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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 1182876" data-attributes="member: 11">Sorry about the mess -as we all know I was working on it right up to the last minute.  As someone who spends a lot of time editing other people's writing - I am a notoriously sloppy writer who is really bad at editing myself - usually for my own writing I set it aside for a week before going thru with a red pen - otherwise it just too close and makes sense to my addled mind. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  And hey, I like nested paranthesis and you know - hyphens <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />EDIT: I wanted to add that the poor organization comes from my style of working on these entries, which is to write whatever section come to me first and then cut and past around sentences and chunks of sentences and paragraphs until it is is vaguely in some kind of chronological order.  I often stop in the middle of one section (in this entry while writing about the journey to the sacred hill) to go back and write another (Lothario's connection to the dwarf).I promise to be more organized and concise in my next entry (as I will not have to work so hard to beat Wulf <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)Of all my entries I probably re-wrote sections of this more than any other (the original had red-blue dragon hybrid and a volcano and the worm and no dwarf and people thinking the Lothario was dead all along).  I did have a fear that you would get bored or annoyed and stop reading before getting to some of the pay-offs (like the Lothario still being a Lothario), but I had to risk it.  While admit that my use of "heat lightning" was rather stretched - I have to disagree that the use was "silly". Then again, I am a sucker for the conceits and oddities of language and my Aquerra setting has tons of those kinds of weird details built into names of people, places and things.   If I had been judging I would have been pretty harsh on it, too - as I would have been on Rune's use of it - which I was so happy when I read b/c it struck me as lamer than mine - but his ambitious attempt to use sexual politics and gender roles in a society had me worried.I worked hard to have stronger and well-defined NPCs and I think I succeeded - as a DM myself I often try to pull thru a lack-lucter scenario by falling back on my ability to portray interesting and layered characters to the players - both as allies and opponents.Anyway, good round Rune - Sorry again, Daniel. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />See you in the next round Wulf!</blockquote>

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