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All over Machaka people use leopard hides to cover their bodies, beds and sofas. The leopard cap is in fashion. Are jaguar pelts as beautiful, or is this just tradesmen's talk?

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leopards, jaguars, their rather close cousins to be fair.

i'd say jaguars and leopards are of a rather similar quality as pets and shag carpeting.

Re: Asia Twist - Pbem (Started)
 

Jaguar pelts have a somewhat rougher texture. I would not recommend using them for clothing before proper softening treatments.

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I'm not sure, but one of them may be a forgery. :shock:

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yeah well thats what the dampness of the rainforest does to hair of any kind, our jags are specially bread in vast indoor centres to keep them out off the elements and soft and cuddly as ever.

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Oh, really? Can I order like 10-15 of them in full scuba gear?

"We shall use my largest scales!"

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She's a witch!

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What is a beautiful lady without fine jewelery and what better gift for the queen of the wild woods then a necklace of magic stones (note the avoidance of pearl). The revelers seek gems: Earth, Death, and Air. We will supply the highest grade Nature gems in the land, we're talking 91 octane that will give your Vine Shields that extra snare. We will also throw in an invitation to our famous manaed orgies to the first seller! The Pangean embassy looks forward to your response...

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Tempting Pangaea, but we Lizard Kings prefer scaly to hairy - so will pass.

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"We will supply the highest grade Nature gems in the land, we're talking 91 octane that will give your Vine Shields that extra snare."

I wish this was true :(

Actually, it'd be a pretty cool mechanic if you could empower magic items by plowing more gems into them :) But... I guess that would make some items imbalanced.

Re: Asia Twist - Pbem (Started)
 

Turn 8 went out last night.

Deadline is tonight (Wednesday).

Pasha

Re: Asia Twist - Pbem (Started)
 

I'm afraid nature gems don't fetch much on the world market these days, old girl. Everyone and their mother has a steady supply for an already quite limited use.

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Pure lies! Pangean Hide Shields are in hot demand these days...especially after a pretender died without using his. Some countries are considering mandatory "Furioso Laws" requiring no mage solo without one. Now is your chance to get them on the cheap before the market really takes off....

:)

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I don't know if I'd say that Nature gems have "limited use", but at this stage of the game, maybe most people won't readily give a 1:1 trade for them, as their best uses are mid-late game.....

But, I would like to know more about these Hide Shields! :o

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Yes, well... I've no doubt that *_furioso_* is actively regretting his miserly ways, but it doesn't take an oracle to see that there are far better wares on sale here than your glorified strips of leather. However, quality must be paid for. ;)

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hide shields are pretty crap - on the same order as enchanted sheilds. Of course, though where you get this "miserly ways" we have no idea. In fact, we must take this as a direct insult to our most noble lord by the wizened eunuchs of pythium.

It is incumbent upon me to point out that Pythium has lands seemingly very rich in valuable gems; riches that should be easy for the taking :)

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Oh, so? Well, my dear barbarian friend, you are certainly quite welcome to try. However, we fear that you may come to find violating Pythian borders to be a task more demanding in courage and strength of arms than the idle knaveries your folk seem to be partial to. Perhaps you would be better served to attend to your "noble lord" in his infirmity.

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(from the archives of the BSC)

"Straighten up, son," says the colonel, "You've got a proud tradition to uphold", and it's weird, because he's a human, not one of us. But he's a good man, and I look up to him, not just literally. I'm the only bakemono-sho on his staff. Sure, I'm just the company clerk, but I stay by him on the battlefield anyway. Just like the dai bakemono officers.

The sitrep we've been waiting for comes in mid-morning. The courier salutes and delivers his message at speed: "Contact 5 klicks south, estimate reinforced battalion strength, marching double-time; no outriders."

"F$@#ing savages," mutters Col. Karel, from the saddle of his own horse. "Wish we had cavalry." But we don't, so he's in charge of Easy company, 12th regiment--light archers. My company, now part of the Homeland Defense Force.

They come over the hill, two companies of warriors and two companies of jaguars. They don't have any cavalry, or any archers, or any heavy infantry, or much armor at all, for that matter. I frown. The colonel reads my mind. "Remember, son, with jaguars, you have to kill them twice." I know that. We all know that. We've been training for days. "Kill the rat, kill the cat", we chant, because some bakemono can't remember anything unless it rhymes.

"Sir...are they carrying...slings?"

He shakes his head. "They never understood the value of superior firepower. We'll show them." And it begins. Their pagan priest-king howls out some kind of prayer over his troops, and they advance.

G company from the 17th takes their initial charge. It's awful. They're our shock infantry, but they're understrength, and the jags walk all over them, avoiding our blows with uncanny fortune, while their fiery obsidian blades cut down the O bakemono. I almost can't bear to watch. But I hear the colonel yell "Fire!", and two companies of archers let fly. Bolts of fire pass overhead from the artillery somewhere behind us. General Fusamasa leads a battalion of bakemono-sho into battle, and they hold. Arrows rain down, and fire, and the men turn into cats, and the cats die.

But not fast enough. Alpha company eventually breaks, then Bravo, and Charlie, and they're on top of us. Easy gets overrun, and most of them head for the castle. Fire is still pouring in from Dog company and battery B. The jaguars are too stupid to notice they're flanked, and that gives time for a few more to die. I'm standing stock-still, horrified, but the colonel is still beside me firing his bow. I'm trying to get my yari pointed in the right direction when I'm yanked off my feet and dragged to the rear by a big dai bakemono, who beats off one of the cats with his nodachi in his other hand.

Later I learn it was General Kiyomune. He promotes me for standing by the colonel, who went and bought himself a plot of farmland. "A good battle," he tells me. "We stung them. With Snake and the First BEF on their tails, the war may have already turned."

Hard to believe it. They overran us, chased us back through the artillery park into the fortress. You see their campfires out every window of the castle. But maybe there's a moral here. They came at us without arms or armor, nothing but their god's blessing protecting them. We met them with arms, armor, and magic, and just about held out. And our god's just over the next hill. We'll see which one wins out.

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The bakemono command structure sounds bizarre, to say the least, with a full colonel leading a mere archer company. Still, at least they have a command structure, which is probably more than you can say for some of this rabble.

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It's a combination of an imperfect translation and the fact that they don't count very well.

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Desperate times lead to a lack of lower officers ;)

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Turn 9 is out. Due to the delayed hosting, the deadline for turn 9 will be extended to Friday at 9:00 pm Boston time.

Thanks.

Pasha

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Oh no! I don't want to go to Boston :(

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When I try to open turn 9, I first can click on "Pangea Turn 9" then just get a message that says "Turn file is corrupted" and Dominions closes.

Never had this happen before. Any ideas? I have re-downloaded turn several times but keep getting the same message.

Re: Asia Twist - Pbem (Started)
 

ask pasha to resend.

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Atlantis: Sorry about that.
Pythium: Nice try, surface dweller ;)

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Pride comes before the fall, fish man. Men may yet walk beneath the waves.

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Yeah, I guess so :(

The only victories I expect to claim are those won by accident, like this one ;)

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Turn 10 is out.

Deadline is Saturday night at 9:00 pm Boston time.

Pasha

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The dark thaumaturges of Ermor think that they can push the proud Atlantians back into the waves. This is utter foolishness. Let it be known amongst the more civilized and right-thinking of the surface dwellers, that you will have an ally of incredible power if you assist now in ending the dark scourge of the Unholy Ermor Empire!

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Ermor just get back the province which should belong to Ermor,but the Atlantics put his hand too deep to the earth.So that behavior must be justice,and the province which should belong to Ermor's must be get back.

Re: Asia Twist - Pbem (Started)
 

You boring clumps! :mad:

Why doesn't anyone answer diplomatic messages? Is it because I'm a noob or something? :(

Re: Asia Twist - Pbem (Started)
 

It could be a warning sign that you are Next On The List. If a player does not want to (a) warn your or (b) lie to you, then silence is not a bad option.

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Never mind. I had forgotten to put PMs on auto. :)

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Hey Ashdod, quit hogging the HoF!

Turn 11
 

Turn 11 went out last night. Deadline is tonight (Monday) at 9:00 pm Boston time.

Pasha

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The HoF is our rightful place in the world! Ashdod are A list all the way...

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Actually, I thought a "ranked" player playing Ashdod would draw more negative attention than it has :)

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You don't know how many treaties there already is that includes the downfall of the unholy nation of Ashdod!

Actually, you are part in three of them, but it is only in one of them that you have been declared first aggressor, so you can relax for about three turns before going to war. Just make sure you don't set your mages to research.

Besides, Mbaba has started to inhale again :)

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Turn 12 is out.

Deadline is Tuesday night.

Go Monkeys!!

Pasha

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"Go Monkeys!!"

Is that like going bananas?

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Nah! Just rooting for my team. (Bandar Log) :)

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I should've figured R'yleh would be grumpy. At least they don't have a Great Chtulhu pretender :)

Re: Asia Twist - Pbem (Started)
 

I'll need a 24hr delay on the current turn as I'm headed out for work overnight.

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^^ you should email pasha too, just in case he doesn't check the thread.

Turn 13
 

Hello:

Turn 13 is out. Due to the hosting delay and Wokeye's extension request, turns will be due on Thursday at 9:00 pm Boston time.

Pasha

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Krom the Pan gazed across the mighty range of the mountains known in the Pangean tongue as the Stonefangs. His long journey of several seasons had taken him through at least five provinces, beginning in the rolling hills of Greenbriar, up through the icy paths of the Frost King, and now finally to the northernmost peaks of Greyrock. The Pan looked up to the sky and bellowed a roar of rage, for despite his arduous searches, the mountain range was as barren of the essence of earth magic as an Abyssian woman. Krom’s blood boiled in range at the passing of the ancient magicks and shuddered at the thought of how his master, the Fair Lady, would react when she learned that somehow an entire range of mountains could not produce a single gem of the earth. Surely she would assume he had just been lounging back in Greenbriar the whole year with his maenad harem so his thoughts turned to wondering if there were any anti-petrification items in his grimoire… :)

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There are Abysian women? :shock:

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As much as there are men I guess :/ Wait, wasn't it so that the original Abysians were just burning blobs, but that they eventually split into a 'regular' people?

Now that I think about it, I sure hope this is the case, because I've been writing a little story set in the universe, and one of the main characters is an abysian woman so... Would be a bummer if it turns out she doesn't really exist :D

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Well, if Abysians are truly genderless, then it would seem that your protagonist is "gender confused". :shock:

I still don't know how the Warlocks managed to "cross" Abysians with other species, but I guess that's why they call it magic! :D