History of the World 2 - IV

[The Capo]

Paris, Adriatic League...

The parade was the most glorious in any Adriatic city since the ascention of the late Dictator Benito Mussolini in Venice so long ago. Things were different now, Mussolini was long dead and Venice was now Israeli. Large groups of people have amassed to see SunTzu march galliantly into his new capital of Paris, most of them were there to boo and throw vegetables at the man. Finally trumpets and drums were heared far off in the distance as Adriatic soldiers carrying the standards of their various garrisons came marching through, armed to the teeth. Tanks and Howitzers were rode in next, followed by more and more troops, it was quite a show of power for the newly arriving dictator. Finally a large float was constructed with a statue of SunTzu on it, in a small seat underneath was the new leader...

He was a scrawny man of Israeli descent. However the Asian blood found from his family's Chinese and Mongolian excursions could been seen easily. Instead of boo the crowd just sat there, look at this guy! He wasn't European! What is this?!?! Finally the trumpets stopped, the troops stopped moving and the vehicles all came to a halt, the new leader stood up and asked "What is going on, why have we stopped? Where are the trumpets?!?!"

Just then one of the soldiers got out of his formation and approached SunTzu "General SunTzu, my name is Private Antonio DeNucci."

"Soldier, what are you doing!?!" barked the dictator "You have your orders!"

"Sir, many many many years ago my great grandfather joined the Adriatic Military to further his legal career, he and his family had always been petty farmers in Greece..."

"Soldier, you have your orders. Men seize this man!" none of the other soldiers moved...

"He was stationed in the Uzbek mountains on a march towards Mongolia where he was to meet with several Israelite detachments, several allied detachments, to invade Mongolia and help get Israel some much needed territory. Territory that Israel is looking for like savages to this day. My father's garrison arrived in a small town south of Aleppo, a Mongolian city in Tibet. Do you know what happened when he got there?"

"Soldier you are out of line."

"Israelis and Mongols laughing and talking, eating together, they massacred the Adriatic garrison that believed Israel to be their great allies. But see some maniac named SunTzu wrested control from the peaceful Dimbleby. This maniac, SunTzu and his troops massacred my fellow Adriatics way back when killing my great grandfather. Luckily he had already had my grandfather, or else I'd be dead today, unfortunantly for you though he did have my grandfather... so that you" he pulled out a pistol and pulled the hammer back "would be dead tomorrow...."

BLAM! BLAM!

[The Capo]

Ugh, I hate doing this all the time...

I had a long talk with Drake this morning, and we discussed the entire situation and he made a lot of good points to me.

While I still feel that my position is the correct position, I handled the incident like a child. I made rash decisions and then attempted to belittle others because I was pissed off. That's not a good thing and I apologize for it.

Drake said I can come back in the game and take over for the Adriatic League, which I'll be more than glad to do. If anyone has a problem with me go ahead and say it, I'll either address it or realize that this is not my place. So I guess I'm asing if I can play again.

[drake]

Obviously Capo knows this isn't my game, and my go ahead isn't the end all of any discussion.

But here's why I want the Capo back. I want Capo back because he is the best player for the position. He is the founder of this game and one of the best diplo players at apolyton easily. He is very dedicated to this game, despite what anyone might say. I know this because even after he was kicked out/quit the game, he was still talking to me about the in-game politics.

I won't discuss Capo's personal life because it's not my place, but the guy has been under some extreme stress lately. This doesn't excuse his behaviour last week as he's already pointed out, but it does give me an idea why he acted so harshly.

It's over and done with now, but I feel as though Capo was justified in asking that we go back a bit to try and rectify the game bug. It wasn't much to ask and we restarted several times during the night for other game technical issues (deity getting disconnected). It wasn't Deitys fault that he got booted and we restarted without question. We very easily could have had a vote and said "play on", but we didn't. Now it wasn't Capo's fault the game had a bug in it and screwed him out of the gold. All we had to do was just say "ok, lets just restart quick". But we didn't. And even though Capo may have blown things out of proportion and been overly dramatic, I do think he was right to ask us to try and right the wrong.

Anyway, lets not dwell on the past. Capo has told me that he will try and be a little calmer () in future situations. He IS the Adriatic League and he admits that he is wrong. Though I know he will probably be met with some opposition, I feel as though we should forgive and forget. What is important here is the GAME. It doesn't matter if you like capo, or hate capo. He's the best person for this country right now and will do the position the most justice.

Finally, I think everyone gives Capo a hard time. He gets sh1t from everyone because he isn't afraid to speak his mind. Though he may offend people at times, he is always honest and genuine. There are times I'd love to kick the Capo in the sack cuz he pisses me off, but most of the time he's very calm and collective. He's a true history and geography buff and adds the most realistic history based narrative to our game. This is important as this still is a diplomatic game and requires participation, both in game, in posts and negotiations.

I might be wrong, and you can all yell at me if I am, but I think we'd be makinga good choice by taking Capo back.

[The Capo]

Outside of Venice....

DISCLAIMER: There will be some graphic and anti-semitic vocabulary in this post, none of it is the sentiments of the writer but meant as a way to show the severity of the situation. Thank you.

"Enzo Pagniacci, at your service." said the young officer to Antonion DeNucci, the man who spearheaded the resistance movement.

"Ahh your father was the epitome of an Adriatic General, I'm sorry to hear of his passing." said DeNucci.

"Yes well, he died happy I'm sure. Defending his nation's capital to the last..."

"Yes, well, now is the time to make sure he did not die in vain. Those f*cking ****s will all be executed for this." said DeNucci as he pulled out a map of the city.

"From what our spies have told us the main Israelite garrisons are holed up here and here" he said pointing to the map. "The Colossus has been damaged heavily by the way..."

"Those Jew bastards!"

"Yes, indeed. We won't have Zulu assistance initially as previously believed, they are handling the political area of the resistance and for them to launch a full-scale counterstrike at this time would be ridiculous." said Pagniacci as he rolled the map up and put it back.

"Well Enzo, how's Klamens been?" said DeNucci speaking of Klamens Metternich.

"He's doing just fine, he'll be healed up in no time. He's staying in Amsterdam right now, the town's still quite lovely." replied Pagniacci.

The tent flaps opened and in walked a very beautiful woman in a corporal's uniform. The two men stared blankly until DeNucci said "Corporal um, Alessi I presume?"

"Yes, let's be frank here though, what type of excuse is this for a second rate operation?" she said with a smile "You may call me Adriana."

"We-" DeNucci was interrupted.

"Adriana, the pleasure is all mine." said Pagniacci as he took her hand and kissed it, she quickly pulled it away.

"I don't know how you greet your other superior officers but this will end now." she said sternly "Now what have you boys prepared for me?"

They pulled out all of the maps, Venice, Israel, the Balkans, Greece, even the Ural Mountains. All of the areas they thought they'd need to handle...

"Well, it seems as if though everything is in order. Are our lines of supply still in-tact?" asked Coporal Alessi.

"Yes Ma'am, we hope for some Zulu, possibly Chinese support. But in order to get that anytime soon we might have to support the Marxist movement." replied DeNucci.

"No we can't do that, this must be an Adriatic operation. So far we have every reason to believe Australia may join the fray, we must prepare for that. At this time however the retrieval of our territory in the Balkans is our foremost concern. For some un-Godly reason Mongolia thinks that they have natural rights to the Urals, which is beyond me, that's been Adriatic territory since the dawn of time. We're going to need defenses there as well. This whole thing is going to cost an arm and a leg. Is our treasury fit for this type of operation?" asked Corporal Alessi.

"We are not sure, we have yet to consolidate our funds. We don't know how much money Tzu pumped into Mongolia and Israel for peace. So at this juncture we just aren't sure." replied Pagniacci.

"Diplomatic avenues are being sought, they'll probably fail. Mainly we need everything we lost to be returned gentlemen, either by the pen or by the sword. Now I have a pressing meeting in Amsterdam. Hopefully we'll be dining in the old Palace of Venice by winter's end. Arrivaderchi...." said Alessi.

[belinda9]

ORRY I POSTED THIS IN THE WRONG FASHION

"Hakeem!"

The rotund gentleman with the bushy black mustache came striding into the room where Hakeem sat amongst the large pillows. Heavy tapestries over the open archways made the roomily gloomily dim, even though the sun baked the outside courtyards. Hakeem put down his pipe and stood up to greet the newcomer.

"Senator Ari" They embraced " the news is not good, I am afraid. Madame Tuwanda has not regained consciousness and the doctors fear she will not live through the night."

Ari wrung his hands. "This is the worst possible timing! We have an uneasy peace at best and only Tuwanda has been able to keep the Senate focused into any kind of unity! If she dies..."

"Yes, united in a effort to keep her from embroiling us in conflict with the Euroeans even as she talks peace! Was it not only through OUR efforts that we are at peace with Europe?"

"In that case, yes, Hakeem, but it is Tuwanda who has always spoken for us with Jula Kamma, and to good effect so far! and consider...if Tuwanda dies, YOU, as Majority leader, become president until the election can be organized. Do you not see the sabre-rattling from the Zulus? How do you intend to juggle peace between Israeli and Zulu if it comes to that? The Israelis are our ally; even after all that brouhaha the zealots there tried to make over who had and who had not converted! Under the terms of alliance, we would be honor-bound to fight the Zulus in defense of Israel! Hakeem, we don't really want to do that, do we?"

"We will have to see what comes, Ari. We will call the Senate to session when we know....about Tuwanda. She is old, Ari. I am afraid she will not be able to fight off this infection. I am concerned about certain factions in the Senate if we no longer have the mediating influence of Madame Tuwanda. You know the AfricanNational party has been stirring things up amongst the populace along the Nile and southern coast. Those are the people, Ari, who do not want to see a Zulu/Mali conflict. They gained three more seats in the last election, as you recall, and they have done nothing but agitate since then! They shot down your budget proposals because you wanted to pull money from the defense budget!"

Ari bridled. "To put towards education! Malis must keep up with the rest of world in technology; how are we to do that if we pour all our resources to the military? I can't believe they actually managed to swing enogh votes from our own party!"

"Precisely my point, Ari. We must ride rein on these hothead AfricanNationals. Come, sit and wait with me. We will share a pipe and pray for Madame Tuwanda. May Allah have mercy on her"
"Even if she was a lousy Muslim." Ari mumbled under his breath.

[Rasputin]

"so you see Bob, the world is listening to the lies being spread and we are all alone again,"

"Yes propoganda rules I am afraid. The Israelis have spoken only truth during all the wars with the AL. of course our war was never really with the people of Europe , but more with there erratic leaders. They claim we are on a land grab. Of course we are. We had a civilisation with but 17 provinces and even with all our warring and deaths or Israeli lives we are still the smallest nation in the world. "

"but what of the allegations being made of palns to invade Mongolia"

"ahh more propganda i am afraid. The AL andZulu are desperate to isolate us from the world. Even though we are smallest in all the world, they are scared of attacking us if we have an ally"

"so that is why they have made a separate peace with the mali then ?"

"yes, they have isloated us from the one friend we thought we had. We had placed our entire trust in them. Without them unfortuantly we are history. We cannot stand alone agaisnt the combined forces of AL and Zulus, even with the Mali it would be hard, but without them , I would say Israel will no longer function."

"But surely the mali will fight with us"

"I can not guarantee that. They didnt even tell us of their peace with Zulus, it was out ambaassader in their palace who reprted the speeches of their leaders that we found out they have made separate peace. I cant bleeive it. We had the oppurtunity to wipe out all Mali and we shoed grace and mercy and fought the AL to get their citys back for them. And now this. We need support and we may not get any."

"will we survive Bob"

"We have dug all the troops in along the front lines, we expect the Zulu mobile brigade to attack fiercly and fast, they have the capabilty to cause much loss of life, especially as it now seems the mali may not assist us. It seems we may have walked into the biggest trap ever. We trusted the mali implicetly, and now a change of government may cause them to break the allaince with us and move to Zulus. That would be the end for us."

"So what are we going to do"

"If the mali break the allaince or jsut refuse to help. which is same thing, we will contact the Australains to come to our aid with peacekeeping forces. It will cost us all of our gains in recent times and possible more. We are already the smalelst nation, the loss of all that territory will mean it wont be worth running Israel as a nation. We will probalby just ask Australia to run us as a puppet governemnt of theirs. "

"So this could be the end of Israel"

"Yes I think it is . We have done what we felt was right by the world and now the world has turned on us . I cant get away from the feeling that the assasination of Sun TZu in Paris was aimed wholely and soley at getting Zulu influence in Europe.. They want war no matter what. This has changed the world situation beyond our control. "

"So where to now"

"We will await the response of the Mali to our request for assistance in the coming war, it seems strange that Zulu will make peace with our ally , who we attacked the AL for to get citys for, and yet the the Zulus only want war with us. I just cant get rid of the feeling that we were suckered into all this.

"so wha tif the Mali refuse to answer our delgates"

"we wil ltake that as a sign they have forsaken us, and we will cede all our territory to the Pacific pact and or chinese. "

"This is possibly the last time we meet . so long my old friend"

"Yes so long to you too my friend"

[Rasputin]

Bob in front of Australain Parliament

"I am so glad you accepted my request to allow me to speak in front of all you politicians, especially you President Paul."

Paul just gave a little nod of acknowledgement.

"I am here to speak the Israeli case and to ask humbly for some aid from our former allies. I know in recent history we have had our disagreemnts and many a Israeli leader has done many things the Australians are not happy with. But I have come personaly to allay all your fears. We the Israeli people are wanting peace and to open all our borders to allow all the worlds trade to pass through. We are wanting to end the current situation in Africa and Europe before it becomes too late.
Israel feels that the world cut us off with very little. We had the smallest nation of any by far. In the past history we were promised the lands of India, this was and agreement made to sway Israel from remaining allied with the AL. The Sun Tzu dynasty who ruled Israel back then cost us our reputation for ever by switching sides. Yet since that time the AL has done everything it can to make us switch back, breaking our alliance with the PP. A thing we never did, beleiving two wrongs dont make a right. However due to our erratic leadership the Australains chose to expel us from the PP. The Indian land was apparently not given us as the mongols were enticed to give much land to the Chinese, this maanged to bribe them intop the PP too. However, upon the communists coming to power they left the PP, but retained all the freely given possesions. Still Israel was left with the smallest nation. Faced with this and an agressive nation to our south , controlled by an unruly President A.I , we chose to fight. The AL joined this fight and conquyered many Mali lands. They were not ostracised for this no. We fought on and finally took some extra provinces to allow Israeli expansion. To get peace with Mali, we then traded provinces and further enhanced this by negotiaiting to get 2 Mali provinces back form Zulus. At end of the Mali/Israeli war and after the forming of an alliance between two isolated countries we were still the smallest nation and had only gained two extra provinces over all. A total of 19 Israeli provinces.
Then we were threatened by an agressive AL to our north. With our allys request we retook all AL controlled Mali citys and handed them back to the Mali. During this first AL/Israel war we only gained one more province from AL and the Mali allowed us one more in America. 21 provinces now. Still the smallest .
The AL then offered us peace and even offered for us to attack the Mongols, whom we have never been aggresive against. We said no that at this time the mongols were our allys and we dont fight allys.
The AL took this hard and again went agresive on us. This time we decided it was time to plac ethe Israelis in a better situation, we wanted land. So we took it . At cease fire signing with AL after fall of Venice we had now 27 provinces. Beleive it or not still the smallest nation.
The Zulu nation decided we were a threat to them and anniounced a Jihad agaisnt us. No efforts on our part would apepase them, they demanded from us all AL province we took ,be given to Zulus. As we wanted to use these provinces in negotiations with AL and Sun Tzu descendants we said no. We would only hand them to AL . The Zuluss were furious and started mass propoganda war agsint us. This also included making peace with our ALLy the Mali and isolating us. They then organised the Assasination of Sun Tzu in Paris. This was done as Sun Tzu was leaning towards peace with israel. The Zulus did not want this. They wanted us to be forced to fight on two fronts, with no allys. Our friends the Mongols now distrust us, the Malis have signed peace with our enemies, the Chinese though claiming non alliance are still closely alligned with the communist Zulus.
We think the world will be sad palce if the Israelis are forced back to the postiion they were in with less than our current number of provinces, in fact we find that we couldnt continue as a nation. To prevent this, we beg that Australia accepts our please for Peacekeeping forces between us and the Zulu people. We offer the Australians free access to all our infrastructure and relsise that for the Australians to feel at home they will need to bring Governors for the provinces in Africa. This is agreed to by my people. All we want is the right to share in the worlds riches like all other nations. Not to be targeted by the strongest nation in the world the Zulus and isolated from all others. If we had our ally the Mali and the AL was under Sun Tzu dynasty , we would stand and fight the Zulu on even grounds. but isolated agaisnt two greater nations is beyond even the endeavours of the Israelis.
I leave this place now to allow you to decide the best course for world peace and the future of thje world itself.
Thankyou President Paul"

Paul agian jsut waved i nrecognition of the speeach being finished and waited for Bob to leave before taking his place at the podium .......

[Rasputin]

So how did it go Bob"

"I dont know they havent responded yet"

"But you must have a good guess, will they help us"

"Not sure really, who knows ? Obviously all depnds whether Israel is a part of the big picture or just a smudge to be wiped out"

"They have to realise that we are desperate"

"I am not sure they do. Its hard to get across the emotion within all us Israelis. They may just listen to the propoganda. The Zulus have shown they are full of it"

"Yes they are definatley full of it!!"

"Well , whatever."

"So what now , what are those maps you looking at"

"Well if worst comes to worst , I am making escape plans for all the governors and their families. I dont want them being caught up in the bloodshed. I have organised tranports to be off the coast of all Israeli citys. As soon as I give the word. We will extradite all the administrators. There are plenty of lovely islands off the coast here for us to live quite happily on."

"very good, but who will lead the defence then."

"I am leaving Field Marsholl Otto Van Bismark in charge. He is freshly promoted from our amalgamation of the Germanic tribes in Europe. He fought well agaisnt the AL and he is very arrogant. He talks as if he thinks we can win."

"Foolish talk, doesnt he see the odds agaisnt us?"

"Yes but he beleives he has a plan. He has received reports of the Zulu and AL armies strenghts and beleives they are not as hardened as our Israeli troops. What he doesnt realise is that nothing can defend agaisnt the might of the Ralfitzers. (I think the enemy refer to them as Howtizers though) We have veteren defenders in all provinces, but even they wont wthstand. But Field Marsholl Von Bismark wants the challenge , so good luck to him. Me and my family will be sunbaking on the shores of this island here. "He pointed to a small island in middle of the ocean.

"what if he wins Bob, then what do you do?"

"He cant win , if we could win I would be staying"

"But just imagine a wolrd with no Adriatic or Zulu flags. What a peaceful worls it would be."

"Ahhh dreams, the things legends are made of ...."

[belinda9]

OOC

Hey capo

I think you just get off on the Il Duce thing
I can just hear you over there going IL DULCE! IL DULCE!

no wonder you work yourself up into these little tizzies
Maybe if you retire the title for something more restrained...


(now, don't be touchy. I'm just ragging you a little. )

you know, I kinda have the same thing with tuWANDA
TUWANDA!

We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming, already in progress........

[The Capo]

Make-shift AL Parliament, Paris...

"And now" said speaker LaBonte "President Klamens Metternich..."

The entire room, mostly filled with men and women in military uniforms, began their applause for Klamens Metternich, war hero at the battle of Venice (although they lost), and renowned politician in the Adriatic League. The figurehead of the movement towards a European Union against Mussolini and the figurehead of the resistance against Israel...

"Thank you." he said smiling humbly as he looked down at his podium "You know, I had a speech ready today. But it just doesn't feel right, making a speech. Most of what I've done in the past has been done from the heart, I never had a peice of paper telling me what to do. So there will be no pre-written speeches today" he said as he tossed the paper behind his back "Its been hell for my beloved country. Raw unadulterated hell. I've seen hell, I've seen the Israelites and Mali come at us. I've seen the Balkans torched, I've seen Greece which is our greatest harbour lie in ruin, I've seen the Great Oracle of Bosporus with a star of David flying above. And the saddest moment is when we retreated from Venice, when Israel defeated us in our capital. I felt like a coward that day, I wanted to kill myself. I felt at the time that I could never again show my face to anyone. Well here I am today, because my friends I've realized something. If I simply allow this defeat to control me, if I allow Israel and their insane despot Bob Hawke to control my actions and to defeat me, then I have lost the war. We have lost the war. The last thing the AL likes to do is surrender, so we shall never surrender. Now my friends, the world does not like us. We've had very good leadership in the past, but its been very antagonistic, it occured in a time where respect and mutual admiration were not words but fantasies. So our reputation will make it hard for us not to surrender. Our reputation will make it hard to achieve peace. But I tell you this, our reputation is unfounded, this idea that we are aggressive people is unfounded. The fact is Bob Hawke has been the only nation on this world to practice blatant aggression and lies. Bob Hawke is a pathetic man, when he feels his nation is in the dumps after cheapshotting the Adriatic League he goes back to Australia, his puppet master, like a small beaten dog and begs for his treat, he begs for aide against the big bad Adriatic League. After he's razed our capital, destroyed our Holy City of Bosporus, and destroyed our greatest port city he goes back to Australia and begs for his treat, he begs for aide against the big bad Adriatic League. The man is a liar, and a cheat. He launched a war against "Communism" in northern Africa against the Mali simply because the AL did, he saw his opportunity, the man realized if the Mali were busy fighting the AL in America and Libya he could sneak in like a pathetic rat behind a restaurant and take his crumb, then he'd scurry back into his pathetic sh*thole called Israel and grovel on this little crumb until the time has come to again sneak another. These are the atributes of common vermin, of bottom-feeding rodents, of pests. And I believe we all know what must be done to pests. We fabricated a war with Mongolia, Hawke you can lie through your teeth, but many more nations than just you and I know of this, the sad part is you are under the impression that you are trustworthy. Your nation's history speaks for itself, you are canniving little liars, while our nation may be known as a bully we do have a good reputation when it comes to telling the truth. So I say to you this good Senate, good Parliament, good Congress... where-ever the chips may fall I can assure you that justice will always prevail over greed. We shall return the Adriatic League to its former greatness. Viva la Europa!"

The assembly gave a standing ovation. That day they voted on the Consul, it would be a temporary position until the resistance was over. Klamens Metternich was elected unanimously, and given the title "Il Duce" to poke fun at his enemy Mussolini...

[drake]

"But just imagine a world with no Adriatic or Zulu flags. What a peaceful worls it would be."

" Oh Shakeem, that Hawke is such a humorous guy! Thats a good one I like that! I wonder if he bothered to ask anyone else in the world how many wars the zulus have fought in? Thats right. Zero. Other than China, we are the only country in the world yet to fire a shot. Not a single shot fired. We have not trampled helpless cities into the ground with superior weaponry as he has.

We are pacifists by nature. On the opposite of the spectrum is, the country of Israel. The country that has slaughtered more people than any other country on the face of the earth. They may be the smallest, but they have proven how dangerous they can be, particularly if they are allowed to continue on the route that they are going on.

They say they want peace, but have never done anything to prove it but their shallow words. If they had made caravans and freights to trade with the world instead of weapons of destruction, their cries for peace would have been more believable. Had they made temples instead of barracks they would have been more believable. But they didn't. They built horrible machines who's only purpose is to take away life instead.

Though in the past they were allied to the Australians, we have done much more for them than they ever will. We set up close to a dozen lucrative trade routes with the Aussies which not only increased our wealth, but theirs as well. The Israelis can provide them nothing and they know this. The reason Israel was dropped from their alliance is because they knew Israel to be a leech. Always taking away, but never giving. Keating will not come to Hawke's aid. Keating did not get Hawke into this trouble, Hawke did. And I know that Keating isn't in the business of cleaning up other people's messes.

It is time for Hawke to face the consequences of his actions. The time to pay the piper has come. He can either deal with it like a man would and deal with it himself, or he can call on his parent like a scared child would. Either way, his run has ended.

Shakeem, prepare the auto, we must depart soon. We must meet Metternich in En Nahud on Thursday. "

[drake]

Alright everyone

Keep the good posts coming

I'm going to be gone for atleast a week and I'll post when I return. Thanks for allowing me to miss this week without penalty and once again, my apologies.

Well..what can I say, have a nice week!

[Rasputin]

Mossad HQ

"and so the plans are in place?"

"Yes Major, our agent should be in place as we speak, she only awaits youyr orders"

"She? You have sent a lady"

"She is no lady Major, she is our best agent. She will not disspoint you or Field Marsholl von Bismark."

"good. Good. This mission will see a new beginning. vob Bismark is meeting with all the other Generals tonight. Depending on that outcome you will hear from me tomorrow morning."

"Very well Major, i await your call."

[Rasputin]

OOC again

So the decision is that we wait a week ? Are we allowing Capo back, I saw many posts last week from Deity and Sun that they didnt want him back in game. Has this changed?

Perhpas we can paly this week with Sun in charge of AL, Capo in charge of Zulu (he and drake are in communication all the time anyway) and find a sub for Mali.

I know tihs is radical, but it is what has been done befoire..

I will not be avaialble in a few weeks time, are we pausing that week too, or only this week while Drake away?

Food for thought guys, i happy to go with the majority, A week of suits me as that means i get a week of when i busy later.

[The Capo]

OOC Post...

First of all the only country I will play as is the Adriatic League, that's what I came back for, me and Drake already discussed the entire situation (the OOC situation, not the in-game situation) and he felt that Sun wouldn't do justice to the AL and further felt that what had occured to me was injust.

So I am going to make a few comments here and as we have a week off I think we can handle everything in a very respectful manner.

The first issue I feel needs to be addressed is the entire idea of voting on every single incident. Voting is fine, but shouldn't be used for EVERY single incident that arises. Especially those involving game glitches. My personal feeling is that if the game does in fact glitch we should make every attempt, even if it slows the game down, to make sure it is fixed. Unless, of course, the victim of the particular glitch feels that he can continue play. The rationale behind this position is simple; six others should not decide what occurs to you especially if this shouldn't have occured. Therefore I believe that when something like this occurs in the future a vote isn't necessary, rather the victim of the glitch should make the decision.

Another issue is keeping all diplomatic states in synch, I don't think that we should have the entire world allied to eachother in one way or another. This is of course a personal consideration, but I think it helps keep the flow of the game orderly. The game automatically declares war on people due to the diplomatic states of the nation, therefore nations like China could find themselves at war with Mongolia without even realizing it.

Finally, I know this is Drake's area but I think it prompts mention, the website was a very good idea when this game started, and was updated somewhat regularly. I think if we each take a few minutes to add fresh material to the website this game, which is seriously the best Diplogame played thus far, we can continue the memory of this game when it is long gone and serve as an example to future diplogamers.

So anyway, I thank you guys for allowing me back into this game. I did fly off the handle, but as I've said I still agree with my general position, so I guess we should take the next week to iron out any wrinkles we have.

Peace.