Figment - Early Game (Started)

[Corwin]

Tyrant said:

This is an outrageous baldfaced lie! We did not sign a NAP. Niefelheim offered one, we did not respond.

<grabs popcorn, takes a seat>

[DonCorazon]

Vanheim recommends trial by warfare. Let the Gods decide. The victorious nation will be the one who was lying. Innocence can only be proven by defeat.

- Vanheim, We Do Not Build

See, we really need those skull mentors to come up with more edumacated solutions.

[Foodstamp]

Lame lame lame. It says I staled last turn, all that work down the drain.

[Lingchih]

<grabs popcorn, takes a seat>

I knew I smelled popcorn. Can we have some? This is hungry work, patrolling this province.

[AdmiralZhao]

It looks like it was a good month for the giants. My scouts sent this engraving back from the front lines:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/4...182cbf070d.jpg

Ooh, popcorn. Can I have some?

[Corwin]

Lingchih said:

I knew I smelled popcorn. Can we have some? This is hungry work, patrolling this province.

<Corwin sets a trail of some tasty popcorn in front TNN's capital fortress, hoping to lure the Cyclops outside>

AdmiralZhao said:
It looks like it was a good month for the giants. My scouts sent this engraving back from the front lines:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/4...182cbf070d.jpg

Wow. What the heck is that?!?

[Xavier]

Corwin said:
Wow. What the heck is that?!?

It is a rather fanciful representation of one of my Jarls, probably the mighty Bolthorn, tearing through a horde of Pangean maenads. Apparently the Mictlan scouts got confused about who was naked (the Maenads were, the Jarls most certainly were not), but other than that the representation is accurate. It's just a pity they didn't include the second slaying of the Medusa, which was the best part of the battle. You'd think she would've learned her lesson the first time she died at the hands of a Jarl. She brought a rather large army this time, but it really didn't do her much good. Oh, and if anyone would like some, my Gygja's have made some excellent Dark Vine stew from the remains of Pangea's more vegetative combatants. I may have to summon some of those myself, they're quite tasty.

Tyrant said:
This is an outrageous baldfaced lie! We did not sign a NAP. Niefelheim offered one, we did not respond.

Bollocks! The holy desk of Xavier quite clearly has a scrap of paper on it that reads, "Abysia - NAP3"! No matter, we'll wipe you off the face of the world anyway! We accept Vanheim's suggestion--we know we are right, and we know we shall destroy you!

[Baalz]

The ghost king is dead…er…more dead, and the rebirth has begun. A monument to the brave barechests and Atavi mercenaries is erected on the site of the toppled throne of skulls, and a heart tree even now spreads its sapling branches in the second capital of our lands where once only bile, black fear and hopelessness reigned. The personification of rebirth is among us, and has given us the weapons to slay that which blights the earth. From the very mouth of this god on earth we have learned the devastating evocations which slew every demon on our blessed isle, clouds of spinning blades dropping hundreds of the foul creatures before our axemen got to the bloody work of finishing the job. The roots of Marverni dig deep as our heart grows strong and we begin to look beyond our isle.

The burning halo of our new god urges more work for us, the world cries for the cleansing and rebirth that only we can accomplish. We begin to forge the bonds of friendship with those who seem like minded, helping those who can help us. With the chance to catch our breath after the demon cleansing we have been able to focus our magical crafts on forging wondrous items, and can now begin to answer the large cry for such. Any desiring items should contact our nation, most will be forgeable shortly.

[Xox]

Now xavier,

when you did not respond to my offer of a nap and instead invaded me a few turns later with your earth/nature blessed giants i did not maufacture lies that we had a nap. I have quietly fought a losing battle as hard as I could without spreading mistruths about any agreement we might have had.

Now i hear you are spreading lies about false naps with other players. Having played and fought with and against tyrant before many times I will say he has never once misled me in any treaties. Refused treaties , yes, ruthless attacks yes, but always followed his agreements completely.

[Xavier]

I am *not* lying.

I don't know tyrant, but I've been thinking about this and I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that one or the other of us got confused somewhere. This is a mature community and I quite like the players I've gotten to know here, so if he has a history in this community that doesn't include breaking pacts I'm willing to assume that this is a mistake. I can't believe that I would've written down that we had a NAP if we didn't, but I suppose it's not impossible. I think it's more likely he forgot about it, but I imagine he'd say the opposite. I probably should've discussed it with him before announcing it here, but I had just gotten invaded by Pangea a turn or two before so when I got attacked by someone I thought I had a NAP with I was pretty pissed off.

Anyway. I'm willing to call it water under the bridge, and just get on with crushing him. A glance at the score graphs will show you what's happening to Pan

Oh yeah, and you're doing a *very* good job of being incredibly annoying. I'm quite impressed with your tenacity Xox. Sorry I didn't respond to your NAP offer at all, but I already had units on the way to your capital. I didn't want to announce that I was about to invade you by actually sending a refusal.