[1][Plan] Miss Locks
[2][Plan] Fishing
[3][Plan] Baker's Brat (Merchant Listener)
[4][Plan] Foreman
[1][Season] A pleasant scent of blooming trees is in the air.
[2][Season] The dry leaves you landed on crunch as you move slightly.
[3][Season] At least it is a warm night.
[4][Season] Hopefully someone finds you soon, no matter their intention. You will not last long in the snow.
[1][Season] A pleasant scent of blooming trees is in the air.
[2][Season] The dry leaves you landed on crunch as you move slightly.
[3][Season] At least it is a warm night.
[4][Season] Hopefully someone finds you soon, no matter their intention. You will not last long in the snow.
I do, but since someone will always do the voting in separate posts, I need to take care of this anyhow (by tallying for each topic separately), so it doesn't matter.
The same is true for Reincarnation of an Angel.
[4][Season] At least it is a warm night.
[2][Season] The dry leaves you landed on crunch as you move slightly.
[1][Season] Hopefully someone finds you soon, no matter their intention. You will not last long in the snow.
[3][Season] A pleasant scent of blooming trees is in the air.
This demonstrates the usefulness of preference voting perfectly: The current winner is Miss Locks, before your vote it was tied with Fishing. (Using Kemeny-Young.)
How it can happen, how I deal with it or how you can rank two options equally?
1) E.g.
Person A: [1] Bla, [2] Ble
Person B: [2] Bla, [1] Ble
2) I'll either ask for a tiebreaker, see what other voting systems say or compare how far from each other they are placed in the different votes (manually).
3) I updated the second post after I decided to allow this.
Edit: Oh, sorry, I thought you quoted a different post. You obviously meant the last point.
However, I just noticed you ranked two options equally before that anyway?
[3][Season] At least it is a warm night.
[2][Season] The dry leaves you landed on crunch as you move slightly.
[4][Season] Hopefully someone finds you soon, no matter their intention. You will not last long in the snow.
[1][Season] A pleasant scent of blooming trees is in the air.
[1][Plan] Miss Locks
[4][Plan] Foreman
[2][Plan] Fishing
[3][Plan] Baker's Brat (Merchant Listener)
*Begins rereading the changeling the lost game books*
Well I was somewhat... obsessed with the subject matter at university, the setting just seemed so rich and detailed with sufficient suffering and horror to satisfy to my sense of realism.
I never did manage to get my hands on a copy of Swords at Dawn but I have the other seven volumes in hardback. *blushes*
[2][Season] At least it is a warm night.
[1][Season] The dry leaves you landed on crunch as you move slightly.
[4][Season] Hopefully someone finds you soon, no matter their intention. You will not last long in the snow.
[3][Season] A pleasant scent of blooming trees is in the air.
[1][Plan] Miss Locks
[1][Plan] Foreman
[3][Plan] Fishing
[2][Plan] Baker's Brat (Merchant Listener)
[1][Plan] Miss Locks
[2][Plan] Fishing
[3][Plan] Baker's Brat (Merchant Listener)
[4][Plan] Foreman
[1][Season] A pleasant scent of blooming trees is in the air.
[2][Season] The dry leaves you landed on crunch as you move slightly.
[3][Season] At least it is a warm night.
[4][Season] Hopefully someone finds you soon, no matter their intention. You will not last long in the snow.
So, just finished my (more or less) last exam for the semester (got an A, somehow).
Anyway, I'll have time for this quest as soon as I'm home....somewhen between 22:00 and 00:00 CEST.
Voting will end then.
Season:
Condorcet Winner:
[] A pleasant scent of blooming trees is in the air.
This is also the Plurality Vote winner (i.e. the most common first choice).
No one placed this option last.
The most commonly last listed candidate is
[] Hopefully someone finds you soon, no matter their intention. You will not last long in the snow.
Which is also the Condorcet Loser.
Only two people listed this one first, all others last.
(I'm kinda interested why this one was so unpopular.)
Among 9 votes, 5 were unique, with the most common preference orders having 4 people voting this way.
Without @Katsuyo's vote, there actually would be an order for single-peakedness:
[] At least it is a warm night.
[] A pleasant scent of blooming trees is in the air.
[] The dry leaves you landed on crunch as you move slightly.
[] Hopefully someone finds you soon, no matter their intention. You will not last long in the snow.
(Meaning...well, I'm new to interpret those, but it seems people always put summer & winter at the outer ends.)
4
1,A pleasant scent of blooming trees is in the air.
2,The dry leaves you landed on crunch as you move slightly.
3,At least it is a warm night.
4,Hopefully someone finds you soon, no matter their intention. You will not last long in the snow.
9,9,5
4,1,2,3,4
2,4,2,1,3
1,2,1,3,4
1,3,1,2,4
1,2,3,1,4
[] Plan Miss Locks
-[] It had only been a year since you began your apprenticeship as a locksmith in 1422.
--[] Name: Dorothea 'Edmund' Holtzer
--[] Age: 12
--[] Gender: Female
--[] You were taken in by the master locksmith in place of your twin brother, who had run off to parts unknown. To avoid the brutal fines for breach of apprenticeship contract, your parents cut your hair, dressed you in his clothes, and passed you off as your brother. Fortunately the master had started growing nearsighted by the time you started, and you THINK he had yet to catch on yet.
[ ] Plan Foreman
-[ ] For more than a century the construction of the Stephansdom has been in progress. (Middle to late 15th century.)
--[ ] Name: Hans Puchsbaum.
--[ ] Age: 48
--[ ] Gender: Male
--[ ] It was your responsibility to see the construction to its end, and to do so faster than anyone else could. That is what you had promised to get this position after all.
[] Plan Fishing
Only an hour's walk outside of the city, you lived at the shore of the Danube.
Choose one:
You are the fisherman's daughter.
After your mother's death, you took over most of her duties at home, including taking care of your younger brother. At least you would make a good wife, if you ever found a man willing to marry someone in your position.
If allowed, write-in: You've also done your best to make sure you know your way around as many things as you can - from making nets to pottery, even sometimes helping your father with the catch if it was necessary, you're an extremely hands-on kind of person.
[] Plan Baker's Brat - Merchant Listener Edition
It was the year of the lord 1212 and as long as you remember, you lived in the bakery in the Schönlaterngasse.
Choose one:
You are the youngest son of the master baker.
Less driven and less minded than your older brother, you have learned the basics of your father's craft, but spent a lot of your time on the streets.
A bit modified (is that alright, @Unseelie?): You also found a lot of other things more interesting than baking, and dreamed of doing anything but with your life, even if you're slowly getting too old for dreams. For this purpose, the part of your lessons that probably went best are your numbers and letters. The street's also given you a decent command of differing languages that merchants (and their kids) use, mostly all the languages spoken along the Danube. You're pretty good at picking up languages, if you dare say so yourself. Your family's got Hungarian roots somewhere back, so you're especially strong in that, but languages in general are your forte. Unfortunately, any brawling skills you have are probably the opposite of existant - most older boys had fun teaching you ways to throw punches wrong, or stand wrong, so often they're engrained in your memory - but you did learn when to run away. Occasionally.
Fill in:
Name: baptized Johannes Bäcker, but more often called Hänsel or János - prefers János over Johannes over Hänsel.
Condorcet Winner:
[] Miss Locks
This is also the Plurality Vote winner (i.e. the most common first choice).
Only two people placed this option last.
The most commonly last listed candidate is
[] Foreman
Which is also the Condorcet Loser.
All options were listed first at least once.
Among 10 votes, 7 were unique, with the most common preference orders having 4 people voting this way.
Preferences are not single-peaked.
Condorcet.Vote
There are several weak orders among the votes, use of Democratix is discouraged.
(The upper spoiler has 4 votes removed, the result is therefore not representative.)
I am not well read in statistics, but I can explain my choice in season since I belong to the majority who preferred moderate temperatures.
Winter was last for me because it would have been an immediate survival situation. I don't really want to start this off with a struggle to not die when we don't even know who our character is going to be.
This is why my first choice was Fall. It's going to be cold, but we will have a bit of a grip on the situation then.
Spring second because I am annoyed at Summer right now.
ETA: My metagame ranking for this is incidentally my own ranking for favorite season.
Winter was last for me because it would have been an immediate survival situation. I don't really want to start this off with a struggle to not die when we don't even know who our character is going to be.
Hmm, should have phrased it differently.
Winter was actually the option that would have gotten you to a hospital the fastest, people are more likely to call an ambulance when someone is lying passed out in the snow.
(Well, it also depends on how old you look), which is incidentally part of the next vote.
[][Season] A pleasant scent of blooming trees is in the air.
[][Plan] Miss Locks
Plans listed above. (With pictures.)
A bit of truth in every myth,
and myth in every truth as well.
So too it is for this locksmith,
where much is known, and more to tell.
Was it back then? It is not the last moment you remember, but this seems to be when it all began.
You were apprenticed to master locksmith Eberhart back then. Good old Master Eberhart. It was only thanks to his bad eyes that you could take the place of your twin brother. How he was so good at his craft without seeing anything is still beyond you.
Surely he could not have known. As good as a teacher he was, he always strictly adhered to the rules and expected the same from others - you can still feel the beatings he gave you whenever you were late for even just a moment¹.
No, strict old Master Eberhart would never have accepted you replacing your brother, even if you were not a girl, and no matter the circumstances of his disappearance.
[][Brother] Of course you knew as well as everyone else that he probably just ran away.
[][Brother] Despite what everyone else seemed to assume, you knew your brother would not just abandon you.
Trying and failing to remember his face, you finally fall asleep.
Ding-Dong! Ding-Dong!
The evening bells are heard in the distance, marking the impeding closing of the city's gates. You won't be able to reach them in time, your cart of clay is too heavy and you would surely need God's greatest blessing to withstand your master's anger, if you were to come back without the materials he requested.
Diligently as you usually are, you had went out on your master's behest, but when you reached the fields in front of the gates, you saw some boys playing and they invited you to join their game. It wouldn't matter, you told yourself, there was still enough time and you could gather the clay faster than Master Eberhart expected you to anyway. Just a few short games and then you would go.
Of course it did not work out like that. When the sun sank, the other boys went home and you were left to fill the cart that had stood at the side, unheeded for the last bell.
Huh, the "other boys".
[][Gender] It had been natural to assume the role of a boy.
[][Gender] You are getting better at pretending to be your brother.
[][Gender] Write-In
Write-ins so far:
[][Gender] While assuming the role of a boy did not quite fit, girl never did, either - and at least people stopped assuming you were completely incapable as long as they saw you as a boy.
[][Gender] How natural being a boy feels depends; at times, it feels thoroughly wrong and unnatural, at other times, it's the most natural thing in the world.
I do not know if your gender will play any important role, nor if I'm able to portray...any gender, really, accurately. There's no reason not to let you vote for this though.
(I know the plan already said "Gender: Female", but there's a reason I specifically asked for the sex of the character in the plan templates.)
There is no specific timespan for write-in creation, if people voting before do not update their vote, your write-in is simply considered as being placed last by them. I still retain veto rights, but I'll probably only use them if you post way too many different options.
At least in one thing you were right, gathering they clay was fast. Getting it back to city less so, and when you reached the gates, they were closed.
Spending the night outside is not something you fancy, but still doable. What is not, is explaining to your master, why it took you an entire night to get him his clay. Frantically you are looking around, someone might have lost a kreutzer² you could use to get in, but alas, no one was careless enough with their money today.
You know trying to reason with the guards was a futile endeavour - they had strict orders not to let anyone in who could not pay the gate money.
Wallowing in your self pity, you suddenly hear a voice from your side.
"Oh, my child, why are you crying?"
You look up to see a strange little man standing next to your cart. Smaller than you even, though obviously grown up, with a face the colour of someone who spent too much time in the sun, without being used to it.
"Would they not let a hard worker like you in to rest?"
"No, not without having a kreutzer," you answer.
"Ah, but that is no reason to cry," the red-faced man continues, stepping closer, "it is a warm day, a strong young lad should be able to spend a night outside, no?"
Watching him, you consider what you should say. Talking to strange, unfamiliar men was something your parents always warned you not to do, but if he wanted to attack you, he could already have done so. Not to forget, he is tiny, and you have built muscle in your year as apprentice.
Like this you decide the worst that could happen is for him to ridicule you, so you answer him. "It is not only that. My Master, he will be furious, if I'm only back in the morn."
At that the man smiled. "Do not worry, my child. I know a good lad when I see one, let me help you out. Just be sure to always visit mass on Sunday!" And after a pause he added with a teasing tone, "Or else I might just have you pay me back."
Again you open your eyes staring into the unusually bright lamp, quickly averting your eyes.
For a moment you wonder where you are, before realising that you must have dreamed about your childhood. You are not sure how much time has passed since then, but looking at your body, you had...changed, your appearance is not quite human anymore, though you do not feel as surprised about this as you maybe should.
Actually you are more concerned about how old you look.
[][Age] You seem not to have aged more than three years.
[][Age] Write-In > 3 years.
Write-ins so far:
[][Age] You assume that you have aged ten years.
[][Age] You seem to to have aged about seven years.
This is purely about your physical age. How much time has passed for you subjectively is completely unrelated, except that it's also at least three years.
Write-In rules as with the gender vote. I'll add those to the OOC Information post.
As you finish your inspection, you hear a gaggle of drunken sounding voices coming closer. Too far to be intelligible, but loud enough that they probably woke you up. Trying to get to your feet, you find yourself able to do so, though unsteady.
[][Voices] You sit down and wait. People might be able to help you.
[][Voices] Leaning to the wall, you decide to observe. If it seems like they could be helpful, you can talk to them.
[][Voices] Walking away appears to be your best option. With how you look, you do not know how people might react.
If not explicitly asked for (as with gender and age), write-ins are still allowed with my approval.
Did the lamp grow dimmer as you slept?
Please give suggestions to how Dorothea looks like. Pictures are appreciated but not mandatory.
This is not (yet) a vote.
I actually planned to include the entire legend here, but this seemed like a good point to stop.
English is sorely lacking a future subjunctive.
Also I spent way too much time looking up medieval timekeeping and how to write out sounds.
I assure you all, the red-faced man will never lie. That does not mean that he tells the truth.
I do not have a beta and, honestly, I was to tired to proofread myself (it's about 7am here). If you find any mistakes, please tell me.
[1][Brother] Of course you knew as well as everyone else that he probably just ran away.
[2][Brother] Despite what everyone else seemed to assume, you knew your brother would not just abandon you.
[1][Gender] You are getting better at pretending to be your brother.
[2][Gender] It had been natural to assume the role of a boy.
[1][Age] You seem not to have aged more than three years.
[1][Voices] Leaning to the wall, you decide to observe. If it seems like they could be helpful, you can talk to them.
[2][Voices] Walking away appears to be your best option. With how you look, you do not know how people might react.
[3][Voices] You sit down and wait. People might be able to help you.
No image yet, going out soon. Will toss one in if I can find time
EDIT:
Google gives a lot of Naotos apparently, maybe this?
[2][Brother] Of course you knew as well as everyone else that he probably just ran away.
[1][Brother] Despite what everyone else seemed to assume, you knew your brother would not just abandon you.
[1][Gender] You are getting better at pretending to be your brother.
[2][Gender] It had been natural to assume the role of a boy.
[1][Age] You seem not to have aged more than three years.
[2][Voices] Leaning to the wall, you decide to observe. If it seems like they could be helpful, you can talk to them.
[3][Voices] Walking away appears to be your best option. With how you look, you do not know how people might react.
[1][Voices] You sit down and wait. People might be able to help you.
