quixoticWelcome to the last of the Thirteen Days of Hogswatch. Each giveaway in this year's extravaganza has come with different rules and a different deadline, although all prizes will be mailed on December 30th, because I am bad at going to the post office (and also, avoiding the post office until that other winter holiday is over).
The thirteenth, and last, giveaway is for a MYSTERY ITEM of some kind. What will it be? No one knows! Not even me. This is going to be a random number drawing, because why I said so. So...
1. To enter, comment on this post.
2. If you are international, indicate both this and your willingness to pay postage.
3. Tell me one thing you hope the prize is. (ETA: Please only ask for things I might actually have. I can't give you a new job or world peace. I wish I could.)
4. Tell me one thing you hope the prize is not.
5. Tell me why the RNG should pick you.
I will choose the winner at 1PM PST on Sunday, December 20th.
Game on!
December 15 2015, 00:53:47 UTC 1 year ago
2. Oregon is still Oregon, thus soggy but within the US.
3. One thing (among many) that I hope the Mystery Item might be is a copy of Fantasy Medley 2, the book in which "Rat-Catcher" appears.
[A note here, because the "ETA" parenthetical adds a slight element of potential ambiguity to the rule set: the above is a statement of hope, per the rule as originally framed. It is not a statement of expectation; the Mystery is the Mystery, and I acknowledge that -- like everyone else in the game -- I have no control over what it might in fact be. Given the parameters of the game, I consider my expressed hope an unlikely prospect but not an impossible one, and therefore within the scope of the rules.]
4. I hope the prize is not a Maine Coon cat.
[I considered expressing the hope that the prize is not a vial containing a deadly pandemic such as Kellis-Amberlee, but given the qualifier expressed in the "ETA" parenthetical, I'm assuming that the statement here should also reflect an item that you might realistically have in your custody. "Vial containing deadly pandemic" is entertaining but not realistic, and therefore is logically outside the scope of the rules. Conversely, since we know you have Maine Coon cats in your custody (for relative values of "custody"), this makes them eligible to be Things That We Hope The Prize Is Not. In point of fact, I consider "vial of pandemic" or "Maine Coon cat" as being equally unlikely to be the Mystery Item.]
5. The RNG should pick me because the longer it goes without doing so, the more statistically likely it becomes that it will do so on the next possible occasion -- which is to say, this one. (Fuzzy math is fuzzy.)