Love Conquers? Part VIII.

[Keygen]

Turn was not recieved! Please resent to costas_additional@yahoo.com! Email notification has been sent as well.

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"St Jon,

Regarding your accusations that the Wales entered the World War uninvited you are wrong! We had been invited to join the war and we had granted the request. I bet the same thing had happened to the Greeks too.

As for your speach about unoccupied island you are wrong again! France colonized an occupied island! We all know that each city has two tiles radius and the island was within Llangollen's radius. The radius a city occupies are owned by this city. Exeptions can be made for cities near borders with the acceptance of both parties but here is not our borders!

I will proceed with the besiege of Le Palais and if that makes you an enemy for life so be it. Wales always honored their friendship with France with tech gifting and tech exchanging and by enjoyning long peace while France dishonored it twise first with their involvement in the Melbourne revolution and now by settling an island owned by Wales!


Chairman Thor,

If you want to build an army to protect your lands be my guest, it's the right thing to do. However this does not excuse your recent gathering of troops on our borders. You may as well protect your lands by stationing your troops a few tiles back. But sending them next to my division and two tiles away from Sydney would give you a huge advantage in case you would support France not only diplomatically but militarily also. Therefore I ask for the withdrawal of your first division one tile back and your second at list three tiles back.


I am sure that you both are cooking something as it is not a normal situation to claim as fair the settlement of Le Palais. If you do then it means that I have the right to start building cities within France and Incan Republic as well and so should everybody even if the city was founded within an existing city's radius. So let's start building cities to each other lands! What a great idea!"

King Constantine

[MOBIUS]

Turn was sent @ 12:16 (10 hrs ago...), sorry I forgot to post it first time around.

[Keygen]

Turn 157 to Rick.

[Rick Elkins]

Turn 157 --> Comrade Thor

It would appear that the leader of France is feeling the twinge of a guilty conscience...? For why else would so much venom have been unleashed upon Greece unless it is because we have dared to question the wisdom of his settling within Welsh territory?

France claims to have been accused of brutality and aggression, but no such charge was leveled from Athens. We did observe that France had violated another nation's sovereign borders. And more surprising, that the pious St Jon has stooped to the serious sin of Greed. Were those crabs really worth the stain to your reputation?

St Jon : In your search for examples to besmirch the honour of Greece, you have been forced to dredge back through many centuries of history. But still, you have not found the ammunition you sought to attack our integrity...

The true reason for Greece's involvement in the war with Australia has nothing in common with the ugly picture you have drawn. Greece entered the war at the direct request of the Inca nation, who needed assistance in the face of a larger Australian army. Only our own need for keeping a strong defensive army at home prevented immediate action on her behalf. However, it did not take long to assemble an enlarged fighting force, and we then responded to the request for aid from our noble neighbour.

Surely one as holy as St Jon does not have to resort to name-calling in the course of what has been up until now the good-natured diplomacy between friends? It is our hope that we can now return to a more civilized discourse with our neighbours in France.

Xenophon

[St Jon]

Turn to Madrid.

===============N E W S F L A S H=================

UPROAR IN FRANCE STOP TANKS ON STREETS STOP TROOPS
STORM ELYSEE PALACE STOP WORKERS RIOT IN LILLE STOP
PRIESTS MASSACRED IN DIJON STOP WIDESPREAD LOOTING
STOP FRENCH INDUSTRY AT STANDSTILL STOP ST JON BELIEVED
DEAD STOP TOTAL COLLAPSE OF RULE OF LAW STOP TOURISTS
ADVISED NOT TO TRAVEL STOP TOTAL CONFUSION STOP RISK
OF TOTAL ANARCHY STOP

API

[MOBIUS]

Spanish forces have been placed on a state of high alert following the news filtering from France!

Our leader fears for the life of his brother St Jon and is even now mobilising forces in order to launch an operation to save his life and restore religious law and order to it's rightful place...!

[Swissy]

What is the email address for the Greek player?
I have played Keygen's turn, as he has no weekend computer access, but the next player's turn has no address on it.

[Rick Elkins]

Swissy, all correspondence for Greece should be sent to toRick1@earthlink.net

Thank you!

[Rick Elkins]

Turn 158 --> Comrade Thor

Greek bloodhounds have been pulled from their duties searching for Amelia Earhardt and Lord Lucan, to begin the more important search for St Jon.

And Greece stands ready to assist Spain in a noble multinational peacekeeping operation in France! Already, Navy SEALs are prepared to enter the anarchy-ridden land of France, so as to save St Jon from the custody of any radical groups that might be forcibly holding him, should this prove to be the case. Our hearts go out to his family members during this difficult time...


And paratroopers on practice drops near Mount Isa witnessed a strange sight as they descended...an ancient Inca knight! Comrade Thor, you had agreed that he would be moved to a nearby glacier. Instead, he is now lumbering around on one of my people's farms, making a nuisance of himself. This is not the action of a friend of Greece! Please move him at once, as you agreed, for he is reducing the amount of food available to my people, which is not an acceptable situation...

Xenophon

[St Jon]

Turn to Madrid.

[King Thor]

And paratroopers on practice drops near Mount Isa witnessed a strange sight as they descended...an ancient Inca knight! Comrade Thor, you had agreed that he would be moved to a nearby glacier. Instead, he is now lumbering around on one of my people's farms, making a nuisance of himself. This is not the action of a friend of Greece! Please move him at once, as you agreed, for he is reducing the amount of food available to my people, which is not an acceptable situation...

Xenophon

Those damn knights are causing me more trouble than they are worth! I forgot to move them yet again! Tell you what, dispose of those no good morons and offer me the alliance request again. We'll pretend it was an accident and make no further mention of it eh? .. I mean, having an obsolete military unit running around pointlessly in your land is of no use to me. Unlike you, I dont feel the necessity to spy on you to ensure your friendship!

Chairman Thor, of the Incan Republic.

[MOBIUS]

Turn not yet received!

[St Jon]

Turn reposted.

[MOBIUS]

Spanish forces await on the French border for a signal to rescue our brother in arms - we have not yet heard a signal!

Should we press on!?

[St Jon]

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FULL SCALE CIVIL WAR IN FRANCE STOP DETAILS SKETCHY
STOP ALL FOREIGN NATIONALS EXPELLEDSTOP PARIS UNDER
CONTROL OF FREEDOM PARTY STOP ATTITUDE OF ELITE
ARMOURED CORPS DU MIDI UNKNOWN STOP MARSHALL
JON OF ARMEE DU SUD LEADER OF RIGHT-WING NATIONAL
PARTY STOP LEADER ARMEE DU O'UEST KILLED STOP ARMEE
DU NORD PRO PEOPLES PARTY STOP SONS OF ST JON CLAIM
SAINT ALIVE AND WILL RETURN STOP FIVE ARMIES THOUGHT
TO BE MARCHING ON PARIS STOP EXTREME DANGER OF TOTAL
COLLAPSE STOP FRENCH NAVY FIRES ON STRASBURG STOP
PRICE OF FOIE GRAS SET TO RISE STOP

REUTERS.