Ceramic DM Winter 07 (Final Judgment Posted)

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Desperation is the mother of invention. I'm sure yangnome will find some way to torture something out of me.

Actually, I was walking to work on this fine spring morning, and I got to thinking about the Rocky Horror vs The Cabbage Patch Kids threat. Now I can't get the damn soundtrack out of my head, and all I can think about is doing the Time Warp.

 

[Berandor]

I'm not. I feel devoid of ideas, drained of all creativity.

Just think of the last round as double xp weekend... it'll work out.

 

[Piratecat]

Berandor for the win.

 

[KidCthulhu]

A little piece of me thinks that I should write a private story to them as a writing exercise. On the other hand, a great big piece of me thinks that the little piece is smoking some serious crack.

Not that I'm being a nodge or anything, but if you've got all those creative juices sloshin' around, there's a perfectly good story hour that needs some lovin'.

Yep, just call me little Ms Ulterior Motive.

 

[Sialia]

I'm not. I feel devoid of ideas, drained of all creativity.

Ah, no sweat --the pictures are supposed to provide those.

Erm.

Although I admit I spent a long while thinking "wouldn't it be great to give the final round folks some really innocuous pictures that hardly suggested anything so they could write about whatever they wanted? I mean, they're the champions, they should be able to pull a great story out of a blank page in the dark at this point . . . "

heh.

There are so many ways to be cruel in this game.

 

[Sialia]

I'm really excited to see the final round's pictures! A little piece of me thinks that I should write a private story to them as a writing exercise.

That would be the subliminal tic I embedded when last we spoke. It will never cease until you give it what it wants.

It wants you to be its daddy.

 

[yangnome]

OK, pics will be coming at some point tonight. I have to go out for my a going away party for my boss and it is St Patty's Day. I'll post pictures when I get back in, which will likely be after 1200 my time. I also warn you that though I already have the pictures selected, you could wind up with some alcohol-influenced surprises, so if you wake up in the morning and see 40 pictures for the final match, don't say I didn't warn you.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

So long as they don't involve naked yangnome pictures, I'm cool with whatever you can come up with.

 

[yangnome]

Round 4 - Final

Welcome to the final round, Rodrigo vs. CarpeDavid. I wore my kilt to the bar, but no one was drunk enough to find out what I had on under it, so no naked pictures of me.

This round, I wanted to do something slightly different—an all art round. There is one picture I found prior to the CDM, and five great pieces from Sialia. Good luck, have a fun competition.

 

[Gulla]

Yangnome, you are sure this set is not the result of too much Irish brew?

edit: unsure whether all discussion of the pictures should go in the s-block, so to be on the safe side I put it all in one now:
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The pictures are wonderful and I look forward to the two great stories the contestants will produce from them. The first picture is so dark that I cannot see it at all on my equipment, but that might be by design?

[sblock=Not for the contestants]And I think the second picture is just brilliant. To me it is full of fantastic stories. I see a tired and worn out Hero resting in his quest surrounded by a seemingly friendly landscape, but on closer inspection it seems to be a Dragon sneaking up on him.

And that last one is just plain creepy. Maybe a bit too much religios symbolism, but that just makes it more creepy.[/sblock]

A very challenging and interresting choise of pictures. Very good work on running this contest and selecting pictures.

Edit: I did some tinkering after finally getting some picturemanipulation software working I "found" the picture in the dark after using a gammacorrection of about 2 and it was very much there I could not see at all in the original, so I think the original picture might be too dark. But I guess that Siala (as the artist) is the one to have the final word on that?
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Håkon