Results for Chapter 4

Chapter 4 was a close call but Slowly Rolls the Tide has won the vote and the_tremelman joins the club of authors. This chapter brings together characters from the story up to now and answers a few questions that were kept open by previous winners. We now know that 'Red' (who appeared in chapter 1) is actually Lana's brother and while driving his truck he witnessed the accident between Star and the girl in the Porsche. But a new mystery arises now... what is Red carrying in the back of his truck?? Here are the final results:

EndOfThisWorld uses instant-runoff voting (IRV) as its voting system. During the Voting Period, voters rank the candidate Chapters in order of preference (1 to 5). If no candidate receives majority of first choices (i.e. above 50%), the least voted candidate is eliminated and its votes are redistributed to the remaining ones, according to the received rankings. This process is repeated until the leading candidate achieves majority.

Compared to the usual plurality vote, where voters select a single candidate, IRV is very nicely suited for EndOfThisWorld, as it avoids making 'black and white' decisions, and, in particular, allows voters to express their opinion on multiple submissions.