Sloth - LA game with KO and JK - started

[DrPraetorious]

I am beset on all sides by foes. If anyone wishes to stop R'lyeh while they still can, send aid - even if I can win against him alone, I'll be too severely crippled by all this to much of a threat.

I'm in need of nature gems for GoR - if you have any, I will trade you items for nature gems at cost (that is to say, if it costs me 4 gems-with-hammer to make an item, I will trade it to you for 4 nature gems.)

I'd also like money. I have a big crate of Sea King's goblets that I made for Man and Pythium, if anyone wants those.

[llamabeast]

Utgard now has the Maelstrom up, giving 15 water gems, along with 5 pearls and a few other miscellaneous gems. With the forge, each clam costs only 5 water gems. So Utgard will be forging at least 3 clams, probably 5 or so, every turn. Although water gems are useful for other things e.g. frost brands and boots of quickness, they only cost 1 and 3 gems respectively!

If Utgard is allowed to keep these spells up we will all be doomed pretty soon, regardless of how well we play.

[DrPraetorious]

This is a game where it's a pity graphs are off.

I just lost my actual army (due to the short turn schedule - I didn't notice they were marching without gems).

Anyway - either I can slow down R'lyeh enough to give me some time to maybe beat Man, or I'll be eaten alive.

If I can slow down R'lyeh enough to beat Man before R'lyeh eats me, and if I beat Man, *then* maybe I can beat R'lyeh on land.

Then maybe someone other than R'lyeh has a chance. R'lyeh doesn't need any world-stomping enchantments up - he's R'lyeh. Do any of you really think you could stop him if he has my (and Man's, obviously, once I'm eaten) land territories? Enchantments are nice, but he'd have literally half the map.

[Amhazair]

Aaargh! Now it's my turn to loose all my slaves in a victorious battle. 40 mages down the drain...

Note to self: Do NOT make comunions too big. Even if each cast of a master only gives each slave 2 fatigue points, enough masters will kill em all. One more lesson learned the hard way...

[Shmonk]

Well Man is going to do everything in his power not to get beaten. So far things are getting interesting right about now.

[DrPraetorious]

That was decisive.

I lost 4 Tarts this turn, effectively 5, and I'm down to 8 provinces. My light, it appears, has gone out of the world.

While I hurt R'lyeh terribly (after a fashion - he doesn't care about his troops, only the star spawn matter), I failed even to bruise Shmonk.

Nonetheless, I think he will regret the decision to switch sides, and soon.

I'll be giving away my remaining posessions over the next few turns.

[Amhazair]

Well, you sure proved a tough nut to crack, and I got a bit lucky on a few occasions. (Taking out your reinvigorator in our first big battle, meaning that you couldn't capitalise on your victory; and I still don't know how I managed to kill that Titan with the stone sword)

The decisive element though, was the fact you had the forge up. While I'm sure you benefited from it (and damn, you had some nastily equiped titans) it also meant everyone was more afraid from you than from me, and in the end noone intervened in your favor.

This was also the war where I learned a lot about large communions. Before now I had only used small/medium communions, nothing really nasty. Now I had a 60-man(fish?thing?) communion running around casting some big spells. Watching you use your communion sure taught me some tricks too. Thank you for the education.


And The Hunger Without Thought has eaten.