Survivor of the Month

Why is the Dragon Moon always so crazy? Among other things, I’ve been sifting through messages from two survivors claiming to be Sydney and Mauricio all month. They say they have true info about werewolf Louis Pine’s disappearance. Is it a hoax? I don’t know yet but their messages remain in moderation until I can corroborate their story.

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Meanwhile, thanks to everyone else who contributed to Survival on this Dragon Moon. Graham and I finally spun the app and it’s official, we have a new Survivor of the Month. For those who don’t know, Survivor of the Month is a very small thank you prize, randomly given to a survivor who contributed their knowledge, imagination and concern to the cause of supernatural survival this month. Each helpful or enlightening or imaginative survival-oriented comment earns you one “ticket” in a draw on the full moon and if you survive, your prize arrives in the email. Or else you can donate the prize to another survivor, a la Mr. Mutt – Devorah pay-it-forward style.

Of course, I don’t need to remind you, Survival is it’s own reward.

Guess The Survivor of the Month:

1. This Survivor summoned an old goddess with one of his first SOS messages. No easy feat!

2. This Survivor knew something was up when he noticed that he healed in the shower.

3. This Survivor is helping some other survivors on a dangerous quest that he must complete by June 06 without alerting his adoptive human parents to the situation.

4. But the situation so far looks pretty dire and his coalition appears to be falling apart…

5. On the bright side, he seems to have ahem, licked his old drooling problem.

A Demigod Named Jack

Spare a drachma for the newest Survivor of the Month, a demigod named Jack.

Jack always thought he was human like the rest of his family until one day strange things started happening including strange dreams and spontaneous healing in the shower.

Suspecting that he might be a demigod, possibly a halfblood son of Poseidon, Jack sought the wisdom of the elusive Goddess of Fate and to everyone’s surprise, received a reply and some advice from her, thus confirming his probable status as a demigod.

(For those who don’t know or remember the Goddess of Fate, she is the daughter of Artemis and Poseidon and responsible for the fates of many, if not all, the demis on the site. It’s a huge responsibility that takes her to the ends and depths of the earth as well as, I suspect, to protracted periods of pretending to be human, so she can hide from  us all.)

Having confirmed his status as a demigod, Jack went on to seek and share information he discovered about sending Iris messages, rock singers making prophesies on stage and other valuable info.

More importantly, he helped marshall a group of Demigods searching for their training camp. For a while it seemed he was hiding in the woods, sleeping in the trees to keep the monsters chasing him away from his family but now it seems like he has identified his adoptive parents as the source of the monsters allied against him. There’s a lot of them, and he could still use some help.

(There’s no word if the other demigods, Connor , Shadow Rider and Shadow Warrior  and Daughter of Zeus are still with him after an argument broke out in their ranks about the true source of the forces aligned against them. Is it really Hades as the Daughter claims? Or could it be Hera again? Or somebody else?)

I’ll have to wait for the reports to come back, if they survive. As Curious so accurately points out, sometimes its hard to send a message when you’re busy fighting so you have to wait.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to SOS this month. You keep me keeping on. Without you there would be no Survival.

Wild Moon Survivor of the Month Clues: 

1. Well it’s official, the Survivor of the Month is a werewolf again! A bitten werewolf to be exact.

2. This survivor, like many before, suffers from debilitating muffinitis.

3. This survivor is leader of a very unique pack.

Okay the clues this month were pretty vague, I’m the first to admit, but hey there was a lot going on. It was an epic month for a couple of survivors but with a roll of the virtual dice, we have a winner. If you guessed RAINSTORM, you guessed right.

In the Eye of Rainstorm

Try being in my fur…

It takes a real Survivor to enlist the help of others to win an epic battle. It takes a Super Survivor to find new ways to help others on their own quests at the same time. Rainstorm, the Wild Moon Survivor of the Month managed to do just that.

Rainstorm dropped by the site on the new moon to report about her pack, the Sapphire Pack. It’s a pretty new pack, they roam the Sapphire Forest which must be a truly awesome forest because apparently it’s full of jewels, providing you know where to look. And Rainstorm and her pack, they know where to look. It’s said they have a substantial hoard in a secret place in that forest. Needless to say, I’m searching for this forest as we speak, but all my attempts to trick Rainstorm into giving away the location so far have fallen on deaf ears.

(Good Internet security Rainstorm, too bad for me! Don’t think I’m giving up though.)

All of this makes me think Rainstorm must be a kind of Dragon Wolf. We don’t know for sure, because she has not divulged her attacker, but consider this fact – Rainstorm has wings. Are they shadow wings or light wings or flesh and blood? When do they appear? These are still open questions but maybe someday there will be a report.

Rainstorm suffered from an acute case of muffinitis this moon, which led to one particularly bad week on the site in which she threatened to kill anyone and everyone, effectively crashing the moderation filter (PLEASE NOTE: none of these comments were entered in the draw LOL!). She was almost killed after a mysterious gift of silver bracelets almost killed her. In the fallout from that she was suspended from school. Did she wolf out and attack a classmate? By all appearances she may have done.

Not long after, her arch-nemesis Snowfall tracked her down on SOS.

Snowfall, it seems, is a white werewolf and a former member of her pack with a grudge. The details of this grudge remain a little vague, something about an angel and a baby but one thing is clear – it took almost all the survivors on the site to defeat Snowfall.

And still in the middle of all this, Rainstorm found ways to help others survive, for instance helping to heal Rustpelt, by bringing him a vial of vampire blood to strengthen him in his fight. Of course, Rustpelt helped her right back which is why Rainstorm nominated him for Survivor of the Month.

( But that’s not how Survivor of the Month works at present. It’s just a random draw where each of your helpful, fun, descriptive, creative or entertaining comments or questions or suggestions or descriptions or observations are one “ticket.” Sometimes the winner only made a few comments and got lucky or sometimes the winner got a lot of tickets, that’s how random works.)

In any event, thanks to everyone who contributed to survived the Wild Moon with us this month, including Rainstorm. If she hasn’t been busted by a wolf cop you might catch her on the site one day again. Feel free to say “hi” and ask her a question – like, can we have a map showing the location of the Sapphire Forrest please? 

As the wild moon rises tonight I have 10 free play promo codes for the game Zombie Apocalypse: Survival School Edition for 10 lucky survivors. The game is from survivor Marc, programmer and trusted friend of the site. He is still convinced that proper use of cauliflower can save your life from zombies. Try his game for free and see if you agree. I guarantee that it’s fun and completely free – even if I’m not quite convinced about the efficacy of cauliflower as an improvised weapon. Point is, if you get an email with a code in it from me, please don’t worry, the game is free, no strings attached. If you don’t have an iOS device, you can pay it forward to somebody else.

(BTW, a big thanks to everyone who picked up Archie Hartigan and the Frost Wolf for iPad already. The other versions are almost ready.)

AND of course we are rolling out the Survivor of the Month. Meanwhile check out:

• Firefang on the lunar eclipse! Does this explain the demon wolf reports?
• Forecast is calling for two possible new WWs: ?wolf (whose name will now forever appear in pink to remind me that she is not a dude) and Devorah who has been battling demon wolves with her hockey stick. Must be the eclipse. Will they become shadow wolves now? I sure hope not but they do seem to be wolfing out…
• Who is this Slash dude they are fighting?
• New theory from RYAN about Forrest Fenn’s gold and the meaning of “home of Brown” & “blaze.” 

And do you know the true history of the Wild Werewolves? If not, read the new article from the WWs at yourlupinelife.

WILD MOON SURVIVOR OF THE MONTH CLUES: 

1. Well it’s official, the Survivor of the Month is a werewolf again! A bitten werewolf to be exact.

2. This survivor, like many before, suffers from debilitating muffinitis.

3. This survivor is leader of a very unique pack.

That’s all the clues for now. More clues tomorrow night. Stop by if you survive the eclipse.

Hail Survivors!

Well here we are, some 1096 days after SOS began, welcoming our 3 millionth survivor. The counter rolled over in the middle of the night here so I’m still trying to figure out all the details but one thing is clear in mine emailz today – ALEX showed up right on schedule – er, sort of – to scoop up a million man prize with this screenshot —>

(Not his fastest work, I agree but hey, it was the middle of the night. Plus, Alex IS getting old. All that time travel takes its toll.)

There may be more but so far he’s the closest shot to 3 million. So thanks Alex for keeping on. I feel like I should deliver this your third prize, in person this time. Hmmm…yeah! And then I’ll scan you. Cause I’m pretty sure you’re a threat, I just don’t know what kind anymore!

(Joke. Check thine emailz on the full moon.)

(But I am still coming to scan you. Soon. Ish.)

And thanks to everyone for keeping on and for your well wishes. As you may have noticed, survival can be pretty tough when you’re only a human, so monster thanks to all you super supernatural beasts and beings who help keep us all alive against the odds.

We’ll celebrate our unlikely survival on the full moon, Thursday April 25. There’s a lot to celebrate about this month. The three million mark plus the launch of the first SOS Interactive Adventure: Archie Hartigan and the Frost Wolf and of course the next Survivor of the Month. Who will it be?

Thanks to everyone who has stopped by SOS in the last 3 million. You keep me keeping on.

Seth