[Morkilus]

Frank: I can understand you being upset, but you have absolutely no basis to call a PLAYER a liar. If you feel the need to write insults, suit it up in a sufficient in-character diatrabe, sort of like this:

Originally posted by Ygorl
Ygorl's goodwill towards Suli-Krom, Vlesthrot, and the people of Vanheim had been magnificent. He set aside his own desires in an attempt to protect a path to the sea for the weaker nation, and even ceded to Vanheim one province in exchange for the right to keep another with Suli-Krom's "goodwill". When this campaign was unsuccessful, due to the rapid growth of Ermor, he relinquished his claim on that land as well. He did this even before the passage of the so-called "Safe Territory" amendment, under no compulsion but the compulsion of his generous hearts. Later, he supported Suli-Krom in his bid for Vice Chairwyrm of the Council, still under the belief that this wyrm had hearts to match Ygorl's.

Some time after the emergence of the dwarves of Vanheim, the great Lord Ygorl inquired if he might have a hammer or two from the short smith-folk in consideration of his past efforts and gifts on behalf of the fledgling Vanheim. Instead of the expected joy at an opportunity to repay past kindness, Vanheim sent an envoy bearing ugly words: "Past favors do not buy present gifts", he said. "Your temples on my borders offend me," he said. The entire nation of Man was thunderstruck... Such an entirely foreign notion was unexpected from their neighbors that until that moment had seemed nearly brothers.

When the beneficent Ygorl replied that he was not the only one with temples in the area, and that he needed his temples to ensure belief in his divinity against the potent faith of Ermor and the vile miasma oozing from the cesspool that was C'tis, and that in fact Ygorl's temples could serve to moderate the impact of these other temples on the faith of the questionable Einheres, Vlesthrot seemed able to grasp Ygorl's divne wisdom. He agreed that Ygorl's temples were reasonable. "Remember, though, your past kindness bought you nothing. Your good works mean nothing. If you want hammers, you will have to pay for them!" He offered to sell Ygorl two such hammers for four hundred pounds of gold; certainly a reasonable price, but hardly a just acknowledgement given all that Ygorl had done for Vanheim when Vanheim was still struggling to make it in this world.

Digging into the records, it seems that the magnanimous Lord Ygorl accepted. He had money for only one hammer on hand, and said that he was sending it immediately and would purchase the second hammer a month or two later. The first hammer arrived two months after Ygorl sent the money; two months later, Ygorl sent the gold for a second. The gold was returned, with a note from some insultingly low-placed peon in the Vanheim government saying that the price had gone up.

Apparently, the mighty Lord Ygorl replied in frustrated disbelief that a supposed "friend" could be so disgustingly duplicitous, dishonest, and greedy. Another niggling worm responded (apparently the prophet of Suli-Krom had better things to do than to converse with the "mere" Lord of Man) that we had been too slow in sending the gold, and that other nations been purchasing hammers for more than the price that they had offered us; and so they were rescinding the offer! They might sell some hammers for an increased price, but they wanted us to let them come through the lands we had given them and burn down our temples in our own land because they bordered the land we had given them! This makes me burn for so many reasons that it's not even worth writing them all down! They should be obvious to any decent readers, and any other kind of readers probably wouldn't understand anyway. Who makes a deal and then breaks it out of sheerest avarice? Especially in this manner, and with this kind of history behind it?

Aww.. I had so much fun with this game, though I learned very little about actually playing Dominions