MP Game - Yarnspinners

[Alneyan]

I will post this turn (and all turns from turn 6 onwards) as soon as the game is over. Once I get the turn files for Arcoscephale and Caelum, it shall be over, and Cthulhu shall rule over the world. Bow down to the Elder Ones!

[Alneyan]

We have now reached the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The score file has been attached to this mail, and I will upload all the turn files later, if my connection behaves.

Points given for the ranks:
- Provinces: R'lyeh, Caelum, Arcoscephale
- Forts: R'lyeh, Caelum, Arcoscephale
- Income: Arcoscephale, Caelum, R'lyeh
- Gem income: R'lyeh, Caelum, Arcoscephale
- Research: Caelum, Arcoscephale, Man
- Dominion: R'lyeh, Arcoscephale, Caelum

Which would give us the following totals, for ranks alone:
- R'lyeh: 4X20+1X5=85 points
- Caelum: 1X20+4X10+1X5=65 points
- Arcoscephale: 1X20+2X10+3X5=45 points
- Man: 1X5=5 points

[Alneyan]

All the turn files from turn 6 onwards are attached to this mail.

[puffyn]

---- Arcoscephale, Turn 61: Epilogue ----

It is said, about the final battle of some-or-many armed persons against the some-or-many tentacled things, that the tentacles won the day, and few persons escaped alive, with or without their arms. It is said that when they saw the battle turning against them, the persons of spear did not flee, preferring to die in battle than turn and forsake their friends. But earthworms, in addition to being slimy and having little respect for an important historical document such as myself, do not make the most reliable of sources. Even the most cunning chronicle scroll must wait patiently in such circumstances until whichever side has won realizes their sore need for the brilliant insights of a quality book of collected sayings, and then I will be dug up with much fanfare and charged with writing the history of that epic battle.

A few worms tell a different story, that some men have escaped, like the crafty Odysseus and the lizards-of-many-names-starting-in-Golan. They whisper that even though the rest have not come out of the cave, yet they were victorious (but not in the winning-the-battle kind of way that one normally thinks of as victory): the mad god was turned to stone (some say also to mist and to fire and to frost, but others say that was the other god, who spilled butter on my pages, and who could probably use some time as a statue to atone for his errors). Thus, they say, mad-tentacle-god was prevented from reaching the exact right spot in the caves before the window closed, and failed to gain ultimate power. The worms were unclear why there should be a window in the depths of the caves, but such informants are my lot for the foreseeable future.

I am a very patient book of collected sayings, although spending so many months buried next to the scroll of the sayings of the prophet Sokodnap makes me long to give someone a good paper cut. He likes to go on about how his prophet carried him into every battle, and how he was there at the very last; that he felt the spear thrust that felled his prophet. I say the blood stains and jagged holes make him a much less helpful and informative scroll. The worms say of Pandokos that he stood his ground in the center of the storm for the twelve long hours of that final day, guiding and comforting his troops and friends as they fell one by one, and slaughtering in turn a hundred foul-tentacled-things before the spirit of the river arose and dragged him down. I am sure the mystics will be grateful that my pages were not ruined by the river water when they come to dig me up.

... Hello?.... Is there anyone out there?.... Important book, down here!....

... guys?

(From the lost work The Collected Sayings of Pandokos the Prophet: In his final incarnation)

[Alneyan]

Silly me, I have forgotten to give the master password. It is hoohah; most players should already know the master password, but not our other fans.

[magnate]

[embarrassed cringe]

Sorry folks, I seem to have disappeared into RL for several months, during which time the game has finished. Sincere apologies for this, though I at least have something to show for the busy period (I'm getting married!). Thanks for all your restraint - I was expecting a load of "where the hell is magnate?" posts!

Congratulations to Sedna on winning the strategic element of the game. Shall we leave it there, or would you like the rest of the yarns scored? Sedna has finished 40 points ahead of Puffyn but Puffyn was quite a long way ahead in yarn points, so it could be close ...

Let me know. Apologies again,

CC

[Sedna]

Hey, no worries. Congratulations of your engagement. I don't think there's a real need to score the remaining yarns. In one sense, everyone who finished the game is the winner.




(In another, more accurate sense, I think Cthulu won no matter how the yarns are scored).