I'll be writing the rest of the prologue and the first chapter here in the next day or so. Please go read the story AND VOTE. As well, I updated the Choice to make it a little less tilted towards the Gift of Acceptance.
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i already voted
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but did you read the new Choice version?
Also, are you at the school or not?
I'm still bouncing between Knowledge and Acceptance, but still slightly tilted toward Knowledge, if only because it is the most versatile. And I already voted
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Again, make sure you read the new version of the Choice.
My personal vote is for power.
As such, the votes still stand at
2 vote(s) Gift of Knowledge
2 vote(s) Gift of Acceptance
1 vote(s) Gift of Power
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I read through the linked, but it didn't seem to be all that different. Still have to go with knowledge if only because it has the highest chance of helping the MC survive and get home (after all, if you what you need, know how to get said supplies and how to get home, only difficulty is executing everything).
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The exact knowledge gained is still... nebulous. But I can see what you mean.
I'm voting for Power because I know that the result of that would be awkward at best for John, and I enjoy awkward. But any of the three will be excellent.
I will be writing around job searching and playing Minecraft with one of my buddies to relieve my stress in the late evenings.
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So a "you don't know what you know" type thing, eh? That changes the math a bit.
How's the internet problem coming along?
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Internet is fine. Having a computer is the problem. I'm borrowing Soulwatch's in the evenings, he's my roomie.
As for the 'you don't know what you know', that's incorrect. it's more of a you don't know what knowledge you'll get until after you get it, like having the muscle memory but amnesia. So you have the knowledge but not consciously.
Or, potentially, it could just be knowledge useless for the exact given moment. I'm a dick like that sometimes, but I'm going to be nicer than normal for this guy.
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That's pretty much what I meant. You don't consciously know what you know until you actually need it.
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d" author is fun 
Being the "evil b
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[drillsergeantofyournightmaresvoice]
I said 'nicer than normal', not 'lucky clovers and magic rainbows are shooting out of their ass as they ride into the sunset with the lady of their dreams'.
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Get with the program! 'Nicer' does not mean 'nice'!
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"Nicer" for you means "Sunshine, rainbows and bunnies flying out of everyone's plots" for me.
Remember: I'm the author who psychologically tortures his MC by killing off everyone he knows and loves in front of him in an extremely graphic and slow fashion, and then says, "I'm being too nice to this character" :we-really-need-an-evilface-emoticon:
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Yeah? And I build entire, detailed worlds based around very deep corruption, the slow decay of monolithic governments, and the damning effects good intentions have.
Oh, and murdering people in inventive ways. Once I have my own laptop, I'll get to the heartrending scene in one of my current stories. It will murder your feels, and not in a dark alley, no, but in the sun-lit main plaza so everyone can see.
Also, I'm kinda tired right now, I just woke up.
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Puh-lease, psychological trauma is so much worse than physical dismemberment. When you are so deeply involved with a character, only to watch as that character's love is slowly eviscerated and then hung with her entrails being the noose, all while she is still alive, is so much more evil than a bunch of characters you don't know suffering.
(Let the game of one upmanship begin
)
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It depends on who the physical trauma is directed at.
For someone who is a guardian by nature? Maim their friends and family, but leave them alive so they can't leave to enact revenge.
For someone who is a fighter by nature? Cripple their ability to fight, leave them broken and useless in a fight.
For someone who is used to getting what they want? Kill everyone around them, isolate them.
It depends on the sort of person they are.
As for strangers dying... if it's because it wasn't them, many heroic characters would find that worse than a family member or friend, who at least was already in the line of fire. Bystanders are supposed to be at least a neutral threat.
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In those cases, it's the psychological impact that makes the difference, not the physical trauma.
It's because the reader doesn't have a reason to care about "them". If you can get the reader to feel something, then you are doing the job that an author needs to do. It's just really hard when dealing with corrupt governments as, much like in the real world, if it doesn't directly impact a person (in a reader's case, either him/herself or a character the reader cares about), then it's harder to empathize with those faceless characters.
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OH, yes, the corruption is the setting, not the character, though it has a character of its own. I also like making really black-and-white villains... and mixing in folks that are only villains because of their intentions.
But the physical trauma is a great part of inflicting many kinds of psychological trauma. It's all in what tool you wield to deal the damage. All trauma is, in the end, either mental or inconsequential.
And making the reader care for 'them' isn't necessary, you merely need to make them emphasize or sympathize, to make them feel. The corruption in government and any other organization is a good backdrop, and the facelessness can make a good Fridge Horror, when you, say, stumble across something that turns all those goons you slaughtered into real people.
Such as in the original script of Star Wars: A New Hope, Han wanders past a group of storm troopers who, while on break, are chatting about the landspeeder one of them wants to get his kid. This is after Han has mercilessly murdered four of the troopers just getting out of his ship.
It's that moment that makes Han want to fight more, incidentally, just so that there are less sides to deal with, as less sides to a conflict mean less meaningless losses.