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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 662821" data-attributes="member: 5137">Now that I've won <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=";)" />, here's the reasons I thought I'd lost:1. Greybar's format looked very much like mine... by which I mean that many of my strengths (a list of hooks, flavorful NPCs) were in the hands of the opponent. ARGH <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" />.2. Ingredients: We were both pretty strong on the moaning diamond, fogged window and city captain, and decent on the financial coup. Greybar was decent on gargoyles, strong on the simple lock, and I felt that I was only decent on both.3. In the same way that I used the financial coup to frame the scenario, Greybar used the lock... and I felt that his frame was definitely cooler. Mine is more tailored to my tastes for politics, but who wouldn't want a dashing sword fight at the lock?4. Which brings up the biggest point: style. I felt the swash in my blood buckling. I'm going to run this scenario at some point, modified only enough that my players won't immediately recognize it. My scenario, while it is certainly complete and interesting, is nonetheless a pretty typical series of challenges and vicious political infighting... cool, but not necessarily stylish.I won on the strength of a single ingredient (my triple-threat no-holds-barred diamond wu shu), but as judge I would have picked Greybar. Not that I'm going to relinquish my death grip on this win <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=";)" />.</blockquote>

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