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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MortalPlague" data-source="post: 6709122" data-attributes="member: 62721">That's where I thought the list of ingredients was aside from the word count.  I didn't realize that it was purely a list with nothing added, since in the past, we've usually written a small line about where they were included.  Just figured I'd show where the confusion may have stemmed from.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Congratulations to Wicht for the win.  I'll confess I, too, found these elements to be very challenging.  How does one include 'Happy Chance' without it just being a random happenstance?  I went through several ideas which could hit on three or four elements, but putting the last few in was always a challenge.  When I came up with a casino run by a retired orc warchief, I knew I had something fun, so I ran with it.The 750 word limit was a big challenge.  I deliberately left the employer and the reward out of the adventure, since they are entirely irrelevant to the goings-on in the casino.  I wanted to devote my word count to setting the stage, to giving the party some NPCs to interact with, and to the challenge that needed to be overcome.  With more words, I would have loved to introduce more NPCs in the mix.Either way, it was fun to compete.  Thanks for running the competition, and good luck the rest of the way, Wicht!</blockquote>

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