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    ICO Spreadsheet has been updated with the Chefs to their Dishes and final judging scores have been added as well. I know await the next cook.

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    ICO Spreadsheet has been updated with the Chefs to their Dishes and final judging scores have been added as well. I know await the next cook.
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    Wait, I beat not one but two builds by Piggy? The Piggy? That kinda blows my mind a bit, not gonna lie. (Good to see you around, Piggy!)

    I honestly didn't expect to walk away with a medal this round. To call Memyadu "no-nonsense" is perhaps going a bit too far, but I didn't think that the build had nearly as compelling a hook as some of the others on display here. I meant it when I said that every single build had something that piqued my interest—this was a genuinely good round, despite the best efforts of the writers of the Planar Handbook!

    I'm a little surprised that no one else submitted a Spellthief. Fatemaker is so similar to the actual Spellthief class, only not as good. I had to throw out several other ways of getting Quick Potion before settling on "learn it as a Spellthief and steal my own Fatemaker spell slots to cast it more," which is, if nothing else, amusing. (I had originally planned to just pick it up with MotAO's Spellpool, but then I realized that it'd require GM intervention to be in the Spellpool at all. I tried to make an argument for "my Bluff and Diplomacy are high enough to convince the Arcane Order higher-ups to put QP in the Spellpool for me," but I chickened out at the end. Probably for the best.)
    I loooved Memyadu, especially the hook about druid spells being in the Spellpool. Honestly sniggered at that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by danielxcutter View Post
    I loooved Memyadu, especially the hook about druid spells being in the Spellpool. Honestly sniggered at that.
    You flatter me, sir. That said, I’m glad that the fluff had the desired effect! My original fluff writeup (same basic idea, different presentation) was absolutely awful—long-winded, stilted, boring, you name it. I came to the realization that it got better the more I cut out of it, so I tried to see just how far I could distill it down. Sending provided a convenient framing device.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zaq View Post
    Wait, I beat not one but two builds by Piggy? The Piggy? That kinda blows my mind a bit, not gonna lie. (Good to see you around, Piggy!)
    Thanks for the kind words. I loved Memyadu from the get-go and I'm not even a little bit disappointed to see it claim first place. Every now and then I see something in Iron Chef that makes me mutter, "Damn, wish I'd thought of that." Using stolen spells to repay your spell debt for MotAO was absolutely one of them. Great job on putting together such a fun build and congrats on the well-deserved first place.
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