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PE-WJ-Diplo [Professor]: New Beginning
Date:Wed, 17 May 2006 16:36:14 +0000

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Now that the reset ruling has been made, I will formally state the
obvious. I no longer belong to any alliance. There will be no carry
over animosity towards anyone including Arizona, the SA crowd or
Hermis, etc. You'll have to earn my ill will once again should we ever
meet.

As Arizona pointed out, I did not alter my nation name before
restarting immediately following the previous weekend. My bad. The
Academia Times had notified me of the lost of my capital and the
requisite loss of moves for that next turn. With all of three colleges
left, it did not take much thought to punch out of the game with a
reset right then. That's exactly what I did without changing my nation
name. I corrected that as soon as the next news reports came out.

Should there be any doubt or someone missing this diplo post, I have
for good measure altered my leader's name and nation even further to
emphasize the new beginning theme.

New Professor of New Academia


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PE-WJ-Diplo [Acanthopis]: Zabor
Date:Fri, 19 May 2006 14:32:51 +0000

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Dear World:

Hopefully nobody is taking Zabor's recent post seriously. I think that
if one looks at where things stand, you will agree with me that Zabor
is not so much a threat, as a large speedbump blocking my way to
OckerBoy. Zabor hopes that the vehemence and initial success of his
surprise attack will give him the momentum to get others on board in
his battle. OckerBoy fights the same way: assuming that his junk-bond
inspired technique of selling land for a temporary advantage of armies
will allow him to overcome stronger opponents. It's a self-fulfilling
prophecy, of course, that might work if you join him but is doomed to
utter failure if you let our battle play out. 

But, while you're waiting to decide which bandwagon to jump onto,
ponder this. Zabor has at least  half of all of his armies currently
committed to his little escapade. That means he has an average of
about 10 units in each of the rest of his regions. I can match him
pretty much army for army at the front, and still have more armies to
defend my other borders than he has in his entire nation. There are
two possibilities right now. 1) I am not adequately defended against
his attack, which would mean that anybody else attacking me would face
pretty serious opposition, or 2) I am adequately defended against him,
which would mean that I could still have hundreds of armies elsewhere,
but also that Zabor's attack will soon fizzle. Neither strikes me as a
particularly good situation for bandwagon-jumpers.

So, why am I bothering with this message, if I am so well-defended?
Because, I'd like to profit off of Zabor's attack, and I'd like to
follow up with a rout of OckerBoy (because he likes to hurt snakes).
These are long-term goals, but I can't do that if I have a bunch of
other nations attacking me. So I'm trying to convince you that my
lunch is not quite as free as Zabor indicates, because I still plan on
him being the main course.

TS was a real threat, whose strength was based on an overwhelming
array of force, expansion, and diplomacy. My hat goes off to them
because they nearly pulled it off, and it took most of the world to
unite against them to keep that from happening. SA is currently
playing a spoiler role, whose glory days appear to be behind them, but
who retain considerable strength. TI are a bunch of upstart wannabes
whose empire is built on sand. Don't let that change.

Your snakey friend,

-- Acanthopis


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PE-WJ-Diplo [OckerBoy]: Real Estate
Date:Fri, 19 May 2006 22:49:20 +0000

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Snakey, its true I've eaten snake but I've never killed a snake (the
dinner was roadkill) nor hurt them, in fact I've saved a number of
copperheads and tiger snakes from my less sophisticated hick friends.
In fact you're the only snake I've met who struck first, and I have
met a few.

I know it looks like I've (especially to Arizona) sold real estate on
the run but really (as it is now) the contract of sale had a long
settlement date and the intervention and machination of others spilled
into that settlement period, thus ruining the well laid plans.

Anyway, you are confusing tactical 'opportunities' (ie us being
attacked) for a lifestyle choice (old sales being finally completed)
through their conicidence in time when they are on completely
different tracks.


Built on sand? Well, we are The Incompetents. 

That's probably why I am responding, just like you, the empty vessels
ringing loud, you don't get Gregorious or Aachan sounding off very
often.

Of course the game is poorer for it I guess.

Ockerboy


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PE-WJ-Diplo [BoldlyGo]: BoldlyGo to Acanthopis
Date:Sat, 20 May 2006 16:19:39 +0000

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You Sir!  I say, You Sir!  How dare you! Upstart Wannabee eh...... I
take offence at your slanderous tone and demand satisfaction. I shall
leave no stone unturned in my search for your hideout and look forward
to hanging your skin out to dry.
Please indicate your whereabouts.
Regards, BoldlyGo.