The official unofficial SV female lead Isekai contest: Story Thread

[BiopunkOtrera]

All Entries are under spoilers, or as sent to me if they were already spoilered.

Please vote like a quest, by putting an [x] and the stories title in a post.

Voting opens on 5TH OF JUNE at 23:59 GMT

Note 1: If you notice any content against board rules please tell me and or a moderator promptly, I've not been able to review everything cause you guys are all too productive.

 

[BiopunkOtrera]

Going to close the vote and calculate the winner in 20 minutes.

 

[BiopunkOtrera]

Voting is now Closed.

 

[BiopunkOtrera]

FINAL SCORE

WINNER: Falling Far (From The Tree Is Fine, but This Is a Little Extreme)



Full Score Sheet
Falling Far 72
Record of the Inherited Memory Girl's Efforts 50
Hereafter 33
All the Stars in the Sky 30
Travel 29
The Urban Barbarian 23
Love and Cats 22
All Roads 19
I am the human! 19
Blooming Afterlife 15
Lonely Dreams 15
More Sophisticated Magic 14
Chrysalis of Capgrass 14
Work Hard, Play Hard (I reincarnated as a living doll?!!) 13
So this is my life now, being a living battery in an unknown world: 12
Return from Isekai: A blade in the dark – Emma 9
Death Maid of the Revolution: 9
Afterlife 7
Ushinawareta Shoujo Sophia 6
Shiny 5
Harvest of Heather 5
Princess and the Student 4
Scars 4
Almost a Nightmare 2
World 2

Everybody Wants to Rule the World 1

If I missed anything or fucked any numbers, point it out, but Falling Far has an incredible lead so I'm pretty sure about this result even at 2 AM

 

[GreatWyrmGold]

19th place out of 35 isn't terrible, especially with how rushed the final product was. And I don't think any of the ones I really hated were in the top 18, so that's good. (Though I am rather close to some of them...)

 

[Winged Cat]

6th place. Better than I was hoping for. Like I said, life intervened so it was an accomplishment just to get in a complete story on time.

Even if that did mean the ending was rushed, which people picked up on.

 

[Lyova]

First place. :lol Thanks to the organizers and everyone who participated.

 

[jseah]

Given the various critiques of mine (Inherited Memory Girl), I do wonder why/how people decided to vote for me.

Was it all just First Post effect? =(

 

[Madou Sutegobana]

When the branch burned she went back to being the tree; each time she broke she came back as something smaller and more broken until she burned. The tree was her main body and the branch was a part of it. When she let herself get turned into wood for a ship it meant that when that ship dies the tree will be a stump, by the time she returns the stump will be dead because their isn't any way to gain energy. She isn't dead just yet but she gave up her only respawn mechanic in the hopes that a slave girl would be left on the ship rather then sold.

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But she still has the upgrades she bought as a tree, which includes control over branch growth and germ seeds.

I hypothesize that she could grow a new tree out of the wood of the ship.

 

[Anzer'ke]

Given the various critiques of mine (Inherited Memory Girl), I do wonder why/how people decided to vote for me.

Was it all just First Post effect? =(

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Sorry to say, I've been assuming so.

My entry was crap and I'm amazed anyone voted for it, but there were several entries that got less votes than yours but struck me as almost inarguably better.

However another factor to consider is that quality doesn't correlate perfectly with popularity, hence why people like complete shit sometimes. Oftentimes the idea and theme and so forth can be a serious factor, and you were one of the ones that went pretty straight down the line of an Isekai story. Combined with sci-fi opening and being in the first post (meaning readers came to it without the fatigue of slogging through dozens of entries) and I think a lot of the votes can be explained.

I'm not trying to be mean or anything. It certainly wasn't hopeless, and I'm certain you could refine it into something better...but in my opinion (and that's all this is at the end of the day) your entry did not deserve to place as highly as it did.

Then again, as I said above, neither did mine. Public voting has its flaws, just as any method of deciding the best entry would have.

 

[Madou Sutegobana]

That said. I'm probably scrapping that extra. Critique here has been really helpful and I think I want to make some changes to the core of the wrong in light of it.

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My entry was crap and I'm amazed anyone voted for it, but there were several entries that got less votes than yours but struck me as almost inarguably better

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I don't want to come off as pushy. I am not telling you what you should or should not do with your writing, but if people enjoyed it and would like to read more of it, what's the harm in letting them?

To reaffirm, it's your story and if you want to trash the rest of it, it's yours to do so. It's just, you could be wrong about it being crap. You might be biased in a negative way towards your story. It would be a shame for a decent story to be trashed.

Edit: I quoted the wrong post in the wrong thread - I only just now realized we were posting in the Story-only Thread!

 

[Triggerhappy]

However another factor to consider is that quality doesn't correlate perfectly with popularity, hence why people like complete shit sometimes.

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There's also the fact that some things just resonate differently with different people. Part of the concept of death of the author, after all, is that people read into stories things which the original writer may not have intended or even thought of. People can hold stories that are wildly beloved in contempt. Or they can admire something in a work that is broadly regarded as mediocre or outright bad.

In the case of Inherited Memory girl, which I am actually irritated came in above me, sorry, I say without ego that I believe my story was better, the advantage came down to first post and the fact that it utterly played to expectations of the Isekai mold.

The combination, I think, won it second place. I don't mean to be an ass when I say that. But there it is.

 

[GreatWyrmGold]

Might I say that I find it amusing that Inherited Memory Girl, despite being repeatedly described as fitting very close to the isekai mold (moreso than most of the entries), is one of the few where the protagonist technically stays in the same world?

 

[jseah]

BTW, if anyone would like to continue their story in a separate thread, could you please post a link back to this thread?

Even better, could @FBH then edit their story entry to have a link to that thread?

In the case of Inherited Memory girl, which I am actually irritated came in above me, sorry, I say without ego that I believe my story was better, the advantage came down to first post and the fact that it utterly played to expectations of the Isekai mold.

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Yeah... being a 'standard' isekai with 'worldbuilding fixes' was pretty much what I wanted to do with Inherited Memory Girl. I don't have much problem with the isekai premise as a whole (MC in an unfamiliar fantasy world with or without a cheat); but I DO have a problem with how many of them treated their storylines and their setting.

I set out to write Hero's War to fix what I thought was wrong. And when I didn't match my own expectations with Hero's War, Inherited Memory Girl was conceived.

Based on the like count and that graph of likes vs post order someone made, I feel like my 'true' points is something like half or a third of the actual.

Might I say that I find it amusing that Inherited Memory Girl, despite being repeatedly described as fitting very close to the isekai mold (moreso than most of the entries), is one of the few where the protagonist technically stays in the same world?

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Actually, if you recall way way back before most entries were more than a few sentences on a page, I asked if 'reincarnation from the same world' was allowed in the contest.

If the answer had been 'no', Inherited Memory Girl wouldn't have been entered.

 

[kitsune9]

But she still has the upgrades she bought as a tree, which includes control over branch growth and germ seeds.

I hypothesize that she could grow a new tree out of the wood of the ship.

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Huh, that might be possible, It still feels that she killed herself emotionally in the scene with the whole life is not worth living alone bit but I guess she didn't kill herself after all. I

f this is continued and the next few updates have her grow a new tree from the mast without a root system or have her grow leaves on the sides,or a new seed to give to the slave to plant at her destination I will change my view on her still having a tree. If however she doesn't create a new tree I will consider the tree stage of the story over.

There is still a story for a ship as I can imagine she should learn the sailing skills soon and then not needing the pirates she could use grow and thrust to kill the majority of the crew in their sleep and free the slaves and have at minimum her favorite stay on as crew. ​

 

[Lyova]

The art commission by Yun, featuring Rill, the island, and maybe the protagonist's in there too somewhere? Thanks again for organizing this, @FBH!

I've edited the story so far and given it its own place at fallingfar.wordpress.com. I'll be uploading more chapters there, though that won't happen for another few weeks.