MP: Bazooko: Running

[Toran]

Tststs... the Ermorian diplomat has been served now as roastbeef at the Abysian table - it seems to be the only purpose there was for him, since for sure he wasn't there to handle any diplomatic relations - Ermor doesn't seem to know the least about the habits of politics, it seems.

This was the reason, as well, why we had to ask Thuella, the uber-buffed Queen of Thunder, to leave our backyard again. No visit wihout notification, you know!

[vfb]

Admin: Game postponed until midnight Sat GMT for Nief.

[lwarmonger]

Good to go and turn submitted. Thank you for your patience (not that there is much left to do but die).

[vfb]

Hosting interval set to 120 hours because OmikronWarrior is having PC trouble.

[Toran]

First, hosting schedule: I'll be away from the 20th to 23rd, and from the 25th to the 28th. I'll do my turn in between quickly (even two, if you're fast ), but would pretty much prefer if there was no hosting without my turn in

Second - I guess I'm free to ask - I got that "A dire portent" message about Ermor casting a spell (is the "dire portent" only about globals?).
I never experienced this one as a player reading about it, so I don't really know which one it is. However, I don't see another Global up except the Eyes of God and my tiny fire gem accumulation spell I just put up - Ermor's spell's description doesn't really sound like EternalPyre to me, so ...? Can anyone enlighten me what's been cast this month...?

[vfb]

Admin: I'll leave hosting at 120 hours for now, and if it looks like anyone's about to stale, I'll extend by another 120 hours. Hopefully we'll play a bit more than that, but if not, I'll survive. I thought of taking a chance and setting the hosting interval to 0, and seeing if that just left the game on quickhost with no timer, but I'm worried it will just make the llamaserver host the game immediately with no-one's turn in.

Back to the game:

First, Nief's castle is full of all kinds of interesting surprises, and there should be some entertaining battles there for anyone with scouts in the area. Go bog beasts!

Marverni saw two dire portents this month, the first being that Ermor had acquired a kindling of the fire that fell from the sun, we are all doomed, yada yada yada. The second being that Abysia had acquired a kindling of the fire that fell from the sun, we are all doomed, yada yada yada. So, in an incredible stroke of coincidence, both Abysia and Ermor cast the same global in the same month, and Abysia's Eternal Pyre overpowered Ermor's.

[Toran]

Re: Hosting - Thanks. I usually manage to get my turn in in-time, and a day just in between should be enough.

Niefelheim: Abysian special forces deny any knowledge of certain unknown uber-buffed ice devils that could attack Niefelheim.

Global: Ah, ok, so that one really belongs to EternalPyre. I wasn't really expecting this coincidence, and the description sounded a bit off.

Ehm, greetings to Ermor, you wouldn't think that Abysia doesn't have enough Fire gems to stuff into that spell to make it invulnerable to dispelling? (@ vfb: Well, not as invulnerable as a certain AC casting...) I mean, it basically is an Abysian spell
We just thought "either we're dead in 10 turns, then it doesn't matter if we lose 200 gems right now, or we are still around then, then it'll start to pay off."

[lwarmonger]

Lol... glad my "army of whatever I have the ability and gems to summon" is proving to be an interesting match for you. :P

[Toran]

Shhhh! The way you put it doesn't sound as if all your summonings had been thoughtful, towards the ultimate strategy!

Better restate your sentence, into sth. like "Yes, interesting it will be - the perfect way to utterly defeat a Marverni aggressor - you will be surprised, but not see the third turn of battle!".....

[Toran]

Hm... I would have been able to submit another turn, but it seems that Ermor was soooo x-massy that it wasn't able to get its turn done. See you on 28th..?

Toran out.