Awww yeah, baby. IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR. The time for...
THE IRON NODER CHALLENGE
Many hundreds have tried. Mere tens have succeeded. Do you have what it takes to join the ranks 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.
The mines are ferrous, dark, and deep. You have nothing but your wits and your keyboard to guide you, but should you survive the journey you will earn...
The Rewards!!!
The pursuit of ferrousness is glorious unto itself, but our bumptious bevy of ironnoders demands that we sweeten the deal.
- Every noder will receive 30 GP per writeup that survives until the end of the month.
- Every noder who attains IRON NODER status will receive an additional 3000 GP.
- 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
- The Iron Noder Challenge begins at 00:00 (server time) on November 1, 2014, and ends at 00:00 (server time) on December 1, 2014. 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 30 November 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.
- Yes, you can also do NaNoWriMo. Yes, this makes you completely
insane. No, you can't have any more goodies for completing both.
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 1st, 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, moeyz, Tem42, lizardinlaw, 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 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, to be IRON is glorious, but rust never sleeps! Time to get back in the game.
The Iron Noders
Number of participants:
24
Number of writeups:
388
Average number of writeups:
16.17
Number of IRON NODERS:
8
Below are this year's participants. For up-to-the-minute standings, check out Iron Noder Progress!
- Andrew Aguecheek (3)
- mustard
- Cnut's Trench
- Your radical ideas for how to change the world for the better will fail
- andycyca (8)
- Stupid design theory
- What If?
- One million words
- Part of your world
- Old Man's War
- November 11, 2014
- Spiegel im Spiegel
- The resurgence of the Hardcore
- ARYLISA (36)
- There exist some
- Sex in the West with special regard to females
- Ballet
- Said Pyramus to Thisbe
- The Visiting Girl
- Incorrigibility
- the sea with a side of girl
- Drawn Curtains
- The Regal and the Commonplace
- The Awaiting
- Steady Bows
- Drugs in the health curriculum
- Sin is unwashable
- The stranger who hates me
- The Silent War in Me
- Call to Danger
- A queen in her own sense
- What it must feel like to die
- Disclosed intentions
- the neighbor girl
- The English curriculum from the perspective of a middle school student
- Angels can take the form of inanimate objects
- seduction
- A Minute Nightmare
- The Envied Mailman
- The color of that rose
- The night is uneventful, and so here I sit
- Nature models trends
- Silent battle in the sky
- The comfort of the nocturnal
- The Mall
- Reading for Homework
- The widow's mournings
- School and the professional world
- To the person with whom I am infatuated
- Parental controls
- AudieMcCall (11)
- November 2, 2014
- Satsuma
- drunk as a lord
- She Spoke to the Dead
- Poetry on Buses
- November 8, 2014
- Conversations on Consciousness
- Luscious Klutzy
- Fireboat Miracle
- We Can all Die Like This
- Jerry Arrives at the Alternative
- borgo (13)
- Robert De Niro
- Martin Scorsese
- The Worst Generation
- Most Valuable Noder
- Philae
- European Space Agency
- A letter from the FBI to Martin Luther King, Jr.
- November 18, 2014
- happy feet
- My first brush with authority
- Editor Log: November 2014
- Marion Barry
- 19 Crimes
- Chord (27)
- Everyone remembers last year's election day
- sweet william
- National Mall
- The last of the year
- Song of the Volga Boatmen
- Old Man River
- I'm Popeye the Sailor Man
- And Am I born to Die?
- Crazy Boris' Space Travel
- I will not will
- After E.E. Cummings, after his era passed away came
- This is my body, not broken for you
- Love and thorns come to you
- We're Watching You
- The Little Black Dog of the Hanging Hills
- What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?
- The Ants Go Marching
- Bus Conversation in Cleveland
- I accidentally signed you up for Spudge Camp
- Intercepted correspondence
- Bluffton
- The dishes in the drying rack do not exist
- November Winter
- Oh, Sinner Man
- That's just the way it is
- carry on
- Frontiers are not easy, nor are they meant to be
- e2reneta (3)
- The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk
- In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
- liar
- ESTELORE (30)
- I shoot the birds
- gall wasp
- clickbait
- Curated and Aggregated Content
- Fallen London
- noli nothis permittere te terere
- Solo Polyamory
- pop culture paganism
- Mando'a
- Cuil Theory
- polymorph
- Fine Prey
- tricorn
- bloodworm poems
- Baccresiezé
- drying rack
- kykeon
- khernips
- Miasma
- Maximum Ride
- Exidy
- Little Kids Are Stupid & Believe Really Obvious Lies
- crowdfunding
- Buttersafe
- Hyperbole and a Half
- red-tailed hawk
- And Pharoah's heart was hardened
- leek and potato soup
- someone
- I used to be that girl.
- GLOWING FISH (30)
- Anne Rice House
- All Men of Genius
- 2014 Election Night Timeline
- Deaths-Head Revisited
- Silkworm
- The Midnight Sun
- Vermont Gubernatorial Election
- 2014 New Hampshire Senatorial Election
- 2014 Kansas Senatorial Election
- 2014 Colorado Senatorial Election
- Too Many Cooks
- Still Valley
- The Jungle
- 2014 Oregon Senatorial Election
- Oregon Ballot Measure 91 (2014)
- Spring Snow
- Once upon a time
- Five Characters in Search of an Exit
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
- Union Station
- Baby, Baby
- Life of an American Fireman
- The Kiss
- Lake Shore Limited
- California Zephyr
- Cascades
- A Quality of Mercy
- Nothing in the Dark
- November 29, 2014
- gnarl (5)
- The Whispering Skull
- Kansas City Public Library's 'Community Bookshelf'
- Ground Under Repair
- Hugo
- Shutter Island
- Hazelnut (7)
- How to speak Tumblr
- I Am The Secret WAG
- Commentaire d'arrêt
- The Fault in Our Stars
- Barb Wire
- I'd love to go back to the late 80's and tell them about our time
- Enid Blyton
- kozmund (0)
- LIZARDINLAW (31, plus 3 daylogs above the 5 log limit)
- heart loss
- Making pearls
- November 1, 2014
- The Introverted Thinker and the Extroverted Feeler play
- Losing heart
- Lizardinlaw's pork and vegetables
- November 5, 2014
- Grand Bitch steps off her pedestal
- The moon's muff
- November 8, 2014
- November 9, 2014
- Sconed
- The introverted thinkers and the fox
- Dream log: November 10, 2014
- close your mind
- you understand
- Painting Angels
- Fraud in Medicine: Oxygen
- the problem with angels
- adult
- The Cult of the Collective Unconscious
- Why witches wear black
- the cool heartless medical intuitive part of my brain
- Homebody
- Vital Signs II
- The path to wonderland
- Nutcracker
- Ordinary joy
- Lammily Doll
- Fraud in medicine: Diabetic supplies
- Random Weird Root Vegetable Soup
- lokum (0)
- MAULER (46)
- 1329
- 518
- 1571
- 1572
- Structuring
- you found a broken thing and fixed it
- Shitterton
- The Gallic Wars Book 1 Chapter 30
- The Gallic Wars Book 1 Chapter 31
- The Gallic Wars Book 2 Chapter 33
- The Gallic Wars Book 2 Chapter 34
- The Gallic Wars Book 2 Chapter 35
- HMS Cockchafer
- 2014
- Mutsu
- 1607
- The Worst Generation
- 1836
- 1608
- 1610
- Archaic Torso of Apollo
- Most Valuable Noder
- Shimazu
- 1622
- 1620
- 1623
- Shimazu Tadahisa
- 1624
- Of Innovations
- 1625
- Appearance of Pirate's Fossil
- November 17, 2014
- bless
- dubcon
- Sebastian Vizcaino
- 1570
- In the land of my dreams
- Ono no Komachi
- Elsa
- 1617
- rickshaw
- 1239
- Editor Log: November 2014
- rat-baiting
- Mildred
- boyfriend jeans
- MOEYZ (31)
- Basic plumbing repair
- mustard
- Remember the feeling
- The Sycamore
- The Worst Generation
- open space
- Trace a map along her arm
- November 10, 2014
- You will have no doubt and the sky will turn to gold
- Rate of Perceived Exertion
- For sale: my dreams. Price: a living wage, or best offer.
- do not let the sun go down on your anger
- That moment sometimes when your inner voice just says, "Fuck you. Fuck you all."
- site-specific art
- Porch swing
- all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well
- Berkeley Breathed
- my favorite aisle
- Cowboy Magic
- November 21, 2014
- E2 Bugs
- November 22, 2014
- the morning snowdrops fall like dew in the sunlight and fill my heart with their icy cold and all i can think about is you
- a lost dream
- hockey mom
- The truth is like a sinking star. Follow it over the horizon, the way gazelles follow rain.
- strapping butter to a cat's back
- Bill Cosby
- Happy Thanksgiving To all and for one!
- November 28, 2014
- Cantor's paradox
- Montag (0)
- Pandeism Fish (18)
- I will not be voting
- Pythagosaurus
- The Saudi Fox
- Matthew 25:32-46, updated
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Right to Die
- All the most sexual curse words contain the letter U
- Stripcreator
- George Takei
- November 18, 2014
- Nuru massage
- Predispositional prophecy primer
- rat-baiting
- Insufficient faith
- Rhyme time
- Toxic abortion
- Objects by size
- Pandeism Somewhere in Time
- Rainey (0)
- Rancid_Pickle (0)
- TEM42 (30)
- Theia
- mustard
- Hra roku
- Gra roku
- The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
- Spoon theory
- Don't Tell Me
- Fridge Logic
- Eternal now
- The Suburb Beyond the Stars
- 29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy
- Hottentot
- imply
- Freddy Goes to the North Pole
- Iron Maiden
- Rosetta mission
- Maud
- Rain porch
- Sinty Tinty Huthery
- Chlorovirus ATCV-1
- Richard
- Hexwood
- Watsi
- The Wednesday Wars
- Dunning-Kruger Effect
- Factlet
- Hilda family
- Stealing a shroud out of a grave
- The Resistance: Avalon
- desire path
- TheAnglican (25)
- Anne Rice House
- Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo
- Hand grenade
- camp
- Willo the Wisp
- epiclesis
- November 1, 2014
- Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
- The Young Ones
- The Vicar of Dibley
- November 3, 2014
- The Mighty Boosh
- Zealot: the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth
- Saved!
- Zombie Lake
- Eucharistic Minister
- Brony
- Adrian Peterson and the switch
- Andrew Caldwell
- ecclesiastical polity
- November 26, 2014
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
- Ricky Bobby
- Bill Cosby
- GSM
- webmaren (4)
- Mascarade
- Jank
- sentience is not an accident
- ReactJS
- ZEPHRONIAS (30)
- Sandman Slim
- November 1, 2014
- The Tillerman Cycle
- The Man in Black Comes to 3/4ths Market Street (Part One)
- The Man in Black Comes to 3/4ths Market Street (Part Two)
- The Man in Black Comes to 3/4ths Market Street (Part Three)
- Over the Garden Wall
- The Man in Black Comes to 3/4ths Market Street (Part Four)
- Gravity Falls
- The Property of Hate
- I will not will
- November 15, 2014
- November 18, 2014
- Travelers through the dreamscape
- Apkallu
- Alex Verus
- Aunt Maria
- Sun Conure
- Egg Binding
- Jenday Conure
- Re'em
- Infectious Coryza
- Nostalgia Critic
- adorkable
- Big Hero 6
- Frozen
- Wreck-It Ralph
- That Guy With The Glasses
- Let's Play
- Mia and the Crows