Urapara - [finished - Abysia + TC win]

[Zeldor]

Ok, there was no contact with owner of C'tis and he staled more. Acenoid will take it over. I have no idea what relations previous player had, so talk with Acenoid now about everything. I hope game will move faster now.

[DonCorazon]

The eastern gates of Ulm have fallen (think Osgiliath in LOTR). Shin has now taken over 3 forts once held by us and will soon be at the doorsteps of the great Iron Keep of Ulm. If anyone has earth gems to trade for any other kind of gem or can recommend some good Earth spells that can be cast by low level smiths, let us know - destruction and bladewind have had little effect. Ulm is trying to find some way to stop this menace and our only hope is to find some earth magic that might stop these stinky sorcerous hordes that threaten all good men.

[Firewalker]

The great Ahirbudhnya has fallen in battle, killed by Trollish arrows. His wise words and clean white fur will be sorely missed in Bandar lands. The White Council of Rishis will have to retreat to consider who among them can carry on the struggle in his stead.

On a brighter note, Bandar finally won a battle against the trollish Shinuyama. The aptly named Fort Love Lost will soon be in our hands.

To the new leader of C'Tis: If you have water gems to trade, PM me!

[Acenoid]

C'tis greets all other pretender (demi-)gods and goddesses

In the previous turn we began to re-organize our troops, assess the current situation with our neighbors and to answered all incoming messages.

It seems that we are not on best terms with some of our neighbors, we are going to respond to all diplomatic and trade requests shortly again.

OOC (out of character): What is the best way of communicating with the other empires? How about having an IRC channel for our game?

[Firewalker]

I guess we have mostly been using the forum to publicly taunt one another and PMs to conduct diplomacy, lest I am out of a loop somewhere.

[DonCorazon]

You can send any correspondence via PM to Arcos straight to Ulm - we will soon have a puppet government in place!

(caveat: any correspondence to Ulm might soon be going to Shin)

[spacht]

Once again the proud warriors of Ulm have demonstrated their courage. In what will be remembered in our chronicles as "The last charge of the black knights" a whole generation of young ulmish nobles took to the field and mounted a valiant but futile assault against the massed ranks of shinuyaman troops. And when all was lost and the ulmish host was already in flight their god, the mighty Grom, refused to leave the battle and fought a desperate rearguard action. Yet, a closer look revealed that he had overexerted himself during the battle and was already asleep when the order to retreat was issued.
(Btw, how did you heal Grom's afflications? I thought recalled pretenders retained them.)