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Survivors (Patreon)

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2020-04-04 18:11:19
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2026-06
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OK, I *promise* the next thing I write will be short and sweet.

So I wrote another frickin' novella. For those of you wondering, "why isn't Ice Bear posting anything when he's stuck in quarantine," the answer is because he decided he'd start four different projects simultaneously and then fixate on the longest one of them until completion. In case the title didn't make it clear, Survivors is the sequel to Losers, the novella I wrote back in February or so about Chanda and her friends being lottoed off to their classmates. It's of similar length, so brace yourself. Whew. I'll probably put it up for sale as well, but you guys are so great for sticking with me that I'll toss it your way no further questions asked.

Thanks so much to all of you who've had kind words or feedback on The Gamemaster's Screen! I've almost recovered my expenditures on cover art, so... yay? If you feel motivated to do me a solid, feel free to post a review on Amazon or Smashwords, that'd be tits, yo. (Or if you hated it, feel free to do me a solid by not reviewing it! :D)

Coming up, we got some commissioned pieces from our drawing winners, all of which I'm excited about but at least one of which I am super duper excited about. I'm going to make it my mission this month to make being stuck at home a little less tedious for everybody, and give folks something to focus on other than that one thing. I hope you folks are all healthy and hanging in there. Very best wishes, and more to come.

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J

Well that answers the question of "where is ice Bear" :) Hope you are safe wherever you are!

Ferrum1

Gotta say, I was very happy to see this come out. Rather disappointed in the short length of it, but what's a fella to do? Had Chandra been changed? No? Who can tell? The twist makes for fun reading and I'm already looking forward to the next dozen chapters. Hopefully they'll be a lot longer than this one. ;)

ukyo_rulz

I *knew* I was forgetting something! There's been so much content being pumped out by all the authors I pledge to that that "Gamemaster's Screen" completely slipped my mind! No worries though I picked it up from Smashwords now. (Thank you Ice for making that option available) I'll post on here again with comments after I've read everything. But before that... are there actually people on here who *prefer* shorter stories? Just... why?

ukyo_rulz

So I am back, having read through this. Would it be a reach for me to say "Called it"? I feel like I predicted this plot direction (at least partially) in the comments to the last one. Anyway, I gotta say I enjoyed this chapter way more than the previous. I'd already mentioned all the little things that bothered me about the concept in the previous chapter and there weren't any new problems with world-building on this one so I could just relax and enjoy the story for what it was. The best part of this was the sheer variety in characterization, not just in the losers but also the winners. In the previous chapter it kinda felt like all the winners were interchangeable, and the losers were just personifications of various fetishes. This time around we see that while some losers are completely air-headed bimbos others retain varying levels of ability to think. We see that while most winners are gropy assholes some of them are just... guys. My favorite scene was probably the one with Jake at the ice cream shop. This one made so much more sense to me than the cinema scene in the last chapter. This is a world where guys take girls for granted, so it makes sense that they just act like... dudes. It evokes a world where men just don't care about how women might react to what they say or do. They don't go crazy over hotties dressed in next to nothing because why would they? This is all shit they've seen before. It's basically a world where locker-room banter is the norm, because men and boys have no reason to act any differently with women around. In the last chapter I also mentioned my disappointment that the boys were seemingly going about the whole lottery business quite inefficiently. Why was no one trying to apply game theory or statistics to this? Nowadays I've come around by realizing (or rationalizing to myself maybe) that we simply wouldn't run into those guys in this story. They wouldn't give a shit about Tiffany or Chanda. They would have known that blowing tix on hotties was a bad move. They're probably still working on all the uggos they won, putting those poor girls through the world's most most intense workout regimen / beauty makeover. That is, perhaps, a story I would like to read as well but it's *not this story* and that's fine. So yeah, great work on this one Ice. I'm officially looking forward to reading what comes next.

R Masters

Man I was so excited to find a sequel to Losers, I had no idea that you had published it. If it had appeared on Amazon I would bought it in a second. This edition is one of my favorite pieces of your writing due to the protagonist Chanda. Watching these events from the perspective of a woman dealing with the indignities of society rather than from a man benefiting from them gives an extra zing to the story, which I think sometimes lacks due to your preference for fairly passive male protagonists (like Aaron!). Chanda is a great character and I'm loving her development. Great work.