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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MortalPlague" data-source="post: 6510312" data-attributes="member: 62721">Against The Abberancy was a spectacular adventure, and I'm looking for a way to fit it into my current gaming schedule.  I know my players would enjoy it greatly.  When that happens, I'll be sure to let you know how it goes, [MENTION=60965]Iron Sky[/MENTION].As for me, this has been a whirlwind of events.  Let me break it down a little.I noticed the Iron DM thread up and going, a good fifteen pages in or so.  I've competed in a few of them before (I think once against you, Iron), and I have always had a lot of fun piecing together an adventure from different elements.  It's a great creative exercise.  So I dropped a post in the thread, suggesting if they needed an extra player, I'd be happy to step in.Not 48 hours later, they kicked off our bracket.I received the elements on Wednesday night, late, just before I went to bed.  I was busy preparing for my Thursday game, where my players would be dining at a Banquet in the Nine Hells, hosted by Dispater himself.  So anything but idle thought on the elements was shelved in favor of rigorous prep-work.Thursday morning, I went to work.  Then I had 90 minutes between work and my evening game to polish up my Nine Hells banquet.  Then I went to my Thursday game, where I'm co-DM'ing with a friend of mine as we finish up Rise of Tiamat.  He did not finish his section, however, which meant the banquet did not happen.  Instead, I was drafting up ideas between rounds of combat (especially after my paladin got knocked out and nearly slain by an ancient white spellcasting dragon).Getting home around midnight, I set out hashing out ideas.  Every element actually clicked pretty well for me; I'd been spinning them around, but the centaur warlock angle had the most appeal.  I called up my friend to bounce ideas off of, and I came up with the twist that Abanno was actually double-crossing the PCs.  I had my adventure.I had till 6 AM, so I had enough time to work on this.  I realized I hadn't asked what time zone it was from, so I checked in.  6 AM... eastern.  In an hour and a half.  I immediately set to typing, and managed to get it in with 3 minutes to spare.  If I'd had the extra few hours, I know I could have polished it up quite a bit more, and I would have included a stat block for Darriabran (who, admittedly, is a little more complex than an ordinary centaur).  But I was just happy to get it in with an idea that tied everything together nicely.I hope, for the next round, things fall on a day where I'm less busy.  I'll still be running Dispater's Banquet on Thursday, but all my prep work is done for it, so there's no work beyond the session itself.  I'm excited to see where things go from here.Thanks to [MENTION=60965]Iron Sky[/MENTION] for the excellent competition; when I saw Against the Abberancy, I was sure I had lost.  And thanks to [MENTION=2342]phoamslinger[/MENTION] and [MENTION=67]Rune[/MENTION] for running the competition; organizing and judging something like this can't be easy work, and I really appreciate all your efforts thus far.</blockquote>

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