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Romance (recriprocated)

6 (22.2%)

Romance (hidden)

8 (29.6%)

Family

4 (14.8%)

Close Friend

9 (33.3%)

Total Members Voted: 18

[Dariush]

Cookies.

[Kansa]

PTW

[GlyphGryph]

Added another option to the poll.

[Gamerlord]

DAMNIT. MAKE IT SO WE CAN CHANGE OUR VOTES.

[GlyphGryph]

Once you've created the thread, you apparently can't change that... weird.

[GlyphGryph]

Spoiler: Results, Poll #2 (click to show/hide)

(7.8%) Prestige - You would have them respect you... or fear you. But they will know your name...
(11.8%) Power - You would have them obey you... they will be yours, and your will shall be the future...
(17.6%) Knowledge - You would discover that which man was not meant to know... and no man shall stand in your way...
(15.7%) Affection - You would be loved... and if they will not give you that love willingly, you will force them to love you...
(3.9%) Decadence - You would have the world exist for your pleasure... you will drink deeply, and you will not be denied...
(2%) Conflict - You would have a challenge to overcome... an opponent worthy of your skills, or a world set against you, that is life's finest joy
(3.9%) Vengeance - You would make them pay for what they did... they will not escape your wrath...
(9.8%) Validation - You would prove that you were right... that you were right all along, and that they were fools to doubt you...
(23.5%) A better world - You would create a utopia... but first, this flawed world must be swept away, a clean slate in it's place...
(3.9%) THE END - There's nothing left to be done... no other options... the embrace of oblivion is more than this world deserves, but it is what you will provide...

All you wanted was a bad world. Was that really so bad? A world without the flaws and weaknesses and evils of the one in which you found yourself... sure, there were prices that would have to be paid. Sacrifices that would have to be made. But for a world where knowledge was prized, where you could be loved and appreciated for who you were? Surely that's worth wiping the slate clean and ridding this planet of the vermin that give humanity a bad a name.

And then, suddenly, you're above the water again. Breathing, even as your limbs begin to go numb. There's a shout, someone yelling, and a splash near you. You reach out, grabbing, and feel your fingers tighten around the rope.

A simple desire. A better world. But how did it bring you here? What was the method to your madness? How did you hope to accomplish your goal?
What path would you follow to achieve Utopia?
(poll, good suggestions will be added to the poll so you may want to hold off voting for a bit)

[GrizzlyAdamz]

PTP

[Toaster]

Good to see a break from minions- way too many minion based ones of these.  I'd love to see Transcendence win.

[Taricus]

I preferably want to see trancendance and technology tied

[GlyphGryph]

As you might have noticed from the previous results, there generally isn't an absolute winner. The percentage result is basically the percentage which we will follow the given choice. So a 50/50 tech/transcendence is definitely possible, but wouldn't be TOO different from a 60/40 split.

[Toaster]

That's totally cool too- tech should drive the transcendence.

[GlyphGryph]

Spoiler: Results, Poll #3 (click to show/hide)

(38.5%) Transcendence - You are weak, and pathetic. But you can be improved. You will personally be the instrument of change in this miserable world, perhaps the first of a new kind of humanity.
(46.2%) Technology - The right tools are what you need to achieve victory, that is all. With the right tools, the world will be putty in your hands.
(15.4%) Minions - You need not dirty your hands personally - creating, controlling, or organizing others is the surest way to achieve change, while leaving you time and opportunity to plan your next move without risking ultimate failure with every loss.

In what seems like moments, you feel yourself pulled from the water, the side of your body scraping against the side of the ship, until you lie gasping on the deck, like a fish just pulled in from the ocean. Opening your eyes, your vision still blurred, the rain and wind obscuring the shapes around you, you still manage to make out the wide eyes of the group as they look down upon you.

"My god... what is it?"

A large, bearded man steps to your side, reaching out to hold your face in his calloused palms. He turns your limp head one way, and then another, before letting it drop back to the deck. He straightens.

"Throw 'er back boys, just another sea monster."

With a heave, you're lifted from the deck and sent back over the rails, the wind howling as you try to scream, but no sound comes out and then you're falling, the air rushes past you, the water closes in and-

Your eyes flutter as you jerk to a sitting position, screaming into the silent darkness.

End Prelude

[GlyphGryph]

Now you have a choice to make. Seeking technological transcendence, you have simultaneously become something less than human, and something more, waking to a simple fact - Your experiment, technically a failure, has left you changed, for better or worse, leaving a new future before you, where the common, everyday interactions of the mundane world are cut off from you.

But you will still have the resources you've earned, the contacts you've made, your hopes and your dreams. Or at least you hope you do.

But before we begin the next act, we must decide - What was the experiment? How did it go wrong? What remains of the person you once were? What were you hoping for, and how did it go so drastically wrong?

[Gamerlord]

Hm... consciousness uploading? Conversion of body into nanobot hive?

[mcclay]

We tried to become a god via Skynet. It made us more than a mere human.