Succession game "The Morons"

[Tarquinius]

I hope you don't mind, but I just wrote a short story about my turn, no the turn for turn thingy, it starts to get boring

Tarquinius the Stupid rises as the next emperor of the Japanese in 70 AD. A guy who wears an armour says we have a strong military. That pleases the emperor. "I advise you Sire, not to make peace with the pathetic Iroqouis. If we wipe them out, the people in the Iroqouis lands will understand it was meant to be that the Japanese rule the land!" "Yeah, whatever. Just get my heroic, uhmm epic it is right? ready before I die" "We will try sire but we estimate that you will die a dew decades before it is built..." "Then whip those people!!!!" The next few days, the advisors were trying to explain to the emperor whipping was not possible. When he finally understood it could not be changed he yelled: "Then make sure I get a lovely wife, who can give me a strong son to rule the hero..., uhmm lands!"
A few years later our generals proudly report they have destroyed the Iroqoius. About time. In 150 AD, after many unsuccesful tries, the empress gets a son. "Finally" the emperor cried out. How shall I call him? "Randomturn looks like a good name for him sire" the domestic advisor suggested. "Hmmm, Randomturn, good name! That is how he shall be called.
I want to begin the building of a great wonder in his honor! What are the options advisors" "We can start the Great Wall in Osaka sire." "Splendid, a long wall is just what I sought!"
"It will help us to keep the Zulus out of our lands sire, we just sent them out for the third time." "Well, I didn't think of that yet, but it is nice"

The last years of the emperor is reign were quite boring. Only some babarian uprisings the founding of a new city, and tresspassing Zulus.
The emperor died in 250 AD. His beloved son Randomturn will be the next, and maybe even the last emperor of Japan....

[Tarquinius]

I didn't do much this turn, just built temples, barracks and some spearmen etc. I first thought the zulus would declare war on me, but they went out of my territory. They went from polite to cautious though, after the third time I asked them to leave

We can change the Great Wall I started to the Hanging Gardens when it becomes available, I just didn't think of anything else to build

We have still a lot of space to expand, I built a settler, and built one city. We should be able to win this game with ease, anything else would be an utter dissapointment for me

[randommushroom]

Great, now I just need an attachment to download.

[dunk]

I've upgraded to 1.21f. If all of us do that, should it matter?

[randommushroom]

I'm figuring on patching this evening after work. Cross the old fingers that there'll be no problems with our game. I guess the main point would be is that if a game gets saved while using patch 1.21, a person would need 1.21 to open that save file.

I also understand that you can now compress the saves using 1.21. Which means that we can upload the .sav file and not have to use a zip program. That'll be easier.

[civman2000]

in my experience, games from older versions work in the new versions but not the other way around...so all of you need to get it probably...

[Tarquinius]

LOL totally forgot the savegame, sorry!!!
I couldn't log on earlier because my intenet was down for some time

[randommushroom]

I will see if I get a chance to play the game this afternoon. If not, I'll play it tomorrow.

I have upgraded to 1.21. After some initial and general problems, everything is now okay. So we will be playing the rest of this game using 1.21.

[randommushroom]

Bah, I'm going to have to pass the turn to Dunk. Never got a chance to play yesterday, and my sister went into the hospital this morning.

[dunk]

I will play tonight. Why is your sister in the hospital? Is she ok?

[randommushroom]

Yah, thankfully everything has turned out okay, and she's back at her home and I'll be able to get back to the normal routine of life, work, and CivIII.

Good luck on your round of turns, Dunk.

[dunk]

Glad to hear she's ok.

[Tarquinius]

Glad to hear it too!

To people who read this thread: We really could use some more players, so if you are interested, no matter how good you can play, please join us! Just tell us you want to join and you are in

[dunk]

And lo, in the year of our Great Pizza 250, Dunk IV took command of the vast Moron empire. And there was much rejoicing for Princess Random emerged from the doctor's hut unscathed in the same year.

250... Ho hum. Dunk IV considers where the settler near Cattaragus is going.

260... The Heroic Epic is completed in Kyoto. The masses are entertained by wild stories told by an old man with unkempt hair named Tarquiniosis.

270... Ho hum.

280... Hakodate is founded on a spice field. Dunk IV then realizes what that swordsman unit was doing fortified on a hill and rushes another settler in Cattagarus so that the proper location can be settled.

290 through 310... Ho hum.

320... Mr. Shaka of the Zulu sells the Morons Currency (a way to make all the shiny things look alike and weigh the same) for a world map and 180 shiny things. The science advisor says that this puts us in what he calls the "Middle Ages"... I asked him, "Middle of what?" He didn't know.

330... Mr. Alexander of the Greeks sells us this cockamamy story about how there is only one god for a world map and 400 shiny things. The science advisor tells Dunk that it brings us one step closer to having guys who are really good with swords and can run really fast.

The Zulu complete the Great Wall in Zimbabwe.

340 - 350... Ho hum.

Dunk IV chokes to death on the royal banquet of Pizza and Beer.

[Tarquinius]

Princess Random
And was Tarquiniosis an attempt to spell my name?

But good job Dunk, now it is Queen's Randomturns turn to play