Giraffe Call - Prompt/Inventive questions

Yesterday night I posted a summary (and on LJ) of October's Spooks and Creeps Giraffe Call.

Looking at incentives:

1. Did the linkback story work for you? How could it work better?
   
   
2. The story that is winning comments-for-a-settings-article is the one-off story Cunning Linguist
   Would you rather that story, or the runner-up, get the settings article?
   
   
3. We're closing in on my original goal of $500. What celebration prize should I offer when we get there?
   
   
4. What prompt themes would you like to see in the future?
   
   
5. What incentives work better or not-better for you?

Giraffe Call - Poll! What story do you want to see Continued?

From the $35 Incentive level, one story will be continued with a 1000-2000 word story. Which story should it be?

Please note: Stories with an * have already been sponsored for continuation.

Poll #8397 Continuation!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

View Respondents

What story would you like to see continued?

View Answers

Rude Roomates (Stranded)
1 (16.7%)

At the Movies (Stranded)
0 (0.0%)

The Grey Line (Unicorn/Factory)
2 (33.3%)

Ghosts of Memory (Girey)
0 (0.0%)

Giving up the ghost/Carrying it (Reiassan)
0 (0.0%)

Ninja Kitty (Cali)
2 (33.3%)

When In Rome/Revenge Pumpkins (Cali)
1 (16.7%)

Memories/Monsters (Ag) *
0 (0.0%)

Not Everyone Makes it Out (Ag)
0 (0.0%)

Hell Night (Ag)
0 (0.0%)

Fae-Bane (AgYr9)*
0 (0.0%)

Creeped (Ag Yr9)*
1 (16.7%)

Where have the Zombies Gone (DnD)
1 (16.7%)

Fears/Loophol (DND)
0 (0.0%)

Salt (DND)
1 (16.7%)

Rule 2 (DND)
3 (50.0%)

Skeletons (DND)
2 (33.3%)

Heirlooms and Old Lace (Aunts)
0 (0.0%)

Relics/Lost Spirits (Aunts)
0 (0.0%)

Shadow Rebellion
0 (0.0%)

Inside the Walls (Planners)
1 (16.7%)

Ghost of Finals
0 (0.0%)

Something from a former Call
0 (0.0%)

Something Else
1 (16.7%)

manually crossposted to LJ here - http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/305857.html

One Sharp Mother - #Addergoole, Apocalpyse - for the Giraffe Call

For rix_scaedu's commissioned request for more from the Baram story posted in Monster (LJ) and Memories (LJ)

Faerie Apoc, Addergoole Year 17 - landing page here (or on LJ)

Thanks to @inventrix and @dahob for the names.

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Late October, 2011

Jaelie was in the garden when the gods attacked. The garden, such as it was, was her territory, her sanctum and responsibility. She’d been the first to be hired, such as it was, by Baram (“bought” might have been more accurate, but the pay was good and the work not onerous, and she had little to complain of), the first to come looking for him after graduation, intrigued by the legend he’d left behind, and she’d thus been the first to carve out her own place in his haven.
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