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Game's up, QH only for the moment.

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36 hr. host schedule has resumed.

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New turn is up.

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Is Pangea still in the game? He seems to have stalled a few times...

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I sent him a PM letting him know that the game was back up; he staled after that, and it looks as though he is going to stale again.

I will put him to AI if he misses a third turn.

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Currently the server is not accessable.

Also, did Pangea go AI or is it still the real opponent?

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Pangea AI.

Server inaccessibility was due to dns lag; it should be available now.

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I staled this turn because of that. No big deal but now I have an excuse if I don't win this game. ;-)

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Sorry about that. I was fast asleep when you posted. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Dudes! Dudes! Help, Tuidjy is bullying me!

Seriously (as far as the word can be applied), though, it seems Abysia has a rather nice slew of artifacts, all the blood uniques and powerful armies (in comparison to me at least, but I suck like a pro). To top it I witnessed him hellbinding poor Nephele under his rule, so things look grim indeed. One might add that from what I've seen, his pretender alone is enough to off Man (yes, that's you, Saeter) so I'd suggest a joint move from the remaining players right now. I doubt if even that is enough, but one has to at least try, right? Did I mention his absolutely astonishing research prowess? Oh, well, I'm dead in any case, so do what you will, everyone! But at least consider yourselves warned.

-Jurri, the utterly incompetent; Chief of the giants

Oh yeah, if someone wants gems, give a shout. I won't be needing them where I'm headed.

Server down
 

Rev, your server went down right at the end of my thirty minute turn taking. I don't know if the turn took or not.

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Sorry Rev. I did not mean to sound ungrateful. I really appreciate you hosting these games.

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As of this posting, server appears to be up and running, and R'lyeh's turn registers as taken.

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Also, now that we have hit the 50 turn mark, and given the recent DNS troubles, would anyone strenuosly object to 48hr. QH schedule?

The extra 12 hours ought to leave enough time for me to catch problems and avoid any additional stales.

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Oh, come on, you are exagerating... You are the one that killed my poor archdevil
not once, but four times. I have never killed any of your guys but once.
Exagerations, exagerations... I do not even have the alchemist stone, for Pete's
sake. And without counting those you blew up to smittereens, I barely have half
the blood uniques... Hell, I do not even have all the ice devils. As for the
armies, the majority are crossbowmen and archers. Hard working blokes that I
needed to employ taking down Caelum's walls, after the birdies shamelessly
attacked me without warning.

And you do not suck - I lifted the siege from the capital only this turn, and
didn't even kill anyone.
Well, did I ask to be attacked (without a warning, again) by the main army of
Vanheim? I watched them wipe out the flower of Ermor's mages, of course I was
going to defend myself. I got lucky, is all...
And I assure you that Man is last nation I would ever attack. We have been
good neighbors, and I fully intend to keep it this way.
Oh, come on... you are just flattering me. I am sure that C'tis and Man have
more pressing concerns than a peaceful nation like Abysia that is struggling
with two powerful opponents. Admit it, you are secretely in the employ of
Pangaea's AI, trying to distract its future victims while it backstabs them.
Shame on you!
Just a few sages... C'tis knows about them since the very beggining - I am so
peaceful that I keep my main research facilities in a border province.
Oh, do not be such an alarmist... relax, everything is under control.
Oh, I can use some. What would you like in exchange?

Come on, seriouly, can say I have posted even one tiny lie here? The accusation
that you are working for Pangaea was just a figure of speach, and everything else
is the naked truth!

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Damn! Did Legacyspy rat me out, or was it Cainehill? 'Cause they are the only ones who should know about my pact with all the various Pangaeas Nappa left behind! (He had plenty.)

I see quite a few untruths here, let me pick them out:
I do too! Why else could you utterly destroy me in ~3 turns? And it's my capital we're talking about, so it's hardly assuring that you both own it, and have lifted my 'siege.'
Luck has nothing to do with it. I'm sure it was pure, mad skillz that must have made you bring the most suitable dudes to welcome Patrick's entourage. Poor Patrick, being devastated on turn one of his valiant rescue attempt. And when I say rescue, I mean rescuing the world from the cruel overlord, peeps! And when I say attempt, I really mean the saddest failure since the foolhardy 'defense of Jotunheim.'
Now, I can't say for sure that it's a lie that you are sure that C'tis and Man have better things to do than try to stop you, but I think you are not sure that it is so. In fact, I wager if you gave it thought (as I'm sure you have), you'd conclude that from their respective points of view Man and C'tis couldn't do anything more worthwhile if their goal was victory.

Then to tackle the two powerful opponents claim. Who are they? 'Cause as far as I know you are facing me, who suck beyond reasonable doubt, and Van, whose main force you half converted and half killed. So where's the power?

Oh, and to conclude the dissection: Since I'm neither insincere nor excessive, how is it flattery?
This can't be true! If it were, you wouldn't need to dispute my claims. And how can I relax if everything is under your control?

There is no use denying the truth, for the nations of the world shall not stand idly by while you subjugate us one by one! Justice shall prevail, since already the lizards and the men are riding with haste towards you capital! Oh, and isn't it conclusive proof that you are evil, that you've had three consecutive independent uprisings in as many turns? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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48 hour QH would suit me perfectly from now on, Reverend.

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Glad to hear it.

I made the change last night, not having heard any objections.

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Is the game down?

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Temporary internet problem. should be up now.

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What version of the game is the server running now by the way?

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2.14, for the duration of the game. Have you had any difficulties along these lines? It's possible that I used the wrong version when I had to re-install Windows.

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No problems with that for my part.

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There's an AQ (Thuella, even) up for grabs, if anyone's interested. With that, Jotun's out, thanks for the game.

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I am dead myself as well. Abysia may won the game already.
This turn, Petar killed 60 bane soldiers, 50 mechanical
horrors, much troops, much commanders, and my Amelie with
only 8 commanders. I killed only 1 Warlock, with a randomy
Blade Wind.

Here are four powerhouses he had in battle. He has many,
many more. Some in Hall of fame, as well. He uses
Wrathful skies, Heat from hell and Flame Storms, and
teleports like an astral nation.

The abilities are: Air Queen - hit points, Archdevil -
fatigue reduce.

I am finished. I will cast some killing spells at Abysia
and send you guys clams and left pearls. Then I will AI.

UNITE AGAINST DEVILS, IT MAY BE TOO LATE!

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I sure hope you sent the clams/pearls on this turn, because I doubt there are
many clam carriers left unfried :-) By the way, what's up with trying to get
everyone on my back? This is not a newbie game, I am sure the players have an
idea about what is going on. I fully expect to face a All-vs-One alliance as
soon as Pangaea is dead. As far as I am concerned, C'tis and R'lyeh have
practically declared war - one has take a province next to my capital, the other
has cast a global enchantment that is destroying my provinces.

As for the Celebrities snapshots, don't you think that this takes a bit away
from the game? I have been besieging that castle for what feels like forever.
You are depriving those who had scouts watching the battle from the satisfaction
of a well executed recon. As a matter of fact they got another show this turn.
I certainly hope to put the Airqueen you just gifted me to better use than the
last one I got from you... As for your prophet, you can be sure, he will serve
me well. Actually, I intend to use him to take your last province....

Nyah-nyah-neener! (An attempt to reach the level of maturity of the last post)

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Oh come, now. One province a turn, randomly selected from all coastal provinces (not necessarily yours)??? A mere nuisnance, surely, and not a declaration of war. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Sorry everone that I staled last turn. Actually I had the turn done but was unable to send it because of internet problems.

/Saeter (Man)

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Well, you had plenty of time to take that province, and you never did. I assumed you didn't want it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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To what do I owe the honor of Anya's visit to my southernmost holdings?

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She must have thought she was visiting Pangaea. I can assure you that the
warlock apprentice who scried the two provinces in question has been harshly
punished - he was thrown into a fire pit and left there.
Not even a nuisance anymore! Your undead decided to socialize with my undead,
and droped at my annual undead/demon get-together. Sadly, there was a dispute
over who gets to suck the brains of a recently deceased bloodhedge druid...
I am sorry to inform you that no one from your fleet made it back to the ships.
Oh, it's just that with Caelum and then Vanheim attacking me, I never had the
time to grab it. But now that Vanheim seems to be willing to stop harrassing me,
we may drop by to visit Anya's believers.

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Yes, by all means, come for a visit. Anya's believers are quite delicious. I'll prepare a feast of them for your arrival.

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The great kingdom of C'tis wants to thank Abysia for their very generous book-loan program. Anubis needed some light reading this month, and the Tome should do quite nicely.

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You are welcome. I cannot say I am happy about it, but what can I do? The
fashion seems to be rings of wizardry, this season. No one cares about books
anymore, so they end up on the battlefield... something about them stopping
arrows (doesn't work).

But can you tell me who's the impostor that shows up after 'Summon Air Queen' and
what you have done with the real Thuella? As far as I can tell, this is the
impostor's record:

Summoned by Vanheim.
Changes sides, to Abysia, in the first battle she's in.
Dies, next turn, to a single scout employed by Jotunheim.
Summoned by Vanheim.
Changes sides, again.
Teleports into battle, panics, forgets that she can fly, and dies while running.

That does not sound like the Thuella I know. So, whoever has the real Queen of
Air under lock, prepare to face the full wrath of her sisters.

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Due to his recent DEATH, Anubis may be a little late returning the Tome to the Abysian Library, and would like to inquire as to the overdue fees.

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Usually it is nothing exhorbitant, something like half your provinces. But
with all this fighting, our Empire needs resources, so I think we will double
the fines.

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Surely Abysia must be close to the requisite two-thirds of the map's provinces for the victory condition, yes?

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You would think. He has about half of mine now, and just killed my Pretender.

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I do not insist on using the 'number of provinces' win condition. It is fine
for breaking stalemates, but stuff is still happening all the time in this game.
If everyone feels like surrendering, sure, but I think that we can take the game
at least to the point when Man has joined the fray.

By the way, I have 67 temples and at least 21 uncastled provinces, thus about
ninety total. This is closer to half than to two thirds.

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Welcome to the Dead Pretender Book Club!

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Well I don't know how it happened, but I staled this turn. And it was not the right turn to stale. I did the orders very carefully offline but must have done something wrong when uploading them. Not that I believe we had much chance anyway, but this certainly made it worse.

Sorry about that.

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It is a shame that you stalled, but it would not have made that much of a
difference. Without exception, my attackers teleported. Your orders would have
not been executed by the time they hit.

The exception to this is the troll/elf/wolf army that routed my Air Queen (and
that was a bug, the ritual of returning failed to clear when I removed the damn
armour). With orders, it would have moved after the attack.

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I think I just did what you did last turn. :-(

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Sorry, staled last turn too. And missed the opportunity to watch you take another of my castles. I see you took my Water Queen too! Have fun with her.

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Wow. I knew that Man was lucky, but how much luck does it take for a S3 mage
to win a magic duel against an S10?! It is a bit too late for this to stop
Abysia, but I must say I am annoyed.

In any case, I think it is time for me to ask for a surrender.
I have a 100 astral, 80 fire, and 60 earth gem generator income, more than
300 gems per turn from sites and globals, and 10 devils per turn from contracts.
With the exception of the Eternal Pyre, my globals have at least 200 extra
gems put into them, and I do not think that anyone has supercombatants
that can take on my top five.

I do not mind playing to the bitter end, if your alliance has something up its
sleeve. What do you guys say?

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Well that's the only thing I can achieve at this point. Annoyance. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

The SC:s might be taken with my exceptional luck, but the grinding destruction by your spells and decline of dominion and income is impossible to stop.

I have some small things up my sleeve but of course nothing that will stop your advance.

Unless the others want to continue I will agree to Abysian victory.

Surrender
 

Since none have said that they wish to continue, I hereby surrender to Abysia.

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Well, until I hear from R'lyeh and C'tis, I will keep playing. Most of my
strength is arrayed against Man at this time... so if you want to try out your
tricks, you will have a chance. I expect a mindless unit casting Astral
Tempest, for starters :-)

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Yes, I have very little interest in continuing this. R'lyeh surrenders.

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Game over man!

I have lots to learn about playing Dominions 2. I have never been in the position to spend +200 extra for a global, let alone several...