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<blockquote data-quote="Greybar" data-source="post: 958171" data-attributes="member: 4938"><p>Congrats, cool hand luke!</p><p></p><p>Now, a bit of exposition:</p><p></p><p>As I alluded to in my other comments, I got myself sidetracked. I think that this is really what killed my entry from the get-go. I saw <strong>carpet shop</strong> and my brain jumped to the Arabian Nights. Even a bit of the the Bugs Bunny flying carpet shop. In fact, if I had run with a strong tribute to that very Bugs Bunny cartoon I might have been better off (if Rune recognized the short). The humorous approach might have made it easier to pull together strange elements. But instead I got stuck on the general scenario leading to the hag within the hour following the posting of the ingredients. I never got free from that hour's worth of fixation.</p><p></p><p>I was kicking myself for the hooks and the ingredients all day at work, but couldn't back off enough to start over. Making the bungling adept secretly working for the bad guy as revenge for the heavy-handed master kept trying to get in there, but the <strong>unsavory stew</strong> image was stuck in my head too.</p><p></p><p>*sigh*</p><p></p><p>So, like with most such things - the contestant defeated himself. I don't mean to downplay cool hand luke's entry at all in saying that, just that I beat myself before cool hand luke even got to swing. Ah well.</p><p></p><p>It's a good lesson for me to try to take home. I think that having a few strong images in my mind can sidetrack and weaken the campaign I GM as well. So let me be a cautionary tale to the others out there. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Good luck everyone! Now I get to go back and read Wulf's entry and drop into lurkerdom...</p><p></p><p>John</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greybar, post: 958171, member: 4938"] Congrats, cool hand luke! Now, a bit of exposition: As I alluded to in my other comments, I got myself sidetracked. I think that this is really what killed my entry from the get-go. I saw [b]carpet shop[/b] and my brain jumped to the Arabian Nights. Even a bit of the the Bugs Bunny flying carpet shop. In fact, if I had run with a strong tribute to that very Bugs Bunny cartoon I might have been better off (if Rune recognized the short). The humorous approach might have made it easier to pull together strange elements. But instead I got stuck on the general scenario leading to the hag within the hour following the posting of the ingredients. I never got free from that hour's worth of fixation. I was kicking myself for the hooks and the ingredients all day at work, but couldn't back off enough to start over. Making the bungling adept secretly working for the bad guy as revenge for the heavy-handed master kept trying to get in there, but the [b]unsavory stew[/b] image was stuck in my head too. *sigh* So, like with most such things - the contestant defeated himself. I don't mean to downplay cool hand luke's entry at all in saying that, just that I beat myself before cool hand luke even got to swing. Ah well. It's a good lesson for me to try to take home. I think that having a few strong images in my mind can sidetrack and weaken the campaign I GM as well. So let me be a cautionary tale to the others out there. ;) Good luck everyone! Now I get to go back and read Wulf's entry and drop into lurkerdom... John [/QUOTE]
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