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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 5202695" data-attributes="member: 50987"><img src="http://veggiemacabre.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/alton-brown-knives.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Welcome to the second match of Iron DM!  Chairman InVinoVeriatas has just brought out one of the most insane collections of adjectives and nouns that has ever been seen!  Grab your dictionary, thesarus, and a half-dozen other textbooks, and walk with me down to the floor of  <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/plots-places/277580-iron-dm-2010-all-submissions-judgments.html#post5202646" target="_blank">Kitchen Stadium</a> for a closer look![Spoiler]My inner Geology geek is squealing like a litle girl over the first ingredient: Urban Sinkhole!  This has lots of potential as an ingredient, primarily because it is terrifying. I have wanted to see one of these get used in an Iron DM competition for a good long while...let's see what our chefs can cook up with it.Then we have a punk...pulk...pelch...perchiferous, no, oh forget it.  Some sort of Waif. I have no idea what this means, but it sounds diabolical. A quick look at my dictionary tells me that it's...perfect. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />My neighborhood is absolutely a-flutter with the next ingredient, Helicopter Seeds.  Of course, I didn't know that is what they were called until I looked it up in my North American Wildlife field book.  Growing up, we called them something else entirely.We are back on track with more traditional Iron DM ingredients, with Historical Doppleganger.  This double-barreled ingredient is very versatile, and can be used in many different ways in a story depending on which word you want to emphasize.  A DM could have lots of fun with a Historical Doppleganger, for example, or he could use his History textbook find lots of real-world examples of Historical Dopplegangers.  This ingredient is the literary equivalent of tarragon: it can bring the whole dish together, or it can make everything taste weird.Now, we dig out our Psychology textbook for our next ingredient, the Self-Destructive Spiral.  Aside from being the basis for punk rock, this spicy little pepper can be used in all sorts of ways when it is pulled out of the real world and stuffed into a fantasy setting.  It could be a place.  Or a thing.  Or a monster.  Or a type of treasure.  Or the music style of choice for a violent band of bards named the Sex Crossbows.Our last ingredient is an Out-of-tune Cello.  I guess compared to the other five ingredients, this one sort of sounds flat (rimshot), but don't underestimate it.  An Iron DM knows to avoid cliche at all costs, and every time there is a musical instrument in a story, the temptation is to start packing in sprites and bards along with it.  Beware![/Spoiler]One thing is for certain: with a list of ingredients this insane, the contestants will be pushing their creativity to the limit.  Good luck, fellas.  Glad it's not my list. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/worried.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":-S" title="Uhm    :-S" data-shortname=":-S" /></blockquote>

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