December Voting Roster Review

My naming convention for this review where I name it after the month of the short (in this case, it would have been "January") was confusing me, so I'm going to name the roster review after the month that the vote takes place. The result is there's two posts with "December Voting Roster" in the title, but that's only going to be a problem this one time.

Okay Precog Pangolins, this is what I'd like to launch and do for the next few months.  I'm thinking I'll do a "yes/no" vote on it to see if patrons like the idea before I go live with this idea. If you have thoughts about it, I'm all ears! I'll launch the vote in a day or two.

P.S. Feel free to nominate other ideas if you want them considered too.

Since the new year is coming up, I feel it's a good time to try something new so that things don't get stale. Plus, my creativity is pulling me in new directions and I want to see what happens if we chase after it.

While I was writing Tritonia's Secret, I thought of multiple directions that this series can go in. Then I realized that I could do a Choose Your Own Adventure story, based on your votes, going forward from here.

I'd work to write each installment so that you can still understand what's going on even if you skip some of the stories. That said, the choices you make through voting will affect the story going forward. And it won't always be clear what the full effect is, so there will be surprises along the way.

Some exciting things to keep in mind:

1. The stories won't always be from Persephone's perspective. I have plans for telling stories from other characters' points of view.

2. There's definitely going to be more sexy transformations. (Already have plans for canine, equine, and more!)

3. I have lots of pulp sci-fi stuff I want to play with: alternate universes, Russian spies, space travel, alien invasions, the lost city of Atlantis, deep sea adventures, and SCP-like objects that cause mayhem, terror, and wonder.

4. This new format will sometimes lead to more than one vote a month. Depending on what you pick in the first vote, it will change the content of the second one.

5. There will be more neat surprises in this format. Up until this point, I've been giving little story summaries that describe an entire story. In this format, I'll have elements that you voted on and put them together into something awesome that fits into this series.

6. I tend to do a lot of discovery writing, so I don't always know what a story is going to be before I have it written. My goal is to make sure to give y'all enough choices that you have an effect on the story without having things planned to the point that I struggle to write it.

7. If y'all don't like this after trying it for a month or two, I'm happy to switch back to the old ways of doing things.

The sorts of choices you'll make:

Which characters hook up/develop relationships?

Who gets transformed next?

What object does Charlemagne's unit have to hunt down next?

When a character has to choose which door to open first, do they open the left one the right one?

Some character design aspects like: does character X get a canine cock, a dragon cock, or a hybrid cock? Spots or stripes? etc.

Decisions that are plot-related, like whether a character keeps a secret or decides to obey/disobey the rules.

When multiple kinks are a possibility in a story, I'll open up a vote for kinks.

Due to the multiverse shenanigans in this series, you'll even get to choose which characters from my other stories get cameos. I already have an idea for the first cameo and it will be a fun surprise when I work it in.

Now, to give you an idea of what's going to be in future Tritonia stories...

Character Teasers:

Charlemagne (Cheryl) - The forty-something female leader of the Pan-Oceanic Safety Congress: a tall and strong mixed-race woman from the Netherlands with a heavy Dutch accent. Her real name is classified, everyone started calling her Charlemagne because...

Pepper - A thirty-year-old auburn-haired female marine who is a dive specialist with a big heart. She's a competent engineer and soldier who you'd want by your side when things get rough. Originally, she was in school for her oceanic engineering degree, but that all changed when...  

Gillon (Gill) - A forty-two-year-old butler-like British guy who has worked on Tritonia and other AI computer systems. Cleaning, making food and beverages for the others, and surveying the entire base for signs of damage is how he de-stresses. His parents both died in a mysterious accident where...

Tsubumi (Boom) - a twenty-three-year-old Japanese woman who is a savant when it comes to sound. She plays anything percussion with incredible skill and can make a marimba or other like instrument do amazing things. She has been obsessed with sonar and [redacted] ever since she was a child.

Alphonse (Alpha) - A twenty-seven-year-old second generation immigrant from Trinidad who often dances while he hacks. Navigation, ship systems, and computer security are all right up his alley. After many years arguing with his large family, they've finally started to accept that he is...

Kirkii - An [redacted due to spoilers for Tritonia's Secret] geneticist who devised the process that transformed Persephone. She is brilliant and highly regarded by everyone on the team.

Septimus - A fifty-year-old anthro [redacted] geneticist that is Kirkii's right hand man and the anthro that helped create the process that transformed Persephone. Charlemagne has known him the longest because they met while they were both...

Tritonia - An AI unlike anything that came before her. Her humanity and importance to the rest of the team cannot be understated. There's one aspect of her creation that is a closely guarded secret that only Charlemagne and Gill are privy to.

Persephone - A twenty-eight-year-old thief and security systems expert who has recently transformed into an anthro herm shark hybrid. She can now dive to the depths of the ocean without a suit and Charlemagne is having trouble stopping herself from coming up with uses for Persephone's unique form.

Non-Prosaic Object Teasers:

I'll create official write-ups of these objects as this series progresses. These are just one paragraph summaries.

NPO 4604-552-1 (Blue Pepper Corn): When this peppercorn is placed in the mouth, one can only perceive light in the 450-500nm range. If it's swallowed, it reappears back in the tin that holds it in exactly twenty-eight minutes. Subjects report it tastes like a water-logged bagel.

NPO 6295-370-6 (Not-Quite Inner Self Revealer) - A spherical silver-colored Christmas ornament that is activated by [redacted]. When activated, over the course of a few days, transforms the subject's body to match their inner ideal with one exception, no matter what form they take, they are always a [redacted] by the time the transformation is complete.

NPO 8842-462-2 (Time-Stopped Pizza Slice) - This large wedge-shaped slice of a taco pizza does not experience the passage of time. It cannot be destroyed, it does not decay, and no vibrations or other physical processes can pass through it. EM waves that would normally not interact with a piece of pizza pass right through while all others are perfectly reflected making this piece of pizza look like it's made out of metal. It's recently been theorized that this object may experience the flow of time, albeit...

NPO 7359-185-7 (Claremont's Mirror) - Most of the time, this mirror is just a simple mirror, but every twelve minutes, the reflection in it is that of an alternate universe. It's important to look away from it when this happens or it will [redacted] whatever the viewer was focusing on in...

Which of these characters' backstories will get explored? Which of these characters will transform? What shenanigans will they get up to? Which items will wreak havoc on their lives? All this will be influenced by your votes.