Survivor of the Month

ASSANJIN Survivor of the Third Supermoon, Now One of the Generous Three

1. Assanjin once survived a Wendigo attack using this old trick –>> never look into their eyes.

2. As a draconian who formerly had sapphire blue scales currently stuck in human form, Assanjin could have once flown right over your head on a sunny blue-sky day and you might feel a ripple of air or see a shadowy outline but he would remain almost invisible. Fortunately, he prefers to travel by water now.

3. Although once bitten by a werewolf who was also his best friend, Assanjin never turned himself, leading him to the discovery  that his Drache powers protected him from lycanthropy. In the wake of this incident, Assanjin went on to develop a lasting affinity for the lupine kind, defending them against all.

4. Like many of his draconian kind, Assanjin makes his home on a sheltered island. So sheltered there is no way to receive his SoTM prize…just one reason he is passing it along today to another survivor on the site…

5. Assanjin provided excellent intel on dealing with Black Ice Dragons. And as soon as I can determine the best material for muzzling one as per his technique, I’ll pack Graham’s bags for Russia to test it.

6. He is very knowledgeable and you might even say philosophical and a bit poetical on a number of important topics. I can always count on this SoTM to add to or clarify a supernatural situation in progress, including his own.

7. Assanjin actually replies to questions and comments, mine and others. It’s a  rare quality that I appreciate a great deal. Not quite as rare as survivors who actually leave questions and replies for specified others, which he also does quite often, but a very close second.

8. Gamely volunteered to help Agent TL map the multiverse, no small task. If you thought Google cars were fun, wait until you see what they will use.

9. After once killing a very famous mermonster, Assanjin developed a healthy respect for sea monsters and still prefers to travel with them.

10.  Assanjin chose to join the ranks of the generous three SoTMs here on SOS. Rather than accept his small SoTM thank-you prize, Assanjin chose to honour another survivor on the site with it, just like Mr. Mutt and Devorah once did. Proving once again, that Survival is its own reward, and that generosity is a supernatural survival trait. And may I add a perfectly fitting decision as WEREWOLF GIRL was indeed our runner up choice anyway, providing hours of pistachio-fueled debate here at SOS HQ on the Supermoon.

Thanks to ASSANJIN for keeping on with SOS and helping us through the third Supermoon of 2012.

Wow, that was close. After a howling super moon rocked by storms and alien craters,  SOS appears to have survived again. No joke, it’s always a surprise for us to watch another moon fall and find we’re still around. So thanks to last month’s SoTM LEAFPOOL and everyone else who survived with us this Supermoon. You know who you are but if you don’t know who they are click here and read all about it.

In fact, after a full moon enclave held here at SOS HQ, I’m happy to be hinty today there will indeed be lots of new stuff coming between now and Halloween, new videos, at least one new Hall of Famer and more.

And now on to the new Survivor of the Month announcement…

A quick review for those who are new. Survivor of the Month started years ago to thank some Survivors who were supernaturally helpful here at SOS. Survivors of the Month answer questions, reply to survivor comments, contribute their own reports and generally encourage others to keep on keeping on in various unique ways. There’s a very small prize. Usually a very small thank you gift from iTunes combined with a feature profile page that I write and generally get approximately 53.2% accurate. We used to choose SoTM a number of different ways – just give it to Survivor #1: Alex for instance, but then we created a Hall of Fame and things got a little looser. Speaking of which did I mention Graham and I have officially selected at least one new Hall of Famer to announce next month? I did? ‘Nuff said. On to the SoTM then:

Guess the Survivor of the Month

1. He once survived a Wendigo attack using this trick –>> never look into their eyes.

2. If this SoTM could fly over your head on a sunny blue-sky day, you might feel a ripple of air or see a shadowy outline but he would remain almost invisible. Fortunately, he prefers to travel by water.

3. Although once bitten by a werewolf who was also his best friend, this SoTM never turned.

4. But in the wake of this incident, this SoTM  would develop a lasting affinity for the lupine kind, defending them against all.

5. Like many of his draconian kind, this SoTM makes his home on an island.

6. He provided excellent intel on dealing with Black Ice Dragons. And as soon as I can determine the best material for muzzling one as per his technique, I’ll pack Graham’s bags for Russia to test it.

7. He is very knowledgeable and you might even say philosophical and poetical on a number of important topics. I can always count on this SoTM to add to or clarify a supernatural situation in progress, maybe especially his own.

8. On that note, this SoTM actually replies to questions and comments, mine and others. It’s a  rare quality that I appreciate a great deal. Not quite as rare as survivors who actually leave questions and replies for specified others, which he also does quite often, but a very close second.

9. Gamely volunteered to help Agent TL map the multiverse, no small task. If you thought Google cars were fun, wait until you see what they will use…

10. Has a healthy respect for sea monsters but still prefers to travel with them than by air.

…as if you haven’t guessed it already, the Survivor of the Third Supermoon is in fact ASSANJIN, whose profile will be posted hopefully later today as soon as I receive direction from him  in regards to his small thank-you prize. Unfortunately, his island lair is too well protected to receive an iTunes card so Assanjin must choose from:

1. An SOS t-shirt.

2. A small donation in his honour to the charity of his choice.

3. Passing the prize along to another Survivor on the site, as both Mr. Mutt and Devorah have done in the past.

BREAKING NEWS…

Appropriately enough, SoTM of the Third Moon ASSANJIN has chosen to join the ranks of the generous three and will passing his prize onto another survivor on the site.

Who will it be?

You will have to read his profile page to find out. Coming soon. Ish…

Thanks to everyone who contributed to Survival this month. Long may you keep on keeping on out there. Your survival is my survival.

Seth

Agent RB

Nobody could be more surprised than me that Agent RB would win Survivor of the Month. After all, when he first came to SOS in 2013, it was with a summons from the underworld for yours truly. I was to stand trail for charges of assisting in the survival of condemned souls and it took the expensive efforts of an entire team of demon lawyers working alongside many other survivors on the site to beat those first charges.

But in the intervening months, RB proved himself to be fair and impartial, if not enthusiastically pro-survival. Sure he may still be compiling 1000 page dossiers on each and every survivor who stops by the site. And yeah, he is still not above collecting on unpaid infernal debts. But he has also proven to be a valuable source of information and not to mention a great defender of Wisconsonites – and he did manage to negotiate one more year for me here in the over world, for which I am grateful. When does that expire again? I better check…

RB is still not keen on most mortals, especially not mortal humans, but in the event of another great flood, you may be able to count on him for a ticket to his Ark. Providing he can remember where he parked it. And of course, you can’t guarantee he won’t be the cause of that flood especially if he has a migraine but hey, who doesn’t like a bit of rain?

Still over the many months that he has been contributing to the SOS database, RB has undergone many changes in his life. Some good, some not so good. I will try in this profile to lay those out for you now FYI so you will understand the complexity of the survivor you’re dealing with now…

The SOS Saga of Agent RB

–>> As mentioned, RB began as a straight shooting police officer of the underworld, shade class 5th in command. A stickler for paperwork and protocol, you could count on RB for a fair trail, if not to turn a blind eye. He worked hard to remain neutral or as he puts it, unfavored by both the under and over worlds. If you had loose ends or unpaid debts in the underworld, his job at the time was to find you and get you to trial. A job which to his credit, he always executed in a fair and impartial way, with great deference to the correct rules and procedures.

–>>But this job wasn’t his exactly his choice. It was in fact a life sentence. A punishment for something he had done during his mortal life. What did he do exactly? Well it appears that RB had been a sorcerer of with great elemental power who played a particularly cruel game on the world once, deploying a massive flood that became a part of history. In honour of this event he called himself Noah of Ark, which explains why he sometimes signs his posts as Noah and performs grim readings for children who survive great floods.

–>>Having successfully completed his mission here on SOS earned RB a chance at a dubious promotion. He could be released from his job, defeating a Shinigami  named Rizoriregoon in armed combat. While at first it appeared that RB succeeded, it soon became clear that his opponent had in fact joined him in a most unusual way as a result of the fight.

(Although on the bright side, he became along with Reaper, a founding member of the Society of Grim Reapers.)

–>> This change wasn’t all bad though. He became a big defender of the state of Wisconsin. Possibly it was the cheese or the fact that he claims this state holds the biggest reaper stronghold in the mortal world but he successfully defended it from the wrath of Azreal on at least two occasions. And after a chance encounter with a Cupid he acquired a family of supernatural inlaws who continue to haunt him…

–>>After that, things got weirder when the Singularity got to RB. In a freak electrical storm brought on by March madness, his personae became fused with his cat and RB has never quite been the same. Although it does appear to have softened his link to the Underworld, Among other strangenesses still under research…

Understand though, even the SOTM prize can’t guarantee RB ‘s sanity. He is still way too prone to long posts in dead languages and binary. And he still appears to be missing his spirit and too unwilling to let anyone help him regain it. And he still has a burning hole where his heart once beat for the Reapers who have spent too long in the Overworld, in his opinion those who have may have gone a little soft on us mortals. And The Reaper in particular. But in general, you can rely on RB to let you know where you stand with a flurry of flaming paperwork and for that alone, he is a worthy recipient of the cursed SOTM prize.

I won’t say he make us all safer, but he has become a valuable longstanding contributer to the supernatural knowledge here at SOS.

Long may you keep on keeping on, RB.

Seth

So far so good Survivors, the triscadeca moon is on the wane and it’s safe to take that elevator beyond the twelfth floor again.*

*Providing of course you have verified that it is not in fact a hellevator in which case I would still not advise hitting any buttons below the ground floor.  Although there have been no official Black Shuck sightings yet, I still cannot guarantee there won’t be any…

But if you are reading this then you must have survived so far so congratulations, knock on wood and get ready for to guess the new Survivor of the Month. This time it’s a particularly appropriate choice because Graham and I are preparing an investigatory mission to his realm.

So here are the clues. I’ll roll them 13 of them  over the next 24 hours. See if you can guess who it is before the final announcement on Sunday night.

Guess the Survivor of the Month

1. He was a police officer of the underworld, shade class 5th in command. As such he deals with a lot of infernal paperwork – and definitely not the kind you want delivered to you, trust me. If you are currently in default of an infernal debt, you might find out for yourself.

2. You many remember that he originally came here on a criminal investigation, to gather evidence and deliver a summons to somebody on the site. But who was he investigating again? I seem to recall it was… oh yes… wow that was close… good thing I have another year…

3. As such, he worked hard to remain neutral or as he puts it, unfavored by both the under and over worlds. If you had loose ends or unpaid debts in the underworld, his job at the time was to find you and get you to trial. A job which to his credit, he always executed in a fair and impartial way, with great deference to the correct rules and procedures.

4. But this job wasn’t his exactly his choice. Having finished his original mission here on the site, he was finally able to leave his position and fight his way to a new position.

5. His promotion seemed pretty good at first and then went horribly wrong. To be released from his job, he had to defeat a Shinigami  named Rizoriregoon in armed combat. While at first it appeared that he succeeded, it soon became clear that his opponent had in fact joined him in a most unusual way.

(6. Although on the bright side, he was along with Reaper, a founding member of the Society of Grim Reapers.)

7. Along the way we all discovered the reason for his life sentence serving the underworld. In life it appears he had been a sorcerer of with great elemental power who played a particularly cruel game on the world once, deploying a massive flood that became a part of history.

8. Discovered that Reapers come up as zombies on The Monstrometer, owing to the smell of death and decay that lingers on them as part of the job. A helpful tip that I appreciate enough to overlook some of his er, less helpful moments here on the site. Of which there are admittedly quite a few…

9. One part of his mission involved cracking down on Reapers who have spent too long in the Overworld, in his opinion those who have may have gone a little soft on us mortals – and The Reaper in particular.

10. That said, he is a big defender of Wisconsin. I don’t know if it’s the cheese or the fact that he claims this state holds the biggest reaper stronghold in the mortal world but he successfully defended it from the wrath of Azreal on at least two occasions.

11. In general though, he doesn’t think much of mortals. Human mortals anyway. He actually likes mortal animals. (Which likely makes him a friend of the werewolves too, I would think although he hasn’t explicitly stated this.)

12. He is also partial to giant boats. Although not partial enough to remember where he parks them.

13. After an unexpected encounter with a mischievous cupid, he did for a time acquire a number of Akumi inlaws. I’m not sure how that turned out for either of them…

I think that’s more than enough clues for this infernal survivor. I’m pretty sure that anyone who has read them will have guessed it by now and if you thought it would be a cold day in the underworld before SOS would honour this survivor, well, you’re not alone. But you know what I always say sometimes, with survival anything is possible…