Reviews, reviews. I read them all. Gosh, that was a lot of text, and I am pretty sure that the last entry was more than all the rest combined. *checks* Yupp, it is. Now, then. As always, these are straight from my own opinion. I do not intend to dissuade anyone from writing if I say something negative. Anyways. Let's see where we get with these. ... I'm honestly not really sure I like my own reviews, but eh, here they are. Haha.

[hider=The 100% Honest Truth]Oh, one of THOSE entries, I see. You know, the kind where I don't even know if the message is well-delivered or not because I lost myself in the sentences. In either case. I understand the message, I get the lie, I appreciate the quality of the text, though I find myself widely indifferent to this entry. Sure, it's nice, but it doesn't, like, make me quiver from emotional drapery bound around me or something like that. Well, not sure how to fix that. Oh, well.[/hider]

[hider=The Lie of the Beholder]Egh. I sincerely hope there doesn't exist a woman like that. Who's sense of scale is so absurdly out of touch with the world. I understand what you're doing, and honestly, it is well shown off. I'm just, well, not really, um, enjoying the text? Is actually enjoying the text the point of an entry like this? How does one scale how good this is? Hm. Oh, well. An entry in the same vein as the previous one, I'm impartial.[/hider]

[hider=Crude City]... And I thought a single little sentence in the last entry (edit:which is removed) was rather bad, which was depicting the activity abstractedly. This… I can almost say was way worse, even without the actual activity. XD ... This is a dramatic, extensive and excruciatingly raw story. You know, I'm currently sitting on a train reading these, I'm not supposed to have to worry someone might look over and get the wrong idea. That said, well done. You got me engaged into the story. I didn't understand a whole bunch of words that were incredibly situational or local-specific, but I'm fine with that. I am a little disappointed that it simply all ended with her telling him what had happened, and I'm slightly surprised as to why the two body-guards were hostile to be fired at in the end there. Oh, well. Very well done. I could see this story being an enjoyable if really dark and raw movie. It would work. It succeeds as a text, and yepp. It is well done, a nice story, if a bit... raw. This place IS supposed to be at least young teenager friendly, right? XD[/hider]

[hider=The Little Black Lie]Oh, geesh. Yeah, that story was told from the get-go. Poor girl. Hm. It was interesting. There was a sense of mystery that clearly had an answer to it, and it felt like we were getting somewhere. That is, until the main character learned that there was, in fact, a truth than he in fact did not entirely desire to know. I do wonder if it was entirely necessary to kill off the entire family. Perhaps it was, due to some twisted logic. Alright, then. It was decently exciting. So, I'll go with it.[/hider]

[hider=The Mirror Boy]Oh, my. That was a strangely magical entry. It was original enough to get me curious, mystic enough to get me excited, and revealed just enough to make me completely baffled. It does appear... something happened. If it was magical in nature or if she was just going mad, left to the reader. I'm usually rather against not learning the whole truth, but you pulled it off in a partly frightening partly heartwarming way. Well done. This one made a definite impression on me.[/hider]

[hider=Dramatic Reveal]I could have come up with a better name had I actually thought of the name before I had to send it in! XD[/hider]

[hider=New Existence]... Heh. If I divide a larger, but still not quite large, story up into five parts... then this is either the second or the fourth part. Very well written, as I've come to expect of you. Very interesting and engaging, as I've come to expect of you. And... not the whole tale, as I've come to- eh. XD ... Regardless, everything here felt like it was pulled off exactly as was intended. But honestly, if I got to personally pick which part of the story I wanted to read, I would not have picked this part. Haha. In any case. Flawless quality and narrative skill. If the art of writing engaging stories can become greater than yours, then I can no longer tell the difference. I'm currently feeling an eager desire of reading the beginning and the end of what tale these characters are heading off on. Of course, I can't, I only have this part. Haha. ... Though, what lie are we talking about here? Almost all she said was the truth, wasn't it? The lie which the theme seems to focus on is the lie which she's setting up, that the Countess is still alive, correct? Wouldn't it then be more appropriate to the theme to write about when she fools the prey? Eh, maybe not. In any case. Well done, if I didn't say that. Well done.[/hider]

[hider=An Unforseen Consequence]And the last entry is a frickin' monster. Alright, let's do this.

... Sigh. It kind of feels like you hit my face with the last one, there. I had started to like the guy, damn it. Oh... well... It is rather well written. It is riddled with minor errors, but despite that, I didn't feel too disturbed by them. It tells a rather entertaining story of conquest, going into depth in a way I would expect from professionals, and it all kept me reading to the end. It had quite a few rather entertaining little scenes, amusing characters and interesting development that makes you like to think that this will all lead to something. ... Nah. Just... just nah. Just basic, boring betrayal. I read through 20 000 words to get a basic, boring betrayal in the end. Kaaaaaaaaaaay.

Hm. I mean, betrayal ends shouldn’t necessarily disappoint me. Why do I feel disappointed whenever I see it done so straight? Because I’ve seen it so many times before? I don’t know. I just don’t like them. If someone does a betrayal end, then… I wonder what I should be thinking for it to be pulled off well. I shouldn’t discourage people from using a kind of end, that’d be stupid, but I cannot for the love of all that is holy imagine a betrayal end that I would appreciate. How strange of me. Oh, well. I appreciate the amount of time and effort you've put into this, anyways. I certainly love the first 19 000 words, at least. That's got to be most of it, right? They're entertaining, okay? Well done! 

I've never played Half Life. Is this the world it is? I must say, then, you've done a impressively good job in telling how it looks like to an outsider. I kind of understood what was going on. Not sure how much of it is from your roleplay canons, but I got a pretty good glimpse of what this world is like, according to myself. Interesting. Thanks for that unique introduction. That, I believe, is definitely the best thing about this entry that was given to me by the time it was over. The way you portrayed a foreign world was magical in a way to read and got the reader quite invested. Good job on that. Yupp.[/hider]

[hider=Sonnet O]I'm... confused. Is this a parody of something? I mean... yeah, the final statement is a joke when you blame a random thing that makes no sense to blame Obama for on Obama. Sooooo... was it an accident that was described earlier? That's, uh, not what it reads like. I'm confused. I'm so confused.[/hider]

[hider=Reality Checkmate]That... was beautiful. Rolled off the tongue. Pretty lines, on point, I never once felt that a rhyme was forced. It told a little story, which I found I actually got invested in, despite the highly restricted amount of information I was provided. An emotional reaction from me from a story told through poetry? What madness is this? In any case. Very well done. That's how one does good these kinds of entries, I imagine. Thank you for showing me. I like it. Thanks.[/hider]

I haven't voted yet. I'm not sure what I want to vote for, so give me a while to figure it out.