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   | The Olympia Times                                       issue g2-101 |
   | January 19, 1999                                                     |
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Greetings Fellow Olympians

I am presently gathering infomation on rare or strange items. If anyone 
knows where to get gatecrystals, elfstones, the making of scrolls, the 
gathering of materials and where to find each of them, what beasts can 
be inter-bred, etc please mail me at Pozzie@Hotmail.com. The infomation 
may be published unless asked not to by the source. Hope everyone is 
having fun.

Lee The Brave.....Leader of the Syr-Antin

                                     -- Syr-Antin [gk5]



Be it known that the Realm of Khazhad-dum doth be in
search of goodly folk to assist in the growth of mine
Realm. Be ye a Mason, Forester, Trader or other peaceful
sort, an be near to Harn or Port Aurnos, send thee a
missive an we shall endeavor to entice thee to come hither.

                           -- House of Aekinskald [hj8]



The Brotherhood of the Red God is currently unavailable for major 
work due to the large number of contracts we are engaged in. The 
Brotherhood is looking for new Warriors and other nobles who wish to 
take the Oath of the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood accepts individual 
nobles as well as whole factions into the order. If you are looking 
for a life of action and adventure then join the Brotherhood and see 
the world maybe even other worlds. Promotion for brave and 
resourceful men is quick and the spoils of war are large.

Distance is not an object as we are currently operating in most areas 
of Provinia and some of the other continents. Transport can be 
arranged.

Please visit our web site at
 www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1843/borg.html
  or contact us at
     asgardian@bigfoot.com

   May the Red God smile upon you.

                                        -- Wodan [d987]



                                 Rumors



In conjunction with the Traveler's Guide, we have published
Maps showing the size and position of the twelve regions of
Olympia and the claims made on these regions. They can be viewed
on the Encyclopedia Olympia pages at:

http://www.spiretech.com/~jeffh/olympia/

Any who wish to report errors or clarifications to their territory
should respond to the address below.

Hades:

Hades is one of four regions separate from the main world of Olympia
(the others are Faery, the Cloudlands, and the Underworld).

Hades may only be entered through a graveyard sublocation.  There are
many of these sublocations visible in the main world, while others are
hidden.  To enter Hades, you must first enter the sublocation, then
EXPLORE to find the hidden entrance to Hades.  After a successful
EXPLORE, you will see an additional route leaving the graveyard:

>Underground, to Hades [pv08], Hades, hidden, 1 day
>      "Notice to mortals, from the Gatekeeper Spirit of Hades: 100
>       gold/head is removed from any stack taking this road."



This means that every noble, soldier, peasant, or fighting beast that
takes this route will cost 100 gold.  This includes any unit with an
attack and defense rating, with the possible exception of ghost warriors
(which are rated 0,0 and may not count).

Once you have discovered the hidden route, you can enter Hades and start
exploring.  Hades is very large, with about as many provinces as there
are land provinces in the main world.  All routes leaving provinces are
hidden, so need to be discovered through exploration.  This makes the
exploration of Hades a very slow process.  There are both hidden and
visible graveyards scattered around, and these usually lead to a
province in the main world far removed from the graveyard you used to
enter Hades.  Occasionally there will be more than one graveyard in a
Hades province, but this has been observed only very rarely.

It is important to note that the graveyards are in the main world, and
although movement from Hades to the graveyard is free, movement back
into Hades requires another payment to the Gatekeeper Spirit of Hades.

Travel in Hades can be dangerous, with a 6% chance per move of an
encounter.  Encounters appear to consist of bands of undead, using
roughly the size stacks seen when questing in graveyards (although some
have been seen below the size limit). Nobles using conceal self are safe
from harm, as are Necromancers with the Transcend Death skill.

                                  -- Encyclopedia Olympia

Next: Gate Crystals and other rare items

Submissions or suggestions may be sent to encoly@hotmail.com.
Do not expect a reply, as the editors wish to remain anonymous.




  Toppe [n82], city, in province The Shadowlands [dd70]
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  24: Fili [3231], with five workers, nine riding horses, exited The
  24: Fence [9947].
  24: Fili [3231], with five workers, nine riding horses, exited Toppe [n82].
  26: Dodo [1859] earned 60 gold working at common magic.
  28: Tarl Desenea [3462], with one winged horse, exited Toppe [n82].
  Inner locations:
   The Fence [9947], castle, defense 80, level 6, owner:
      Denetor [3119], duke, mage, wielding Longsword of Coinbalth [k287],
      with 16 peasants, 83 soldiers, six archers, 19 elite guard,
      23 pikemen, 172 blessed soldiers, eight swordsmen, 79 crossbowmen,
      75 elite archers, one winged horse
      Aileas Sejanus [a319], with five peasants, one crossbowman, two riding
      horses
      Paulie the Poofter [m307]
      Aragorn [2237], duke, sorcerer, with one riding horse, 98 ghost
      warriors
      Zoekplaats [8111], tower, defense 40
      Denkplaats [4799], tower, defense 40
   Sloppel Too [7112], inn, defense 10, 19% damaged
   Gezegend [4538], temple, defense 10

   Tell Mom I said hi! I wonder if the slumber party is going to move to
this    place now? Someone told me this is worth a small fortune.
   So who is going to pay me? 



Sweetwood is once again safe from rabid curs.

Soon his hide will be nailed to a door.



The Vulture Speaks:

I can't believe you people.  Are you so lacking
in creativity that you can't come up with your
own nom de plume, and you have to rip off mine?
This last moron even stole my special little nicknames
for people, like Couchketeer and Eaglet.  Unlike
me, though, he or she or it was clearly biased in
favor of one combatant, while I of course am totally
neutral and above the fray, interested only in a 
good meal and writing overlong run-on sentences like
this one.

Maybe it's a compliment--have my previous posts have
been so on target that anyone who wants their 
rumors to have that special aura of believability
feels the need to pretend they are the Vulture?
Whatever it is, it's annoying and weird, so stop it.

Pshaw, I'm so irritated by this that I barely have
the energy to comment on what is happening in the 
world.  The recent discussion on the list has been
interesting, with certain folk going out of character
and accusing others of cheating.  That term is probably
too strong, if all they are doing is absuing game bugs.
Not particularly honorable, but not actual cheating. Now
if the Lords are running multiple positions as some suspect
that would be a different story, but that is probably
impossible to prove and therefore not worth discussing.
If our Absent God Atnerks were to take notice and
investigate that would be a Good Thing (thanks to 
fellow carrion bird Martha Stewart for the rights to 
use her material--ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION PEOPLE?) but
in light of His recent lack of involvement don't hold
your collective breath.

Lots of rumors about action on Camaris, but no reports
of any signifcant actual battles.  One wonders where
the BEagles will land on this question.  Will they continue
to support the LotC, who have grown to become vastly
larger than Eridanus and his pals, or will they jump
to aid PLATO and preserve some semblance of the balance
of power.  I've been reading some fantasy literature
lately with all this spare time I have, about another
world where a great battle was fought called World War II.
If you are familiar with it, the parallels to our world
of Olympia are striking.  If you ignore the politics and
some of the other nasty habits of some of the combatants, 
then the LotC can be cast as this place called Germany.  Harn
is France, and the IC is called Belgium.  PLATO is England, 
while the Rimmon folk are Russia.  EAGLE is clearly Italy.  
We need two more players to fill out the cast--an America 
(TIBS?) and a Japan (SOA?).  In the version I read Germany
loses of course, the bad guys always do.  Here in Olypmia
though it may not turn out the same way. Anyone who is 
familiar with this story is welcome to comment.  ;)

Ah well, CarEx (Carrion Express) has dropped off another fresh
noble corpse, so it's time to chow.  Until next time,

The Vulture
Accept no lame substitutes






Would it help to confuse it if we run away more?



Oh, shut up and go and change your armour.



Let us taunt it! It may become so cross that it will make a mistake.



Like what?



Well... ooh.



Have we got bows?



No.



We have the Holy Hand Grenade.



Yes, of course! The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch! 
'Tis one of the sacred relics Brother Maynard carries with him! 
Brother Maynard! Bring up the Holy Hand Grenade!



Are you drifting aimlessly around Olympia looking for a
small piece of land to build a castle because you can't think of
anything else to do??

Running out of gold and not interested in joining the local alliance
and being 3rd in command of border castle??

Don't build a castle, sack them !!!!

The Brotherhood of the Red God are currently recruiting new members
in Drassa. Individual nobles or groups welcome. Several contracts
need field commanders and there are many useful positions in support
companies and of course mages are more than welcome. We offer a life
of action and adventure as well as the ever present possibility of
pillage.

Currently we are specifically looking for a ship's captain preferably
with martial experience but not essential. We also are in need of a
Captain of Bow. Any men with other skills are most welcome as well.

Enquiries to the Herald at asgardian@bigfoot.com

May the Red God smile on you



   Oh, for a still.  I could make my own Scotch.



We'll this is interesting. I wonder how much
longer it will be now till something happens.



Pig Foul will make a nice roast !!!