{"id":4071,"date":"2019-08-15T17:34:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/corvis-and-i-need-your-help\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:29:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:29:01","slug":"corvis-and-i-need-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=4071","title":{"rendered":"Corvis and I need your help!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve just announced on the front page, the newest entries in the <a href=&quot;http:\/\/suvudu.com\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Suvudu<\/a> (Random House) Cage Match are up. For the first time, one of my own characters&#8211;<a href=&quot;http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php\/publishers\/spectra\/01_sp_conquerors-shadow\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corvis Rebaine<\/a>&#8211;is part of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>And I need your help.<\/p>\n<p>See, each match has a written scenario, describing how the folks at Suvudu <em>believe<\/em> the match would go. And they also asked me to write <em>my<\/em> version of how I think the match should go.<\/p>\n<p>But ultimately, it comes down to a vote. And that means that more popular\/famous characters have an edge over newer\/less famous ones, purely because their fanbase is substantially larger. Sure, people <em>should<\/em> vote on who they think would win based on the characters and descriptions, but lots of people vote based on the characters they like better, or who they&#8217;ve heard of.<\/p>\n<p>And Corvis&#8217;s first opponent? Severus Snape.  \ud83d\ude2f Yeah, the Harry Potter fandom is <em>slightly<\/em> larger than the Corvis Rebaine fandom.<\/p>\n<p>So please. Please, please, please. I really want Corvis to make a good showing, at least in the first couple of rounds. So, you can <a href=&quot;http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php\/news\/march-9-2011-corvis-rebaine-vs-severus-snape\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here to read my version of the match<\/a>. You can <a href=&quot;http:\/\/sf-fantasy.suvudu.com\/2011\/03\/cage-match-2011-severus-snape-versus-corvis-rebaine.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here to read the Suvudu version of the match<\/a>. But ultimately, what I need you to do is <a href=&quot;http:\/\/sf-fantasy.suvudu.com\/2011\/03\/cage-match-2011-severus-snape-versus-corvis-rebaine.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here and vote for Corvis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty please?  <img src=\"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/mrgreen.png\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve just announced on the front page, the newest entries in the Suvudu (Random House) Cage Match are up. For the first time, one of my own characters&#8211;Corvis Rebaine&#8211;is part of the contest. And I need your help. See, each match has a written scenario, describing how the folks at Suvudu believe the match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}