It's that time of year again! The time when we separate the hard from the soft. The myths from the legends. The tin...from the IRON.
Presenting, the 12th annual edition of...
THE IRON NODER CHALLENGE
Many hundreds have tried. Mere tens have succeeded. Do you think you have what it takes to enter the hallowed HALL OF THE IRON?
Actually, when you think about it, it's not even that hard. All you have to do is...
Write 30 things worth reading in 30 days.
Why do we do it? For the HONOR! For the GLORY! But most of all, for the REWARDS!!!
The rewards are as follows:
- WET PAPER NAPKIN NODERS who sign up for the quest but never get around to writing a writeup will still receive a 10 GP bonus for (arguably) good intentions.
- TIN NODERS who write between 1 and 4 writeups will receive 5 GP per writeup plus a bonus of 50 GP for their participation.
- ALUMIN(I)UM NODERS who write between 5 and 9 writeups will receive 10 GP per writeup plus a bonus of 100 GP for their participation.
- BRASS NODERS who who write between 10 and 19 writeups will receive 15 GP per writeup plus a bonus of 150 GP for their participation.
- BRONZE NODERS who who write between 20 and 29 writeups will receive 20 GP per writeup plus a bonus of 200 GP for their participation.
- IRON NODERS who who write between 30 and 39 writeups will receive 30 GP per writeup, plus a bonus of 300 GP for their participation, plus a bonus of 3000 GP for achieving IRON NODER status, plus will have their names inscribed in THE HALL OF THE IRON.
- STEEL NODERS who who write between 40 and 49 writeups will receive 40 GP per writeup, plus a bonus of 400 GP for their participation, plus a bonus of 3000 GP for achieving IRON NODER status, plus will have their names inscribed in THE HALL OF THE IRON.
- STAINLESS STEEL NODERS who who write between 50 and 99 writeups will receive 50 GP per writeup, plus a bonus of 500 GP for their participation, plus a bonus of 3000 GP for achieving IRON NODER status, plus will have their names inscribed in THE HALL OF THE IRON.
- TITANIUM NODERS who who write between 100 and 199 writeups will receive 100 GP per writeup, plus a bonus of 1000 GP for their participation, plus a bonus of 3000 GP for achieving IRON NODER status, plus will have their names inscribed in THE HALL OF THE IRON.
- ORICHALCUM NODERS who who write between 200 and 299 writeups will receive 200 GP per writeup, plus a bonus of 2000 GP for their participation, plus a bonus of 3000 GP for achieving IRON NODER status, plus will have their names inscribed in THE HALL OF THE IRON.
- MITHRIL NODERS who who write between 300 and 399 writeups will receive 300 GP per writeup, plus a bonus of 3000 GP for their participation, plus a bonus of 3000 GP for achieving IRON NODER status, plus will have their names inscribed in THE HALL OF THE IRON.
- VIBRANIUM NODERS who who write between 400 and 499 writeups will receive 400 GP per writeup, plus a bonus of 4000 GP for their participation, plus a bonus of 3000 GP for achieving IRON NODER status, plus will have their names inscribed in THE HALL OF THE IRON.
- ADAMANTIUM NODERS who who write more than 500 writeups will receive 500 GP per writeup, plus a bonus of 5000 GP for their participation, plus a bonus of 3000 GP for achieving IRON NODER status, plus will have their names inscribed in THE HALL OF THE IRON.
- If anyone wishes to sponsor any additional rewards or prizes, just /msg mauler!
But lest ye be tempted to count your gold before the IRON is forged, be sure to heed...
The Rules
- As always, the Iron Noder Challenge begins at 00:00 (server time) on November 1, 2019, and ends at 00:00 (server time) on December 1, 2019. Writeups submitted outside that timeframe will not be considered part of the quest.
- To join the hallowed ranks of the IRON, you must submit 30 new writeups in 30 days. The IRON NODER IDEAL is 1
per day, but we must be flexible about that to allow for normal life
circumstances, days away, illness, etc. Flooding New Writeups with 30
writeups in 1 day, while legal, would be frowned upon, and the E2
userbase would probably not react well.
- Any topic, any form, anything goes.
- There is no minimum or maximum length for writeups. They must simply
survive. Nuked nodes will not count towards your total. For this
reason, final rewards will not be dispensed until a couple of days after
the December 1 deadline, to allow last-minute writeups to be voted on
and pass muster with the editors.
- Thou mayest write a maximum of 5 daylogs.
- Thou mayest prepare material in advance. However if this stops you
noding for the remainder of October, this would also go against
the IRON NODER IDEAL.
If you would like to join, let me know via /msg, and I'll add you to
the roster. There is nothing wrong with joining late; just don't forget to let me know!
We'll be utilizing the ironnoders usergroup for any major
communications; if you're in the group now and are not on my confirmed
IRON NODER list as of November 7th, you'll automatically be dropped from
the group.
If you'd like to see more accurate updates than I have posted here, check out iron noder progress. It even shows which ones
you've voted on!
Whether or not you're attempting the challenge, you may volunteer to read and vote on every write-up submitted in the quest. This year's panel of IRON VOTERS will consist of mauler and anyone else who wants to join! Just /msg me and I'll add your name here (this is a great way to contribute to the quest if you don't have time to write actual writeups).
Need inspiration? Try October 19, 2019, Everything's Most Wanted, Random Nodeshells, the nodeshells on jessicapierce's scratch pad, The Custodian's Nodeshells I'd Like Filled, and wertperch's nodeshell challenge.
Good luck and remember, becoming IRON will echo through the ages, but rust never sleeps! Time to show us what you're made of!
The Iron Noders
Number of participants:
14
Number of writeups:
288
Average number of writeups:
20.57
Number of IRON NODERS:
7
Below are this year's participants. For up-to-the-minute standings, check out Iron Noder Progress!
- andycyca (10)
- Dicey Dungeons
- Vigenère cipher
- What level do we learn fireball?
- My family has specific names for some generic food
- Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)
- 90% of people think they are of above average intelligence
- I have no idea what you're talking about, so here's a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.
- The Ultimate Zen Node - A Proper Comment
- Kiss Me Good-Bye
- I used to judge you based on which songs you'd play on Guitar Hero 3
- ARYLISA (30)
- How the dysfunctional clean themselves
- Will You Be Here Tomorrow?
- My Experience Being Crossfaded On Halloweekend
- The board game I never win
- Doubting myself
- Rural China
- technology
- Yin and Yang
- Day and Night
- Walking along the street where I grew up
- grapefruit
- Tiger, tiger, burning bright
- Invoking Satan
- Brokenhearted Shooting Star
- Mystic
- Tell Me Again
- Love is a losing game
- Persephone's Curse
- Day at the Casino
- Milk of Magnesia
- grandfather clock
- automata
- Self-help
- disorientation
- Quiet Sunday Downtown
- gaslighting
- Time converging into one space
- I'm Not Sorry
- diamond in the rough
- The appeal of consumerism
- CHORD (43)
- Do you really want Alexa to be hearing this
- She's All My Fancy Painted Him
- Old Waits Carol
- The moon shines bright on my old kentucky home
- Adventures in Google Translate, or: This is why you pay real people to translate things
- Job Interview at Wal Mort
- The one guy who went to Australia instead of Austria by mistake
- Beyond good and evil, there is righteousness, and there is mercy
- One brother wins three hundred million dollars in powerball, the other wins seven
- There is creativity and craft, in all peoples and all times
- Rachel from Cardholder services
- The ironic fate of Terry Gilliam, the man who should not have left La Mancha
- Did it hurt when you fell from heaven
- Whose woods are these?
- How exactly did the Anglo-Saxons replace the Celts?
- What kind of veterans do we have now?
- An older problem than we thought
- Or:
- HA HA HA
- You could just pay someone else to LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU
- On the Tendency of Mass Public Murderers to use Firearms Instead of More Efficient Methods
- easier done than said
- But What About the Property Damage?
- From my iphone's predictive word feature
- Hello? Who's There?
- I Like My Dry Land Thank You Very Much
- If there were more people like you, there would be more people
- Lack of Longitude: the Forgotten Hazard of the Age of Sail
- Lord Willing and the Creek Don't -- Never Mind, The Creek is Rising.
- Robin K Vandermeer
- Rattle rattle rattle
- The Binding of Isaac, or: Fun with Biblical Exegesis
- Morning Salty
- No More Water
- For an Old Friend
- On looking into the eyes of a living being
- And the Horse You Rode In On!
- You are too kind
- Is anybody there?
- Bring Lightning
- Oh that sound, that wonderful sound
- Rest your head forever
- What does a cat feel in the morning sun?
- DUSTYBLUE (30)
- Cringy
- escapism
- The Magnus Archives
- OSR
- November 7, 2019
- Beat Saber
- 140
- Appendix N
- Happy 20th Birthday Everything2
- DriveThruRPG
- November 15, 2019
- Dungeon Crawl Classics
- Walking Man 3000
- November 18, 2019
- Black Hack
- Hello from the Magic Tavern
- EARTHCORE
- Infected
- Alive
- American Hysteria
- The great E2 demonic invasion that never happened
- in character
- Union Dues
- Half-Life Alyx
- Slouching
- binge
- As you do
- stockpile
- November 30, 2019
- 20 Years and Twelve Iron Novembers: Thanks for Everthing2
- ESTELORE (30)
- keep cavey
- short notice
- Maybe There's A Loving God
- hootenanny
- hullaballoo
- An old home once mighty fallen
- The Unicorn Chronicles
- Millennial Metamusic
- Breadfall effect
- the gray man
- polyrhythm
- drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
- Winnowing the stacks
- You are interrogating this text from the wrong perspective
- Gideon the Ninth
- Menoetius
- Dexit
- Nephalion
- Ides of Space
- a memory of last night's storm
- rulepasta and ritualpasta
- morae
- The Lord's Prayer: Pikachu
- movepool and moveset
- tier list
- Semiosis
- interference
- Hime Lolita
- Musical instrument maintenance vs superstition
- tasto solo
- GLOWING FISH (30)
- Removing Elements from the Human Body: A Thought Experiment
- Fantastic Four #1 (1996)
- Fantastic Four #1
- Marvel Two-in-One #100
- For What It's Worth
- A Link to the Past Randomizer
- Lost in Space-Time
- Seven Turtles on a Log
- The Distracted Knight
- redwood
- American Samoa
- Cool as Ice
- Esto No Prendio
- Slip Kid
- Megalovania
- Dan Quayle
- troll
- Intoxicant
- November 22, 2019
- Marvel Age
- Rain Man
- string cheese
- Best Lock 3 in 1 Multipack
- November 24, 2019
- Karen Gillan
- Murder is My Business
- Avengers #1 (1996)
- Aleutian Islands
- Bill Gates lives in a $500 house
- An algorithm of addition of prime factors
- mauler (2)
- Condor
- pinchbeck
- Nemosyn (6)
- Hangman
- November 1, 2019
- Cashew cheese
- Vegan Welsh Rarebit
- The Not Swear Jar
- November 13, 2019
- pandakekok9 (6)
- diskarte
- Doubting myself
- birthdate
- banana cue
- biomolecules
- What level do we learn fireball?
- Pandeism Fish (4)
- Pandeism: An Anthology of the Creative Mind
- This book was stolen from the Harvard College Library. It was later recovered. The thief was sentenced to two years at hard labor.
- Semen Vampire Succubus
- cream pie
- RANCID_PICKLE (37)
- Alexa
- Face of the Screaming Werewolf
- Parallel Lines
- you just hauntin 'round like a shadow now
- How does it feel knowing your mind is a graveyard?
- November 16, 2019
- 4WD
- baby daddy
- garbage can
- Jeff Foxworthy
- #10 tin
- Buffalo, Missouri
- Brain Guy
- 2018 IAMTW Scribe Awards
- Pyrex
- Mommy porn
- Mac mini
- November 23, 2019
- The Fart
- Bacon-wrapped Asparagus
- Vegetable Pie
- Anyone who tells you there is only one correct way to write a novel is trying to sell you a book.
- Icom IC-7300
- pillow talk
- November 26, 2019
- Google Street View
- Safety deposit box
- November 27, 2019
- November 28, 2019
- Table Salt
- THE IRON NODER CHALLENGE
- 5 GP
- Egg Nog Ice Cream
- Electric pressure cooker
- Chipmunk
- you're
- defrost
- Silverai_me (2)
- The Blue Danube
- Bone of contention
- TEM42 (40)
- Pump and dump
- Colic
- Exploder
- mash
- Wholesome water
- Decrypto
- Codenames
- Mamou
- Flavor text
- O-ring theory
- bikeshedding
- Quod googla
- baby daddy
- Steam hammer
- Sicherman dice
- Length overall
- Loaded waterline length
- Beyond Burger
- Meatless meat
- Cauliflower wings
- Vlaada Chvátil
- Dodecember
- One another
- Four times
- Wild Strawberry
- Hybrid name
- Ambience
- burgle
- Carolina balance gate
- Puddling
- puddle
- Pomelo
- Sweet orange
- Bitter Orange
- Bergamot orange
- Tangor
- Transfer calipers
- Knurled nut
- Plier wrench
- Quixx
- Zephronias (18)
- Uprooted
- Fallout 76: a Cavalcade of Failure
- Gloria Tesch, Maradonia, and the Bad Behavior of Team Tesch
- Invoking Satan
- Can it still be a good luck charm if it's something you stole?
- Day at the Casino
- November 15, 2019
- isekai
- Persephone's Curse
- God in the Tree
- The Stolen Child
- The Dead Man
- Untitled Goose Game
- Steven Universe: The Movie
- Deltarune
- Knight Aeternum
- Little Misfortune
- Wyandotte Chicken