Thanks for the kind words. When I submitted it, I felt that I had little to no chance of winning the round with what I had, but if I had done better with my time, I would have had a chance. I felt that your Blood Coral and Cloak were a much, much better use than mine, and even if I had fully written up what I planned, you would have had a solid shot at the round.Atras, I really thought you were going to take the win for this one. Hope to see you again in the next Iron GM. You had a great entry, and I really like how you implemented "Journey's End".
I liked my implementation on it,too, but I didn't like the idea of a place called "Journey's End". I was afraid, though, that if I simply used it as a theme, I'd get dinged for not including an ingredient. Good to know I can use ingredients entirely as themes.
They were a really hard set of ingredients to play with. I'm afraid of what round 3 is gonna bring me.
I feel like I should have better pointed out the use of Con Artist with the Githyanki - no fault of the judge, but the Githyanki was mostly pretending to be a harmless drunk (despite actually being drunk) so that he could rule over the drug trade - if I had fleshed that out better, it would have shown that the Githyanki still had an eye on conquest, like his race favors, but was in no position to attack on his own.
It was a fun exercise, and I will keep my eye on this coming back around next time. Wik, good luck in the next round - the ingredients are likely to just get harder, but you've been a good competitor so far.