Game: Scorned Land (started)

[HoneyBadger]

When I was little I had a pet snake named Christine who died.

[paraderain]

When's this thing gonna start there's 15 players already??? When I log on all I get is the logon screen where you select your race. Where's my turn???

[Catquiet]

Let's get this game started

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[A spaceship carrying a 100 foot tall silver robot had just landed in, or should I say on, a rather expensive chunk of London real estate, specifically Knightsbridge and more particularly, Harrod’s:...]


"I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."


Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had killed this totally other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and emitting short incomprehensible error messages.

"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."

"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"

"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."

"I did," said Ford. "It is."

"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"

"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"

"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"

--- Douglas Adams - So long and thanks for all the fish.

[Lingchih]

Ahh. Douglas Adams. We miss him greatly. I'm not even in this game, but I enjoyed reading this post. I would join, but I don't think anyone is actually hosting this game.

[paraderain]

So, what did they post it for then if no one is hosting it?

[Cooron]

No pretenders loaded for:
Agartha
Vanheim
Niefelheim
Yomi
Atlantis

Ready to to upload whatever if there is still room and/or someone confirms that those are open spots.

edit:
Took Sauro

[EarthRaver]

im in the wrong forum sry.

[Zachariah]

ok, i kicked the game off. We had more than enough folk that joined. Seeya on the battlefield!

[Shovah32]

Just wondering, did anyone happen to upload a pretender over helheims?

[Shuma]

Hmmm, started already? I didn't get a chance to get my pretender in. Is there still a chance?