Chapter 17
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Tinks pointed out that most people here haven't been through a voting Games before and might not know how I do them. So here's this chapter and the next one will actually be what it's supposed to be.
It's pretty simple:
Before the Tributes go into the tubes, you all send me votes on who you want to live and who you want to die. You get three living votes and three death votes. Life votes and death votes cancel each other out, so a Tribute five people voted to die and three voted to live counts as two death votes. I kill them in order of their votes. I go by chapter, so you can update your votes or keep them the same with every chapter. I suggest PMs so as not to ruin the suspense. You can send as much or as little explanation as you want with your votes. I try to leave enough time for people to vote. If I really want to write another chapter but not enough people vote, I just won't kill anyone that chapter. If it takes too long, I might estimate what would have happened in the case of someone who's voted the same for the last three or so chapters and the characters voted for haven't changed in the chapters since they voted. You can also specify you're going to be away from the computer for awhile and set your votes or put conditions, like "I vote for Steeringwheel to live unless he kills someone while I'm gone".
Two exceptions I can think of:
1. A creator can at any time cast one million votes for their own Tribute to die, thus killing them. This would seem to be useless but it actually has happened once. In that case, you can make last requests like a certain death or a sendoff scene.
2. There is one designed Bloodbath and one other character where I don't know who it is yet but I know will die in the Bloodbath (that will make sense after said character dies). Those two are going in the Bloodbath because in the first character's case, the creator doesn't want them to win and in the second character's case... it'll make more sense when it happens. I can tell you now, though, that the second character will not be missed and definitely would not have won.
I'm not sure how to do sponsors yet, but I was thinking I'd go with my newer system. Everyone can send one lifesaving item and one whatever item to each of their Tributes EXCEPT Careers who get two lifesavers because they have lots of sponsors. Since this is a voting Games, I was thinking I'd also add that whenever the mood takes me, I'll ask for votes on who should get sponsored. The winner will get a gift the value of which is based on how many votes he got and by how many votes he won.
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