$10 Poll - The Options

Hello my $10inos!

I spent a bunch of the weekend thinking about what the additional thing should be that I offer you all, and had too many ideas to come to a reasonable decision. Therefore! I thought I would allow you to poll it out and thus pick for me! Thus, what follows are a bunch of options as to the kind of content I can do that's either $10 exclusive, or elsewise has $10 exclusive elements to it.

DELEGATION HO!

Option 1: Catherine's Story

"...So. What's the assignment?"

Shidruhan smiled, leaning back in his chair.

"Ah, that's why you're my best, Catherine."

The compliment didn't feel earned. She'd fully intended to come in here and lash him out for giving 78 a B-Grade, but one look at his face and she knew he didn't have an excuse. Only a reason. 

The start of some writing about another Instructor, Catherine Adair, and what she is getting up to while Keller's instructing L-D19.

Initially, Catherine was going to be the female-choice for Instructor at the start of Thrallworks. However, her path was quite diverged from Keller's. Here, I'd like to start going into it through pure prose. Will she turn up in scenes in the game proper, or these scenes concerted over? Perhaps...

Option 2: Adjudication

We do some adjudication! I'll do art like the above (or perhaps we start with this one) and then vote it out in public, drawing the end result.
However! I will also draw the other result, just for you peeps to see! At least until/if this makes it's way into the game as a side-gig.

Option 3: Volition Aside

Just some odd sketcho of some aspect of the Volition world. Perhaps a peek inside Chongseng peak, maybe just a bit of palace life. I imagine I might add these to any HD collection I make, so hooray, you basically get these for free and add to the HD collection's value!

Option 4: BG Character Shenanigans

I pick a BG, you pick the BG character, and we do some activity or other such thing with her!
A somewhat ill-defined option right now, but at any rate, we'll get some character art and a bit of blah blah. Side-skits are fun!

Option 5: Pony Conflicts

Similar to the above, but you guys pick a pony and I come up with a small scenario for them! If it's a pony with a sponsor, then I talk to the sponsor as for something fun to do.

I guess this first one is a tester and thus already set out, but if we pick this again in the future we'll swap out the pone.

I'd say for Options 4 and 5 here, it feels like there's some underlying game-ish systems that need to be established which I probably won't have time for, so I'd probably just be supplying writing and art independent of something interactable.

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As well as the above options that we're going with, I also have the following on the cutting room floor:

• Harvest Game: Each player creates a Gleaner or a Grain and gives them orders, and we play it out month by month to see how they do in a harvest game, with players gaining points

• Harvest Quest - Form a Harvester Team to go into a Verse and acquire people. Everyone forms their own team and picks a strategy, and after tallying up the results, we draw a CG of the winning/first out pull.

• Bondsbody Quest - Everyone gets a bondsbody and we see how they get further in debt or pay them off!

• Movement Tribe Island game - Everyone gets a lil' tribal island, and spreads out and competes with each other

These all got dropped due to either mechanical complications, or that they don't fit a 'once a month' update schedule. If there's any interest in the above, or if you have your own ideas for areas of things to explore, then lemme know.

Also left off currently are things like Thrall Questions, Material Index options, etc. This is all due to me not wanting to exhaust you all with polls, and for those who don't pick the winning option to be upset. I get that I could just make a Thrall Question or small comic and y'all would be content, but I feel that unlike, say, the Volition Aside, the question of the 'Question', or the choice of the Indexed thrall, is a little more specific than it seems comfortable to just draw as a reward for a whole tier as opposed to a single person. If I'm wrong or you've an innovative way around the issue, lemme know in the comments!

Anyway, those 5 are the 5 options for now, so vote away! I'll leave the poll open for a week and allow multiple choice. No weighted rolls for this one, whichever option comes out with the most votes, I'll do.

Happy hunting!