Side Stories Poll - September 2024

1st time in my life as an American where my vote mattered.

Tie, it's a miracle.

LFG Horns!!! Tie

We need two people for horns to win

Always down for the horns, but I wish Rabbit was an option. Guess we did have a lot of goblins recently, still, would be nice to be back where Erin is.

For the CLOWN OF RHIR!!!

Heroes CHARGE!

HORNS!!!!

Rip no Zevera chapter

The Clown Rises!

I may have to create extra patreon accounts just to keep the clown down!!!

Poor Tom has been waiting years for this moment. Let my boy live.

ITS SO CLOSE! THE HORNS ARE AT 1112 VOTES AND OUR FAVORITE CLOWN IS AT 1111!! EVERYONE VOTE FOR TOM!

Heroes!

CLOWN, CLOWN, CLOWN 🤡

Just sayin': Clown is also probably Nerry-Neirs or Rabbiteater and friends.

We’ve got ourselves a nail biter folks.

Can we please make more of Erin? Like 2 for Erin and 1 arc? Needs me some Erin and ulvama. Poke.

Wow that's close. I hope Clown keeps ahead, but I wish even more that we get both of them eventually :D

Almost there! Let’s go Hraace!

I just don’t care much for the clown…🤷‍♂️

Common we need just a few more votes for the horns

I voted for everything but clown just out of spite

Since the two I want most are ahead already: Play that Færie music, write boy!

I prefer silver swords but… we had enough of heroes lets uS MeaT mAD TOm!

I want zem ALLLLLLLLL

I forgot to mark heroes!

Can we just vote for Erin? Cause there is no point making it a vote when the obvious choice always wins.

Damn I really wanted the silver swords poor Ylawes needs some relief but I get it as I love the horns too.

Horns are 1 vote away....

anything but the damn clowns

I’ll be damned if Clowns vs Horns isn’t some kind of metaphor.

Have any of these polls ever been this close?

Are you kidding? More Horns and exposition around Hero's? not even a question for me.

Lord it's close. I wish Pirateaba could do both, considering that more explanation on the hero class would be quite relevant to Tom's story, but Tom has not gotten proper focus since Volume 7, in 2020! Vote for the Clown! The horns are guaranteed their time in the sun, and this will be the last chance to see the Clown for a while yet.

Where are the Horns right now again?

I want them all!!!!

🤡🔪

It's been a long time since we read about Tom. (I'm not even certain on his name anymore.)

Loving the Silver Swords in the New Lands arc cant wait to hear more

... Maybe we could get Clown chapters for Spooky season? I do want them, but boy are they things I need to mentally prepare for.

I want to see what kylb was doing with that gnoll prostitute

horns go horns, vote for the heroes now

My boy Tom, do your thing.

I didn't like the Clown storylines early in the series, but Aba has gotten alot better, and this will only be an interlude (only like 30k words most likely) so I'm actually looking foward to a Clown interlude now.

I'm actually a big fan of Tom. I really enjoy his character set up and growth. Being the crazy guy but also the only one to realize the BK is as evil as the worst of the worst. That said I'm voting for the Heroes

I really want to read more about the clown, I think it's been long enough that it can be justified (I think a portion of the audience understandably seems to not like Tom). But hear me out, he's in the colored lands right? Maybe we get more info on all the weird gnarly fraerlings that live out there. Or more on the deathless as they are sort of tied to Tom, maybe a little bit about the demons and the humans that are with them. I don't know, I just enjoy reading about Tom. Thank you Pirate, excited to see what you come up with no matter what it is :)

I’m hoping that Rabbiteater and Ksmvr are not on here because they naturally are the next couple of chapters.

Go Horns!

Voting for the Horns all the way!

Does “the other fae” cover Vofea? We haven’t touched on her in ages

Go go goblin slayer! :P I'm not clowning around, well maybe.

not a fan of the Clown storyline

Finally caught up. I'm really excited for the adventures of the slayer! Been waiting for a buffy/erin crossover :P

The clown is the worst character in the world.

Going for clown. Second choice would be Ryoka because she's been out of focus these days as the deuteragonist. Third choice is the Horns to see what the heromakers are about. Klbkch seems a bit aimless even if I do want to see him level, and Zevara might advance into the Izril Interpol plot but it seems a bit low in importance compared to the othes. Silver Swords is last place for me.

I mean, my preferences would be Emperor Laken Godart, Bird, or maybe something about Aklat Vunn.

One of the reasons I joined the Patreon was the ability to vote for Klb in every single poll that featured him, so... Hoping for some Silly Old Man escapades<3

Get up you clown!

A clown sweep (yes Mzion I have stolen your pun)

HORNS ASSEMBLE

Love all the options, but voted for the Horns. Go Horns!

Fae pls

it has to be the clown

I want all of them and Persua's story from the last poll

I don't really want to have a say in the direction of the story. But I'm not a fan of the clown, so maybe literally anything except a chapter about or heavily featuring them.

Antinium and Starvation!

I want to feel sad. So bring out the 🤡

C L O W N ✨️

honk legion!

Almost all of these sound enticing (the Clown is too disturbing for me) and . . . it’s becoming apparent that TWI has embarked on an audacious experiment in massively multiplayer non-linear storytelling — basically a MMORPG in narrative form. About 10 distinct character groups have received at least a novel’s worth of attention. At least that many plot threads and cliffhangers have been left dangling, many for months. Almost no plot arcs have been resolved (Durene’s, I suppose). The main character has appeared about as often as Volume 8, when she was literally a popsicle stranded in the lands of the dead. And four of the main arcs in the poll — we’ve abandoned the notion that these are “monthly” side-stories because now everything is a side story that runs for an entire month or longer — simply expand the POV focus still more. It’s exhilarating and bold and brilliant . . . and also jarring, fragmented, and frustrating. Pirate’s track record suggests that Innworld will stick the landing . . . eventually . . . but it may well be a long, bumpy, uncomfortable ride.

Ah, Tom. I hate those chapters so much. Almost as much as I hate Roshal chapters, and it’s for the same reason. What kind of wretched dead god thinks a loss of autonomy and Self is worthy of a skill which then continues to dig itself into the ground? [slave] is so awful. Taking bipolar disorder and codifying it into Skills and classes that further enforce being a prisoner of mental illness — bleh. But the story and writing— so well done. And I’ll read it with an elevated heart rate the whole way through if it wins.

We need to revist the horns

Every single one 😍😍😍😍😍

Clown Clown

Anything but starvation

Anything but clown. Although until the last batch of chapters I would have said the same about emperor anything to do with the emperor.

The Dark Clown Rises

Anything but the Clown

Clown sounds interesting to me

CLOWN.

All of them. What a great story!

Honestly, Tom's chapter where he goes mad is one of the best you've ever written. He's one of my favorite characters out of the outstanding cast you've created.

CLOWN TIME CLOWN TIME

Chose detective story to see Pirate flex their skills.

Where's Erin :(

I want Tom because I want both to see the dyed lands, and because I want him to finally get out that the Blighted Kingdom is being the summoning.

We are Legion! Or just desperate for the next chapters

Wow, over 900 votes in ... Twenty minutes? I didn't even know there were that many of us.

The clown you fools

I want to see what the kib,the horns and the silver swords are up too.

I have so much love the horns, but I’m so curious and interested in Ylawes group and the new lands, but I’m also very much savoring the tragic anti-Hero of a tale of Tom the Clown. Gonna have to go with the horns on this one, at the end of the day, it’s always the horns.

Numbtongue!

The pain of choice when I want them all

This is going to be a close poll

I enjoy reading about Mrshas helping the silver swords. I also think that'll be a good opportunity to segue into what some of the other parties are doing in the new lands

Mrsha chapter next please

What if I want all of them?

Omg it’s incredibly tempting to switch my vote…which will I will probably do

I just want Antinium chapters again. Why do so few want the mystery of the Antinium?

Slayer! Slayer! Slayer! Slayer!!!!

I know it has no shot but I want that [Clown] chapter

Grass Shell and the bees

Let’s go Other Fae!!!!

Is Hraace a misspelling or does my memory suck?