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kcbob
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Kansas City, MO USA
Dec 1999
time: 23:12
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Here we go. We forgot to decide on one thing, though. Our starting civilization. I hope you all don't mind but I exercised the author's perogative, so to speak, and chose the Sioux. I mainly did that because I hate to play against the Mongol.
Anyway:
1. kcbob (kcbob49@hotmail.com & robert.a.sorter@dfas.mil)
2. John-SJ (jdulleck@pacbell.net)
3. Roman (lajciak@hotmail.com)
4. thoth (dv685@ncf.ca)
5. Julius (julius.brenzaida@infomaniak.ch)
6. Scouse Gits (git1@scousers.net; git2@scousers.net)
7. Ribannah (broeder@bart.nl)
8. DaveV (dave_v9@yahoo.com)
Summary is as follows:
In the beginning, there were two nomads, cast upon a strange land. In a vision, one of them saw three great cities. A great emerald city named Zimbabwe, a deep sapphire blue city named Berlin, and a city as orange as the fiery sunset called Athens.
Upon receiving the vision, the two nomads, Ben and Jerry, decided to found their own cities so as better to protect their loved ones, market their goods, and flourish as one nation. To that end, Little Bighorn was begun. The people were joyous as the site Ben had chosen for there were great fishes called Jonah Swallowers off the coast.
In due time after 50 winters, it was agreed to have a meeting of the people. At the first city council meeting, it was decided to learn how to read and write, for cuneiform reading is a lost art these days. At the same time, Jerry announced that he, too, would found a city. Being slow of foot, it took him another 50 winters to get organized but eventually, Wounded Knee was founded to the west of Little Bighorn.
Some people were fearful as to the close proximity with which Wounded Knee was located but Jerry calmed the people with another vision. Using letters from the partially completed Alphabet research, he began chanting, “I…C…S, I…C…S”. Had only he been given the vision after the Alphabet had been completely researched, who knows what other letters he might have been given in vision?
100 winters later, upon successful completion of the Alphabet, Ben and Jerry both passed away. It was decided to learn the tradition of Ceremonial Burial so as to honor these two noble nomads from the north. Granted, the cities they had founded were in the south but then, no one as yet knew how to read a compass.
As if to carry on in spirit, a warrior was born in Little Bighorn. Where the winds might carry him is not know at this time. And to assist him, it was decided to train another nomad, a settler if you will. In the meantime, a watchful eye was again cast to the visions and behold, a city as bright as the full moon, Moscow, was perceived.
The future is bright, the world is ours if only we’ll take it. Onward and upward. (There’s that compass thing again)
Go get 'em John-SJ.
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Frodo lives!
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John-SJ
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Silicon Valley, USA
Aug 1999
time: 21:12
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Game received.
I played the turns tonight. Not much activity.
When I became the new chief of our tribe in 3800 bc. I decided to send our lone warrior out to explore nearby lands so that when future tribesmen decide to found new tribes we could send them off with some knowledge of their surroundings. I oversaw the creation of a new warrior at Wounded Knee and sent him out as well. Now both cities are working toward building settlers so that our tribe may expand. And there is talk in the wind, new talk, about cermonial burial. But I have not seen this wonderful invention yet, and now it appears my successor will be the first to witness this discovery. I pass the succession in the year 3550 bc.
Now it is up to Roman.
John-SJ
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Roman
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Bratislava, Slovakia
Sep 2000
time: 05:12
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Finally the epidemic was cured and Roman took over the reigns of power.
The wariors continued their exploration duties, but then a disaster struck. The rapid population growth of our nation caused overcrowding in both of our mighty cities. Hence, much population in each had to be diverted to entertaining the masses, until the wariors could be brought back to keep order among the populace.
This delay in exploration promises to be only temporary, though, as the two cities carry on training new nomadic groups to get rid of the excess population. Only the next leader will have the joys of expanding our tribe's hunting grounds, though. After a biblical life-span Roman finally retired from power, but not before he oversaw the development of ceremonial burial, which will serve to provide respectful resting places to all deceased leaders so that their souls don't torment the living. Roman writing is neccessary as the next cultural advance to enhance our abilities to record the history of the tribe.
Roman's heir - Thoth, will now acquire the responsibility for the tribe's development.
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John-SJ
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Silicon Valley, USA
Aug 1999
time: 21:12
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Thanks for the heads up Roman. I will check out this viruas problem after work today. I'm a little surprised by this actually, I have Norton always enabled and I do an auto-update of virus definitions once per week. It'll be interesting to see how this slipped by. Glad there was no harm done to your machine Roman.
John-SJ
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Albert B
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Indianapolis, IN USA
Dec 2000
time: 05:12
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First, I would like to say thanks to those who have played so far, the naratives make it fun to follow along even though I'm not playing.
Next, to Roman, you can create zip files with winzip. If you use the 'classic view', you should have a "New" button in the left corner of the toolbar or you can click "File/New Archive". The program will prompt you for a name for the new zip file and then prompt you for the name of the file(s) to add. You can either type the path and name or browse to find the files and add them. If you use the wizard interface, the second or third screen should have an option to 'create a new zip file'. If you choose that, it will again prompt for a zip file name and then ask for the name/location of the file(s) to add. Lastly, if you are still having problems, check the help files, they are pretty useful.
Anyway, I'll stop cluttering this post with my babble and just look forward to more entertaining accounts of the trials and tribulations of this soon to be great Sioux civilization.
Albert B
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Roman
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Bratislava, Slovakia
Sep 2000
time: 05:12
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quote:
Originally posted by Albert B on 02-22-2001 07:55 AM
Next, to Roman, you can create zip files with winzip. If you use the 'classic view', you should have a "New" button in the left corner of the toolbar or you can click "File/New Archive". The program will prompt you for a name for the new zip file and then prompt you for the name of the file(s) to add. You can either type the path and name or browse to find the files and add them. If you use the wizard interface, the second or third screen should have an option to 'create a new zip file'. If you choose that, it will again prompt for a zip file name and then ask for the name/location of the file(s) to add. Lastly, if you are still having problems, check the help files, they are pretty useful.
Albert B
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Tks., Albert B, it does indeed work. I have been ignorant  of the powers of winzip all these years...
BTW: I received the intermmediate game files. Tks. Our situation doesn't seem to be the best ever, but is perhaps good compared to the AI.
[This message has been edited by Roman (edited February 23, 2001).]
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John-SJ
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Silicon Valley, USA
Aug 1999
time: 21:12
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Another cool WinZip feature. If you open Windows Explorer and navigate to the directory containing the save file, right-click on the file and one of the menu options will be "Zip and E-Mail This File", it will create a zip file with the same name as the zipped file, open Outlook Express and add the zipped file as an attachment. This may only work with WinZip 8, not sure about earlier versions.
John-SJ
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21-02-2001 09:03
Way to go guys! Up and at 'em, Thoth!
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