Sloth - LA game with KO and JK - started

[llamabeast]

Erm, is that a declaration of war?

[quantum_mechani]

Just a notification for anyone interested in the bounty, upon consideration of the might of Mictlan, Pythium has reconsidered their warlike stance and signed a new peace treaty. Thus the bounty is rescinded.

[DrPraetorious]

I want to put up the Forge, and I want it to stay up. I'll make a permanent alliance with anyone who'll give me a big pile of earth gems.

If you're the highest earth-gem bidder, I will:
* Forge up to 20 items for you per turn (that's the most I can send you) for -
- actual-cost-without-hammer + 1 gem of your choice
or
- actual-cost-with-hammer + 2 gems of your choice

The 1 or 2 gem costs will cover the use of a mage or hammer, which of course I have to pay. Artifacts are negotiable but I'm making the cheap/good ones already.

In addition, I would offer an essentially permanent NAP (you can back out any time you want but then I don't have to keep forging stuff for you).

I will keep this arrangement secret (if you like, which I assume you would) so that other players will not know you're benefiting from the forge - I'd keep it secret myself except that I can't.

[Hadrian_II]

Jomon is very interested in this deal, we can offer you 8 earth gems (why are no neighbours of me actually interested in killing me, i have now arco, marignon, rlyeh and ermor swarming my lands :/)

[shard]

The legions of Ermor now turn East, a numberless, merciless crusade against the living.

They turn East, to overrun the fair lands of Tien Chi while its Kings battle honourably, defending the homeland against the invasions of Ctis and Mictlan.

They turn East, to make certain of their final victory in the war to end all wars as they seek to take for themselves the jewel in the Tien Chi crown, The Fabled Tower of the Iron Order.


Perhaps the Kings will now pay for their naivete, believing in Ermor's offer of friendship and alliance.
Perhaps the emissaries sent out to neighbouring realms should not have taken silence and indifference as an answer, and worked harder to secure treaties.
Perhaps the generals, faced with securing borders against the 2 mightiest nations in the world were too unwilling to venture far from their castle walls.


But perhaps, it may not be too late for they who love life. The great Gadong still lives, supported by our veteran mages and troops that have faced unceasing battle.
We will not fall easily. With aid, we may even hope to hold. Heed our pleas, and know that we ALL stand at the edge of great peril.

[DrPraetorious]

The vile denizens of the deep, R'lyeh, have invaded my lands.

We call upon all the free, sane peoples of the world to join us in repulsing their evil, before it is too late.

[Amhazair]

Yes, well... With Utgard approaching just about every other nation on the planet with offers of joint attack on me, I didn't feel I had much choise. Rather attack now, on my terms, than be pounced on while I'm looking the other way.

Besides, let's put things in perspective. I might be mad, and definitely am hungry, but R'lyeh hardly can be accused of having a disciplined military machine backed up by the immensly powerful forge of the ancients. Anyone with ambitions of winning the game should be more worried about that enchantment than about anything I can do...

[Amhazair]

DrPraetorious said:
The vile denizens of the deep, R'lyeh, have invaded my lands.

We call upon all the free, sane peoples of the world to join us in repulsing their evil, before it is too late.

Amhazair said:R'lyeh hardly can be accused of having a disciplined military machine backed up by the immensly powerful forge of the ancients. Anyone with ambitions of winning the game should be more worried about that enchantment than about anything I can do...

In view of his last post, it seems the good doctor is agreeing with me. Utgard is now churning out Tartarians, equiped with extremely powerful, forge-cheapened artifacts, and while so far he's mainly killed some (quite a lot of) chaff, his potential for growth is huge.

Anyone intrested in defeating this power (or even slowing it down while you further your own plans) is free to contact me. I'm still in perfectly good fighting shape, and anything you can do to hurt Utgard (Ritual spells of any kind - I can provide the coördinates where they will do the most good; donations to the poor, bereaved nation of R'lyeh will obviously be put to their best use in dealing with this threat, or setting up a fund to dispel FoTA - though I'm afraid that will require a lot of pearls )will prolong this conflict, and give you more time to rise to world domination.

In the meantime, The Hunger Without Thought shall continue to feed, and the nation of R'lyeh wishes you all pleasant dreams.