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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 5211716" data-attributes="member: 50987">These little zingers are usually my favorite ingredients on the list.  I remember the one you are thinking of, the "Flaming Frying Pan of the Master Chef."  Myself, I had to contend with "The Symbol of the First Spirits."You are right; the ingredient can easily become the focal point of the whole adventure if you let it.  And that isn't necessarily a bad thing.  Here is what I would do, if I were in this round:[Spoiler]Let's take a look at "The Dark God's Dirty Dishes."  Now, at first glance, I imagine a big tub of plates, forks, goblets, and so forth, stained from some horrible ritual or something.  Why do we care about dishes?  What does a Dark God eat?  Who is this Dark God, anyway, and why does he even have a collection of dirty dishes in the first place?I can continue down this road, shoehorning in the other ingredients along the way, and I would probably end up with a great adventure that takes place in, say, the kitchen of Vecna's temple.  Nothing wrong with that.  But if I deconstructed that ingredient word-by-word, I might find a scenario that allows three or four more ingredients to slip into place a little easier.The: specific, implies that there is only one.Dark: could be evil, sinful, or sinister, sure.  But this could also mean black in color, or lacking humor, or closed for business.God's: belonging to or possessed by a superior, supernatural being.Dirty: not clean.  Or: earthy, as in "made of dirt."  Or impure, esp. concerning morality or ethics (a dirty politician, or a dirty lover.)Dishes: could be dining utensils, true.  But "dish" is also a prepared recipe, or the act of serving one.  It could also be slang for gossip, or slang for an attractive female.  In more modern terms, "dish" is a popular brand of satellite TV service.So if we pick and choose among these different definitions, we could end up with a tub of Vecna's dirty plates and silverware....or, a rather loose, seductive trio of succubi that serve Orcus, who must be tricked into giving up some juicy gossip on the temple priests....or, a meal made of gravel and soil, to be served to The Dark God...an earth elemental who is worshipped as a god.  (Get it?  Dishes, made of dirt!  Dirty dishes!)...or, a television station that gets hijacked by a hacker known only as "DarkG0d," who uses the satellite array to transmit smut all over the world.And so on.  In this instance, I would probably go with the succubi.[/Spoiler]I dunno...maybe.  I guess that part of the challenge is to force you to look outside your comfort zone, and try something new.At any rate, most of what we have seen can be used in just about any adventure style.  We have yet to see any highly specific stuff like "Michael Jackson's Thriller Album" or "Space Shuttle Atlantis."But like IVV said, the competition is young.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /></blockquote>

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