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BKA and BDA Voting: August '08
Topic Started: Aug 27 2008, 11:09 PM (2,991 Views)
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen. It's that time once again -- time to vote for your favorite kills and deaths of the month. We've got a lot to choose from this time around, especially with so many new members coming on board, so hopefully we'll get a good vote turnout. Alright, so for all of you newcomers out there, please make sure you read the rules that are pinned in this forum before you vote. Also, please note that you are not allowed to vote for your own character. IPs are logged by Invisionfree and we can see if you're cheating. So play fair, be nice, have fun, and vote!

(Please note that characters that are already deceased are not eligible to receive Best Kill Award. Likewise, characters that have gone inactive are not eligible to receive Best Kill Award. Characters who have been killed by staffers due to activity reasons are not eligible for Best Death Award.)

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Best Kill Award:
Neil Sinclair, Dominica Shapiro, and Matt Wittany for the death of Blood Boy
Bobby Jacks for the death of Reg Robson/Arty Williams/Andy McCann/Ivan Roeghmills
Keith Jackson for the death of John Cox
Cara Scholte for the death of Joey McHaimond
Melina Frost for the death of Herman Johnson
Trish McCarroll for the death of Jeff Thorne/Sloan Henriksen
Branca Braunstein for the death of Olivia Swan
Rick Holeman and Jim Middleton for the death of Josh Novikov
Harry Tsai for the death of Lucy Arber

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Best Death Award
Ciel for the death of Blood Boy
Theseus for the death of Corbin Arlen
Scipher for the death of Reg Robson
Paranoia Man for the death of John Cox
Dinah Shore for the death of Jake Henkie/Lucy Arber
Ciel for the death of Joey McHaimond
ET.Requiem for the death of Jeff Thorne
Mitsuko2 for the death of Olivia Swan
RaggedDruid for the death of Sloan Henriksen
JoystickHero for the death of Arty Williams
Sona for the death of Ivan Roeghmills
CycoKiller for the death of Dennis Bernard

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You're required to give a reason behind your vote. Giving reasons like "I like the handler", "I like the character", or "I thought it was cool" will cause your vote to be disqualified. It has to be something legitimate about the death that made you like it over the others. Read through them, pick a death, and help your favorite win a prize! Voting ends at 12 AM CST on September 1st. The announcement declaring a winner will be written later that day. Good luck to all our contestants!
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BKA

Neil, Dominica, and Matt. The whole scene was extremely exciting and they did a really good job on it all. Gangbangs, ftw.

BDA

Jake Henkie, because it was actually really incredibly heartbreaking that he had finally found his friend only to die seconds later.
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BKA

Branca killing Olivia. I think it's a pretty neat concept to put her through, and it almost seems like the beginning of a long and winding road for her.

BDA

dinah_shore for Jake Henkie's death. Not only was it tragic that he died right after finally rendezvousing with Trish, but I liked in particular how he wasn't made out to be a hero. He looked really pathetic when he died, and didn't even manage to squeak out what he wanted to say, and that made me feel really bad for him.
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Neil Sinclair, Dominica Shapiro, and Matt Wittany for the death of Blood Boy. Why? Because I feel that it was a suitably brutal, multi-faceted takedown of a character that had been played up as a sort of uber-villain. It was great to see justice reign, as it were.

BDA

Theseus for the death of Corbin Arlen. I was torn between this one and Jake Henkie's death, and I ultimately settled for this one because it wasn't brutal, it wasn't forced, it wasn't Shakespearean, but at the same time, it was sharp, sudden and depressing - it was a peaceful death that was a poignant send-off for the character.
And this is coming from someone who hates that American Pie song.
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^Vote above? Should say wasn't sharp, sudden and depressing. Wasn't.

Also, I wasn't implying that Jake's death was Shakespearean or forced or anything. I just ultimately felt like picking Corbin's.
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BKA

Vote: Melina Frost
Reason: I liked how Melina flipped out. Wasn't like all of the others where it was either in self-defense or just to add another kill: Melina got pissed and killed Herman and I respect that.

BDA

Vote: Trishy
Reason: Simply because even during his own death scene, Jake was a loser of losers. I gotta hand it to her, it was perfect!
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BKA: Neil, Matthew, and Dominca for offing Blood Boy.
BDA: Theseus for Corbin Arlen.

Reason: I'm giving the same reason to both of these votes because they're both part of a beautifully written scene. The handlers were really in sync for with writing and dialog, we managed to send off one of our more controversial characters with a bang, and we bade farewell to another one in a very dignified manner. To top if all off, the scene was written in the Lookout Tower as it was about to become a danger zone! Now that's tension! About the only nit I can pick is that BB was a bit out of character when handled by Ciel, but it didn't bring the scene down enough to lose my vote.
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BKA: Neil, Matthew, and Dominca
BDA: Theseus for Corbin


The above poster kind of got everything I wanted to say, but let's see what I can get.Though I admit I wasn't to terribly happy with how out-of-character BB was, I guess it shouldn't be too surprising as it's probably a rather hard character to get into. And Ciel managed it to the best of his abilities, which wasn't horrible. But nonetheless the scene itself was wonderful besides that before little nitpick, and they managed to work together in perfect manner to take out the local island crazy and Corbin's death was just the bitter icing on top of it all.
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Aug 27 2008, 10:47 PM
^Vote above? Should say wasn't sharp, sudden and depressing. Wasn't.

I didn't realize this is also where we got to gratuitiously trash people's reasoning behind their votes.

BDA: Theseus for Corbin
Reason: Poor Corbin. He was so full of hope and promise, and then Blood Boy came and fucked everyone's shit up. It's sad in the game when people die when they're thinking positively.

BKA: Branca Braunstein
Reason: The girl couldn't be more unlike Olivia Swan, yet she is convinced that she is. That's funny, and it's not overdone/old since you don't see that very often in the game.
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^Vote above? Should say wasn't sharp, sudden and depressing. Wasn't.

I didn't realize this is also where we got to gratuitiously trash people's reasoning behind their votes.

BDA: Theseus for Corbin
Reason: Poor Corbin. He was so full of hope and promise, and then Blood Boy came and fucked everyone's shit up. It's sad in the game when people die when they're thinking positively.

BKA: Branca Braunstein
Reason: The girl couldn't be more unlike Olivia Swan, yet she is convinced that she is. That's funny, and it's not overdone/old since you don't see that very often in the game.

I misread that. Oops!

No one should be allowed the have this little sleep.

Again, sorry.
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BKA
Vote: Bobby Jacks
Reason: Clueluess did a good job of making him seem panicked, and irrational, rather than just "I wanna kill four people", which many would have done. It was a realistic freakout for an unstable teen packing a SIG.

BDA
Vote: Ivan Roeghmills
Reason: Sudden realization of hopelessness, it was a refreshing change from the page-long soliloquies that most deaths are. It was just simple hopelessness.
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I see nothing in the rules that says I have to vote for both, so I'm only voting for Best Death.

Best Death: dinah_shore for the death of Jake Henkie
Reason: Just looking at the death post, I can tell that Trish put a lot of time and effort into making it as good as possible. That kind of effort shouldn't go unrecognized, and even with that aside the death had much more of an emotional impact than the others up for voting in my opinion, but at the same time it wasn't melodramatic and also didn't ruin the overall mood of the scene.
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BKA: EDIT: i forgot, actually, about the one death i really did like this month. when crash wrote trish mccarroll killing off sloan - the death itself wasn't really all that special. what i forgot about was the aftermath, which i really thought was a solid post. so more for the aftermath than the kill, my vote goes there. instead of going to 'hairy' tsai. heh. oops.

BDA: speaking of emotional reactions? dinah_shore for the death of jake henkie definitely got one out of me. in fact, i felt really bad for the dude, because he finally finds his friend and gets fucking shot. my view? it was heads above every single other death this month, bar none. the only one that comes close was corbin arlen's death. problem with that was that it just felt a little contrived near the end. don't get me wrong, i liked it, it just didn't resonate with me like jake's did. if you haven't read it, you really should, otherwise you really aren't doing the character nor the handler any due justice, which in this case (and quite frankly, most of her posts) is really unfair, because thusfar it's all been awesome. grats to you.
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Vote: Trish McCarroll for offing Jeff Thorne and Sloan Henrickson
Reason: While the kills themselves seemed to suffer from a severe case of "nuttin'-to-work-with", I found Trish's shattered reaction very well-written and interesting, which redeemed the kill as a whole and then some.

BDA
Vote: dinah_shore for the death of Jake Henkie
Reason: Jake's demise was brutal without being gratuitous and emotional without being sappy.
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BKA: Trish McCarroll for offing Sloan and Jake
I agree that the death posts were pretty blah, but Trish's reaction to the whole thing was what made it great.

BDA: Jake Henkie
I was originally going to vote for Corbin, but then I read Jake's death post. Corbin's was awesome, but Jake's was awesome...er (also tragedy.)
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