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Man, really, Adept Researcher on SC prophet?

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Haha, oh man what a turn! I'm gonna have to write up a decent AAR on this one, but suffice to say that Lanka is passing out the medals tonight!

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Please do, I only saw two battles, that one thug and the suicide Abysian pretender. :)

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Caelum eagerly awaits the tales from Lanka! Who are these great heroes you speak of? Perhaps Dahanavardhana, or Bhagavatiprasada, or Ramachandramurthy?

Hold on, a herald appears before the gates, bearing tidings of war and glory ... oh. "And A did pick up his sword and charge of into battle, and he was followed by B, not too far behind him, and there was another warrior, A, who slew 127 foes, not to be confused with the other A, who killed 111 of the enemy ... " :)

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Heh.

"I conquered waterdeep and all I got was a lousy Navigator's Guild"

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At least you conquered it, I won't even think of attacking those indie provinces for anther 30 turns.

Errr, what did I miss? Since when does Vfb controls Cealum? Maybe a change in the ruling dynasty?

Fomoria buying a crystal coin, will pay in either gems or gold, we offer high amounts of both.

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The supreme commander of the Lanka military gazed upon the crumbling
walls of the Marverni capital. The culmination of years of hard
fought warfare was finally here, he had the druids by the throat and
could finally contemplate some peaceful times to lick wounds and plot.
Reflecting back upon the brutal casualties inflicted by these humans,
the very sky darkened by waves of spinning blades only to be lightened
by huge burning rocks he had to admit he had a new respect for the
soft skinned men. Many, many demons had been slain in the back and
forth struggle with this worthy opponent, the feast of their bodies
would be in their honor.

The wily druids had caught him by surprise too many times, despite
their apparent lack of defenders, supreme commander prepared for a
brutal battle. Reinforcements were summoned from the homefront… mages
riding the clouds in, and imps boiling straight from hell while storm
demons flew in by the dozens and deployed for battle behind the
shuffling mass of rotting undead. The last action had apparently been
the druids final, last ditch effort with a menagerie of animals, from
snakes and lions to magically altered iron boars exploding in huge
numbers from the besieged castle backed by dozens of mages. The
demons of Lanaka held, but there were many more casualties than
supreme commander would have liked and his troop count was too low to
be comfortable for whatever the druids had saved as a surprise, and
too much of Marverni’s army had routed. He hoped his screen of imps
would allow the mists of deception enough support to tie the enemy up
while the storm demons did the bloody work.

Dawn broke into the air and supreme commander prepared to order the
final assault, when a buzzing sound was heard across the battlefield.
With a crack a large fountain raining blood appeared between the Lanka
forces and the caslte and a voice was heard in everyone’s head
declaring the fools in Abysia would be waging war against Lanka, and
this fountain was their god. The fountain droned on about
demonstrating his power, but supreme commander was not known for his
patience, with the fountain still in mid sentence the attack order was
issued. Let that foolish pretender god learn what it is to appear in
front of a Lanka warparty ready for blood.

Scores of imps dove from the sky screeching their enchanted bloodlust
as dozens of lightning bolts crackled down blasting huge smoking
craters around the blood fountain, yet wherever the lighting struck
the fountain it channeled harmlessly into the ground. The foul thing
had planned well for a Lanka assault and was shielded from lightning.
The blood slaves and imps now surrounding it were not so fortunate
though and most were blasted to cinders in a second. We will likely
never know what the fountain planned to do, for bereft of blood slaves
it panicked and tried to route.

Blast after blast of lighting hammered down, pounding the fountain
deep into a crater but otherwise not effecting it. The longdead
shuffled up to the fountain, and were incinerated. The screaming ape
demons charged up to the fountain, and were incinerated. The
enchanted constructs from the magical mist floated up to the fountain,
and were incinerated. The storm demons were good at their job and
they relished the indiscriminate destruction.

Storm demon captain approached supreme commander. “My lord, the
lighting is ineffective. The fool thinks it is invincible to us. I
beg your leave to demonstrate to it that this lightning is but a toy
we play with and demons must always be feared.” The commander just
nodded, and seconds later dozens of storm demons flew forward with the
strength of bloodlust giving them terrifying strength. The blood
fountain was torn stone from stone and the stones themselves smashed
as the blood seeped into the blackened ground.

Supreme commander glanced at the sky with the sun now noticeably
higher. He would not have this, he would be sitting in the Marverni
throne room this very day. “Reform you dogs, we finish this now!”

The Lanka troops reformed, much lighter than before. There were
almost no longdead left after the storm demon’s carnage fest, but
sufficient blood slaves remained that supreme commander felt imps
would suffice. Just as he was about to give the order to attack the
casle, a horn sounded and Marverni’s relief troops charged from the
nearby woods lead by a towering mother of serpents. So, the ***** had
come out for the last stand, let the dance begin.

Imps boiled up from Inferno and flew to engage the Marverni troops who
greatly outnumbered the Lanka forces, but now it was time for the
storm demons to unleash their carnage on a more appropriate target.
As the Marverni troops charged over the still smoking craters, they
perhaps had a moments pause to wonder what had caused that damage. No
more than a moment however, they didn’t suffer long.

Their numbers were great though. A banelord clanked forward
ominously, yet his unholy armor proved no protection. Iron boars
found their altered state was no help. And the queen ***** herself,
decked out in all the magic finery Marverni could produce, lacked that
one little ring the blood fountain had held. With a thundering crash
the electrocuted titaness slammed to the ground and the forces of
Marverni were truly finished.

“NOW STORM THAT DAMN CASTLE”. Yet again the Lanka troops formed up
into yet smaller formations. The blood slaves were gone, there were
essentially no blockers left, supreme commander pinned his hope on the
fact the awesome might of the storm demons would be sufficient to
break whatever skeletal army held the Marverni castle. The sun now
stood at high noon, and the Lanka forces surged forward to finish
their task.

Yet something new appeared from the sky. Three somethings to be more
precise. The Abysian support flew in, two powerfully equipped
Anointed of Rhuax and a demonbred prophet of the damned fountain,
apparently hoping to finish off the softened up Lanka troops their
“god” had promised they would find in his wake. The storm demons
instantly brought the wrath of the skies down on them, yet to their
dismay realized they were equipped similarly to the blood fountain and
ignored the lightning as so much noise.

“Screw that, ALL UNITS FORM ON ME” supreme commander bellowed. “WE’LL
TEAR THEM APART WITH OUR CLAWS.” Hefting his bane blade above his
head he screamed “CHARGE!”. The ragged remnants of the Lanka army
surged forward to surround the Abysian heroes. Enchanted blades swung
and demons were slain, yet Lanka fielded heroes of their own.
Slowly….slowly the Abysians were overwhelmed. Bit by bit they bled
and then one by one they fell.

With the last light of dusk still in the sky the tiny remainder of the
Lanka army stormed the Marverni castle. Scarcely a dozen storm demons
remained and a handful of mages and heroes from the once mighty host.
A wiser commander would have waited to storm the castle, but supreme
commander would not be stayed. Caution, however, proved unnecessary
as there was but one old druid in the castle, apparently left as a
symbolic sacrifice to the Lankans. As supreme commander sat the
Marverni throne and the last druid was prepared for the feast, he
turned his eyes westward and contemplated a map of the Abysian lands.
Bah, Lankans were not meant for peace anyway.

Heh, how often does one army kill two pretenders, two prophets and
capture a capital all in the same turn? :)

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Wow. Hey, I'm really sorry, but from the looks of it I am unable to send or receive turns from this laptop, which seems unwilling to realize that the files I download exist. If you would mind extending the turn till monday that would be excellent. If not, then I will do my best to find a sub.

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Have you tried my suggestion? Moving my dominions folder to be c:\dominions3 solved the exact same problem I had using Vista....

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Unoptimized

Try Baalz's suggestion. If it doesn't work - turn file is just a file and could be sent by e-mail from any computer, it is not that hard to find a computer connected to internet in 18th century... Wait, it was supposed to be 21st century! Wooooo Hooooo! My time machine works! Just you wait, Baalz, we'll see who's the smart one now!

[July 23, 8.48 PM, WingedDog's appartment]
WingedDog is about to submit his turn. Suddenly a cracking noise rings out from behind and ozone odour fills the room, WingedDog turns his head and sees sparklings and piles of smoke at the background. A silhouette of a man appears in the middle of the smoke and starts approaching him. When the mysterious person comes out of the smoke WingedDog is able see his face, and he founds it surprisingly familiar. The stranger breakes the silence: "I am WingedDog from the future, heed my warning. Do not teleport, I repeat, under any circumstances DO NOT TELEPORT your pretender to Lanka", - saying this words the stranger tuns around and heads toward the unusual machine could be seen now, when the smoke has finally layed down. Few moments later machine dissapeares with the same cracking sound it came.
Left alone confused WingedDog scaratches his head and removes his headphones. "Damn you, Metallica, if it wasn't for you I could have heard what was this person trying to tell me. Well I guess it's the mystery, which isn't destined to ever be solved... but this machine... the way it had appeared... it gives me the idea! I'll teleport my Fountain of Blood right into Lanka troops! Ha! I wish I coud see those surprised demon faces when it appeares right in front of them! I need to redo my turn..."

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Ok, submitting unfinished turns is BAD idea :)

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Hm... it looks like battle replay bug again though.

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Oh god dammit! Those indie bastards! The moment I move troops away they take action!!!

Seems I forgot to do a few things...
Hmm, I guess 22MR is not good enough for the eye shield. Can someone lend me the chalice?

Those Abysian thugs are smokin'!!!

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I hope the bug wasn't the battle with me. it was epic. :eek:

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YEah, it was :) Nothing epic in my battle replay...

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Pangaea is in need of death gems. We will trade 1 to 1 with Nature or earth. Trading terms may be negotiable. We have supplies of other gems as well.

PM me if interested.

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Consecutive stale number 4 is potentially coming up for Sauro. I'm guessing Unoptimized is still having laptop/Vista problems, but think a sub should be found in the meantime until Unoptimized returns (or until it clear isn't returning). Sauro look in pretty good shape, so be a shame to see the nation go to ruin due to the stales.

I'm happy to look for a sub if it helps.

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Sauro is one of top nations, I'd say. We should at least postpone the game till it gets resolved.

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I guess I will just say here that I have ended the NAP with Sauro, and will soon be at war with them. I tried to communicate this, but there was no one to answer me. I'm not jumping on a bandwagon to take out an unplaying player. I had this planned for quite some time.

That said, if a sub is found, I will rescind the declaration of war, and put it back to a 3 turn NAP>

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Adding a couple day delay for Calahan to try to find a sub.

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Noticably, Jomon has already gobbled up a good portion of Sauro. Just put him on AI so that he'll at least defend himself. It's better than four stales in a row.

Jazzepi

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Ahh. So be it then. For my own good, I should go ahead and attack Sauro.

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Many thanks Baalz, I will get onto looking for a sub as soon as possible.

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Hey guys, sorry for being out of contact. My computer has received a nasty virus (system security is the DEVIL), and I am reduced to posting in safe mode. I would offer to find a sub, but my internet access is sporatic at best. I'm really sorry about this, and incredibly frustrated at present. When this is all over, I'm excited to play in future games.

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That's bad news on the virus Unoptimized. Hope you get it sorted out quickly and as painlessly as possible.

@ All - Chris Pedersen has kindly offered to take a look at the Sauro position, and should be willing to take over control of Sauro if everything comes up ok with their health check. So hopefully this game will get back up and running properly soon, with one less staling nation in the mix. Thank you all for your patience during the recent sub-hunting delay.

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I'm an IT professional unoptimized, I've removed this virus 4 times in the last 3 days. Go to www.malwarebytes.org download their antivirus. You will need to run at least *3* scans to completely remove it.

Follow it up with a scan by spybot (search key word: spy bot search destroy. Merlin is the home thereof.

Both of these programs can run in safe mode.

These will take care of your problems.

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Hey all!

Ok.. I'm getting up to speed on the game ASAP. Would people be willing to bring me up to speed on their relationships with Sauromatia?

Also, how long have globals been up? Have the ER's known to be out in force?

Is anyone playing tag with Yomi? Would you like to? I understand Yomi has quite a few of my lands?

Thanks!

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Working on the turn. May I have a 2hr extension?

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That might be kind of iffy. I don't think Baalz is online. You might just want to get it in.

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Drat, he was online when I asked. Well, I sent *something* in. Brilliant, it wasn't.

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Good damn plagues in capitals...

Fomoria selling fire gems for any other kind if anyone's interested which I sort of doubt.

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Sauromatia has a need for:

Boots of Quickness
Blood Thorns
Bag of Wind
Air Helm

We can also profitably use vineshields.

We are also willing to buy gems for gold, and will pay *very* good rates.

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I'm out of town for the next week. I'll still be doing my turns but I'm not going to be online as much so I gave Calahan the admin password in case anybody needs a last minute extension and I'm unreachable.

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Alas, it is a sad day for C'tis......

After a long hard struggle against the Atlantian tyrants, and many many dead lizard folk, in the end we were attacked by the greater evil- Ulm.

The lizards get one more epic showdown inside the citadel of C'tis, but the end has come.....

its been fun. sorry for being such a pain in the a** Zeldor

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You can spam skellies in the gate for eternity :P

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Sauromatia will pay 20gp for Air gems.
Inquire within, please.

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And now it is Yomi staling...

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Yomi has staled two turns in a row, and three of the last four. Something needs to be done.

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At least in the end i was able to cast Doom on Ulm's massive army........

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Considering that effectively Sauromatia staled 4, and was severely damaged by same, (ie., more than 1/2 of sauromatias territories occupied without a fight)...

I don't think game balance has been significantly altered. In fact Sauromatia still has a significant uphill fightjust to get back to where it was before the stales.

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Awww I did not even notice that. Ptolemaios noooo!

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I have PM-ed 'Cicadian' to find out what the situation with regarding the recent Yomi stales. According to the 'User Activity' stamp, 'Cicadian' was last on these forums on 2nd July. Which seems to coincide with his last two stales.

Will let you all know if/when I hear something.

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Fomoria declares war on Agartha.

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I guess the one eyed giants were very attached to the Well of Misery then :)

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Very attached...:mad:

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As much as I'd like to see TC getting even more powerful than before by killing the nations that stale again, maybe something should be done this time?

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I still haven't heard back from Cicadian, so as admin for the week, I'll give it until the morning (GMT time) to hear something back from Cicadian before taking any action.

Failing a responce though, the only real option is to look for a sub, which unfortunately will probably mean another 24 hour delay at least :( But that's certainly preferable to either further staling or AI setting in my books.

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Ok, still no word from the ruler of Yomi (and no user activity shown for Cicadian), so I guess the only course of action (other than allowing Yomi to keep staling) is to try and find a sub.

I will post a sub-request thread as soon as I can. But unless a sub comes forward more or less instantly, then the game will likely need to be delayed to find a sub, and/or for the sub to get settled into their new home.

Will keep you all posted on events and progress.

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@ All

I have delayed current hosting by 24 hours due to two delay requests I have had from players, and because there is still no sign of a sub for Yomi.

All the previous sub-finding delays (R'yleh, Sauro, Nief) were 48 hours, so while I hope the hunt for a Yomi sub won't need a delay that long, it would be consistent to tag on another 24 hour delay if Yomi are still owner-less at roughly this time tomorrow. But will keep you all updated on progress as always.

The curse of a Baalz admined game continues unabated.

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Fear the Harpy. It is watching you. One or more is watching all of you, but you cannot see them. They just look like hawks. But they all report back to the sacred mother.