+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The Olympia Times issue g2-77 | | August 4, 1998 | | | | turn 77 351 players http://www.pbm.com/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+Questions, comments, to play: info@pbm.com
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Hear ye! Hear ye! Ships for sale....seek ye the Shipyard of the House of Aekinskald, Master Merchants. Send ye a courier to hj8@g2.pbm.com Roundships 840gp, Galleys be 420gp Crew for 50gp...will deliver for a fee. Or watch ye the launching in Port Aurnos!
-- House of Aekinskald [hj8]
Greetings Olympians and a special hello to all Drassans.
If you are in the northwestern region of Olympia, please take a moment to look at our web household at: http://www.ip.pt/~ip231870/HoL.htm
It includes a map of the Kingdom of Cragstan and the surrounding area as well as important information for anyone wishing to visit our territory.
Live long and prosper, Lord Ralek Arkham Speaker for the House of Lords Kingdom of Cragstan
-- House of Lords [tq9]
"Ahoy matey! Could you spare some tea?" I querried the ships pulling up rapidly alongside.
"Not bloody likely," said my faithfull sidekick Ghaznavi. "They've no manners. You've always said so."
"Ah faithful Ghaznavi! You are here at the end, though you be an idiot if there ever was one. Nonetheless, stand by me now, & think not of the enemy's numbers, but of your loyalty to the Creepy Crawlers."
"And men, pikemen & archers, stand you ready to make good your oaths of fealty to me, & if indeed death hath come to claim its ghastly prize, as may very well be, make him pay with oceans of Doomguard blood! May we reek here such a slaughter that the devil himself will blanche at it!"
"Huzzah!" cried the men, & grimly we set about the battle.
For verily, at the dawn of this month I do battle against fearful odds, caught by the terrible Doomguard armada amassing just outside Trullion. And the sharks circle the boat, awaiting their ghoulish meal.
Free Provinia!
I am, your friend, Captain Arrr
Ships sighted: The Stormwarden [1967], roundship, 253% loaded, defense 10, 4% damaged, "Armada Coronae", owner: Captain Marduk [6624], "of the Doomguard", with 26 peasants, three workers, eight sailors, 220 crossbowmen, accompanied by: Aemon Drake [9578], "of the Doomguard", with one riding horse, 186 pikemen, 26 soldiers, 38 undead, 45 peasants Grazth [3330], "of the Doomguard", with six workers, eight sailors, accompanied by: Gwydeon [s952], "of the Doomguard", with one riding horse, eight pikemen The Sea Ghost [p317], roundship, 0% loaded, defense 10, 8% damaged, "Armada Coronae" Large boat [5906], roundship, 103% loaded, defense 10, 5% damaged, owner: * Captain Arrr [7662], "a creepy crawler", with five workers, eight sailors, 92 crossbowmen, 55 elite archers, accompanied by: * Ghaznavi [97711], barbarian, with 84 pikemen, one hound
-- Captain Arrr [7662]
To The following Nobles, Arete [5525], Simon the Strong [2171], Exar Kun [6994], Vodo-Siosk Baas [5371], Aleema Keto [2699],Satal Keto [9684] We have warned you about trespassing, we have tried to contact you via diplomatic mail, we have posted on the g2 list, we now find that our populace are suffering from thefts of their property, therefore you have one month to leave the city of Bruig na Bo'inde, thereafter we will declare you theives and spies and will order our military in this city do deal with you.
-- Llewlyn Ap Gruffed [9138]
Vast ideas are often, upon reflection, merely half-vast.
-- Tiger IIth [s634]
Rumors
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol
D00dez whats your defenition of newbies? Anyone whos played less than 10 turns? 20 turns? What?
We the elders of Olympia should come up with a useful defenition of newbie-ness if we mean to protect them from the lower lifeforms with low morals and even lower standards of sportsmanship.
Just my wooden nickel - Bergil Bootstrapson "the infamous slayer of savages"
Smeghedz are kummin' yur way!
Give me poleaxe, give me mace. So I can smash your ugly face!
(signed) Billy Bob Coleridge esq., gentleman, poet, executioner and gourmet.
Warning to all newbie-killers: Newbies are under the personal protection of the Lowlander. Transgressions against newbies will be dealt with in a most painful and permanent way! - the Lowlander
A hey and a shout-out to F. Theodorsen - where's your crew, man?
Contact Secret Squirrel [t594]. Do it now!
KILL KILL KILL ALL CURCH OF EGGROLL MEMBERS THEY ARE ALL SODOMISTS AND NEWIE KILLERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The rule of TIB will soon be over. The TIB Liberation Army also known as TIBLA is ready to vanquish TIB from this world. Their blood will flow as rivers from the mountains and mix with the seas.
TIBLA !!! TIBLA !!! TIBLA !!!
One down, one to go. For our next trick, we will burn all the wood on the beach.
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Yvengi is a louse! - Freddy the Wonder Mule
Those who lack courage are already dead.
So The Icy Black Powerhouse will not be blindly following the Blood-thirsty EAGLE juggernaught. This is a good show of balls on all TIB players.
Oleg a King?
Monthly fortune, from the Church of Eggroll:
I hope life isn't a big joke, because Egraal doesn't get it.
"Lookee, lookee, Lookee!!!" Don't you wish you knew what I'm so excited about.
EA to Rule the World:
EA would have you think they are the benevolent protector of Olympian life, but they are just as much scoundrel as PLATO. They hide behind their 'secrecy' and play politics with member factions.
PLATO and the Bandits may be bad, but at least you know they are the bad guys. EA hides in the diplomatic talks while hurling catapults on enemy shores. Where is the honor in that? They let PLATO take out Fox and New Empire because they didn't like him. Then they stepped in after the war to stop the spread of the war onto their own lands. In the deal, they are rid of an internal problem (New Empire), cast PLATO as the new AOO, and gain support for their world domination plans.
Now they play "nice doggie" with the Bandits and invade under independent banners.
-OM
I live.