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Do I have this right? You want to extend the current turn deadline 72 hours? If nobody has any objections, I will extend the deadline.

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ok for me.

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As Agartha's turn is already in, I'm assuming that sansanjuan wanted the next turn postponed until after Monday, rather than this one. However, from the looks of things, a couple players may have been relying on a delay in this turn. I've postponed the turn for 24 hours so we can hopefully get things sorted out.

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And it appears that I was worried for nothing after all, as it looks like everyone's in on time except Ulm, who's gone. I'm gone for a little while, but I'd imagine one of the other admins can force the turn if no-one needs to resend.

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I'm back and turn is in. Sorry for the delay.
-ssj

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Ryleth seeks Astral gems, trading 4 W/D/N per 3 S.

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doh, somehow i forgot my army at the fort, lucky patala

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This is an annoucement that Agartha have broken its NAP 3 and initiated a surprise attack. Be warned that Sansanjuan does not keep to agreements or treaty.

Consider any present or future agreement with them to be meaningless, and that there is no need to pay mind to any treaty/agreement with one who does not keep them.

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Let it be said that last month Agartha attacked two provinces owned by C'tis... not R'yleh. Agartha welcomes any evidence to the contrary by any party and is mightily confused by the R'yleh reaction. Perhaps R'yleh would agree to have the evidence heard by all pretenders of Gluttony and abide by their decision? Agartha still considers the R'yleh-Agartha NAP in place and will respond in kind to any aggression to the best of our meager abilities.


Let it further be stated that Agartha has turned the other cheek last year as R'yleh insulted Agartha with their harsh reviews of the "Agartha Finger Puppet Troop" calling the performance "weak" and "over the top".

Who is sansanjuan? Do you mean Ool?

-Agartha

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Agartha would like to share an excerpt from the Air Queen involved with the R'yleh " misunderstanding " ..

"I had just finished off some C'tis rabble and, right in the middle of my post - battle preening, who should show up but a legion of naked, insane, R'ylehian madmen! Usually I am flattered to be pursued by a mob of naked, insane men but these seemed bent on doing me harm (!) and their hamdlers in the back were U-G-L-Y. To be honest they seemed as surprised to see me as I was to see them..."

Thuella



Assuming Thuella's account is accurate, how was the NAP violated?

Agartha Ministry of Excerpts

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How odd, I will note that said province is:

A.) Raided by Ctis from Ryleth and held for a single turn before being retaken by Ryleth.

B.) Surround by Ryleth province on every side.

C.) Holds lab structure constructed by Ryleth.

I am certain your constant influx of scouts

If you think airdropping into the middle of my nation in the middle of my war (now ended) with Ctis can be considered anything but aggression you can think again.

If you truly intend to abide by the NAP 3, I will give you a chance to return the lone province you have taken from me.

Otherwise, do not be deceived by Agartha's treachery, all treaty and agreement with them are suspect. Again to all pretenders, there is no need to ever abide by any agreement with someone who does not abide by them.

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Oppertunist yes. NAP breaking.. no.

Our NAP did not include any of the provisions listed, only your demand that Agartha stay out of the water (perhaps a bit selfish as Agartha made no provision that R'yleh stay off the land). If R'yleh would like to consider an attack on C'tis aggression then so be it. In turn we would invite other pretenders to revaluate NAPs they have with R'yleh in light of your disregard for the former NAP between our pretenders.

Tiny Agartha will fall to the insane hordes from the deep, perhap quickly, but we will have a sting...

Interesting how Voltaron of R'yleh does not even mention the Finger Puppet incident!

Agartha

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Hold on! Hold on! The monkeys want to get some popcorn. What is the number of theis contested province? And more importantly what happened with the finger puppet?

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<sigh>
I'm sure R'yleh has their version.

The Agartha National Finger Puppet Troop (ANFPT) were sent as emissaries to R'yleh a year back. They were set to perform "Creature From The Black Lagoon" which, in hindsight, was probably not the wisest choice of material for the R'yleh Star Spawn Council. Anyway the Troop arrived in the capital (underwater with appropriate gear) and soon became quite insane. The lead Puppeteer, Lucy, sought solace from the madness in a local tavern where she was picked up by the R'yleh Vastness (Jim?). Jim had his/its way with her (from which she has still not recovered...) but.. the show must go on. Suffice to say the Troop was not at it's best and the R'yleh reviews were injurious to the Agartha pride ("Low production values"???!!!). In the ensuing diplomatic spat we turned away the R'yleh Karaoke emissaries (The Mad Mermen) they had sent as Royal entertainment to our capital. There are two sides to the story and this is ours.

Agarth Ministry of Finger Puppeteers

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Annoucement:

Let it be known that Agartha have irrevocably broken NAP 3 beyond any possible excuses or technicality this turn, I will reiterate that any agreement with them including future pretender incarnations should be treated as non-existent. Any dealings with these scums of the realm will be meet with treachery.

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Monkeys laugh at puppet thing. Good story!

Edit: Monkeys sent emassaries to fishies court to find out what fishies look like under robes. They never came back too!

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... and Agartha expects a thorough spanking. The battles were fantastic. Even the ones we lost. Fight well denziens of the deep!

-Agartha Ministry of Spankings

ooc- Could you add 24hr to this turn? Camped with the cub scouts and am completely trashed today...

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To Agartha,

We will shortly begin our retaliation in respond to your treachery although we are in quite a bind:

We have no wish to expand any further in the short term as things stand now, and are greatly saddened that despite our tolerance on your first breach on NAP you have decided to push your luck and thus force us to expand. first C'tis, now Agartha, whatever shall we do with our burgeoning problem?

Given the outcome of your attack with the element of surprise (some successful, some failed, and we note the huge loss in gem cost on some of the failures) against our unprepared positions, I think it would be fair to say that once we pull our defenses together and throw our own mages/thugs/scripts into the equation that the advantage would be on our side.

Thus our suggestion given our current expansion policy ("Stop forcing us to expand!"), I would be amendable to restoring things to the way it was given sufficent reparations. Of course, I'm sure you'll want to see some of the defenses I was speaking of first, I will of course oblige, though the reparation required for peace would be larger farther into the war, and the window for peace is short.

We were baffled, of all the possible target (and we note some juicy and conveniently placed ones), us?

-Council of Elder Stars

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Dear Council,
Thank you for the interesting proposal.
-Agartha Council of Proposal Replies

ooc - Thanks for the extension

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An out-of-character response for a moment, as I notice that Marignon has been eliminated from the game.

I'd like to extend a thank-you to 13lackGu4rd for substituting in when the previous player quit. He ended up in a pretty hopeless position, beset on multiple fronts by some powerful enemies. Nonetheless, he stuck with it, and actually went on the attack rather than being ground down at home.

So, 13lackGu4rd, on behalf of myself and I hope everyone else, I'd like to thank you for being a good competitor and making the game a more interesting one.

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Ditto. Hats off BG.
-ssj

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This war is getting profitable quickly, though I must admit my lab is getting a bit cluttered.

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as Agartha's empties... Agartha expects no quarter in this war.

We do take offense to your senseless killing of a young Shambler named "Nick". His body was found frozen under three inches of ice from some heinous ritual from the R'ylehian Abyss. His stooped shoulders and overlong arms will no longer hold his girl... "Nancy".

In other news Lucy has begot a child of Jim the Vastness. Neither mother nor the mid-wife survived the birth. We hope to send him home to daddy soon.

Agartha Ministry of Plaid Ninjas

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Long have our seers walked the desolation of the coast, seeking signs of what is to come. And at long last, we have received an answer. A great black walrus was seen in the pools before the great temple, and it bellowed three times at the rising of the moon. The face of the glacier At'Heth Taratuk fell into the ocean, revealing the bones of a mighty beast. At the fourth white gate, the tide flowed three times without ebbing, leaving the trees broken under a weight of ice. The signs are clear, and we send our messengers now to share them with the world.

The terrible power that lies dead yet dreaming below the Coast of Ice and Bones is awakening once more. Arkael the herald has already come to prepare the path, and our armies have gone forth in her name. Now, all must be made ready. We must bring back to the coast new sources of magic, new bones to burn upon the altars.

The empire must expand.

For a long time, we have lived at peace with the strange creatures of Patala. Odd things, they cannot even survive more than a moment below the waters of the coast. Now the illithids of R'Lyeh call upon us to unite with them and so conquer these 'monkeys'. Against all the powers of the deeps, these furred things could not long stand. The starspawn urge us to see the benefits to both our peoples. Long have we cooperated with R'Lyeh, to great advantage.

Yet there is one thing they have forgotten.

R'Lyeh lays claim to near all the oceans of the world. And the seas are ours. Our heritage. Our birthright. Our legacy, stolen from us by the starspawn. We have not forgotten. We have not forgiven. The time has come to reclaim all the waters for Atlantis. We will have the seas back. We will have them all back.

Let it therefore be known that all agreements and treaties between Atlantis and R'Lyeh are dissolved, nullified, and destroyed. Per the signs, we give the illithids the three months of spring to flee or stand as they will. After that, we march to war. We will scour the oceans of the starspawn, and take back all that is ours. There shall be no peace below the waves, until the bones of the false god Voltaron are burned upon the high altar, or the last of our race is ended.

So it has been foreseen. So shall it be done.

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True Ture monkeys do not like to get wet. We are in the final staged of our own vast experiment. If a monkey is bitten by a werewolf, will he become a weremonkey? We are sending in a legion of volunteers to find out.

Even better a were-elephant!

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Send him in, we can always use more thral... er, I mean we will welcome the "exchange student".

-T'ggoth, Clerk-in-training for the Thrall assignment center

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Midgard is finally death, in the end we had nothing we could use against patalas onslaught. But as i was blessed with an awake frost father as pretender (and some scales) i suppose i should be happy with lasting that long.

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We are sad to say that our great werewolf experiment was a failure. Not one of our "volunteers" has contracted the disease.

On a positive note, during a freak storm, many of our troops were exposed to quite a few electrons. If anyone would like to purchase a glow-in-the-dark monkey, please let us know.

OT. Thanks for the merry chase. I would love to know how you maintained such a large army without any visible means of income.

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Also we would like to apologise to Bogarus. We may have trampled all over your kingdom in our zeal to attack Midgard. We are faintly embarrased. Several of our best monkey scientist are striving to return life to your flattened corpses. If we do not succeed please belive that we shall ignore any leftover breathing, and never speak of this tragedy again without a certain wistfulness.

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If you are out of money, your army does not just desert at once, but gradually, so my army was getting smaller every turn. Also commanders do not desert.

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I did not know that. Thanks.

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To the Hairless Ones Throughout the Lands of Gluttony:

The Fishies are slippery and twisty with the words. Frankly we are tired of being threatened and bullied by them. They have siezed our lands while accusing us of agression. They have published false statements about us. They have mistreated our emissaries (dressing them in motley), and, worst of all, they simply will not reveal what they look like under their robes.

In addition our Pachyderm Sychronized Swimming Troop (PSST) needs to find a practice facility. As you can imagine they need a rather large body of water - such as a river - that southeastern river would do nicely.

While we agree the wiser course would be to let Atlantis, R'leyh, and Agartha beat each other up, we are just too annoyed. In the coming months we will seek the return of our ancestor lands that were part of our nation from the first few months of our glorious rein. The lands are sacred to us. Our God, shed his blood upon them to save of those (rather wet) lands.

Of course the monkeys are always willing to listen to people from other lands. We would like nothing better then a peaceful existance where we could eat our bananas in peace. But do not send us threats. Threats make monkeys mad.

Sincerely,

The Monkeys, Snakes and Elephants

Edit: We declare war on R'leyh

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Llamaserver does not seem to be accepting my turn re-sends. Odd. Anyone else having issues?
-ssj

edit
Nevermind. Seems to be working now.

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Congrats to R'leyh on a timely Sea of Ice. I should have see that coming, but instead spent five minutes trying to figure out why some of my orders didn't happen.

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Could I get a 2 hr turn extension? Seems I may not be in time to send my turn.

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Looks like someone extended it 12 hrs.

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We are sad to announce that the Pachyderm Sychronized Swimming Troop (PSST) has ended it's season early. While there was no shortage of eager participants, the weather has simply not cooperated. Plans are being formed for a new sport - the Pachyderm Ice Skating Team (PIST).

In the meantime, enjoy your winter holiday.

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Heh. Misread the request for 2 hours as one for 12 hours, sorry.

And I have to say, things are looking interesting. I'd spent some time considering how Seas of Ice would alter the landscape. And yet somehow never quite grasped that "You know, someone else might cast it." Definitely a good move on R'lyeh's part.

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We are tenacious!

Our apologies to swimmers and hot spring lovers alike, we hope you like ice skating!

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Crazy tenacious with excellent generals!
-Agartha

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The shark population took a sharp dive this month in the biggest ecological disaster in the history of the realm.

On another note, a shark festival has begun in the East Sunlit sea, with nothing but shark meat on the menu! Come buy the latest shark skin and teeth fashion accessory at cut-throat price!

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We are making an open offer to everyone:

We will exchange at a ratio of 4:3 of any 4 of our gems for your 3 pearls. Negotiations welcomed.

This offer extends to everyone, including oath breakers and those who wish us ill, even if you plan to use said gems to our detriment. If possible, we prefer that such detritus be in the form of SCs/thugs with lots of loot though, we've acquired quite a taste for it.

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The monkey men offer you a choice! We will match any legitimate deal that R'leyh offers because we too enjoy pearls.

Monkeys are cute, fishies are slimy!

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Ah we have forgotten to add 2 other services, we'll list all services below for easy reference:

a) 3:4 exchange ratio, 3 of your Pearls for 4 of our any gems in any combination.

b) 5:4 exchange ratio, 5 of your any gems for 4 of our any gems in any combination. To be clear: Pearls and slaves are not considered gems.

c) 1 year Fixed deposit with an annual return of 20%, available in 50 gem/pearls increments. Gems lent to us can be repaid in any other gem combination you want, pearls lent can be repaid in pearls or any gems at a 2 pearls : 3 any gems ratio. Example:

Ex. 1) You've lent 50 pearls to us, after 12 months you can receive 60 pearls back, or 90 gems in any combination (or say 20 pearls + 60 any gems ...etc).

Ex. 2) You've lent 50 gems (non-pearl/slave) to us, after 12 months you can receive 60gems in any combination you want (ex. 10F+10A+10W+10E+10D+10N). Again, pearls/slaves are not considered gems.

Small print: 12 months repayment countdown begins on the turn we receive the gems, if we receive on Turn 1, you will receive the repayment on Turn 13. Receipts will be given via PM or publicly posted here depending on your preference. gem repayment composition you prefer must be told to us 6 months before repayment date (turn 7) otherwise we will repay in the original gem type. Finally please seek confirmation with us before sending us a deposit or gem exchange, in event that gems are sent to us without us confirming the deal, the offer is null.

Negotiations welcomed.

-Central bank of R'yleh, grand opening

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That's the type of "creative financing" that could cause the global financial system to collapse...
Agartha dept of shiney things

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Is this bank too big to fail?

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Just a heads up.
Having trouble finding a sub for this Tue thru Sunday.
ssj

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I'm fine with delaying the game if others agree.

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Same here, I'm fine with a delay til sunday. I'll extend the turn automatically after this turn resolves if there are no objections.

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I extended the turn until Sunday. Hope the new time is OK with everyone.