MP: Cursed be Iron, a game that ran over a year: winner OSSA, Pangaea, turn 125

[RonD]

We wish to publicly thank the Machakan nation for their generous gift of Black Hunter hides. Our skilled artisans have discovered that, when linked intricately together in a proprietary weave pattern, the hard glossy bits make for excellent, lightweight samurai armor.

Unfortunately, one of the spiders in your delivery was not yet actually dead - so we hope you do not mind that we returned that one. If you wish to kill it and send it back, we would be ever so grateful. We would suggest that your own armorsmiths make a suit of fine mail from it, but, based on the warriors who accompanied your gift, we understand that your people eschew armor (or, indeed, clothing).

We tried to make use of the rest of your gift, but we found the meat to be, er - disgusting. In the end, we simply mixed the meat with the entrails and any odd bits of goblin and Machakan that happened to be lying about the field, and let the goblins have a grand feast.