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Landslide Closes Poll Early

There is no point in continuing yesterday's poll for another 24 hours. Even if someone contributed One. Billyun. Gift Points! to "Vengeance on an Ex-Friend" it wouldn't overcome the lead that "Body Swapping as a Solution" has in the Free and GP Polls. So here are the final results, for the record:

Body Swapping: 86.5%
Vengeance: 13.5%

New poll is posted: "BoM Poll: Next Adventure"  I doubt this one will feature the same kind of overwhelming lead, so I'm confident when I say I will leave it open the full 48-hour period, closing it on Thursday at noon ET.

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Elsewhere, a five-chapter commissioned run starts today:

* Interactive: "Stealing a Friend" 
* Public: "Stealing a Friend" 

Background: Will and Caleb, while messing around with the book, have accidentally turned Will's dad into a golem. Will briefly assumed his dad's identity, then he decided that he and Caleb need a place where they can work and study the book so as to find a way of reversing the spell they put on his dad. They wind up impersonating the Welches: Will as Shannon, who is a tutor at Westside; Caleb as Stephan, her university professor husband.

Through luck and serendipity, they have managed to get past the torn page in the Libra, and have even managed to craft an anima band. Will's luck ran out at this point, and after slapping it onto the forehead of a WHS freshman named Oliver Kelly, he has donned it, and woken up convinced that he is Oliver, soul-swapped into Will Prescott's body. In the previous chapter Will/Oliver (Woliver?) has been wondering whether to commit Will's crime again, by putting one of his friends into the body of Caleb, so that he will have a friend to help him out of this crisis ...