Next Patreon Story (Patreon)

Hello everyone,

Here's the poll to determine the next Patreon story, along with an explanation for each choice. After the experience of revisiting Brawnafied World Origins and In-Shape, I'm not comfortable with simply continuing the older series as they are - each would need at least a retouching, and some of them contain elements I wish to change for various reasons (such as growing characters under age 18). Apologies to those who are patiently waiting for those series to continue, and/or do not want those elements changed. 

Tara vs Thora 2: This would continue the story of Tara vs Thora, most likely covering the next 1-3 days of her training (number of days depends on how detailed things are)

PowerCore Reimagined: This would be a reimagining of PowerCore. It would still feature Kristi as a young woman who is inducted into the PowerCore, but would have a much more consistent and planned out power scaling/growth, along with a wider cast of other heroes with varying power levels for her to interact with. The story would be completely rewritten, though would feature many aspects from and callbacks to the original series.

Proteus Effect Revised: This would be a revision of Proteus Effect. It would retain the same core plot and characters, but change the characters to be attending community college (instead of them all being conveniently 18 year old high schoolers), and change the rules of how the game transforms the characters to be more internally consistent. The story would be almost entirely rewritten, giving the characters improved characterizations. It would also likely feature more sexual and romantic content than the original. 

Legend of the Crystals Remastered: This would feature bigger changes than the In-Shape and BWO retouches had, but less than the above PowerCore and Proteus Effect concepts. Much of the story would be rewritten while keeping the plot the same, and the rules regarding how power is gained would be made more internally consistent.

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Potential new one-offs: While a long-term goal is to finish the original series, it is still fun to explore other ideas with one-off stories. The following are ideas that I've been thinking of for a while, and already have various amounts of words written for.

Rory's Breakthrough: The one-off I have the most developed, as I worked on it randomly years ago. A very straightforward FMG story - Rory has spent years trying to develop methods to make muscles grow, but they've all failed so far. He finally has a breakthrough with a serum, but while testing, it seems to only work on his sister Ciara, and not him.

Riley and Nathan (working title): Riley and her brother Nathan find themselves on what appears to be an abandoned alien spaceship. While Nathan 'plays' with a computer terminal, Riley goes off to explore the rest of the ship. She finds a gym where exercising makes her muscles instantly grow. Then she finds a machine than teaches her a great deal of things, including the purpose of the ship, and other rooms that enhance her abilities in many ways to superhuman levels.

The Power Pose: Mei has trained diligently for over a year to hold her weight up with just her hands in an advanced yoga pose with the express purpose of holding this position at a specific place at a specific time to receive an immense power promised in legends. Her boyfriend Jacob refused to believe the stories and never trained to do the pose. Now he watches as at the fated time her body starts to transform right before him.

The Goddess at the Gym: A socially anxious young man visits the gym at 2 AM, as it's always empty at that time. To his surprise, a mysterious young woman appears and starts working out as well. Making things even stranger for him - it seems that everything he thinks about the woman, no matter how outlandish it may be, ends up being true.

Your Growing Tomboy Friend (working title): A second-person story (refers to 'you', similar to A Day at the Park) in which your tomboy friend, Amelia, starts lifting weights in your garage gym. While you experience a normal, slow progression, her body changes day by day. (Loosely based on the AI image series I've been slowly creating, example here: https://www.deviantart.com/magnusmagnetoai/art/Tomboy-Friend-Stage-4-Working-Out-Alternate-1022089688 )

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I have not forgotten about The Trouble With Magic or Beverly and Betty, but I'm uncertain at this time how to proceed with them, so decided to let something else go next for now. Torn between giving Trouble With Magic a huge reimagining, or simply revising it with older characters. And as for Beverly and Betty, I'm unconfident in my ability to write a convincing lesbian romance like that - though the series does have fans.

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Like the previous poll, you can vote for multiple options - so please choose everything you'd like to see. How well ideas perform helps gauge how popular they are in general, and how frequently they'll appear in future polls.

Thanks for your continued support - hope you enjoy everything to come!

- Magnus