Thanks for taking up the torch, guys!
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Itâs been fun. Iâm glad you started things off! I have a life goal for total limericks written, and IFComp has helped inflate it.
You know Jerry Seinfeldâs advice of trying to write one idea a day, then marking it on your calendar? The âDonât Break the Chainâ method? Iâm trying for one limerick a day. Theyâre only 160 characters, but some days itâs hard. Still, itâs rewarding.
The Library of Knowledge
This entry, in Ink, was withdrawn.
From two demons, reading lists spawn:
Lives and worlds to view.
Author, we hope you,
Undiscouraged, keep writing on.
(Also, The Witch is something I am not getting to for a while. So itâd be awesome to see it get a limerick!)
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20 Exchange Place
Hayes wishes he were in Die Hard;
Instead IAâs handing him a red card:
He punched a hack from the Post
And the hostages are toast â
Maybe time to transfer to the Yard?
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For Eternity, Again and Again
Reincarnation sounds fun at first blush,
Except now the worldâs turning to mush.
To my lover, adieu!
I wonât come back new;
Stupid Universe, I hate it so much!
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Genius 
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Ribald Bat Lady Plunder Quest
(Spoilering for slight but hopefully appropriate NSFW-ness)
Zorklangâs unbound by the laws of gods or of men,
And her lover gives her pleasure again and again.
A barony sure makes a nice gift;
Downside: thereâs a lich,
And nobody in this city has an intact hymen.
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The Witch
The witch stole your friends out of greed,
Now youâre carrying 'round enticing birdseed.
A beaver that may disappear
Can kick your quest into gear.
Thatâs the last time I drink that much mead!
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SpreadSheetComp? Nov 15-Dec 6.
Games must be centered around the creation, filling out, interpreting of, or in any other way meaningfully interacting with a spreadsheet.
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Escape Your Psychosis
For psychosis, CYOA
Is not a full cure, we must say.
Donât let that bar you
From a quick flip through
That may help folks start on their way.
The format? Homey, not exotic.
The text hints at cures embryotic
For psychosis. They
May, too, make headway
If youâre feeling a bit neurotic.
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This puts us 3/4 of the way through. Spoiler tag for slightly course language.
Who Iced Mayor McFreeze
A detective, Bubble Gumshoe
Has a murder case to work through.
Get trapped at the scene
Where smell and taste, keen,
Will help uncork many a clue.
A murder has just come to pass.
The mayorâs wife sheds tears en masse!
She hopes youâll be handy:
A cop made of candy
Whoâs not inclined to candy-ass.
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Shanidar, Safe Return
Cro-Magnons have gone and trashed all
(Well, most) of a Neanderthal
Village. Some escaped,
Their future goal, shaped:
Lands, holy, from far away, call.
Four time zones? Yup, thatâs pretty far
To walk to get to Shanidar:
A more risky trek
Than modern high-tech
Trips taken by plane or by car.
Into the Lionâs Mouth
A savannah jaunt, death-defyinâ!
With external links to be tryinâ!
Avoid those joke ends
And soon youâll be friends
With one hella cute baby lion!
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Here are three thatâve already been done that had gotten lost in my notes. I was trying to write something for entries that donât have any yet, but heck, all 3 of these entries deserve more than one!
Dysfluent
This piece flags a most acute way
Oneâs blocked from what one wants to say.
Timed text we here learn
To grok and not spurn
Though readers may skip on replay.
The Vambrace of Destiny
Youâll learn what that is, a vambrace!
Find and put spell jewels in its base
Its power will accrue
Enabling you
To thoroughly loot the whole place.
The Whaleâs Keeper
To get stuck inside a big fish
Is, given your job, a dream-wish
Thereâs a hermit who
Is stuck in there too
Though hopes to touch land again? Pish!
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Now back to ones undone yet. I liked Finding Forrester.
Meritocracy
At college, day one is no slog.
Jump in that rhetorical fog
Which soon will reveal
Concerns very real
Then tell you âYouâre the man now, dog!â
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The fountains of prolixity have broken open! Well done, everyone!
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Yeah, itâs cool to see new people jump in! There are some entries that, based on what I knew, seemed befuddling to write anything relevant for. And theyâve been covered and covered well.
Iâm about at the end for what I have. I recently updated the spreadsheet to include a graph. It looks like a median of 2 is possible. 23 entries already have more than 1, so weâd need 15 more to get double-covered.
But I think we can also get everything one limerick with some help. Some of the entries may still throw a real knuckleball.
So at this point I think calling dibs on an entry might be useful, if we want to cover everything with a meaningful limerick.
I donât have any more to call dibs on, but hereâs the thing: if other people take certain entries, that frees me (or others) up to prioritize something I hadnât played yet, even if I canât push a review through. Maybe someone else will do so too.
It seems like this would best be done on the spreadsheet with the comments (Ctrl-Alt-M) as that can be deleted later. It sounds silly but a lot of times Iâve found myself able to write in 2-3 lines, sleep on things, and write in the rest later.
Is this-all sensible? Itâd be a fun unexpected goal to achieve together, and we do seem close.
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Two more new ones. I have officially hit a wall where I havenât played any of the remaining entries. Also, we are close to 100 posts in this thread. Whoâd a thunk?
Have Orb, Will Travel
Where IS that orb that helps you travel?
Spells learnt early on that you haveâll
Help you through a cottage
Of puzzle-a-lottage
As paths to said orb, you unravel.
The Paper Magician
Trapped in a research octagon
Youâre groomed as some older folksâ pawn
This chance you will seize
Once youâve got four keys:
With your cat, get off said folksâ lawn.
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Nice touch!
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Thanks! Necessity is the mother of invention, sometimes. (But not always. I spent some time being very uninventive indeed with orb. âAdorbâ isnât quite right, and âMorb-idâ is even less right. I couldnât make âWhatâs your porb?â work, either, but Iâd have praise for anyone who did.)
Now ⌠hereâs some stuff from the authorsâ forum I feel okay with posting now the topic is rather dense & it feels less self-promotional to do so. The limericks were kind of a technical exercise, but I hope they have merit.
BBKK reflections (5)
Trite Tully, the power attainer
Compared to the playerâs far vainer
Although friends assist
The rhyme-pairs youâll twist
Means beating him ainât a no-brainer
Hereâs what to expect if you play
That swell rhyme game, BBKK:
A big battleâs pitched
Though first youâll be ditched
By six friends you made on the way.
A terrible troll named Trite Tully
Found your rep a fun thing to sully
Though if youâre well-armed
And, with friendship, charmed
Youâll leave him to slink off quite dully.
To get through BBKK, thereâs
A need to find lots of rhyme pairs.
Six pals youâll recruit
Then youâll give the boot
To unsettled states of affairs.
Rhyme pairs in this game youâll combine.
Friend-pairs, too, with whom youâll align.
Youâll bless three relics
Then promptly deep-six
Your adversary, who will whine.
And one more bit of silliness to encourage people to join in here ⌠this is for 3 entries that I grouped together since, well, the 2nd limerick says why. I know nothing about these entries but encourage people who do, to write things in.
THE SHIP / ALL HANDS ABANDON SHIP / ALL HANDS
These three titles all sound nautical.
Iâm hoping that a post-comp kickâll
Help me peruse through.
Of course, right now, to
Detail what makes them themâs a pickle.
These three do not take place on land ân
Just missed a link truly outstandinâ.
Itâd be three-in-one
If someone had done
Up an entry titled Abandon!
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THE VAMBRACE OF DESTINY
N N W W S I N E
E N G N E S (Ă3)
E E I W R
W S S E R
N I G Z G G G G
(You have to pronounce W as one syllable to make this work. Options include âwestâ, âwawâ, and âvayâ.)
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Why not throw âdubâ on the pile? (E.g. U-Dub as University of Washington.)
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