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Well, it was fun while it lasted. I wonder how many troops I could have fielded instead of 86 PD... upkeep probably would have devoured me, though. But it was fun to watch.

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Madnesss? Thisss isss C'tissss!!!

I haven't watched the Ulm news broadcast today, but I suspect that there will be an emergency meeting of the central committee to revise growth estimates following the destruction of the "5 year stone industry plan"- a novel development initiative headed by an eponymous gargoyle, based on increasing stone reserves by turning enemies into stone via magic artifact. The loss of said artifact will no doubt prove a great embarrassment for the party leadership.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Yes, our 5 Year Stone industry plan was a novel and in many ways revolutionary initiative indeed. The next such plan will have greatly increased magic resistance. As soon as we get that Sword back that is :)

OOC: RAAAAGGGEEEE my SC getting punked by a Ctis Shaman that casted "Opposition" in turn 20 or so...

However, the party leadership is optimistic, in the 2 battles for Ctis, the most awesome and revolutionary forces of Ulm lost a total of 13 commanders and 150 troops, while the antiquated troops of Ctis were loosing a total of 28 commanders and 250 troops.

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You wont be getting the sword back...at least not from C;tis ;). But otherwise your confidence is warranted- you have indeed decimated by forces, and I dont have any more tricks up my sleeve.

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For the record, I am VERY impressed that you have lasted as long as you have - respect! :-)

The fact you cause Lung Drago to have to write a rage cartoon about you in the process only makes it all the sweeter IMO :D

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

1 hour to go, still two missing...

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Mine's in (decided to do it when I woke up, hopefully less stupid mistakes this way), but I saw Pangaea's was still missing.

With respect to Pan, I did give him a +6h extension but that was more because I think we need to decide what we are going to do. Constantly extending the turns for one guy who never communicates probably isn't sustainable. What are people's thoughts?

EDIT: After all that, Pan's turn is in too - yay!

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Im confused- why do I suddenly have a black knight in my garrison at C'tis :confused:? I don't remember him being there last turn....

Also, why wasn't I reborn this turn? My dominion is still positive...

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

I have a Manish doggie in one of my garrisons, and I likewise have NFI where he came from. (I assume he is seeking refuge from the female oppression of Lucy?)

Not too sure what has happened with your immortal dude being reborn, either. Sorry :-(

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I am a bit amazed about your dominion still being positive too.
Concerning your garrison, didnt you cast enslave person in the battle at your cap?
Also, did Man just overwrite its own Mother Oak?

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I believe it was previously held by Pangaea

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

War changes people and gods alike.
When I marched on with the Imperial Army through the Empire to the coasts, when I took my first breath from the Barrel of Air and descended into the calm, grim depths of the underwater world, I knew I was going to learn there a lot. I could have read all the books on war waging, I could have consulted countless perfect, adamant strategies with the Generals beforehand and yet nothing could really prepare me for underwater fights. From obvious mistakes and left-overs of land doctrines (not much point in bringing archers under the waves, really) to the more subtle ones, this war took longer than I planned, but it was kind of expected. Atlantis lives up to the reputation of underwater nations and Shurp was a worthy, honorable opponent.
For this, I salute you.
I genuinely hope, for the sake of your two sacrifices, both in the name of your people, that they now may find a rightful, just place in our open-minded society and live even happier lives than before.
A final sentence? Having two heads, but a single spirit, is not necessarily better than having two spirits in a single head.
Now, let us be silent. The Atlanteans are performing rather interesting ceremony.

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ooc
:)

ic
HAHAHAAHA

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Alas poor Shurp, we hardly knew you. Now who will drown the Celestial Court's armies in the deep sea of despair? Truly, there is a gap in creation with your passing.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

At least he will soon have someone to keep him warm in Tartarus.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

That was a close call, Ulm. I just rushed over here and panicked that I'm late. Oh well. :D

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I got a bit ill, but at the moment my turns are not that complex.
Overfilling my own item lab is a bit of a problem though on occassion :)

I usually do a turn when it comes, leave it a bit, and look against at stuff a day later. Really reduced mages doing nothing/overforging/inefficiencies etc.

Its propably time to compose a Hymn for Ctis btw.

Marignons last stand was quite impressive, it could have even won if properly scripted, placed and equipped.

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The stupid witches messed everything up with their stupid rituals! Things are going to change around here. And to start with there are going to be more paintings of Spottygoose.
<img src="http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w36/momfreeek/spottygoose-1.jpg" style="border: 16px solid gold; margin:10px;"/>

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OOC: Thats kinda cute

From: Field Marshall Georgy Zhukov
To: Kingdom of Man, department of art

Greetings,

the Peoples Republic of Ulm wishes to state that there were no unicorns involved in the death of the rouge-flamebased-goose abonimation! It was all about bravery, Black Steel, Wodka, Explosions and more Wodka!
As a matter of fact! I have personally painted a more appropriate, progressive, historically dialectic and realistic picture which is


censored

Note: Dear Reader, the NKVD of the Peoples Republic of Ulm had to censor Field Marshal Zhukovs Painting as it seems to attract major void horrors due to its total non observance of geometrical and artistic norms. Really, I looked at it and suddenly the eater of gods appeared behind me, took the painting, made a cigarette out of it, smoked it and said "Mommy!" before disappearing. Our dear Field Marshall appears to have some disturbing talents indeed!

Signed:
Markus Wolf, new head of the NKVD

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Are we again waiting for only Pan? I would love to hear what is going on with him from him.

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He's a hard guy to talk to - doesn't seem to respond to either in-game messages or PMs. Might be time to pool our astral gems IRL and cast Astral Probing on him .... :D

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Or we could try some powerful Shouting :)

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Breaking news!

Die Hard fanatics of the Barnacle Goose continue to hold out in Konburg despite all odds, and just fought off another Ermorian invasion without suffering significant losses of non summoned undead, braving both the unfriendly weather and the Ermorian Pretorian guard.
The rather unlikely mvp award of the lizards goes to the crack archery teams of the cities tower, who rather fatally blinded Ermors Legatus with a well aimed ballista shot right in the left eye, causing a general rout, just as Ermors 1rst Praetorian legion was finally breaking through the gate!

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*plays Mass Effect 2 soundtrack - Hold the Line really loud*

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Did Pan stall?

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Yeah, he has stalled three out of the last five turns. Thoughts and comments?

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I've been rather busy lately, and I forgot to thank you for the awesome goose tribute. I love how abstract the goose gets by the last frames. Anyway, Im deeply honored!

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I'm at a loss for words. We are dealing with a golem or something. Not to mention his frequent stalling is killing his research for example. Yet we have no word from him and one may think he doesn't mind the stalls at all!
Eh, now I turned out somewhat cold. But what can we do, really? Pull out the ban-hammer? :D I mean I could certainly understand a guy who does not post on forums too much and simply isn't that much talkative, but common sense says if I stall frequently I will have a reason for it that I will share with the other players and/or ask for a pause or announce a need for a sub or pretty much any solution would be viable at this point, really. Right now, I have suspicions his keyboard might be broken or something. :doh: I hope he didn't break it in half back in the day where he was being trollfaced by the last remnants of Marignon. One month of absence on this forum, give a few days.
Damn, now I was more cold than before, wasn't I? :angel

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It seems like he has lost interest in the game. I say we find him a sub.

If we can't sub him out, then set him to CPU. It would do better than staling.

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we could start looking for a sub?

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

I'll put up a post for a sub. If no-one responds, I suspect it will then be AI time.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Not a lot of interest in the sub so far, the thread can be found here:

Pan Sub Wanted

Pan has now staled three times in a row, with no indication that he has any interest in ever returning to the game. If we need to extend the turn again this time, and a sub has not come forward, I think we should turn him AI.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

I'm not a newbie but if you'd like I can temp sub in order to give you more time to find a permanent replacement.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

At this stage, I think we would gratefully accept any sub (others feel free to correct me if you have a different view).

Pan is in a fairly average position, so your extra experience would likely be useful in equalising their situation.

Thanks for volunteering :-) If no-one objects, we can organise to get the turn forwarded on to you and give you a suitable extension so that you can work out what is going on.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

No Objection here, it appears that the Peoples Republic will have to take into account a more active Northern Neighbour.

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No objections here either, Pangaea has some catching up to do. Valerius, PM me or/and jimbojones your email then.

I wonder whether Heinrich will raise from the dead and go here all raging what happened once we'll change the email :)

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Ok, I'll send over my email address. I've been enjoying reading some of the previous posts in this thread. :)

It appears Pangaea could take an example from their neighbors to the south and spend a little less time spent partying and a little more time in the lab.

Please let me know if anyone has diplomatic agreements with Pan.

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Also, my assumption is that even if I'm just a temp sub I should play Pan as I would if I were permanently taking on the role (and obviously trying to win the game).

If I'm just supposed to submit maintenance turns so that Pan is actually doing some researching/site searching but otherwise play passively please let me know.

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Well, it appears the previous player password protected his pretender. Not sure if we can get around that.

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Oh, God. I have no idea if I set a master password, but I deem it unlikely. Furthermore, I don't see option for defining it in the admin options.
It would require me to send the turn to myself so I would see exactly how Pangaea does and I deem that unfair, which is precisely why wouldn't I create a master password at all.

I am going to try anyways though. Pray now, whatever gods you worship! :(

EDIT: Nope, no master password. Oh my, who would think of passwording their pretender in PBEM. This is a bad situation. Unless Heinrich raises from the dead, there's not much that can be done. The password should be stored somewhere in the pretender file, but that is stored on llamserver and not being sent anywhere so only llama can get it.
However, llamserver sends a notice your email is no longer used for sending turns. That could be the raise dead ritual spell we need, since Heinrich should have that notice in mailbox right now and he did send a turn here and there, so he should be aware something is happening. Unless he smashed his screen in addition to his keyboard. Let us sit tight or dance around the fire in an atttempt to summon Heinrich the Silent.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

In any case, can we turn off hosting until after the holidays?

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

That would certainly work for me.

If Pan is dead, and cannot be turned to AI, then I think we need a metagame solution.

If this is the situation, then I propose we:
- declare Pan to be in a state of civil war
- nullify any and all agreements that Pan had with its neighbors
- let the free for all, all you can eat commence!

BTW Lung Drago, I recently had a similar situation in another game, and had not set a master password. From now on, I will always set a master password! Live and learn, eh? :-)

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Definitly get a PM to Lama first.

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

I will also be quite busy, is holding of until monday possible?
In any case, the fate of Pan would have a rather large impact on how my turn is done too...

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

Quite a few people were about to stale, I've postponed the game til Monday as per a few people's requests. Not quite sure if I've pushed it quite far enough into Monday, I will add some time if needed.

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My last painting was unanimously (after a few mishaps) voted best painting ever in Avalon! I present my next masterpeice for all to adore:
<img src="http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w36/momfreeek/ariasa.jpg" style="border:16px solid #a18b08;margin:10px">
Lucy, Goddess of the Lake

Re: I Need More Power! - yet another MA newbie game - Running
 

I postponed once more. I am determined to not let Pan stall anymore until this matter is resolved. One of these 3 things can happen:

1. I didn't have much time during the weekend, but I finally wrote to llama and requested his most divine opinion on the matter. Maybe we can depassword the pretender :)
2. We release the hounds on poor Pangaea and watch how they morbidly devour the flesh and bone from her with evil grins on our faces.
3. Heinrich rises from the dead and enlightens us what will happen next.

Also, I envy Lucy her ability to draw. I remember tearing up a lot of paper as a child :re:

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I wish to meet Sir Ariasa and shake his hand. Except I am not quite sure which hand I should be shaking. Awkward.

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Hmm, did our intrepid NKVD scouts just spot Lucies newest secret project?
Given that Fishworm died in the water, and that there is a unicorn, are the Manese now trying to create aquatic uniquorns? The Peoples Republic has to prepare for every circrumstance possible! Black Guards, Start training with Snorkels!

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On a sidenote, have the more obvious passwords like, Heinrich, Pangea or whatever name his Pretender had been tried?