[Alneyan]

Okay, thanks for delaying the hosting last time. I did my turn well ahead of schedule for once (that must be why I forgot to take my turn in another game at the same time), but I forgot my SMTP was still down. didn't bother to check for my mail, and then dropped off the Internet for a few days, and wiggled in to get my turn by the deadline.

I've ditched my SMTP now and decided to spend a bit of time to get something up and running. Of course, as it turned out, that only took a couple minutes (testing included), and a much simpler setup based on a simple SSH tunnel (I was using a full-blown SMTP server to relay my mails to another relay... bleh).

Anyway. Man is currently trying to dig in and wait for Ulm to start suffering. My armies don't stand a chance in a fair fight, my attempt at building a thug was ludicrous and I'm not willing to send in my one SC Ulm knows of into battle, and my battle magic is untried yet. We'll see how it turns out soon enough, I guess... I've got a credible threat sitting next to my capital at the moment.

I'd like some Death gems if possible to keep casting Leprosy on those Ulmish armies. If you spot big, fat armies just begging to be diseased, let me know. I've got some gems I can't really use, so please tell me if you could use some (I'm not disclosing the contents of my gem stockpile, as Ulm doesn't have that particular information... they'll figure it out soon enough, anyway).

I shudder to think that as bad as my military looks now, it's never been in a better shape. Ah, if only I had an extra 500 turns for my Growth scale to blossom, and Ulm's Death to kill them all... Let's hope I can be a nuisance anyhow.