Poll Results - Stripper Summons! (Patreon)
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Alright, folks! I know I only had it up for around five days, but the Stripper With a System Summons Poll both already had a remarkably high vote count and hadn't moved significantly for at least a day. I'd honestly have still left it up for another couple of days...if it wasn't for the fact that I'm done with the next two releases (bar editing).
With Confused Pokemon Adventure and the second Halfway Broken pretty much ready for their releases on the 12th and 16th respectively, the second Stripper With a System release of the month was the next up to be worked on. Sure, I technically could have skipped ahead and worked on the second release of Displaced Hero instead, but I honestly prefer the way I've been working. Having the next two stories already prepped reduces stress when I get stuck on something or life happens :-p.
As such, and with the poll not really moving anyway, I went ahead and closed it down so I could get to work on the update. On an extra note, this also let's me go ahead and put up next month's story poll (likely tomorrow), without having too much going on at once. That said, let's look at the results of the poll. To my shock and surprise...the horny didn't win this time!
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Bruce Wayne (DC Comics) - 38%
Motoko Kusangi (Ghost in the Shell) - 27%
Teressa Richter/Dragon (Worm) - 22%
Lucyna Kushinada (Cyberpunk) - 12%
Sage (Marvel Comics) - 2%
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While Motoko and Dragon took early leads, Old Bruce Wayne came up strong from behind and ended up dominating. Which means he's going to be the next summons...but wait, there's more! Because I did listen to the people who pointed out (honestly, rightfully) that most versions of Batman are going to have some issues with the bloodier parts of the Broker Network.
Now, this is an AU Batman, and not even all canon versions of him have had major issues with other people killing. Likewise, Rylia intended from the start to carefully alter the Broker operations to ditch anything super dark over time, while keeping morally grey stuff going. That said, I sort of agree with the argument that any version of Bruce you'd actually want running things would, in turn, want to make too many changes, too fast. Something likely to end up either getting them noticed or crippling the network's reach. More, Rylia's version of 'Grey' might be darker than he'd be completely suited for.
Soooooo, I came up with a solution. One I think will honestly work out well and, just as importantly, add something to the story/narrative instead of just patching a problem. What that solution is you'll just have to wait and see ;-). All I will say is that I'm breaking my usual rule of her only summoning one person at a time...