Well, if you really feel like you have to do the 10,000, you can always do a sprint every hour, or every half an hour. But with this

Nine half-naked pagans could debauch the night away

kind of quality writing - who cares if you got the 50,000 or not 😛

Honestly, You have written some great stuff and I know you have done some editing and such. As far as I am concerned, you are a winner!!!