[Salamander8]

After many turns of a quiet, if a vaguely cold-waresque existence between MA R'Lyeh and EA Abysia, things have just gotten interesting. Part of the problem of what just happened here is that he and I have only communicated via ingame messages rather than the faster IRC chat or PMs on the forums here. We ended up attacking the same neutral province (it was formerly Abysian, but I had made it known that MA R'Lyeh had designs on the 2 province island in question in the near future) on the same turn and it was not pretty for either side, although MA R'Lyeh did emerge as the victor, Ia! Shubburath Ftagn!

I had interpeted your force as either a retreated army from one of your many battles with MA Ermor, or a flanking force against him, not as a force for the re-conquest of the NW island province.

After this bloody miscommuncation, I strongly recommend to other players in any of these MP games to try faster communication channels (E-Mail, PM, or the IRC rooms) for fast and responsive diplomacy.