It took me a while to find this but... back in April 2014 (it seems only a few months ago), I wrote a story for the challenge that feature an Elf and Dwarf 'disagreeing' about the creation of a steam-powered boat. So when I saw the theme of mass production and the genre of fantasy it triggered the memory of the duo bickering and I thought it would be nice to invite them back to do the commenting this month, because of course, they would do it with intelligence and understanding. I hope everyone enjoyed them, and that no-one was too offended by their language, which got slightly colourful on occassion. They will not be back (for a while. I hope.)
And now a warning:
This month I rushed. Normally I try to consider what I have written for a few days, count and recount the words and check for the little errors that sometimes occur, either through carelessness or typo's. This month I typed it up and posted. Big mistake. There were a couple in there that stood out, an 'out' that should have been 'our' a 'the' that should have been 'they' and a fullstop that was cunningly disguised as a comma.
All the old time regulars are aware of this, but for the new competitors it is worth remembering that the level of quality is so high in these challenges that sometimes it is hard to narrow things down to a single winner, so one of the common disqualification tactics amongst voters is to drop those down the list that have as mentioned above.
So before you enter your story check and check again just to make sure you have not hit the wrong key on your keyboard, because I felt like a prize prune when I realised what I had done.
There are those lovely members of the Chrons who, if they spot the mistakes in time will let you know within the one hour window you have to edit the story - they are wonderful eh? But in this case although someone was kind enough to do this for me, I did not get to see the message until after the hour was up.
So check, check and check again!