I think I totally get it now.
No problem. In my experience the easiest way to follow how STV works is an actual example. It's no coincidence that the only places to adopt STV in recent decades -- Northern Ireland (which had lost it back in the 1920s), Scottish local councils, and New Zealand regional councils plus some local councils -- all had watched it working next door or across the water, in Ireland and in Tasmania plus other Australian examples. If BC-STV fails to get adopted, it's because you don't have a nearby example anymore. Maybe the pro-BC-STV campaign should be talking examples about how it used to work in Calgary and Edmonton, and still works in Cambridge Massachusetts. But it wouldn't help much; BC voters just aren't familiar with it.
If you want to give me a sample district to discuss -- perhaps your own -- I'll give you an example of what BC-STV would have done in that district in 2005, and an example of a similar Irish district's recent elections.