[MP Game] The Eye of Chaos

[alexti]

Originally posted by Zen:
I will be leaving the server on Quickhost for the rest of the day. There is no hurry to do your turns if you do not wish to. But if you wish you can stop by and check in on it.

I will be hosting at 12:00 Noon (EST) regardless of how many quickhosts we do today.

Just a word of caution. If the Last nation submits the turn at 11:55 (EST) causing quickhost and then immediately do a new turn, hosting at 12:00 will cause a stale turn for nearly everybody. So if you are hosting at 12:00 it is better to stop quickhosting earlier, so that everybody can check between the end of quickhosting and 12:00 when the scheduled hosting is done.

[Pillin]

Unfortunatly there was some confusion and I wasn't able to upload a pretender before the game was started. Have a good game tho, and perhaps I'll see you in the next round

The server will be changed from quickhost to the hosting schedule for the week before 12:00 Noon on Monday. There will be no worries about stale turns as I learned all about them ages ago when I was serving in the past

Again, I apologize Pillin. You have the first seat in any game I host in the future, if you desire it.

[Mardagg]

Thanks for serving Zen.
Crowded map means lots of action I would assume.
Happy warfare to all!

[General Tacticus]

And in the Spring of the first year of His reign, Arch-Arachn-General Tacticus sent his thought to distants lands, seeking valliant souls to advance His cause.

And it came that He uttered those memorable words :

"O Goodies ! Elephants !"

Which were duly noted in the Divine Scripture for the edification of later generations...

The text, however, was slightly edited a few years later, and came to read :

And the God said :
"Let the Desert bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life"
and from the Desert the great beasts came, and the God named them Elephants, and they served Him and they worshiped Him.

That text was preserved in the Apocryphs of Haulf the apostat. The official Version of the Words of the Arachn make no mention of elephants whatsoever...

[ January 19, 2004, 17:30: Message edited by: General Tacticus ]

[alexti]

The server does not seem to respond...

If it fell asleep, please contribute some information in the "Server-hosted games - machine going to sleep?" thread:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...b=5&o=&fpart=1

Server has been reset. Router was down by all accounts. If anyone tried to ping the port, please try to ping other ports and see if there is any response.

I want to know if it is only Dom 2 or the entire computer that was unresponsive.

The Beginning of the Scouring

The murmurs died down as Aeschines raised his hand, restless whispers were muted as the grand orator spoke once more.

"Thus it was that Zenophon gathered the legions of the past and set them to scouring the land surrounding the black citadel for what he called 'the source'. Suleiman, Judge of the Fourth Circut commanded the legions and they spread across the land as a plague. Hamlets and hovels were torn and burned while the land sickened and died under that march while animals fled from the corrupting land. The echoes of hollow metal rung loud as church bells at the tide of the past and Zenophon laughed.

As Suleiman reached the borders of the land he was approached by an emmissary. A native dressed in brightly colored feathers and furs stepped nervously to the cold calm of the Judge.

"I ... I bring word from Hannibal, War Chief of the Two Tusk clan. Outsiders you are, as many before. He offers the strength of the Two Tusk clan in trade."

So it was that the native as taken by Suleiman under pain of death to the black citadel and brought before the icy halls of Zenophon. There the native spoke again his offer, though he was but a whisper in that place and Zenophon studied the man.

"You may tell your War Chief this, I will spare his village the anguish of long death if he brings his men to my call. If not, his people will suffer where he does not."

And the native trembled and fled, the cold grip of death not far behind chasing him from the land and to his War Chief.

And it came to pass that Hannibal fled the terror of my Emperor and found solace in the hands of the giantkin. Suleiman marked his judgement as death on the great scales and vowed that if ever in his grip, the War Chief would regret his choice of his skin over his people.

Thus Suleiman was sent to the native village and it was claimed and pillaged, it's blood fed to the earth and not a single soul was spared. And still the source evaded Zenophon and his ire was greatened."

[ January 20, 2004, 06:28: Message edited by: Zen ]

[alexti]

In the first month of The Ascension Wars Queen Fyllia has gathered Jotun leaders to hold a council. Day and night the talk was going, this plan and that were considered and finally Mimer the Scout was announced a prophet. Fres the Herse was sent to go over the land of Jotuns gathering people and gold. And was his success of heroic proportions. On the same day Queen Fyllia requested to find and bring to the army the furry beasts of immensed size. And went scouts all over the land of Jotun looking for the Mammoths. But Mammoths were no more. And were coming scouts one after another to report their failure. And would all efforts fail if not for Hgne the Joker who has recruited a bunch of elephants and covered them in wolf skins.

[aldin]

Pug descended into the mountain, past the armories into the Great Forge. An empty pedestal stood in the center, surrounded by a grand display of the finest metal-working tools he had ever seen. It was time. He placed his anvil upon the pedestal and gathered up the metals and gems of earth with which to create his blade. A month it took, of heavy fires, poundings and quenchings - and when he was done he raised up his sword, Shard, and declared it good.

~Aldin