Re: PBEM game \"Not Stupid But Slow\": Running
... and the eleventh point of order of monthly proceedings of the Venerable Akademeia of Arcoscephale would be devoted to discussing the Origin and Nature of recently observed Caelestial Phenomenon...
... which is undoubtely a Stella Nova, similar in nature to the one mentioned in the manuscript recently unearthed in.. - esteemed Theophilos did not finish his sentence as he was in turn interrupted by impatient Anaxymenes:
- Rubbish! This is a Comet, returning near Earthly Spheres to prophesy victory to our glorious Empire and demise to barbarians of Marignon!
- Hrmph. Even a half-wit can deduce it is a Meteorite Swarm, soon to provide us with a picturesque night spectacle! - proclaimed irritated Philocrates.
- Colleagues, civil discu...
[The rest of the protocol from the meeting was charred beyond recognition, along with a dozen or so bodies of most sagacious Academics, suddenly struck by fiery death from the sky]
Spokesman for Arcoscephale's Ekklesia refused to comment on the speculations that research grants and admissions to Akademeia are to be subject to a much more scrupulous scrutiny from now on.
Additionally, a number of surviving Astrologers barely escaped lynch mobs of angry customers, somehow doubting the professionalism of comissioned horoscopes and divinations.
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