And you misrepresent the fact.
The Musketeers have not made a diplomatic blunder. As far as I
can see, ONE Ergothian [not the entire alliance] has violated borders
and is attempting to drag his alliance into a war. Unlike the
Musketeers [and, I add, the Inner Circle, way back when] who notified
the Lords of the Crown a turn or two before any borders were crossed,
this person has no regard for them what-so-ever. And after at least
one, and possibly multiple politely worded inquiries, Maltar "lays
down the law", the errant Ergothian publishes to the list so as to
stir up the usual cast of characters espousing their usual "causes".
In fact, has any one seen any comment other that "we want to stay out
of this" from anyone not closely assosciated with one side or the other
in the "Provinian Troubles" [myself included, of course]? Or from any
Ergothian other than the invader? If so, I have missed them.
Second Chance
ICLF
[still playing and letting those who have divergent views take a swipe
at me from time to time]
-----Original Message-----
From: R. W. Gabriel <silas75@hotmail.com>
To: jdgbobr@io.com <jdgbobr@io.com>
Cc: g2-list@pbm.com <g2-list@pbm.com>
Date: Monday, July 26, 1999 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: Ergoth Attack on Annuin/Port Royal
>Actually, blaming you is easier than blaming their own lack of insight and
>incompetence. It also serves as a nice propaganda tool to hand out to the
>underlings to create a nice god/devil, good/bad dichotomy. (If we hate
>cendage and cendage is evil, then by default we must be good and right and
>just and blah blah blah--in other words, we can't win followers by reason
so
>we will play little propaganda games to confuse and fool you.)
>
>I would theorize that the reason diplomatic pundits dispise Cendage so much
>is b/c his diplomatic skills far exceed their own. Of course I could be
>wrong, but I find it oh so amusing that cendage is blamed for subversive
>wrongdoing that the complainers are incapable of stopping (read:
>incompetence).
>
>
>Oh yeah, the Ergothian manifesto that provoked a terse history lesson from
>greg (as theoretically ignorant as the lesson was) echoes in great part the
>musketeer arguments for attacking the LOTC. At the time of the Great
>Musketeer Blustering (GMB), I could have sworn I was going to vomit; I
could
>only stand so much talk about oppression, freedom, death and glory.
>obviously the musketeers have to resort to animated sword waving b/c their
>diplomatic intuition is lacking.
>
>In the meantime, I congratulate the Musketeers on another diplomatic
mishap.
>It's nice to know that power and incompetence within the musketeer
hierarchy
>are still bound together.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>From: ----- <jdgbobr@io.com>
>>To: James Frediani <ferpo@netdex.com>
>>CC: g2-list@pbm.com
>>Subject: Re: Ergoth Attack on Annuin/Port Royal
>>Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 12:52:30 -0500 (CDT)
>>
>>
>>
>>On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, James Frediani wrote:
>>
>> > this "faction" was under the influence of the Lords, Cendege [as
>> > was Silas] or Mickey Mao [man-in-the-moon marigolds?].
>>
>>That's Cend_a_ge to you, pally.
>>
>>Fear me! I am involved in everything mishap conceivable in Olympia! I am
>>involved in every castle capture and every aura blast and every research
>>flop! My network is vast! My nobles are everywhere! (I started on turn
>>-120, so you can see the noble points I accumulated before anyone else
>>even started.)
>>
>>*yawn*
>>
>>--jon
>>
>>
>
>
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