Jaguar - finished, Szumo declared winner

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Scales bug? Do we need to restart? I wouldn't mind, as long as I got one day to tinker with my pretender. That part is so fun.

[sum1lost]

If we DO restart, I'd love it if I could switch to a group I am more familiar with...

[Starshine_Monarch]

*imagines a huge beetle eating the plants on his growth scale...* What's a scales bug?

[llamabeast]

When the scale bug strikes, the scales in your home province suddenly change (often reset to no scales at all). If you've taken good scales, this is a bit of a setback as it takes a while for them to come right again.

About a restart: Well I'm a bit disinclined to do that since it's a shame to lose the game's momentum. I don't think it's worth it for the scales bug, since someone's likely to get it most games. Consider it as an unlucky event. If you are all clamouring for a restart so you can change nations/pretenders though, I suppose we could do. Votes?

[Szumo]

Nah, no need for restart. I'll try to rise up to the challenge

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Okay. While I'd love to tinker with my pretender, I'd also find it interesting to see just what I can achieve with my flawed design. I'll learn from it, certainly.

With Szumo offering to stick with it, I'll back him up. It'd kinda be wimpy of me to restart when the guy hit by the bug is toughing it out.

P.S. I'd meant for that smily to be humorous, but it just comes out plain creepy. Its freakin me out. It's the eyes. You can tell that smily is just insane, and hiding, just behind the alpha layer, is a bloody yellow knife, its just waiting to stab into my heart.

[sum1lost]

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I can't believe I just slept through my turn.