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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teflon Billy" data-source="post: 465886" data-attributes="member: 264">Ok, Cats and Kitties, it's the moment you've all been waiting for!THE WINNERS OF THE FIRST ANNUAL TEFLON BILLY POST-ENNIE TITANIC HAIKU ADVENTURE MODULE GIVEAWAY Well, that was a lot longer title than I had planned for, but there you go <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=":)" />Anyway on to the Haikus themselves, and a great bunch of entries they were. I'm going to start with the lowest rung of honourable mentions.THE POST-DEADLINE ENTRIESIf only you all had made it in under the deadline and written about a subject other than Teflon Billy's Rank Laziness (Witness Dr. Midnight's work)Damn Teflon Billy'sflare for procrastinationand purple dress pantsor on the theme of Get to Fricken Work Teflon Billy (Witness Crothian's 10 billionth post)Well, the time is nowpast 12 on the eleventhI am impatientOr chose to wax philosophical on my judging methods (Witness everyone's favorite Clay-Spinner Alsih20)Teflon Billy readspoems and beer now cojoinedwhich will make him sick?The answer incidentally was moot as I don't drink beer and, alas, whiskey has two syllables <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=":)" />When the johnny-come-lately's all devolved into the Minutiae of Tom Petty lyrics is when I knew we had some manner of group Honourable Mention in the works (Witness Drew, triggering the Avalanche)As Tom Petty said,or, rather, as he once sang:the waiting is hardHardcore Petty fan Nifft responded with...I must correct you:"The waiting is the hardestpart," sang Tom Petty.With his decree, I must agree, and wait, too late,for my poetryDrew came out swinging with...Let me clarify.I was just paraphrasingwhen I quoted TomDrew then inexplicably decided to throw the match, by claiming that obviously incorrect lyrics were, in fact, correct...and he had the pedigree to prove it! (Witness Drew, figuratively putting a nail in his own coffin)Well, please understandI work on the radioplaying classic rock.Nifft at this point comes back at the groggy Drewwith what can only be called the "Finishing Move", a criticism of terminology coupled with a clever play on words tossed in for good measure!More petty than Tom,I point out that you eitherparaphrase or quoteUppercut! Uppercut! Flurry to the Sternum! Right Cross and Drew is DOWN!Unquestionably as entertaining a match of Tom Petty-related Duelling Haiku as I've ever seen, and certainly worthy of an honourable mention. Sir Trent alone seemed to understand the basic realities of the situation and outlined them as well as I could imagine them being outlined in 17 syllables (Witness Sir Trent, hurting the feelings of Teflon Billy)WITH-HOLDING RESULTSPROVES TEFLON BILLY ISA REAL MEAN PERSONKinda get's you right in the heart doesn't it folks? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> )In any event, all of the Entrants above, having made a concerted and impressive Haiku effort well past the stated deadline, receive the prize for Honourable Mention: Second Grade.Dr. Midnight , Crothian, alsih20, Drew , Nifft , and Sir Trent; please each accept your copy of the esteemed Monte Cook's Ennie nominated adventure Orc and Pie.You may pick up your copy at <a href="http://www.montecook.com/arch_lineos11.html" target="_blank">http://www.montecook.com/arch_lineos11.html</a>Enjoy, and in all seriousness, thanks for the fun Haikus, despite their being after the deadline.Next up...THE HONOURABLE MENTIONS There were a lot of entries that deserved some recognition, despite my not having a prize available for them. The following, in a perfect world, would have received some kind of recompense for their efforts, and more and more I regret having only made up three enormous packages rather than a bunch of smaller ones.Nonetheless, the die is cast and I hope these worthies can be satisfied with simply the recognition of the value of their efforts.Or, they can help themselves to a copy of the esteemed Monte Cook¡¦s Ennie nominated adventure Orc and Pie. <a href="http://www.montecook.com/arch_lineos11.html" target="_blank">http://www.montecook.com/arch_lineos11.html</a>Anyway...It would seem that my suggested topic Half-Orc Bard held the most resonance with folksAnd every single one of them concerned the awfulness of the bard's performance (to one degree or another)! Is there no love for the Half-Orc Bard? (Witness Maerdwyn's non-entry) All my gold to heWho smashes Kraag's lute and leadsHim down a new path.Or Herald, leading our poor protagonist on, then sucker-punching him in the last stanza...Sing me a love song,Winsome, Lonely Half-Orc Bard,You make my ears bleedOr Tsyr, celebrating his death!The sounds of raptureA sea of tears shed in joyThe Half-Orc bard diesI both pity and admire those of you out there who actually play Half-Orc bards, it sounds like there is a lot more latent hostility out there than I may have, at first thought. Only Agnostic Paladin had any respect for the Half-Orc Bard...envisioning him as some kind of speed metal monster. Loud fast and angryMusic and musician bothApplaud loud or dieNow that's more like it<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />There was some dissent amongst the judges, I was tempted to give Die_Kluge's following Haiku first place! But somehow, inexplicably, tastes differed enough that I was outvoted! Oh the unfairness of it all!A damn handsome manreally generous to bootsee: Teflon BillyMeepo the Mighty nearly made the cut with his entry...Moonlight fills the roomA balor smiles at EricLove-child on the wayUntil we realized the single glaring error. In Chronosome's immortal "Eric Noah is my Half-Fiend Love Child", Eric in fact is the half-fiend love child, not it's father. So near and yet so far Meepo. Good effort though.I would love to list more honourable mentions, but my typing skills (and endurance) are just not up to it. Suffice to say that we all greatly appreciated the efforts of all entrants. I think entrant Meds said it best when he wrote...His Haiku Celestial Shi-Tzu also got a vote, and all agreed it was funny as hell. The graphic attached to it is wonderful.And, I don't have a really good answer for him. Thanks one final time to everyone for participating.At this point we are going to move into the MEDAL ROUND!FIFTH PLACE5th place goes to EN World newcomer Kubla Khan for his excellent piece involving D&D, comedy, and a thimble full of blasphemy! Jesus wept, a trap,But saints preserve! Jesus saves,and takes half damageWell done sir! And I hope you enjoy the collection of adventures from the good folks at Guildhouse GamesFOURTH PLACE4TH place goes to EN World stalwart Geist, for his "Tale as Old as Time" Haiku of a doomed love destined never to be...I love her fireballs,and she loves my Lightning Bolt.To bad she's marriedWe laughed ourselves sick at that one. Well done Geist, and I hope you enjoy your brand new copy of D20 Rokugan.THIRD PLACEEntrant Radiating Gnome came closest to actually making us think . We, in our drunken state, read and re-read his/her entry and finally got . Somehow the image of a Half-Orc bard tuning his Lute in such a fashion spoke to the majority of the judges...Frets drip blood on snowCritic said Half-orc bards suck.Now My lute's in tuneWell, done Radiating Gnome I hope your new pile of adventures (The third place package listed at the beginning of this thread) serve you and your group well.SECOND PLACEBAD-AXE games founder Wulf Ratbane's ode to the EN Boards near-endless threads on munchkinism (and munchkins--Sorry Henry) struck a chord with all of the judges (and, apparently, more than a few of his competitors)Chaotic Neutral!This alignment is so sweet--Like twin scimitars!Well done Wulf and I hope you and your group enjoy the adventures in Prize Package two (listed in the inaugural post)FIRST PLACEFirst place goes to none other than Umbragia's own KDLadage. On this the judges were unanimous. It had it all: cleverness of wordplay, D&D content, and a great twist ending on an old proverb.Opportunity:without combat reflexes,knocks but once per roundCongratulations Kevin on being the first ever Haiku grand champion at the first ever Teflon Billy Post-Ennie Haiku Contest (man, I've got to pare that name down a bit). I hope you enjoy the First place prize package listed at the beginning of this thread.All prize winners please contact me by email and tell me how you would like to go about having your stuff sent to you. Keep in mind that I¡¦m Canadian, and UPS has a legendarily bad history of getting anything to (or from) me in any reasonable time. I have had some luck with EN World poster Quickbeam who sent me a big Fedex envelope (paid) and received his stuff in 2 days.You might want to look into that.In any event, thanks you all for participating, I thoroughly enjoyed the 7-odd pages of Haiku, and hope you did to.SayonaraJeff "Teflon Billy" Ranger</blockquote>

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