[Blend]

Khellendros, on 24 February 2015 - 10:40 PM, said:

Gnaw, on 24 February 2015 - 07:22 PM, said:

Khellendros, on 24 February 2015 - 10:40 AM, said:

Hey guys, sorry if you're waiting on me. I'm moving house at the moment, so haven't had much time for, well, anything else. I'll try to check in properly this evening.

Are you moving in with her or she with thee?

Either way, congrats.

Me with her (and another couple - hey, this is central London you know. You need a group if you want to afford more than a shoebox).


I'm afraid you've all talked far too much and I have pages of your devious and despicable negotiations to read through before I can get to my moves. Also I'm super exhausted and actually going to bed at a reasonable hour. Apologies!

I'm both shocked and appalled that you would leave us hanging like this. My word! *fans self*

[Gnaw]

Khellendros, on 24 February 2015 - 10:40 PM, said:

Khellendros, on 24 February 2015 - 10:40 AM, said:

Hey guys, sorry if you're waiting on me. I'm moving house at the moment, so haven't had much time for, well, anything else. I'll try to check in properly this evening. anything she doesn't pre-approve.

Me with her

I'm afraid you've all talked far too much and I have pages of your devious and despicable negotiations to read through before I can get to my moves. Also I'm super exhausted and actually going to bed at a reasonable hour. because she told me to do so. Apologies!

Tattersail_, on 11 January 2015 - 12:13 AM, said:

Tapper syndrome.

The condition that when you meet a new bird and you want to make her feel special, that only her matters and you're not a geek, you half the amount of time you spend on forums, you don't have imaginary friends, and you do cool stuff like dates and hosting parties.

Goodbye Khell. You were once loved. Now your loved... differently

Goodnight and goodbye Khellendros.


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Tonight the Forests will weep as one with the Willows.

[Gnaw]

[cerveza_fiesta]

intercepted encrypted communication from the battlecruiser of UnderChancellor Wekken, to the battlecruiser of UnderChair Varron, in orbit over Aldebran IV:




.......my father believes that my interests lie with his. Deserting him at the official Profession of Formal Challenge ceremony was too funny. He thinks me aloof and incapable of being his heir. He doesn't suspect....


I tell you Varron, with the *hint* I gave your father before the challenge was issued, he should handily defeat my father and our plans to rule shall not be hampered.


[crackle as the subspace radio transceiver switches to receive mode]


Wekken, your father's traits shine stronger in you than you care to believe. Yes, your *hint* was taken well by the Chairman. He told me as much himself. Your father may think you aloof, but *my* father trusts me far too much. He did not see me administer the Arcturian jungle roach venom and it should kill him shortly after he enters his transmogrification in his Battle Rage


When the arena sands settle, neither leader shall be left standing and our petition to the War Council for joint Chairmanship will succeed. Who has the strength to oppose us? The combined wealth of our lineages will defeat all comers.


[another crackle]


Varron when this is done, we won't have to hide our feelings anymore. We won't have to hide the fact that the Mighty ORION are capable of emotion. We will be able to stand atop the corpses of our challengers and tell the UNIVERSE of our love.


[crackle]


calm yourself Weken. We have spoken too long of this already. Less dreaming, more action. I will speak with you when we dock after battle at the end of this cycle.


transmission terminated

This post has been edited by cerveza_fiesta: 25 February 2015 - 04:40 PM

[Blend]

cerveza_fiesta, on 25 February 2015 - 01:25 PM, said:

calm yourself Weken. We have spoken too long of this already. Less dreaming, more action. I will speak with you when we dock after battle at the end of this cycle.

[Khellendros]

Hey guys, really really super sorry, I know I'm being *that* guy. I promise if not tonight then definitely I will have time for this tomorrow.

Just wanted you all to know that of course I'm still thinking of you

[cerveza_fiesta]

Blend, on 25 February 2015 - 05:14 PM, said:

cerveza_fiesta, on 25 February 2015 - 01:25 PM, said:

calm yourself Weken. We have spoken too long of this already. Less dreaming, more action. I will speak with you when we dock after battle at the end of this cycle.

yeah, and if they transmogrify during the battle rage -- you can only imagine what happens during the sexytimes.

[Khellendros]

Blend, on 23 February 2015 - 04:35 PM, said:

D, on 23 February 2015 - 04:23 PM, said:

This is an interesting position. I border (or almost border) on so many people, and I have the potential to accrue so much income and resources, but with each disc put down or used as an action costing so much it would take me until round 4 or 5 to actually influence and colonize all the spaces I want... and that's with only spending research on Advanced things but not military research. Naturally, no one is going to leave me alone that long. So do I try and scrap together resources and tech to resist, slowing my production gains? Or do I just try and colonize/influence as much as possible and let the systems that get attacked be destroyed? I guess there's a third option of trying to schmooz into an alliance so I don't face so many threats on all sides, too. Hmmmmm.

I'm on the fence right now about whether or not I want to suggest an alliance with you.

I figure if I've got your Ancient Highway protecting one side of my galaxies, I could flood through Khell's backdoor and potentially remove him as one of the thorns in your side. You'd still have a bunch of others to worry about, but I could still be a useful alliance member to have.

But then, there's the general rule of 'stomp D'rek and Twelve' which I should keep in mind. Hmmmmmmmmmm.....

If I don't ally with you, and don't go after Khell, I think I'm eventually going to want/need one or two of the hexes to the south of me that you currently have influenced.

Blend, my friend, it seems to me that every other post of yours over the last few pages has involved some variation of "going through Khell's territory."

I think you need a history lesson. Trying to hit me early doors has never worked. I'm like Russia in winter - a cold, inhospitable region which will suck the life out of you. Gnaw tried it. CF tried it. They gained a little, and then lost a lot. And sure, sure, maybe afterwards I wasn't the world power I used to be, but it took them several rounds to recover, if they ever even arguably did.

So why don't you go play with your little ancient friends and I won't stomp all over you. Do you want to get stuck between me and the ancients? Because that's what will happen, should I deign to look your way.

And what is this conversation I see between you and D'rek? That's who you're considering as your alliance partner? The person whose hexes you can't even pass through without having to fight something anyway? Moreover, someone who will always put their own chances of winning above the sacred AND sacrosanct bond of the alliance? Make no mistake, an alliance at this point would benefit D'rek far more than it would you.

Imperial Historian, on 23 February 2015 - 06:02 PM, said:

Khell are you open to involvement with a smush d'rek early plan? You could easily take either one ancient hex with conifold hull on one of your cruisers.

I am currently amenable to many courses of action and have not ruled anything out. But for now...

RESEARCH Research Station Development.

Sorry Tatts my Magellan cousin, I know you wanted this. But my Magellan heart is, quite literally, made of stone.

This post has been edited by Khellendros: 26 February 2015 - 05:59 PM

[Khellendros]

I'm also quite surprised to see talk of alliances happening so early. I had presumed it would happen quite a bit later this game.

[Tattersail_]

Was that part of your plan, the station?

Or was it something you only realised you could grab now?

Surely you'd want me to be a problem this side of the board? By taking that your effectively putting me in a weak position which in turn frees up the Orion to become a force

[Khellendros]

Tattersail_, on 26 February 2015 - 04:59 PM, said:

Was that part of your plan, the station?

Or was it something you only realised you could grab now?

Surely you'd want me to be a problem this side of the board? By taking that your effectively putting me in a weak position which in turn frees up the Orion to become a force

It was one of two things I'd been considering since the start of the round, but now I think it might be just about possible to squeeze in both. We'll see.

As for that, with IH on one side, D'rek on the other, and Blend saying mean things to me through the warp portal, you can perhaps see how what Orion is doing on the other side of the board is currently of least concern to me. I am sorry, I know you could have used it. This is just another game where we have the misfortune not to be side by side. Otherwise I would have proposed an alliance with you straight off

[Tattersail_]

I passed for the sole reason of grabbing that development next round. I checked every players board to make sure no one could swipe it.

Then you happened, o saboteur.

Well played.

Honestly though I reckon that's game over for me. I'll obviously not give up trying but I'm not going to be able to take on the ancient homeworld until a much later round.

[Tattersail_]

Ever since the mistake on hex draws early on I've had bad luck.

Now to try and develop a new strategy.

[twelve]

So no reaction from you Tatts?

Well I might as well put my action in even if it's a provisional. After much thought and debate (with the voices in my head) after the conversation with D'rek. I've opted to delay the assault on the ancients in the hopes and prayers that I can get something useful from the discovery tiles.

Move. one interceptor to the nebula next to Gnaw.

Move. one interceptor to the nebula next to Pollux.

[Gnaw]

twelve, on 26 February 2015 - 05:18 PM, said:

So no reaction from you Tatts?

Well I might as well put my action in even if it's a provisional. After much thought and debate (with the voices in my head) after the conversation with D'rek. I've opted to delay the assault on the ancients in the hopes and prayers that I can get something useful from the discovery tiles.

Move. one interceptor to the nebula next to Gnaw.

Move. one interceptor to the nebula next to Pollux.

The nebula subsection next to my interceptor?

[D'rek]

twelve, on 26 February 2015 - 05:18 PM, said:

So no reaction from you Tatts?

Well I might as well put my action in even if it's a provisional. After much thought and debate (with the voices in my head) after the conversation with D'rek. I've opted to delay the assault on the ancients in the hopes and prayers that I can get something useful from the discovery tiles.

Move. one interceptor to the nebula next to Gnaw.

Move. one interceptor to the nebula next to Pollux.

After all that talk about attacking the ancient imminently?! Sheesh what an anticlimax!

Gnaw, on 26 February 2015 - 05:33 PM, said:

twelve, on 26 February 2015 - 05:18 PM, said:

So no reaction from you Tatts?

Well I might as well put my action in even if it's a provisional. After much thought and debate (with the voices in my head) after the conversation with D'rek. I've opted to delay the assault on the ancients in the hopes and prayers that I can get something useful from the discovery tiles.

Move. one interceptor to the nebula next to Gnaw.

Move. one interceptor to the nebula next to Pollux.

The nebula subsection next to my interceptor?

Has to be. That's the only reasonable interpretation that is a legitimate move.

[D'rek]

Well then.

MOVe
--Interceptor from Pollux up into the Nebula
--Interceptor from Castor to the GC

[D'rek]

CF's turn. I don't think he has left a provisional?

[twelve]

Gnaw, on 26 February 2015 - 05:33 PM, said:

twelve, on 26 February 2015 - 05:18 PM, said:

So no reaction from you Tatts?

Well I might as well put my action in even if it's a provisional. After much thought and debate (with the voices in my head) after the conversation with D'rek. I've opted to delay the assault on the ancients in the hopes and prayers that I can get something useful from the discovery tiles.

Move. one interceptor to the nebula next to Gnaw.

Move. one interceptor to the nebula next to Pollux.

The nebula subsection next to my interceptor?

Yes. The tier III nebula you discovered with the one unclaimed discovery tile with the wormhole connections adjacent to the section where your interceptor is located.

[Gnaw]

twelve, on 26 February 2015 - 06:06 PM, said:

Gnaw, on 26 February 2015 - 05:33 PM, said:

twelve, on 26 February 2015 - 05:18 PM, said:

So no reaction from you Tatts?

Well I might as well put my action in even if it's a provisional. After much thought and debate (with the voices in my head) after the conversation with D'rek. I've opted to delay the assault on the ancients in the hopes and prayers that I can get something useful from the discovery tiles.

Move. one interceptor to the nebula next to Gnaw.

Move. one interceptor to the nebula next to Pollux.

The nebula subsection next to my interceptor?

Yes. The tier III nebula you discovered with the one unclaimed discovery tile with the wormhole connections adjacent to the section where your interceptor is located.

I would politely request that you not do that. Stick to the two in the nebula you discovered.