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clauderainsrm ([personal profile] clauderainsrm) wrote in [community profile] therealljidol2025-11-07 12:01 am

Prompt - Week 15

We have a twist - finding your opponent. People have been impatiently waiting for the prompt to be posted, expecting me to spin the Wheel. But that's not the case this time. This time the prompt was built into the structure of the twist. I just needed to verify with the Wheel that my interpretation of how this would work is how it actually does.... for the record, I was correct!

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So, what is your prompt? Take a look at your opponent's TWO entries from last week: therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1208099.html


You are going to be using those are springboards for YOUR entry this week. It's basically just another version of "reinterpret an entry from a competitor" deal, but with two entries that you need to shape into something of your own!!

This will either be a lot of fun or a complete trainwreck! I'm here for it either way!!!

The deadline to link your entry to this thread is Thursday, November 13th at 7pm ET

Have fun!!
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clauderainsrm ([personal profile] clauderainsrm) wrote in [community profile] therealljidol2025-11-06 12:07 am

Twist Reveal - Week 15

 *spins the wheel*  There is a twist!!

*spins the wheel to see which twist it is going to be* 

OH.  Nice. 

Head to head matches! You can directly challenge someone to a one on one dual here. If you opt not to, one will be chosen for you by the Wheel!

I'll post your prompt after you make your selections.  


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clauderainsrm ([personal profile] clauderainsrm) wrote in [community profile] therealljidol2025-11-04 11:19 pm

The Wheelhouse - Week 14 - 2

 I'll be spinning the wheel tomorrow for the new twist and prompt. 

Honestly, I'm considering pushing the plunger down to proceed to end game from here. That might just be where my own head is at right now, and how busy I am.  The Wheel may just end it for me soon anyway, we don't have a lot of contestants left!

Just wanted to make SURE people know that although there is a possibility of people coming back into the game, that the Wheel could just never land there again, or I could push that plunger and then no one comes back.  So please make sure to be saying your goodbyes when you have the chance. therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1209016.html    therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1208631.html

know there's a lot going on, but a big part of being a community is coming together to acknowledge each other.  I hope that continues. 

Speaking of - make sure you are reading and commenting on the entries for this week: therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1209016.html   The sacrifices negated the need for a poll. (and honestly, I need to buy some more time for my paid account anyway.  :D  So it was good timing!) 

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I spent the last couple days in Miami hanging out with an Idoler! (dreamsreflected) from (checks spreadsheet) Seasons 9, 10 and mini seasons A, B and Friends and Rivals!  It's always a lot of fun to meet people who have been impacted by their time in Idol.   If you're going to be anywhere near me - or if I'm coming to somewhere around you, let's meet up! Or send me an email and just check in.  She reminded me that I've been more and more distant as the years go by.  It started as a defense against people who thought I was playing favorites (I wasn't) but then it became the standard, arms-length relationships. Which is a shame. Idol started out as something to entertain myself, and my friends. If you are here, you are my friends. :) 

*rereads that last sentence* And no, I'm not drunk.  :D 

How are YOU doing? 


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clauderainsrm ([personal profile] clauderainsrm) wrote in [community profile] therealljidol2025-11-03 11:03 pm
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Results - Week 14

 I spun the wheel to see how many people would be eliminated this week. It came up as 1.  

Which, in this context, it's 1 from each poll.  So we lose 2. 

But as I was putting together the polls I noticed there were 2 sacrifices!  [personal profile] muchtooarrogant  and [personal profile] bleodswean 

Which would mean those 2 are eliminated. 

But I want to make sure people are reading and commenting.  So I'm going to give you a couple days to read and comment on these awesome entries before we move forward!  https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1208099.html
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clauderainsrm ([personal profile] clauderainsrm) wrote in [community profile] therealljidol2025-11-03 09:35 pm

Week 14 - The Accusation

 The numbers are quickly dwindling and the suspects are becoming fewer. We are gathered here today to name names and to accuse one of you assembled here today of being a Killer! 

II just checked the list to make sure this was correct, but it looks like the ONLY vote for this person cast for this entire season was last week. Which is pretty remarkable. 

Collectively, the residents of Idol Manor accuse [personal profile] legalpad819 of being a Killer!!!

There is no sound.  No laughter. No light.  The amulet in her hand does not glow to release the evil inside. That was used to save her back in Week 12!!

Instead, she just drops to the ground, eliminated from the competition.   She lived as a Killer.  She died as a Killer. 


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She drinks it, and immediately starts feeling her energy being restored! 

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The group gives the antidote to l0lita.  She drinks it, and immediately starts feeling better!!
A life has been saved!

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Today is a great day for the heroes! A life saved and a Killer exposed and eliminated from the game! 

It's truly a great day for... oh no, 
[personal profile] unicornfartz    slumps over and falls to the ground, dead.  


 

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bleodswean ([personal profile] bleodswean) wrote2025-11-03 12:57 pm

The Real LJ Idol - Wheel of Chaos - Wk 14 - Sacrifice

 
I've tried. Snuck an hour in here and a half hour in there. Werewolves appeared to me - 


Run and run and run and hide. Burrow and dig and twist and hide. Under the roots, under the bed. Hide and hide and hide. Lest you’re found and dragged out into the light. Blinded and made smaller in the day. You flourish beneath the moonlight, wither in the sunlight.

And then the verb becomes the noun. They’ve trapped you and moved in with clubs. You’re skinned and your hide stretched and hung for all to see. Destroyed, vanquished, no more. 

But in the woods, there is a domicile, and, in that den, there is your mate and beneath her body squirms her pup, eyes and ears closed. This dyad foul, in the ways that you are foul. To the hunted and the hunter. 

Don’t go into the village, you’ve been taught, they will do you harm. But only after you’ve rent them limb from limb from limb.
 


But. Even if I could figure out one story, I certainly don't have two in me this week. I feel it's only right to save one of you amazing writers who are writing LONG and writing so very well! Here's to you! Slainthe! 

Thanks to Gary who has been carving time out of his own hide to provide this amazing space for all of us to play play play in. Always and forever grateful to him. And to all of you. 

Blessed be!
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clauderainsrm ([personal profile] clauderainsrm) wrote in [community profile] therealljidol2025-10-28 05:28 am

The Wheelhouse - Week 14

 Good Morning,  

Well, it's far too early for it to be "good", but "Morning" at least!

The new twist is up: therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1207947.html  and so are the prompts  https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1208099.html

I
've already gotten a question about the prompt situation so I'll clear it up here.  YES. It's 2 entries.  NO, it's not 1 entry where you incorporate both, unless, I dunno, you want to write 2 entries where you incorporate both.  :D 
No, if not a pick one of the other. It's 2 entries.  
That's why you have a week.   Well that, and my schedule.  :D   If the Wheel had chosen 5, yes, I would have given you even more time!  (Although let's be honest - a week for 2 entries by traditional old school Idol standards is pretty good.) 

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I've had a few people ask about my arm after that blood donation. It's healing. Still is bruised and a little tender.  I did have it confirmed this weekend by a friend who was a former nurse that this wasn't normal.  She agreed with the theory that my boss raised that the needle was dislodged and went through my vein. Otherwise I would NOT have been in that much pain and wouldn't have the bruising I do. 

So now I need to accuse someone in Idol of paying them extra to do that!  :D 

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THE FEST was amazing.  Because it's always amazing.  <3  

How was YOUR weekend? 
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clauderainsrm ([personal profile] clauderainsrm) wrote in [community profile] therealljidol2025-10-27 10:24 pm

Prompts- Week 14

 The Wheel said you get 2 prompts this week.  So let's see what they are!  *spins wheel twice* 

a nail is driven out by another nail

and

ambuscade





The deadline to link BOTH of these entries in the thread below is Monday November 3rd at 7pm ET.  

Have fun! 
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clauderainsrm ([personal profile] clauderainsrm) wrote in [community profile] therealljidol2025-10-27 09:58 pm

Twist Reveal - Week 14 (and the Week 13 tie)

 *spins wheel*  TWIST!

OK. Nice.  But WHAT twist?  

*spins the wheel again* 

 Multiple topics (random number generator 2-5 to determine how many)

Oh that's fun! I get to spin the wheel again!!

Oh come on, just 2?

Where's that Chekov's Gun? I want to shoot this wheel! ;) 

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There was a 5 way tie for the person with the fewest votes who wasn't eliminated. So I need to ask the Wheel how that will be handled. It came up as "Wheel Decides Who Is Eliminated", which in THIS case means that the wheel will select 1 of you to receive those 2 byes to hand out.

Who will it be?  This isn't as suspenseful for you as it is for me, since I write these in real time!

4. *counts* Congratulations [personal profile] hafnia ! Let me know where you want those 2 byes to go.

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btw - Not sure if I mentioned it, but a vial WAS found this week. So make sure to send in your accusation and who you want to give the antidote to!


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clauderainsrm ([personal profile] clauderainsrm) wrote in [community profile] therealljidol2025-10-27 08:26 pm
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Results - Week 13

I just got back from FEST in time for my therapy session and then to come close this poll! :)

(well OK, I posted a few things on FB too! But still, the point stands!)

There was one person going home this week and it's[personal profile] legalpad819 !

Sorry to see you g... what are you doing? Why do you have gun? What are you.... oh... BAM!!!! 

She just shot her own elimination with Chekov's Gun!!!  The elimination is now dead. 

(and the gun, having been used, disappears) 


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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2025-10-25 08:42 am

Database maintenance

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!