Survivor of the Month

Well we made it! Thanks to everyone who survived the St. Paddy’s Day SOS server slorkfest. Due to the confusion around here, we’re trying a new game for the Wind Moon only. It’s pretty easy but also kinda hard.

It goes like this. This month the Full Moon will shine on all past Survivors of the Month. Hidden in the Survivor of the Month and Hall of Famer profiles will be a number of words or letters that will turn the colour of moonlight YELLOW. 

To win, you just have to re-read the survivor profiles and find the moonlit word and letters and write them down.But then comes the hard part. The next step is to arrange the moonlight words and letters in the right order to reveal a sort-of-secret SOS message.

(And no, it is not keep on keeping on! Although please don’t forget to do that anyway.)

When you think you have unscrambled the secret SOS message email it to me at seth@sethonsurvival.com. We will draw a winner from among the winning entries if there is more than one.

The game begins NOW! as the full moon rises and continues until there is a winner. I’ll be around catching up on all the true Survival stories playing out now at SOS and making links so I’ll be checking my email throughout the night.

Last thing, who can play? Well basically anyone who has ever left an SOS message that was interesting or inquisitive or imaginative or educational or fun. You make Survival worthwhile.

The prize of course is still a small iTunes number in your email for you or somebody you like, no strings attached. Actually ONE string attached. That you keep on being supernaturally awesome wherever you are, because that helps us all survive.

UPDATE: More details about how to play and win the game here: http://sethonsurvival.com/survival-news/this-week-in-survival-find-the-full-moon-message-begins

Divining Devorah’s Destiny

Well if you, like the Ouroborous Eternal, guessed Devorah for SOTM this month? You were right! Over the past several months this werewolf has proven herself to be a careful and considerate member of the SOS community. You can always count on Devorah to ask a good question or express her concern for a fellow survivor. Need somebody to join your rescue mission? Devorah will be there. Providing she doesn’t have a hockey game.

(Unless it’s a full moon. She doesn’t play hockey on the full moon because what if her silver orthodontics fail to prevent her transformation – right in front of everyone? Not to mention, can werewolves even skate? Probably best not to find out the hard way during a game.)

The good thing about Devorah coming to rescue you is this – she will not forget you. Sometimes on SOS a rescue group gets started and then well, other stuff happens. It’s nobody’s fault really, we all have to survive out there and survival can get pretty complicated. So on many full moons the rescue-ee ends up saving themselves, usually with a little luck and a foggy memory of the events that almost killed them.

But if you see an SOS group coming to save you that includes Devorah, you’re in luck. Because she will fight to remember the mission and keep the party together. We don’t know if this power comes from her human side or her werewolf side, but whatever the case, many survivors on the site including Luna appreciate it.

Of course, Devorah has other powers too – after all, she is a werewolf. Specifically, an Oak werewolf, although she hasn’t experienced her first transformation yet and she hasn’t been to the faerie tree to meet her clan or begin training. (Which explains her default avatar.) Will she meet her faerie guide and make the journey? Or will her silver anti-lycan orthodontics keep her safe and human at home?

Until then Devorah relies on spells given to her by other survivors on the site, like Moon Song and Midnight Wrath. And of course LycantheProtector’s lycanthroporous flowers – one petal eaten at midnight on a full moon will enable you to transform for 24 hours.

Devorah also has a mysterious undeveloped skill(s)  that Area-51 has been tracking. Will Firefang join forces with her in figuring it out? Or will the mysterious assasin “Chad” succeed in stealing this power before we even know what it is?

So what is Devorah’s Destiny? We’ll just have to keep on keeping on to find out. Any destiny worth having takes time to develop and includes others, so I’m willing to wait and see.

Thanks to Devorah and to everyone who contributed to divining her destiny this month  -or if you included Devorah in your destiny, thanks for that too. You make SOS awesome.

Seth

Who would believe that SOS could survive another month? Let alone this particular month, with its werewolves who hang out with zombies, busload of ill-mannered aliens and haunted mirrors, to name just a few of the beings who are being around here.

But here we are, another full moon is rising to its height tonight and soon we will have another Survivor of the Month.  Graham and I have counted up all helpful, fun, curious or informative entries & comments now and spun the wheel. The clues are appearing below.

More importantly, thanks to every being who contributed to Survival this month. You keep me keeping on. And even if you don’t receive a small iTunes thank you in your email this month, there’s still lots of ways to contribute. Not the least of which is the SOS Video Challenge.  You make a short video with some reliable survival tips or tricks for your werewolf, zombie or alien friends and we all win. You get an iTunes thank you card in your email and lives will be saved, I guarantee it 99.99%. Just make sure you disguise your real appearance in some way.

Thanks for keeping on with SOS.

Guess The Survivor of the Month: 

1. This Survivor is very protective of other Survivors on the site and will GROWL menacingly at any hint of cruelty or bullying.

2. Which is to say, this Survivor (correction here!) is a suspected werewolf – genetic or bitten we are still unsure. Personally, I have begun to suspect her mothers’ side of the family. Although her mom denies it, she has a thing for the full moon.

3. We do know this much – she is probably an Oak werewolf.

4. But unfortunately due to her anti-lycanthropic orthodontics i.e. braces made of real silver alloy, they have do not transform like a genetic WW yet and must rely on spells and lycanthroporous flowers provided by LycantheProtector.

5. This werewolf doesn’t always say much, but is always quick with a good question or a friendly hello.

6. This WW has the record for the shortest SOS message on the site. (Note: this message was discarded for the draw!)

6. This WW has a friend who is a shapeshifter.

7. This survivor founded a pack called the Silvermoon pack, and then very generously dedicated it to the honor of a legendary WW on the site named Silvermoon.

8. Most importantly, this WW is always on the lookout for others to help. Case in point – she is still on the lookout for Luna and recruiting others on the site to figure out what happened. What did happen to Luna anyway? With the help of this survivor we may yet figure it out.

I’m thinking that’s enough clues for everyone to know the answer. But stop by tomorrow for the final write up! (And if you are this Survivor, please send me an email I can use to send you your prize which is just a small iTunes card number or else donate the prize to another survivor on the site and I will send it to them on your behalf, Mr. Mutt style!)

Thanks to everyone for keeping on.

Seth

Well the Ice Moon came and went. Can you believe we survived another one? More or less anyway. Some more, some less. There’s still lots of unanswered questions here on the site. It will take me all week to sort it out for This Week In Survival.

But tonight I’m finally putting up the Survivor of the Month Clues below. Winner and profile to follow.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to Survival this month. Please stand by and keep on keeping on. Please  enjoy this freaky poem by Werewolf13 in honor of werewolf Robbie Burns day…

Whispers fill your mind with fear.
You feel a ghostly presence is near.
The wind gives off a frozen chill.
Cold so sharp it could kilI.
Phantoms flow in the air.
Invisible to the eye but still there.
You know now that you are done.
The game was lost.
The fear has won!

And Now For the Survivor of the Month Clues…

1. This Survivor is not a boy – but IS a werewolf.

2. This Survivor has a friend with a suspicious toad problem. (Somebody needs to contact her school, see if any boys have disappeared lately.)

3. This Survivor has a blind grandpa who lost his sight in werewolf form, now his human eyes can only see by the moon.

…and you guessed it, the Survivor of the Month for the Ice Moon is:

LOKI

Check back here for a link to a summary of Loki’s ongoing epic, which I am almost finished. Thanks to all who survived this moon with SOS and all survivors who came before.

This month, three special promotional codes for a free game also go out to Devorah, Wolflilly and Scarfur, courtesy of iOS game maker and friend of SOS, survivor Marc.

(While I don’t necessarily endorse Marc’s survival lessons, I can vouch for his honesty. His promo game codes are just good, free, fun. Pretty hard! but fun.)

You keep me keeping on.

Seth