## eaglejarls's Quest - Silvers in Chaos Lands has a Lightning Round beginning 10am Pacific today

* Author: u/BlueSigil *
* URL: https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/slivers-in-the-chaos-lands-mtg-multicross.26697/
* Score: 16

* Created: 2016-03-12T17:06:02

### Post:

[Link to content](https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/slivers-in-the-chaos-lands-mtg-multicross.26697/)

### Comments:

> **u/eaglejarl** [+7]  (6 hours later)
> 
> Here's an after action report on it from my perspective as the author:
> 
> This was the first time I'd done anything like this, and it was surprisingly intense.  There was a sense of urgency that is missing from normal writing.  I was mentally exhausted when the two hours ended, although I didn't realize it had ended until the buzzer rang.
> 
> It was also a lesson in quality awareness; I didn't have time to choose the right word or polish things, or even to fix typos.  (I did anyway, because it was almost physically painful not to.)
> 
> Flow was very easy; I wasn't reaching for words or having trouble thinking what should happen next.  There were a couple of scenes that ended up much shorter than I thought they should be; I think I spent too much time fixing typos or improving words.  There was one scene that I didn't finish in the allotted 5 minutes, so I cheated by using the 10 minutes that should have been the voting period.
> 
> Speaking of shorter than expected, I was surprised at the variance in how much I was able to produce.  Here are the approximate word counts for the 8 "chapters" that were released:
> 
> * l1.html:      141
> * l2.html:      242
> * l3.html:      243
> * l4.html:      370
> * l5.html:      188
> * l6.html:      224
> * l7.html:      447 (*) This is the one that I took extra time on.
> * l8.html:      187
> 
> Keeping details straight was difficult.  In the heat of the moment I didn't think of the fact that the Elves don't speak English, so now apparently their Lord has translation magic.  I also wasn't sure if I'd kept the death count correct; turns out I did, but that was more luck than anything else.
> 
> I'm pleased at the quality of the writing that came out; it's not as good as what I normally produce, but there's a lot worse out there.
> 
> All in all this was a very positive experience, and I would do it again if people were interested.  I asked the players what they thought about it; the responses were [generally positive.](https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/5609535/)

> **u/BlueSigil** [+3]  (5 minutes later)
> 
> Eaglejarl plans to spend the whole day doing updates to this quest every 15 minutes in an effort to improve his speed writing skills.
> 
> See [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/479cnu/rt_slivers_in_the_chaos_lands/) for previous discussion/description.

>> **u/eaglejarl** [+4]  (31 minutes later)
>> 
>> For values of "whole day" that sound more like "2 hours from 10am to 12pm Pacific time".  :>

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