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Skeeve
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Washington Township, NJ USA
Mar 2001
time: 00:14
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A CHRONICLE OF THE REIGN OF SKEEVE III
- 1350 - Young Skeeve ascends to power over the newly formed Republic of Australia. His first act is to repeal the prohibition on alcohol and a huge party is initiated across the land. Unfortunately, this leads to quite a few drunken accidents, so Skeeve declares that there should be a drinking age. However, since this is a republic, he has to put it to vote in the Senate. The Senate agrees to meet 5 years from now.
- 1355 - After the parties die down, one of our longships runs aground on the shore of a tiny island and the crew becomes castaways. The new village they form is called "Castaway". (Being a little hung-over from all the partying, they couldn't come up with a very original name).
- 1360 - 5 years late, the Senate finally meets to discuss Skeeve's proposal of a drinking age. Skeeve suggests that 21 is a reasonable age. The Senate votes it down 99-1. The bill is revised and then passes 71-29. The new effective drinking age is 7.
- 1365 - While doing a survey of the Army, Skeeve realizes that the readiness of the army is at peacetime level!!
 After accusing some of his military advisors of treason he raises readiness to wartime level. (After all, we're at war with the British)
- 1370 - Skeeve addresses the Nation. He informs them that back when he began his rule, the country was researching Concrete. However, he changed it to Ocean Faring but forgot to tell everyone. He is quoted as saying; "Well, now I've told you, so don't give me any of your lip!". Skeeve's approval ratings sinks to a new low. (Apparently, the Party's over now).
- 1375 - Just a bunch of exploring and shuffling troops around.
- 1380 - A group of hooligans from Darkabode leave to form their own city. Unfortunately, their journey will take about 40 years... and who knows where they'll end up.
- 1385 - Well, that rots. A group of Barbarians just murdered a troop of our archers. The news travels slow, however, apparently this happened about 15 years ago.
- 1390 - Skeeve's Scientists discover the secret of Ocean Faring! Kind of strange though, when you think about it. We've been sailing around the world for decades now...
- 1395 - Although we've been officially at war with England, not a drop of blood has been shed on either side while Skeeve has been in power. It seems that the two nations are a little bit indifferent to each other right now. The Australians breath a sigh of relief because the latest intelligence data indicates that they can WHIP OUR A**!
- 1400 - Incredibly, Skeeve is abducted by a UFO and he is never seen again. There are many witnesses, but even more curious, all witnesses who are above the age of 60 report that the UFO looked just like Gazablanca's Tomb....
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Immortal Wombat
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in perpetuity
Dec 2000
time: 05:14
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Noooo, just about to post. Sorry guys 
Hopefully this will be better than my usual shoddy posts though...
The reign of Wombat the Not-Quite-So-Immortal
- 1450 - The new consul of the Australian republic takes a half-decade to look around his country and explore the possibilities that the future may hold. Troops are arranged, and longboats are ordered home from the outskirts of the world.
- 1455 - The good ship Porpoise (or was it Starfish?) exploring the English coastline finds a city named Canterbury. Gossips on board tell a story about a bishop brutally murdered at Canterbury on the orders of the king. Sceptics point out that Cathedrals do not exist in this universe, as the demi-God Activision replaced them with basilicas since Universion1.
- 1460 - Wombat accepts a map exchange with Indonesia, and we can see all their territory. The good ship Starfish (or is it Porpoise?) is sent to investigate further. Annoyed at the inability to remember which longship is named what, Wombat seeks a solution to the problem...
Loads of Public works are spend. Farms for Apolyton, mines for Jonnyopolis and Aargh! and Xpertland are made into trade and science centres with the completion of numerous trading posts around the cities.
- 1465 - We discover Theology! As the Zulus have completed the East India Company this year, Wombat pretends that he planned for this, intending to switch production to the Hagia Sofia when theology was discovered. His advisors draw straws over who will tell him that the Hagia Sofia was built in Greece before we even knew how to. Wombat decides it would be imprudent to execute the advisor who drew the short straw. Later in the year, his advisors draw straws over who will inform the Consul that the city Apolyton was taken by a group of barbarians archers on horseback. The same advisor draws the short straw. Wombat executes him. Then he dispatches a longboat with a pair of knights on board to recover the city and surrounding farmland.
- 1470 - Aargh! is now the greatest science city in Australia and the people are happy.
During a quiet period of history, Wombat has time to think, and is rewarded by a flash of inspiration  regarding the navy problem. He renames all longships in the Navy to the "Wombat". Then whatever ship does something, he can refer to it by name.
- 1475 - Jonnyopolis begins building a caravan. New South Jonnyopolis begins building an arena. Another quiet time, and Wombat spends his days reading up on military history and tactics, especially those of the greats - Sun Tzu, Eisenhower and Skeeve.
- 1480 - Young builds a new longship, and at the grand launching ceremony, Wombat smashes a bottle of pre-Prohibition champagne against the hull and names it the "Wombat". The ships maiden voyage is a trip to Xpertland to collect some knights due for transfer southwards.
Castaway rush-buys an arena to appease the people's yearning for the capitol.
- 1485 - We discover concrete, but we are not the first to find this wonderous building material and do not acheive the feat of wonder. We aim for classical education in the hopes that universities will be able to teach our children a love of learning. Xpertland builds a longship, and again, it is named the "Wombat". The government has completely run out of pre-Prohibition champagne however, and so the ship is launched unceremoniously by a bunch of smelly fisherman.
A knight and catapult division board the ship and head southwards.
Meanwhile, in England, two knights land near Manchester as part of a sneaky diplomatic policy by Wombat. He meekly offers an exchange of cities - Aargh! for Manchester. Historians note the similarity between this and an ancient military tactic known as the Wombat manouver. The media brand Wombat a revisiting hero from the past. Scholars brand him a copy-cat.]
The English reject his 'generous' proposal, perhaps noticing the stack of greek units outside Aargh!...
Despite being plyed with gold, and threatened by the knights outside Manchester, desperatly waiting to "reduce the city to rubble", the English reject all attempts at an Australian wombat manouver, and Wombat is disheartened. Desperate to be a military hero, Wombat attempts the same trick with four other nations. None listen to his pleas and he is rejected in all talks.
Wishing to make good his threat, Wombat orders New Zealand to produce Samurai "until they are coming out of your ears". Citizens there try hard, but reckon a maximum of one every five years is all they can manage. A longship is despatched to collect them.
- 1490 - Wombat is becoming senile, and forgets names easily, mystics blame it on shoddy note-taking, but no-one knows what they are talking about. Some city called Gaza something starts to build a settler to colonise the western end of the island.
- 1495 - In his final years as consul, Wombat disproves the 'Donut World' theory once and for all, as the good ship Wombat finds no N-S passage; only a new continent, named Antarctica, and already a popular tourist destination, what with Pilfur's tomb being found there and the incident with the pink penguins
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Wombat then retires from Consulship, leaving the senate looking for a new leader. He heads for his retirement home in the mountains, but only makes it to the foothills before suffering a heart attack. He recuperates in a nearby village, but cannot hope to reach his mountain retirement home. After more years of senility, he passes away, but is credited with the first diagrams of how to make working cable cars...
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Immortal Wombat
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in perpetuity
Dec 2000
time: 05:14
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quote:
Originally posted by Sean
Wombat,
As you and Darkknight swapped turns, the game file is supposed to come to me now (from you, instead of DK)...yet I do not have it yet...
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Sean, BerXpert and DK swapped turns, with me in the middle I think, or something, so BerXpert missed his turn earlier, and had to play after me to allow DK the chance to play before me, so now the file can go to you...
Sorry Gaza, I just completely forgot what your wonderful city was called, I had only noted it as Gaza, and I didn't want to get it wrong, so I went senile. 
Welcome back David 
Dare I ask why you were banned? 
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David Murray
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The trials and tribulations of Consul Murray
1600: An ambitious young member of the Austrlian Consul, David Murray, is granted leadership of the Australians through the vote of the upper-class, male, non-slave population. (Ahh, the joys of early democracy.) Desperate to increase national productivity, he immediately raises the working day to 14 hours. (Owch!)
1605: There is exploration and troop movement.
1610: New infantrymen are commissioned in New Zealand. Infantrymen production is added as addendum to most of the cities' production queues, in place of the some of the worthless civic improvements that were there originally.
1615: Naval units retreat from the English coast, awaiting more infantrymen reinforcements. Rooville starts work on a fire trireme to protect the vulnerable longships.
1620: There is much troop movement this turn.
1625: Troops on English land are massacred by English cannons.
1630: Indonesia beings work on the emancipation act. "Lilly-livered liberals!" rants Consul Murray, an avowed Republican and compassionate conservative. 
1635: Shaka Zulu constructs Gallileo's telescope.
1640: Printing press found. We start work on the agricultural revolution. The Consul passes away gently, to a huge sigh of relief from the now-outlawed opposition "Democratic Party". 
So basically, all I have managed to do is start to kickstart our nation into war again. We have new units coming out and we will need then to beat the tough English. 
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09-07-2001 15:05
....and my tomb being hurled in the sea.....what an act of tyranny.......
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