most Tragic Character: A character who's actions, past, or circumstances can be considered tragic and unfortunate.

Most Humorous Character: Which character made you laugh the most?

The Highway Robbery Award: Which character do you think should have won, leaving aside the actual winner?


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most?

Which character did you feel the most for?

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best?

Which character do you think had it the worst?

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself (assuming you were the sort to kill a character)?

Which character do you think should NOT have died?

Which surviving character do you think deserved to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming?


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: Which scene made you the most teary eyed?

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Which scene made you want to puke the most?

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: Which scene do you think played a huge role in the changing the course of the game?

Most Humourous Scene: Which scene served as the best comic relief?

Most Action-packed Scene: Which scene had the most action going on?

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Which scene induced some kind of emotion in you the most effectively?

Most Drama-filled Scene: Which scene had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

Most Unexpected Scene: There are always these unexpected turn of events that you could not have seen coming from a mile a way.


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Which death brought the most tears to your eyes?

Most Violent Death: Which death do you think brought out the most gore/pain/blood/guts/etc.?

Most Disturbing Death: Which death scarred/traumatized/made you want to puke the most?

Most Unexpected Death: Which death struck you the most as totally coming out of the blue?

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: There are a million ways to skin a cat, and occasionally, you'll get a method that is just...totally...out there. Which one do you think fits the bill?

Most Humorous Death: If you find such a morbid matter so amusing.


Predictions and Disillusionment

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? Other than obvious factors (different characters, different backstory, different island, different events, new rules)

Who of the existing characters are you counting on to win V5?


Your thoughts on SOTFV4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFV4?

What do you like the most about SOTFV4?

What do you think could have been better about SOTFV4?

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR?

How do you feel about the ENDING of SOTF V4?

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same?

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story?

How do you feel about V5?


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)?

Which of your V4 characters (or V5 Pregame characters, if you did not participate in V4) was your favorite to write?

Which was your favorite thread to participate in?

What are you proudest of in V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)?

What do you wish you could improve?

What is your favorite OOC memory of V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)?

What is your favorite V4 memory overall?

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!

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[u][b]The Basics[/b][/u]

[b]Handler Name:[/b]

[b]Your Trademark Character:[/b]

[b]Current Status of Trademark Character: [/b]

[b]Favourite Character: [/b]

[b]Favourite Weapon:[/b]

[b]Favourite Scene:[/b]

[b]Favourite Death:[/b]

[b]Favourite Quote:[/b]

[b]Favourite Thread:[/b]

[b]Favourite Post:[/b]

[b]Favourite Location:[/b]


[u][b]The Plastic Hammer Awards![/b][/u]

[b]Most Evolutionary Character: [/b]Which character has come the farthest in terms of inner change and development?

[b]Most Revolutionary Character: [/b]Character whom you think has drastically changed the course of the game at any point.

[b]Most Unorthodox/Original Character:[/b] Any character that strikes you as highly original or out of the ordinary.

[b]Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: [/b]A character who you feel that you can imagine existing in real life.

[b]Most Heroic Character: [/b]Any character that prominently stands out for his/her good intentions and his actions based on them.

[b]Best Heroic Character:[/b] We're trying splitting this off this time. Who was your favorite Hero, even if they didn't necessarily manage the biggest impact/the most heroism?

[b]Most Villainous Character: [/b]Any character known for his/her not-so-good/honorable actions and intentions.

[b]Best Villainous Character: [/b]Who was your favorite ne'er-do-well?

[b]Most Tragic Character: [/b]A character who's actions, past, or circumstances can be considered tragic and unfortunate.

[b]Most Humorous Character: [/b]Which character made you laugh the most?

[b]The Highway Robbery Award:[/b] Which character do you think should have won, leaving aside the actual winner?


[u][b]More Characterization[/b][/u]

[b]Which character did you relate to the most?[/b]

[b]Which character did you feel the most for?[/b]

[b]Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best?[/b]

[b]Which character do you think had it the worst?[/b]

[b]Which character would you be willing to kill yourself (assuming you were the sort to kill a character)?[/b]

[b]Which character do you think should NOT have died? [/b]

[b]Which surviving character do you think deserved to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming?[/b]


[u][b]The Drama Category[/b][/u]

[b]Most Tragic Scene:[/b] Which scene made you the most teary eyed?

[b]Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: [/b]Which scene made you want to puke the most?

[b]Most Pivotal Scene/Event: [/b]Which scene do you think played a huge role in the changing the course of the game?

[b]Most Humourous Scene: [/b]Which scene served as the best comic relief?

[b]Most Action-packed Scene: [/b]Which scene had the most action going on?

[b]Most Emotionally Moving Scene: [/b]Which scene induced some kind of emotion in you the most effectively?

[b]Most Drama-filled Scene: [/b]Which scene had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

[b]Most Unexpected Scene: [/b]There are always these unexpected turn of events that you could not have seen coming from a mile a way.


[u][b]Death, Death, and More Death[/b][/u]

[b]Most Tragic Death: [/b]Which death brought the most tears to your eyes?

[b]Most Violent Death: [/b]Which death do you think brought out the most gore/pain/blood/guts/etc.?

[b]Most Disturbing Death: [/b]Which death scarred/traumatized/made you want to puke the most?

[b]Most Unexpected Death: [/b]Which death struck you the most as totally coming out of the blue?

[b]Most Original/Unorthodox Death:[/b] There are a million ways to skin a cat, and occasionally, you'll get a method that is just...totally...out there. Which one do you think fits the bill?

[b]Most Humorous Death:[/b] If you find such a morbid matter so amusing. 


[u][b]Predictions and Disillusionment[/b][/u]

[b]If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?[/b]

[b]How do you think V5 will differ from V4? [/b]Other than obvious factors (different characters, different backstory, different island, different events, new rules)

[b]Who of the existing characters are you counting on to win V5?[/b]


[u][b]Your thoughts on SOTFV4(and beyond...)[/b] [/u]

[b]How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFV4?[/b]

[b]What do you like the most about SOTFV4?[/b]

[b]What do you think could have been better about SOTFV4?[/b]

[b]How would you compare SOTF to the original BR?[/b]

[b]How do you feel about the ENDING of SOTF V4?[/b]

[b]Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same?[/b]

[b]What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story?[/b]

[b]How do you feel about V5? [/b]


[big][u][b]Talk About Yourself[/b][/u][/big]

[b]What has been your favorite thing to write in V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)?[/b]

[b]Which of your V4 characters (or V5 Pregame characters, if you did not participate in V4) was your favorite to write?[/b]

[b]Which was your favorite thread to participate in?[/b]

[b]What are you proudest of in V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)?[/b]

[b]What do you wish you could improve?[/b]

[b]What is your favorite OOC memory of V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)?[/b]

[b]What is your favorite V4 memory overall?[/b]

[b]What else would you like to share? Anything goes![/b]

The Basics

Handler Name: Laurels

Your Trademark Character: Waiting for V5 to determine that.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Dicking around Aurora High or somewhere else in Seattle, blissfully unaware of what is to come.

Favourite Character: This is really hard, but probably Kimberly Nguyen. She has an interesting character, and I feel she had a really fantastic story.

Favourite Weapon:Probably the Grenade Launcher.

Favourite Scene: Endgame.

Favourite Death: Roland Hayes had a fantastic death, but Aislyn McCreery would probably be runner up.

Favourite Quote: Anything dealing with swordcane or skin wearing

Favourite Thread: The Mighty Sparrow. Really action packed and really touching.

Favourite Post: Kris's death.

Favourite Location:Town Center.


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: Aaron Hughes, not necessarily for the better though

Most Revolutionary Character: Again, Aaron Hughes

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Jimmy Brennan

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Tabi Gweneth

Most Heroic Character: Ivan Kuznetsov

Best Heroic Character: I'd say Tabi.

Most Villainous Character: Maxwell Lombardi

Best Villainous Character: Kris Hartmann, even though you could probably stretch the word "villainous" with her.

Most Tragic Character: Ilario Fiametta.

Most Humorous Character: Jeremy Franco

The Highway Robbery Award: If Kimberly couldn't have gone home, I would have liked to have seen someone like Ivan or Tabi win.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Marty Lovett

Which character did you feel the most for? The couples, any of them really.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Ivan. Low kill count, very defensive player.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Leila Langford.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself (assuming you were the sort to kill a character)? Probably anyone seriously playing or trying to kill me.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Tabi, why???

Which surviving character do you think deserved to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? I'm pretty happy with the surviving kids, so I don't really think any of them should have died. Of the ones who had it coming, probably Maxwell Lombardi.


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: The Mighty Sparrow

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Bloodgarden

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: The Gully / House of the Rising Sun

Most Humourous Scene: This Scene is About a Hat

Most Action-packed Scene: Endgame.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Really any scene where one character deeply mourns a dead person.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Endgame.

Most Unexpected Scene: Bloodgarden.


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Tabi's

Most Violent Death: Lombardi

Most Disturbing Death: Vivien Morin

Most Unexpected Death: A lot of deaths where the person had no idea they were just killed, like Jen Romita and Etain Brennan.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Flare gun?

Most Humorous Death: I guess Richard Han.


Predictions and Disillusionment

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I'd probably like to see a few deaths or scenes redone to have a better understanding of character and drama. That's really vague and nonspecific, but it mostly boils down to personal taste.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? There's a ton of new handlers, so I bet there are going to be some slip ups and inactives. However, I do think Aurora has an interesting batch of kids, and so I'm sure there are going to be some fascinating storylines.

Who of the existing characters are you counting on to win V5? Any of the following: Alex Ripley, Kyran Dean, Adam Morgan, Naomi Bell, Amy Bachelor, or Claire Monaghan (I gotta at least try to win with someone). I will be really upset if these kids go inactive or have really shitty stories.


Your thoughts on SOTFV4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFV4? V4 was my real big exposure to the game, and although it had flaws, I thought it was an awesome look at this game and really makes me want to participate in the next version.

What do you like the most about SOTFV4? Probably the diversity of characters and stories.

What do you think could have been better about SOTFV4? Less inactive, probably some better developed characters.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? Completely different schools.

How do you feel about the ENDING of SOTF V4? I loved it. I thought it was a fascinating look at the winner's life, had a good POV character for that, and had some real closure.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? I hope it is loved by all and enjoyed by those participating. I'd hate it if it shriveled up and died.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? I like it. I'm curious as to where it goes with the new cast, so that should keep me interested.

How do you feel about V5? I love the cast developed so far, I'm really anxious to see where they go, and I hope I make a great contribution to it.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? For V5 pregame, my favorite things to write were the food fight for Rachael, Claire's lunch break in the student center, and Sophie's busking in the park. I liked everyone I worked with, thought there were some fun things to do in those threads, and I would hope to carry those relationships into V5.

Which of your V4 characters (or V5 Pregame characters, if you did not participate in V4) was your favorite to write? Rachael is always a fascinating person to write, but Claire is such a darling since she is my personality on crack.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Whatever a.k.a FOOD FIGHT!

What are you proudest of in V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? I am really proud of some individual moments I've written, such as Rachael and Daniel in the gazebo when he asks her out to Prom. I got to be really honest with that character and play with her feelings, and I liked what came of it.

What do you wish you could improve? General writing and formatting issues. There are times where I feel my kids can be a bit flat or I judge myself too harshly, so I think I need to be more open to criticism.

What is your favorite OOC memory of V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? The Hero Card games with Mimi. Damn her powers of perception.

What is your favorite V4 memory overall? Probably reading the final post of endgame. I was distracted during my film club and read it, and was shaking in my seat as I scrolled down on my phone and saw the result.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I really wish I could have been a part of V4, but I am equally excited to be in V5. This community is a really awesome one, and I hope I can be a welcome member of it for years to come.

The Basics

Handler Name: BROtoro

Your Trademark Character: Currently in flux, probably favoring Virgil Jefferson-Davis right now.

Current Status of Trademark Character: In between threads.

Favourite Character: Erik Laurin

Favourite Weapon: Kiss of Death

Favourite Scene: The Kimberly/Ilario interaction inEverybody Loses

Favourite Death: Erik Laurin's death.

Favourite Quote: "There are no heroes on this island. Not anymore."

Favourite Thread:Everybody Loses

Favourite Post: Ilario's death post. It's a bit strange, because it's not actually my favorite death, but the post itself is really beautiful and is a really wonderful conclusion to both v4 and Ilario's story.

Favourite Location: The Hall of Mirrors ^^


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: Kimberly Nguyen

Most Revolutionary Character: Ethan Kent

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Liam Brooks

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Jennifer Perez

Most Heroic Character: Ethan Kent

Best Heroic Character: Saul Fetteralf

Most Villainous Character: Maxwell Lombardi

Best Villainous Character: Aaron Hughes

Most Tragic Character: Erik Laurin

Most Humorous Character: Richard Han

The Highway Robbery Award: Saul Fetteralf


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Nick Reid

Which character did you feel the most for? Erik Laurin

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Aaron Hughes

Which character do you think had it the worst?

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself (assuming you were the sort to kill a character)? Maxwell Lombardi

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Erik Laurin

Which surviving character do you think deserved to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Lombardi had it coming.


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: Erik Laurin's death

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Bloodgarden comes closest.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: The fucking computer

Most Humourous Scene: Richard Han falling into the middle of a thread...

Most Action-packed Scene: Endgame

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Erik Laurin's death

Most Drama-filled Scene: D-Day

Most Unexpected Scene: The fucking computer


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Erik Laurin's

Most Violent Death: Lombardi took quite a few hits to take down...

Most Disturbing Death: Yeah, Vivien Morin's is pretty fucked up...

Most Unexpected Death: Teo Weinstock. SURPRISE SHOTGUN BACKFIRE.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Alan Rickhall

Most Humorous Death: Richard Han.


Predictions and Disillusionment

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I would make Rhory have a death post. That's about it.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? No successful rescue attempt

Who of the existing characters are you counting on to win V5? I don't feel like I've read/RP'd with enough characters so say conclusively "THIS ONE MUST WIN." However, of the ones that I have read, I think I would be cool with Kyran Dean, Grey Emerson, Cammy Davidson, Steven Salazar, or Virgil Jefferson-Davis (Gots to have one of my own in there >.>)

Your thoughts on SOTFV4(and beyond...) v4 was awesome, and I look forward to the continual improvement of SotF.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFV4? It was awesome to read.

What do you like the most about SOTFV4? I liked the overall quality of writing. It definitely feels like the overall quality consistently improves with each version.

What do you think could have been better about SOTFV4? The overall number of inactives was a little disconcerting

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? SotF>BR

How do you feel about the ENDING of SOTF V4? SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? If trends continue, it should be even better.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? SO GOOD!

How do you feel about V5? It's shaping up to be really awesome. There are definitely a lot of interesting characters in play.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? Favorite thing to write has been Nox Incipit

Which of your V4 characters (or V5 Pregame characters, if you did not participate in V4) was your favorite to write? Cassandra has been my favorite to write, as much as she has been difficult for me. Hopefully I can improve her overall characterization going forward.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in?AFTER THE BATTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In all seriousness, that thread was my favorite because of how much of a learning experience it was for me.

What are you proudest of in V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? Nox Incipit. It's probably my strongest writing thus far.

What do you wish you could improve? Cassandra. Everything about how I write her.

What is your favorite OOC memory of V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? Don't really have one, yet.

What is your favorite V4 memory overall? N/A

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I just want to say how excited I am for v5. Everyone here has been super-friendly and helpful, and I can't wait to send all these kids to their deaths!

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I just want to say how excited I am for v4.

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What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I just want to say how excited I am for v4.

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The Basics

Handler Name: Ruggahissy!

Your Trademark Character: I dunno. Isabel made it out, Nick lasted the longest, Ethan seems most well known.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Unknown, dead, dead,

Favourite Character: Bleehhh I don't know. I can't pick one.

Favourite Weapon: Mmmm the lipstick gun

Favourite Scene: I'll say Kim being tricked into thinking her fingers were going to be sliced off.

Favourite Death: I'll stick with Simon Fletcher and Hilary Strand

Favourite Quote: "You’re right. I would kill to protect her. I would do anything to anyone to protect her. I would kill everyone on this island to protect her."- Alice Blake

Favourite Thread: Bwuhhhh We Are The Sleepyheads

Favourite Post: I dunno : (

Favourite Location: The Fun Fair


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: Which character has come the farthest in terms of inner change and development? I like him and I think he changed pretty drastically in his time on the island. COME ON DOW, IMRAAN.

Most Revolutionary Character: Character whom you think has drastically changed the course of the game at any point. I'll give it to Liz.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Any character that strikes you as highly original or out of the ordinary. You know what? Dutchy. He wasn't my type personally, but he sure was different.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: A character who you feel that you can imagine existing in real life. I have to say R.J. Lowe. He was so good I forgot he couldn't talk. He's going to share this prize with Melissa Li.

Most Heroic Character: Any character that prominently stands out for his/her good intentions and his actions based on them. There was a real lack of Captain Hero types. Roland Harte. He sacrificed himself for others when he didn't have to, and sort of didn't want to.



Best Heroic Character: We're trying splitting this off this time. Who was your favorite Hero, even if they didn't necessarily manage the biggest impact/the most heroism? I have to say the same answer. Roland saved six other people by holding someone with a weapon off. Sadly, almost all of them died right after of other causes. He was just really great because he wanted to be the hero, though he was kindda disdainful of the people he felt compelled to protect. He was a good dude.

Most Villainous Character: Any character known for his/her not-so-good/honorable actions and intentions. Tough one. Ema Ryan/ Maxwell Lombardi tie.

Best Villainous Character: Who was your favorite ne'er-do-well? Aaron Huuuggghhhesss~

Most Tragic Character: A character who's actions, past, or circumstances can be considered tragic and unfortunate. Illario Fiametta, poor honey.

Most Humorous Character: Which character made you laugh the most? Jimmy Brenan and Cody Jenkins. DAMN YOU, WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIE, CODY? Dave Morrison as well <3

The Highway Robbery Award: Which character do you think should have won, leaving aside the actual winner? I was sort of rooting for Josie to make it to the end. Josie aside, Illario.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Alice Blake. We have a similar sense of humor and speaking, I think.

Which character did you feel the most for? I'll go with Raine and Ridley. They got over looked a lot but I was touched by their death and devotion to each other. Reminded me of classic Battle Royale and I just felt terrible for them.

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Aaron Hughes, obviously : )

Which character do you think had it the worst? There's something about Nick Reid that compels me to say he had the worst time.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself (assuming you were the sort to kill a character)? I would have stabbed Liam Brooks right in his crazy face.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Maaaannnn too many.

Which surviving character do you think deserved to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Brendan Wallace >_>


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: Which scene made you the most teary eyed? Acacia's euthanasia of Roman : (

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Which scene made you want to puke the most? Helen Wilson's self surgery : S

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: Which scene do you think played a huge role in the changing the course of the game? The Cavalry Arrives!

Most Humourous Scene: Which scene served as the best comic relief? This Scene is About A Hat

Most Action-packed Scene: Which scene had the most action going on? The Mighty Sparrow

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Which scene induced some kind of emotion in you the most effectively? Death of Annaliese Hansen

Most Drama-filled Scene: Which scene had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama? The Death of Brock Mason

Most Unexpected Scene: There are always these unexpected turn of events that you could not have seen coming from a mile a way. I'll still say Andrea telling Allen she loved him XD


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Which death brought the most tears to your eyes? Illario Fiametta

Most Violent Death: Which death do you think brought out the most gore/pain/blood/guts/etc.? Colin Falcone : S

Most Disturbing Death: Which death scarred/traumatized/made you want to puke the most? I think Helen's self surgery wins this one. She removed her own appendix and then dragged herself from the hospital to the beach with her crude stitches coming apart until she died from bleeding out just feet from the ships.

Most Unexpected Death: Which death struck you the most as totally coming out of the blue? Reika Ishida.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: There are a million ways to skin a cat, and occasionally, you'll get a method that is just...totally...out there. Which one do you think fits the bill? Janet Victoriee-Ser's dildo drowning was certainly...something.

Most Humorous Death: If you find such a morbid matter so amusing. Richard Han for sure.


Predictions and Disillusionment

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I don't like to dwell on it.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? Other than obvious factors (different characters, different backstory, different island, different events, new rules) I don't know O_O

Who of the existing characters are you counting on to win V5? Also unknown


Your thoughts on SOTFV4(and beyond...) I liked it.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFV4? I enjoyed myself. Would play again.

What do you like the most about SOTFV4? I got to be a better writer and like, met cool people.

What do you think could have been better about SOTFV4? Placeholders are the worst. Finish your deaths! : (

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? Very different, but good in it's own way.

How do you feel about the ENDING of SOTF V4? I am highly satisfied!

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? Gosh, I couldn't say.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? I'm cool with it.

How do you feel about V5? I'd like for it to start soon >:I


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? Favorite thing to write in....Nick's sister Natalie in the epilogue with Kim. Nick and Jessica or Josie were also both great. Feo and Ethan and Isabel and Dave and Zombie and Ciel being the best for Autumn's death.

Which of your V4 characters (or V5 Pregame characters, if you did not participate in V4) was your favorite to write? I liked them all for different reasons. Isabel because I could take my own point of view, Ethan and Sally for being jerks, Nick for....being really cool and sad.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? House of the Rising Sun

What are you proudest of in V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? Nick's death. I look at it and feel worried I can't make something that good again : (

What do you wish you could improve? I refuse to proof read. I just...hate doing it.

What is your favorite OOC memory of V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? I think I got a significant other or something.

What is your favorite V4 memory overall? I can't pick!

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I'm pretty tired, so Imma wrap this up.

The Basics

Handler Name: MK Kilmarnock

Your Trademark Character: I'm not really sure who I'm more famous for, Brook or Ivan.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Both are dead. If there's an afterlife, one of them is spending time with Tabi and one of them is awkwardly watering plants in heaven/hell/whoknows.

Favourite Character: Tabi Gweneth and Aaron Hughes.

Favourite Weapon: I still have a soft spot in my heart for the mp3 player full of Kidz Bop.

Favourite Scene: The last section of epilogue. If you've read it, you'll know what I mean.

Favourite Death: I don't even remember what I said last time. Moxie kill still holds special meaning to me, though, corny or not.

Favourite Quote: If I'm not allowed to pick something I wrote, then it's "With respect, sir, I didn't take into account that somebody might be willing to pour molten metal onto their own neck." Lourvey says it, but it wasn't my writing.

Favourite Thread: Everybody Loses

Favourite Post: Hahahaha, no. Not picking one.

Favourite Location: Town Center


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: There were a lot of these. It's hard to pick just one since just about everybody changed from beginning to end, but Kimberly Nguyen is obviously a fine example.

Most Revolutionary Character: You know what? Sparky. Yes. The terrorist.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Aaron Hughes. I love a player that doesn't have to kill directly.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Imraan Al-Hariq.

Most Heroic Character: Probably Roland Harte.

Best Heroic Character: My personal favorite was, in terms of intentions, Jason Harris. It's just that he /terribly/ fucked up.

Most Villainous Character: Aaron Hughes. A lot of the villains preferred by the masses were, in my eyes, really closer to plot devices for the purposes of kills. The full explanation of this rant goes on for pages, so just use the damned search function. I'm not explaining myself again. XD

Best Villainous Character: ... Aaron Hughes. Can you tell I like him yet?

Most Tragic Character: Poor Dutchy...

Most Humorous Character: Cisco Vasquez, probably.

The Highway Robbery Award: Tabi Gweneth.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? It's kind of hard to say. Sorry!

Which character did you feel the most for? I still feel kind of bad for Dutchy. It's not that much because my empathy button is broken most of the time, but it's there!

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Lemme pose this one for a second. Eiko Haraguchi. By 'played the game', I mean in the sense of survival. Eiko did a good job of staying low and out of the spotlight, as well as surviving. Girl lucked out best she could in a situation like that. If you mean playing as in... with intent to kill, that's Aislyn McCreery.

Which character do you think had it the worst? I seriously can't decide. Everybody's situation kinda sucked tits, know what I mean?

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself (assuming you were the sort to kill a character)? Hayley Kelly. I'd get some sick sense of relief.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Tabi whyyyyyyy?

Which surviving character do you think deserved to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Surviving? Probably Brendan. Obviously, Maxwell had it coming for a long time.


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: Rosa's death was pretty sad.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Bloodgarden aside (since it's mine), I honestly felt myself a little shaken after that shelf kill by Jimmy.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: Endgame. Second place goes to the Cavalry arriving.

Most Humourous Scene: Dave rapping.

Most Action-packed Scene: The final fight of endgame.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Rosa and Annaliese's funeral.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Endgame. Again.

Most Unexpected Scene: Reika's death. I still like it.


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Sierra's. The poor dear.

Most Violent Death: Again, barring my own, let's go with that ridiculously OTP chainsaw death with Robert Lerger.

Most Disturbing Death: Rosa's death. Not so much the tragic 'actual' death, but the stabbings that lead to it.

Most Unexpected Death: Again, Reika.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: MOXIE MOXIE MOXIE MOXIE

Most Humorous Death: *Sigh* Richard Han.


Predictions and Disillusionment

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Yeah, uh, that collar shit would not have happened.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? Higher quality. We're always going to improve.

Who of the existing characters are you counting on to win V5? Random shot in the dark? Um... uuuuuuuuuuuh Michelle.


Your thoughts on SOTFV4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFV4? Very much. Best version yet.

What do you like the most about SOTFV4? It was, I feel, the most well-thought out and constructed version, in terms of universe, setting and characters.

What do you think could have been better about SOTFV4? Anybody who's been listening to me bitch in chat will know the answer to this one.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? Highly favorably.

How do you feel about the ENDING of SOTF V4? I was in it. Of course it was good. /pompous

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? I honestly feel we'll get better with every version. V4 holds a special place in my heart and always will, but I have to believe we're full of improvement.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? There's a lot of dark spots that need to be filled in, but I think we're getting there.

How do you feel about V5? Let's go, let's go!


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? Brook and his world of crazy was a blast to write. Haters gonna hate.

Which of your V4 characters (or V5 Pregame characters, if you did not participate in V4) was your favorite to write? Looking back, I really miss writing Craig Hoyle.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Everybody Loses.

What are you proudest of in V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? Making it so far and getting so many people complimenting me on my work.

What do you wish you could improve? There are... parts of Bloodgarden that John (Outfoxd) pointed out in his wonderful critique that I could improve upon.

What is your favorite OOC memory of V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? It was just a blast coordinating with so many people to get shit done.

What is your favorite V4 memory overall? Haha, they're like my victims. Can't choose just one.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! You have finished reading my spell's incantation. You are now my slave.

The Basics

Handler Name: MurderWeasel

Your Trademark Character: I guess Kimberly, probably.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Doing okay.

Favourite Character: Lots of really awesome kids in V4. Gonna cheat and name one I think I didn't name in last hammers to spread the love around, and say Nick Reid.

Favourite Weapon: The hunga munga.

Favourite Scene: Jeremy's negotiations with the Flowerheads. Jeremy was a lot more serious than I think many people realized, but at this stage in the game there was still a great deal of lightheartedness to his story, which combined nicely with the entire scene to create a truly memorable interaction.

Favourite Death: So many good ones. Erik's death made me cry. Twice. To pick one I wasn't involved in, Nick LeMonde's death was also really awesome.

Favourite Quote: "We lost. I mean, I lost, obviously.

"But you lost, too. You lost because we got them out. You lost because they refused to take the fools like me. You lost because from now on, in the back of their heads, your next crop of players will know it can be done. They can refuse to play and get out of here alive. You've lost the power to tempt people to be their worst." - Raidon Naoko

Favourite Thread: You know what? I'm gonna say Flowerhead. It's everything an early-game thread should be, and it really sets up all of the characters with distinct personalities and clear goals. There's a reason they were one of the most notable groups of the early game.

Favourite Post: "snap" was awesome, and it's still one of my favorites for sheer chilling impact, but this time I'm gonna go to the other end of the spectrum and say I really appreciated Anna Chase's rather lengthy one-shot. I didn't have a huge investment in Chase before, at least compared to Aileen, but this thread really put a lot of her actions into context and hit on some very cool details and set up the rest of her story such that I was watching with great interest.

Favourite Location: I still love the docks, but I love The Mountain more.


The Plastic Hammer Awards!

Most Evolutionary Character: I'm gonna say Raidon Naoko for the journey from pacifist to villain to anti-hero, all in a fashion that felt convincing and logical.

Most Revolutionary Character: You know what, I can't really pick one character. Liz and Ethan get a lot of credit, but I think it's often forgotten that they both had teams behind them, helping them along to allow them to achieve what they did. I'm going to cop out here and say anyone who stood up to the game and actually managed to make that matter. Shortlist is Ethan, Roland Harte, Isabel and Dave, Liz, Mirabelle, and Garrett.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Rugga totally tainted my perceptions here, but I'm going to concur on Dutchy. One of the cool things about Dutchy is he fulfills a role very uncommon for male characters, especially in SOTF. He's got some personal strength, but in a lot of ways he's the damsel in distress or the group cheerleader, and that was actually really cool.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: I totally bought everything about R.J. Lowe. This was especially cool because he was also a highly unusual character. Realism =/= boring.

Most Heroic Character: V4 was low on heroes. It was the version of shades of grey, I think. That said, Mirabelle Nesa made a pretty darn convincing heroic stand.

Best Heroic Character: You know what? I know he'd disagree, but Ivan had really good motives and intentions. If there are no heroes left, well, he's close enough to count.

Most Villainous Character: You know what? For pure malice, I'm gonna give this to dark horse contender Staffan Kronwall. He was jealous, arrogant, and really violent in a way that felt more personal than a lot of the other villains in V4.

Best Villainous Character: Liam Brooks. My other favs just weren't evil enough that I can unambiguously term them villains. Brooks was evil in a new and interesting way. I'm sure everyone is sick to death of my extensive theory regarding his psychology, so I'll basically sum up and say that he was legitimately villainous and it felt right to me.

Most Tragic Character: Life was just flat out awful to poor Sierra Manning.

Most Humorous Character: Jeremy Franco had all the excellent funny bits coupled with a legitimately engaging and emotionally deep story. Best of both worlds.

The Highway Robbery Award: We had so many good ones. Ily was awesome. So was Nick LeMonde.


More Characterization

Which character did you relate to the most? Nick Reid.

Which character did you feel the most for? Melissa Li had an awful time, lost all her friends, died for being trusting, etc. Oh, did I mention she died basically right before the rescue?

Which character do you feel 'played the game' the best? Of the actual players, few came anywhere near flawless runs, but Kris Hartmann managed some very nice ambushes/surprise attacks. If you're gonna play, best to avoid retaliation, and she picked that skill up pretty well in the mid to late game.

Which character do you think had it the worst? Jimmy Brennan got kicked around like nobody's business.

Which character would you be willing to kill yourself (assuming you were the sort to kill a character)? Really, a lot of the bigger players needed stopping.

Which character do you think should NOT have died? Dave Morrison.

Which surviving character do you think deserved to die? Or for the characters already dead, which character do you think totally had it coming? Ema really had it coming. Similar spots for Maxwell and Hayley. All of them were so sucked up in their own egotism and so totally incapable of really grasping their own actions.


The Drama Category

Most Tragic Scene: Josie Smothers Sierra. It's absolutely crushing, having followed the girls since pregame.

Most Disturbing/Gory Scene: Sarah Atwell's murder of Eve Walker-Luther gets this on the disturbing front, for having the discretion to keep somethings secret. It's scarier that way.

Most Pivotal Scene/Event: The rescues. They couldn't have happened without other stuff, but the straight impact they had was unmatched.

Most Humourous Scene: Julian Avery talks down Teo. Like most of Jonny's kids, Julian had humor that worked because it hid a lot of really dark stuff.

Most Action-packed Scene: On sheer quantity, I think it's hard to argue with Jimmy's final battle unless, like, you count the entirety of Bloodgarden as a single scene or something.

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: You know what, I can't pick one spot, but the whole friendship between Zach Jamis and Samya Franklin was super moving and touching.

Most Drama-filled Scene: The North Beach rescue had drama in spades.

Most Unexpected Scene: I wasn't really expecting Peter Siu to get so violent with a former friend, especially as a first resort.


Death, Death, and More Death

Most Tragic Death: Erik's, linked above, actually made me cry, and I almost never cry when reading stuff.

Most Violent Death: Maxwell died enough for two or three people.

Most Disturbing Death: Jessica jumped, and she thought Nick was coming with her, and he wasn't.

Most Unexpected Death: Teo's shotgun backfires fatally. It was foreshadowed, but still quite a surprise.

Most Original/Unorthodox Death: Alan Rickhall's staring contest with Joe Rios. It was very different, and in a cool way.

Most Humorous Death: I think I'll still be voting for Richard Han come V5.


Predictions and Disillusionment

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Less inactivity. Oh god, less inactivity. I had to write deaths for over 10% of V4. That was a pain in the neck, and it also resulted in a lot of good characters not really getting the sendoffs they deserved.

How do you think V5 will differ from V4? I think we'll see a lot of improvement. V4 was a transition, fulfilling the promise of the second half of V3. We have many new handlers, but they all expect stuff to run like it did in V4, instead of, say, V2/early V3. That's a huge starting advantage. I also expect we'll see way less fodder and many better developed characters, due to the rules being tweaked to support that better.

Who of the existing characters are you counting on to win V5? Oh man, umm... I like Andi Victorino. She has a lot to live for.


Your thoughts on SOTFV4(and beyond...)

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy SOTFV4? It was a lot of fun.

What do you like the most about SOTFV4? V4 was so enormous and expansive compared to every other version. There was a lot happening, and for the first time ever there wasn't a very clear-cut way of distinguishing "main" characters from the fodder. Everyone was in the game from the start, and there are countless stories to be found.

What do you think could have been better about SOTFV4? Leaving a side the aforementioned activity, I think that there were too many placeholders and such and also too much gunning to win/be important/one-up records. Basically, with such a huge field, people often ended up more concerned with standing out than they were with actually turning out consistent and good work. There was an overall over-reliance on gimmicks and a fixation on making a splash, and that led to all kinds of icky stuff and artificial popularity inflation which I think did the game no favors at all.

Also, V4 was lacking in special character. V1-3 all had their own styles and feels, and if V4 had one it was just "big". Having everything going on at once meant there was no one predominant feel.

Oh, also, people need to read more. A lot of handlers barely read, and that kinda sucks.

How would you compare SOTF to the original BR? Like I always say, BR packs a more coherent and focused story, at the cost of depth and overall character. BR's great for what it is, which is a story primarily centered on a few kids. SOTF, on the other hand, is the story of a whole class, and that makes for a rockier ride but a richer one.

How do you feel about the ENDING of SOTF V4? I can't really comment here.

Do you think V5 will be any more or less enjoyable than V4/V3/V2/V1, or the same? I sure hope it's better!

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? I like it. It's fun to see things develop.

How do you feel about V5? Cautiously optimistic. Strongly optimistic when it comes to the rules.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? Oh man, lots of stuff. The epilogue was of course fun to work on. I think, though, top marks go to Endgame, which was a crazy ride and a half.

Which of your V4 characters (or V5 Pregame characters, if you did not participate in V4) was your favorite to write? You know, I always have trouble on this. Kimberly was tons of fun because she's super different from me and was a real stretch, and because I got to do a lot of crazy things with her. Jennifer was fun because she was the character I wrote totally without regard to what anyone else thought, just doing what I thought was cool (now everyone knows that my idea of a good time is crying and introspection and talking about pointless stuff ><). Aaron, much as I rag on him, was fun in that I got to do absolutely absurd stuff. Isaiah, who I adopted, really stretched me. I can't pick a single favorite.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Endgame.

What are you proudest of in V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? Okay, to be totally self-indulgent here, I managed to bury a pretty ridiculous number of jokes and/or hints in my posts. It's stuff that probably is funny only to me, but I was working at setting possible foreshadowing and such a lot and actually got to cash in on a good deal of it.

Oh, and I named a thread after a Darth Vader line. I'm proud of that.

What do you wish you could improve? Aaron. He didn't have the sort of emotional core that keeps me engaged with my characters. He was a character who was plot and style over depth, and that bugs me still. He was very much a first character in a lot of ways, and I think I could do a much better job now.

What is your favorite OOC memory of V4 (or V5 Pregame, if you did not participate in V4)? So, so many. I talked with tons of great people. I'm gonna say all the friends I've made.

What is your favorite V4 memory overall? V4 had these moments, at the start and during the rescue and at the end, when the whole site was positively alive with energy and excitement, basically buzzing with enthusiasm. That was really awesome.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I always do these without referencing my past answers until I'm done, then I see how my views have changed or stayed the same. That's why some of my answers are totally redundant and others are all over the place.

[Grand Moff Hissa]

"Yearbook Scrawlings V5"
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V5 Pregame Hammers

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[b]Handler Name:[/b]

[b]Hey Guys! (Your trademark character):[/b]

[b]Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): [/b]

[b]Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): [/b]

[b]Best School Hangout (Favorite thread):[/b]


[big][u][b]The Scrawlings[/b][/u][/big]

[b]Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone):[/b]

[b]Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal): [/b]

[b]Best Dressed: [/b] 

[b] Most Likely to be President: [/b]

[b]Most Likely to End up in Jail: [/b] 

[b]Most Likely to Succeed:[/b]

[b] Biggest Meanie:[/b]

[b]Class Flirt:[/b]

[b]Most Dramatic:[/b]

[b]Most Unorthodox/Original Character:[/b] Any character that strikes you as highly original or out of the ordinary.

[b]Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: [/b]A character who you feel that you can imagine existing in real life.

[b]Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?) :[/b] 

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[b]Which character do you relate to the most?[/b]

[b]Which character do you feel the most for?[/b]

[b]Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF?[/b]

[b]Which character do you think has it coming?[/b]

[b]Quick; Final Four for V5 - who's it gonna be?[/b]

[big][u][b]Margin Scribbles[/b][/u][/big]

[b]Most Emotionally Moving Scene: [/b] Has anything brought a tear to your eyes? 

[b]Most Humourous Scene: [/b]Which scene served as the best comic relief?

[b]Most Drama-filled Scene: [/b]Which scene had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

[b]Most Unexpected Scene: [/b] Was there anything that you just did NOT see coming in pregame?


[big][u][b]Talk About Yourself[/b][/u][/big]

[b]What has been your favorite thing to write in V5 Pregame?[/b]

[b]Which of your characters was your favorite to write?[/b]

[b]Which was your favorite thread to participate in?[/b]

[b]What are you proudest of in V5?[/b]

[b]What do you wish you could improve?[/b]

[b]What is your favorite OOC memory?[/b]

[b]What else would you like to share? Anything goes![/b]

The Basics

Handler Name: Espional "Espi/Spy/Esp/Spin"

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): Uh, I dunno. Theo or Gwen, probably.

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): The Nether of not being in a thread.

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): I like lots of them, but Steven Salazar and Andi Victorino stand out.

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): No One Talks About It was really fun to read, too.


The Scrawlings

Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone): Hmm...Aileen was funny, Andi had a really wry wit I enjoyed.

Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal): Gray Emerson was pretty nice all-around, I feel.

Best Dressed: Miranda Millers.

Most Likely to be President: Paris Ardennes

Most Likely to End up in Jail: Paris Ardennes

Most Likely to Succeed: Well, they're all doomed, but I guess Cassandra Black.

Biggest Meanie: Cody Patton

Class Flirt: Stacy Mortedeskey

Most Dramatic: Aileen Aurora.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Madeleine Wilcox, I guess.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: I'm fond of Michelle Wexler.

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?) : Tough to say, but I get a good feeling for Virgil Jefferson-Davis. Just a hunch

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? Uh...Megan Emerson.

Which character do you feel the most for? Sara Corlett is so moe.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? Andi Victorino or Sven Olsen; c'mon, let a parent go home for once!

Which character do you think has it coming? Hansel Williams, Cody Patton or Veronica Macdonald.

Quick; Final Four for V5 - who's it gonna be? Lana Torres, Summer Simms, Travis Webster, Steven Salazar.

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Eh, not really.

Most Humourous Scene: Metal of Honor.

Most Drama-filled Scene: After the Battle.

Most Unexpected Scene: Uh, none, really. I guess Walk Slow, Talk Slow, Keep Your Head Low caught me off-guard.

Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5 Pregame? Anything with Gwen in it, or the post in Joy where I summarize all of the Persona 4 game.

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? Gwen.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Cat Planet x3

What are you proudest of in V5? My improved skill, and my solidification of my writing style.

What do you wish you could improve? I wish I wasn't so threadbare in my posts. They could probably be longer and with more content. I think it's getting better, though.

What is your favorite OOC memory? That'd be playing League with you guys, especially the game where Ricky got 52 kills and backdoored the enemy base.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Looking forward to writing lots of fun stuff with lots of cool people. This site is like amazing and I hope I can stick around for a good while. Looking forward to V5!

The Basics

Handler Name: Un-Persona (Persy, Unpy, Upa, Upo, Un)

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): Both

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): Moving on and watching a movie.

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s)): Naomi Bell

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): After the Battle


The Scrawlings

Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone): Joey Caputo & Travis Webster

Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal):Matt Masters & Cassidy Kant

Best Dressed: Logan Cagadon

Most Likely to be President: Miles Strickland

Most Likely to End up in Jail: Adonis Alba

Most Likely to Succeed: Joe Carrasco

Biggest Meanie: Aileen Aurora Abdallah

Class Flirt: Stacy May-Mordetsky

Most Dramatic: Alex Ripley

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Any character that strikes you as highly original or out of the ordinary. Finn Grant

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: A character who you feel that you can imagine existing in real life. Paulo Abbate

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?): Paris Ardennes

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? Francis St. Ledger and Kyran Dean

Which character do you feel the most for? Joe Carrasco

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? Ruby Forrester

Which character do you think has it coming? Alda Abbate

Quick; Final Four for V5 - who's it gonna be? Travis Webster, Paris Ardennes, Ruby Forrester, Naomi Bell

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Has anything brought a tear to your eyes? Not yet.

Most Humourous Scene: Which scene served as the best comic relief? ...And Then They Poked at Cushions.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Which scene had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama? A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks

Most Unexpected Scene: Was there anything that you just did NOT see coming in pregame? Whatever


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5 Pregame? I'm just glad I've been a part of this.

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? I haven't written much with either of them so it's hard to say.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Mmm...either of the ones in the past were fun.

What are you proudest of in V5? Being a part of it.

What do you wish you could improve? Everything. But mostly trying not to forget to write words my hands and brain don't find important, like "the" or "his".

What is your favorite OOC memory? Mafia and Chat.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I like writing a lot more because of you guys.

The Basics

Handler Name: Laurels

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): I think people tend to associate me with Claire Monaghan, so her.

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): She's watching the Newspaper Room cat fight that is No One Talks About It..

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): Oh, this is hard. I don't think I can have one favorite of the whole bunch. My top picks would probably be Paris Ardennes, Adam Morgan, Gray Emerson, Paulo Abbate, Alex Ripley, and Naomi Bell

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): Favorite thread I was in? Whatever. Favorite thread besides that? This. Means. War. No one should ever draw dicks on Naomi's work.

The Scrawlings

Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone): I think just about every Paulo Abbate post had something for me to laugh at. Especially when they were things directed at Rachael.

Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal): Cassidy Kant and Matt Masters are total sweethearts. They really belong together.

Best Dressed: Miranda Millers, as Kami's fashion research has created a pretty cute looking starting outfit.

Most Likely to be President: Naomi Bell could alter world history while sitting in the Oval Office in a Saks Fifth Avenue pantsuit.

Most Likely to End up in Jail: Several. Travis Webster should have probably been busted for possession by now. I feel like Aileen Abdallah is someone who would smash a beer bottle against someone's face in a bar fight and would have to be tazered by the cops.

Most Likely to Succeed: Probably Naomi Bell.

Biggest Meanie: Adonis Alba can go fuck himself. I would seriously loathe someone like him in high school.

Class Flirt: Well, Adonis Alba did flirt at one of my own characters, but I have to say Gavin Hunter. He flirted with so many women in his pregame that I should just envision him in all of his threads wearing an open silk shirt and gold chains.

Most Dramatic: Holy hell, Aileen Abdallah. Chill the fuck out.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Any character that strikes you as highly original or out of the ordinary. I don't believe I've ever met anyone like Paris Ardennes. But then again, I probably have, and just never realized it.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: A character who you feel that you can imagine existing in real life. Kyran Dean carried an attitude I definitely recognized.

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royale (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?) : Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Michelle Wexler. I'm probably going to be very, very wrong.

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? The closest I can think of would maybe be a bit of Kyran Dean and Gray Emerson. I'm not so sure.

Which character do you feel the most for? Probably Kam So'oialo, if only because her home life is something that breaks my heart.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? I don't have any general character to win, but I would like the winner to be someone who does right by their fellow man and never loses their humanity in the process.

Which character do you think has it coming? Well, this feels sort of cruel considering most of my answers are just high school evil, but really any person who chooses to play and/or enjoys it too much.

Quick; Final Four for V5 - who's it gonna be? Paris Ardennes, Adam Morgan, Andi Victorino, and Amy Bachelor.

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Has anything brought a tear to your eyes? No tears yet (I do want to be brought to tears though. I love being made to feel strongly for things).

Most Humourous Scene: Which scene served as the best comic relief? Most of Paulo's threads, along with any time Joe Carrasco got stoned or worried.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Which scene had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama? Whatever was such a fun thread to be in, and I really enjoyed what everyone did in that thread.

Most Unexpected Scene: Was there anything that you just did NOT see coming in pregame? I did not expect there to be such huge spats in the Newspaper Room, the Gazebos, and Runway. These kids need to chill out.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5 Pregame? My closest guess would be The Short Filmography of Claire Emilia Monaghan, if only because I've taken the essence of that thread (Claire talks to her sister about ideas she has for a movie) and reworked it for a Spanish paper and a submission to my literary journal. It was something that felt very natural to write, and I just love writing with Claire. Plus, the conversation she has was something I could easily rewrite for different scenarios.

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? Claire was probably the easiest to write for, and I definitely thought her posts really made me think about all the things she could possibly say.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? I have to do this by character. For Rachael, it was probably Whatever. Claire's was probably Little Talks. I'd choose The Labyrinth for Sophie, if only because I had fun making her run into the walls.

What are you proudest of in V5? I guess any time I made someone happy with what I wrote. I love to write, and I love to see people feel something for what I write.

What do you wish you could improve? I wish I didn't have so many freshman mistakes when pregame started. Other than that, I feel like I should have tried to plan a lot more serious relationships and then tried to develop them.

What is your favorite OOC memory? Any type of chat shenanigans. We're all very strange people, and I love each and every one of you for it.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! V5 is approaching. Handlers, start your engines, and may the best student win!

The Basics

Handler Name:

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): I'm going to say Joey. I think he's my most unique character.

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): He's bugging out at his own party in the past rubbing the fuzzy armchair to keep calm. I wrote that scene before seeing Get em to the Greek, I'll have you all know.

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): I love reading Travis and Claire because they are fun, interesting, and I love the way their handlers write for them.

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): Set Lasers to Fun is just fun. There's no storyline, it'st just good old fashioned improvised role playing, and the characters in it are great.


The Scrawlings

Class Clown: Because she is so realistically awkward and makes me feel bad for her while also making me smile, Mallory McCormick

Class Sweetheart: I do not know if you're familiar with Matt Masters

Best Dressed: Mara Montalvo

Most Likely to be President: Naomi Bell, or at least she'll die trying.

Most Likely to End up in Jail: Travis Webster, I believe he actually has a cell on hold.

Most Likely to Succeed: A personality like Claire Monoghan doesn't stay undiscovered for very long.

Biggest Meanie: Death to Adonis Alba

Class Flirt: Paris Ardennes knows how to charm.

Most Dramatic: I cannot, FOR MY LIFE, read Finn Grant without picturing him as a grown up Jimmy from Ed Edd and Eddy.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Mallory again. She embraces her awkward as a part of herself rather than trying to hide it or getting flustered by it. She's confident in her own way, and that is very unique.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Kyran Dean, and that really says something considering all of the SI's

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal: Adam Morgan I mean, just look at his interests. "Self-taught grappling/backyard UFC, paintball, hard rock, psychology, gymnastics, smoking." He fights, he can shoot, he's got energy, he understands how people thinkg, he's a GYMNAST (people way underestimate the intensity of this sport) and he's a badass. He's the ideal killer, he just hasn't realized it yet.

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? Honestly, none so far. If you put my characters in a blender, probably that.

Which character do you feel the most for? Bianca Howard, I am not going to make being Jaq's best friend an easy time for you.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? I'll need to see motives first. I know those of my own characters, but I don't think I have connected deeply enough with enough other characters to find ones I want to win that I also think might try to win.

Which character do you think has it coming? Mara Montalvo

Quick; Final Four for V5 - who's it gonna be? Mallory McCormick always finds herself in uncomfortable situations, she'll be there and it'll be over before she realizes it's started. Adam Morgan will have realized his true potential at this point. Naomi Bell will have politic'd her way into having exhausted all of her human shields, and now have to fight for herself. Bianca Howard too, because somebody needs to be protected by her boyfriend, who dies, forcing her to take care of herself. And who better than the queen herself?

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: A flash of a young, sad, even tender Travis can be seen ever so brieflyIf You Ain't Gettin' Drunk, Get the Fu- when he's upset by the mention of parents.

Most Humourous Scene: Probably the same. R.J. and Mallory.

Most Drama-filled Scene: INTRODUCING..... even though nothing exciting happens. It's just the great energy around Claire's character, which I envy of her.

Most Unexpected Scene: A long time ago, Life is like a Broken Record

Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5 Pregame? I'm still adapting from independent writing to cooperative role play. I have files save on my computer of paragraphs I may include in game.

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? Joey's been fun. Jaq too because she's independent. Cassidy is very passive.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? I have several more threads planned, don't make me choose yet.

What are you proudest of in V5? Growth as a writer.

What do you wish you could improve? My old posts are awful. I wish I was more assertive in my story progression of threads, but was always too afraid to take it in a direction nobody else wanted. I now see that this is the whole idea of role playing.

What is your favorite OOC memory? Haven't been on chat much. Briefly popped in a few times after coming home drunk just cause I was bored. Lately, there haven't been many OOC SOTF moments on here, unfortunately.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Flop.

H’lo.

Sooooo, two things. Uno, I tried not to double up. It was hard, but I gave it my best shot.

Dos, none of these contain links. I shall remedy that when it is not 2:46 AM.

K? K. Let’s do this.

The Basics

Handler Name: NotAFlyingToy

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): Uhh... Hansel, I guess. Between my two characters, he seems to be the one who garners the most attention at this point.

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): Just finished a heated argument with Garrett Wilde in Walk slow, talk slow, keep yer head low.

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): From where I sit, this is absolutely no contest. So I’m going to start by saying my two runner ups. The first runner-up would have to be Ruggahissy’s Mara. Now, Mara’s a character that I think a lot of people look at, write off as a ‘bitch’ or as ‘mean’, and then move onward. What I like most about her, though, is that she’s a high school student, through and through. She has people that she likes, and she has people that she doesn’t like. She’s definitely not two faced about how she feels about someone, and she sticks to her guns. Realistically portrayed, and absolutely awesomely written.

The second runner up would have to be Garrett Wilde, by DocBalance (<3). I know that he hasn’t been in too many threads (at this writing, he’s been in two, with a third currently in the works) but he’s written with the assured confidence of a handler who knows his character. Garrett is almost apologetically intelligent and incredibly sympathetic, to the point of knowing that his intelligence and his ability to debate will debilitate, and still pushing onwards. He strikes me as a man who can’t help but use long, big words in casual speech and knows it. Most refreshingly, he isn’t doing it to one-up or show off that big ol’ brain of his. He’s simply incredibly intelligent.

But hands down my favourite character of Pregame is Andi Victorino, by our own lovely Mimi. Maybe it’s my own experiences clouding my judgement, but I love many major things about Andi, and each of them have me rooting for her 100% in both pregame and V5 proper. The first, the teen pregnancy aspect. Now, we’re not going to talk a lot about this because there has been moms (and one soon-to-be mommy) on the island before. Where Andi differs is that it isn’t just a sympathy plea, and she’s not a perfect parent. She has to deal with the fact that she can’t have as much fun in public with Fiona, and she has to consciously balance the slightly immature teenager who complains loudly about her boyfriend with the forced maturity of a mother raising a child. There is absolutely nothing about Andi that feels off or fake to me, which is so hard to pull off with this concept. Go, Mimi!

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): What I’ve done? Definitely “Walk slow, talk slow, keep yer head low” with the absolutely fantastic DocBalance. I’ll let you guys read it if you’re interested, won’t go into any detail.

Outside of my own involvements, I’d say Three Peaches, largely because it’s two awesome writers (you know that when Mimi and MurderWeasel get together, sparks) but you get to see a softer side of Andi, a slightly vulnerable one that Susan can support. It’s the meeting of a girl who is allowed to drop the somewhat leathery exterior she’s been carrying around to put herself above the barbs of her classmates and a genuinely supportive friend, who wants Andi to lean on her.

I also hate this thread because it isn’t done yet and you two need to FINISH it! >:(


The Scrawlings

Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone): Paulo Abbate. Outfoxd has a wonderful sense of humour, and you can just tell from Paulo’s posts that he loved to display it openly and affectionately. I haven’t read all of Paulo’s stuff (and you can expect a longer paragraph when/if I do) but what I have read is aces.

Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal): Ohhh snap. This one’s a toughie, but I’m going to give it to Madeline Wilcox by TurtleTyrant for having so many gentle bones in her body. She likes studying and having sweet conversations with people that just paint her as this careful, put together, cuddly character. I think Turtle did a fantastic job on this one.

Best Dressed: Michelle Wexler’s racing bathing suit, that she so proudly wears wherever she gets a chance. At a football game, to a gazebo. I like the choices Ruggahissy made in getting her in random places wearing odd outfits - C is for Cookie and the girl scouts outfit? A highlight.

Most Likely to be President: Definitely, definitely, Naomi Bell by Violent Medic. And now I’ll try to talk about her a little bit! Naomi’s got the entire candidacy for school president locked up tight, but what I think shines most about her character is how she’s kind of a bitch behind closed doors. Her opinion on others shines through in her narrative, and Violent_Medic does a fantastic job of letting readers know what’s truly shining through in her actions and decisions. She’s somewhat cold-hearted, very aware of her public standing, and shows signs of borderline ruthlessness that I think gets the job done well.

Most Likely to End up in Jail: Travis Webster, by Delroy, because the education system tells me that he’ll eventually fall down a spiralling hole of scum and villainy. But no. He’ll probably be busted for posession at some point or another if he keeps on trucking the way he is. I haven’t really read too far into Travis beyond seeing him now and again, but I will most definitely look into him as V5 approaches.

Most Likely to Succeed: Max Sawyer, by The Burned Handler. I know that he hasn’t had any threads yet, but he pretty much has no choice but to succeed, considering he’s headed to a good school and has rich parents who’ll back him. He’s also a bit of a snit, and I’m looking forward to expounding upon his relationship with my characters come V5.

Biggest Meanie: For this, I’m looking at BROseidon’s character - none other than Cassandra Black. Like Travis, I’ve only read one real thread where Cassandra was a major factor - the fantastic After the Battle - but Cassandra comes across as vicious in it. BROSeidon has a wonderful working of the character’s thought patterns, and none of it felt forced, fake, or otherwise wrong upon reading. I’m going to keep a close eye on her when it comes for V5, because when Cassandra has an opportunity to feel vindictive, look out.

Class Flirt: Gavin fuckin’ Hunter, by Ghost of Ravenstar. I love Gavin in a way that only I can love. Seeing Michelle Wexler’s reaction to him and Joe Carrasco’s bailing from the situation in It’s Traditional To Sleep In Gazeboes was a fuckin’ riot, as well as him pulling the same thing on Maddie Wilcox in A Breath of Fresh Air. It culminates with him ‘fixing’ an iPod at the mall. All of it was fairly comedic, but from an “outside looking in” perspective.

He’s well written, and he’s got some interesting stuff going on in his interior monologue, too, that often makes me chuckle. All around fun read.

Most Dramatic: Hmmm. This one’s somewhat of a toughy, because I don’t want to constitute “most dramatic” as a bad trait by any sense of the imagination. As far as ‘most likely to fly off the handle,’ however, I’m going to have to sick to the safe vote and go Aileen Abdallah by Bikriki. I love Aileen because she’s a huge, in-your-face catty person and loves to explode all over people. I’ve regrettably not read too much of her - she’s actually next on my list after posting this - but what I have read strikes me as the high-flying dramatics that would nestle neatly into this category.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Hmm. I’m going with Michael Mitchellson on this one (played by dmboogie), and not solely because he’s deaf. It’s what dmboogie takes from the fact that Michael’s deaf and what he chooses to run with. Rather than have the deafness be something that the audience can sympathise with and be an easy plea for attention, boogie instead works it so that Michael is incredibly optimistic, upbeat, spunky, and witty as all get out. The combination is a fascinating one, because while it doesn’t avoid the issue of Michael’s deafness, it also doesn’t slap you with the fact that he has a disability. The result is a well written, unusual character who I enjoy reading a lot.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Gah. I’m really trying not to do doubles, here. Fortunately, I can cop out and use my MurderWeasel card.

I call it that because all of MurderWeasel’s characters are incredibly grounded and realistically played from where I’m sitting, and they’ve been that way since I read his V4 stuff. They all have a subtle niche in high school society, personalities that are tempered and smoothed by experiences, and ways of approaching situations that all add up to be a breathtakingly refreshing package. Of these, I’m going to say Steven is the standout for me.

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?) : I can tell you who I hope will win, but I already answered most of this in the Favourite Character section. Most likely to win, if I were to take a shot, would probably be Mike Eastmund. He’s a heavyweight boxer, level headed, and is able to function without a lot of social stimulus. He’s also probably the one dude that I would never want to fuck with in a dark alleyway, due to his mean right hook. I see him as a survivor, but we’ll have to see when the bell tolls.

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? If my own have to be barred, then probably Joe Carrasco (Another Violent Medic kid!) to some degree. I like his awkward shyness and his hiding drug use from his parents. Cody Patton by MK Kilmarnock, too - I identify with the jerk-jock side of him more than I should probably admit.

Which character do you feel the most for? Ugh. Well, I almost made it through. I almost made it down the list without doubling. Hohwell.

Andi Victorino. Why? Because she has a lot going for her. I know that Mimi hasn’t gone into too much explicit detail about the details of Fiona’s life (instead sticking to subtler references of ostracism and impact on social life) but I can’t help but picture her home life, the struggle she’s going to face as Fiona grows older, and the hardship of being forced to mature so quickly. And that’s BEFORE she gets to the island. So yeah, Andi by a mile on this one.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? Fuck, man. I don’t know. I want Summer Simms (Mimi) to win, because I don’t want such an interesting girl - who just wants to be loved so badly - to die. But that’s also kind of wishing death upon her - or much worse - because of all the shit she has to go through to get there. That’s as good an answer as I’m going to get at this point, though.

Which character do you think has it coming? I kind of hate this question. Partially because some of me is like “they all get the same punishment” but mostly because it’s forcing me to double up again. I’m going to say Aileen Abdallah, because that woman be cray-cray.

Quick; Final Four for V5 - who's it gonna be? Mike Eastlund (TBH has to win one of these days), Paris Ardennes, Lydia Robbins, and Cody Patton.

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Ah, see. Nothing has really brought a tear to my eye as of pregame. I will edit the shit out of this during my readings if this changes, though.

Most Humourous Scene: It’s Traditional to sleep in Gazebos. BAR. NONE.

Most Drama-filled Scene: After the Battle, because it seemed like one or all of those characters were ready and waiting to snap at any moment.

Most Unexpected Scene: Sorry, copping out again, but Joe going WAY out of his way to escape the awkward zone in It’s Traditional.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5 Pregame? Probably the aftermath of Hansel punching Garrett in Walk slow, talk slow. It allowed me to get into Hansel’s head as more than just a shallow character who hates gay people and stuff.

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? Brandon Baxter. I resonate a lot clearer with him than Hansel, though Hansel’s getting there. Baxter’s child’s play.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? I’m going to say Power, just for the sheer fact that Rugga, The Burned Handler, and MK Kilmarnock decided to join in. Seeing four different writing styles really sticks with me.

What are you proudest of in V5? I’m proudest of my relationship thread. Because a fair amount of work went into it, and seeing people eager to work out character development with me made me smile.

What do you wish you could improve? I know I tend to be way overly positive on the criticsm scale of things. I’d like to find a way to state good and bad of situations and threads, and do it in a way that doesn’t make me feel like a jerk for doing it.

What is your favorite OOC memory? Recently, Pyrce High games have been a blast. But if that doesn’t count? I’d say the first time I truly felt welcomed ‘into the fold’ as it were. People on chat and on the boards have been really nice and friendly to a rookie looking to make a name in the SotF game.

Also Mafia. Mafia and Pyrce High. Apparently I like murder.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Guys, I’ve been reading SotF since V3 ended, off and on. I’ve watched from afar as Kimberly clawed her way to victory, Ivan mourned Tabi, and Maxwell got shot off of a cliff. And now that I’ve got two characters on the way to the island, I’m super, mega pumped and happy that I’m going to share in the ride.

Bye bye, Pregame. Let the real ride commence!

The Basics

Handler Name: Mimi!

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): I try not to pick favorites, so all of them, I suppose?

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): Andi's getting personal, Sven is getting gay, and Summer's getting.. shoppy?

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): Oh jeez, so many. I was super attached to both Susan Clarke and Chuck Soileau, but going into the island I'm really digging Paris Ardennes, Iselle Ovalle-Vandermeer, and Gray Emerson just to name a few!

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): Vidal Sasson, because of how much of Mara's personality shines and how much it brings to light so many of her insecurities.


The Scrawlings

Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone): Cooper Komorowski with his ill fated flirting and his loving relationship with future wife Scarlett Johansson.

Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal): Michelle Wexler is the sweetest angel to walk the planet, even when faced with the creepiest of creeps.

Best Dressed: Phoebe Cho. I would be a happy girl if Fairy dressed me.

Most Likely to be President: Naomi Bell's already hit one stop on the destination to presidency.

Most Likely to End up in Jail: Probably Travis Webster, possibly for drug dealing or buying hookers. Or both.

Most Likely to Succeed: Probably Kyran Dean. He can afford success.

Biggest Meanie: Paulo Abbate's kind've a dick.

Class Flirt: BRANDON BAXTER: SLUT.

Most Dramatic: Oh dear, so many. I'll go with Cassandra Black, though, for her major breakdown.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Lana Torres, the big butchy burly girl who lifts weights with the guys! It's really interesting to see!

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Aww, my sweet Gwen O'Connors! I'd love to know her in real life!

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?) : Paris Ardennes would manipulate his way to the end somehow.

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? Susan Clarke in all her mischievous, fly by the seat of her pants glory. She doesn't really have a plan for her life and would rather enjoy it while she can!

Which character do you feel the most for? Joe Carrasco, I suppose. That boy can not pull it together.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? I'm not sure, actually! I think a lot of storylines of the characters I enjoy would end better with them dying, but I might also just love a tragedy.

Which character do you think has it coming? Stacey May Mordetsky is sort've asking for it by being a bitch all over the place.

Quick; Final Four for V5 - who's it gonna be? Iselle Ovalle-Vandeermer, Kathryn Nguyen, Alda Abbate, Lauren Rower. SOFTBALL GIRL FINALE FOR THE DRAMAS.

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Nothing has been terribly sad as of yet!

Most Humourous Scene: Oh, It's Traditional To Sleep in Gazebos with Gavin Hunter and Michelle Wexler for sure.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Walk Slow, Talk Slow, Keep Yer Head Low has been pretty intense. You can almost taste the anger from both Hansel and Garrett

Most Unexpected Scene: I'm not sure off the top of my head really! Pregame's always surprising me with threads that I personally wouldn't ever think of c:


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5 Pregame? Andi and Susan's park chit chat! I always love doing just chill threads that expose a characters friendships!

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? While I love Andi and she lets be be a dick sometimes, Summer makes me thing the most and challenges me the most, so probably her!

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Three Peaches

What are you proudest of in V5? I suppose the reception Andi in particular is getting? I didn't expect people to be so verbal about liking her and it really warms my heart ;~;

What do you wish you could improve? Both my speed and consistency with posting, as well as my wording and character development!

What is your favorite OOC memory? RUPAUL DRAG RACE MOVIE NIGHT.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I could not for the life of my tell you which presidents are on any of the U.S currencies.

The Basics

Handler Name: MurderWeasel

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): Man, I'm just not feeling inspired enough to figure out if the jokes I was gonna put here are funny or obnoxious, so I'm gonna assume the latter and give a straight answer: I don't really have one.

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): All over the place, but mostly between threads. I think Steven's my only kid who's gonna end up in the game who is in a thread, and he's in the journalism room.

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): Ooh, quite a few. I love Mimi's Andi a lot, and also Summer. I'm quite fond of Paris Ardennes, too, and Gray Emerson. Francis St. Ledger I consistently enjoy. There are more, but I'm gonna stop there to avoid rambling at too great length.

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): No Waiting On Checkstand Three. I am very sad Laz does not plan to write Laz in V5. He's another character I like a lot, and man, now that I work in a grocery store too, I really feel this thread.


The Scrawlings

Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone): Paulo and Cooper are both hilarious, but I'm gonna grab an underdog and say Chuck Soileau has been a blast and a half to read.

Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal): Michelle is super nice. Summer tries really hard to make sure everyone likes her.

Best Dressed: Gavin Hunter. Leather trench coats are a beast to get to look good (trust me on this one), but can be quite striking. Plus I like trench coats in general.

Most Likely to be President: Miles Strickland. He's got the charisma, and unlike Naomi he often comes off as a lot more genuine in his dealings, which I think would help him get further in politics.

Most Likely to End up in Jail: Alba, I think. He's got temper issues, and while he can often hold himself in check, it only takes one screw-up in the real world to land you in hot water. Travis is in pretty good shape if he can avoid getting busted for like six months, since Washington has eased up restrictions on/partially legalized pot.

Most Likely to Succeed: Summer's got ambition and a way with people, while avoiding the sort of alienation so common to kids with an excess of drive.

Biggest Meanie: Veronica comes into every situation ready to make people's lives unpleasant.

Class Flirt: Gavin and Paris can duel for it.

Most Dramatic: Joe Carrasco. Between his overbearing father and his choice of friends, his life is a constant stream of disasters.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Leona Van Camp has some hobbies that we don't see often, and they've been well-represented thus far. She gets a nod for the good type of original.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Gray Emerson rings quite true to me, especially in his surprising depth of character.

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?) : My sources say Rose Matheson.

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? Hmm... I get Gray and Summer, where they're coming from. Summer especially reminds me a bit of me in high school, though manifested in different ways. I also can often relate to RJ.

Which character do you feel the most for? I'm quite sympathetic towards Maddie, because she's had a rough time in some ways but hasn't let it get her down too badly, but has some personal flaws all the same.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? I'd love to see Andi take it, or maybe Iselle. That said, there are boatloads of characters who I've not gotten a feel for yet (mostly those with little to no pregame) so I'm excited to see who gets to shine on the island.

Which character do you think has it coming? Veronica and Aileen basically make their own trouble wherever they go; that's gonna bite 'em for sure.

Quick; Final Four for V5 - who's it gonna be? Mara Montalvo, Timothy Abrams, Aria Samuels, and RJ. The RNG has spoken.

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: I'm going to cheat here and pick Rebecca Kiesling's profile. She's had some real challenges in her backstory, and that it's pretty mundane stuff actually increases my sympathy towards her.

Most Humourous Scene: Just three dudes, hanging out.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Oaris' and Naomi's disastrous date.

Most Unexpected Scene: Cassandra chilling out on Prom night. I always like getting a bit more depth to characters, and seeing another side of Cassandra took me by (pleasant) surprise.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5 Pregame? No idea. It's all been a blast. Actually, I'm gonna say Adam's profile, since it's the most fun I've had writing a profile in a while.

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? Probably Susan. I've had fun with 'em all, though.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? I think After Practice, but I'm a sucker for quiet threads.

What are you proudest of in V5? A big, huge, ugly monster of a worry was that, after V4, things would be boring or samey or otherwise tough for me to engage with. Lots of handlers, especially those who have a big impact on a version, are left with this big "What next?" afterwards, because they've already done so much that anything else feels like a step back. I was really nervous that I just would not get into V5, but I'm actually having just as much fun of V4, and I don't hate my writing, so I'm pretty proud of that.

Either that, or actually picking songs for some of my characters before the end of V5, which puts me a good deal ahead of V4.

What do you wish you could improve? About eight, ten months ago, I hit a point where work and school applications and pregame and Mini and reading and staff stuff all sort of was bearing down on me, and I felt like I had to decide whether I'd keep up with staff responsibilities or being a really active pregame participant. I picked staff stuff. I wish I'd been able to cram in a little more pregame, though, especially since a lot of this has been personal/mental/focus issues rather than solely a lack of time.

What is your favorite OOC memory? Oh, far too many to pick just one. Whenever chat's actually talking SOTF, though, I totally love it. Also, meeting all the cool new people who've joined since the end of V4. I love watching the site grow in positive directions.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I had a really good zinger thought up for this section, but now it's late and I can't remember it at all. Maybe I'll edit it in later if I figure out what it was.

I haven't read as much of pregame as I'd like, but I'm going to give this a try

The Basics

Handler Name: Ruggahissy

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): I love all my children equally. (I don't care much for GOB)

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): Paris is being not-gay in a coffee shop, Michelle is hanging out in her bathing suit, Mara is yelling in the newspaper room.

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): Daw, I can't pick cause they're all so different.

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): Ummmmm hmmmm Three Peaches. So cute. It makes me feel really warm and fuzzy. Damn you for not entering Susan, Toben.


The Scrawlings

Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone): It has to be Gavin Hunter. He makes me laugh.

Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal): Yaz Carrol is pretty nice. She even seems to go along with whatever weirdness approaches.

Best Dressed: Miranda Millers. I like retro

Most Likely to be President: Naomi Bell

Most Likely to End up in Jail: ....Adonis Alba is not good with people.

Most Likely to Succeed: I'll say Summer because she wants it so badly.

Biggest Meanie: Veronica McDonald

Class Flirt: Run off between Stacy Mordetsky and Gavin Hunter. Never stop being you, bud.

Most Dramatic: Cassandra Black and Aileen Abdallah can fight for it.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Any character that strikes you as highly original or out of the ordinary. Michael Mitchellson. I must have a thing for kids who can't speak. However, he's got a personality that's really different too. It's like, he thinks he's the coolest cat in the world even when doing incredibly dorky things. He's like a much more likable Jimmy, who happens to not be able to speak. I love this kid, go read him.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: A character who you feel that you can imagine existing in real life. I'll say Gray Emerson. I read him and I smile because he says things that sound like what I'd say in the situation.

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?) : I fail because I can't think who even though I made these questions : (

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? Aw fuck. Kryan maybe. He's pretty relaxed about things.

Which character do you feel the most for? Paulo. His sister is a bitch and he has daddy issues and his mother resents him for being so much like his father and he acts like a jerk to deflect so people don't generally get along with him outside of fighting. Kid's got it rough.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? Andi so that Fiona doesn't become girl Batman

Which character do you think has it coming? I don't like this question much because pretty much everyone's not done more than be a brat.

Quick; Final Four for V5 - who's it gonna be? Aileen, Andi, Michael Mitchlleson, Gwen O'Conner

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Has anything brought a tear to your eyes? I think Three Peaches

Most Humourous Scene: Which scene served as the best comic relief? I generally don't say things that I'm in or helped write but I have to say It's Traditional to Nap in Gazeebos.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Which scene had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama? Walk Slow, Talk Slow, Keep Your Head Low. It was really tense, but it reminded me of people I know and the ending was equally uneasy, even with an apology. Second to After the Battle.

Most Unexpected Scene: Was there anything that you just did NOT see coming in pregame? Whatever (the thread, I'm not blowing this question off : ( )


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5 Pregame? That's really hard. I think my weird, confusing one shot from the perspective of NPC Beatrice. Sorry to whoever I confused by not revealing which of my characters that was about until the last sentence!

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? I hate to admit it, but Paris. He is the most morally bankrupt character I've ever written and yet, he's the most fun.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Scarlet Darlings. Too bad it became a pileup, but it was fun while it was functional.

What are you proudest of in V5? Not being yelled at by anyone for subpar work I guess.

What do you wish you could improve? I refuse to proofread my own writing. I should learn to.

What is your favorite OOC memory? Spiderman meme with Dom and Drag race with the girls (and Laurels?)

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! That's all I've got.

[Grand Moff Hissa]

V5 First (Halfway) Plastic Hammers

[+] V5 First Plastic Hammers Part One

Heya, all! It's that time again: time for Plastic Hammers!

I have taken the liberty of, as dictator for life the first dude to grab 'em, actually overhauling them fairy completely. I've done my best to remove problematic elements of the Hammers while also streamlining them, hopefully making for a slightly more useful and friendly awards experience. A rough summary of and explanation for the changes follows:

Almost all "Most X" awards have been replaced by "Best X" instead. This is because there was a tendency for some awards to sort of end up booby prizes, where getting voted them was not so much a badge of honor, or where something was just flat out objectively true (Why yes, that time when the dude killed and ate literally the entire cheerleading squad was the most violent scene!). That's no fun, so we're going quality rather than quantity.

Redundant awards have been eliminated. You no longer need to select your favorite scene and thread, for example. On a similar note, the scene and death categories asked the exact same questions for, well, scene and death. Usually each handler left half of them empty/put the same answers for both scene and death. Thus, I just rolled the things together officially. If you have both a scene and a death you wish to give a shout out to, feel free to just list both.

A quick reminder: the hammers are to celebrate the good stuff, by and large. There are a few places where we ask for criticism and the like, usually about the story/site/game as a whole. That's fine! Just don't take shots at specific handlers/characters here. There are tons of appropriate avenues for expressing criticism and disagreeing with others' opinions and such, so use one of them instead.

If you feel like linking, we love seeing links! If not, don't sweat it. Try to fill the form out as much as possible, but don't worry too much if you get stuck on a question or two. There's no shame in leaving a blank spot once in a while.

That said, have at, and have fun!


The New and Improved Plastic Hammer Awards (fortified with nine essential vitamins and minerals)!


The Basics

Handler Name:

Your Trademark Character:

Current Status of Trademark Character:

Favorite Character:

Favorite Weapon:

Favorite Scene:

Favorite Death:

Favorite Quote:

Favorite Post:

Favorite Location:


Characters

Best Character Development: What character development has kept you intrigued?

Best Game Impact: Which character do you feel has brought the most positive development to the game as a whole, outside their specific storyline?

Best Innovation: Which character has been a breath of fresh air for you?

Best Realism: Which character is really grounded in reality in a way you find appealing?

Best Heroic Character: Which good guy has you solidly on their side?

Best Villainous Character: Who is your favorite ne'er-do-well?

Best Tragic Character: Whose sad and inevitable fate have you most enjoyed lamenting?

Best Humorous Character: Which character made you laugh the most? (And I will smack you if it's someone doing it "unintentionally". Be nice in the hammer. >:C)

Best Tactics: Through elimination of the competition or a solid plan for survival, who's kept you interested in their struggle to make it back home?


The Sympathy Award: Which character did you feel the most for, and most want good things for?

The Empathy Award: Which character could you most easily put yourself in the shoes of?

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Which deceased character should have stuck around a little longer?

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Who best earned their (possibly still forthcoming) demise?


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Which scene or death made you the most teary eyed?

The Stomach-Churner: Which scene or death has most effectively played with the gory/violent/overall disturbing side of the game?

Best Impact: Which scene or death do you think best played a positive role in changing the course of the game?

Best Comedy: Which scene or death served as the best comic relief?

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Which scene or death had the best action going on?

Best Feeling-Inducer: Which scene or death provoked the best emotional reaction from you?

Best Drama: Which scene or death had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

Best Surprise: Which scene or death caught you most off guard in a pleasant way, either through its unpredictable nature or its unique execution?


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?

V5 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V5?

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out?

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5?

What do you like the most about V5?

What do you think could have been better about the version?

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions?

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story?

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions?


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5?

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write?

What are you proudest of in V5?

What do you wish you could improve?

What is your favorite V5 memory?

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!

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[b]Your Trademark Character:[/b]

[b]Current Status of Trademark Character: [/b]

[b]Favorite Character: [/b]

[b]Favorite Weapon:[/b]

[b]Favorite Scene:[/b]

[b]Favorite Death:[/b]

[b]Favorite Quote:[/b]

[b]Favorite Post:[/b]

[b]Favorite Location:[/b]


[u][b]Characters[/b][/u]

[b]Best Character Development: [/b]What character development has kept you intrigued?

[b]Best Game Impact: [/b]Which character do you feel has brought the most positive development to the game as a whole, outside their specific storyline?

[b]Best Innovation: [/b]Which character has been a breath of fresh air for you?

[b]Best Realism: [/b]Which character is really grounded in reality in a way you find appealing?

[b]Best Heroic Character: [/b]Which good guy has you solidly on their side?

[b]Best Villainous Character: [/b]Who is your favorite ne'er-do-well?

[b]Best Tragic Character: [/b]Whose sad and inevitable fate have you most enjoyed lamenting?

[b]Best Humorous Character: [/b]Which character made you laugh the most? (And I will smack you if it's someone doing it "unintentionally". Be nice in the hammer. >:C)

[b]Best Tactics: [/b] Through elimination of the competition or a solid plan for survival, who's kept you interested in their struggle to make it back home?


[b]The Sympathy Award: [/b]Which character did you feel the most for, and most want good things for?

[b]The Empathy Award: [/b]Which character could you most easily put yourself in the shoes of?

[b]The Gone-Too-Soon Award: [/b]Which deceased character should have stuck around a little longer?

[b]The He-Had-It-Coming Award: [/b]Who best earned their (possibly still forthcoming) demise?


[u][b]Scenes and Deaths[/b][/u]

[b]Best Tragedy: [/b]Which scene or death made you the most teary eyed?

[b]The Stomach-Churner: [/b]Which scene or death has most effectively played with the gory/violent/overall disturbing side of the game?

[b]Best Impact: [/b]Which scene or death do you think best played a positive role in changing the course of the game?

[b]Best Comedy: [/b]Which scene or death served as the best comic relief?

[b]The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: [/b]Which scene or death had the best action going on?

[b]Best Feeling-Inducer: [/b]Which scene or death provoked the best emotional reaction from you?

[b]Best Drama: [/b]Which scene or death had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

[b]Best Surprise: [/b]Which scene or death caught you most off guard in a pleasant way, either through its unpredictable nature or its unique execution?


[u][b]Predictions, Preferences, and Positions[/b][/u]

[b]If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?[/b]

[b]V5 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. [/b]

[b]Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V5?[/b]

[b]How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out?[/b]

[b]How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5?[/b]

[b]What do you like the most about V5?[/b]

[b]What do you think could have been better about the version?[/b]

[b]How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions?[/b]

[b]What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story?[/b]

[b]How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? [/b]


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[b]What has been your favorite thing to write in V5?[/b]

[b]Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write?[/b]

[b]What are you proudest of in V5?[/b]

[b]What do you wish you could improve?[/b]

[b]What is your favorite V5 memory?[/b]

[b]What else would you like to share? Anything goes![/b]

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name: Un-Persona, most of you just call me Un, Unpy, or Persy.

Your Trademark Character: R.J., cause he's alive.

Current Status of Trademark Character: In a car at night, talkin about life and stuff.

Favorite Character: Oh golly such a hard question why do you do this - ahaha, I'm sorry, it's Rosemary.

Favorite Weapon: Exploding Cigar - It's really smokin.

Favorite Scene: Shake It Out

Favorite Death: In hindsight, it's Carlon's.

Favorite Quote: "N' what if we don't get them off? We get murdered by our fuckin' fri-classmates, or we get fuckin' blown up anyways!" - Joey Caputo

Favorite Post: Yep.

Favorite Location: The High School has seen a lot of good stuff.


Characters

Best Character Development: Rosemary! (God I'm gonna try not to sound like a broken record at the end of this.)

Best Game Impact: Actually gonna say Hansel. Cowboy caused quite a stir since his first kill.

Best Innovation: Garrett Cobbler (as handled by Poly), was a really smooth read.

Best Realism: I'm gonna give this to Deanna Hull.

Best Heroic Character: Ian Williams...he's trying anyway.

Best Villainous Character: I like Joachim at this slot. What a mook.

Best Tragic Character: Zoe is gonna be an absolute wreck at the end of this ;-;

Best Humorous Character: Michael Mitchellson is just great.

Best Tactics: Matt Vartoogian is one of the few who knows what the hell he's doing.


The Sympathy Award: Kam has been kinda bull-headed to most people and in general, but she needs a hug.

The Empathy Award: Francis St. Ledger has an attitude I approve of. Which is probably why he died so early.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Carlon :c

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Theo dun fucked up.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Amy's death made me sad.

The Stomach-Churner: THE BITCH EATS PEOPLE.

Best Impact: Adonis dying probably sent the message that anybody can die.

Best Comedy: David Zimmer's death was very tongue in cheek, reminded me of Lemony Snicket.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Dying Intensifies.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Power, Reprised.

Best Drama: I thought In Situ did it's twist well.

Best Surprise: Cyrus' death caught me off guard, in a good way.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Obligatory "The Crash" goes here.

V5 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. Rosemary, Joachim, Michael, Kam.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V5? ^ See above. Also Zombie Carlon.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? The bestest.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? I enjoy it very much.

What do you like the most about V5? Just the general community and how everyone tries their best.

What do you think could have been better about the version? Enthusiasm. People have been kinda down in the dumps lately, I feel.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? Based on what I've heard, we're a lot more sold.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? It'll never die, it'll never leave.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? More diversity.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? Actually, getting Venice to make a make-shift rope and rescue Amy made me feel better and less nervous about my writing.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? R.J., longer story and all.

What are you proudest of in V5? How much I've been told I've improved along the lines.

What do you wish you could improve? I keep accidentally a word.

What is your favorite V5 memory? Planning stuff that's never gonna happen. #wingit

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! V5 HOOOOOOOOOOO.

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The Basics

Handler Name: Bikriki, Mephistopheles, Christian

Your Trademark Character: Joachim Lovelace, I suppose.

Current Status of Trademark Character: He chose to kill again.

Favorite Character: -

Favorite Weapon: Ballistic Knife, it was fun writing it.

Favorite Scene: -

Favorite Death: -

Favorite Quote: -

Favorite Post: -

Favorite Location: -


Characters

Best Character Development: There are characters who do feel like real people. There are characters, who when faced with the game, break. Then there are the characters who use humanity's greatest skill and adapt. Rosemary is one of those and I enjoy seeing where she goes through.

Best Game Impact: Different ideas are floating around here. For one, I enjoyed the failing of the escape plot, as it shows that one does not simply fuck with staff for the sake of it. Then there are scenes like Summer's murder of Naomi, though I think that other people have discussed this enough.

Best Innovation: As I do not wish to single out a single character, I'll expand on this below.

Best Realism: Quite a bunch, the mentioned Rosemary. Owen Kay, Lauren Rowe. Honestly, the majority feels real for me, these are just some very excellent examples.

Best Heroic Character: What is a Hero?

Best Villainous Character: J'aime Paris dans la nuit <3

Best Tragic Character: Summer, when we are going the Greek way.

Best Humorous Character: DMboogie can write hilarious characters and Michael is not an exception.

Best Tactics: KK played quite smart, though Paris' manipulative skills are not to be overseen either,


The Sympathy Award: Owen, though I am very biased.

The Empathy Award: Hm... difficult to answer, honestly.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Lauren, though her time was merely borrowed.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Maximiliam, Theo, Summer. Paris so earns his life.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: I will expand on this once v5 is done.

The Stomach-Churner: Stomach is a good keyword.

Best Impact: Hansel vs Theo and Kati's death. They mark a change in the meta-arc I like to imagine.

Best Comedy: -

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: -

Best Feeling-Inducer: Which scene or death provoked the best emotional reaction from you?

Best Drama: Edgar vs Travis

Best Surprise: -


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? The crash, obviously. It killed a lot of enthusiam. Ironically, said crash allowed me to change stuff I wanted to fix.

V5 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. Owen Kay, Paris Ardennes, Rosemary Michaels, Wild Card.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V5? Owen, perhaps Rosemary.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? Excellent, or I'll track you all down and break your legs.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? While there were periods of me wanting to throw it away, I enjoyed it by and large. Maybe it has to do something with the fading depression, or maybe because now I feel more confident in my writing ability.

What do you like the most about V5? Remember my answer on "Best Innovation"? See, the thing I like the most about v5 is how bold we are. There are a lot of character concepts that seem odd or out of place (We have a cowboy, a pirate, a cannibal etc.) or any other form of "this will go horribly wrong". The thing is, it works. I believe that this massive success in that regard is a huge testament to us as a culture of writers.

What do you think could have been better about the version? Look above.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? Better in general quality, given that there is no fodder.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? I care little because while it is a useful framing narrative, it doesn't really hold together well when observed on it's own, I feel.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? I will discuss this in the next hammers.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? Path of Pins, Carmina's and Adonis' and Cho's death, the Love arc (Ailoween <3)

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? Aileen and Joachim both alternate frequently.

What are you proudest of in V5? Managing to incorporate love without making the story rot. Also, having someone as campy as Joachim work.

What do you wish you could improve? A lot, I won't list it here.

What is your favorite V5 memory? -

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I am a cake.

Best Surprise: Cyrus' death caught me off guard, in a good way.

:')

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name: Laurels

Your Trademark Character: I've got two left, and I feel they have equal weight at the moment.

Current Status of Trademark Character: One's having a breakdown, and the other is between threads.

Favorite Character: I find it hard to pick just one favorite, but I can usually say I have a favorite from each handler.

Favorite Weapon: FAMAS

Favorite Scene: There's too many good scenes. Like the favorite character question, I generally have a favorite scene per character/group of characters.

Favorite Death: Summer's

Favorite Quote: I can never remember full quotes.

Favorite Post: You're gonna love me! *eats human flesh*

Favorite Location: The Hotel has just been such a fun location.


Characters

Best Character Development: In the villainous sense, probably Andi Victorino.

Best Game Impact: I'd say Hansel Williams.

Best Innovation: A tie between Michelle Wexler and Garrett Wilde.

Best Realism: Owen Kay

Best Heroic Character: There's so few left... I guess a mix of Owen and Michelle.

Best Villainous Character: Hansel Williams.

Best Tragic Character: Carlon Wheeler/Natali Greer/Summer Simms. The first two were such nice kids who went out in completely unfortunate ways. The last one was just completely broken.

Best Humorous Character: Michael Mitchellson is pretty funny.

Best Tactics: Paris Ardennes is a schemer.


The Sympathy Award: Of the remaining kids, I'd guess Mirabella Strong.

The Empathy Award: I feel there's too many. I imagine that if I ended up in a game like this I'd be really susceptible to the changing winds.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Lauren Rowe was really good for an early out. Francis St. Ledger might have also been interesting to see go a little further.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Max Sawyer, Theo Fletcher, and Gabriel Lee pretty much deserved to die when they finally did.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Young and Beautiful was a really sad thread, and the first post made me a Mirabella fan. I've yet to actually cry at anything I read, and because I'm a pseudo-masochist, I'm still waiting to be made a weeping mess.

The Stomach-Churner: Om nom nom. Tied closely with a thread that ruined my favorite Journey song.

Best Impact: When there was a spree of big player deaths near the halfway point, I really think it's going to change a lot. Theo, Summer, Miranda, and Jaquilyn all dying close together will radically alter the playing field.

Best Comedy: The wedding.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Even though I was involved in this thread, Summer's lobby rampage was just such a great thread to participate in and to kill off half the characters who were in it.

Best Feeling-Inducer: TOO MANY. Seriously, these deaths are heavy.

Best Drama: Summer and Baxter.

Best Surprise: I didn't think Andi would kill Garrett, but I'm really glad she did.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I wish the site crash didn't happen and didn't kill the momentum of the game. We could have been much further along in the game if it didn't happen, and there's a chance the list of remaining students would be radically different.

V5 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. Paris Ardennes, Rosemary Michaels, Hansel Williams, and Amaranta Montalvo.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V5? I have at least one person per handler I want to see get as far as possible.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? First, I imagine it will be really good because I think we have a good cast of characters and really talented handlers present. Second, I imagine it will be different from all previous endgames and that I will be thrown about by many surprises.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? I have enjoyed V5 to a ridiculous extreme. Seriously, this site is something that helped me confirm that I want to spend my life writing.

What do you like the most about V5? I'm just having a blast thinking of new story ideas and working closely with interesting people to plan stuff out.

What do you think could have been better about the version? No crash.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? I feel V5 has a more well-informed group of handlers behind it, with the Read-a-thon teaching a lot of V5 newbies about V4. I feel like everyone here has a good idea on what the game is and what they can do in it.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? It's really cool, but I'm definitely hoping V5's story has some interesting twists to the mythos.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? V6 will hopefully have a lot of the V5 newbies coming back, and hopefully we'll have all improved and turn out some really amazing characters and stories. I also think V6 will have some really clever stories that we haven't seen yet. What those are, I have no clue, but I hope we see them.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? For each character of mine, I enjoyed writing Sophie's death scene, Claire's run-in with Hansel, and Rachael lying to Michael. They've all tested me as a writer, and I had a blast writing them.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? I tend to flip back and forth with Rachael and Claire. Claire is fun because she's very passionate and outspoken, while also having a really interesting story. Rachael is a lot more passive, but it's fun to be emotional and try to write an emotional arc.

What are you proudest of in V5? Just being able to contribute to it. I know that might come off as a pageant-y answer, but I'm really glad I have this experience.

What do you wish you could improve? I wish I was better at trying to plan long arcs ahead of time. I was very much a "see where the winds take you" kind of guy in terms of story, and while that hasn't been too awful, it meant that I was a little unsatisfied with how Sophie's story went. For V6, I might try to plan more with people before the game starts.

What is your favorite V5 memory? I don't know. There's just so much I've enjoyed that it's really just the experience as a whole that works for me.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! This game isn't over, but it has become one of my favorite experiences to do. I've had a great time getting to write and chat with all of you. You are all people I admire for a variety of reasons. I'm learning a lot from all of you and I feel that this is going to help me years from now. I really hope to do more with all of you, and I can't wait to see how V5 goes.

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The Basics

Handler Name: Espi

Your Trademark Character: Gwen or Theo

Current Status of Trademark Character: Both are dead

Favorite Character: Too many to say! Mara Montalvo, Maynard Hurst, Sean Mulcahy, and Hansel Williams are all up there. For dead kids, I liked Sara Corlett, Summer Simms and Michelle Wexler.

Favorite Weapon: Penis enhancement pump if only for the reaction the terrorist had when it was assigned. As for used weapons, the Stinger, though it wasn't used right.

Favorite Scene: Early threads are underappreciated, there were plenty of good ones. I liked . "Rebellion" was also pretty interesting as an early thread, and I was fond of writing in "Cantata Mortis".

Favorite Death: I liked Summer Simms' a lot since it was really made sense for her character.

Favorite Quote: Too many to count, personally. A lot of Summer Simms', Hansel Williams', and Paris Ardennes.

Favorite Post: Hansel's symbolic BKA oneshot was interesting.

Favorite Location: I'm a big fan of the hotel for being a huge source of violence.


Characters

Best Character Development: Mirabella Strong

Best Game Impact: Summer Simms’ story will probably alter the way future players interact.

Best Innovation: Alda's a bitch and very angry in general, and I find she's actually a really interesting if you look beneath that.

Best Realism: I’m a fan of Jessica Sanders despite Ricky’s dislike of her. She’s grounded and makes sense as a person to me.

Best Heroic Character: Michelle Wexler and Owen Kay.

Best Villainous Character: Summer Simms, Mara Montalvo if she counts and Joachim Lovelace

Best Tragic Character: Michelle who may or may not be Island Jesus.

Best Humorous Character: Michael Michelson has a very entertaining voice.

Best Tactics: KK Konipaski had this at first but I think she’s lost the touch. Paris Ardennes is similar with his manipulation.

The Sympathy Award: Sara Corlett was so sweet and shy.

The Empathy Award: Theo’s early panic was a lot of myself, though I don’t like the direction I went with him.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: I had really high hopes for Paulo and I’d have loved to see him change more later on.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Theo, Theo, Theo


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: I was really sad reading

The Stomach-Churner: God damn it Summer.

Best Impact: I think that Interstice of Time altered Theo’s path which altered a lot of the game, as did A Classy Place to Meet

Best Comedy: I was amused by Tessa Blackridge’s death as black comedy.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: A Classy Place to Meet.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Garrett’s death was sad.

Best Drama: Tell No Tales is pretty messy at this point.

Best Surprise: I absolutely did not expect Summer to snap the way she did.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I wish I was still in the version for one xD. Also the crash shouldn’t have happened and I’m disappointed in a lot of my early writing.

V5 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. Maddie Wilcox, Ami Flynn, Maynard Hurst, Mara Montalvo

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V5? Too many to count.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? Amazingly.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? I had so much fun I can’t even tell you.

What do you like the most about V5? It was an overall very solid version with nothing standout bad. There were no “oh god whys” for me and there’s not much that went completely terribly character-wise.

What do you think could have been better about the version? That said, not as many highs as V4. Less standouts, less huge memorable moments, it’s a bit of a solid but not spectacular thing.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? Fewer lows, fewer highs, very solid but not as exciting.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? It’s never going to be great, but I think it’ll always be fun and it’ll resolve itself eventually.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? I think people might take more risks and be more out there, ideally. I know I’ve gotten way more experience and will be trying some more stuff that I’d never have touched when I joined.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? Gwen was always fun, and I'm really proud of what I did with her.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? Gwen.

What are you proudest of in V5? I’m proud of my growth. I joined about a year and a half ago and wasn’t really that great. But after all this time I think I’ve gotten leaps and bounds better than I ever would’ve without SOTF. I’ve also made a lot of friends which would’ve been way harder without it.

What do you wish you could improve? I wish my early stuff wasn't as weak. I need to stop rushing as much in the early game, and I want to be able to tie a character's overall arc together better.

What is your favorite V5 memory? Being involved! I've never been in a big community like this before, so having so many people to talk to (and game with xD) has been such a fun thing.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! While I'm sad I got rolled out already, I'm still really excited for SOTF. TV2, V6, and everything else is still coming up and I can't wait to keep on writing!

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The Basics

Handler Name: MrMissMrs Random, Random, Rand.

Your Trademark Character: Rosemary is the only one I have for this version so I guess her.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Alive, and about to be alone.

Favorite Character: This is really, really hard. I guess Mara Montalvo, Joe Carrasco, Mirabella Strong/ Maynard Hurst (Sansa's characters tie for me), R.J Rutherford and earlier on Summer Simms and Garrett Wilde were the characters I followed from on the dot.

Favorite Weapon: Punt gun. Saying it makes me giggle.

Favorite Scene: Joe letting out his anger on Miles, and for emotional probably Michelle Wexler's loss of blood.

Favorite Death: Natali Greer's quiet end and the aftermath I felt was really good emotionally. Summer Simms for equally emotional but not so quiet end.

Favorite Quote: Not sure.

Favorite Post: Not sure.

Favorite Location: Tie between The Hotel and The Nuclear Plant


Characters

Best Character Development: Mirabella Strong

Best Game Impact: Hansel Williams since he has just kept being a strong force to the game so far and seems he'll continue to be that way.

Best Innovation: I'm not sure right now.

Best Realism: Ian Williams. He just seems like a regular guy.

Best Heroic Character: Probably Adam Morgan.

Best Villainous Character: Tie between Joachim Lovelace just because of the way he thinks, and soon coming up is Andi Victorino, possibly.

Best Tragic Character: Paulo- though he may not look like it at first I feel that him never being able to fully change is what got him killed. Michelle simply because she did things that I don't think many characters do in SOTF- save her killer.

Best Humorous Character: Michael Mitchellson. That boy brightens my day in almost all of his posts while also making me whimper whenever he mentions Daniel.

Best Tactics: Paris Ardennes. That wonderful schmuck.

The Sympathy Award: Maynard Hurst and Adam Morgan group. Be happy. Please.

The Empathy Award: Probably Bella.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Sara Corlet and Natali Greer. I feel like they could've had bigger stories if they had the chance.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Brandon Baxter and Maximilian Sawyer. Going to put in Garrett Wilde also as a strange honorary place- I was shocked when Doc swapped him with Alda, which made me sad since I had been following his story. Then his ending with Hansel and Andi coming in and stabbing him I felt was a good way to end it at the time, but just his ironic echo of "You win, Williams." left such a bad taste in my mouth.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Probably the death of Island Jesus Michelle Wexler.

b]The Stomach-Churner: [/b] Any bit with Summer Simms. I'll just put all of them either making me uncomfortable but unable to look away or creeped out. The aftermath with Jesse Jennings and her head included.

Best Impact: Overall the death of Theodore Fletcher I think brought a bigger chance to see the change that has fully yet to come for the second half of V5.

Best Comedy: Not sure.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: The duel between Adonis Alba and Joachim Lovelace I really enjoyed. Bonuses to Gavin Hunter's escape group's demise and the final acts of Summer Simms.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Cheating with the death of Joey Caputo. Unrelated probably death of Natali Greer.

Best Drama: Dissolved Girls

Best Surprise: Paulo's death and how Ian did it. I just felt how it happened almost poetic.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? The crash. Though it gave more time I think for the handlers that returned to think about more ideas it messed up a lot of threads and storylines.

V5 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. Andi Victorino, Maynard Hurst, Mara Montalvo, and wild card.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V5? This is too hard I can't pick one bye.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? I'm hoping for either a one-on-one to the death or a quiet piece that sends waves across the board.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? This is my first version in Survival of the Fittest and I'm really enjoying it so far. Like some of the other handler's I think it feels quieter, but overall has a good bunch of characters and storylines.

What do you like the most about V5? I like how everyone feels like a main character in their own right but hardly anyone is trying to be a definite hero or villain.

What do you think could have been better about the version? Can't judge since first version.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? Can't judge. Won't Judge.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? Exciting and always keeps you guessing.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? Probably even better development, better writing from the current handlers and more characters to love and hate.

Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? The couple of posts after Joey's death. Like Bikriki the game of riddles, and I think the Meanwhile thread for Rosemary's parents made me the most emotional. I cried writing that.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? Rosemary, be default.

What are you proudest of in V5? How much my writing is improving. Always more, but happy so far.

What do you wish you could improve? Better facial expressions I think, also describing body language.

What is your favorite V5 memory? Rattlesnake heroing to save Rosemary. Thank you so much for giving me more time to create her story.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I really want some Chinese food.

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The Basics

Handler Name: NotAFlyingToy (NAFT)

Your Trademark Character: Hansel Williams

Current Status of Trademark Character: Being a dick.

Favorite Character: This is a super hard question, but I’m going to go with Ciel’s Carlos. There’s a bunch that can fit in here, but he leads the pack for the moment.

Favorite Weapon: I really like the AF2011. Really sweet looking gun.

Favorite Scene: Hmmm. Recent memory would be Maddie and RJ discussing life in a car.

Favorite Death: Grim’s Karen had a beautiful death and it doesn’t earn enough props.

Favorite Quote: “You don’t get to be the fucking hero anymore.” -- Summer Simms, Paraphrased.

Favorite Post: Garrett Wilde’s deathpost wrapped up his story in a neat little bow, and also gave me an opening for a new chapter in my own character’s story, so I need to represent him here.

Favorite Location: Probably the shipping yard.


Characters

Best Character Development: It’s hard to argue that Summer didn’t have the largest character leap this version so far. That it was 100% believable hammers it home.

Best Game Impact: There’s a couple of people that could go into this slot, but I’m going to namedrop Mara because she’s interacted with a good amount of big names.

Best Innovation: Innovative as in bringing something new to the table? Summer for sure. I’ve waxed poetic about it in her Wiki page, though, so I’ll let you guys look it up for a deeper analysis or whatever.

Best Realism: Mirabella strong went from being kinda meh to having a lot of grounded, really raw and visceral moments. Poor girl.

Best Heroic Character: Definitely Steven Salazar. I’d also argue that Kyran Dean is a heroic character, if one’s willing to compromise their idea of heroic slightly.

Best Villainous Character: To nobody's surprise, Paris Ardennes.

Best Tragic Character: Mirabella has had a rough few days. Alternate answer is Fiona, Andi and Sven's kid, who at best will have no dad and a murderer mommy.

Best Humorous Character: Not many come to mind. Michael Mitchellson is fairly consistently amusing.

Best Tactics: Tempted to give the nod to Paris for skilled manipulation. Instead giving it to KK for being one of the few to stick to their plan. Something is definitely working for her, despite it somewhat slipping of late.


The Sympathy Award: Ian Williams.

The Empathy Award: Carlos Laz

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Michelle Wexler and Natali Greer.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Max or Travis. Edge to Max.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Probably Karen's again.

The Stomach-Churner: Katy's death. It was and still is the only scene in SOTF that had me saying "oh my God" aloud.

Best Impact: The Only Winning Move appears to be the death of any hope of making it out alive for both handlers and kids. We're all now in it for the long haul.

Best Comedy: Man, this is too hard. I'm going to abstain because nothing's really jumping out at me.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Everyone Dies. Also where “The Hanley Treatment” was coined. (Lookin’ at you, Persy!)

Best Feeling-Inducer: Gonna say Katy’s death again, here!

Best Drama: Mara and Summer, eatin' doughnuts. It’s like two live wires waiting to electrocute one another.

Best Surprise: Shamino giving all of our collars a little beep was genius. Those that did react to it made it an excellent reaction.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I would supply SOTF with better board themes. It's looking tacky up in this.

V5 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. Michael, Tyler, R.J, and Matt. Four quiet guys stuck in a thunderdome.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V5? Andi so that Fiona won't live alone, Ian because I can relate to the dude.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? Nobody wins. Villains rule with an iron fist. Say goodbye to your heroes.



How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? I loved the shit out of it.

What do you like the most about V5? I've forged some great friendships here and written some of the best stuff I've ever produced I think.

What do you think could have been better about the version? The inclusion of the Raging Judge Magnum.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? I could write an essay on this, and have ranted and rambled on at length about it. So of course I can’t pass up an opportunity to do so again. V5 for me is the most logical leap from V4 - where V4 explored the theme of no true heroes lasting past halfway, V5 posits the question - were there any to begin with? Instead of a blend of heroes and villains all doing their best to stick to their guns, it appears that in this version we have a scale from gray to black, with a few white dots desperately clinging to life in the midst.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? I came to this conclusion somewhat recently, but I think that I prefer to think of SOTF as two separate trilogies, splitting between V3 and V4. V1-3 will always have a place in history and my heart as being the zanier ancestor to V4-5, but there’s an almost complete separation of thematics - V4 and V5 center on realism and grit and exploration of morality with more variety and grit.

I’m going to abstain from going ham on the concept and writing about it at length, but I love where V5 fits into the niche of the story. It shows a more complete evolution and helps chart the concept’s growth from its early V1 days.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? Hopefully, we’ll see the evolution continue. If we’re following the Star Wars pattern, V6 will be when the kids create a giant death catapult and invade the terrorist base, blowing it to kingdom come while Greynolds holds one of their heroes hostage and tries to get them to join the ACT.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? Toss up between Right Down The Line because I got to contribute meaningfully in another character's story, and Hansel’s P90 Pickup where I wrote a pretentious oneshot. I love writing pretentious oneshots.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? I loved them both pretty equally while I had them. Baxter might have the edge because his story’s thematically complete and he was easier to get in the head of.

What are you proudest of in V5? Doing the first SOTF dual critic thread with Unpy, and apparently doing enough right so that people kept reading my stuff.

What do you wish you could improve? Attention to detail and ability to read everything.

What is your favorite V5 memory? Making veiled (and not so veiled) references in #balletdeath about crackships.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! PM me if you like getting caught in the rain.

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The Basics

Handler Name: DocBalance

Your Trademark Character: I'm sure I have one.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Mulching and killing, respectively.

Favorite Character: Hansel Williams.

Favorite Weapon: The Ballistic Knife!

Favorite Scene: Path Of Pins, the infamous riddle game. I lost my mind reading it, very well done to everyone involved.

Favorite Death: Carlon Wheeler.

Favorite Quote: “No. You don’t get to be the fucking hero anymore.”-Summer Simms.

Favorite Post: "Yep."

Favorite Location: The Shipping Yard.


Characters

Best Character Development: Summer Simms, all the way. Her arc was spot-on perfect from start to finish and served an interesting meta-narrative about the relationship between the abductees and the terrorists.

Best Game Impact: Theodore Fletcher. I have some issues with Theo's overall arc and some of his handling, but I think it'd be hard to argue that any other single character has affected as many arcs by ripple effect.

Best Innovation: Joachim Lovelace. This sort of ties into my favorite meta-narrative for V5, but in a game full of characters struggling to define themselves and stand out against a dehumanizing system, Joachim readily and happily embraces his place as a tool of circumstantial destruction and I love him to bits.

Best Realism: Brandon Baxter. There are a lot of angry people on the Island, but no one handles having legitimate, known anger issues for the bulk of your life better than Baxter, from his profile, to his pre-game, to his death. I'm sad that he went so early, but the central dynamics of Baxter's story were really refreshing alongside some of the other depictions of anger in SotF.

Best Heroic Character: My choice for this includes spoilerths so I'm hushing up.

Best Villainous Character: Paris Ardennes. I love me a good puppetmaster, and so far Paris is a great one. He's got a lot of hype to maintain, but his last two big villain moments have successfully managed to escalate, even if some of the shine and surprise is starting to wear off.

Best Tragic Character: Carlon Wheeler. Just...I have a lot of feeling surrounding Carlon and I cannot properly expand upon them here. He's the one death that still haunts me so far.

Best Humorous Character: Michael Mitchellson. He's been consistently funny in an island full of darkness, and I appreciate the bright light he provides.

Best Tactics: Amaranta Montalvo. Mara has had to make a lot of hard choices so far, and I think they're only going to get harder. However, she's still hovering above being a real villain or openly malicious. She's playing safe and smart and doing things that, for the most part, make a lot of sense. She's had one real, palpable rage break, and even in context, you almost feel sorry for her.


The Sympathy Award: Rutherford "R.J." Roger Jr. The Island has just been constantly dumping on this poor guy since he woke up. I really want things to turn around for him and allow him to find some of the people important to him so that he can find some closure and relief.

The Empathy Award: Rosemary Michaels, for the most part. There are some points that I'd strongly disagree with Rosemary on, but for the most part she's ended up acting in a very similar manner to how I'd imagine myself on the Island.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Carlon Wheeler

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Theodore Fletcher, Adonis Alba, and anyone else I'm forgetting whose death includes a last minute conversion. No matter the circumstances, that retroactively justifies everything that happens to a character.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Carlon :C

The Stomach-Churner: Allow me to bandwagon and say Summer's fight with Naomi. Just...everything about it. That was a really squicky death scene, in the best way.

Best Impact: It's really difficult for me to identify a single scene that had the most impact because of my personal read on V5, so I'm going to pass on this one.

Best Comedy: Also going to give this one a pass as I'm having trouble narrowing it down.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Summer's entire death thread. There was so much action going on, and seeing the pay-off of the grenade Summer had been nursing all game was sweet. The resulting aftermath was downright chilling.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Caaaarrrrrllllooooonnn ;_;

Best Drama: K.K. killing Kelly Peterson. The tension and raw emotion between Rattle and Bacon in this short scene is palpable and just thrilling.

Best Surprise: Paulo and Ian's fight was intense and very unexpected. Big thumbs up to both of them.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Michelle Wexler's death. I feel like the Group Naptime plot-line could have eventually gotten some real legs, and Michelle's death seems to have sent all the characters involved scrambling a little bit.

V5 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. Paris Ardennes, Rosemary Michaels, Hansel Williams, Zoe Leverett.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V5? Paris, Hansel, Ami, Ian, Andi, and Iselle are my stand-outs right now, subject to change on my inconsistent personal whims >.>

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? A real villain is going to win and adjust to the world just fine afterwards. That's my big hope.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? I love V5!

What do you like the most about V5? I really enjoy how much V5 has dug into the issue of identity and how many characters are struggling with their personal identity and agency as a result.

What do you think could have been better about the version? Escapes. Now, I personally really don't like escape plots, but I can appreciate them when they're planned to fail but still plausible. So far though, I'm not feeling that from V5's escapes. Planning seems to have been very minimal and they boil down to very simple, selfish ideas, and I'm just not feeling it.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? V5 is much stronger to me than previous versions, because handlers are getting better at conveyance and consistency. My big gripes with previous versions have been that the well-thought out characters are incredibly dense, the simple characters tend to be very inconsistent, and the flat out bad characters tend to be both. V5 has for the most part nipped both of these problems in the bud at large.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? The overall story is a little bit messy at the moment. V3, V4, and V5 have all represented fairly significant transitions in style and world-building, and I think that can create a level of over-all narrative whiplash with things like inconsistency in terrorist motivations, resources, and intervention. I have high hopes for the efforts to clean things up, though, and I look forward to where we go from here!

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? I predict escapes coming back in a big way in V6, and possibly getting a more ruthless vision of the terrorists as a result.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? That's a pretty tough decision. I'm going to go with Alda's reaction to Paulo's death. I had the image in my head as soon as he didn't catch a hero, and I refined it pretty heavily. It's one of the few things I've written that I feel unreservedly proud about.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? I'm going to go with Garrett for now just because I've done more with him, but I think Alda's going to end up over-shadowing him.

What are you proudest of in V5? That I was able to do Garrett's death pretty much exactly as I'd always envisioned it, with some minor adjustments.

What do you wish you could improve? Pretty much everything pre-That's Crate with Garrett. I made some very questionable decisions with him because of OOC motivation and I have major, major regrets about that.

What is your favorite V5 memory? Theorycrafting, flipping out, and just generally being misbehaving children with TheRedVelvet, Notaflyingtoy, and dmBoogie.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! IN OLDEN DAYS, A GLIMPSE OF STOCKING WAS LOOKED ON AS SOMETHING SHOCKING, BUT NOW GOD KNOOOOOOOWWWWWWSSSS, AAAAANNNNNYYYTTHHIINNNNNG GOOOOOEEEESSSSSSSSS!

Note: This list will be repetitive because I haven't read much of SOTF recently.

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The Basics

Handler Name: Maraoone

Your Trademark Character: Juhan Levandi

Current Status of Trademark Character: Currently sobbing his way through revealing to his friends that the escape plot's over.

Favorite Character: Summer Simms

Favorite Weapon: Great American Challenge (is that name correct?)

Favorite Scene: Naomi and Summer's fight scene by far.

Favorite Death: Same as above. Also, Michelle Wexler and Casey Malkovich.

Favorite Quote: Does narrative count?

In a corner of the room, a glossy eye lingered on Summer as the boom of a gunshot echoed throughout the area and the last of her warmth was seeped into the air.

With one more kid down and one less story to watch, it turned its attention to Amaranta Montalvo.

Favorite Post: I had an answer for this, but I can't recall it anymore so I'll just say Andi's kill post for now.

Favorite Location: The Amusement Park. Not really because of the scenes there, just because I enjoy the idea of the place.


Characters

Best Character Development: For a dead character, Summer Simms. For someone still alive, Mirabella Strong. I can't wait to see where she goes next.

Best Game Impact: Theodore Fletcher and Katarina Konipaski.

Best Innovation: I'm gonna go with a different answer and say Michael Mitchellson.

Best Realism: Haven't read enough to answer this so far.

Best Heroic Character: Not sure.

Best Villainous Character: Hansel Williams.

Best Tragic Character: Gonna change answers here also and say Zoe Leverett. She hasn't died yet, but I don't think it'll go well.

Best Humorous Character: I haven't read him recently, but from what I've seen of him so far, Michael Mitchellson has been a very fun read.

Best Tactics: I think Katarina Konipaski has been going about it in a very smart way.


The Sympathy Award: Mirabella Strong, poor girl :c

The Empathy Award: Haven't read enough to say.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: I haven't read Carlon, and I think a lot of people will disagree with me on this, but I'd have like to see Naomi stay alive at least a little bit longer. Also, there's just so many what-ifs that I have regarding the early deaths.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Maximillian Sawyer, by far. Also, Theodore Fletcher. I don't think this needs any explaining.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Not really teary-eyed, but Michelle Wexler's death left me really sad. I hadn't even read her that much before, so I had no bias or whatever regarding her death. But the way it was framed, and her desperation in her last moments made the entire scene so depressing.

The Stomach-Churner: Jumping on the bandwagon as well and saying Big Stick Ideology (Summer and Naomi's fight scene). Close second would be when Jesse Jennings decapitates Summer. Those descriptions D:

Best Impact: Not really positive, but I'll side with others and say The Only Winning Move. It sealed the fate of all but one person on the island, and I think it'll serve as a precedent OOC.

Best Comedy: David Zimmer's death via toy boat. It's amazing how creative handlers can get.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Theodore's death at the airport. The pacing of that scene was perfect.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Repeating myself again and saying Michelle Wexler's death.

Best Drama: The one with Brandon Baxter and Summer Simms in the camping place. I don't remember the name, but this thread was intense.

Best Surprise: Sara's death. I knew beforehand that Ami would be the one to kill her. I just didn't expect it to be like that.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? The crash. Although it allowed for a bunch of great adoptions (I haven't read them, actually, but people tend to point to Darren, Phoebe, and Marcus as a great example) and one of the most glorious one-shots ever (Everybody Dies), it also caused a lot of people to go inactive. Also, we would be a lot further along in the game by now.

V5 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. I haven't read much, so I'll just go by IC standards (although I'm not saying that these people aren't well written). Hansel, Katarina, Travis, and a wild card.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V5? Mirabella. I feel so sorry for her right now, and I feel she deserves this the most.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? Not sure. I'm not too good at predicting.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? There's been a few rough spots, to be honest, but I've enjoyed it a lot, specifically because I've learned a lot about writing from this site.

What do you like the most about V5? It's that there's not many bad characters. There's been a few people who I don't enjoy reading, but compared to previous versions and other sites, I'd say V5 has been top-notch. That's what I like most about this site.

What do you think could have been better about the version? The crash, obviously. Other than that, not sure.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? It's great. Although I haven't read much of the previous versions, from what I've seen, I think V5 is doing a lot better.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? I'm not sure. I can say, however, that it's really interesting how much of a difference there is between V1-V3 and V4-V5. It's almost like they're different RPs.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? I just hope that it'll keep on getting better.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? Carmina Maliksi's death. Her death is flawed, definitely, but I just had so much fun writing this moment. Also, the circumstances for her death were right there, so it was incredibly easy trying to find a killer for her when she was rolled. Plus, Nuggets and Bikriki were really nice to work with, and I wish both of them the best in SOTF.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? Juhan Levandi, by far. I've gone on a lot of fun writing adventures because of him. Also, he started out as (but isn't anymore) a self-insert, so I feel connected to him in a way. I've made a LOT of mistakes with this character, but I think this site has helped me learn so much about writing.

What are you proudest of in V5? Reaching the halfway point with two characters. That was definitely awesome. Also, just my work on SOTF in general, especially now.

What do you wish you could improve? The escape plot. I made a lot of mistakes there. I don't regret joining there, since I got to work with handlers who have been awesome, but I just wish I'd looked a bit closer and left a bit sooner. I was so fascinated with the idea of an escape plot and how my character would do in it that I failed to realize just how flawed it was (this is also what I get for not reading enough SOTF).

Also, I feel like I get a bit redundant when writing posts. I feel like I use the same phrases a lot, and bring up the same ideas, and if I want to make my story fresh, I really need to change this. Also, I've held up a bunch of people for days, so I think being timely is something I could work on.

What is your favorite V5 memory? Chat. I've had a lot of fun with the handlers here.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Nope, not really.

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The Basics

Handler Name: backslash

Your Trademark Character: Natali, Marcus if we're counting adoptions.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Dead in the amusement park and having his bridal shower, respectively.

Favorite Character: Team Handi J Andi and Hansel, Joooooe, Kam, Maddie and RJ, Iselle/Alda/Kathryn, Mara. Strong showing from the ladies this version.,

Favorite Weapon: Naft said I salivated over the AF2011. This is not untrue.

Favorite Scene: Hard to say, a lot of good stuff has come out of the first half of V5. Theo's post just before killing Gabby is one of my favorites from very early game, and The Farmer and the Viper was just great. For one that’s still ongoing, Joe and Travis’s confrontation.

Favorite Death: Paulo's death following his fight with Ian.

Favorite Quote: Michael's mental rant. Shit, why would you even need a map in the abyss? Or a torch? You use the torch to read the map? What's the map even gonna say? "OH SHIT, THERE'S SOME ABYSS RIGHT HERE. THERE, TOO. LOOK TO THE NORTH, I HEAR THE ABYSS THERE IS REALLY FUCKING NICE THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. YOU ARE CURRENTLY ABYSS."

For spoken quotes, Joe's tearing into Travis.. “So, you know what? No. I'm not glad to see you're okay. Because you are not okay. This is not okay.”

Favorite Post: Don't think I can pick just one.

Favorite Location: The Nuclear Plant. I'm hoping it'll see some more action.


Characters

Best Character Development: Hansel. Started out as a stereotype that I was all ready to hate and then he had to go and have personal doubt and depth and shit. All around a really great surprise.

Best Game Impact: Not sure I can narrow it down to just one.

Best Innovation: I’m giving this one to the softball squad as a whole, since I think it’s the first time we’ve got teammates really notably working together and they’re a great read.

Best Realism: Adam Morgan feels like somebody I could have a conversation with.

Best Heroic Character: I’ll be honest, nobody really strikes me as truly heroic this time around.

Best Villainous Character: Travis Webster, you crazy motherfucker.

Best Tragic Character: Mirabella :C

Best Humorous Character: Michael Mitchellson’s internal monologues are great, and I really liked the dark humor RJ had, though he seems to be going in a more serious direction of late.

Best Tactics: Paris Ardennes. He’s managed to avoid any fights so far and has kept himself under the radar, and I think it will serve him well.


The Sympathy Award: Joe, Mirabella, Kam.

The Empathy Award: Probably Sara Corlett. I can see myself doing what she did, sticking with someone even after they might be more than a little crazy.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: I was sad to see Xavier Contel go out so early, he was fun.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Max Sawyer


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Mirabella coming apart mentally and emotionally makes me :C

The Stomach-Churner: Ilya getting his nose bitten off before being shot made me cringe.

Best Impact: Gonna go with Daniel Whitten’s death, since that kicked off quite a few things for several characters, and we’re still seeing the effects.

Best Comedy: Tessa Blackridge’s death. Playing Go Fish with the grim reaper.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Gonna go with the crowd and say A Classy Place to Meet.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Can’t decide.

Best Drama: Dissolved Girls, and Affluenza.

Best Surprise: The softball trio actually meeting up, and Andi joining up with Hansel.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?I’d have really put more into developing Natali before game proper, and of course everything changed when the Board Crash Nation attacked.

V5 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. Andi, Iselle/Alda/Kathryn, Paris/Mara, Joe

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V5? I’d like to see Andi take it.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? I’m hoping for at least one slow-motion fight scene.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? I had/am having a great time with it.

What do you like the most about V5? Getting to really become a part of the community has been very fun and rewarding.

What do you think could have been better about the version? There have been a few spots where activity dragged, especially following the crash.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? My first version, but I’m sure we keep improving!

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? I really like getting more backstory for the AT members and seeing motivations unfold. It makes the world feel a lot more cohesive.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? If Naft’s predictions are correct, the AT will build a new Death Star and there will be some awkward family reunions.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? The wedding thread is tons of fun.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? Default to Natali, since Marcus isn’t really mine.

What are you proudest of in V5? Natali’s death post.

What do you wish you could improve? Characterization in general, and getting my characters to stand on their own better.

What is your favorite V5 memory? Being declared the Wiki Queen

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Naftisadickbutt

WARNING: What you are about to read is me doing the rest of the hammers while drunk. Parts of it were already filled. Some of it is exaggerated to cartoonish levels. Take comfort in the words you are reading because they are the most coherent you'll be seeing in this post

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The Basics

Handler Name: Ciel

Your Trademark Character: Ami I guess

Current Status of Trademark Character: gonna see how far i can make her sink until she drowns

Favorite Character: Joe Carrasco. I loved him at the beginning. Fell off the bandwagon around the crash and when Medic was sort of away. Came back and reread him only recently and remembered exactly why I fell in love with him.

Favorite Weapon: Stinger because espie be salty that ami aint shootin gpeople lik swiss chess actually I'm fucking with you Espi, the ballistic knife

Favorite Scene: All Battles Are Fought By Scared Men Who'd Rather Be Some Place Else

Favorite Death: casey malkovich, how tags managed to top fletcher is beyond me

Favorite Quote: "...", wise words from michael mitchellson

Favorite Post: "Liars."

Favorite Location: The ones where Rugga and Mimi wrote the descriptions and made shit unnecessarily creepy


Characters

Best Character Development: mirabella strong because holy shit has she changed over the course of the game.

Best Game Impact: shamino made all the collars beep and that was pretty impactful and that's my answer yup

Best Innovation: Summer Simms. I don't get this meta-angle people are rallying around. Mimi just went out of her way to explain the method to the madness and that's pretty innovative. lord forbid you should try to make the reader understand the inner-workings of your nutsocrazy killer when they do crazy irrational things like bite people's noses off and dress up in japanese sailor suits.

Best Realism: Adam Morgan and Venice Pennington-Johannes, please don't ask me to chose

Best Heroic Character: naft came to me in a dream and told me that there are no heroes in v5 and he brought graphs and a powerpoint so i guess there are no heroes

Best Villainous Character: i'm going to be a cheeky fuck and say danya, aw yeah no one's done this before

Best Tragic Character: Zoe Leverett, all the possibilities and her death made me sad

Best Humorous Character: I would say Michael Mitchellson but the fame might go to boogie's head

Best Tactics: zubin wadia. are you ready for me to bust this case right open? The guy survived a run in with KK, avoided getting rage killed by Mara, got out when Sean came, didn't get hit during the firefight at the manor? And the orgy thing? People will think he is weak and not bat a single eyelash at him. This is part of his plan, I swear to god, this motherfucker.

The Sympathy Award: R.J. and Kam.

The Empathy Award: R.J. and Venice, it's like un-persona's writing actual people, also maaaayyynnaaaard and rosemary

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: kinda wanted to see what espie wanted to do with gweny

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: maynard, wow look at this asshole every girl that he looks at dies, what a douche


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Mirabella cutting her hair and throwing a fit, girl, why would you cut that pretty hair, that's the biggest tragedy

The Stomach-Churner: max eating somebody's nose, yum yum

Best Impact: uhh the.... escape going south. that seemed pretty impactful at the time

Best Comedy: how Paulo totally choked, hey guys everyone laugh at paulo, ahahaha, but no seriously I can't answer this.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Summer ate a bullet and the camera turned to Mara and that was kind of cool a lot of people died in that thread

Best Feeling-Inducer: i a m immune to feels, i am a manly man with manly emotions but i guess Zoe and Casey's deaths would have made me cry if i were capable or willing

Best Drama: Summer wouldn't put out for Baxter and Baxter was a creepy creep and made me uncomfortable

Best Surprise: Summer ate a bitch. Summer did a lot of shit, don't judge me


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? if it were up to me mischief managed would have turned into a bloodbath but instead the escape gave me a bloodpuddle, man, you guys let me down

V5 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. Homestead, Day 12. From inside the barn, Michael Mitchellson could see the flames from the wheat fields licking near the doorway. What a way to go: fried up like a piggy piggy pig with a apple down his throat and a metal rod up his ass.

Watching the fire was all he could do to try to no stare at the shattered thing that was once Andi Victorino, torn to such a state that even glancing at her made Michael threw up in his mouth.

But he was not alone. From his hiding spot could see the figures at the other side of the barn, the elephant and the mouse, and as his eyes adjusted he noticed the mouse was not strangling him as he originally thought.

The knife was smooth in the rodent's hand as she forced the other into his mouth, wrenching her dirty, crimson-stained fingers around his tongue. Hansel Williams screamed with the voice of a thousand muffled canons but he would not be allowed the luxury of begging, oh no, if he was going to heaven then the rodent would show him hell first. The scapel pressed to the muscle and the red chunks started pouring. Hansel's soul fell through the floor as he was left to choke on his own blood like a pathetic prarie dog being torn in half by a lion.

Michael couldn't hear a single thing but pictures were worth more words than he could possibly think because this shit, oh, fuck him, oh god, this, this was some serious fucking shit. The only sound that shot over the thunder outside and the boys choked screams was the growls of the mouse, gore-splattered and foaming at the mouth and desperately out of her mind.

The monster that was once called Mirabella Strong smiled. Garrett would be waiting. All of her friends, her family, maybe, one day. Mirabella could feel the tears as she placed the barrel of the FAMAS under her chin.

Hansel was right; this is no thunderdome, not in any sense of the word. This is a true horror novel, a book of life and death bound in pigskin and in here, the biggest monster always dies at the end.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V5? Joe, Mirabella, Mara, Andi, Michael and Rosemary tbf

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? top v2. Top v2. TOP V2. TOP V2.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? i like how people are actually giving a shit about characters that aren't tangentially related to their own and are actively reading people and starting conversation. It makes you feel like what you do matters and it puts the pressure on you to do better.

What do you like the most about V5? ^^^

What do you think could have been better about the version? to be honest I really wish we still had the nulls. people had a habit of abusing the fuck out of those but, seriously, those things were really handy if you wanted to save a character you really like and you have no hero. plus i think the community has matured so much that I would trust them to vote fairly, UNLIKE V4

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? v1-v3 were the star wars prequels. v4 was the season where half of the handlers had collective strokes or something and at the time they were reading house of leaves so they thought to themselves "hey guys, you know what this game needs?" needless to say, V5 didn't need to go very far to top them, but V5 went above and beyond in every sense of the word and you people are awesome for making it this way.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? lmao do you mean on island or the announcements? the announcements i honestly don't like. prologue was cool but it took a nosedive after that. v3, v4, felt like it was leading up to somewhere. v5's announcements feel like filler and i don't like filler, there's no buildup, no subplot, no structure, nothing. Maybe that was a conscious choice made by the staff in order to shift away from the madhouse v4 turned out to be but lately I either read the announcement fluff much later or skip it outright. seriously I don't want to be 'that guy' that just fucking curb stomps the staff and treats them like scum for no discernible reason. back in v3 when I was a squirt I was excited for the announcements not just because of the rolls but of the little nuggets of story that would come with it, like a toy in a box of cracker jacks. I don't know where i'm going with this, basically what I'm saying is that v5 sucks and is awful, why can't it be more like v3? What do you mean v3 was terrible, no it wasn't, I was there, I played like 20 characters, it was awesome, it was a good show, you missed out, it was a good show

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? lol dunno.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? Darren's death. For fucking real.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? Ami. I know she's sort of polarizing to people but I am insanely proud of her, like a father to his... imaginary fictional character.

What are you proudest of in V5? Tell no Tales. Even though it went over the deadline, I am absolutely satisfied with how this thread turned out. Sara's death post left me awestruck. Ricky legitimately made me feel guilty IRL with Sean. Ruby's reaction was awesome and what Sean does to her surprised me. And the direction the thread took after the fact, man, I really love this thread for all of it's rough edges.

What do you wish you could improve? Having Carlos do stuff.

What is your favorite V5 memory? That huge collective laugh we had when we read Gavin's death post.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! i was going to a dick and link you guys to that creepy fucking dougie picture but i can't find it so here have some anime

[+] my favorit eanime

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The Basics

Handler Name: MurderWeasel

Your Trademark Character: Susan Clarke

Current Status of Trademark Character: Ms. Not-appearing-in-this-version

Favorite Character: Mara Montalvo

Favorite Weapon: Yo, ballistic knife, I'm real happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but Cooper has the best knife of all time. Of all time!

Favorite Scene: Let's say Mara's BKA pickup. All the BKA pickups have impressed me a lot, actually. Not something I'd've expected prior to the game.

Favorite Death: Jesse Jennings'

Favorite Quote: "Alive's close to alright." – Lauren Rowe

Favorite Post: KK's initial plan is everything I want to see a villain type think through.

Favorite Location: The shipping containers feel really atmospheric to me (I can compliment parts of the island because I basically had no part in making it beyond grammar edits! ><)


Characters

Best Character Development: What character development has kept you intrigued?

Bella's character change has impressed me a ton. Losing her meds was the best thing ever to happen to her narrative. It's especially interesting to me because I feel it actually serves her well retroactively, too; edges of what she becomes really have been there since the start.

Best Game Impact: Which character do you feel has brought the most positive development to the game as a whole, outside their specific storyline?

I feel like Summer addressed some topics that are really, really hard to do well in SOTF and got people talking. For a long time, there was a sort of taboo nature around things, and while I think there's a reason for a lot of that, she challenged a lot of preconceptions and really got the community discussing and involved in a cool way.

Best Innovation: Which character has been a breath of fresh air for you?

Paris Ardennes displays a very firm grasp on narrative, especially when it comes to withholding/revealing information selectively without sending me into an Annie Wilkes rage.

Best Realism: Which character is really grounded in reality in a way you find appealing?

Kyran Dean is a standout here because he's a character who really has a lot of complexity and layers. He's inconsistent in the good way, always reacting based on what's going on and really taking what's happening onboard.

Best Heroic Character: Which good guy has you solidly on their side?

Xavier Contel. He's one of a very few, or maybe even the only, kid I'd really call a hero. It takes a lot to try your hardest and die for it all in favor of doing the right thing.

Best Villainous Character: Who is your favorite ne'er-do-well?

I really dig KK. I feel like she's well realized, has some really good layers, and is surprisingly subtle in some ways.

Best Tragic Character: Whose sad and inevitable fate have you most enjoyed lamenting?

Let's say Miranda Millers. She tried so hard to make it, and in the end she died for a misunderstanding in a fight that was never hers.

Best Humorous Character: Which character made you laugh the most? (And I will smack you if it's someone doing it "unintentionally". Be nice in the hammer. >:C)

Cooper. Cooper's great because he's incidentally funny rather than constantly cracking jokes, and Tre has a firm enough handle on him to also know when to let him be serious for a bit.

Best Tactics: Through elimination of the competition or a solid plan for survival, who's kept you interested in their struggle to make it back home?

Matt Vartoogian is a man with a plan. Playing it safe but opportunistic and using groups for protection without getting overly attached all add up to pretty good tactics.

The Sympathy Award: Which character did you feel the most for, and most want good things for?

Andi. She's started down a dark path, but she's someone who's faced a ton of rough spots in her life already, and within the first day on the island faced loss in a way quite different from many of the other kids.

The Empathy Award: Which character could you most easily put yourself in the shoes of?

Lauren Rowe made a ton of sense to me, overall. She was realistic and interesting and made calls that were logical on the whole.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Which deceased character should have stuck around a little longer?

Francis was one of my favorites and I'll never ever get over him dying so early. >:C

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Who best earned their (possibly still forthcoming) demise?

Summer's end felt totally inevitable in the good way.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Which scene or death made you the most teary eyed?

The failure of the escape attempt, and the lead up to that. I really thing that the entire attempt will benefit from a reread knowing its outcome. It's fascinating also as an example of the tonal shift of V5, towards the darker.

The Stomach-Churner: Which scene or death has most effectively played with the gory/violent/overall disturbing side of the game?

Jesse Jennings retrieving a collar to experiment on. V5 has seen some pretty gross stuff, but that one gets special mention.

Best Impact: Which scene or death do you think best played a positive role in changing the course of the game?

Not a specific scene, but we've seen a ton of villain turnover. In past versions, the biggest baddies almost always ended up feeling safe until the final third or so. Losing killers early has kept the scene fresh and interesting.

Best Comedy: Which scene or death served as the best comic relief?

Mara clubbing Hansel unconscious, and then trying to wiggle her way out of the ensuing situation, is darkly amusing for me. I think a lot of it's in the writing; it's a really well-executed sudden thing, as he's just KOed.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Which scene or death had the best action going on?

Max Sawyer's first two kills by the pool are a good example of some really well executed fight scenes.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Which scene or death provoked the best emotional reaction from you?

R.J.'s talk with Maddie in the parking garage hits all the right notes to be touching and sad.

Best Drama: Which scene or death had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

When Casey was abandoned after the homestead became a DZ. It was a great showing from all involved, and it was just such a terrifying idea, played to the hilt.

Best Surprise: Which scene or death caught you most off guard in a pleasant way, either through its unpredictable nature or its unique execution?

Karen's and Cyrus' deaths worked really well in a way that actually retroactively fixed some of the issues I had with their roles in the escape. Both were really well executed ends to characters' stories, and that was an extremely pleasant surprise.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?

I would keep whoever vandalized the escape attempt folks' planning doc from doing it. That that happened really disappointed and upset me.

V5 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions.

Doing five since V4 had five.

Hansel Williams
Iselle Ovalle-Vandermeer
KK Konipaski
Madeline Wilcox
Mara Montalvo

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V5?

I've been trying not to cop out on answers basically entirely so I can cop out on this one. V5 has the biggest batch of winners I'd be satisfied with of any version I can remember, and I' be thrilled to see any of my finalist picks take it, as well as probably half a dozen other kids.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out?

With any luck, really well. I feel like part of what V4 struggled with a lot was the space between the final 25 or so and Endgame, so I'm hoping to see V5 really pick up the slack and rock that span. I hope we see a less traditional Endgame, too. I feel like there's a lot of room for more nuance now, given the kids left.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5?

I enjoyed it a lot! Especially the reading side of things.

What do you like the most about V5?

The grammar. This is a kinda subtle thing, but this has been the first version where going into a thread I can be pretty sure everyone's writing is gonna be legible on a basic mechanical level, and it is such a welcome change. Keep up the good work, everyone!

What do you think could have been better about the version?

A sense of scale. I've mentioned this a few times, but it doesn't feel like V5's halfway done to me. It still feels very early days, and when we're closing fast on the final fifty that's not a good thing. A decent number of characters have had arcs that feel like they've been on the island for a week and experienced stuff in that time, but I wouldn't say that's true of the majority.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions?

Every version has strengths and weaknesses. I think V5 will be fondly remembered for sure, but I don't think it's head and shoulders above older versions. It's fixed a lot of the historic problems in really interesting and cool ways, but in the process has cropped up a whole slew of new problems to puzzle over in the future.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story?

This is a discussion for another place.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions?

I predict V6 will continue a lot of the V5/6 trends, but with still further refinement. Ideally, it can strike a good balance between the two.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5?

Was gonna say pregame, but to be honest all the super in-jokey references and stuff for Steven were pretty amusing too, if only to me.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write?

Susan, actually. There's a long and complicated explanation, but that's a big part of why she didn't make it into the game.

What are you proudest of in V5?

I didn't fall into certain traps I was worried about in the wake of V4. I've noticed there's a strong tendency for handlers to, after their first version (and especially if they get noticed a lot) either try to recapture/exceed their past glory or feel sort of down about not doing so. I made a cast of characters with the idea that they'd be pretty much entirely different from my V4 crew, and specifically that they'd be a bit more backseat, and as a result I never really felt I was fighting my past.

What do you wish you could improve?

In avoiding those traps, I fell into entirely different traps instead. Basically, I avoided all of the things that usually draw me to characters with the exception of personal jokes and writing challenges. The thing is, it really kept me a few degrees more separated from my kids than I usually like, and I feel like the overall quality of my stuff suffered a lot as a result of that. Also, scale! I'm not just referring to everyone else when I say kids who'd stuck around for a long time sure didn't feel like it.

What is your favorite V5 memory?

Oh, lots. Chat stuff, probably.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!

I forget a ton of stuff and my answers vary moment by moment, so the next time I fill out Hammers it'll likely be totally different replies.

Also, because I live to disappoint, I'm gonna make Ciel and backslash regret voting Adam for most realistic by revealing for the first time ever the circumstances of his creation:

[+] July 27 2011

05:01:27: <Jonny> i do not mean it as a sort of "nya nya, i will do it cause you told me not to"
05:01:39: <Jonny> but i like giving myself challenges, basically.
05:01:52: <Sophie_Uni> Kick reason to the curb!
05:01:57: <KillerVole> 6Haha. I get where you're coming from, Jonny.
05:02:08: <KillerVole> 6I've done a couple things on challenges.
05:02:38: <Jonny> Toben write a character that does nothing but murder people in slow motion
05:02:45: <Seel> I always thought it would be interesting to have sort of passive connections between my characters, but I never tried it. Thought I would crash and burn.
05:03:12: <Sophie_Uni> Write conjoined twins
05:03:15: <Seel> toben try writing a character who has killed before, is parkour and doesn't afraid of anything.
05:03:25: <KillerVole> 6I... can connect three of mine in very, very loose terms.
05:03:26: <Outfoxd> ah fuck I dunno if I wanna do this app
05:03:30: Wides gained his three locations.
05:03:33: <KillerVole> 6hahaha, Ciel.
05:04:00: <Wides> The Hall of Mirrors, The Destroyed Cell Tower, and The Sawmill.
05:04:08: <Sophie_Uni> Write all that is ill-advised and shy from the beaten path!
05:04:39: <Sophie_Uni> That would mean writing in first-person for me
05:05:11: <Seel> ahh, brb
05:07:03: <Crash> toben I want you to write a fusion of Adam Tenser and Alexia Morgan
05:07:05: <Crash> okay?GO
05:07:19: <KillerVole> 6Hahaha....

So yeah, when I said I sit on the punchlines to jokes for years and stuff, this is the thing I was talking about.

... goddamn it Toben.

Uh, always wanted to fill this out. So I'm gonna do it. Also yeah, this certainly improved from the previous Plastic Hammer categories! Awesome job, Toben! So I'll try to fill this one out...for all 5 Main versions! Because, well, why not, I want to be innovative and hipster-ish. It might be against the rules as there's a big "V5" in front of it, but anniversary will be soon anyway and the former templates were not developed as this one. And I'm super scared to bump the old ones.

Site note: I'm not even sure on questions in V4! Haven't read all characters.

Anyway, here it is.

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The Basics

Handler Name: RC

Your Trademark Character: Nobody

Current Status of Trademark Character: In Limbo

Favorite Character: Can't decide, so I'll take multiple
V1 - Dodd, Barclay, Rice, Torres
V2 - Bryan, Franco, Rob
V3 - Bobby, Lenny, Neil, Dominica
V4 - Ilario, Aaron, Dorian
V5 - Rosemary, Max, Hansel, Joachim, Theo, Garrett

Favorite Weapon:
V1 - Bulletproof Vests
V2 - Grenade Launcher
V3 - GPS, Ida or Mari's/Jack's head/Rice's keys
V4 - Molotov Cocktails
V5 - FAMAS

Favorite Scene:
V1 - Lighthouse Ambush, because it was an early-game scene I enjoyed
V2 - This Could Be Anywhere In The World, because dropkick death.
V3 - Sound And Fury, because triple kill and SADD and Bobby Jacks and saying fuck you to the post order. And probably the Plot Twist.
V4 - Endgame. Do I need to explain that one?
V5 - Too hard to decide. Probably will be the Epilogue. Or Wild Childs

Favorite Death:
V1 - Starr's death at it was a pretty good scene and fight and death
V2 - Harry's death, as it was pretty innovative and awesomely handled by Bryan
V3 - Bill's sacrifice, because it was filled with action and killed many people
V4 - Danya's death. Awesome unexpected death
V5 - Theo's death scene was awesome

Favorite Quote:
I'm not a quote guy, so whatever

Favorite Post:
No clue, either. Maybe It's "Fantastic"

Favorite Location:
V1 - The Small House
V2 - Probably the Hotel
V3 - The Barracks, because important stuff happened there, like Blood And Thunder, Them Vs. You Vs. Me and Sound And Fury
V4 - The Coastal Woods...
V5 - The Town, as stuff happened there


Characters

Best Character Development: What character development has kept you intrigued?
V1 - Dodd, Starr, Hyde
V2 - Bryan, Rob, Matt
V3 - Dominica, Will, Geve
V4 - Haven't read much of V4, but Liam Brooks
V5 - Adonis, Rosemary, Summer

Best Game Impact: Which character do you feel has brought the most positive development to the game as a whole, outside their specific storyline?
V1 - Rice, McLocke and Kaige. O'Connor for the virus, too.
V2 - Carter-Madison
V3 - Dodd and Sinclair
V4 - Polanski, probably. If not, then Lombardi!
V5 - Hunter's escape and the Beach scene made a huge impact that impressed me. Not only it killed it Murphy, had awesome reactions to the bodies, but it had even an awesome impact in a specific Meanwhile thread I liked!

Best Innovation: Which character has been a breath of fresh air for you?
V1 - Uh...everybody? Except maybe the Battle Royale inserts.
V2 - Mitch Gunther!
V3 - Dacey's concept was pretty innovative and good
V4 - No clue. Maybe Sarah Atwell?
V5 - Hansel. Never saw a cowboy that was that good o.o

Best Realism: Which character is really grounded in reality in a way you find appealing?
V1 - Hawley Faust, as he and his death was handled pretty realistic and was a badass character
V2 - Jameson Dooert, as he basically pointed out what could happen if you throw people out of choppers! So basically like some of Slayer's wake-up posts in V1, just more detailled and dephty
V3 - Lulu <3
V4 - Pretty many, luckily :>
V5 - The majority, which is super awesome :3

Best Heroic Character: Which good guy has you solidly on their side?
V1 - Garrett, Jeremy, Aiden
V2 - Whitney, Rob, Blake
V3 - Neil, Eddie, Trish
V4 - Ivan, Dorian, Jaxon
V5 - maybe Garrett? Every handler who used a hero card!

Best Villainous Character: Who is your favorite ne'er-do-well?
V1 - Jacob, Peri/Stevan, Hawley
V2 - Franco, Eric, Felix
V3 - Bobby, Mr. Rizzolo, Lenny
V4 - Kris, Staffan, Aaron
V5 - Hansel, KK, Max

Best Tragic Character: Whose sad and inevitable fate have you most enjoyed lamenting?
V1 - Madelaine :<
V2 - Anna :c
V3 - Too many :cc
V4 - Liam :C
V5 - Bella :CC

Best Humorous Character: Which character made you laugh the most? (And I will smack you if it's someone doing it "unintentionally". Be nice in the hammer. >:C)
V1 - Uriel Hunter <3
V2 - Mitch!
V3 - Carson?
V4 - Milo Taylor feat. the horse
V5 - Michael

Best Tactics: Through elimination of the competition or a solid plan for survival, who's kept you interested in their struggle to make it back home?
V1 - Jack had no scratches till Endgame, so yeah. Yeah, Dodd played smart, too.
V2 - Bryan!
V3 - Dante had a nice plan with the Jack O'Connor strategy, so had many others like Lex, with the killing strat...so not sure at all.
V4 - I think...I don't have a clue, there were lots of people
V5 - Zubin maybe? If not, Paris.

The Sympathy Award: Which character did you feel the most for, and most want good things for?
There are plenty of these. So I can't decide.

The Empathy Award: Which character could you most easily put yourself in the shoes of?
I seriously aren't sure at all.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Which deceased character should have stuck around a little longer?
Pretty much every inactive character, so I won't count them
V1 - Sydney, Cole, Alan :C
V2 - Dan Johnson, Marvin, Kim
V3 - Joshua, Leo, John Cox
V4 - Everett, Jason, Raidon
V5 - Francis, Chuck, Brandon

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Who best earned their (possibly still forthcoming) demise?
V1 - Cody, Jacob,
V2 - Mari, Walter, Damien
V3 - Gabriel Theobaldt, Natanya, Reeves; honour mention: Mr. Rizzolo!
V4 - Maxwell, Clio, Reiko
V5 - Max, Brandon, Theo


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Which scene or death made you the most teary eyed?
Will fill this later.

The Stomach-Churner: Which scene or death has most effectively played with the gory/violent/overall disturbing side of the game?
V1 - Shinya Motomura's suicide
V2 - Either Walter's psycho scenes, or Damien's death
V3 - Too many
V4 - Uh...I dunno, I avoid long texts with that, maybe Bloodgarden
V5 - Summer's cannibalism scene?

Best Impact: Which scene or death do you think best played a positive role in changing the course of the game?
V1 - Prelude, the thread where the terrorists were put on the island
V2 - Probably the thread where Bryan and Tori meet
V3 - The Escape, pretty much
V4 - The Rescue...because imagine the escapees being still stuck on the island, that certainly would've changed stuff!
V5 - As stated, Gavin Hunter's escape

Best Comedy: Which scene or death served as the best comic relief?
V1 - Uriel and Jacob scenes
V2 - Matt and Rob scenes
V3 - V3 was rather dark, imo...uh, can't decide which scene to take without being hated
V4 - No idea
V5 - Michael's scene with...uh yeah.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Which scene or death had the best action going on?
V1 - Onslaught Redux, gotta love grenades
V2 - Maison D'abattage, cause there will be much action
V3 - The Escape scene, Amaro, Sound And Fury, When We Die, BB's death...there's actually some more
V4 - Endgame and the sword fight between Maf and Nick
V5 - The Mad And Hungry Dogs, Max Sawyer massacres...and...Theo's death

Best Feeling-Inducer: Which scene or death provoked the best emotional reaction from you?
V1 - Though We May Not Survive It, Hawley dies, Madelaine's story with her former friend got me, as I raged on Nanami
V2 - Carry Stress In The Jaw, awesome song actually, also is a pretty sad story, has this special Endgame feeling
V3 - The awesome Thrice song titles. Just kidding. Uh, hard decision, actually. V3 near Endgame had many emotional moments.
V4 - Never read enough V4 to get attached enough
V5 - I'll be sooo sad if Endgame comes. Endgame will provoke my best emotional reaction. I can foresee it :'c

Best Drama: Which scene or death had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?
Can just say for V5, as I got too much spoilered by the wiki in the previous versions
V5 - Wild Childs, definitely

Best Surprise: Which scene or death caught you most off guard in a pleasant way, either through its unpredictable nature or its unique execution?
V1 - Minase's death
V2 - Adrian Gray's slip
V3 - I did not expect Sean to die
V4 - Danya's death
V5 - Marcus Leung's death


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? The crash

V5 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. No thanks, not interested

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V5? Hard question, hard question. I think each one would lead to an individual and interesting outcome

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? Awesome Epilogue, Tracen's first time to meet the winner, Hopefully it will be finished *looks at V2 and V3*

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? Pretty much

What do you like the most about V5? I liked the realism and the minimalism. And the food in the BKA, it was a smart idea!

What do you think could have been better about the version? I think there should've been more scenes of awesomeness. But that's just my opinion.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? Different atmosphere, had this V5 feeling. I hope the V6 feeling will even be more awesome

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? Many good characters die :C
Yeah, I like how the story is continued for the fourth time, while nothing interesting new is introduced in V5 (while V2-4 had many, many new things), I liked the fact that the fluff tells us more about the terrorists. And the fact that Tracen's new here, it felt like it was rebooty.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? New characters, new stories!


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? My sample post

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? Danya

What are you proudest of in V5? Not writing terrible characters

What do you wish you could improve? Being able to participate :c

What is your favorite V5 memory? Reading all the good characters and announcements c:

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I love music

[Grand Moff Hissa]

V5 Second (Endgame) Plastic Hammers

[+] V5 Second Plastic Hammers Part One

It's that time again! With Endgame around the corner currently under way, the moment has come to share our favorite parts of V5 through the Plastic Hammers.

As with the halfway Hammers, we're using the improved and streamlined version of the awards, adjusted for the late stage of the game. These are a lot less unwieldy than the oldschool V1-4 version.

A quick reminder: the hammers are to celebrate the good stuff, by and large. There are a few places where we ask for criticism and the like, usually about the story/site/game as a whole. That's fine! Just don't take shots at specific handlers/characters here. There are tons of appropriate avenues for expressing criticism and disagreeing with others' opinions and such, so use one of them instead. Do not ironically vote characters you hate into categories you find unflattering; while the phrasing of the reworked questionnaire removes most of the opportunities for such things, it still bears repeating that doing so is verboten.

That out of the way, have at! For your convenience, the template is spoilered in code at the end.

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name:

Your Trademark Character:

Current Status of Trademark Character:

Favorite Character:

Favorite Weapon:

Favorite Scene:

Favorite Death:

Favorite Quote:

Favorite Post:

Favorite Location:


Characters

Best Character Development: What character development has kept you intrigued?

Best Game Impact: Which character do you feel has brought the most positive development to the game as a whole, outside their specific storyline?

Best Innovation: Which character has been a breath of fresh air for you?

Best Realism: Which character is really grounded in reality in a way you find appealing?

Best Heroic Character: Which good guy has you solidly on their side?

Best Villainous Character: Who is your favorite ne'er-do-well?

Best Tragic Character: Whose sad and inevitable fate have you most enjoyed lamenting?

Best Humorous Character: Which character made you laugh the most? (And I will smack you if it's someone doing it "unintentionally". Be nice in the Hammers. >:C)

Best Tactics: Through elimination of the competition or a solid plan for survival, who's kept you interested in their struggle to make it back home?

The Sympathy Award: Which character did you feel the most for, and most want good things for?

The Empathy Award: Which character could you most easily put yourself in the shoes of?

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Which deceased character should have stuck around a little longer?

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Who best earned their (possibly still forthcoming) demise?


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Which scene or death made you the most teary eyed?

The Stomach-Churner: Which scene or death has most effectively played with the gory/violent/overall disturbing side of the game?

Best Impact: Which scene or death do you think best played a positive role in changing the course of the game?

Best Comedy: Which scene or death served as the best comic relief?

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Which scene or death had the best action going on?

Best Feeling-Inducer: Which scene or death provoked the best emotional reaction from you?

Best Drama: Which scene or death had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

Best Surprise: Which scene or death caught you most off guard in a pleasant way, either through its unpredictable nature or its unique execution?


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? (Bonus points: Not the crash)

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V5?

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out?

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5?

What do you like the most about V5?

What do you think could have been better about the version?

What do you think of the overall SOTF story?

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions?

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions?


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5?

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write?

What are you proudest of in V5?

What do you wish you could improve?

What is your favorite V5 memory?

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!

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[u][b]The Basics[/b][/u]

[b]Handler Name: [/b]

[b]Your Trademark Character: [/b]

[b]Current Status of Trademark Character: [/b]

[b]Favorite Character: [/b]

[b]Favorite Weapon: [/b]

[b]Favorite Scene: [/b]

[b]Favorite Death: [/b]

[b]Favorite Quote: [/b]

[b]Favorite Post: [/b]

[b]Favorite Location: [/b]


[u][b]Characters[/b][/u]

[b]Best Character Development: [/b]What character development has kept you intrigued?

[b]Best Game Impact: [/b]Which character do you feel has brought the most positive development to the game as a whole, outside their specific storyline?

[b]Best Innovation: [/b]Which character has been a breath of fresh air for you?

[b]Best Realism: [/b]Which character is really grounded in reality in a way you find appealing?

[b]Best Heroic Character: [/b]Which good guy has you solidly on their side?

[b]Best Villainous Character: [/b]Who is your favorite ne'er-do-well?

[b]Best Tragic Character: [/b]Whose sad and inevitable fate have you most enjoyed lamenting?

[b]Best Humorous Character: [/b]Which character made you laugh the most? (And I will smack you if it's someone doing it "unintentionally". Be nice in the Hammers. >:C)

[b]Best Tactics: [/b] Through elimination of the competition or a solid plan for survival, who's kept you interested in their struggle to make it back home?

[b]The Sympathy Award: [/b]Which character did you feel the most for, and most want good things for?

[b]The Empathy Award: [/b]Which character could you most easily put yourself in the shoes of?

[b]The Gone-Too-Soon Award: [/b]Which deceased character should have stuck around a little longer?

[b]The He-Had-It-Coming Award: [/b]Who best earned their (possibly still forthcoming) demise?


[u][b]Scenes and Deaths[/b][/u]

[b]Best Tragedy: [/b]Which scene or death made you the most teary eyed?

[b]The Stomach-Churner: [/b]Which scene or death has most effectively played with the gory/violent/overall disturbing side of the game?

[b]Best Impact: [/b]Which scene or death do you think best played a positive role in changing the course of the game?

[b]Best Comedy: [/b]Which scene or death served as the best comic relief?

[b]The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: [/b]Which scene or death had the best action going on?

[b]Best Feeling-Inducer: [/b]Which scene or death provoked the best emotional reaction from you?

[b]Best Drama: [/b]Which scene or death had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

[b]Best Surprise: [/b]Which scene or death caught you most off guard in a pleasant way, either through its unpredictable nature or its unique execution?


[u][b]Predictions, Preferences, and Positions[/b][/u]

[b]If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? (Bonus points: Not the crash)[/b]

[b]There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V5?[/b]

[b]How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out?[/b]

[b]How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5?[/b]

[b]What do you like the most about V5?[/b]

[b]What do you think could have been better about the version?[/b]

[b]What do you think of the overall SOTF story?[/b]

[b]How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions?[/b]

[b]How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? [/b]


[big][u][b]Talk About Yourself[/b][/u][/big]

[b]What has been your favorite thing to write in V5?[/b]

[b]Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write?[/b]

[b]What are you proudest of in V5?[/b]

[b]What do you wish you could improve?[/b]

[b]What is your favorite V5 memory?[/b]

[b]What else would you like to share? Anything goes![/b]

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name: Espi

Your Trademark Character: Probably Theo

Current Status of Trademark Character: Dead from a terminal case of poor choices and a wrench to the head.

Favorite Character: Hansel Williams, Mara Montalvo, Maddie Wilcox, Alda Abbate and Summer Simms. If we double up, then count Michelle Wexler and Sara Corlett too.

Favorite Weapon: In terms of use, the FAMAS and exploding cigar. For funny, I liked the iPod from hell, the Rotato and the penis enhancement pump, especially with Abby's conclusion for the latter two. I also like the riot shield even though it wasn't really used 'cause I'm weird.

Favorite Scene: Bella finally snapping was a fun scene, as was

Favorite Death: Casey Malkovitch's death was really good. So were Maddie Wilcox's, KK Konipaski's and Paris Ardennes'. Also props for Tessa Blackridge’s and David Zimmer’s for being funny and credit to staff for Phoebe Cho’s inactive death which I really enjoyed.

Favorite Quote: There’s a lot I liked, so I can’t really decide.

Favorite Post: Again, I can never decide these things >_>

Favorite Location: Nuclear plant was clever as an island theme. I enjoyed the happenings of the hospital as well.


Characters

Best Character Development: Paris Ardennes’ ambiguous motives were interesting. Bella’s descent was great, as was Sean Mulcahy and Hansel Williams’ and Summer Simms’ turning to villainy.

Best Game Impact: I think Summer demonstrated a new way to write a crazy killer which was very effective. V5 overall had good villains in general; Mara, KK Konipaski and Hansel did well at showing how to write a good player.

Best Innovation: Andi Victorino was actually very interesting as a teen mom, which normally garners sympathy but here manages to give her darker tones as she seems to use her daughter as an excuse to win.

Best Realism: Michelle Wexler was just a nice ordinary girl who made a lot of sense to me.

Best Heroic Character: Rosemary Michaels was very sympathetic.

Best Villainous Character: Hansel Williams has cemented his rank amongst the worst villains in SOTF. In a good way.

Best Tragic Character: Maynard Hurst, Alice Gilman, and

Best Humorous Character: Michael Mitchellson had very good internal humor, and Tessa Blackridge’s death was very funny.

Best Tactics: KK thought out her options and went with the one she thought would work best and stuck to it and it served her well. Maddie’s planning also went well for her.

The Sympathy Award: Michelle ;~;

The Empathy Award: I really understood how Joe Carrasco’s actions stemmed from his experience on the island, and it made sense.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Lauren Rowe had a lot of potential and it’s a shame she died so soon.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Summer kinda needed to be put down.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Maddie Wilcox’s death was a very poignant and sad scene as she realizes it was never meant to be.

The Stomach-Churner: Everyone remembers Naomi Bell getting cannibalized by Summer, especially with the brutal fight beforehand. I’m also going to suggest Rosemary Michaels getting strangled by KK. That was pretty dark.

Best Impact: It feels self-promoting, but I’m going to say Theo and Hansel’s first thread. I think it really started Hansel’s island experience and that really influenced the game. Beyond that, I’m gonna say the formation of the baseball girl group, which led to some good scenes and drama. That was a big catalyzing moment.

Best Comedy: Tessa Blackridge plays Go Fish with the Grim Reaper.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: I enjoyed Hansel and KK’s fight.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Maddie Wilcox and Casey Malkovitch as they contemplate their eminent mortality.

Best Drama: All of the Final 10 deaths ‘cause of the hidden rolls thread. That was cool and I enjoyed the suspense from it.

Best Surprise: Claire Monaghan hadn’t really stood out most of the game, but her death was strong. Same for Finn Grant, Cyrus White and Katy Warren.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? (Bonus points: Not the crash) I wish I’d made it farther, really. Dropping from V5 was really tough and I wish I’d had more of an opportunity to keep playing. But oh well.

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V5? I really think it’ll be Hansel. He’s been such a huge part of V5 I don’t think anyone thought he’d make it any less far and I’ll bet he could go all the way.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? It’s gonna be epic, I can tell you that.
Prediction on outcome: Mara kills Zubin, Hansel kills Joey, Mara/Hansel kills Hansel/Mara

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? It was an amazing experience. I can only imagine how fun V6 will be.

What do you like the most about V5? There’s lots of good things to say and good characters to say them about. I’m going to go with the villains. V5 had possibly the best collection of players, killers and crazies in any main version, and that goes a long way.

What do you think could have been better about the version? I think pacing is always tricky, because getting far and feeling like you’ve gotten far are hard to line up perfectly. It’s something everyone can have trouble with sometimes.

What do you think of the overall SOTF story? I think it needs to expand. Announcements are nice and Meanwhile was really good for this but I think some special announcements on occasion not directly related to the game or its participants would be cool. Not frequently, but every so often a little thing might be neat.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? Best version yet.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? I think people will try to write more characters out of their comfort zone, which I think was pretty prevalent in V5. It’ll be interesting and lots of fun, I’m sure.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? Just doing so many different scenes with a lot of people. My absolute favorite single thing, though, is probably the two Theo/Hansel threads. I had a lot of fun planning those out with Naft and it was really fun to write.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? Gwen. I think Nina was solid in writing but I was so lost with her story she didn’t feel cohesive. Theo did interesting things and is probably more (in)famous, but his personality was really scattered and he wasn’t a really solid player standard. Gwen was, I think, my most grounded concept and I think that really carried over to game because she felt realest for me to write and I could get into her nuances a bit more.

What are you proudest of in V5? How much I’ve grown as a writer and, in some ways, as a person since I’ve been here. When I first started my writing was okay, but being here has made it get so much better, I’d like to think, just from doing so much of it and having so much fun in the meantime. I’ve learned a lot from V5, so I think that’s something to be proud of.

What do you wish you could improve? For next version, I want to have more cohesive plots. With V5 I had trouble tying a character’s actions, motivations and personality all together in a neat package. I hope to improve that in V6 ‘cause I think that’s probably my biggest weaknesses.

What is your favorite V5 memory? Just being part of the community; chatting about SOTF in the IRC, playing games, skyping, all that was so much fun. I just like being a part of the site!

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I’ve been on SOTF for almost two years as of two weeks from today (11/6). It’s been a fantastic experience and I’m really thankful to all of you for making this so fun and doing this with me. Here’s to many more versions to come!

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name: Laurels

Your Trademark Character: I guess Claire since she had the longest story.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Dead, but you already knew that.

Favorite Character: I don't have one stand out, and I try to have a favorite for each handler. Off the top of my head my faves include Mara, Hansel, Summer, Joe, Gray, and Bella.

Favorite Weapon: Of my weapons, I loved the shotgun flashlight. Of the serious weapons, the FAMAS. Of the joke weapons, it's a tie between the rock in a pillowcase and the volcano set.

Favorite Scene: My favorite scene to be in was Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. My favorite scene without me was Young and Beautiful.

Favorite Death: Summer's.

Favorite Quote: I'm not sure.

Favorite Post: Still not sure.

Favorite Location: The Hotel had a lot of cool stuff go down.


Characters

Best Character Development: I particularly like when a character completely changes to adapt to the island for the better or worse. Mara's adapted to the game fairly well, while people like Bella were tragic to read.

Best Game Impact: Hansel certainly ruined things for a lot of people, directly and indirectly.

Best Innovation: Michael Mitchellson was pretty nice considering he had to be expressive in other ways.

Best Realism: Gray Emerson made it really far and still felt like a pretty normal guy.

Best Heroic Character: I don't feel like there were any truly heroic people here.

Best Villainous Character: Hansel for being a villain who didn't get cartoonishly evil and was still a complex individual.

Best Tragic Character: It was sad to see Bella fall apart, but also sad to know Michael's entire world could get destroyed once someone told him about Daniel.

Best Humorous Character: Everyone was Pagliacci.

Best Tactics: I thought Maddie was a pretty smart character, and she definitely made it far enough with her strategy.

The Sympathy Award: Errybody.

The Empathy Award: If we're being honest, anyone who really spent their time coming to terms with the inevitability of their demise.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: I wish Lauren and Carlon made it past the halfway point of the game.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: I thought Max Sawyer and Tyler Lucas were pretty despicable people and I felt little sympathy when they died.

Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Everyone, really. I don't have too many examples, but really anyone who fell apart fits the bill for me.

The Stomach-Churner: Summer eating Naomi.

Best Impact: Like it was mentioned in the murdercast, Hansel killing Daniel set off a lot of stories and affected a lot of characters.

Best Comedy: I don't know.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Summer's final scene.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Baxter and Summer in a tent really messed me up when reading it.

Best Drama: Pretty much any scene with two characters in it after the last rolls. Every post was me mentally screaming “Oh god is this the last post?”

Best Surprise: I didn't see Marcus' unrolled death coming, and I thought it was awesome.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? (Bonus points: Not the crash) I would definitely change how I plotted certain stories and handled characterization. I feel like I was all over the place at times and needed to focus myself at times.

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V5? Mara all the way, baby.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? I predict that the end is going to be really insane and explosive for the first part, then get really quiet and introspective for the end, before there's one final action that ends the chaos for good.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? I really enjoyed it. I adored the experience and really found it helped improve how I write characters and plan stories.

What do you like the most about V5? I really just love the concept and the communal drive to create an exciting story.

What do you think could have been better about the version? I kind of feel like some stories and characters began to peter out after the midway point, so I sort of wish there was a little more intrigue to keep the community excited.

What do you think of the overall SOTF story? There hasn't been a whole lot of stuff for the main story this game, but I love that people are trying to expand the universe through Meanwhile.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? I feel this was a little better in that the board seemed very interested in being open for critique and trying to think about what would and wouldn't work. I'm not sure if this is the best version, but I think there's enough to make it notable.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? I think people are going to be more adventurous this round, and a lot of the V5 newbies will really start to show how much they've changed as writers.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? For Rachael, I loved writing her first few days and her ultimate breakdown. I felt like I had her arc figured out the most, although there are things I wished I had done with her. For Claire, I did enjoy the confrontation with Hansel, since that was my first real big scene in the game. It was so fun and I really enjoyed the opportunity to work with Naft. For Sophie, it was ending her story when it did. It was a cool scene, and I feel that, while a problematic character, she was good for figuring some things out for myself.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? I tended to flip flop between Rachael and Claire at times. Claire was fun because I didn't have to play her too seriously at times, and Rachael was great because I felt I was doing better emotionally.

What are you proudest of in V5? Just having people tell me I improved over the course of the game. It's the kind of encouragement that I can take when I try to write something outside SOTF.

What do you wish you could improve? I really wish I had figured out what I wanted to do with my characters from the start. I spent the early game saying “Let's see what happens in this thread and where it could take them.” I really should have tried to think of goals for each person and tried to make them have unique stories.

What is your favorite V5 memory? There's really too many examples to name, but I definitely enjoyed the chat aspect and getting to commune with you lovely people. I've been introduced to great series and movies thanks to you people, and spending time with you has really been rewarding.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! I can't wait to start V6!

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name: TurtleTyrant

Your Trademark Character: Madeline since she made it to the final ten.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Dead after realizing her life is meaningless.

Favorite Character: Tough question. Amaranta Montalvo is the only character I have no real gripes with besides community reactions to her.

Favorite Weapon: Sorta self pimping but the gun-knife is badass in concept. Weaker in execution.

Favorite Scene: Retrograde hands down. It's really well set up and I can't get over how awesome it was to me.

Favorite Death: Sean Mulcahy's death and death thread.

Favorite Quote: Anything said by Michael Mitchellson. Anything.

Favorite Post: Probably something in Retrograde or one of Naft's longer posts. I dunno.

Favorite Location: The Lighthouse.


Characters

Best Character Development: The character development of Mara, Hansel, Joe, and KK. Sansa's Bella had a really good slow sanity slippage.

Best Game Impact: Positive development? I can't say it's really positive but Hansel and KK have had huge impact in a lot of stories because of their murder sprees.

Best Innovation: I... don't know? I was only around for V5 so I can't say anyone really innovated from my perspective. Besides, well, everyone.

Best Realism: Tough question. I'd say random's Rosemary was fairly realistic.

Best Heroic Character: Michelle Wexler (more) and Rosemary Michaels (less).

Best Villainous Character: She has her issues but Katarina Konipaski.

Best Tragic Character: I don't really have a most tragic character. Everyone, honestly.

Best Humorous Character: Michael Mitchellson.

Best Tactics: *shrug*

The Sympathy Award: Again, sorta everyone. As long as they weren't mass murderers.

The Empathy Award: Well. If I'm being honest, Madeline... since she's got a good chunk of my own personality traits and a lot of my own thoughts on matters went into her writing.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: I think most people died at appropriate points.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Hansel Williams as long as he dies. If he lives (screams internally) then probably Katarina.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Michelle Wexler's death had me all sad faced for a decent chunk of time.

The Stomach-Churner: Jesus do you even need to ask? Big Stick Ideology by far. Actually anything Summer was involved in, honestly.

Best Impact: The escape, if I'm being serious. Its failure had a big impact on a lot of characters and cemented the dreary and depressing tone of V5.

Best Comedy: Just go read Michael Mitchellson.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Any time that Hansel got into a fight.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Retrograde. Seriously go read it now.

Best Drama: Well I would say the final ten but I knew what was up. In all seriousness, probably KK vs Hansel and the end of their rivalry because the scene was tense.

Best Surprise: A lot of the deaths were really out of nowhere and really well handled, I can't pick one.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? (Bonus points: Not the crash) I would want to change the endgame roster a bit as it stands but otherwise probably I would go back and fix some of Sara's scenes.

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V5? Amaranta Montalvo.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? With explosions. If something DOESN'T explode I'll be disappointed.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? I enjoyed V5 quite a lot, I can't really say there was anything really bad about it, with the exception of the crash killing a lot of people's motivation, myself included.

What do you like the most about V5? The sheer quality of writing across the board. V5 cannot be compared to the previous versions in sheer quality and community involvement.

What do you think could have been better about the version? V5 could stand to be a little less grimdark. It's pretty depressing as it stands and that makes me all sad, even if I do appreciate it from a story standpoint. I'm hoping V6 has a little more hope to it.

What do you think of the overall SOTF story? SOTF needs to be moving somewhere, in my opinion. Metaplot shouldn't get in the way of the roleplay but there should be something mixing it up every version, at least a little bit.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? "V5 cannot be compared to the previous versions in sheer quality and community involvement."

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? No idea. Hopefully it will be even better.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? Anything with Maddie and RJ and Maddie in general. I really enjoyed writing pirate Sara while it lasted.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? Sara was actually more fun to write while she lasted, Maddie later surpassed how much fun I had with Sara once RJ and Maddie became a duo.

What are you proudest of in V5? Maddie's death. I poured a lot of my feelings from my darkest moments into it, and I hope it turned out well.

What do you wish you could improve? Sara's stuff, mostly. Some of the early Maddie stuff too, albeit less so.

What is your favorite V5 memory? Writing with Un-Persona. Go give him a virtual hug or something.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!

Thanks to everyone who participated in V5 for making my time participating truly an amazing experience.

I've grown significantly as a writer and as a person since I joined SOTF, and for that, I thank all of you.

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name: Will

Your Trademark Character: Ummm, I don’t know which out of Finn and Stacy people associate with me the most, so I’ll just say both of them.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Both dead.

Favorite Character: Hmm, I’ll just do my top five, because it’s pretty hard to just pick one. (In no particular order) Joe Carrasco, Mara Montalvo, Hansel Williams, Katarina Konipaski, and Summer Simms.

Favorite Weapon: I thought that any blade/melee type weapon was quite interesting, just because they were more creatively used in death scenes.

Favorite Scene: Hmm, I’m not sure. There were quite a few a liked, including the death scenes mentioned down below.

Favorite Death: Naomi Bell’s was quite cool/gruesome, as was Katarina’s, and Joachim’s. there were several others, but I can’t think off the top of my head right now.

Favorite Quote: Can’t decide.

Favorite Post: Can’t decide.

Favorite Location: I thought that the hotel had quite a lot of interesting things happen in it.


Characters

Best Character Development: I really liked reading through Mara and watching her gradually change. Bella was good too.

Best Game Impact: Based on the amount of kills they got, and the amount of times they were mentioned in other character’s posts for those kills probably Hansel and Katarina.

Best Innovation: I’ve only been around for V5, so there aren’t a whole amount of characters I could compare singular ones to, but I guess for obvious reasons Michael Mitchellson was an interesting character to read.

Best Realism: It’s hard to distinguish between which characters would count as realistic and which ones wouldn’t, just because there are so many different ways people could react to a situation like SOTF. So I dunno, I can’t really pick just one out, because the majority of characters in V5 are realistic in their own way.

Best Heroic Character: I’m not really sure. I wouldn’t say there were any heroes in V5, basically every character ended up doing one bad thing (apart from the ones killed early on).

Best Villainous Character: Probably Katarina and Hansel.

Best Tragic Character: Ummm, I’m not too sure. I guess Miles and Michael not knowing about their cousin’s/friend’s death until pretty late into the game was pretty tragic.

Best Humorous Character: Can’t think of one at the moment.

Best Tactics: I guess Matt Vartoogian’s tactics were pretty good, they seemed to pay off right until the final 10.

The Sympathy Award: I’m not a very sympathetic person, but I guess Andi’s situation with her baby and all that jazz was a reason for wanting her to get back home.

The Empathy Award: Finn, just because I based the majority of his decisions on what I’d do if I was in SOTF.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: I would have liked to see Naomi Bell go a lot further, I feel like she would have had a lot to contribute.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Based on the people who have already died: Katarina, Maximilian, Theodore, Travis and Eliza just to name a few.

Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: The whole situation is pretty tragic, so it’s hard to just pick one scene.

The Stomach-Churner: Probably Naomi’s death scene with Summer.

Best Impact: Hmm, I gonna agree with Turtle and say the escape attempt, as it put a lot of people off trying to escape after that. Also, the early scenes were Hansel and Katarina started racking kills as it basically put them on every character’s “stay away from” list.

Best Comedy: Can’t think of one.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: There was quite a few good action scenes. Katarina’s death scene had a quite a lot of action in it. Maybe A Classy Place to Meet too, as it had characters actually running away from an explosion.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Any thread which had one of my favourite characters dying in.

Best Drama: Katarina’s death scene. Mostly because I was in the chat whilst it was all going on and the person with the upper hand in the fight kept changing.

Best Surprise: Again, probably Katarina’s death scene. My thoughts on which character was going to die kept changing throughout the scene, and until that quick turnaround from Hansel, I was sure he was going to die.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? (Bonus points: Not the crash) I would mix the final four up a bit. There are two very strong characters in endgame and two not-so-strong ones, sooo yeah… Also, there have been some inactivity problems/incomplete stories which was kind of a let-down. For example, it was a shame That Miles and Travis ended up getting inactive killed as I thought they could have done a lot more.

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V5? Hopefully Mara!

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? Possibly with a final showdown between Mara and Hansel.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? I’ve really enjoyed it! This is my first version and it was so much fun to be a part of!

What do you like the most about V5? I feel like the realism of characters has improved quite a bit.

What do you think could have been better about the version? I would have liked more twists and turns in the overall story that would have affected the students on the island.

What do you think of the overall SOTF story? Umm, yeah good I guess.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? As I said above, I feel the characters are more realistic.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? Judging from Naft’s character challenges, there’s probably going to be a lot more colourful characters in V6. I also feel there might be something big-ish happening in the story in contrast to the sort of “calm” (which probably isn’t the best word, but I couldn’t be bothered to wait around for a better one to pop into my head) story of V5.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? I really enjoyed writing with Psych and Laurels. I found the dynamic between Stacy, Miles and Rachael really fun and I wish it would have continued on for longer. Unfortunately this sort of stopped when Miles went inactive, because I was really enjoying writing Stacy’s story up until then. The large group scene (Stacy, Miles, Rachael, Michael, Corey and Timothy) early on in the school was also fun, and I wished they would have stayed together longer than a thread as I feel like it would have been interesting to explore their conflicting views and experience the rising tension. For Finn, I really enjoyed the few scenes he shared with Mara, which again I wish they had spent more than just a thread with each other before separating each time they met up. It also sucked that I kept going on holiday every time something relatively important to Finn’s character development popped up, but oh well.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? I’m not too sure. To start off with it was Finn as I felt that I connected with him more, however as V5 went on, I found myself switching between the two of them as their stories got more interesting at different points.

What are you proudest of in V5? Umm, I guess having my two characters last for so long. I’m quite proud of Stacy’s mid-game story, I found it fun/interesting to develop it, and again it sucked that it sort of came to a halt with Miles’s inactivity. I’m proud of some of Finn’s story points, but I feel it had a lot more ups and downs than Stacy’s.

What do you wish you could improve? Definitely my writing. I know I’m not that great of a writer, so hopefully I will improve during V6. I guess character development/story too. Neither of my characters went through any drastic changes and numerous people have labelled them “supporting characters” which I agree with. As MW said in his critic of Finn, he was sort of getting there, but I waited too long to do anything big with him, and when I did do it, I had to rush it due to being rolled. So hopefully I will be able to build up/pace my future character’s stories better.

What is your favorite V5 memory? Writing/planning scenes with Psych and Laurels was fun. Planning A Classy Place to Meet was quite fun too. Originally it was going to end with Finn, Sophie and Alex going upstairs, but with that month’s roles it ended up turning out how it did.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Looking forward to V6!

Handler Name: NotAFlyingToy!

Your Trademark Character: Natali Greer! (But in actuality, I think Hansel will be attributed to me for some time.)

Current Status of Trademark Character: Destroying the evidence.

Favorite Character: All version? Probably Mara. Every character has their issues and has some flaws, but Mara’s genuinely a great piece of writing and deserves the highest of fives.

Favorite Weapon: I’m a sucker for revolvers.

Favorite Scene: Nothing has topped Katy’s death scene for me. I select that one.

Favorite Death: Jesse Jennings’, Summer Simms’, K.K. Konipaski’s.

Favorite Quote: “It didn’t take a lot. Not really.” Burn, Joe. Burn.

Favorite Post: Joe’s death had me punched in the feels. I liked Maddie’s, too - both had that quiet, sad, serene pace to them.

Favorite Location: I really liked the Woodlands. It’s a shame that it got shut down so hard.


Characters

Best Character Development: Joe Carrasco’s development was a quick burn with a long-lasting flavour, that saw him continually try and continually fail until he died without any say in the matter. It was a really satisfying, somber read.

Best Game Impact: In early game, Theo had a crazy amount of impact that sparked off a ton of characters (including my own!) Long-term, I’d say KK.

Best Innovation: Summer’s way of interacting with the terrorists still holds out as a standout, but I also really enjoyed the BKA pickups this time around. There was a lot of good stuff tried out in the oneshot format.

Best Realism: Gray Emerson is probably the most relatable guy in the top ten. Deamon has a real talent for low key, laid back kids.

Best Heroic Character: I’m not sure you can really argue against Xavier and Steve-o being hard candidates (possibly the only ones) for this. Jesse Jennings tried to be, but a few key things stopped him.

Best Villainous Character: Danya Jr. has really seriously stepped into the role that his father helped craft for him. I like seeing something in the meta-plot be rolled out so neatly.

Best Tragic Character: Poor Maddie. Not a perfect character, definitely some weaknesses and flaws in her narrative, but I really wanted her to make it.

Best Humorous Character: Michael was funny before the top fifty or so. Then shit got real.

Best Tactics: Matt tried to play it smart, but it eventually didn’t work out so well for him.

The Sympathy Award: Mmm… I really wanted Dee to make it out.

The Empathy Award: Definitely Gray.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Loads. R.J, Andi, Chuck.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Theo definitely was a big jerk all over everyone’s face.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: I was really sad when Dee died.

The Stomach-Churner: Mmm… Jesse cutting off Summer’s head made me squick. So did Summer eating Naomi.

Best Impact: I think the Final Ten announcement really ratcheted up the pace.

Best Comedy: For me personally, Decathect started out as a light/funny scene that went really gruesome. I also like a lot of Michael’s early-group threads. Oh, Maynard peeing his pants/needing to change was darkly humorous.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Everybody Dies.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Katy’s death is still the only real thread that made me get really frustrated and flustered in a great way.

Best Drama: Iselle’s death and the end of the Baseball girls had some good dramatic tension.

Best Surprise: Copout: Seeing I was an endgamer was amazing.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? (Bonus points: Not the crash) I’d have probably taken Baxter a little further. I’d also inject the boards with a little more positivity/excitement regarding the endgame roster.

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V5? I really hope the overall winner are the participants, the handlers who poured their heart and soul into making this version so memorable. I like to think we can all walk away with a smile on our faces and fond memories of our involvement.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? Hopefully, well received!

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? We’re almost near the end, and that’s an incredibly lukewarm feeling in my gut. I loved every minute of it, but I also can’t wait for it to be over so I can take a bit of a break.

What do you like the most about V5? The laughs in chat, the tense moments in Mafia, planning and discussing characters with everyone and anyone. There’s not a whole lot I didn’t adore about V5.

What do you think could have been better about the version? The crash. (Hah. Loophole, Toben!)

What do you think of the overall SOTF story? V5 marks an interesting little turning point: The first time that the terrorists have come back from a loss. I think the overall tone of V5 makes it really interesting in hindsight: the ACT aren’t screwing around this time, and the grim/dark tone of V5 makes that apparent.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? We lacked a hoarde of big killers and comedic elements, but time will tell whether or not that is a good thing or seen as a bad thing. We swelled in terms of sympathetic murderers and tackling tough subjects with a lot of grace. We all should be proud of ourselves.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? V6 will differ in that a lot of you poor souls trusted me with giving you character prompts. Suckers.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? I really liked fooling about in Meanwhile. Wild Childs in particular is my pride and joy. I notice the Meanwhile section didnt get any love in these hammers, for which I am deeply disappointed for.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? My performance with Natali Greer earned me a lot of praise.

What are you proudest of in V5? When I first joined and App’d Hansel, the handler in charge of my critique (Kilmarnock) utterly despised him for a few very on-point reasons. Hansel started the game off with Ricky’s ire and hatred. He’s ending the game with Ricky’s grudging respect. No matter what happens in endgame, I feel like I won V5 just by changing that old fossil’s mind. Close second: Adopting Natali after she died and then sitting on her forever to carry on what will hopefully be the longest running joke in history.

What do you wish you could improve? I really wish that I could grow a mohawk.

What is your favorite V5 memory? Doc hero’ing me. I didn’t even get a chance to read the thread before he threw his card down and saved Hansel. That hero took me to the very end.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Modest Mouse is over-rated.

[Grand Moff Hissa]

[+] V5 Second Plastic Hammers Part Two

The Basics

Handler Name: Random, Rand.

Your Trademark Character: Rosemary, only one so far.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Her neck "crushed like hamburger meat" in an alley.

Favorite Character: Very hard, but among them are Joe Carrasco, Maddie Wilcox, Mara Montalvo, and for enjoyment at reading posts Hansel Williams.

Favorite Weapon: Punt gun or ballistic knife. Still makes me giggle.

Favorite Scene: Katarina and Hansel's battle was so awesome.

Favorite Death: Maddie's or Joe's made me sad, because I was rooting for both of them. In the latter half of the game I also thought Bella's was good as well.

Favorite Quote: Not sure yet.

Favorite Post: Not sure yet.

Favorite Location: Still the Nuclear Power Plant, and also The School Buildings.


Characters

Best Character Development: I've really enjoyed Mara's story and development, and I look forward to what will happen in Endgame.

Best Game Impact: I like how it's phrased as "positive," but just overall game impact probably Hansel Williams. He's had an impact since the beginning.

Best Innovation: I enjoyed Joachim Lovelace's beginning tactics,

Best Realism: Gray Emerson I felt had realistic characterization.

Best Heroic Character: ...I honestly can't think of anyone I always agreed with their methods all the time.

Best Villainous Character: Katarina was a very enjoyable villain. Her ending plays a part in my decision.

Best Tragic Character: Maddie Wilcox, and also Bella.

Best Humorous Character: Michael was. And then Joachim dropped the bomb. Then he wasn't.

Best Tactics: Well, save for Mara kicking him in the nuts, Zubin's made it this far with what he's been doing.

The Sympathy Award: Joe Carrasco has always been the one I've felt sorry for.

The Empathy Award: Probably Maddie.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Carlon Wheeler.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Brandon Baxter, Theo, Katarina.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Michael finding out that Daniel was dead.

The Stomach-Churner: Summer Simms - "She had to make them love her."

Best Impact: Summer's and then Jesse's afterward I feel were big meta impacts. Also Theo's, but a lot of people agree with that.

Best Comedy: When Mara kicked Zubin for peeping.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Hansel and Katarina's battle, or A Classy Place to Meet.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Thinking back on it, R.J's death made my heart hurt a lot.

Best Drama: Dissolved Girls will still reign supreme.

Best Surprise: Probably Katarina's for how much table-turning was going on with her and Hansel.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?: I can't really judge since this was my first.

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V5?: My heart says Mara, but if Zubin pulls it off, I'll just be laughing and clapping my hands while I read.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out?: From the terrorists side it will be dark, and very "Bad Guy Wins" either way I think.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5?: I enjoyed it very much!

What do you like the most about V5?: How great the grammar is and how everyone is trying to be realistic with their characters.

What do you think could have been better about the version? More hope. Like everyone is saying, this version was very dark and depressing.

What do you think of the overall SOTF story?: Cooolllllllllllllllllllll.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions?: I have not read all of the previous version's so can't judge.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions?: I feel that there will be a more optimistic tone, or at least a freedom to act a little bit more wacky. A lot of new handlers, including myself, I felt were learning the ropes this version, which will let us all have more creativity next time.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5?: Probably any discussion between Rosemary and Joachim. I feel like they really do act as opposite sides of the same coin. Also enjoyed writing For Remembrance. It's the only one shot in Rosemary's story, and I enjoyed what I did with it.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write?: Rosemary by default.

What are you proudest of in V5?: Giving Rosemary a succinct beginning and end to her time on the island. Thanks again, Rattlesnake.

What do you wish you could improve?: I wish I decided to go more places with Rosemary's character after Joey's death, and also double check my writing before I post. I was bad at that.

What is your favorite V5 memory?: Probably getting feedback, and writing in Hortensius. It's not my favorite work, but I just enjoyed writing in that.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!: Your face is nice.

Gonna give a little tally mark to each answer that's the same as the halfway one, barring handler name. It looks as such: (+).

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name: Un-Persona

Your Trademark Character: Hmmm...Marcus made it farther, but I think RJ's gonna be better remembered. (+)

Current Status of Trademark Character: Dead with the bae~

Favorite Character: Hmmm...Rosemary, again, even if it did get bumpy. (+)

Favorite Weapon: WASP Knife, even though it didn't really get used. Smoking cigar was a cool one-off thing too.

Favorite Scene: Do meanwhiles count?

Favorite Death: Harry Hanley

Favorite Quote: "I was on the announcements too, y'know, you probably heard. They said I was their favorite.” - Summer Simms

Favorite Post: Yeeeeeep. (+)

Favorite Location: Southern Town.


Characters

Best Character Development: At the end, Ian William's development makes too much Goddamn sense and that makes me sad.

Best Game Impact: Hansel's worldly spread and kill streak gave almost everyone a guy to hate and fear. (+)

Best Innovation: This is actually pretty hard. As the game went on, I don't feel very refreshed, and I still don't.

Best Realism: Deanna Hull (+)

Best Heroic Character: Harry Hanley

Best Villainous Character: Joachim. (+)

Best Tragic Character: To fit a more Classical meaning (maybe?), Steven Salazar.

Best Humorous Character: Michael Mitchellson. I miss ya, space cowboy. (+)

Best Tactics: Rosemary, especially considering her letting down her guard was what really killed her.

The Sympathy Award: Kam. (+)

The Empathy Award: Francis St. Ledger (+)

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: What I'm realizing is that a good amount of people had well placed death timings. Still though, I think Garrett Wilde, who actually probably has the most thematic death, could have lived a little longer.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: [Insert big name killer]


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Jesse Jennings tried so hard.

The Stomach-Churner: Nom nom Naomi nom nom. (+)

Best Impact: The first announcement.

Best Comedy: Shamino Warhen was that asshole.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Everybody dies. (+)

Best Feeling-Inducer: Brandon Baxter's death. (+)

Best Drama: Retrograde.

Best Surprise: I only said "finally" when a character was super overdue on a death, and not out of hatred. So there's that.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? (Bonus points: Not the crash)

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V5? Mara, but Hansel can be great too.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? The same way I hope it does.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? I've enjoyed it a whole lot.

What do you like the most about V5? Community involvement.

What do you think could have been better about the version? More characters who are characters and not "points". This is not the same as experimentation.

What do you think of the overall SOTF story? The mistakes of our fathers will pay off the sins of our sons.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? I think we're better. I'll say it, even if I wasn't around for the other versions, but I have read a lot of them.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? More people who are terrible people from the beginning.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? One of my thread titles was a pretentious way of saying tic-tac-toe.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? Probably RJ.

What are you proudest of in V5? Being a part of Ice's and Naft to their BDA/BKA wins, respectively. That scrolly quote was pretty k too, I guess.

What do you wish you could improve? Guys, how do you not kill your characters.

What is your favorite V5 memory? Uggh, so many. There was the co-op critiques with Naft and others, arguing with people over the internet about forum rp characters for hours...just a bunch of stuff going on.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Let me tell all y'all motherfuckers a little story. Once upon a time there was these musty-ass motherfuckers who created a little group for themselves, they called themselves SOTF. These assholes made a motherfucking forum, SOTF V1 and later SOTF V2, and now we got that fuck-ass Naft hanging around, hate that motherfucker and his nappy ass beard. Wes, that motherfucker who fucking lies on his throne of lies because he's a fucking lying liar, shaving his hair and what the fuck. Biki's German ass, making everything around him more fucking German every day and what not. Toben's tall ass with big ass cameras and machetes and shit. Rugga's hair is straight now and it's fucking with my fucked reality as we know it...uh, the dude boogeh who needs to admit he's a fucking robot, motherfucker we all know, don't be ashamed bruh. Tayteh's sad ass, hugging and clinging me all the time and shit, goddammit...uh shoutout to Medic...spaz-matron 3000. Nami, old as fucking fuck...yeah you know, fucking Zarina hanging out being all short as fuck for no goddamn reason and Deamon's lanky as fuck too...matter of fact let me just *rasberries* (❤)

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name: RC

Your Trademark Character: Victor Danya

Current Status of Trademark Character: Backstabbed by a stuttering tech. Dammit Dorian.

Favorite Character: After thinking about that question, I concluded that it might be Joachim Lovelace. Considering that not everybody's story has concluded, things might change, however. Mara, Hansel and Rosemary are close to that as well. So are probably 148 other characters. I bet it will change anyway during the course of my time here.

Favorite Weapon: Maddie's/Nina's Pistol Dagger

Favorite Scene: Theo vs Hansel - Round II

Favorite Death: Boom. Baxter. Also Joe's and Maddie's were cool.

Favorite Quote: I multiplied. Then I subtracted.

Favorite Post: If I was V5 handler from the beginning it probably would've been the Prologue. Because hype.

Favorite Location: The Amusement Park, because stuff's happening there. Right now.


Characters

Best Character Development: Ami Flynn's character development was my favourite one.

Best Game Impact: Hansel for killing fucking 14 people and being indirectly responsible for the deaths of Maddie, Michael and Garrett as well.

Best Innovation: Definitely Tessa Blackridge. Maybe Tyler Lucas. Also, how can I forget Xavier, who's the way better Carson. Also, Pirates and Cowboys. Arrr!

Best Realism: Gray, because it's Gray.

Best Heroic Character: Rosemary, probably.

Best Villainous Character: Hansel for the living ones. Max, Travis, Summer, Miranda and Leona were also cool. And some more. I can't list all of them, seriously.

Best Tragic Character: Mirabellaynard Stronghurst. Maybe Maddie as well.

Best Humorous Character: I'm a RemoteControl. I can't laugh. But Michael attempted to tickle me.

Best Tactics: Matt Vartoogian, definitely.

The Sympathy Award: Uh, everyone. Because I can't otherwise.

The Empathy Award: Mark Little. It's true.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Every inactive character. And most rolled characters, but can't change that.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: To not list a killer: Adonis was a jerk in pregame I heard.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Jessica Murphy's death was impressing.

The Stomach-Churner: Summer eating the donuts. And also her eating Naomi. Dude Fortified as a honorable mention. And some of KK's kills.

Best Impact: Mara killing Summer with a boom probably changed things. Gavin Hunter for the corpse party, the reactions to it and killing Bill.

Best Comedy: Travis' goofiness. Also some of Michael's plot. Also Toben deleting Doc's account. And the Naft gifs.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: I think it still is that scene with Hansel, Virgil, Tyler, James and Travis.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Maybe my reaction to Matt's death. I didn't expect him to die.

Best Drama: Secret rolls was an awesome idea. I hoped my favourite characters would not die. Some of them did. Some of them didn't. But it was suspenseful as fuck. Entire Day 11.

Best Surprise: Waitwhat. Why's Marcus dead?


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? (Bonus points: Not the crash) I'd have given each handler a box of chocolate. Also I'd have made it a final five instead of a final four. And of course, I'd put in a bazooka, lazerguns and more grenades as a BKA.

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V5? Obvious choice would be Joeysel Wadolto. But yeah, either of the characters winning wouldn't mind me. All are pretty good characters. As everybody says Mara, I say Hansel though.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? Tracen and the winner will have a nice epilogue. Then the winner will go home. The Epilogue will be finished, just like in V1 and V4.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? I did enjoy not enjoying it.

What do you like the most about V5? The handlers. Awesome guys. And Mimi's art.

What do you think could have been better about the version? More epic fights, more daring things, more memorability.

What do you think of the overall SOTF story? The new terrorists are nice. I kinda wish there was more from them, but yeah. V1-4 already had super much about them, so having a less terrorist but more student-focused is nice, too.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? Less Epicness, less terribleness. V5 needed more songposts tho.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? People will do more things, no more filler characters, epic scenes. Also Naftastic concepts.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? Writing the sample posts was fun to me.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? Victor Danya, obviously. Though I wish I had done more with Melvin Carter.

What are you proudest of in V5? I liked the relationship between father and son I tried to depict. Victor was less insane than before. Oh, also my votes on BKA barely had an influence on who won. I'm a bad sheep.

What do you wish you could improve? Read less, write more.

What is your favorite V5 memory? The hope I had when I bid on several characters. Also, chat. And people recommending me V5 characters to read.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Rebirth is a fun game, cats are cute and please don't eat lightbulbs.

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name: MurderWeasel

Your Trademark Character: I have no clue this time.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Dead or in Seattle bemoaning all their friends dying in some crazy accident.

Favorite Character: My top five of Mara Montalvo, Hansel Williams, KK Konipaski, Joe Carrasco, and Maddie Wilcox has served me pretty well. I've been trying to narrow it in significant fashion for months, and am not having any more luck today.

Favorite Weapon: I adore the WASP Knife.

Favorite Scene: The quiet talk Maddie and R.J. have in the garage.

Favorite Death: I tried. Too many good ones.

Favorite Quote: Let's go with Lauren's "Alive's close to alright." It's probably the most iconic scrolly quote of the version for me.

Favorite Post: Mara reacts to Finn's death. It's jut a really great reaction post, that packs a huge punch in a small space.

Favorite Location: I still really dig the storage yard.


Characters

Best Character Development: What character development has kept you intrigued?

Mara has had a ton of meaningful growth and development, taking her from a someone who was mean, spoiled, and lacking in perspective into someone who's actually seen a ton of growth. She still has her mean moments, but her actions display a world view that's been broadened considerably; she may not always make the right choices now, but she is always choosing consciously.

Best Game Impact: Which character do you feel has brought the most positive development to the game as a whole, outside their specific storyline?

You know, I thought about this a lot, and it's not quite a conventional answer, but I'm going to say Joe Carrasco. Joe made something out of every single scene he was in, and while he didn't have much overall impact on the course of the game, he left every story he passed through in better shape than he found it. Looking towards my favorite late-gamers, it's amazing how many of them Joe touched in some fashion. Queried as to my favorite part of other characters' stories, it's amazing how often my answer is, "That one scene with Joe..."

Best Innovation: Which character has been a breath of fresh air for you?

You know, it's really hard to be innovative in SOTF in some ways, but I feel like Jesse Jennings brought a level of intent and ambiguity to escape attempt leaders that hasn't been seen before, or at least in a while. His story gets where it's going, and he's morally grey, but it's all just handled in such a comparatively subtle manner as to really raise the stakes for future characters exploring these themes.

Best Realism: Which character is really grounded in reality in a way you find appealing?

Gray Emerson. Gray has been a bastion of muted greatness since pregame, and is among the most consistently high quality characters in V5. He's always super grounded, always intriguing, and surprisingly morally complex.

Best Heroic Character: Which good guy has you solidly on their side?

Xavier Contel is tragically forgotten, but he's one of a very small handful of characters I'd term anywhere near heroic in V5, and most of the others eventually did something to compromise that read. Xavier was

Best Villainous Character: Who is your favorite ne'er-do-well?

Hansel or KK. I can't call it for one over the other. They're both really interesting in that they're complete and total villains, but in a way where you can see where they're coming from if you just let your perspective twist enough. They also both display solid commitment to scene-by-scene stuff while playing consciously with overarching themes. It's wonderful to have power players I also rank among the best characters of the version.

Best Tragic Character: Whose sad and inevitable fate have you most enjoyed lamenting?

Let's go with Garrett Wilde, for a good dose of the old "He who hunts monsters..." Garrett was interesting because the cracks were there from the start, but for a long time the hope remained that maybe, just maybe, he'd recognize his mistakes before it was too late and step back from the brink. Of course, looking it all over with hindsight, it becomes clear that was never in the cards.

Best Humorous Character: Which character made you laugh the most? (And I will smack you if it's someone doing it "unintentionally". Be nice in the Hammers. >:C)

Let's give this to Deanna Hull. A bit of explanation is in order: Deanna's story is not very funny itself. There's a ton to her, a lot of depth and really sad musings. Her narrative voice, however, lands almost every joke it tries for, and that's enough to win this category for me.

Best Tactics: Through elimination of the competition or a solid plan for survival, who's kept you interested in their struggle to make it back home?

Alas, poor Matt Vartoogian! Your plan was so close to working out. Really, though, Matt played smart because he had a plan for every stage of the game, and he remained flexible. There were a few blunders here and there, but he always knew what he was doing and worked to improve his own chances.

The Sympathy Award: Which character did you feel the most for, and most want good things for?

Any of my top five, and a few more besides. Basically, once I connect to a character to the point of viewing them as a person, I really want to see them be okay. ;-;

The Empathy Award: Which character could you most easily put yourself in the shoes of?

Maddie Wilcox, far and away. What makes Maddie special is that she's a realistic character who does good things and bad things in a really self-conscious way, makes no apologies for the wrongs she commits, and yet comes out somewhere I can't rightly term her a villain. She makes choices because she's scared, and they're not always right. She juggles trying to be an alright person with thinking she might just be okay with surviving as an awful one.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Which deceased character should have stuck around a little longer?

Toss up between RJ and Francis St. Ledger. I've probably harped on both too much, but they were a pair of realistic, interesting characters with good relationships and tons of potential, and they both died while I felt there was still a lot for them to offer the version.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Who best earned their (possibly still forthcoming) demise?

Leona van Kamp, I think. What worked for me about Leona in the long run was her overall detachment. Take a long view, and it becomes really clear that she's only out for herself, and is willing to throw anyone else under the bus to get what she wants. This makes her fate at the hands of a bigger yet perhaps slightly more ethical threat a particularly karmic end.

Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Which scene or death made you the most teary eyed?

Hmm... I think I'll put Mara's final encounter with Summer here. It was handled super well from both ends, and we got to see just how badly Summer had been warped and changed, and just what it meant to Mara.

The Stomach-Churner: Which scene or death has most effectively played with the gory/violent/overall disturbing side of the game?

V5 has had a few really effective uses of violence, but of late Hansel's mounting injuries have taken the cake. They're awful and horrifying, but without feeling excessive or arbitrary.

Best Impact: Which scene or death do you think best played a positive role in changing the course of the game?

Joey Caputo's death really laid out the stakes for escape attempts. While it wasn't so monumental OOC, looking back at it now, it's the first of a line of deaths that reestablished the security of the game.

Best Comedy: Which scene or death served as the best comic relief?

Understated, but I liked the little joke with Mara and the muffins. That, or Michelle's note to her parents. I hope Mr. Kitty is okay.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Which scene or death had the best action going on?

Tie between Max's fight with Amy and Ilya and Hansel vs. most of the people he's fought since the start of the version. TBH and NAFT are both really good at making action scenes punchy and keeping posts quick and elegant while still actually including sufficient detail to track the fight.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Which scene or death provoked the best emotional reaction from you?

Maddie's death makes me really sad, because it's a really scary and honest and blunt look at being afraid to die and knowing it's too late to find any other ending.

Best Drama: Which scene or death had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

KK and Rosemary reunite, tragedy ensues. It's a really great scene, not the least because it keeps looking like maybe it's going to be something other than where it ends up. It can be hard to be really surprising in SOTF, but this scene pulls it off while also running my emotions through the strainer.

Best Surprise: Which scene or death caught you most off guard in a pleasant way, either through its unpredictable nature or its unique execution?

The deaths of Karen and Cyrus during the big escape attempt. Those got some real work done, and really stand out as well-executed deaths and a satisfying conclusion to a plotline I was not really expecting that from.

Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? (Bonus points: Not the crash)

There's been a tendency, not uniquely but pretty prevalently, in late V5 to focus on the negative and quickly write off characters/scenes/the whole version. I can get being disappointed, but it's super disheartening when those sentiments are the most commonly voiced, and often in unconstructive ways. I guess I just wish folks had approached lategame a little less fangs-bared and a little more hippy-commune.

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V5?

I figure it will be Hansel, Joey, Zubin, or Mara, but I've been wrong before.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out?

I'm excited to see!

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5?

I thought it was great overall. I generally had much more fun following/reading it than I did writing in it.

What do you like the most about V5?

V5 saw a bunch of handlers blossoming and improving in a short span of time. The overall quality of writing is high—probably the highest to date, on average. Better still, people generally actually seemed to be involved in the version, reading and discussing even characters their own didn't interact with.

What do you think could have been better about the version?

Scale. It didn't end up as big a deal as I worried for a long time, but V5 was hit by a twofer: Posts were shorter (frequently to their detriment; repeating yourself is bad, but so is accidentally excising all mention of setting, comparative location, and thought processes) and characters tended to stick to early-mid-game modes of operation for a super long time. The final ten or so saw these problems largely mitigated, but ~the final 25 does feel that different from ~the final 100, and that's a really big issue for me.

What do you think of the overall SOTF story?

All sorts of stuff!

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions?

Generally an improvement! A+ for grammar. A bit too much focus on/prevalence of reactionary trends, and a bit too frequent willful decisions to ignore the lessons of the past.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions?

I suspect the upwards swing will continue. Hopefully we'll see a good crop of newbies, and with a bit of distance, V5's flaws will help inform the next version such that it can avoid repeating them.

Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5?

The really obnoxiously in-jokey or self-referential stuff.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write?

Probably Steven. Didn't really favor anyone too much this game, though, so that may just be because I ended up most satisfied with his arc.

What are you proudest of in V5?

I basically met most of my personal challenges and avoided the stuff I was trying to avoid.

What do you wish you could improve?

I wasn't too satisfied with my characters in game. Lots of reasons for that, most of them OOC, but I don't think I brought my A game, which kinda sucks.

What is your favorite V5 memory?

There are too many good ones to choose from.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!

Thanks to everyone who, by my request, badgered me until I posted these. You all did a great job!

Also, as usual, I did this out of order and with no reference to notes, the opinions of others, or my own previous Hammers. This means this is a snapshot of how I feel now; I'm positive I've excluded a bunch of characters and scenes I love and will kick myself over later.

Also also, I don't read Hammers until mine are done. Woo, looking forward to chugging through this thread.

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name: Ohm122/Ohm/Matador/Blue/KingCrimson/SethCrimson/that guy who keeps shoving Gianni into lockers on chat

Your Trademark Character: Zoe I guess.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Getting ready for a fight.

Favorite Character: Hansel Williams.

Favorite Weapon: HUNGA MUNGA!

Favorite Scene: Joachim and Rosemary riddle scene, it was pretty great.

Favorite Death: I still like Theo's death.

Favorite Quote: "I multiplied. Then I subtracted. That's what we do now. That's how we keep the most people around."

Favorite Post: Michael finding out Daniel's dead, very short, but effective post.

Favorite Location: The hotel.


Characters

Best Character Development: What character development has kept you intrigued? Mara's changed immensly

Best Game Impact: Which character do you feel has brought the most positive development to the game as a whole, outside their specific storyline? I'll admit when i first read Hansel's profile I had my misgivings which I voiced in chat, but Naft suprised me immensly over the course of the game and had Hansel interact with a large amount of characters, many of whom has been inflluenced in some way(mostly into wanting to kill him).

Best Innovation: Which character has been a breath of fresh air for you? Joachim and how he dealt with the game.

Best Realism: Which character is really grounded in reality in a way you find appealing? Gray was very realistic over the course of the game.

Best Heroic Character: Which good guy has you solidly on their side? Gray was solidly a good guy.

Best Villainous Character: Who is your favorite ne'er-do-well? A tie between Hansel and KK

Best Tragic Character: Whose sad and inevitable fate have you most enjoyed lamenting? Carlon ;_;

Best Humorous Character: Which character made you laugh the most? (And I will smack you if it's someone doing it "unintentionally". Be nice in the Hammers. >:C) RJ's narration in his early threads made me laugh in it's Dark comedy, not so much the later ones.

Best Tactics: Through elimination of the competition or a solid plan for survival, who's kept you interested in their struggle to make it back home? Have to give it to Matt Vartoogian, he had a plan and kept himself mostly to it.

The Sympathy Award: Which character did you feel the most for, and most want good things for? Mara's been trough some harsh stuff

The Empathy Award: Which character could you most easily put yourself in the shoes of? Matt Vartooigan again.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Which deceased character should have stuck around a little longer? CARLON ;_;

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Who best earned their (possibly still forthcoming) demise? Hansel's been asking for it since day one.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Which scene or death made you the most teary eyed? CARLON ;_;

The Stomach-Churner: Which scene or death has most effectively played with the gory/violent/overall disturbing side of the game? Naomi's death and what Summer did with the body made me feel a bit queasy.

Best Impact: Which scene or death do you think best played a positive role in changing the course of the game? Daniel's death affected quite a number of people.

Best Comedy: Which scene or death served as the best comic relief? Can't help but chuckle at "HI GUYS, BYE GUYS".

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Which scene or death had the best action going on? Garret and Hansel's fight scene.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Which scene or death provoked the best emotional reaction from you? Michael finding out that Daniel's dead and his reaction.

Best Drama: Which scene or death had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama? Joe's and Maddie's deaths.

Best Surprise: Which scene or death caught you most off guard in a pleasant way, either through its unpredictable nature or its unique execution? Hansel breaking his Famas in endgame.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? (Bonus points: Not the crash) I was very negativ towards V5 around lategame over very petty reasons and ignored it, Something I very much regret now.

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V5? Rooting for Mara.

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out? Interesting, that's for sure.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5? I enjoyed it, though there have been times where I have outright ignored it.

What do you like the most about V5? I believe the writing has improved and that the community has gotten better and better over the course of it.

What do you think could have been better about the version? The negativity regarding lategame.

What do you think of the overall SOTF story? Haven't read much of the overall story.

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions? The writings improved greatly.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions? From what I've seen from the concepts, it's gonna be interesting.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5? Can't answer that.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write? This neither.

What are you proudest of in V5? Damn these questions!

What do you wish you could improve? In general my writing and activity, been too spotty with both lately.

What is your favorite V5 memory? Everyone being entusiastisk about V5, before the wave of negativity started.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! RC speaks lies.

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name:

BROseidon

Your Trademark Character:

Matt Vartoogian at this point, probably. I think at various points during pre-game and v5 proper it was each of my characters, though, so I'm pretty proud of that.

Current Status of Trademark Character:

Dead :/

Favorite Character:

Gonna have to go with Mara, as much as I want to justify putting another character here. Granted, none of the characters in v5 overtook my all time favorite, which is kind of interesting (it's Erik Laurin for various meta-narrative reasons)

Favorite Weapon:

Hunga Munga

Favorite Scene:

The Time for Talk Is Now. I think a lot of really cool stuff happens in this scene that was really cool for both characters in showing how the game can change people in vastly different ways. First aside: I think that Psych's "Whatever" post was brilliant and is something that people should try to emulate more (super deep, powerful stuff while not overwriting). Second aside: Cammy's a character I don't hear talked about to much who has an awesome trajectory from pre-game through her death, and this scene was definitely emblematic of that.

Favorite Death:

Michelle Wexler's. I thought Rugga did a super awesome job with the post, and the death pretty much was the end of hope.

Favorite Quote:

"Hi guys. Bye guys."

Favorite Post:

Mara watching Finn die is quite possibly the single best post in SotF history.

Favorite Location:

None, really. I don't have particular attachment to locations.

Characters

Best Character Development: What character development has kept you intrigued?

I think what makes Mara so great is that her character development over the course of the game is really incredible. Rugga did a really great job putting Mara in situations that she would have to respond to and grow from, and then she did a great job making that growth happen in a way that wasn't cartoonish.

I also think that Cammy, Joe, and Gray all deserve honorable mention here, since they also all were incredibly strong in this regard.

Best Game Impact: Which character do you feel has brought the most positive development to the game as a whole, outside their specific storyline?

From an OOC perspective, probably (unfortunately) Gavin. From an IC perspective, I think Theo cracking so early set everything else off that pushed v5 into such a dark version.

Best Innovation: Which character has been a breath of fresh air for you?

Michael Mitchellson, because of how well dm dealt with the deafness. I think he showed us that it's possible to write a character severely marked by something that impacts them in an IC way, but have that not be the entire character. Also, props to everyone who wrote with dm for making the character work.

Best Realism: Which character is really grounded in reality in a way you find appealing?

Gray Emerson. Holy shit that character is grounded.

Best Heroic Character: Which good guy has you solidly on their side?

Michelle. I think she really understood what "good" meant to her in the SotF context, which is something that player hunters in particular tend to lack.

Best Villainous Character: Who is your favorite ne'er-do-well?

Hansel. I think that what makes Hansel such a good villain is that it's easy to understand why he got there, and he got there for very human reasons.

Best Tragic Character: Whose sad and inevitable fate have you most enjoyed lamenting?

Paris Ardennes. Guy was a skeezy fuck.

Best Humorous Character: Which character made you laugh the most? (And I will smack you if it's someone doing it "unintentionally". Be nice in the Hammers. >:C)

I can't really remember a character who intentionally made me laugh this version. I think some characters had comedic elements, but I wouldn't really put anyone on this category because nobody was that one-dimensional.

Best Tactics: Through elimination of the competition or a solid plan for survival, who's kept you interested in their struggle to make it back home?

Matt Vartoogian. So, so close :/

The Sympathy Award: Which character did you feel the most for, and most want good things for?

Joe Carrasco. He was a really good guy caught in a terrible situation, and he kept trying to make the best of it until there was no more best to be made.

The Empathy Award: Which character could you most easily put yourself in the shoes of?

Matt Vartoogian, given that he was my high school self SI.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Which deceased character should have stuck around a little longer?

Alex Smith. That girl was a fun read (and fun to write with).

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Who best earned their (possibly still forthcoming) demise?

Tyler Lucas. The guy charged into bullets.

Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Which scene or death made you the most teary eyed?

Can I put Erik Laurin here?

In all seriousness, I'd say Finn's death. For Finn, it was the ultimate shortcoming and failure. He could have pulled the trigger and lived, but he just couldn't, because he wasn't cut out for it. For Mara, it represented the demise of her last friend. Also, both Will and Rugga wrote the last few posts brilliantly.

The Stomach-Churner: Which scene or death has most effectively played with the gory/violent/overall disturbing side of the game?

Uh, Summer's cannibalism.

Best Impact: Which scene or death do you think best played a positive role in changing the course of the game?

Theo and Hansel's first scene together. It set both of those characters on paths that touched pretty much everyone one way or another.

Best Comedy: Which scene or death served as the best comic relief?

"Hi guys. Bye guys."

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Which scene or death had the best action going on?

That inactive kill in the forest where 6 people died.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Which scene or death provoked the best emotional reaction from you?

Michelle's death. It marked the end of a positive outcome for the version (from an IC perspective)

Best Drama: Which scene or death had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

F10 would have if I hadn't been spoiled :/

Best Surprise: Which scene or death caught you most off guard in a pleasant way, either through its unpredictable nature or its unique execution?

Dave Russell's death. Did not expect that.

Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? (Bonus points: Not the crash)

Uh, I wish that Michelle would have died sooner, because that probably would have made Virgil's pacing less terrible.

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V5?

Mara

How do you predict the ending of V5 is going to turn out?

Excellent.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V5?

A ton. I think that the overall calibre of writing this version is much better than before in a multitude of ways, and being a part of it was a lot of fun.

What do you like the most about V5?

The dark tone. I like dark things.

What do you think could have been better about the version?

Pacing, pacing, pacing. I know I was super guilty of this on all of my characters, but pacing was probably the biggest problem in v6.

What do you think of the overall SOTF story?

I think it's really cool, although I do wish there was a way for non-staff and non-winners to interact with more components of the SotF world (STAR, AT, etc)

How do you feel about V5 compared to prior versions?

Da best.

How do you think V6 will differ from/compare to V5 and prior versions?

I think it'll be better. I also think that there will be a shift away from the dark tone that v5 took.

Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V5?

Single favorite scene was probably Virgil and Hansel's gunfight; I love action scenes, and I wish I'd been able to write more of them.

Which of your V5 characters was your favorite to write?

Overall, Matt. Trying to write a super cerebral/philosophical character was a fun challenge, and I think it stretched me as a writer in a few ways. Looking at Matt again, there's definitely stuff I wish I'd done better/differently, but overall I'm happy with what I put out.

What are you proudest of in V5?

I'm proud that I wrote 3 characters who were all thematically and tonally vastly different.

What do you wish you could improve?

Two things:

1) Pacing. All of my characters had pretty severe pacing issues, and that's something I'll definitely be looking to improve in v6.

2) Thematic Intentionality. I think I actually did a pretty good job with this with Matt, since I had a really clear sense of what I wanted to do with him basically from the inception of the character, but with Virgil and Cassandra in particular I didn't have as strong of a sense of where I wanted them to go thematically. I think Cassandra really suffers from this, where she does stuff and she's there and she's sort of interesting, but she doesn't really make you think about anything until her very last post, at which point it's too late for the character to be really meaningful/impactful.

What is your favorite V5 memory?

Probably the start of v5, going into chat and being like WHO NEEDS A CHARACTER. And that is how the angry bitch brigade and group nap time began.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!

I'd just like to thank everyone who put up with me during this version!

[Grand Moff Hissa]

V6 Yearbook Scrawlings
AKA
V6 Pregame Hammers

[+] V6 Pregame Hammers

So I figured this is a good time to put up V6 yearbook scrawlings (aka plastic hammers for pregame). Some might argue it's too early for that but THEY WOULD BE WRONG.

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[big][u][b]The Basics[/b][/u][/big]

[b]Handler Name:[/b]

[b]Hey Guys! (Your trademark character):[/b]

[b]Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): [/b]

[b]Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): [/b]

[b]Best School Hangout (Favorite thread):[/b]


[big][u][b]The Scrawlings[/b][/u][/big]

[b]Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone):[/b]

[b]Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal): [/b]

[b]Best Dressed: [/b] 

[b] Most Likely to be President: [/b]

[b]Most Likely to End up in Jail: [/b] 

[b]Most Likely to Succeed:[/b]

[b] Biggest Meanie:[/b]

[b]Class Flirt:[/b]

[b]Most Dramatic:[/b]

[b]Most Unorthodox/Original Character:[/b] Any character that strikes you as highly original or out of the ordinary.

[b]Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: [/b]A character who you feel that you can imagine existing in real life.

[b]Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?) :[/b] 

[big][u][b]Yearbook Quotes[/b][/u][/big]

[b]Which character do you relate to the most?[/b]

[b]Which character do you feel the most for?[/b]

[b]Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF?[/b]

[b]Which character do you think has it coming?[/b]

[b]Quick; Final Four for V6- who's it gonna be?[/b]

[big][u][b]Margin Scribbles[/b][/u][/big]

[b]Most Emotionally Moving Scene: [/b] Has anything brought a tear to your eyes? 

[b]Most Humourous Scene: [/b]Which scene served as the best comic relief?

[b]Most Drama-filled Scene: [/b]Which scene had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

[b]Most Unexpected Scene: [/b] Was there anything that you just did NOT see coming in pregame?


[big][u][b]Talk About Yourself[/b][/u][/big]

[b]What has been your favorite thing to write in V6 Pregame?[/b]

[b]Which of your characters was your favorite to write?[/b]

[b]Which was your favorite thread to participate in?[/b]

[b]What are you proudest of in V6?[/b]

[b]What do you wish you could improve?[/b]

[b]What is your favorite OOC memory?[/b]

[b]What else would you like to share? Anything goes![/b]

The Basics

Handler Name: R and C

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): I suppose it's Darius now?

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): Reunited with his green baby.

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): Gary Kwan, Michael Crowe, Ty Yazzie, Henry Spencer, Noah Whitley, [...] whatever, too many. Let's go to the next point.

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): Just one thread of all the good ones? ;_; Uh, that's mean. What about this one?


The Scrawlings

Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone): Caedyn Miller. Her cassowary personality is just top notch.

Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal): Alice helping Bryony was heartwarming.

Best Dressed: Penelope because of the turtle earrings. Bonus points for Fiyori and Astrid for having cool glasses or eyepatches.

Most Likely to be President: President Emma Luz! Sabrina and the other Luzes will go to the white house one day.

Most Likely to End up in Jail: Isaac Brea. I mean, come on.

Most Likely to Succeed: Probably Adelaide, because she's elite! Maybe GLD.

Biggest Meanie: Blair or Jae. It is a hard decision. Both are pretty mean people. I think more of Blair being the meaner one.

Class Flirt: Dante Valiero, without a doubt. As he isn't active anymore, probably Danny Brooks.

Most Dramatic: Brendan SweetHarte. Poor guy is always so nice, but is treated not that nice. Also has crushes on people who already have a partner :c

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Henry Spencer is a character that is original, unorthodox and very enjoyable.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Irene Djezari was a very realistically-portrayed character! I really could imagine her being a person I meet.

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?) : Trav would be able to win a Battle Royale.

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? I cannot think of a character, where I say 'That's me!' or something like that :/

Which character do you feel the most for? Many. Oskar, Bryony, Brendan. I have no clue how to answer these questions >.<

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? Too early...uh, Ty?

Which character do you think has it coming? Blair has it kinda coming. She ain't nice.

Quick; Final Four for V6- who's it gonna be? Penelope Fitzgerald, Ben Fields, Ty Yazzie and Fiyori Senay. Wait, nvm, we need some Canadian.

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Bryony's sadness. But also Ben because of personal reasons.

Most Humourous Scene: Noah's Pina Bucket threads. Everyone of them; If I could choose one where I starred in, I'd choose My Friends Are Assholes. It was fun to write and also made me giggle.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Definitely Pitches. The argument between GLD and Vanessa just great to read.

Most Unexpected Scene: Suddenly, things get insane!


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6 Pregame? Probably the easter eggs I hid in my posts, like the tv2 easter eggs :^)

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? Darius. Initially I thought he would be the hardest to write, when I made my 5 concepts. Then it turned out, that he was actually super fun. Alessio was also very interesting to write with, though I feel he's a bit too one-noted. Conrad is somebody I have to get into yet.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Silence is Golden. Why? Because it was my very first collaborative pregame thread I finished.

What are you proudest of in V6? The positive feedback I have gotten from people :3

What do you wish you could improve? I wish I could write prose that is not so...dry. I want my posts to be slightly more descriptive and not just internal.

What is your favorite OOC memory? Too many to choose from.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! V6 will be legend, wait for it-

The Basics

Handler Name: KamiKaze

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): Junko Kurosawa, Emma Luz, Jennifer Wallace

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): Probably rollerblading down a slope (in-between threads), learning about dicks in the past, and currently not existing respectively

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): Uh, Caedyn, Jeremy, Lilvaro, Danny, Ty, GLD, Noah, BB, and probably others I can't think of right now.

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): I have to pick one?


The Scrawlings

Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone): Jeremy!

Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal): Abby!

Best Dressed: Joshua, maybe?

Most Likely to be President: Let's go with GLD.

Most Likely to End up in Jail: It's a tie between Caedyn, Bradley, and Isaac.

Most Likely to Succeed: Probs GLD. She wants it that badly.

Biggest Meanie: Jae... why do you have to be so ruuuuuude?

Class Flirt: Dante, by default. Even if he went inactive, no one else can really beat him.

Most Dramatic: Caedyn brings drama everywhere she goes.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: For me, it's Alvaro. He doesn't have a particularly quirky personality, but the premise of the character is actually pretty unique without being overbearing, if that makes sense. We've seen plenty of kids with restaurant backgrounds before, of course (heck, Junko is one even if she doesn't work there), but I kind of like the angle Yugi's been taking with that.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Irene, when she was a thing. She's quirky, but in a way many teenage girls are.

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?) : I'm going to pick a weird choice, and it's Blair. Because fate's funny like that.

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? Brendan. ):

Which character do you feel the most for? Brendan Harte and Conrad Harrod. They're perfectly decent people... who keep having to deal with screwed-up people.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? Lily!

Which character do you think has it coming? Caedyn's gonna get her booty kicked someday.

Quick; Final Four for V6- who's it gonna be? Lily, Blair, Fiyori, Ty.

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: ... Oh. ):

Most Humourous Scene: Everyone's an asshole!

Most Drama-filled Scene: Exhibit A: Brendan dealing with screwed-up people.

Most Unexpected Scene: I have a weird one. It took me this thread to realize Pina Bucket's name is a reference to a certain thing Justin Bieber did. X_X


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6 Pregame? Hmmm. Have to think. I've only been partially active so far. X_X

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? Emma, by process of elimination. I haven't been feeling Junko too hugely, and Jennifer's not out and about yet.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? You know my answer. Even if that thread only recently started, I finally made my sex ed thread.

What are you proudest of in V6? Again, the fact that I made the sex ed thread officially happen.

What do you wish you could improve? Be more active, damn it.

What is your favorite OOC memory? The fact that "steaming cock" became an in-joke.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E

The Basics

Handler Name: Yugikun

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): I guess Jeremy? He’s tied second for the most threads in pregame after all.

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): Has just proved his innocence in a kangaroo court and is about to receive the sex ed lesson from hell.

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): Looking through the list of pregame characters, I am currently liking Lily, Fiyori, Kimiko, BB, Jerry F, Adelaide, Katilyn (rip dn ), GLD, Noah, Henry, Cadeyn, Min-Jae, Caleb, Audrey, Oskar, Astrid, Bradley, and Juniper

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): Let’s go with this one.


The Scrawlings

Class Clown: Jerry Fury is the only V6 character so far with the distinction of making me burst out laughing in class.

Class Sweetheart: Josh Bracewell I think is the obvious answer here?

Best Dressed: Juniper was easily the hardest character to sprite for the shipping chart because of how many accessories she has but she’s admittedly pretty well dressed!

Most Likely to be President: Emma Luz

Most Likely to End up in Jail: Michael Crowe

Most Likely to Succeed: GLD. I mean, until she gets killed on murder island.

Biggest Meanie: Min-Jae made my character sad

Class Flirt: id like a kiss from dante

Most Dramatic: *drops the cadebomb*

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Vinny’s one of the odder concepts that haven’t been mentioned yet and/or isn’t a character owned by me.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: I know lots of Alice’s at my school.

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?) : yeah idunno

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? GLD. She’s kind of a bitch but it always kinda feels that she’s in the right place every time.

Which character do you feel the most for? Oskar ;_;

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? My characters!

Which character do you think has it coming? Bradley “Massive Dick” “Tiny Penis” Floyd

Quick; Final Four for V6- who's it gonna be? I put the characters currently accepted for V6 into a randon.org list and got Alice Baker, Nadia Riva, Lani Salder, and Conrad Harrod.

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: It’s a scary world out there.

Most Humourous Scene: this one

Most Drama-filled Scene: yeah okay at least I made it to nearly the end of the post before I mentioned this

Most Unexpected Scene: ...nope, nothing that I can’t think took me by surprise


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6 Pregame? The last two parts of enterlude went pretty well, even though it turned out that I could have spent a little more time on them.

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? Jeremy by virtue of him being the easiest to write.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Assholes is currently pretty fun.

What are you proudest of in V6? finishing two seven month old threads

What do you wish you could improve? If I could go back and rewrite my pregame threads, I’d

Get Ben’s character down earlier. His first two threads suffer because I didn’t know what his character was then and I had to lean back on HIS FAMILY as a crutch.
I probably would not have written steaming cock in retrospect, knowing what happened.

What is your favorite OOC memory? Playing BGO with people!

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Got nothin' for ya. Take your stuff and head back to camp.

The Basics

Handler Name: DuckyB!

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): Probably Caedyn?

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): Off in cyberspace making Jeremy's life harder~

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): God, so many. BB, Vanessa, GLD, Fiyori, Bernie, Henry, Alvaro, Bradley, Michael...just way too many to name, this is a great pre-game so far.

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): Another really hard one. I think I'll throw this one to Smoke On Her Face, because band drama is delicious.


The Scrawlings

Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone): Darius Van Dyke!

Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal): Lani Salder is just a doll so far.

Best Dressed: Oskar Pearce :3

Most Likely to be President: Bryony has an air that just makes me want to trust her. I'mma go with her.

Most Likely to End up in Jail: Probably Jae, one day someone is gonna make that boy snap.

Most Likely to Succeed: Penelope seems to have her head on pretty straight, I'd see good things in her future if it wasn't for the whole Murder Island thing.

Biggest Meanie: Vanessa, probably, she's a bitch and I love her.

Class Flirt: Danny Brooks, without a shadow of a doubt.

Most Dramatic: Oh, absolutely Bradley Floyd.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: I have a lot of trouble putting my finger on it, but Michael Crowe feels really vibrant and attention-getting in an original way to me.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Brendan Harte seems like a pretty down to earth, regular high school student.

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?) : I'd put pretty good money on Junko. #parkourmafia

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? Cass Prince really resonates with me.

Which character do you feel the most for? Oskar, the poor baby.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? No one in particular yet, just about everybody has presented something that would make them an interesting winner!

Which character do you think has it coming? She may not have earned it yet, but I have no doubt in my mind that Fiyori will have earned what's coming to her by the end.

Quick; Final Four for V6- who's it gonna be? BB, Colleen, Cameron, Vanessa. Let's make things reeeeeal awkward.

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: 'Tis There I'd Sit and Cry My Fill. Z does family angst really well.

Most Humourous Scene: Puddles really amuses me.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Black Kingdom, Red Kingdom is intense as.

Most Unexpected Scene: Everything You've Always Wanted To Know. Just, all of it so far.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6 Pregame? Ooh, this is really tough, I've been lucky enough to write a lot of fun scenes with a lot of cool people. I think just for my stuff, Goddamn Right, You Should Be Scared Of Me was a long time coming and was really satisfying to finally get out.

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? Caedyn. As I've said often, she's basically just my id set to run wild, and there's something very cathartic about that.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? My Friends Are Assholes is just a ton of fun.

What are you proudest of in V6? I seem to be really good at getting people to hate my assholes? Wheeeeee~

What do you wish you could improve? Probably something about this disease that makes me write long-ass profiles.

What is your favorite OOC memory? I'm going to go with all the time I spend tormenting Ime with future Caedyn bullshit :3

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! IN OLDEN DAYS A FLASH OF STOCKING WAS TAKEN AS SOMETHING SHOCKING BUT NOW GOD KNOOOOOOOWS, ANYTHING GOOOOOOOOOOES!

The Basics

Handler Name: backslash

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): I suppose Jae since he’s the only one with more than two threads.

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): Sneaking a smoke and being totally heterosexual behind a café.

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): Hoo boy. Vanessa, Ty, Henry, Bryony, Fiyori… the list goes on.

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): Plead the fifth.


The Scrawlings

Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone): Darius Van Dyke brings trouble wherever he goes and usually makes me cackle with it.

Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal): Brendan Harte: 99% good intentions, 1% self-preservation. Abby Floyd is also a real sweetheart.

Best Dressed: Penelope Fitzgerald gets props for rocking that scene look well after 2005.

Most Likely to be President: Joshua Bracewell. Jury’s still out on whether he’d be able to back up his lovableness with an iron fist.

Most Likely to End up in Jail: Caedyn or Darius, most likely.

Most Likely to Succeed: Georgia Lee Day’s got that drive. Hazel Jung is going to be a big Broadway star.

Biggest Meanie: Blair and Caedyn are perfect BFFs, because they’re both terrible.

Class Flirt: Danny Brooks. Brendan for his hopeless crushes.

Most Dramatic: Michael Crowe thinks he’s living in a greaser movie.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Blair Moore’s got a cool angle, and I think Vinny Gatti, Cass Prince, and Haley Luz deserve some recognition for being the first officially non-binary characters on SOTF.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Bryony’s got a nice down-to-earth quality.

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?) :Ty’s gonna go to the top or go down swinging.

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? BB Gunnerson. Something about her personality reminds me of myself.

Which character do you feel the most for? Bryony and Alvaro.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? No idea at this point. Someone from Peyote Coyote making it out would be pretty cool.

Which character do you think has it coming? C A E D Y N. Oskar hasn’t done anything yet, but I still think he’s going to have it coming when he gets it.

Quick; Final Four for V6- who's it gonna be? Bryony, Brendan, Alvaro, Oskar. Endgame full of sad people.

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: For Those Alone in the Blackest Night wasn’t necessarily sad, but I certainly found it moving and very sweet.

Most Humourous Scene: They Really Are for making me cackle with a single sentence.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Pitcheswas nice and drama-filled. Smoke On Her Face is getting that way too.

Most Unexpected Scene: Tank! set me up to expect shenanigans and then took an emotional turn that caught me by surprise in a really good way.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6 Pregame? Jae’s spat with Brendan and Cristo and Abby’s slumber party.

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? Jae so far, but I think that’s a bit unfair to say since as I said above he’s the only one with more than two threads right now.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Black Kingdom, Red Kingdom. Prim just pitched the idea of a thread with Brendan and Jae to me one day in chat and it turned into something I’m pretty proud of.

What are you proudest of in V6? The fact that I’m pregaming at all, really. Not doing pregame was one of my big regrets of V5.

What do you wish you could improve? Developing my kids more equally and trying not to play favorites, especially at this early stage.

What is your favorite OOC memory? I think fondly back on the little conversations and jokes that became actual threads. It’s cool to look back and go “I remember how that started”. I could put a lot of inside jokes here too, I guess.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE ARM

The Basics

Handler Name: Espi

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): Henry I guess?

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): Rambling about jumpscares in film class.

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): Hmm…Jae, Cass, Enzo and Bryony are some of my favorite reads.

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): Puddles!


The Scrawlings

Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone): Enzo is cool like that.

Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal): Abby has no mean bones. Coleen also.

Best Dressed: Nadia, natch.

Most Likely to be President: I don’t even know

Most Likely to End up in Jail: No clue

Most Likely to Succeed: I still don’t know

Biggest Meanie: Caedyn staaaaaahp

Class Flirt: Sadly Dante didn’t stick around or they’d have it. I gotta go with Caedyn.

Most Dramatic: JERRY MOTHERFUCKING FURY

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Enzo and Cass. Both are really good reads and have the nonbinary thing. Kimiko also.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: Hard to pick.

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royale : I nominate Enzo. Again.

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? Cass

Which character do you feel the most for? Bryony stop being sad.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? I’m holding out for a hero victory this version. Enzo strikes me as a solid winner.

Which character do you think has it coming? Caedyn, definitely.

Quick; Final Four for V6 - who's it gonna be? Enzo, Bryony, Georgia, Asha

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Divorce Bread was pretty sad.

Most Humourous Scene: Sting like a Stingray is headed that way.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Pitches.

Most Unexpected Scene: I didn’t expect my thread with Alice, Bryony and Isaac to turn out how it did. For one I wasn’t in, Hyperventilation Dance.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6 Pregame? Alice comforting Bryony, Henry’s oneshot with his dad, and Blair’s hair saga.

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? Henry for his eccentricities.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Too many to list.

What are you proudest of in V6? Improving so much from V5.

What do you wish you could improve? I hope that I get better at writing, basically.

What is your favorite OOC memory? Skyping people about whatever is always a blast.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! DEMACIA

I may update this when V6 proper is almost upon us but we've had enough pregame time for me to form some opinions, eh?

The Basics

Handler Name: Cicada Days.

Hey Guys! (Your trademark character): Unfortunately, Irene Djezari.

Where you at? (Current Status of Trademark Character): Dancing (as opposed to dying), learning how2god.

Most Popular (Your favorite character(s) ): Ooh boy. After doing a fairly in-depth read through of pregame there are very few characters I don't think are gonna be good on island. So honestly, no favorites. I just like everyone.

Best School Hangout (Favorite thread): 'MFAA' because everyone involved is lovably hatable.


The Scrawlings

Class Clown (those who tickled your funny bone): Jerry Fury and Bradley Grant both neatly manage to capture both humor within their in-character statements and their narratives. Noah Whitley's persona also kills, some of my favorite one-shots right there.

Class Sweetheart (Girl and/or Guy known for being a real nice guy/gal): Brendan Harte is the purest pureness that has ever been spawned on this Earth, like holy.

Best Dressed: Looking through island outfits to judge I came up with Lani Salder for the girls and Joshua Bracewell for the guys. Both rocking sharp aesthetics to kill their peers in!

Most Likely to be President: I don't think any character quite impressed me enough on the sort of things I'm looking for in this count.

Most Likely to End up in Jail: Issac Brea is the perfect combo of mean enough but not smart enough. Thus, jailbound. Maybe that's where he is when the island happens which will explain why he doesn't end up island bound (R I P).

Most Likely to Succeed: Georgia Lee Day has the mentality, Joshua Bracewell has the achievements.

Biggest Meanie: I was debating back and forth on this but I couldn't come up with a satisfactory one person answer. Issac/Bradley/Fiyori/Caedyn capture the four who most exemplify douchebaggery among the student population, IMO.

Class Flirt: Not gonna say Daniel for this, just because I don't actually get to see a lot of it in action. IMO Fiyori and Caedyn's narratives and asides both paint them as the most 'vampy' of the V6 cast.

Most Dramatic: Min-Jae and Ty capture separate aspects of the 'dramatic and tough life' style of character very well, IMO.

Most Unorthodox/Original Character: Kimiko Kao and Henry Spencer are two characters that strike me as having high potential to have very unusual island trajectories. And shout outs to Enzo Gatti for doing the non-binary portrayal super well.

Most Realistically-Portrayed Character: BB and Jeremy, their threads together both flow so smoothly and naturally. Similarly, the thread Hazel Jung and Min-Jae share. What can I say? I usually feel the most 'realistic' nuance about people is exposed by their interacting with a potential romantic partner.

Most-likely to win in a Battle Royal (Take an early shot. Who do you think will win?): Ty is gonna show the island what's up, for sure. Perfect combo of traits to go far.

Yearbook Quotes

Which character do you relate to the most? The character who overall comes closest to capturing me overall would either be Alice Baker or Alvaro Vacanti.

Which character do you feel the most for? Sending feels out Coleen Raegan's way. I also feel for a lot of the other characters mentioned, but Coleen has the obvious extra angle of self-image issues, which always strike a heartstring for me.

Which character are you cheering on to win SOTF? I want a villain win, as I've mentioned on chat before. Like a character who makes morally horrible decisions for most of the game and is from most viewpoints irredeemable. So we can see how the sort of homecoming and life beyond the island such a character could have... Without going into too much detail, Caedyn fills this requirement for me most.

Which character do you think has it coming? A lot of characters who could stand to get some wind knocked out of them this version! But for my unorthodox take on it, Jerry Fury. Because of his mentality I think his breaking is going to be sooo juicy.

Quick; Final Four for V6- who's it gonna be? In my dreams, some combo of Jeremy/Caedyn/Fiyori/Bradley/Darius and just recreate MFAA as the endgame. For a serious answer... Min-Jae, Fiyori, Caedyn, and someone like Brendan or Alvaro would make for a wicked final four. Folks like Jerry, Travis, Blair, Hazel, and Coleen are also options IMO.

EDIT: APPARENTLY THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE CHARACTER PER HANDLER IN ENDGAME

Margin Scribbles

Most Emotionally Moving Scene: Shout outs to Pippin, Espi, and Paige for the timings and back-and-forth in this thread! A lot of juicy and moving characterization in the museum. And as I said above, the Min-Jae/Hazel thread gives me fuzz- HOLD ON I DID NOT SEE THIS UNTIL JUST NOW I AM SO CONFUSED

:0 now that's some feels right there

Most Humourous Scene: Roots of Jade for the #bars being shot back and forth.

Most Drama-filled Scene: Smoke On Her Face for max drama and a painfully apropos title. :0

Most Unexpected Scene: Legendary thread for concept alone. And For A Film surprised me by being touching and interesting sans anything really out of the ordinary. And shout out to this thread, poorly named as it is, for the unusual method by which a dance pairing is made to happen.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6 Pregame? Sam's Town, 3k+ words in... two hours. I just got that into it, I dunno.

Which of your characters was your favorite to write? I only really have been writing Irene so far, but honestly. Ben flows better for me, with what little I've done of him. I think Irene is something of a swing and a miss for me, I'm still struggling to resolve what I want to accomplish with her besides 'most dumbass narrative style ever'.

Which was your favorite thread to participate in? Airline Food, because Laurels was very good about giving me a lot to work with and I think some of my better Irene moments occurred in that thread.

What are you proudest of in V6? Not permanently vanishing due to embarrassment yet.

What do you wish you could improve? Everything forever and ever.

What is your favorite OOC memory? Yugikun introducing me to The Killers. New fave band, gg.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Honestly I'm just hanging in there for V7. I hope I'll have my shit together by then. :0

[Grand Moff Hissa]

V6 First (Halfway) Plastic Hammers

[+] V6 First Plastic Hammers Part One

Hey, everyone! It's time again for Plastic Hammers!

Shamelessly ripped from V5's halfway plastic hammers, the questions are the streamlined versions that Toben came up with.

A quick reminder: the hammers are to celebrate the good stuff, by and large. There are a few places where we ask for criticism and the like, usually about the story/site/game as a whole. That's fine! Just don't take shots at specific handlers/characters here. There are tons of appropriate avenues for expressing criticism and disagreeing with others' opinions and such, so use one of them instead. Do not ironically vote characters you hate into categories you find unflattering; while the phrasing of the reworked questionnaire removes most of the opportunities for such things, it still bears repeating that doing so is verboten.

If you feel like linking, we love seeing links! If not, don't sweat it. Try to fill the form out as much as possible, but don't worry too much if you get stuck on a question or two. There's no shame in leaving a blank spot once in a while.

That out of the way, have at! For your convenience, the template is spoilered in code at the end.

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name:

Your Trademark Character:

Current Status of Trademark Character:

Favorite Character:

Favorite Weapon:

Favorite Scene:

Favorite Death:

Favorite Quote:

Favorite Post:

Favorite Location:


Characters

Best Character Development: What character development has kept you intrigued?

Best Game Impact: Which character do you feel has brought the most development to the game as a whole, outside their specific storyline?

Best Innovation: Which character has been a breath of fresh air for you?

Best Realism: Which character is really grounded in reality in a way you find appealing?

Best Heroic Character: Which good guy has you solidly on their side?

Best Villainous Character: Who is your favorite ne'er-do-well?

Best Tragic Character: Whose sad and inevitable fate have you most enjoyed lamenting?

Best Humorous Character: Which character do you think had the funniest jokes, quips or narration throughout their story?

Best Tactics: Through elimination of the competition or a solid plan for survival, who's kept you interested in their struggle to make it back home?

The Sympathy Award: Which character did you feel the most for, and most want good things for?

The Empathy Award: Which character could you most easily put yourself in the shoes of?

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Which deceased character should have stuck around a little longer?

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Who best earned their (possibly still forthcoming) demise?


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Which scene or death made you the most teary eyed?

The Stomach-Churner: Which scene or death has most effectively played with the gory/violent/overall disturbing side of the game?

Best Impact: Which scene or death do you think best played a role in changing the course of the game?

Best Comedy: Which scene or death served as the best comic relief?

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Which scene or death had the best action going on?

Best Feeling-Inducer: Which scene or death provoked the best emotional reaction from you?

Best Drama: Which scene or death had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

Best Surprise: Which scene or death caught you most off guard in a pleasant way, either through its unpredictable nature or its unique execution?


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?

V6 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V6?

How do you predict the ending of V6 is going to turn out?

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V6?

What do you like the most about V6?

What do you think could have been better about the version?

How do you feel about V6 compared to prior versions?

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story?

How do you think V7 will differ from/compare to V6 and prior versions?


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6?

Which of your V6 characters was your favorite to write?

What are you proudest of in V6?

What do you wish you could improve?

What is your favorite V6 memory?

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!

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Handler Name: Riki, formerly known as Bikriki

Your Trademark Character:Fiyori Senay

Current Status of Trademark Character: 59,5 %

Favorite Character: Georgia Lee Day, Ty Yazzie, Kimiko Kao and let's be honest – a shit-ton more.

Favorite Weapon: The porno magazine, if only because I have no clear favori- okay it's the taser.

Favorite Scene: Stuff that makes me tear up, man

Favorite Death: I am going to say Nancy's, and add Isabel's, despite being involved.

Favorite Quote: "Maybe Death would stick with her since she's giving it a job, but I think it has higher standards that that." [sic]

Favorite Post: Nearly everything Frogue writes is a joy to read. How can I single something out?

Favorite Location: After time, I have grown fondness for the whole island. However, I have grown especially fond of the cafeteria.


Characters

Best Character Development: So far? Tricky question, I am going to throw Alba's name out there.

Best Game Impact: Isabel Ramirez - at some point I had already touched upon this in chat or something, but Isabel is notable in how her actions influence the entire island, directly or indirectly.

Best Innovation: Tara Bezhad - as it expected, Grim's kids do tend to carry that touch of crazy quite well. Takes me by surprise every time.

Best Realism: Raina Rose - honestly never quite sure about this category

Best Heroic Character: Hm...

Best Villainous Character: HMM...

Best Tragic Character: Oh Caleb...

Best Humorous Character: Bradley Floyd

Best Tactics:
Georgia Lee Day

The Sympathy Award: Enzo Gatti

The Empathy Award: Georgia Lee Day - yes, this might come as a shock to some

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Bee : (

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Jennifer Su and her death. I enjoyed how she changed her mind, and yet her fate was sealed anyway. Perhaps a sign for how v6 unfolds?

The Stomach-Churner: Okay let's be honest, literally all of Isabel's deaths.

Best Impact: Isabel killing Conrad. Probably the point where she notices how much fun torturing people actually makes. The rest, as they say, is history.

Best Comedy: Bradley's unfortunate choice of words to his would be killer.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Let's all die anywhere else. Yea I know I was involved but it was so fun!

Best Feeling-Inducer: As mentioned above in my favorite scene.

Best Drama: Alba and Kaitlyn, playing as girls do in the water.

Best Surprise:


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Nothing.

V6 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. No thank you.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V6? More than one ;~:

How do you predict the ending of V6 is going to turn out? Good question, but I have honestly no idea.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V6? Very much so, thank you.

What do you like the most about V6? It's relatively small size. I went on and on about how intimate this version would be. And I was R I G H T.

What do you think could have been better about the version? I still kinda think the island is a little bit too little? But I have no spatial sense, so what do I know.

How do you feel about V6 compared to prior versions? I enjoy it even more. Not only because of the stories, though.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? I don't care.

How do you think V7 will differ from/compare to V6 and prior versions? Ask me in six months.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6? The Fiyori/GLD scenes, Die Anywhere Else, and Lucilly and Dorothy - in that order.

Which of your V6 characters was your favorite to write? Fiyori in general, Lucilly at some peak points.

What are you proudest of in V6? See the question two steps above this one, please.

What do you wish you could improve? A lot, honestly. In particular, I am striving to improve my environmental writing. The One-Shot Love Is A Fridge was more or less an exercise for that.

What is your favorite V6 memory? : )

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! ~ Thank you for reading !!!

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Handler Name: backslash

Your Trademark Character: At this point, probably Min-jae. so much for not playing favorites

Current Status of Trademark Character: Alive, somehow.

Favorite Character: Brendan Harte, Kaitlyn Greene ( ;-; ), Asha Sur ( ;-----; ), Penelope Fitzgerald, Caedyn Miller, Coleen Reagan, Fiyori Senay, off the top of my head. V6 just has a really solid cast in general.

Favorite Weapon: The fake gun has gotten some really good mileage and it amuses me greatly. Honorable mention to the sawblade slinger.

Favorite Scene: The Girl Who Owned an Island was really cool.

Favorite Death: Right at this moment, probably Kaitlyn’s or Wayne’s.

Favorite Quote: “Fuck your cock of justice!” – William McKinley, May 10, 2015 and "Death was not worse than Meme Hell.". Also everything that came out of Michael or Noah’s mouth.

Favorite Post: Plot twist of my life you guys.

Favorite Location: The Crematorium is nice.


Characters

Best Character Development: Jeremy Frasier has had some really interesting development going on and I’m eager to see where it goes. Alessio and Brendan both get a nod for blindsiding me with a character turn that made sense in retrospect.

Best Game Impact: The players acting as motivators for others by default, Clarice Halwood for actually doing something the terrorists took notice of.

Best Innovation: Props to Toxie for making Michael a totally off-the-wall character who was still fun to read and didn’t jarringly break tone with the rest of the game.

Best Realism: Let’s go with Kiziah Saraki. Keith Bauer and Hannah Kendrickstone too, Courtney’s really good at realistic-feeling characters.

Best Heroic Character: Clarice Halwood

Best Villainous Character: Kaitlyn, Caedyn

Best Tragic Character: Alex Tarquin, falling into his own trap.

Best Humorous Character: Noah was really funny in a way that felt real.

Best Tactics: I’ll go with original-flavor GLD and Fiyori (and now Olivia) for managing to hole up somewhere and make it work, while still staying interesting.

The Sympathy Award: Really feeling for Ty Yazzie right now. Cass Prince and Bryony Sadams too.

The Empathy Award: Georgia Lee Day (before I adopted her), Irene Djezari

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Oskar, Asha, Astrid, Kaitlyn, and Noah were a few that I was really sad to see gone before the halfway point.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Isabel and Alex


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Harold Porter and Lizzie Luz’s deaths.

The Stomach-Churner: Tara’s death was really hard for me to get through, and I am not squeamish.

Best Impact: Jeremiah Larkin, Cameron Herrig, and Tina Luz’s deaths all launched some pretty interesting characters.

Best Comedy: Comic Sans “You Tried” star for Astrid. I fondly remember startling everyone in voice chat because I started cackling while reading that scene.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Lord of Lunatics was pretty action-packed.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Ty finally crying over Bee really got me, as did Caleb Diamond’s death. Shout out to All About My Mother in Meanwhile too.

Best Drama: Man I dunno for this one. There’s been a lot of really delicious drama so far.

Best Surprise: How much am I allowed to gush about Brendan turning killer?


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Stock answer, but some of these rolls man.

V6 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. Fiyori Senay, Cadeyn Miller or Tyler Yazzie, Brendan Harte, Coleen Reagan and/or Vanessa Stone, and the ghost of Kaitlyn Greene.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V6? Fuk idk.

How do you predict the ending of V6 is going to turn out? It’s going to be real interesting, with most of the big killers out and a bunch of happenings in the overall narrative to deal with.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V6? I have been having a blast this entire time.

What do you like the most about V6? Just the overall quality of writing across the board has been excellent; it’s why rolls have been so painful, but just about every character has been a joy to read and write with.

What do you think could have been better about the version? Staff needs to stop denying my requests for more hero cards Actually I’ve got some quibbles with the layout of the island (structures vs wilderness areas and the bulk of the areas being inside one building) but I don’t really have any major complaints.

How do you feel about V6 compared to prior versions? V6 is interesting because like V5 there’s very little OOC hope of rescue I feel, but overall it feels less bleak than V5 did. It’s also moving much faster due to size (and I do hope V7 will be a bit bigger) but as I’ve mentioned before the overall quality has been very high.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? Well STAR just had the whole rug pulled out from under them and I’m very interested in seeing where that goes and how the universe as a whole develops due to it. The V6 happenings are probably the most interested I’ve been in the outside world of SOTF so far.

How do you think V7 will differ from/compare to V6 and prior versions? Like I said, there’s going to be some interesting new background to develop off of with the passage of time in-universe. I predict good things.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6? For Min-jae, Devil’s Choir and How Easy it was to Lie to Strangers were both really fun. For Raina, probably the end of Thanatophobia leading into the beginning of Coward Mont Blanc.

For my adopted characters, Bridgette’s death was really fun, and I love everything about GLD and honestly am just super psyched I’ve gotten to write her.

Which of your V6 characters was your favorite to write? Min-jae for originals, GLD for adoptees.

What are you proudest of in V6? I just feel like my writing has improved vastly from V5 to V6 and I’m glad that I’ve had the opportunity to stay in the version longer than last time and develop my characters more.

What do you wish you could improve? My fight scenes need a lot of work.

What is your favorite V6 memory? Probably writing Devil’s Choir and everyone involved in that thread just being super jazzed and enthusiastic about what was going on. Frogue asking if I wanted to adopt GLD was also really flattering and nice.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Did you know there's an entire music album made up of slowed-down washing machine noises?

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Handler Name: mstrfstr

Your Trademark Character: Darius Van Harrod

Current Status of Trademark Character: Swoooord Caaaaaaane

Favorite Character: Michael Crowe. Usually that's a hard category. Has been always since Day 2 and now that he's dead it will not change ever. Best V6 character. Sad he was heroed out, but oh well now Jonathan is a mask wearing character I also hype.

Favorite Weapon: Sawlaska Thunderfuck 3000

Favorite Scene: Question too difficult

Favorite Death: Kaitlyn's death was pretty noice and set up greatly.

Favorite Quote: I'm not sure whether it's "Fuck your cock of justice" or "Idols don't do drugs"

Favorite Post: Dunno.

Favorite Location: Vehicle Depot.


Characters

Best Character Development: Lily's development was pretty intriguing.

Best Game Impact: Isabel for murdering everyone.

Best Innovation: Alan's discordianistic style was very innovative.

Best Realism: Alba's a pretty realistic character who also is very subtly and realistically depicted to be a bit confused. She's the person I'd meet in person more likely than the other kids.

Best Heroic Character: Penelope for leading the budsquad. Also Harry Potter, because JUSTICE.

Best Villainous Character: Alex Tarquin really was a villain that played his role well.

Best Tragic Character: Will McKinley. Losing his girlfriend :/

Best Humorous Character: Michael Crowe. His lines are the best. Also Noah for the constant jokes and similies.

Best Tactics: Scout is a tactician. Also Leslie had a cool plan too and I cheered for her to go further, but then she died.

The Sympathy Award: Jeremy, the typical SOTF hero, who also is the anti-Dodd in some way.

The Empathy Award: Jennifer Su.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Harry Potter. Also Asha, but Harry Potter died too soon. Mitch Settles too.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Alvaro for ruining everything he touches.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Alba crying while Kaitlyn forces to shoot her ;( That will be the v7 prologue scene btw.

The Stomach-Churner: Taraaaaaaaaargh

Best Impact: Jerry killing Toby was impactful and lead to several plotlines.

Best Comedy: Bradley being Bradley.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Lord of Lunatics aka Hungry and Mad Dogs 2.0

Best Feeling-Inducer: Probably Michael's death scene with all the songs and Jonathan and him being happy and then dead.

Best Drama: Astrid shooting Penelope. Bang.

Best Surprise: Brendan killing Jeremiah. Everyone was like: :000000000


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Mitch going inactive.

V6 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. Jeremy, Matt Moradi, Blair Moore and Ben Ward.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V6? Jeremy, because BB and him should reunite to be adorable as fuck again in the epilogue.

How do you predict the ending of V6 is going to turn out? Drama-free

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V6? Yes.

What do you like the most about V6? Yes.

What do you think could have been better about the version? More villains!!!

How do you feel about V6 compared to prior versions? V6 has more action than V5 and less than V3 and imo that's a perfect combination.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? Mini overshadows it with their universes being more fresh and interesting in comparison to SOTF's universe that is set in our boring universe.

How do you think V7 will differ from/compare to V6 and prior versions? It will be smol.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6? Threading with Lilli was hella fun. Same goes with the Darius death scene.

Which of your V6 characters was your favorite to write? Darius, because he was so goofy.

What are you proudest of in V6? Actually playing in a main version for once.

What do you wish you could improve? Being faster than Cicada when editing the wiki. I haven't done as much as in V5.

What is your favorite V6 memory? Steaming...discord being a thing.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! -dary

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Handler Name: Laurels

Your Trademark Character: You tell me.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Nadia and Noah are dead, and Alba’s pretty sad right now.

Favorite Character: Min-jae Parker

Favorite Weapon: It’s my own, but Sawlaska Thunderfuck 5000. For one that’s not my own, the mine.

Favorite Scene: Devil’s Choir

Favorite Death: Astrid’s.

Favorite Quote: I don’t remember any…

Favorite Post: I can’t think of one…

Favorite Location: The Connecting Bridge


Characters

Best Character Development: Brendan.

Best Game Impact: Isabel.

Best Innovation: Kimiko.

Best Realism: Coleen.

Best Heroic Character: I dunno.

Best Villainous Character: Everyone?

Best Tragic Character: Bryony.

Best Humorous Character: Michael.

Best Tactics: Whoever is still alive at this point, really.

The Sympathy Award: Blair, with recent events in mind.

The Empathy Award: Most of the cast.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Abigail, Bradley, Caleb, and Asha,

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Alvaro, Nancy, Alex, and Isabel


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Nancy just lost it.

The Stomach-Churner: Any Isabel torture scene.

Best Impact: Tina’s death started some shit.

Best Comedy: So much ham here it may as well be a chicken farm (cock of justice fight).

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Isabel’s death.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Most Bryony scenes, really.

Best Drama: Bridgette’s death.

Best Surprise: Darius’ death.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I’m good so far.

V6 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. Min-jae, Coleen, Fiyori, and Jeremy.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V6? There’s too many I like, and I’m usually wrong with this one.

How do you predict the ending of V6 is going to turn out? With a lot of tears IC and OOC.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V6? I’ve enjoyed it immensely.

What do you like the most about V6? Everyone is on their a-game, so every set of rolls are starting to hurt.

What do you think could have been better about the version? More wilderness areas or restructuring of some Danger Zones.

How do you feel about V6 compared to prior versions? It’s more intimate, but everyone is making every moment count since the odds of losing kids are greater.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? It’s been quite crazy so far, and I have no idea how much metaplot will play in, so I’m prepared for surprises.

How do you think V7 will differ from/compare to V6 and prior versions? I expect some newbies in V6 to really take V7 by storm.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6? For Nadia, How Easy it Was to Lie to Strangers. For Noah, any joke I told with him, such as I’ll Carry on when the Valley’s Deep. For Alba, it’s a tie between The Girl Who Owned an Island and El angel exterminador.

Which of your V6 characters was your favorite to write? Noah was my precious baby and I’ll miss him greatly, but I’m having a blast with Alba, so I’ll be okay.

What are you proudest of in V6? Really pushing my comfort zone in the types of scenes I participate in.

What do you wish you could improve? I wish I could have more awareness when I have lazy threads or threads where not much happens. I fell into a trap of thinking I’d have longer to write some kids and that led to periods of nothing happening.

What is your favorite V6 memory? Slinging the saw blade.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! The Pina Bucket Memorial Show will be held at the The Phoenix Bar and Lounge in Las Vegas this Saturday at 11 pm. Tickets are $15 for non-members and $10 for members. You must be 18 to enter and 21 to drink. All proceeds will go to the Whitley family. Scheduled performers include Odessa Arlington, Erin Grievances, Nora Easter, Jazz Melody, Raina Supreme, and Sophie Irse. For more details, email event sponsor Odessa Arlington at bitchfo'real?@gmail.com.

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Handler Name: NotAFlyingToy

Your Trademark Character: I guess Jeremy? He’s the last one standing right now.

Current Status of Trademark Character: Well, let’s see. Eebowai means “God,” and Hasa Diga means “...fuck you!” So I guess in English it would mean: “Fuck you, God!” (HASA DIGA EEBOWAI!)

Favorite Character: Gonna go with a quick top five here. Caedyn, Scout, Alex, and Coleen.

Favorite Weapon: SWWWWWWWWOOOOORDDDDDDDDDD-CAAAAAAANNNNN- oh its not in the version, nvm.

Favorite Scene: Another Story Must Begin. I’ve been really liking Maxim after the adoption and this thread basically takes a lot of the plotlines he’s had up until now and advanced them, so I guess I gotta give it to this thread.

Favorite Death: I didn’t vote it for BDA at the time but I’ve become a lot more fond of The Lagniappe as both a death and a kill. It draws itself out well - I actually learn new stuff about Caleb and Kimiko’s friendship - and the betrayal scene and what happens next was executed pretty well, so that’s my vote here. Honourable mention to Junko’s scene from the death side because I’m still sad it didn’t win BDA.

Favorite Quote: "THIS IS MY MOTHERFUCKIN' CAN OF SPINACH! THIS IS MY SHINING FUCKIN' INVINCIBILITY STAR! THIS IS MY GODDAMN ELECTRIC HELICOPTER COCK OF JUSTIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE, MOTHERFUCKERS!"

Favorite Post: Let’s go with the Michael double-combo. This post still amuses me.

Favorite Location: The Bell Tower.


Characters

Best Character Development: Coleen’s moved a lot as a person since she woke up, basically turning from a scared girl into someone who’s willing to face danger head on if it means doing the right thing, and she’s changed herself physically in order to do so. It’s good stuff. Check her out if you haven’t already.

Best Game Impact: Isabel/Nancy, for virtue of being the person who other people mention most on the island.

Best Innovation: I guess I’ll go with Alex here? We haven’t seen a lot of anything he’s done before, at least in main.

Best Realism: Toby Andreaason was fun and she seems like the best answer for this. Nothing in specific she just sorta struck me as this type.

Best Heroic Character: In terms of results, Scout, I guess. She’s the one who’s actually succeeding at taking out the villains so far so I’m going with her.

Best Villainous Character: Alex Tarquin. Great arc about becoming the mask and he does a lot of ideas as a villain that we’ve never really seen before.

Best Tragic Character: Everyone, I guess?

Best Humorous Character: Tie between Jerry and Enzo. Jerry Fury gets me to laugh hard when his jokes land but they don’t do so all the time. Enzo’s less funny but their jokes land and make me laugh more consistently.

Best Tactics: Junko had a pretty good grasp on the game and what to do and then she died.

The Sympathy Award: Ty. His reaction to Bernadette dying made me feel sad

The Empathy Award: The percentage of the cast that Laurels doesn’t emphasise with. They need love too

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: I’m still so dejected that Alex got rolled, you guys

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Yeah Isabel I think probably deserves it the most here.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: The Lagniappe, as mentioned earlier, especially since Caleb basically died for nothing (mehehe).

The Stomach-Churner: Bridgette didn’t really go out all that well.

Best Impact: Alessio’s two kills on Day Three had an impact on a lot of characters’ stories and basically turned the entire island against him in the space of a day, which I think is pretty impactful.

Best Comedy: I guess this one? Honestly IDK for sure.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: This one’s a little easier to make a choice on, though.

Best Feeling-Inducer: jesus ty

Best Drama: I guess this thread?

Best Surprise: fuck if I know


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Change rolls around so that certain people are still alive, I suppose.

V6 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. Random.org told me that endgame was going to be Asuka, Vanessa, Kiziah, and Ty, so let’s go with them.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V6? Out of those four, let’s go with Ty.

How do you predict the ending of V6 is going to turn out? idk

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V6? It’s been fun! Waiting for rolls is fucking stressful, though.

What do you like the most about V6? The tone. It’s a lot more lighthearted than V5 was, and the fact that most of the major villains are gone now means that it’s very easy that things can change, at this point.

What do you think could have been better about the version? hansel’s broken gun should have been a weapon and there should have been a hedge maze on the island

How do you feel about V6 compared to prior versions? Haven’t been in prior versions so I can’t really compare.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? its cool i guess

How do you think V7 will differ from/compare to V6 and prior versions? More people. Probably somehow even higher quality. Not sure what else other than that.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6? Honestly, nothing in particular. Just getting to do the things that I’ve wanted to do on island for several years now (such as Alvaro’s first kill and his death sequence, Jeremy’s first post and giving him development on his goals) makes me happy.

Which of your V6 characters was your favorite to write? Toss up between Alvaro and Jeremy. I’ll probably have an answer by the time the Endgame Hammers go up.

What are you proudest of in V6? Winning BKA, and then using that as an excuse to write the longest post I’ve ever written. Sorry, not sorry you guys.

What do you wish you could improve? For Alvaro, I’d change up Coming out the Closet - the way things ended up working out there meant that Alvaro ran out of material very quickly and made him start repeating himself. For Jeremy, I’d likely change up his third thread - nothing came up that was relevant to his story at the very end and I was mostly just sitting around confused on what to do.

What is your favorite V6 memory? Halloween Night 2016. May we never forget the sacrifice that Gilbert made that day.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! This isn’t the version of the song that I listen to most of the time but here have the villain song I’m loving most at this particular moment.

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name: CrossBowPig - CBP for short

Your Trademark Character: Unsure

Current Status of Trademark Character: Arthur is dead, Lili isn't.

Favorite Character: Coleen Reagan

Favorite Weapon: Sawslaka Thunderfuck. I mean, come on, no real contest.

Favorite Scene: Not well read enough, sorry.

Favorite Death: Either Jennifer for really setting the tone for me personally, or Caleb for fucking with my heart

Favorite Quote: "[silence]" - Kimiko Kao

Favorite Post: Again, not well read enough.

Favorite Location: The Bridge.


Characters

Best Character Development: Lily with a Y.

Best Game Impact: Alessio. Alvaro too. Both the 'Al's.

Best Innovation: Kimiko.

Best Realism: Jerry.

Best Heroic Character: Penelope.

Best Villainous Character: Alex Tarquin. Mustache twirling melodrama tickles my soul.

Best Tragic Character: Oh there are so many.

Best Humorous Character: Jerry also.

Best Tactics: Scout.

The Sympathy Award: Asha.

The Empathy Award: One of the great things about this version is that all these characters resonate with me, so I can't choose here.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Jennifer Su.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Isabel.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Nancy in general went insane, but Bradley tugging the spear will always stick in my head.

The Stomach-Churner: Conrad.

Best Impact: Also Conrad, a start of darkness that really went off the rails and when the game in general took a turn for the dark.

Best Comedy: Darius.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: The filleting of Isabel.

Best Feeling-Inducer: Bradley.

Best Drama: GLD and Fiyori locked in a room for several days is a god damn arthouse masterpiece of a film.

Best Surprise: Jennifer's death came out of nowhere for me.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? ANYTHING? Hm.....I'd make it so nobody went inactive because inactives are no fun.

V6 Final Four: Yeah I'm gonna pass on this one too.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V6? So many. In fact, almost all of them.

How do you predict the ending of V6 is going to turn out? I'll cry.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V6? I've enjoyed it a ton!

What do you like the most about V6? It was very intense. Very, very intense.

What do you think could have been better about the version? I think that there were some really cool character interactions that never happened due to rolls or shyness, so if everyone interacted a bit more early on some of that could have been avoided. But overall, that really means that the only thing I would say could be improved is fate, so, eh?

How do you feel about V6 compared to prior versions? I haven't really read the other ones all too much (shameful, I know) but I feel like V6 is the best yet. They get better each time.

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? Long, convoluted, crazy, and tragic. In a very good way.

How do you think V7 will differ from/compare to V6 and prior versions? Bigger. Better. Longer. Uncut.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6? Arthur's death. Harrowing, even.

Which of your V6 characters was your favorite to write? Lili is who I have the most enjoyment writing, but Arthur feels complete, in a very satisfying way.

What are you proudest of in V6? My quality of writing and how it's improved over the course of my tenure here.

What do you wish you could improve? I needed more direction early on. A lot of Lili's early stuff is just her wandering around aimlessly, and while that's in character, I feel like I was really just stumped on what to do.

What is your favorite V6 memory? First few months were intense, especially right around the start. It's my first version, so that level of chaos was completely new to me.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Thank you all. Thank you all so much for being yourselves and for being here. I love you all.

[+] This needs to be spoilered, trust me

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name: Cicada Days, AKA Cicada, AKA ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Your Trademark Character: Ben Fields! fuck

Current Status of Trademark Character: Not the best supporting character SOTF has ever seen. Nor close.

Favorite Character: My overall favorite characters manage varying combinations of all of: interesting narrative style and flair that fits and evokes the character, good plot ideas and development, and some amount of synergy with other characters they thread with. Tyler Yazzie (Empress Plush), Cass Prince (dmboogie), Scout Pfeiffer (Ciel), Lili Williams (Crossbow Pig), Fiyori Senay (Bikriki) and Kaitlyn Greene (D/N, RIP). This in no way means other characters also don't have a lot of my love, indeed some characters not mentioned outstrip some of these characters in some category or another, but the way my brain works there needs to be a balance of all things for my maximal reading enjoyment (I nitpick a lot when reading, in short, even when I like a character a lot), and my favorite characters will be characters that overall hit all categories.

Favorite Weapon: The false gun has been used to brilliant effect. Kudos to Pippin for Astrid Tate's dramatic attempt to kill her friend and promptly fail, the fake out of Michael Crowe by himself when trying to execute Alessio Rigano, and the trap that led to the duel between Alessio Rigano and Dorothy Shelley.

Favorite Scene: I had to muse back and forth on this some but then I realized there was a thread that expertly combined quality emotions and shit with quality action, quality characters, good(ish) pacing and the start of some of my favorite island characters... and an awesome fucking title. I admit I just partially wanted to harken back to an 'oldie but goodie' and be a special little Cicada and shit, but this thread drops some good ish my fam. Conrad and Clarice's nice emotional back and forth and the breaking down of their relationship, two good deaths started or finished (I either outright voted for Conrad or was very conflicted in not voting for him, that was masterful evocative pacing from RC), and the origins of both Ty and Clarice's solid 2 thumbs up character arcs.

Favorite Death: Mr. Seagull's. Now Michael is hit and miss for me but I believe the dramatic lead up to this very simple, very efficiently 'well he died and that's it' death was very perfectly paced. Jon and Michael were on point in the thread and a half lead up, the cute banter and philosophizing, the storyline pay off of Alex and Michael set so many days prior... And it ends perfectly, for me, with one line. Also I was miffed that I didn't get to vote it for BDA so I put it here. Also also Yugi's 'Michael Crowe: killed to death' mini-meme on the wiki earned my giggles.

Favorite Quote: I had to go with instinct on this one I suppose. First to my head most memorable, right? "Nobody cares about you, or me, on the island. Nobody. Everybody's selfish. (...) Sorry for talking too much. This must be painful for you. Arrivederci." - Alessio Rigano to Maria Cucinotta

This is almost perfectly paced dialogue as far as I'm concerned. Hits every beat I hear in my head while reading it perfectly. It's a very good quote for Al overall I feel, encapsulates the good, the bad, and the mundane about the character without being especially contrived. To me, at any rate. This was a good scene, not great, but this quote just won my heart.

Favorite Post: Okay so this one was one I am not definitively sure about, I really do not think I can with any certainty narrow down my favorite post to a single one when I value the back and forth between handlers in their posts a ton. But here. Jeremy/Alex was one of the things in V6 that most pleasantly caught me off guard and this post sticks with me as a very frank look at what Jeremy is capable of, an interesting sort of little moment of chilling villainy that I can still recall making me be like 'whoa' when I first saw it (probably via editing it somehow RIP me).

Favorite Location: The one-on-one therapy rooms! I just love the massive and clearly tracked environmental damage that has been done to the area, and my desire to fill the final room of the area with a fresh body remains as high as the rent. Old ass meme, I know. Cicada ain't funny when it's late and she wants to sleep (she's also never funny period, to be fair).


Characters

Best Character Development: Okay okay okay. Tough questions (all of them except the ones where I get to diss myself incessantly are!). For this one I'm going to be cheap and have two answers, because I realized there are two separate ways I wanted to qualify an answer to this question.

First, Jeremy Frasier (Yugikun). The devil here is in the details. The lots and lots and lots of details the majority of which I am the 5 dollar footlong ass sub bitch of (I gave the meme to u turtle i can take it away) because I edit this shit as often as I breathe atmospheric oxygen and shit. Jeremy is a lovingly detailed character where every thought and turn of thought is thoroughly detailed and examined. Not always to my liking, even, but I cannot even begin to deny that Jeremy's journey is a treat from beginning to end. The list is a brilliant framing device as much as it is sometimes clunky. We clearly see Jeremy's motivations change, slowly, surely, with each new encounter. It's raw, it's organic, every twist makes sense and Yugi does a very good chance of pushing it all on us. Jeremy is a vertically integrated character, with a lot of depth because of the amount of thought poured into every thought and action.

I'm going to go so far as to evoke my Jewel clause here. I only want one or two of a Jeremy per version. Any much more would cause a traffic jam of Manila proportions (Maraoone knows my pain gg rest in peace my beautiful rush hour warrior). But one is fucking great.

The other mention here shall go to Jordan Green (Randomness), and this is for what is functionally an inversion of scale and methodology on Randomness' part from the grand slog of Jeremy Frasier. Jordan is small. Not much happened. Not much even appears to change on a surface level. You really need to follow Jordan in depth to read through the tendency of his thoughts to be very realistic and thus non-indicative, and if you do you shall see a very subtle sort of change by... not changing, if that makes sense. His learning to trust and defer to Hazel in a healthy way as opposed to a 'well fuck she was the only one who would take me'... MMmmm, that is what I like, yes. Subtle. Powerful. Read Jordan BOYZ.

Best Game Impact: There are two major events that I think shaped significant chunks of V6's existing plot. The first is Rea Adams running into Alex Tarquin's machete spam (come back Spinnen :/ :/). Alex killing Rea directly sparked Alex's descent into contrived madness and Will's mad chasing of revenge. This indirectly and significantly influenced the plots of Michael Crowe and helped turn him further to the villain hunting that would influence Alessio Rigano, Audrey Reyes, Maria Cucinotta, so on... It influenced Jeremy Frasier, Jordan Green and Hazel Jung. It caused the death of Michael and Will eventually, it permanently shaped both Amanda Tan and Jonathan Gulley. It's a tight and well contained plot that carves a path across island on the days it's happening and is probably still wreaking havoc from such an innocuously troll kill.

The second is, as many people have already touched on, Isabel Ramirez being a sociopathic freak and running into an easy kill (sorry I mention myself fam) in Tina Luz. Isabel promptly learns she likes the rush of killing and goes on to become the island's biggest killer. In doing this she creates an enormous direct orbit of Lillian Caldwell, Dorothy Shelley, Fiyori Senay, Coleen Raegan- you all fucking know this everyone and their grandparents that don't play SOTF are aware of how many plotlines are directly or indirectly influenced by Isabel going H.A.M. Long story short people will probably still be killing and or waxing poetic at each other because of this one death come endgame.

Best Innovation: Tara Behzad. I had the pleasure of speaking to Grim Wolf personally on some of the motivations behind this character's creation and hot damn I'm still not entirely sure I have a full understanding of the depth of literary ambition within the scope of the SOTFverse. Tara does sometimes drag on me, but at the same time I appreciate so much that everything from her concept onward was designed to create this extremely unique and interesting flashpoint of simultaneous defiance and deification of SOTF from within itself. The Inferno remains a legendary scene for me (I heard u on the podcast Laurels u cannot hide from me u catch these handz :0), a reveal of massively epic proportions that gave me that ever-wonderful 'oh shit did u seriously just go there' feels.

Best Realism: Some back and forth here but I am going to give some shoutout to my boy Privyet and his sole character Matt Moradi. The thing about Matt that just wows me is the very realistic, homey simplicity to it all. There's even a tinge of casual disregard within his narrative that I like so much. It's just so realistically... blase, casual. Privyet has his timings down well, I think, and knows when how to keep Matt's character both literally consistent and very believable. One thing I noticed doing a little re-reading is how Matt does change somewhat, not like dramatically, but just enough to reflect the crew he's hanging out with. Very realistic, I like it a lot. I just feel like I know many a Matt IRL, and can put myself in his shoes because the prose just seems so down to earth and 'this is what it is, no literary mumbo jumbo here' friends. I enjoy it for what it is and it just feels nice.

Best Heroic Character: Kiziah Saraki, a fragrance by General Goose. Oi, so like. Kiziah's prose remains to me the most realistic and relatable depiction of 'holy crap this girl is purity and peace definied', and we also see a nice little moment of character where she's frustrated with Clarice Halwood yet she's still like 'yo I got a plan and maybe it'll work or at least I hope so'. Her plan from the get go is a good middle ground of various 'lets try to somehow not play to the terrorists' plans, and I think for Kizi both internal motive and external actions just align very well to make a very definitively heroic character.

Best Villainous Character: I am going to evoke one specific definition of villainy for this particular hammers. How much they make me despise them as the people I'd imagine them being IRL. We got a two-fer here because I couldn't decide shit.

Isabel Ramirez. Turtle's prose and Isabel's character are inherently snug as a sweater, shitty simile blah blah. I was from an early point actively rooting for the worst death humanly possible for Isabel (and we got a good one!) because goddamn Turtle just nailed her inherent selfishness, sadism, and lack of functional self-awareness (at least, when it doesn't benefit her). Isabel as a throwback to a V3 era villain seems to me more an update and refreshed on the idea, especially with the expert usage of an 'ally' in Lillian Caldwell to simultaneously humanize and dehumanize everyone involved and make me hate all of them more. Shout out to Medic as well, she played her role perfectly. Isabel was a big force on island, with an arc that while a bit inconsistent to start with became one I followed with relish when events started playing to the nuances present in her character.

Al Rigano, unlike Isabel, is not a sociopath so he gets his own special level in hell and some sorta pretentious epigraph lifted from Dante's Inferno, I'm sure. So like, fuck. The interesting thing about Al is that he is consciously aware of and actively committing his decisions to murder, always has been. I like to say Al has an element of modern 'nice guy' in purposely affected air-quotes tropes to him, and from Vanessa onward we see a very interesting character that pushes the conscious manipulation of characterization boundaries in a way that I love but also absolutely pisses me off in terms of 'holy hell this guy is terrible'. I buy his self-moralization and attempts at philosophy in that they are interesting, not in that they would fly with me for even a millisecond.

Best Tragic Character: Jonathan Gulley, Toxie. Let's count the ways. He lost the friend he trusted and believed in, the one who convinced him that there was a difference to be made, people to be saved. Realized his friends are assholes (lel Darius), lost allies over and over again when he was just trying to pull something together (cya Darius, Alba, Brendan, Candice). Gave up all hope. Found his boyfriend for the expected upswing in fortune that marks a good tragic character to me (build em up a bit, break em down some more). Said boyfriend makes him give up all his hope in a completely different way that sets him up for Alex ruining his life for good. Suffers multiple horrific dreams for it, and when all's said and done he's still here, still having to fight for... what? Do we even know as the audience anymore? Shrug. Anyways, what also makes it is that Toxie as a writer has a very good grasp of when to use and reuse his motifs ti effect. When 'he's right you know' reappeared... fucking damn, I loved it.

And fuck it 2 characters because I defy guidelines as if that actually wins me any points? I'm scrolling thru the wiki and shit, looking for stupid edits to make or whatever it is I waste my free time on when I see another good old boy with a 4 letter name starting with N that I feel compelled to shouts out.

So the thing about Nate is that he's also had a very turbulent journey, but internal, one that sort of has a very slow but clear progression with plenty of emotional feedback for us readers to get right into it. Hope and optimism, and then Alvaro does his 'local man ruins everything' and then Noah's going down and down. Slam carefully walks us through it, from his mistrust and general confusion with Asuka to abandoning her, a good hope spot with the cove one shot, then right back into the depths of despair. Nice touch returning him where he came from. Enzo's a very interesting character to have had the so far defining 'I can't even trust myself' breakdown with, and I like it a lot. Very personable, relatable. Bit of a quiet story, but people should not be skipping.

Best Humorous Character: Noah Whitley. I love how the many snappy and adorable lines that make me : ^) are integrated in such an integral manner into the character, in a way that is not intrusive but rather enhances the character and gives him many quotable moments. Like fuck, forgive me that as wiki editor I tend to truncate his lines because some of them are really good. Noah manages his emotional cues very well. He's overall a very hopeful and optimistic character and the humor plays into all of it without overwhelming or otherwise distracting. Strong, real, but still dropping some good ass quips. Good character.

Best Tactics: Alan Banks. Both Wolley and Zetsu's interpretations, and I'm being serious here because I have to be honest I don't think 'tactics' is something it's fundamentally possible to be solid on island with, there are just too many variables to account for, the chaotic conflating factor of announcements? I mean there are some characters who I think are solid in the tactics department relatively but fuck them let me just talk about my favorite shit here. Alan is like, contrived and trying to evoke elements of randumb rawr XD to his shit (both Zetsu and Wolley can feel free to kill me at their leisure for this being the best I could come up with as a descriptor) and it's this unrepentant approach to all situations that makes him fascinating to me as a character. It just stands out as working in it's own messed up way, precisely because it runs with the inherent inability of kids to control their environs for the most part on island, rather than trying to expend energy on trying to affect that status quo. I think it's actually something Alan could have gotten away with. He didn't and I should probably be taking that into account, but dammit it's just too interesting and fun to think about to ignore, this sort of 'the tactics is I dont have tactics' approach.

The Empathy Award (switched the position of sympathy and empathy because I accidentally swapped the two entries and I'm a lazy copypaster and also I just like making these hammers extremely dumb and hard to read: Poor Cass. DM has done a very good job of letting their (GET THE PRONOUNS RIGHT CICADA) mentality invade and sluice through their narrative prose and affect how they approach everything and anything, how that mentality affects their survival chances and opportunities. How survival honestly isn't even what's actually at stake but their mere sense of self and capacity for actualization on island. Or something along those lines. Cass draws my sympathy neatly because the deep rooted internal problems their narrative exposes run right into my own in real life I suppose. Some bias there. Everything Cass mentally vocalizes I can follow suit on, to a perhaps lesser degree.

The Sympathy Award: Zetsu's Asuka Takahara. The other side of the coin from Cass. Where I can understand where Cass is coming from with personal relation, Asuka I can understand and feel out without the actual similarity of traits. More parallel traits than perpendicular, I suppose. Asuka has a more... active mentality about her musing on her own suffering and suffering from her own musing? It's more consciously elucidated as opposed to Cass having a more inherent, instinctual aspect to their mentality... Or at least, that's how I read it. I also do this quite a bit and understand how social order and interaction breaks down due to the weight of mental burden and overthinking and... yeah. The narratives Cass and Asuka espouse hit me more than other's do just by sake of being more personally relatable on a fundamental level. I'm wew, I know. Don't rub it in please :0

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Kaitlyn Greene is the obvious as hell answer here because dammit everything D/N does is cool and interesting even if I somehow don't like it I still do anyways but... Nope, going with something else here. Two something elses.

Barry Banks. His character was Kizi-like as portrayed for me, an interesting and very relatable burst of hella internal narrative that portrayed a warm and caring young man. Consider the meta implications of the Jon/Barry duo never breaking up. That would be one more fully functional 'lets fix shit' team travelling through island, and how many more lives could have been touched, contrived sappy shit, etc. How he died... yeah, I would have loved to see that mentality propagating throughout island, influencing others. I dunno, Aura's had very interesting concepts for V6 and losing Barry early does seem like a blow to me that a lot of other early blows didn't quite evoke for me, I suppose.

Except for one because ayyyyy

SANSA COME BACk So yeah. Joshua's mentality... jeez. I mean Sansa's famous for doing stuff like this and apparently he considered Joshua the expendable one? And then it's like... so interesting. So much potential for a fascinating hero/villain turn portrayed in that death scene, and imagine that being drawn out and extended into a full character arc with little hints peppered here and there? Or maybe dynamic characterization shifting and putting a sort of mental break/expose on Sansa's original plan? Spoilers and shit (tho I guess not really) Sansa told me only one of his characters was intended to be the real villain of his cast. One could have been more neutrally depicted, one was more unambiguous. I would have loooooved for these designations to become more flexible if we'd had ourselves more Sansa for V6. :/

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Wayne Cox. This is in a meta sort of interpretation of the question guidelines, on top of the standard interpretation. Wayne was functionally a cowardly little shit for all of island but with the interesting mentality of guilt that was expounded on in very interesting ways. And more importantly, always seemed to be building towards what eventually did happen. I think Iceblock always knew this would be happening, right? So Wayne's death is a perfect example of a well timed death, and moreover the narrative always had this sense of rushing towards emotional desolation, destruction, death? He had it coming on literally every level, from moral to meta, and it just seemed so obvious to me on read and reread. I liked : ^)


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Note that I don't cry ever. But. To my dearly departed, Rene, from Blair (I'm dying irl its like 2 AM someone save me from the dumbass thoughts turning this into a full fledged ramble). This is more a matter of aesthetic, because I just love the idea of a slow death where all parties all fully conscious and able to quietly or loudly or aggressively reflect on an impending death. The pacing especially at the end was just neatly built up, resolved, concluded. The final two posts, deliciously masterful playing with the emotions I personally don't have much of but others probably do or something.

Yeah this is just to say that evoking a certain solemn slow-degrading sort of feel is better at making me feel the weight of tragedy than faster paced stuff, I suppose. Bonus shout outs to Jae and Dorothy both going on to die inside because of Asha's death and Amanda and Jonathan post Alex and Will maybe probably-not ending the cycle of vengeance. Not so much my speed but both powerful ass scenes. Oh, and ofc this but this scene doesn't need to be elaborated on anymore than it already has been.

why is it hard to pick things dammit

The Stomach-Churner: Disclaimer, written gore or disgusting stuff does not really affect me much. I'm measuring this by what generally made me cringe hardest. So... Jae meet Hazel. Ouch. Ouch ouch ouch. Soooo beautifully awkward. Poor Hazel. And backslash handled the emotional fuckery on Jae's end perfectly, the emotions that led to him having to run out and beat some random ass dude to death to vent. Just the sheer... aack, it's so bad it's good. Tasteful yet still beautifully terrible to witness, the first, best, and I guess still only sex scene of V6 (people get on it wtf). I cry, etc.

Best Impact: Multiple killers and arcs that influence other killers and arcs spring from this thread whose name I cannot put sounds 2 Nancy, the catalytic beginning-ish of the arc that would have Jeremy become Alex's big influence, Clarice (and her influence on Kimiko too, let's not forget!) and Conrad and the beginning of that shit, poor Barry, poor Jon, and Alvaro I guess but seriously while somewhat self contained Alvaro's arc did definitely leave it's own scars on island. So yeah, as a singular scene this also had a ton of portent.

Best Comedy: Like, it's also hard to make me laugh for long periods of time in writing. I can crack a smile from witty lines, but besides that I'm going to qualify this more by how cute and smile-y the scene made me feel. Soooo, lets go with -Lore's bullcrap leetspeak thread name here-. Dorothy and Lucilly for the one thread where they were together and one of them wasn't fucking dead as shit... so many cute lines, cute moments, that still didn't really sacrifice the characterization of either and allowed serious things to be said in adorable little ways (Dorothy is a master of this, props to Lore). Special shout out goes to Riki copy-pasting clap emojis in that one post, I am absolutely positive that's a dig at me yet also amazing and memorable because fuck u Riki

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Die Anywhere Else. Turtle likes to call this a clusterfuck but it was anything but as far as I'm concerned. Every damn participant was so on point. For... six ish people involved the pacing was fluid, every timing for every character is hit without one character arresting the overall momentum of the thread much. The action was clear and easy to follow, and I credit this to everyone more or less adopting a good call-and-response between posts. Someone does something and someone else responds. Simple in theory but still very appreciated, for me. Ciel, Laurels, Wolley, Turtle (<3), Lore (<3), Riki (i will kill irl) all get dem props like they a Hollywood set yo

Best Feeling-Inducer: The most potent emotion most threads from SOTF can really evoke in me is the AYYYY response so, hm... Well eh, I dunno. Furious compulsive IRL dabbing can be kinda triggered by some character's lines, Scout, Noah, Matt, fuck I dunno. Gonna have to cop out on this question because it's a bit too hard because I lack feels.

Well, okay. I have one answer. Something that actually affected me. It's a meanwhile. Dammit NAFT. This one hurt the rare part of me that can be hurt by mere words.

Best Drama: The Scarlet Garden is a pretty good one for this! Two distinct sets of (mostly) non-violent drama of confrontations with a very brusque 'IDGAF' character not given to many words, and somehow entire moments of characterization to follow for all parties involve pivot on what happened in that garden. Jae planting possibly really critical seeds of doubt between Caedyn and Jasmine while simultaneously driving Alba and Brendan closer together and solidifying that pact/shipping meme. All in very few words and actions. A very good exampled of the dramas, though of course there are plenty more! V6 was a very good version in terms of not so overt character development and non-violent confrontational scenes.

Best Surprise: More 1st thought because I'm tired damn.

Brendan's second kill. This was another specific example from Brendan of a good surprise (backslash having gotten them in general in her hammers with the general 'brendan more like brendamn' aesthetics) in something that does rather make sense within the characterization of our lovable loser, but is very well disguised until the last second and shapes everything forever more thereafter. The impulse of anger does make sense, Brendan in pregame struggled significantly under pressure. Like... I remember I guessed everyone except Brendan in the scene being the one who killed Bernadette? I'm bad, yes, but Prim is also very good. Thumbs up.


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? Change some rolls out so I die first instead of other people. Specifically I wish a few less villain or hunter figures who never really got a chance to strike out to full potential, like maybe Astrid Tate, Sandy Bricks, Tessa Mabes, Bridgette Sommerfield, Junko Kurosawa, Mitch Settles (rip inactive), Irene maybe... I want more people who want to be opportunist dicks or just dicks in general and maybe aim for a kill or a few to be running around dammit.

V6 Final Four: List them! This can either be an ideal list, or IC or OOC predictions. With all the characters currently alive, something that ties up a lot of possible lose ends in theory and creates a maximum swag endgame with plenty of possibilities all around...

Okay this is actually hard but maybe: Min-Jae, Caedyn, Jonathan, Brendan? This endgame implies Brendan somehow lost Alba and Caedyn either turned on Jasmine or lost her. Jon and Jae remain perpetually suffering. Jon hates Brendan hates Jae hates Caedyn and Brendan. Jon and Brendan also hate themselves and don't even want to make it but no way they want pretty much anyone else involved to make it either. Everyone glares at each other, Brendan says something awkwardly poignant, Jon still misses Barry and Michael but in a vaguely outwardly vengeful manner, Jae grunts with the collective ire of all his pointless high school years, Caedyn's like 'lel', people fight and die. Srs tho I think this would be a decent endgame.

Who of the surviving characters are you cheering on to win V6? I want a full on villain victory. Caedyn Miller please.

How do you predict the ending of V6 is going to turn out? I will make it way farther than I have any right to (it's actually already true as of now!), at least one more major multi killer will emerge to challenge Isabel's throne, Brendan kills at least once more under really questionable circumstances, Jeremy crosses off like three more items max despite making it to Final 10, at least one parody songpost occurs and it's probably RC's glorious fault, one heroic island Jesus figure be it Kizi or Penelope or Raina or, like, Nate having a random resurgence and doing something epic; one of them comes close to their plan and maybe executes it on a mini scale, thinning the numbers dramatically pre Final 10...

A tone of the endgame will be a bittersweet reunion of at least two people island seemingly split apart, the fake gun also plays a critical role in endgame, the terrorist who comes out to pick up the winner will be Boris with a sympathetic smile and a coat to drape over the kid even tho it's not cold, there will be one staff post detailing some behind the scenes US government shit, and the final hero card used will be used in the Final 10.

Literally none of these things is coming true, I am sure.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V6? I love V6! Reading everyone else's work is great and I have fun even if I'm not confident in what I've managed overall. SOTF invites so many different styles and provides a context for all of those writing styles to beautifully meet and make me rage about people using their verb tenses incorrectly.

What do you like the most about V6? Just how the community seems to be more happy to just read and consider everyone as a good character even if they obviously have favorites? Super high quality overall is nice! And the tone is a nice, compact, 'not so epic in scale', which leaves room for big ambitious ideas while still letting the little more mundane stuff I love thrive.

What do you think could have been better about the version? remove cicada or smth, and also, I agree with a lot of the others in the locations maybe not having been optimally planned, I would have liked to see a few more divisions of areas and some more outdoor areas.

How do you feel about V6 compared to prior versions? I wasn't in previous versions? Except I was, since I entered V4 a bit way back when. Character quality is way up, and people use way less paragraphs, which is nice. Brevity folks, brevity!

What do you think of the overall 'SOTF' story? Rip STAR! It will be interesting to see how staff transitions from here, and I'm excited to see that for sure. We could use a little more fluff for the new staff maybe? The library post with Josie was a nice touch, IMO.

How do you think V7 will differ from/compare to V6 and prior versions? V7 will see a couple of handlers really reach for the stars and go for the grandiose concepts and ideas while others scale back and do more down to earth lowkey stories. So overall the balance doesn't shift too much. The tone will be unified as a large number of cohesive plans implemented by our more dorkass members cause more definite arcs and ideas to dominate V7 until rolls tear it all apart, etc. I think there will be a modest newbie influx so the version will be larger by a comfortable margin.


Talk About Yourself (LOL)

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6? My Tina-Isabel thread and my Ben-Penelope two shot. Turtle is a nice writer to work with because she subtly tends to echo the person she's writing with. It's a hella synergy and she's super nice to work with! And also Good Omens with Rorick because goddammit Rorick and I had all the synergy in the universe and I still miss him being a handler! Honestly my favorite thing of all time was Where The White Boys Dance (Ben-Maxim) because yes that is a massively problematic thread and I am terrible for loving it but holy crap it was perfectly executed and some of my best writing IMO. Also this meanwhile because it was a beautiful spark of inspiration that was cute and fluffy enough for me to not totally hate.

Which of your V6 characters was your favorite to write? UGH

What are you proudest of in V6? At least sort of gelling wit the community and not outright doing something stupid and terrible but I still have half a version there is still time boyz

What do you wish you could improve? Alright so. Let's focus on Ben. Problem with my writing is that I think I lost track of the fundamentals of writing in a quest to constantly push a warped sense of 'this is what my character is'. I tunnel visioned onto motifs, and still managed to forget the shit out of a bunch of important things like characters to reference, blah blah. Partially a matter of scope, I think I pushed too much conceptually into Ben and it just leaves this blah mess full of half baked ideas and vapid language. I went two directions at once, too ambitious but not organized enough to back it up. Lana's Meanwhile I had to delete, similarly. Too ambitious, too much. I need to learn that less is more when it comes to characters, but of course I have to learn to correctly execute that concept because my idea of minimalism is suspect and tends to stick out and make Ben suck when he tries to play supporting to other characters because I stuff too much narrative weight into his thoughts and it's distracting/hard to parse, etc.

Overall there's a lot to improve. Work in progress I guess.

What is your favorite V6 memory? I like interacting and memeing, the folks I've chilled with even if it's not so much because I'm hard to approach and share few interests with the site at large! I also like the lead up to rolls. That shit come out fresh the oven

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!

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V6 Second (Endgame) Plastic Hammers

[+] V6 Second Plastic Hammers Part One

Ripped from the V5 endgame hammers just like the halfway ones were. It's almost like nobody wants to rewrite that introduction.

A quick reminder: the hammers are to celebrate the good stuff, by and large. There are a few places where we ask for criticism and the like, usually about the story/site/game as a whole. That's fine! Just don't take shots at specific handlers/characters here. There are tons of appropriate avenues for expressing criticism and disagreeing with others' opinions and such, so use one of them instead. Do not ironically vote characters you hate into categories you find unflattering; while the phrasing of the reworked questionnaire removes most of the opportunities for such things, it still bears repeating that doing so is verboten.

That out of the way, have at! For your convenience, the template is spoilered in code at the end.

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name:

Your Trademark Character:

Current Status of Trademark Character:

Favorite Character:

Favorite Weapon:

Favorite Scene:

Favorite Death:

Favorite Quote:

Favorite Post:

Favorite Location:


Characters

Best Character Development: What character development has kept you intrigued?

Best Game Impact: Which character do you feel has brought the most positive development to the game as a whole, outside their specific storyline?

Best Innovation: Which character has been a breath of fresh air for you?

Best Realism: Which character is really grounded in reality in a way you find appealing?

Best Heroic Character: Which good guy has you solidly on their side?

Best Villainous Character: Who is your favorite ne'er-do-well?

Best Tragic Character: Whose sad and inevitable fate have you most enjoyed lamenting?

Best Humorous Character: Which character made you laugh the most? (And MurderWeasel will smack you if it's someone doing it "unintentionally". Be nice in the Hammers. >:C)

Best Tactics: Through elimination of the competition or a solid plan for survival, who's kept you interested in their struggle to make it back home?

The Sympathy Award: Which character did you feel the most for, and most want good things for?

The Empathy Award: Which character could you most easily put yourself in the shoes of?

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Which deceased character should have stuck around a little longer?

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Who best earned their (possibly still forthcoming) demise?


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Which scene or death made you the most teary eyed?

The Stomach-Churner: Which scene or death has most effectively played with the gory/violent/overall disturbing side of the game?

Best Impact: Which scene or death do you think best played a positive role in changing the course of the game?

Best Comedy: Which scene or death served as the best comic relief?

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Which scene or death had the best action going on?

Best Feeling-Inducer: Which scene or death provoked the best emotional reaction from you?

Best Drama: Which scene or death had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

Best Surprise: Which scene or death caught you most off guard in a pleasant way, either through its unpredictable nature or its unique execution?

Best Meanwhile: Which off-island scene was your favorite?


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V6?

How do you predict the ending of V6 is going to turn out?

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V6?

What do you like the most about V6?

What do you think could have been better about the version?

What do you think of the overall SOTF story?

How do you feel about V6 compared to prior versions?

How do you think V7 will differ from/compare to V6 and prior versions?


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6?

Which of your V6 characters was your favorite to write?

What are you proudest of in V6?

What do you wish you could improve?

What is your favorite V6 memory?

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!

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[u][b]The Basics[/b][/u]

[b]Handler Name: [/b]

[b]Your Trademark Character: [/b]

[b]Current Status of Trademark Character: [/b]

[b]Favorite Character: [/b]

[b]Favorite Weapon: [/b]

[b]Favorite Scene: [/b]

[b]Favorite Death: [/b]

[b]Favorite Quote: [/b]

[b]Favorite Post: [/b]

[b]Favorite Location: [/b]


[u][b]Characters[/b][/u]

[b]Best Character Development: [/b]What character development has kept you intrigued?

[b]Best Game Impact: [/b]Which character do you feel has brought the most positive development to the game as a whole, outside their specific storyline?

[b]Best Innovation: [/b]Which character has been a breath of fresh air for you?

[b]Best Realism: [/b]Which character is really grounded in reality in a way you find appealing?

[b]Best Heroic Character: [/b]Which good guy has you solidly on their side?

[b]Best Villainous Character: [/b]Who is your favorite ne'er-do-well?

[b]Best Tragic Character: [/b]Whose sad and inevitable fate have you most enjoyed lamenting?

[b]Best Humorous Character: [/b]Which character made you laugh the most? (And MurderWeasel will smack you if it's someone doing it "unintentionally". Be nice in the Hammers. >:C)

[b]Best Tactics: [/b] Through elimination of the competition or a solid plan for survival, who's kept you interested in their struggle to make it back home?

[b]The Sympathy Award: [/b]Which character did you feel the most for, and most want good things for?

[b]The Empathy Award: [/b]Which character could you most easily put yourself in the shoes of?

[b]The Gone-Too-Soon Award: [/b]Which deceased character should have stuck around a little longer?

[b]The He-Had-It-Coming Award: [/b]Who best earned their (possibly still forthcoming) demise?


[u][b]Scenes and Deaths[/b][/u]

[b]Best Tragedy: [/b]Which scene or death made you the most teary eyed?

[b]The Stomach-Churner: [/b]Which scene or death has most effectively played with the gory/violent/overall disturbing side of the game?

[b]Best Impact: [/b]Which scene or death do you think best played a positive role in changing the course of the game?

[b]Best Comedy: [/b]Which scene or death served as the best comic relief?

[b]The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: [/b]Which scene or death had the best action going on?

[b]Best Feeling-Inducer: [/b]Which scene or death provoked the best emotional reaction from you?

[b]Best Drama: [/b]Which scene or death had you on the edge of your seat in the way of conflict, suspense, and drama?

[b]Best Surprise: [/b]Which scene or death caught you most off guard in a pleasant way, either through its unpredictable nature or its unique execution?

[b]Best Meanwhile: [/b] Which off-island scene was your favorite?


[u][b]Predictions, Preferences, and Positions[/b][/u]

[b]If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change?[/b]

[b]There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V6?[/b]

[b]How do you predict the ending of V6 is going to turn out?[/b]

[b]How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V6?[/b]

[b]What do you like the most about V6?[/b]

[b]What do you think could have been better about the version?[/b]

[b]What do you think of the overall SOTF story?[/b]

[b]How do you feel about V6 compared to prior versions?[/b]

[b]How do you think V7 will differ from/compare to V6 and prior versions? [/b]


[big][u][b]Talk About Yourself[/b][/u][/big]

[b]What has been your favorite thing to write in V6?[/b]

[b]Which of your V6 characters was your favorite to write?[/b]

[b]What are you proudest of in V6?[/b]

[b]What do you wish you could improve?[/b]

[b]What is your favorite V6 memory?[/b]

[b]What else would you like to share? Anything goes![/b]

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name: Laurels

Your Trademark Character: For this game... Alba Reyes?

Current Status of Trademark Character: In pieces.

Favorite Character: Picking someone I've liked the whole game, probably Min-jae Parker. Fiyori Senay is a close second.

Favorite Weapon: Sawlaska Thunderfuck 5000. I don't know if I'll ever be assigned a weapon I love as much as her.

Favorite Scene: My favorite scenes to be in were probably The Girl Who Owned an Island and Battle Royale. Favorite overall was probably Die Anywhere Else. Yes, I was in that one too, but the sheer magnitude required to pull that scene off was astounding.

Favorite Death: Going off what I voted for, my favorite would probably be Coleen's.

Favorite Quote: I can't recall any immediately, but I know whatever everyone else puts here will work.

Favorite Post: Same as above.

Favorite Location: I kind of like the Crematorium Chapel and Gardens.


Characters

Best Character Development: Fiyori

Best Game Impact: Min-jae

Best Innovation: Kimiko

Best Realism: Coleen

Best Heroic Character: Enzo

Best Villainous Character: Caedyn

Best Tragic Character: Brendan

Best Humorous Character: Michael

Best Tactics: Matt

The Sympathy Award: Bryony

The Empathy Award: Anyone who dies sad and alone, cause that's probably what'd happen to me in these games.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Abigail

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Caedyn, most definitely


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Brendan's death

The Stomach-Churner: Tara's death, my issues with the scene aside.

Best Impact: A lot of things came about because of Bradley dying.

Best Comedy: Serena running over Jerry.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Coleen vs. Alessio

Best Feeling-Inducer: Most of the late game suicides, like Enzo's.

Best Drama: Devil's Choir

Best Surprise: Not seeing Michael die was interesting.

Best Meanwhile: URGENT: Bartoons Missing? was an interesting one, as was Portraits and Stains.

Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? For the stuff that I personally could have changed, I probably should have done more with Nadia before killing her. Other than that, there's not much that I could have changed with my control that I would have changed.

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V6? It may a bit biased, but I'm rooting for my girl Fiyori Senay to win.

How do you predict the ending of V6 is going to turn out? Tight quartered combat, probably one quick death, one slow death, and probably a bit of a bleak ending for whoever the final survivor is.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V6? I enjoyed this game so much. I feel this was one of my favorite games to play, and so much better than V5.

What do you like the most about V6? For a smaller cast, it still felt really big, and every set of rolls killed off at least one person I liked. I feel everyone was really focused on the quality of their kids and made the most of them before they died.

What do you think could have been better about the version? Maybe more setting diversity since we had three major areas and not a lot beyond them.

What do you think of the overall SOTF story? I feel V6's has been interesting for pushing the story in a new direction by removing a lot of the older game elements. I think whoever wins will usher in an interesting direction and development for V7.

How do you feel about V6 compared to prior versions? This was the smallest main game, but it felt more intimate and treated, so everything was really solid across the board. I feel a lot of returning handlers improved immensely, and a lot of newbies adapted quite well.

How do you think V7 will differ from/compare to V6 and prior versions? I think people will be taking more risks with the setting and the characters, and I'm really hoping a lot of the returning handlers bring out some new ideas and try things they haven't before.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6? For Nadia, How Easy it was to Lie to Strangers for being such an incredible death scene to work out, with backslash being a joy to work with and Min-jae easily becoming one of my favorites for V6 and SOTF. For Noah... too many for the humor factor, but I'll Carry On When the Valley's Deep was such a dumb idea for a oneshot that I'm glad I did it. For Alba, the above Girl Who Owned an Island/Battle Royale for really challenging me in action sequences/kill threads/death threads.

For the version as a whole, All About My Mother. This Meanwhile was the most audacious thing I've done for the site, and probably as a creative writer. I really challenged myself to work on something over several months, and the fact I completed it at all still amazes me. I think the fact that I started uncontrollably crying when I published the last post, even though I was laughing to myself before I did, told me that this really was a personal project that mattered a lot to me, and that I was just so glad I got the chance to work on it.

And yes, I will find a way to make it a book. I wrote over 50,000 words in that thread, I've gotta.

Which of your V6 characters was your favorite to write? It's a hard tie between Noah Whitley and Alba Reyes. Noah was just me trying so hard to be funny and lighthearted in the game, but I also found Noah to be one of the most natural characters I've ever written. Every joke and reference came naturally as I wrote, and it told me I really knew who this guy was and the kind of shit he'd say.

Alba was someone I put so little pregame and thought into before the game, but once she was my last kid, she became my doll. She was so fun to explore and write. I felt really challenged writing her, probably moreso than anyone else I've written for Main. I'm sad I didn't get to take her to endgame, but I'm absolutely proud of what I got to do with her and what she represents for me as a writer.

What are you proudest of in V6? As I said above, completing All About My Mother and even getting people like backslash to feel from it.

Other than that, I feel really proud that there was visible improvement in my writing on this site throughout. I feel like I've grown a lot as a writer since the last Main game here, and I'm seeing the improvement everywhere. It makes me know that I'm really growing as a writer, and it makes me believe I can really transition into becoming a real writer someday.

What do you wish you could improve? I still wish I could think of arcs ahead of time or really be certain of the directions some kids should go. I changed a lot, and while that's not bad, there's still times I wish I could see ahead and know how to work towards it without feeling like everything is decided as I go along.

What is your favorite V6 memory? Pressing "Post Reply" on the final post in All About My Mother.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! Pina Bucket! Say her name! Pina Bucket! Say her name! Pina Bucket! Say her name!

Z is making me do it.

The Plastic Hammer Awards!


The Basics

Handler Name: Espi

Your Trademark Character: Blair Moore

Current Status of Trademark Character: So fucking close, in the one-on-one room.

Favorite Character: Min-jae Parker. Alba Reyes and Coleen Reagan for honorable mention.

Favorite Weapon: Sawlaska Thunderfuck 5000 the sawblade slinger.

Favorite Scene: No clue. Lots of great ones out there.

Favorite Death: Enzo Gatti, Astrid Tate, Caleb Diamond.

Favorite Quote: Too many, no ideas.

Favorite Post: See above

Favorite Location: I really enjoyed the crematorium sections. Got lots of mileage out of the garden/chapel.


Characters

Best Character Development: I like that Jae went from 'kind of an angry jerk' to 'a horrible person' without missing out on the in-between that made it a plausible change.

Best Game Impact: Penelope Fitzgerald just out of sheer effort to do good.

Best Innovation: Noah Whitley was unlike anyone else in SOTF, and he made it work. Also, Cass Prince and Enzo Gatti for being the first nonbinary SOTF kids and solid characters in their own rights.

Best Realism: Serena Waters was really grounded all throughout and I enjoyed her straightforward manner.

Best Heroic Character: Alba has earned her place among the SOTF Heroic Greats in my mind.

Best Villainous Character: Caedyn was pure evil, let's be real. Isabel too. Alessio gets special props for just being a pathetic scumbag.

Best Tragic Character: Bryony Adams was a pure and innocent child. Raina Rose plus Johnny McKay ended up this way as well.

Best Humorous Character: Noah Whitley was funny throughout, with special props to the deathpost side joke, and still managed to be a serious character as well.

Best Tactics: Nate surviving against all odds for so long gives him some merit here.

The Sympathy Award: I want to put Bryony in a pillow case and escape so she can be free and happy ;~;

The Empathy Award: Sandy Bricks was a jerk but he also really wanted people to leave him the fuck alone and I can get that.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Asha, Travis, Noah, Rene.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Matt had this for a while. Caedyn was this in pregame, somehow.


Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Caleb's death was very romantic.

The Stomach-Churner: Anything with Isabel. Anything. Also Jae killing Jon (eventually)

Best Impact: Isabel dying, Caedyn dying, Alessio dying, etc.

Best Comedy: Everyone's going to say the car death, but I actually think Astrid trying to shoot Penelope with the Bang! flag gun was the best thing.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Battle Royale, Die Anywhere Else.

Best Feeling-Inducer: How many times can I vote Caleb's death?

Best Drama: Caedyn/Fiyori. Coleen/Alessio.

Best Surprise: Caleb. Again.

Best Meanwhile: All About My Mother needs to be a book. 100%


Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? I mean, there's a lot of selfish stuff I'd want to change, but nothing for like, a good reason.

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V6? Jae has been my favorite all version, but Fiyori has some solid chops too. Nate's good, though maybe not winner material, but I might be surprised.

How do you predict the ending of V6 is going to turn out? I'm excited for it. Mostly I just hope delays don't kill the momentum. I have high expectations though!

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V6? It was by far my best version, and I had a ton of fun with it.

What do you like the most about V6? I liked that most of the cast was pretty memorable. In previous main versions we had tons of people who sort of floated around, and that was far less apparent here. Everyone was doing stuff.

What do you think could have been better about the version? Like Laurels said, I think the island was a little too cramped, since its torus shape and huge defining feature meant it was hard to justify certain movements beyond doing laps or staying in place.

What do you think of the overall SOTF story? I think the STAR subplot has interesting ramifications, and I think the V7 story might see some more unexpected turns.

How do you feel about V6 compared to prior versions? I was a little concerned about size at the start, but I think it turned out great overall as far as quality and connectedness of the cast.

How do you think V7 will differ from/compare to V6 and prior versions? I hope it retains that tight-knit aspect, but I wouldn't like to see it get smaller than V6 was. Just my feelings.


Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6? All my kids were fun to work on. I think in general having people like Jae, Alba, Fiyori, Bryony and so on really gave me a lot of energy to keep it up.

Which of your V6 characters was your favorite to write? Blair actually turned out as this, despite being my last concept created. I think I got into a real groove with her and I'm really happy with how she turned out overall.

What are you proudest of in V6? Not just making it past the halfway point unlike V5 and TV2, but getting to the top ten meant a lot. I also got heroed for the first time which was really gratifying. Generally I think my narratives were strong and developed and I think I did a decent job on the voice. EDIT: Also Heroing Jae was a really good decision and I'm glad I did it.

What do you wish you could improve? Henry really could've used more love. I think I just got a little stuck on his direction and never got to dig deeper there. Would love to have made him stand out more. EDIT: Also I wish I'd been more active at points.

What is your favorite V6 memory? Basically anything except for the parts where I was depressed. SOTF community is fantastic one to be a part of and I'm glad to still be around to play.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes! PIPPIN YOU COCKAMAMIE DOODLEPUFF (I kid, you are great forever)

[Grand Moff Hissa]

[+] V6 Second Plastic Hammers Part Two

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The Basics

Handler Name: Cicada(ss) Days/Nights/Afternoons/Meriendas

Your Trademark Character: To be honest, with how much I bash her as part of the meme and Lore doing a better job with her in SC2, Tina Luz.

Current Status of Trademark Character: worst title ever minus the ones i made with Red for blaine and rachael

Favorite Character: Ooh, huh. Thinking overall and pseudo disqualifying characters I already talked about at halfway I think I have to say that my favorite characters are the Isabel Ramirez and Lily Caldwell duo, and to paraphrase my earlier V6 Top Ten ramble on that they had such a massive and fascinating dynamic and they both had good death scenes; Matt Moradi and this probably needs absolutely no elaboration at this point with the simple addition of damn Privyet did a nice job with the death thread; Min-jae remains one of the best and most fascinating narrative voices in V6.

Favorite Weapon: The M18A1 Claymore. I was pretty sad and I thought it had been forgotten and then Laurels returns it in the biggest and most dramatic way possible. Totally caught me off guard, excellent death and set up.

Favorite Scene: probably too obvious but. So ultimately I really appreciate the ambition of this scene, to really turn Georgia and Fiyori into this slow burn, one area exclusive relationship and explore all the twists and turns of their very odd mutual fear and respect and loathing, with the narrative framing of Georgia's having stolen Fiyori to try and keep her down, and how both characters bring their own subtly narrative driving perspectives to the table. It’s a good read from beginning to end, and bringing Olivia in as a instigative element was a nice call.

Favorite Death: Hm I think I’ll shout out two here, actually. And like, there are so many I can talk about but these two stood out as unique for their quality writing, characterization, and brevity (I think I’m right now going through an extended life phase where brevity is one of my favorite narrative tropes (LOL RACHAEL)).

Clarice Halwood, to me, showed me the about right amount of verbiage you need to make a character more informa/casual/non-affected presentation which is actually pretty much Medic’s specialty as a writer now that I think about it. Good callback to what she did in the beginning of her island adventure post-Harold death, good use of the cameras (I always love camera play, I suppose!). A unique and interesting little idea and it’s presented so well, the pacing is super effective, it’s just a well packaged little scene. I remembered it very well in detail, long after the fact.

And Johnny McKay, off the also awesome death of Raina Rose. As I’m sure I’ve said before I really like the meta treatment of the uselessness of Johnny as a character, the little interludes of Johnny’s bird interests as off-tempo off-kilter interludes to make him seem out of place were well done, on top of his general melding into the background of scenes with Riki’s usual ability to make his language provocative and irreverent. Johnny’s death not actually directly saying he died just seems like a natural and effortless conclusion. Emphasis on effortless, because that feeling of only barely being there is really what carries the character so well for me.

Favorite Quote: “Why’s it so easy for you?” - Lily Caldwell, (not really) at Isabel Ramirez. About her, at any rate. I think this one ever so simple muttered line just effortlessly encapsulated the relationship of the two, it marks a turning point in our understanding as readers of Lily’s character (well, a point where the subtext becomes plain text) and it’s an effective sort of meta statement on what both Isabel and Lily as characters really fundamentally are in their stories and in the island at large. So I love it, pretty much, it’s still in my head to this day. It’s like, you don’t need to make big and sweeping and drama filled statements or anything like that. A few words can go such a long ways.

Favorite Post: This is really hard but my entire Hammers is essentially me try-harding like fuck to shout out things other people seem less likely to to so I went out of my way to find a post that was a little less obvious but still great. I was half tempted to post that ‘Arrivederci’ post from Alessio again because that moment was one of the highlights of all of V6 for me from a ‘defining character moment’ perspective but how about…

The Jasmine-Caedyn relationship was in my opinion one of the unsung brilliant narrative-framing devices of V6, albeit the two had relatively slow storylines but what scenes did play with them, whether separate or together, were always highlights for me. The dichotomy especially from Caedyn’s end was brilliant, of Jasmine meaning something to her all while being means to an end (of meaning something to her, perhaps), it was another not so little tidbit that helped cement Caedyn as ‘brilliant execution of a pettily motivated villain’ to me. This post just captures it all in one go, so smoothly. All of the facets of Caedyn’s relationship with Jasmine laid out, with contradictions from one line to the next and a profoundly disturbing closing argument in the final sentence. Excellent stuff.

Favorite Location: Still repping one-on-one until the day I die (soon) but I’ve also acquired an appreciation for other places due to people using them well. The flooding of all the basement regions has been used well, shout outs to scenes like the Clarice/Nate scene (the water drinking, nice touch guys) and the death scene of Jonathan Gulley. Min-jae is funnily the common thread between this area and the other place I’ve come to appreciate, the Bell Tower, with it’s history of impactful scenes such as the start of Jonathan dying inside everyday, a bunch of pointless bell ringing (well at least the first time it happened people noticed it?), a nice poignant moment of the Bryony/Alice/Sandra bioball story, the Jae and Jonathan fight which I appreciated for being dynamic and well paced, and who can forget Matt jacking off in euphemisms?


Characters

Best Character Development: Alright, though I’ve never quite been as much on her hype train as others have been I’m going to say Coleen’s development as a character was excellently done purely from a mechanical perspective, it felt extremely realistic in how each little turn and twist of her characterization into the next logical step for her mental and emotional state was handled. It was in a ways slow, as is realistic, with good internal dialogue that struck a balance between directly spelling things out and being more restrained, in general MK did a good job with restraint and avoiding the sorts of character shifts I’d see as overreach. Everything stays close to the belt, it’s an emotive and relatable story to read, beginning to end.

And I’m also going to shout out Blair Moore by Espi, after a bit of a slow start out the gate I got more and more impressed with her as the version developed. Loved her kill scene with Rene, probably low key one of my favorites in V6, but that aside. Blair also played things slowly and the slow burn paid off greatly, as an endgame killer and more amoral/ambiguous figure Blair really seems to fit, having grown into the role with Espi’s careful exploration of the aspects of her character that could be corrupted and warped, but in a gentle sense if that makes sense, one of the things that I love about Blair is that she’s consistent in character tone even as she becomes more and more willing to use force to enforce her changing perspective on the value of her own life. In fact she’s pretty much the same to the bitter end, but also significantly changed from her original perspective and mindset,that’s a particularly subtle methodology of character development that I love to see. Really, the usage of her cystic fibrosis as a constant narrative force and impact was excellent. Made for such an interesting perspective to explore.

Best Game Impact: Brendan Harte, with a specific moment in his killing Jeremiah Larkin. How many arcs did this particular kill touch? One simple and fairly rote death, a smattering of posts without too much emphasis from either killer or killed, but this turned into some of the islands most defining arcs: Crowe's turn to player hunter and promptly shaping the arcs of so many other major island killers, Nancy's arc as a killer, the shaping of Brendan's own arc which would have a clear impact on so many other island arcs. Ty and Clarice through Bernadette, Alba and Fiyori, Min-Jae (Brendan was a profound influence on two of four endgamers, I will argue until I'm blue in the face... hell, even Candice probably had one of her more meaningful interactions with Brendan in him abandoning her ass way back when), his back and forth with Jonathan and sort of defining one of the (many!) more hopeful-looking moments in his life (before it went to shit yet again essentially). Brendan Harte shaped so many people with his own molding, and shout outs to Primrosette for staying impressively flexible and working Brendan and his development as a character so fluidly into so many situations.

Best Innovation: Dorothy is such a weird character with… shit, dare I say it, a Melanie Martinez esque feel about her in how innocently disturbing her tone and narrative are carried, how Lore as a writer can make Dorothy feel like a complete character while not actually in anyway elaborating on her motivation or mentality, showing us things more on a surface level where Dorothy already shines as ominous, not all there as a person. The death scene was interesting point of view fuckery, there were interesting ambiguities like whether Dorothy was actually going more insane at the end due to a head injury… All around one of those stories where I’m not entirely sure what happened but it was an enjoyable ride from beginning to end.

Best Realism: I’m going to have to step back a bit and go back to a character I think slid a lot under the radar, Grim Wolf’s Eliza Luz. I’m honestly not entirely happy with how the Luzes were handled as a collective unit, I think some of them just didn’t live up to the potential of a large cohesive family unit even if they were strong as individual characters. But Eliza I think struck a nice balance in particular. She uses her family well as a nuanced and complex character motivation. She has the familiar excellent turns of phrase and heady language that Grim Wolf loves as a writer, but in a more subtle way that allows her to be super grounded and shine in how she’s a fascinating and very in-depth slow burn (that seems to me to be one of V6’s most common themes, characters were subtly developed to great effect as opposed to aiming for big, sweeping constant dynamism and malleability) with a very realistic, to me, internal narrative voice that is blunt but still captures the meandering of an internal stream-of-consciousness very well. Her death also felt like a realistic dualism between a more heroic impulse and a selfish desire to live for her own sake. She still sticks with me to this day, and she’s one of the characters I feel got unfairly lost in the shuffle.

Best Heroic Character: Noah Whitley to me was so solidly heroic, combining a light hearted tone with just enough dramatic weight and import to still make his heavier scenes have an impact, and for his actions and relationships with people like Scout to feel like strong exposes of what a good person he ultimately was. His regular shout outs home also helped, it felt like he had the most interaction with the outside world, which I personally think is an important humanizing factor. It sort of sets Noah apart from the other people on the island by more solidly connecting him to the world beyond the island, a sort of ‘I’m coming from a different place and this island so is not my jam’, which it really was not! Noah might have transitioned if it had been longer, there were small hints of it in his interactions with Scout towards the end there? But he more or less died exactly when he needed to, at the moment of the upswing in the war against one of the island’s most singularly destructive and diabolical forces, for his arc from beginning to end to really feel like a classic heroic tale.

Best Villainous Character: I could give several answers here but I’m going to shout out someone I haven’t seen a shout out for yet. Alessio Rigano was fascinating to me in the creativity of his scenes and the interesting nature in which he considered himself on island, a very realistic back and forth waffling on his positions, cowardice but one that rather than staying static was dynamic and presented a lot of interesting thoughts and positions of the character, his beliefs that justified his killings. Strong characterization and profound statements within the narrative, pretty much all I ever ask for from SOTF writers. Alessio from beginning to end had a lot to show, and it was all good stuff.

Best Tragic Character: Asuka Takahara. What can I say, characters hating themselves on an existential level always earns my regards. Asuka as a character brought unique levels of leaning up against the fourth wall via rhetorical question and direct shout out to the reader via 2nd person PoV, sort of inserting the meat of her thoughts into the actual mental process of the reader if even only briefly, I think it could easily get overwhelming but Asuka asked interesting questions and had such strongly dismal imageries that it was quite attracted to me, I bought in and I got a full sense of the depth of Asuka’s questioning, of her struggle to connect and find a reason to live, and her ultimate failure expressed in a very succinct death post that finally answered the questions Asuka had posed in a sort of anticlimactic but as a result satisfyingly bitter manner.

Tyler Yazzie as well, who probably got slightly eclipsed by Caedyn being Plush’s star of V6, but Tyler did a very good job with a slow descent into despair as an arc, especially because the majority of his island time was the struggle against it, up until his final thread and a half where things give out. It feels like a nice realistic timeframe, strong in how things are paced out, the real payoff of the arc is a reversal of Tyler’s spirit and intent, crushed and ground into the ground with beautifully apathetic prose, you can really get a sense of the exhaustion of the character on all fronts. Brilliant death to cap it all off, I like how Deamon and Plush chose to give Tyler the final word, and how empty and hollow a word it was, another one of those definitive character moments at the very end of it all with a great final line(s).

Best Humorous Character: Jerry Fury’s a fuckboy (not as much as Darius I guess, to be fair) but Jerry to me brings a sort of perpetual funniness that makes light of and parodies things while simultaneously being grounded and balanced by hints of the depth of the character, of Jerry’s cowardice and elements that hint at mental difficulties and personality issues that make him what he is. I’ve already elaborated on this some in my V6 Top Ten but I think what MK did very well here is strike a balance with what he was going for, he didn’t make the funny content overwhelming and one dimensional, there was balance and nuance to it that made Jerry a living and breathing character even while he was fucking ridiculous.

Best Tactics: Shouting out to that Benjamin Lichter by Malloon. What made Ben fascinating to me was that he brought a combination of ideas and tropes that I think played out in a unique way: he had an off-kilter and thought-provoking plan in causing a disaster and hiding in the aftermath to ambush the terrorists, it failed in a very realistically pointless feeling way, and he spent a loooong amount of time on the set up, teasing what was actually to come while making the focal point of Benjamin his character and it’s strengths and weaknesses in detail, as opposed to the plan itself. Essentially that means that, like Alan in Halfway, what drew me to the plan wasn’t the actual potency of the plan itself but rather how the plan was used as a narrative framing to make Benjamin’s character rich and interesting, as the pivot of his character with a clear before of ‘I’m scared and I suck but I got this’ and a clear after ‘I’m scared and I suck and now what’, that’s how I like to see game tactics play out, less a device to move plots and more a device to move characters in a unique and compelling way.

The Sympathy Award: Raina Rose gets a lot of sympathy points for Backslash having the usual narrative subtlety to wink at the audience via her flavors of slightly disaffected narrative tones and let us know ‘she’s full of it and she’s going to collapse into a failure having accomplished nothing despite her pretensions’ and it adds a good dimension to the whole arc when you can see it coming (I was calling her to bomb as early as her meeting with Johnny pretty much (actually fuck it’s obvious now Johnny and Raina being the useless brigade was collusion between Fogue and Backslash shit how did I not notice this)) which makes her all the more sympathetic, to me anyways. I like arcs that sort of have a feeling of inevitable drag in a certain direction to them, because they set up the intrigue in a broad tone beforehand and allow you to focus on the details and richness of character, of Raina’s character quirks like her impatience and poor predictive ability other imperfections that really flesh her out and make me think, ‘yep, I could have a friend like this or be this exact person and suffer like she did’.

Arthur Bernstein. Crossbow took his knack for compelling turns of phrase and imageries and toned it down into a subtle character who had the glimmers of Lili’s utter weirdness from a narrative voice perspective (and honestly as a character as a whole) but made more generally relatable and thus easier to really delve into as a reader, I think. Arthur has realistic motivations, an interesting hook in his younger sister and the peppered references to her, and he develops a strong relationship as a supporting character to Coleen that is compelling even through two or so threads of not too much happening before they both kick it. His internal and voiced dialogue alike is compelling and endearing without being overwhelming, that’s the sort of thing I like.

The Empathy Award: Johnny McKay. Uselessness and fading into the background is me IRL, Riki did a very good job on a meta level of shaping the narrative voice so Johnny did exactly what I think all of us have felt at points in our lives, phasing into the background and being alone with thoughts that are irrelevant as fuck to the current situation. Johnny’s encounter with Alessio in the gym is especially interesting because Riki managed to maintain this tone of character irrelevance all while being one of the only two major parties in the entire thread, and that’s impressive and a testament to the power of knowing how to write in a minimalistic manner. Johnny’s a good example of a character that is interesting without having much to say, everyone check that shit out.

The Gone-Too-Soon Award: Jane Madison. Man her character execution was just so slick, to be honest, I think enough time has passed to where I can openly say I wish Rorick had stayed on, but things happen. She had a strong tone, with efficient usage of her internal monologue- that was always Rorick's talent, he made good use of strong and convincing character voices that didn't need too much content and were paced well. Jane's inherent temper was always there, always used well, never overused with over-gimmickification of the premise, instead she was short, brusque, and to the point in tone and her death made good use of... okay, confession, I edited a lot of her final posts so. Bias.

Maxim Kehlenbrink. And no I am not just trying to say that Rorick's characters were the best, no that is just one of the things I am trying to say. Brackie's handling of Maxim was also strong, he maintained that interestingly detached and coldly logical calculating style Maxim carried for his time under Rorick but also expertly started unraveling the emotional threads. The three shot where Maxim shouts out Alex (again, my bias, I know) was one of the strongest character defining moments of the version for me, especially in how the tone managed to strike a balance between casual disregard and flip-flopping tone while also making the depths of Maxim's isms and hangups clear and using them to forge an effectively chilling and profound scene. I say Maxim went too early because I think in his slow build up he had a ton of potential, essentially he was still sitting on a lot of potential energy as a villain when he died and I miss that. I think he could have been a great subtle villain with aspects like continuing to try and play for sympathy, I wanted to see his misanthropy perhaps continue to develop. He went way too soon.

The He-Had-It-Coming Award: Isabel Ramirez is an obvious answer by my somewhat differently defined standards for this particular award but let's go for a somewhat unsung girl who was possibly her quieter equivalent: Astrid Tate.

What commonly defines this award for me is what gave it to Wayne for Halfway, essentially I look for characters whose arcs seemed to be designed to produce a feeling of karmic payoff, where the entire arc is making a certain suggestion, implying a point in how it is set up and narrated that hints to the reader that this one fate, probably ironic, shall be befalling the character at the very end. Astrid sets up her final downfall through sort of prodding and poking around the means of her motivation, how Pip makes it clear that she doesn't actually quite have the verve or ability to follow through on her threats. Her threatening and attempted shooting of Penelope is probably the dramatic high point, from there I always got a sense of drained tension, that Astrid was in some ways going through the motions and generally being implied as more ineffectual than she hoped to be. This of course plays into her final post, where for all her blustering and second wind and desperate struggle she's still put down like a dog, her narrative itself offering no proper resolution through my ever beloved 'just end it halfway through the whole scene' death. Astrid felt like she was entirely building up for that anticlimactic failure of everything her character supposedly represented, which is essentially perfect.

Scenes and Deaths

Best Tragedy: Aiden Slattery’s death, as much as D/N says he didn’t do a good job with Aiden. Of the 'I died for my friends' deaths Aiden made his the most meaningful and emotionally tinged by sort of ignoring the actual implications of his busily dying, he instead focuses on the journey, on what his friends meant to him and on thanking them one last time. That sort of outward focus in the moment of death always attracts me, it's beautifully poignant and sort of adds an upwards inflection to the tone of the death post, a positive thing to grasp at that just makes the end of the story all that much more meaningful and touching. The last lines, his last spoken line, they just kick me as a reader in the teeth a lil bit, it's like a nice little moment but at the end of the day the dude did die. Bittersweetness, essentially.

The Stomach-Churner: Ok this time around I’m going to actually properly answer the question as per the intended premise.

Penelope’s death was very disturbing on an existential level and caught me totally by surprise, I really did not see it coming and it probably had that much more of an effect on me. It was drawn out at a rough two-ish pages worth of proper death scene, which I think was a very good choice by backslash and Turtle as it seemed to me to really emphasize a slow and torturous pace. Raina played her role expertly as helpless, as did Johnny, and Penelope herself uses the inner hopes she’d carried in her arc- people as lights, for example- to really drive the despair home. I remember voting BDA in that cycle was hard but in the end this death came out on top, out of a bunch of good deaths this wasn’t necessarily the best written but by pure concept alone it just touches a nerve others don’t, it’s a soul-churner or smth.

Best Impact: For this I tried to contemplate all the major seperate island plotlines and the one character or few characters that seemed to have the most influence across the various groupings. Being me I failed, obviously, but anyways:

Jeremy Frasier’s first ringing of the bell. Nancy as a killer had a fairly disconnected arc that never really had it’s own major multi-character orbit (heck even Leslie, the girl she dropped dead, was motivated by Kimiko of all people) but it connects back to the bell ringing. The bell ringing ties directly into the Clarice-Scout-Ty-Bern-how the fuck did Brendan get involved in this one-messy tangle as it kicks off Clarice’s islandwide arc. Probably don’t even need to talk about Jonathan-Barry but there you go. Furthermore the bell moved all sorts of people around the island in subtle or not so subtle ways, a ton of people acknowledged it in their threads (and mostly failed to acknowledge the second bell ringing, rip) and changed their directions- away from the bells as a lot of people were like ‘shit dont go where the people are’ somewhat ironically considering only a few people actually did show up. The bell touched a lot of lives and even subtle ripples into a lot of seemingly unrelated arcs.

So what I’m getting at is that V6 deaths are Yugi’s fault.

Best Comedy: h e r e i n m y c a r. Actually ridiculous. It was once more a well balanced moment of interesting ideas, humor, and serious drama and import. I like how literally everyone had a dumbfounded reaction to some extent or another, it was so out of the blue but so totally brilliant and unique and everyone sold their parts in the thread well, expanding the seemingly random interaction/death into a proper thread that fleshed out everyone in the aftermath of a random ass hit and run. MK arbitrarily zooming out at the end for the fully no-character narrator's perspective on Jerry dying like fuck was also great, I liked how completely out out of place it was.

The Sunglasses-and-Explosions Award: Ok the obvious answer is Die Anywhere Else which to me is still probably one of the most on-point synergized threads in existence but I’m going to shout out another thread that wins my regards.

The Jerry/Travis showdown is excellent because both MK and Deamon are among our best action scene writers, so fucking duh, etc. Jerry manages to keep his humorously irreverent internals going all while keeping pace with quick and brutal description that plays well off of Travis’ own blunt and to the point descriptions, the action is clear and easy to follow. There’s just enough internal monologue to keep the character intrigue going up to the end, but the focus is on painting a slick action scene with good and clear description. An example of how to write this sort of thing well!

Best Feeling-Inducer: Michael Crowe’s final moments with Jonathan Gulley and his brilliantly anticlimactic death. The entire thread that leads to Crowe's death, heck the prior two or three threads, while a ton of handlercest are very good handlercest, with Toxie offering us plenty of interesting character moments in a variety of positive tones: defiant, romantic, innocent and so simple and plainly stated even being wrapped up in narrative tone both humorous and philosophically rambling. Toxie very expertly set us up for the high before the fall, building up the dramatic tension in the final thread before Michael died. Then hitting the audience with the ultimate gut punch of all. All this build up, all this glorious and noble posturing? Two sentences. Simple, effective, perspective disembodied from the character we'd come to love/hate/want to get in bed despite his shit hair/so on. He's gone. Grim Wolf offers some explanation after the fact but from Toxie's narrative it just ends there. It's a ping-pong from beginning to end, all sorts of emotions to feel, only to anticlimactically steal the rug out from under us at the last second. That's quintessentially perfect, to me. Can't top the previous work by getting even more dramatic (well if anyone could it'd be Toxie) so just go completely the opposite way, and wrap it all up like that. Brilliant.

Best Drama: So Battle Royale happened. The drama here is admittedly in part meta as fuck, because a big question going in would be who the hell died, with four endgamers who were all active battling it out for the coveted Top 4 swag, so on. The Alba/Fiyori dialogue does a decent job setting the pace, in a way to me it’s interesting that Kimiko and Jae barge in and from a structural standpoint are more outsiders, antagonistic forces who focus on driving the action while Fiyori and Alba provide a more character driven narrative. Dramatic as hell exit that I didn’t see coming, kudos to whoever in the thread proposed that. V6 was missing for explosions.

Best Surprise: The death of Cass Prince. See, like some other characters I'd been talking about above like Astrid and Isabel and Wayne I had certain expectations of Cass, that they'd be an entirely passive character to specifically make a point about how one experiences and creates art and how those tendencies can consume and destroy, generic pretentious shit like that but with Boogie at the helm making it all genius, etc. So Cass doing what they did, with quick and low content but high impact posts delivering the turnabout, that I loved dearly. I legit didn't see Cass having it in themselves but it all makes sense in hindsight, as part of the total experience of their character, its great, it's thought provoking, and it wins huge bonus points for catching me unawares and making me have to read it again and repeatedly.

Best Meanwhile: I liked a lot of the Meanwhiles, we had some very interesting concepts. Shout outs to Carry the Fire, I loved that concept. Also shout outs to Slam’s mailman, I loved the perspective and as per usual Slam delivers an interestingly profound yet down to earth tone in his scenes. Big props to the ambitious projects of BartToons Missing and All About My Mother, both more or less stole the show as far as Meanwhile goes and with good reason, they really both expand the worlds surrounding their characters. NAFT of course, in one of his few actual V6 contributions, handily ruined my life and made me sad forever, so on.

But let me tell you what the best Meanwhile by a country mile was.

What Red really and truly excels at is making utterly fascinating points and providing interesting completely off-the-wall perspectives in so few words it almost seems troll but it’s not because brevity is the soul of wit and Red has 200 fucking IQ. A cats perspective. Seriously, who would’ve thought? But in under 40 words the very simple but almost hauntingly poignant point about what happens to the people (and cats) left after we’re gone is just so effortlessly, sublimely made. I’m not kidding. Not even remotely. Red pretty much blew out of the water: all of Meanwhile, a good 60% of V6 as a whole, and every abortive thing I have ever written in my entire life. This is how you make an impact, people.

Predictions, Preferences, and Positions

If you could change ANYTHING that has happened thus far, what would you change? sticking with ‘remove me from SOTF’. Besides that in hindsight I am overall happy with how V6 developed, I think my point here would be that changing the death orders or whatever would make different interesting storylines, but not necessarily any better or worse… Okay, one thing. I would have rather Spinnentier not have been eliminated from V6 on their very first roll. That was fucking unfortunate, I still low key love Rea.

There are four remaining characters. Who are you counting on to be the overall winner of V6? Of the four remaining characters I think I’m going to root for a Fiyori Senay finish. Another girl winning SOTF, I know, but GIRL POWER

Seriously though, all our endgamers are pretty damn great but what I think Fiyori brings to the table compared to the other three is a more ambiguous potential. Bunch of threads that could play out as a winner, her suicidal intent, the people she’s loved and lost, but at the same time her whimsical nature and odd tendency to defy the odds and her own expectations and live… She feels less ‘complete’ than the others with the exception of maybe Candice, like there’s more potential energy to be had. So I’m making this call off the belief that she could bring more surprises to an epilogue than the others (though they could all have good epilogues of course).

How do you predict the ending of V6 is going to turn out? I expect Fiyori and Min-jae to exchange at least one set of epic quips if they don’t I’m adding backslash to the hit list right under RIki. I think Candice and Nate will be paired off, similar to Fiyori and Min-jae, but there will also be a fluidity to the final fight where Nate and Jae will also have a proper yelled and screamed and spit heart to heart while Fiyori stands to the side and acts weird and ominous in the background or some shit. I’m not going to predict death order per say but I do think one of the final standing two will be Min-jae. Sorry Zari, me saying that probably pretty much guaranteed the opposite is going to happen.

How much did you enjoy/not enjoy V6? I regret every word I ever wrote except that one cute Irene line with the hauling ass metaphor which is probably the only single decent bit of English I have ever managed to choke out on my own pretentious phlegm but besides despising myself for daring to subject people to my writing V6 was awesome!!! The one thing I didn’t like was a seeming lack of feedback and deeper character discussions but besides that, mmph, V6 was good. I loved the writing trends that seemed to exist, with more nuanced and slower developed characters and an interest in more realistic approaches to heroism, I feel like the version wasn’t at least ICly so dark as V5 even if everyone still fucking died. A ton of good characters, interesting Meanwhiles, overall V6 gets my thumbs up.

What do you like the most about V6? Really I just like how cohesive the island seemed to be. There were isolated pockets of action to be sure, but looking through the Death Order on the WIki there overall seemed to be cohesion to the order of action as people got whittled down, and I could clearly see the blossoming and dying of storylines in a logically dynamic way. I think this speaks to how people played into character relationships and integration of their own character arcs into others…

Even I’m not sure what I just blathered on about but the point is that V6 just seemed to be a good version to follow from a readers standpoint. Things flow smoothly, you can get interest in one storyline from following another, there’s plenty of chronological continuity, it’s just such a pleasure to reflect on what happened and think about it all in hindsight, which is a mark of a good literary work as a whole. So I find it particularly amazing that V6 evokes this feeling for me.

What do you think could have been better about the version? Agreement with Espi and Laurels! A more diverse island in terms of places to thread and directions our characters could have logically taken would have been great. I also think there was a relative dearth of meta engagement and interest in commentary, critique, and discussion. SC2 is way more lively in this regard so I am pleased to report that I am no longer worried about this particular aspect of SOTF dying and being weak, so on.

What do you think of the overall SOTF story? I think the new terrorists introduced have all been hits so far, sticking the landing with more interesting terrorist perspectives to offer. Most importantly to me actually is the general state of affairs including the fluffier SOTF terrorist perspective posts, and I've liked those as well, I liked that we dialed things back and offered more general building of the terrorist's world and themselves as individual characters. I think the progression is in a good place now to introduce the next chapter of SOTF plot twists and Jason Bourne rip offs (s2g if this one is accurate I rage quit 100 more times) because we've sort of reset the slate, so very good call on staff to pace the SOTF wider narrative the way they did before V7 hit us up.

How do you feel about V6 compared to prior versions? only version shrug

low key bring back v2 fuck y'all

How do you think V7 will differ from/compare to V6 and prior versions? I think V7's meta will be fairly experimental and we'll maybe see a major plot revelation about why the AT managed to come into existence in the first place, perhaps more perspective on the role of national governments, and perhaps a major expansion of the scope of AT 'to further develop my Main is going to turn into the past of SOTF-TV' theory that is totally accurate, something like it starting to expand to kidnapping kids from other nations or infiltrate governments/influence politics or something. In terms of the player base I think we'll have a small expansion to perhaps a dozen short of V5 numbers and we'll see more widespread relationship fleshing out. There will be more experimental works as a whole, I think V7 is going to be a pretentious as hell version and it's going to be great.

My off the wall prediction is that the fabled pregame murder will finally happen in V7 and it will actually be one of the most legendary scenes of all of V7, to rival the impact of the V6 sex-ed scene.

Talk About Yourself

What has been your favorite thing to write in V6? nobody even cares especially me

Which of your V6 characters was your favorite to write? they all sucked

What are you proudest of in V6? lol

What do you wish you could improve? this was probably my peak tbh so rip

What is your favorite V6 memory? totally editing Yugi’s crap guys, I loved it like the masochist I am kill me irl tbh

Seriously though, I’ve enjoyed the ride from beginning to end. My favorite moments however, will always be memes.

What else would you like to share? Anything goes!

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