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Thread: Erfworld, The Thread.
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2012-10-02, 02:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-02, 08:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld, The Thread.
If my text is blue, I'm being sarcastic.But you already knew that, right?
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2012-10-06, 10:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Things we have learned about Erfworld:
Thrones are not simply decorative, they have a function.Man this thing was full of outdated stuff.
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2012-10-06, 01:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hmm, we better warm up Admiral Akbar just in case...
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2012-10-06, 04:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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How exactly does this plan constitute a tr - Oh. OH! Parson can't readily go back into the Magic Kingdom to be briefed by tGMwTA!
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2012-10-06, 04:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Man this thing was full of outdated stuff.
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2012-10-06, 06:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld, The Thread.
ChowGuy - The LaChoy Dragon - Servant of the Tiger and disciple of the Wanderer
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2012-10-06, 08:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Man this thing was full of outdated stuff.
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2012-10-06, 09:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld, The Thread.
With a formal alliance, Charlescomm and Jetstone share the same turn. Without one, they each move in their natural turn order.
Now, there are only two possibilities:
1) Charlescomm moves before Jetstone in that order, which means his has already expired but he still gets to move before them tomorrow. OR
2) Charlescomm moves after Jetstone, which means he still gets one today as soon as the King declares "turn over," which he hasn't done yet, because he wants Trem and whatever flying escorts he can gather (including I'm sure his casters) to use their move to get safely to the new capital by the start of the next.
Of course, until they do get there, they're pretty much sitting ducks for any other non-allied air units. And Charlie has a lot of them. Heck, he might even be willing to contract some out to another side in the area that would like to see Jetstone fall. Like, say, Haggar. That would leave his hands, and reputation, completely clean.
Also, in before those who say "but Charlie told Slately 'We kill the Fatman' so he wants him dead":
A) Charlie never said who "the Fatman" is. Slately's not all that slim either.
B) Jojo offered Parson a scroll that will send him "back where once he belonged" but the scroll stinks of Charli, and we know where Charlie thinks he belongs - working for Charlie! He made a deal for that with Ansom, and in Charlie's world, even if someone else loses, Charlie still gets paid, so Parson "belonged" to him.Last edited by ChowGuy; 2012-10-06 at 09:49 PM.
ChowGuy - The LaChoy Dragon - Servant of the Tiger and disciple of the Wanderer
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2012-10-07, 02:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Erfworld, The Thread.
Thing is, though, they still have a whole load of decrypted Dwagons at Spacerock--what's to stop Parson mounting one and riding home on it?
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2012-10-07, 03:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Parson is a heavy unit. Dwagons can't lift heavy units.
Hence the gambit with the promotion of the hobgobwins to knight, because a hobgobwin knight is a heavy unit (while a normal hobgobwin isn't); so they would drag their dwagons down and land out of turn.
The non-hobgobwin units had to butcher their dwagons to land, which is why they have decrypted dwagons in the first place.Hark! An avatar drawn by Kate Beaton!
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2012-10-07, 09:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Haggar is 'allied' with JS.
We have seen some Archons move+spy on Haggar,
then get captured a bit later on Haggar's turn.
So, Charlie's turn is before JS.-HaJo
FLW: Oh, no. We're being rescued. How embarrassing!
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2012-10-07, 02:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-07, 03:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-07, 04:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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That isn't the plan, though--it would be obvious to the Gobwin Knob forces that the portal had disappeared and they'd probably be able to get word (via Wanda) to stop Parson coming through. The plan is to *let* Parson come through, then close the portal behind him so he can't get back.
To be honest, though, I think that may be the whole intention of this--leave Parson out in the field with only the forces available to him in the ruins of Spacerock. That would pretty much force him to fight or die, which I think is when he comes up with his most world-breaking ideas!
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2012-10-08, 02:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. (W.Whitman)
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2012-10-08, 02:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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How so? Wanda is in the Magic Kingdom. There is no one in Spacerock, who would be able to send a thinkagram or has an eyebook. Gobwin Knob doesn't have sending hats as well. Sure they will notice, but they won't be able to inform anyone about it.
Besides, Parson was fully aware he won't be able to go back through Magic Kingdom once they conquare Spacerock - it would stop being a capitol anyway.In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2012-10-08, 07:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-08, 07:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Information about unit status is not the same thing as information exchange. An overlord senses all of his units, but can't talk to them directly without Thinkamancy (see an early page in book 1, when Stanley senses a loss of spidews unit). The same goes for casters, who create units I guess. Why would anyone use hats for sending reports, if an overlord could transmit all information and orders between his units?
In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2012-10-08, 08:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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The hobgobwins were promoted to heavy units, not knights.
My keyboard isn't the best, so I'm sorry if any of the words I type are missing letters.
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2012-10-08, 05:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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New one is up.
SpoilerArchons sneaking through other peoples territory?
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2012-10-09, 02:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-09, 02:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. (W.Whitman)
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2012-10-09, 03:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Mainly because they were already knights (remember the mentions?)... but I'm just being pedantic here.
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2012-10-09, 11:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
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2012-10-10, 12:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-10, 12:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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A) I fail to see how this should have been obvious. Maybe if she'd used "they're too cheap" rather than "you're too expensive" then maybe I could understand that. Now, however, it's a blunder borne of overconfidence that almost made me see why people hated her so much (so I heard) in Book 1.
B) Granted, but if she insults them like that, it just got upgraded from a reasonably certain probability (especially since she's one captive with one stolen dwagon, might not be considered important to an archon) to a certainty (a runaway insulted Charlescomm! How dare she! Charlie will hear about this!).
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I meant the "They're too poor! And you guys charge way too much." comment, the one that set them off in the first place. Agreed in that they weren't meant to hear the muttered comment at the end, but the damage had already been done.
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2012-10-10, 06:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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My keyboard isn't the best, so I'm sorry if any of the words I type are missing letters.
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2012-10-11, 01:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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I think what we're dealing with here is Zeno's portal. It took him only a few pages to get halfway there; then a few more to get three-quarters of the way there. By 2014 Parson will be only a few fractions of an inch away, yet he still won't be able to pass through.
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