MP: Smack - Running

[cupido2]

The Arch Inquisitor is more than annoyed by the foul fumes spreading from the C'tis lands, poisoning the pious countrysides in our west. To add insult to injury C'tis is building temples for their false god as if there was no tomorrow. Marignon will set a fiery end to this polution of both the air and the religion. Teh Bird will smile and we prey for his break-free.

[lwarmonger]

Hey now, not very nice Marignon. It isn't our fault that your people like the pleasant musk coming from our prime wetlands and wish to devote significant portions of their income to expanding it. Perhaps you should build temples of your own to compete... unless your amusing faith in a giant turkey has left you too poor perhaps?

[cupido2]

As we saw in battle the foul stench is not the only thing the dwellers of C'tis like. We don't want to know what the people do with those snakes when they are lonely at night. All we know is, that the Knights of the Chalice will root out this nest of abberate sodomites in the name of Teh Bird and that the inquisitors will teach the poor mislead people how, when and with whom they have to consummate marriage.

[lwarmonger]

Your people will die in great numbers at our armies hand. Disease shall afflict your soldiers and lay waste to your lands. Your rivers will darken and turn to poison and your crops will wither in their fields. The lands of Marignon will become a wasteland and you will rue the day when you launched your unprovoked attack upon the peaceful lizard people of Ctis.

[lwarmonger]

And now Machaka jumps in, violating our Non-aggression Pact without so much as a word. If anyone should attack either Machaka or Marignon, I can assure them that those two nations are quite engaged at the moment, and will be for some time. Defensively my armies are quite powerful, and more than capable of holding them off while death and disease are spread among their civilians.

[jimkehn]

Don't forget the rules of THIS game were that agreements were meaningless.

[lwarmonger]

That is true of all games, however since Machaka so heartlessly and ruthlessly betrayed poor ctis (and are now quite engaged in what will no doubt turn into a bloody stalemate because of it), it is the perfect time for one of their neighbors to stab them in the back.

[OmikronWarrior]

Originally Posted by lwarmonger

That is true of all games, however since Machaka so heartlessly and ruthlessly betrayed poor ctis (and are now quite engaged in what will no doubt turn into a bloody stalemate because of it), it is the perfect time for one of their neighbors to stab them in the back.

I think the point of this style of game is to be heartless and ruthless. Or in my case, mercenary. The theurgs and legions of Pythium stand by for offers for their services. Also accepting offers to do nothing.

[jimkehn]

Well, I think most games NAPs are meant to be honored. The very first post in this thread states that agreements were to have little or no meaning in THIS game.

[lwarmonger]

Well, almost everything I have money and gem wise is currently going into fighting my two opponents, even though defensively I remain very strong (as my two opponents are finding out while they sit ineffectually outside my city walls while disease spreads among them). However Pythium must ask itself where easy pickings can be had? It certainly isn't in Ctis, as a victory over me is in many ways just as bad as a defeat (as Machaka and Marignon are finding out... the disease isn't merely spreading among their troops but in their homelands as well... thousands die each day), but in those nations which have denuded their defenses for a maximum effort against me. In the meantime my garrisons within my other cities remain in place and vigilant against sudden attacks.