====================================================================== PE-WJ-Diplo [Bred Porcupines]: Red Porcupines Date:Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:29:57 +0000 To reply, log in at http://www.powersedge.net/?Page=Login or use your newspaper form. Direct email replies do not go to the sender. (This is intended to protect the privacy of other players.) ====================================================================== Dear Snakes and other nations of the world - The Snakes' unannounced and unexpected visit to my friends in Melbourne leaves us Porcupines somewhat speechless. We Porcupines have long been friends with the ape-lovers. Had Acanthopis not moved so suddenly, we would have wanted him to know that the Porcupines and the Ape-Lovers have a mutual defense agreement. Because of his aggression against them, I am forced to activate that agreement, and hereby give Acanthopis notice that our 5-turn peace agreement with his own nation will be terminated immediately, unless he chooses to desist from this wild course of action! It gives us great pain to do this, as our two nations have been friends for so long. The Porcupines gird for war. New training programs are instituted. Breeding is no longer in style. Conflict is in the air. We now become the RED Porcupines, with war paint on our snouts, and danger in our tails... Meanwhile, the Pet Porcupines project is in high demand. However, since breeding is no longer in style, we are expanding our "Pet Porcupines" program, and offering up entire dens (porcupines included) to interested neighbors. Except Acanthopis, who it seems would rather steal dens without warning. ====================================================================== PE-WJ-Diplo [Acanthopis]: apeloverage; starting clock Date:Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:04:26 +0000 To reply, log in at http://www.powersedge.net/?Page=Login or use your newspaper form. Direct email replies do not go to the sender. (This is intended to protect the privacy of other players.) ====================================================================== First, a quick response to my porcupine friends, with whom I guess I am now at war: I am sorry that I did not tell you that I was going to attack apeloverage, but it was not as one-sided as you think. You will notice that one of the regions that I took from Mr. Monkey (what does that name mean???) was named Acanthopis SA-5. The reason that it was named that was because Mr. Monkey took it from me a few turns ago. Now, we both attacked on the same turn, but let me ask you this: if somebody blows half of a very large army attacking a well-defended region, and then you take that region from him with dramatically smaller losses, don't you owe him something? I mean, at least a message saying "Sorry 'bout that, bub"? But I heard nothing--no apology, no request for a peace treaty now that we were neighbors, zilcho. Certainly I could have asked for a peace treaty, but in my world if somebody kills your snakes, takes a region from you without so much as a how-de-do, and doesn't try to make nice, then they shouldn't go whining to their big prickly friend when things go bad. Just because you have a big friend, doesn't mean that you can do away with social pleasantries when it suits you. Manners, after all, are what separate we civilized animals from the people. Ah, I feel much better now. I mean, maybe rasp has a legitimate beef, but not monkey! Still, I have never broken a treaty or gone back on my word, so that ought to count for something, oughtn't it? I'm also pretty sure that I have accepted all treaties that were offered, except if they were offered after I was already eating the offerer. One-way teeth. Anyway, all of this is sort of irrelevant in my opinion, because of this. SA has grown bored with our world. The break for the winter solstice was especially hard to come back to and realize that this world is now over two years old, and has only had one major take-down brawl, and that was back in 2005. Last time I wanted to end the world, everybody complained that we were still having lots of fun and that at least OckerBoy was funny part of the time. But nobody has posted a single joke in ages. We could limp along, training porcupines and all that, and if that's what you people want to do then you can do it by killing us off. If not, I will continue to observe all of my treaties until they are broken by someone else, so you have nothing to fear from me if you just want to wait it out. But SA is going to start the clock now. As everyone who has ever paid attention knows, Hermis is the fourth member of the "Secret Alliance", and he is adding SA to his name this turn. Either the world will end, or at least it will be exciting for a time before we all get overwhelmed by hedgehogs, lovely and sweet though they are. It's been a blast chatting with you all! -- Acanthopis