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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 4958164" data-attributes="member: 94">holy crap! I came here first, before the judgment... let me take a look and come back for the mutual backslappin'...Ok. Everything sblocked in case judges or others don't want to see it:[sblock]This is key for me:I think this is a very apt observation. I was very aware that the Holy Avenger was probably among my weakest ingredients.First, let me see that I tried to work the ingredients into multiple places-- the Reticent Constable is certainly Claudius, but also perhaps the Kolyarut; the holy avenger is a sword but also perhaps the paladin himself, etc.No question it was weak.It's a really hard ingredient to get in-- there's no call for a holy avenger against (the obvious antagonists) the slaad: They ain't evil.Barring that ingredient, I am confident that the seeds of a really good investigative, instructional adventure are here. Free from the shackles of the competition, this is an entry I can see myself blowing out later.So... Immediately after saying that I don't pander to the proclivities of the judges, I'm left with the obvious fact that I sneaked through this round by the skin of my teeth by... getting lucky on the proclivities of the judge.(FYI: There was no other literary "visitation of three ghosts" analogue intended.)Despite the fact that I'm happy with the basic premise and setup of my entry, I don't have the same confidence in my use of the ingredients, and given a different judge-- particularly Phoamslinger, and his exhortation to make sure that all the ingredients are used in a unique and non-interchangeable way-- I would certainly have lost this round.So I feel that my entry-- in addition to this mea culpa-- has really done nothing other than raise the bar on myself for the next round.I'll do my best to carry the "Former Champion" banner high on Wicht's behalf and give these newbies wot's wot.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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