Win Wayfriend's Money

[wayfriend]

And Effie gets in the first entry! Will more follow?

P.S. to other contestants: you don't have to actually use Twitter in this contest.

[Savor Dam]

Selected tweets from the chronology of The Illearth War:

@Lordlings I observe that the Waynhim sent your way has arrived. Did you realize his name dukkha means victim? Well, #put_up_your_dukkhas!

@Manethrall_Rue Your new choice of name is apt. Hurry to Revelstone and tell all about the #big_guy leading my army. He is well-named too…

Yum. Shetra with a side of Cerrin. Nice snack. Shame I didn’t get Hyrim too. He would have been a couple meals.

Sitting on the dock of Coercri
Watching the blood roll away
I'm just sitting on the dock of Coercri
Wasting Giants

@Korik With a chunk of the Illearth Stone in your possession, you are on the threshold of being turned to my purposes. No…not the threshold – the Doar Sill.

About to crush the puny army of Land defenders against Garroting Deep. Such delicious irony that they trapped themselves there…

It’s. Not. Easy. Being. Green.

[wayfriend]

2 out of 3 ain't bad, but I hate Meatloaf. Don't leave me waiting for the end of time...

[Dread Poet Jethro]

You are not alone
Menolly also is not
A fan of meatloaf

Neither the artist
Nor the terrine find favor
(She likes what she likes!)

Now if she'd just post...
For one so Omnipresent,
She's been awfully scarce

[Menolly]

*sigh*

I finally came up with a concept, but the writing is not easy, and I really don't know if it will make any sense, much less me do the idea justice...

[Frostheart Grueburn]

Meatloaf and meatballs
Differences diminutive
Both popular, plainly
Edibles of everyday
In the Nordic nations
Stone-cold Scandinavia

Other treats try,
Flavors fain feel:

Buttermilk, bread from rye
Berries of cloud, cran
Sauerkraut and skyr soft
Mämmi, meat of reindeer!

[Cybrweez]

Great idea WF. Nice entries so far. Come on menolly!

[Menolly]

Come on menolly!

My apologies for the delay. I really did only come up with a concept I liked yesterday, PMd way asking if it would be acceptable (received an affirmative reply), and wrote it today. As I said above, I haven't used twitter much, and what I have used has only been via twitter.com, so my formatting is based on what I've seen on my twitter feed.

Be that as it may, I hope the concept makes sense. I still believe I am not a storyteller, but I did my best. Enjoy...

[Menolly]

The young Woodhelvennin ran with the other young Winhomes, absorbing what the Cord chose to reveal this day. Even though he was different from the others, his love for the great Ranyhyn was just as strong. He was determined to learn all he could, and become the best runner and Ranyhyn-tender in the Plains of Ra.

Shortly after, his device gave a buzz, and he glanced at it to see a tweet from the woman.

Llaura @Heer_Llaura
@Woodhelvennin_Ramen My time runs short. When will you return?

Sighing in exasperation, the lad chooses his set response.

Pietten @Woodhelvennin_Ramen
@Heer_Llaura Run, Ranyhyn: gallop, play--- feed, and drink, and coat-gloss gleam…

Llaura @Heer_Llaura
@Woodhelvennin_Ramen As you were, so shall you always be. Be True to yourself, Pietten. Fare thee well.

A few years later, as he neared the age of Cording, he learned that honor would be with held from him. He may live his life as Ramen, but he was not born to them! So he would never advance beyond a Winhome with these people.

Pietten @Woodhelvennin_Ramen Butchers of Ranyhyn! Vermin! I will show you all!
#TheLand

Without warning, his device responded.

Despair @Gray_Slayer
@Woodhelvennin_Ramen You are correct. You ready yourself to serve the Ranyhyn, while they merely tend them. You can do more than they, since you see the need.

Pietten @Woodhelvennin_Ramen
@Gray_Slayer Fangthane. Renderer of Ranyhyn. You are not heeded here.

Despair @Fangthane
@Woodhelvenen_Ramen Here is a small piece of advice. You can choose if you wish to heed me or not. Cleaning wounds with water suffices. You can do better.

Pietten @Woodhelvennin_Ramen
@Fangthane By what means can I improve upon the teachings of the Manethralls?

Despair @Fangthane
@Woodhelvennin_Ramen Use your tongue to clean the wounds. You can reach deeper and more accurately than with water and cloth.

The teen’s eyes gleamed with a deep hunger, as he unconsciously licked his lips.

Pietten @Woodhelvennin_Ramen
@FangthaneYou speak wisely…

Despair @Fangthane
@Woodhelvennin_Ramen It is ever thus. Such is the guidance and advice I can offer. Choose to follow my tweets and learn more.

With the push of a button, the Woodhelvennin's die is cast. In time, further tweets convinced him the Ramen coverts were slaughterhouses of Ranyhyn, and that if given the chance, he must bring the White Gold to Fangthane himself, in order to save his great Love.

So Pietten spent the years between The Search for the Staff of Law and the revelation of his betrayal of the Ramen.

[Lefdmae Deemalr Effaeldm]

Well done, Menolly and SD

[Cybrweez]

I'll vote for menolly, mainly b/c this line:

Choose to follow my tweets and learn more.

made me laugh most.

Good job contestants.

[Menolly]

Thank you for the vote of confidence, Cybrweez.
...but could you do that again once way calls for votes, please?

[wayfriend]

Yes, it's time to vote!

Spectators gets ONE vote. They vote for the BEST entry.

Contestants do NOT get to vote any longer, for the same reason spectators get ONE vote: because we're down to just three.

[Frostheart Grueburn]

Perkeleen perkeleen perkele. Haven't I assented before that voting in this contest is a bugger due to equally good entries?

Örrr...Savor Dam. Because of the puns and Doar Sill.

Well done, everyone else!

[aliantha]

Menolly. Because she told a story.

[sindatur]

Damn, you people seem to need to make it harder, episode after episode.

I need to watch the episode again, before I vote

[StevieG]

Effaeldm, because I hardly understood a word of it which perfectly sums up my understanding of twitter. And I thought Effy captured it well.

[ussusimiel]

I vote for Savor Dam.

I think he should be banned for life for this line:

Wasting Giants.

His Raver doing Otis Redding was borderline genius, but I felt bad for laughing so hard at it

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[Iolanthe]

Oh dear, so difficult; they are all very different. Savor Dam made me laugh most so I vote for him.

[sindatur]

This was really tough, I weighed everything over and over again, the entries were all excellent and great fun to read.

in the end, I gotta go with SavorDam for his rendition of Dock of Coercri and the Shetra Snack topped off with Kermit's Mantra "It's not easy being green"