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The choices above have been created from readers’ suggestions to the previous chapter. This poll will be up on the site for about a week. At the end of that time, the choice that has the most votes will become the basis of the next chapter. Anyone is welcome to vote, although you must be registered and logged in to do so. You can only vote on each poll once. You can discuss the voting choices below, or try to sway people to vote one way or the other.
Ok, here's the poll,which I tried to incorporate from people's answers.. if you want to add anything, tell me...
Anyway, right now I'm going to make a promise that the next chapter, The test, will be very polished and very studied...Tell me what you voted for. Hmmm, looks like this poll will also be hard like the last one...
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I voted the intelligence and skill route. However cool and historically correct the staring contests were, that would not make for a very exciting chapter. 
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Hard choice because we don't know exactly what his weakness or strengths are. Why can't we test them all out?
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Rw- Simply because it would take too long, remember there are many samurai that will want to be hired, especially masterless ronin. Also because after one test, they'll probably know that there is going to be another one, and there won't be any durprise in it.
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I voted the intelligence and skill route too, although passing on the pie fight took every ounce of will power I had.
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| Anonymous wrote: | Rw- Simply because it would take too long, remember there are many samurai that will want to be hired, especially masterless ronin. Also because after one test, they'll probably know that there is going to be another one, and there won't be any durprise in it.
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I know that. But it is really hard to choose just ONE test. Oh well I go with the whichever one goes with trust.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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 what do you mean "go with trust". Are you a hippy if you dont mind me asking.
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I am not a hippy, no. I just happen to thinking about the first option.
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| I will be voting for the test and skill part...it is the best way
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| Anonymous wrote: | | what do you mean "go with trust". Are you a hippy if you dont mind me asking. |
Out of curiosity, what would being a hippie have to do with anything? Hippies were proponents of peace, free love, and fighting the government. Trust had nothing to do with that.
Just curious as to where the analogy is coming from.
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I had the same reaction. All I know is that that question came totally out of the blue.
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There seems to be a tie... Hey RW, don't you like hard options? It would be stupid if the optiions were really simple....
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Gracias chico.
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| i choose the staring contest. It seems so weird, and i never heard of it b4, so if you write about it i will learn something new.
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De nada jovencita, espero que me entiendas.
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Comprendo, chico. Su espanol es bueno.
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I'm looking forward to seeing the result of this one. A close vote, with a lot of options.
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Me entendiste Raven wing? Como? Mirando en el diccionario? Tu Espanol es muy malo, pero yo lo hablo bien porque soy de Espana.
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Que! No es mal!!! No soy de Espana, si, pero tomo espanol en el colegio. No necesito un diccionario cuando estoy hablando. Cuando solo estoy escribiendo. Ahora, estoy hablando. Espero que tu comprenda que yo he escrito.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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haha, not bad for a begginer, I must say.
Hmm, if someone else would vote, maybe I could tell if everybody agrees on one thing- if you know an active member in this site, please tell him to vote, thank you!
Any day in christmas vacation I'll actually maybe be home for an hour and maybe able to write the next chapter...
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I dont know if what D and Ravenwing were talking about was revalent to the topic or not, but i dont habla espanol, so i have no clue what they said.. but i guess that dont matter 
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| Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:14 am Post subject: |
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| Well, I started yesterday, and I've done half the chapter (although the chapter is not nbig, it will be poliashed....)
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Good I like it when a story is poliashed.
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Hahahaha good one D.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:02 am Post subject: |
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Sorry Mordok, but it's christmas vacaton, and I don't feel like sitting around in a computer typing, I'm only checking in now to see if anyone wroter anything..... I'm too young to make it my responsibility to write stories, but I promise I'm trying. I am being inspired by this book called Musashi Miyamoto. It's great!!
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Allll....moooossst....there.....alll....moooost... done...
Story will be up by today, tomorrow, monday, tuesday, wensday, thursday, friday, saturday, or Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This story is better, more complex..... I don't know, it's just taking me longer to write about the Way of the Samurai and Kihachi's feelings and al that....should I introduce a love story?I'm also having problems fixing up a decision, so I'll probably end up doing a bad end....
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Don't worry Big D. Going through the same problem as you. I just posted a first half, and then said I was going to post up the second half soon enough. Meaning it would be a week. Good luck!
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Hahaha. It looks like we are all trying to raise the bar on our stories. Thats great. While I look forward to both of your stories, I would rather wait and have something good, than get a weekly installment of crap.
Its great that we all want to better our stories. Keep up the good work.
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The same to you Mordok. I think a lot of us here would like to write just as well as Keavney. His story is excellent, and is definitely something most of us would like to try and achieve.
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Actually, I was hoping to compare my self with someone like Tolkien....  Oh well. No, really, I'm almost done. I did 6 pages, and still going. I'm not looking forward to polishing it... I'm at the part where someone is telling a story. Unfortunatly, I'm not good at giving characters characterization and details, so it's just normal speech. I had problems, but I finally figured a good way to end the chapter for votes. It also corresponds with Kihach's fellings.
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Maybe I would try the same, but not Tolkein, what he writes is too dull for me. Too much description of scenery. But for now I just want to see how far I can go and do well.
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OK, tomorrow night, 5th chapter, the second response ( I always get a kick out of naming chapters) will be up, with it's full eight pages. As far as my knoledge would go, this is not a weekly piece of crap. I also wanted to adress a small problem. I decided to change the date of the period from the late 13th, to the early 17th century(as you can see I changed in chapter 1). I hope this is not a problem to anyone, but it suits the story and my purpose for the story better ( not that anyone is really caring...I need support, please....  ). It will change the ending and some of the middle, but nothing else. Now that I remember, Ravenwing kept saying
" God, it's been so long since I heard the About the Meiji reformation..."
Actually, in the 13th century, the Meiji's were way off, as I have found out. Sorry raven wing, but the 17th century is the flowering of the Tokugawa era. The meiji restoration was not until the 1800, and by that time, samurai were getting shot down by guns, so I think you were somehow confused. Oh well, anyway, I'll lock this chapter soon, so post up!
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| Test fidelity by making him swear that he has to always fight against the bandits, then tell him that the bandits only want to bestow a great gift on the village, and see if he still will fight, like in McBeth |
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| Test skill by fighting with wooden swords (this option will also be carried with the others that say that they will test skill, vote only for this if you ONLY want to test skill) |
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| Test endurance and trust by having a staring contest, whoever draws ther swords is unworthy |
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| Test intelligence and skill by giving them a hard problem to solve, and skill by laying in wait , so when they come inside the door, they'll be hit if they have no skill and don't react. |
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| And hrrrmmmm...well..Testing sillyness by...having a pie fight (although this will be very costly, to buy all those pies...wait, did Japan even know what a pie was back then?) |
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