vilhazarog
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Post by vilhazarog on Jul 19, 2006 15:52:22 GMT -5
Here's how it went down...
So I log in for the noon production run and don't see anything unusual, normal production, check the weather report, hey, it's going to be cloudy for a while, maybe I can finally get another level on my monument... Let's make some trades.
So I top off my glass stores from Mikhail, trade for some steel from Tobermory... hey, wait a minute. What the hell is Robulus doing here? He's got the 95% DDD! Holy crap, he's coming over here to vassalize our whole island with it!
I immediately dispatch a spy and flip to Communism. Hmm, what's he got? Almost no buildings, just a permacannon for defense. Shit, he's got 11 EUR. The Senate just held a session, did they keep weapon taxation? Yes, thank god. Ok, now what? Wait, looks like he has enough other stuff to trade to Ramul to get that extra EUR to blow us up.... what's he waiting for?
Hmm, my only guess is he wants to actually get up close to us to vassalize us before he fires it. So he needs 2, maybe 3 EUR to get in close... still, he might swing it any time. Better move fast.
I've got 12 EUR, enough to activate... but I still have to move over one to get next to him, then attack and land exchange... let's say I need 5 EUR more, just to be sure. I call up Ramul and make the trade, costing me a ton of glass, some diamonds and some steel.
Ok, so much for my monument stockpile. I check my policy... land exchange, yes. Firepower.... let's say 4 should be enough to be sure, lets hit him with our entire extra stockpile.
Check Robulus again, no change. Still, he could be just one trade away from detonating.
Ok, here we go, detonate the tetonic plate charge, lets move! There goes all the glass buildings, ah well. Now attack!!
Crap, the IWI won't let us! He's too inferior! Shit, if he detonates now we'll lose a tech level!! What's he doing? Does he see us? Scrap!! Scrap all the warehouses!! Scrap, scrap, scrap, can we attack now? No? Scrap, scrap, scrap... Oh shit!! We used up all our coal scrapping buildings!!! Quick, get Ramul, make a trade, trade anything... here, give him 2 AID, what's that worth, 13 coal? We'll take it! Dammit, I shoulda scrapped my trees first, idiot, let's scrap those! Scrap, scrap, scrap... 8 trees chopped down, can we attack? No?? We're just sitting here, he could detonate any second!! Scrap the rest of the warehouses!! Scrap, scrap, scrap... attack! *KABOOM* Land exchange! Success!!! We did it!!
Ok, no buildings left. I'm safe from Robulus now, but someone else could show any second. Let's just blow this sucker. Complete the final 5%. Ok, let's detonate.... uh how? Not at Construction... not at the Academy... I don't even have one of those now, please let it not be there... check the docs..... at Warfare!
Ok, detonate!!!! WHAT?? It's not a goddamn holiday!! Ok, somebody execute that guy, let's get someone else at the switch. Ready? Detonate!!
******* BBBB OOOO OOOO MMMM !!!!!!!! *******
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Post by psiweapon on Jul 19, 2006 16:32:20 GMT -5
*an unstable sound channel the image of a short, black-haired man clad in the elegant robes of prime minister barely manage to break in through the monstrous static*
Greetings from Malkuth provisional headquarters! The battle report has reached our communications network and I, representing the (now halved) population of Malkuth, want to thank Cirdan and his people for their selfless and courageous performance. I sincerely believe that it was a near-optimal course of action given the circumstances. Eudaimonia has survived its first world-consuming blast, and thwarted in one fell swoop the evil plans that were threatening our beloved island, even if it was by detonating the foul machinery itself. I'd like to apologize in behalf of Cirdan and Eudaimonia, although I don't quite deserve that honour, to everyone who is receiving this transmission, for I can assure that it was never his, nor ours, intention to activate that technological hellspawn.
The pain we are experiencing now is nothing compared to the ordeal Cirdan's people must have undergone, for they have stepped forward and taken in their hands the grieving responsibility and unspeakable crime that is unleashing such a destructive power unto the world, with the only intention of preventing even worse events.
Tomorrow a new dawn of suffering will come, but at least it will be a new dawn. Psiweapon out.
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Post by xade on Jul 19, 2006 19:46:31 GMT -5
Ok, let's detonate.... uh how? Not at Construction... not at the Academy... I don't even have one of those now, please let it not be there... check the docs..... at Warfare! Man, that rung so true... Specially when I had Rast breathing down my neck at the time... It was very tense... Now that you have the taste, don'tcha just want to set off another...  |
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Post by Jemaat on Jul 19, 2006 20:48:46 GMT -5
Ok, let's detonate.... uh how? Not at Construction... not at the Academy... I don't even have one of those now, please let it not be there... check the docs..... at Warfare! Man, that rung so true... Specially when I had Rast breathing down my neck at the time... It was very tense... Now that you have the taste, don'tcha just want to set off another... Rast was breathing down your neck? You were very relaxed, considering. Your DDD sucked, because you set it off right in the middle of the Black Horseman's visit after I'd just traded all my food to Ramul in order to <censored>. |
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Post by robulus on Jul 19, 2006 22:16:32 GMT -5
Prologue: The Hunt for RedSpectra
Here's how the days before doomsday went down...
RedSpectra had taken possession of a doomsday device from LynxShaman, and was sitting at 65% completion. No biggie, Noman had one at 70% as well, and we were going to set it off first. Other than a few internicide skirmishes, all was going according to plan, or at least it was until RS showed up one day off the coast of Evil Island with a 95% complete DDD.
What to do? Invite him into the faction? Could he be trusted? Take it from him? Who would do the honours?
Eventually, RedSpectra settled the matter by buggering off and disappearing off the map. Where did he go? In the interests of not spoiling it for any other newbies who, like myself, had never been there, I'll just say he went to the "happy place." Having never been there myself, and getting only cryptic responses from Rast about what could possibly cause someone to disappear from the map, I gathered up my belongs and set off on the hunt.
My tracking efforts were fruitless, and after a day of cruising halfway across the map, bouncing from place to place, I was out of EUR and feeling pretty low. A new day dawned, and I decided to give up on the chase; there was no way to find RS or stop the completion of the DDD, so I decided to head out to sea and grow some food.
Lo and behold! After a couple of moves I found myself in the happy place, and who better to find there than RedSpectra, chilling out and soaking up some wisdom.
I had finally found my grail, and the quest was drawing to a close. Placing an informant and switching to communism, I found that RS was more than capable of setting off the device: 20 EUR and plenty of food in inventory, biding time and probably doing some soul searching. I primed up the cannons and charged in, irradiating the land, flattening nearly all of the buildings, and seizing the prize. With the DDD in hand and RS safely vassalized, I sat back to rebuild some resources and prepare for what was to come.
The sun came up again, and with it, a newcomer to the happy place: Atlatl. For some inexplicable reason, possibly an altercation at the ice cream stand, Atlatl likes attacking me. Sitting on my irradiated dump with no cannons and my pants around my ankles, this didn't look like it would be a pleasant reunion. My hand forced, I hastened my departure and dropped out of warp.
As luck would have it, I reappeared just off the coast of Eudaimonia, that seething den of peaceniks, hippies, democrats, and pacifists. With enough tradable goodies to complete the device and set it off, I paused. Wouldn't it be funnier to get right in the middle of the island before setting off the device?
- It was at this point that I got called into a meeting. Never let it be said that gainful employment is not a double edged sword. I suggest a new resource in the game, called PDM, which can be expended to inflict frustration on opponents... But I digress. -
Upon returning, some quick preparations were made. I needed EUR and COAL to complete the device and manouver to ground zero. I let the faction know what was coming, and set up some global trades to get the materials. Around this time Cirdan stirred, and moved closer. With frantic cries of "take the fucking trades!", a slow motion race ensued. Cirdan proved the quicker, and the rest is history.
Mad props to RedSpectra, Cirdan, and of course Rasteroid, for creating good times.
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Post by xade on Jul 19, 2006 23:24:22 GMT -5
And now you hear the cries of the isle of xade. It's about good times, and the thrill of blowing up the world... ah yes... good times...  (And Jem, mine ROCKED! Seriously, I don't think a DDD at any other time could have thrown the world into any more disarray... Though you knew that, <cencored>... Not that I was ever meant to mention that... um (ok, so I had a few beers at lunch... )) |
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Post by Jemaat on Jul 20, 2006 2:33:36 GMT -5
Oh, yes, it was a highly successful DDD... I just meant it sucked for everyone at the personal level. As luck would have it, I reappeared just off the coast of Eudaimonia, that seething den of peaceniks, hippies, democrats, and pacifists. With enough tradable goodies to complete the device and set it off, I paused. Wouldn't it be funnier to get right in the middle of the island before setting off the device? We're not pacifists. We happily reduce unwelcome arrivals to grovelling vassals in control of a meager empire composed mainly of radioactive dust, because, after all, we're happy people.  |
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Post by Mikhail on Jul 20, 2006 13:08:10 GMT -5
I was a groveling vassal at one point I was looking for people who had no ICBMs so that i could nuke them, and then i saw my golden target: An island of hippies who don't believe in ICBMs. So i pressed my red button, and smiled happily. "yes!" Thought Mikhail. And then, before i even knew it, the group of them reduced JC's vassalage to 1, and i was logged off untill the next cycle. JC's vassalage was over and he attacked me! "NO!" Thought Mikhail. So the bunch of them, together kept me endlessly vassalized untill i groveled. And then i just never left the island. So if anyone was looking for a sure fire way to join the Island, thats the way. |
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vilhazarog
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Post by vilhazarog on Jul 20, 2006 17:49:52 GMT -5
Actually, I'd just like to point out that I think I might have given JC a food or two to get out of vassalage, but I didn't contribute to keep you vassalized. It's not actually necessary, out here, assuming you've got no pollution and you've built your buildings, you're guaranteed one food per production... add trees, that's two, plus a possible bonus food, that's 3. Add to that a stock pile of 8 trees, which scrapped as an Anarchist adds up to a 16 food stockpile (-2 to flip governments twice). JC could keep you vassalized all by himself.
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Post by AlsoJC on Jul 20, 2006 23:13:52 GMT -5
Yeah, I'll note that I didn't really take much Food from others to vassalize you. Considering I usually have a 100% chance of Food and Trees... |
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Post by Rasteroid on Jul 31, 2006 1:14:21 GMT -5
Oh wow.. this was so great. Thanks for all the stories you guys, I loved reading them.
Villy, I didn't know you were Cirdan! Congratulations on being the first female Doomsday initiator! (I think?)
From my perspective, I was saving up for Tech 14 when RS showed up on my doorstep. I had something like 10 ICBMs saved, but that's no good for a land exchange, so I started flagrantly pushing 1 ICBM : 3 EUR trades, I figure that's probably what frightened him off.
I decided not to pursue, but instead cut my losses and take Tech 14 before Doomsday.
Cheers again guys. Awesomeness.
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vilhazarog
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Post by vilhazarog on Jul 31, 2006 11:11:05 GMT -5
Sorry Rast, I think you've confused me with Vagithug... I'm a guy. 'Cirdan' is my backup-backup handle choice, which is what I ended up with when I created as Vil, then accidentally deleted the registration mail, which left poor Vil in limbo, couldn't log on, couldn't delete. Then I used my backup, Nadric. I think I joined on a Friday... came back on Monday to find my login deleted due to inactivity. Created a new player, Cirdan. That one finally stuck.  |
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Post by Rasteroid on Aug 1, 2006 0:19:33 GMT -5
whoops! ;p
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