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<blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 7305771" data-attributes="member: 60965"><p>[sblock=Self-critique before reading Rune's judgement]This one fell together remarkably easily, though whether I executed on it or not, I'm not sure.</p><p></p><p>I began with my usual listing of every possible definition of each word looking for interesting connections. At first, I looked at Whistling Wind as some sort of steam-powered wind-up machine. Combined with Shallow Grave meaning a body dumped in the ocean and a vision of steampunk pirates danced in my head... but couldn't make the rest click.</p><p></p><p>The next connection was Shallow Grave as in something just barely carved into stone, which I tried to combine with the Mourning Star (a star engraved somewhere) but couldn't figure out where to go from there.</p><p></p><p>The final click was Law and Impasse - some sort of law that was had the players at an impasse. Next was the other meaning of Impass as a road that doesn't go anywhere which seemed a natural fit with Road to Glory.</p><p></p><p>So who was going for glory? The Star of course, but why were they mourning? Everything fell into place - in my mind at least - from there.</p><p></p><p>As soon as I hit post, of course, I immediately saw a couple issues, first among them that I had two "sole survivors". I had originally written that the Veteran <em>thought </em>they were the sole survivor and went far away, but that somehow got edited out.</p><p></p><p>Second, the last battle wasn't actually a battle. Again, originally there was a bit more about how the realm chose to just proclaim it a battle at Gristlyn's word that she was the only survivor of the battle to put and end to an unpopular war, but that got lost in the edit machine.</p><p></p><p>Third, if the Veteran had been there when the cathedral burned, how did they get out the first time if there was no way out the second?</p><p></p><p>Time to read the judgment to see if those misses cost me the match.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>[sblock=After reading Rune's judgement]I have tendency to want to use the less-obvious meanings of words, to be clever or to do something different from my opponent, or maybe just a general personality trait.</p><p></p><p>Impasse being a road that doesn't go anywhere (the civilization it leads to having been erased) seemed clear in my mind, but I get now that it actually does now go somewhere since it leads the party to the cathedral. I originally had a legal battle with the sheriff to even be able to speak with Gristlyn and/or get an extension on the execution, but I had to cut it and, with it, my more obvious (legal) Impasse. I hoped the road would cut it and it clearly didn't.</p><p></p><p>The glory was Gristlyn who became a renowned hero (complete with statues and speaking tours) after surviving the last "battle". Hence the road led to the last battle where she got her glory.</p><p></p><p>I had more details with Gristlyn shouting something like "I'm the only survivor!" at the Veteran then abducting him to make it true, but that got lost in the snipping.</p><p></p><p>I was somewhat worried at what I thought of as "a subtle weaving" of the ingredients. Elegantly subtle where you look back and go "ah, I see how they did that!" is great. Subtle where you're justifying your decisions to the judge that didn't see them at all after barely squeaking out a win is probably <em>too</em> subtle.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Thanks [MENTION=67]Rune[/MENTION] for judging and [MENTION=6786253]Yaztromo[/MENTION] for stepping up to the plate. I dug the PCs as moral lab rats angle in your entry and, like Rune, dug the nuke dilemma and saw a lot of potential in the adventure.</p><p></p><p>I hope you come back next year; as frustrating as it can be to lose these (I've lost at least half-a-dozen) my writing and adventure design have improved tenfold from the experience.</p><p></p><p>Now I just need to step up my game a bit for the next match!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Iron Sky, post: 7305771, member: 60965"] [sblock=Self-critique before reading Rune's judgement]This one fell together remarkably easily, though whether I executed on it or not, I'm not sure. I began with my usual listing of every possible definition of each word looking for interesting connections. At first, I looked at Whistling Wind as some sort of steam-powered wind-up machine. Combined with Shallow Grave meaning a body dumped in the ocean and a vision of steampunk pirates danced in my head... but couldn't make the rest click. The next connection was Shallow Grave as in something just barely carved into stone, which I tried to combine with the Mourning Star (a star engraved somewhere) but couldn't figure out where to go from there. The final click was Law and Impasse - some sort of law that was had the players at an impasse. Next was the other meaning of Impass as a road that doesn't go anywhere which seemed a natural fit with Road to Glory. So who was going for glory? The Star of course, but why were they mourning? Everything fell into place - in my mind at least - from there. As soon as I hit post, of course, I immediately saw a couple issues, first among them that I had two "sole survivors". I had originally written that the Veteran [I]thought [/I]they were the sole survivor and went far away, but that somehow got edited out. Second, the last battle wasn't actually a battle. Again, originally there was a bit more about how the realm chose to just proclaim it a battle at Gristlyn's word that she was the only survivor of the battle to put and end to an unpopular war, but that got lost in the edit machine. Third, if the Veteran had been there when the cathedral burned, how did they get out the first time if there was no way out the second? Time to read the judgment to see if those misses cost me the match.[/sblock] [sblock=After reading Rune's judgement]I have tendency to want to use the less-obvious meanings of words, to be clever or to do something different from my opponent, or maybe just a general personality trait. Impasse being a road that doesn't go anywhere (the civilization it leads to having been erased) seemed clear in my mind, but I get now that it actually does now go somewhere since it leads the party to the cathedral. I originally had a legal battle with the sheriff to even be able to speak with Gristlyn and/or get an extension on the execution, but I had to cut it and, with it, my more obvious (legal) Impasse. I hoped the road would cut it and it clearly didn't. The glory was Gristlyn who became a renowned hero (complete with statues and speaking tours) after surviving the last "battle". Hence the road led to the last battle where she got her glory. I had more details with Gristlyn shouting something like "I'm the only survivor!" at the Veteran then abducting him to make it true, but that got lost in the snipping. I was somewhat worried at what I thought of as "a subtle weaving" of the ingredients. Elegantly subtle where you look back and go "ah, I see how they did that!" is great. Subtle where you're justifying your decisions to the judge that didn't see them at all after barely squeaking out a win is probably [I]too[/I] subtle.[/sblock] Thanks [MENTION=67]Rune[/MENTION] for judging and [MENTION=6786253]Yaztromo[/MENTION] for stepping up to the plate. I dug the PCs as moral lab rats angle in your entry and, like Rune, dug the nuke dilemma and saw a lot of potential in the adventure. I hope you come back next year; as frustrating as it can be to lose these (I've lost at least half-a-dozen) my writing and adventure design have improved tenfold from the experience. Now I just need to step up my game a bit for the next match! [/QUOTE]
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