From: owner-acka-games@wilma.che.utexas.edu (Ackanomic Games Digest) To: acka-games-digest Subject: Ackanomic Games Digest V2 #99 Reply-To: acka-games@wilma.che.utexas.edu Sender: owner-acka-games@wilma.che.utexas.edu Errors-To: owner-acka-games@wilma.che.utexas.edu Precedence: bulk Ackanomic Games Digest Tuesday, June 24 1997 Volume 02 : Number 099 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 05:58:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Raiter Subject: Re: Acka: Magic Letter > O great schole of *ping*, could the truth possibly be: > > IF AND ONLY IF today the machine that goes *ping* was silent > twenty-eight weeks ago, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go > *ping*. Alfvaen, you have pierced the asterisked veil and seen the unshrouded Truth. Congratulations, student and now scholar. May you encounter similar fortune in your time harboring the enigmatic Machine That Goes *ping*. #transfer: breadbox, Alfvaen: Pedestal of *ping* breadbox defrocked Scholar of *ping* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:11:01 -0600 (MDT) From: Aaron Humphrey Subject: Re: Acka: Magic Letter > > O great schole of *ping*, could the truth possibly be: > > > > IF AND ONLY IF today the machine that goes *ping* was silent > > twenty-eight weeks ago, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go > > *ping*. > > Alfvaen, you have pierced the asterisked veil and seen the unshrouded > Truth. Congratulations, student and now scholar. May you encounter > similar fortune in your time harboring the enigmatic Machine That Goes > *ping*. Pretty tricky, putting "*ping*" in there. Hard to tell asterisks that turn into letters from asterisks that are just asterisks...:-) > #transfer: breadbox, Alfvaen: Pedestal of *ping* Thank you. I had fun. - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/) Song In My Head--World On Edge:Wash The Rain Current Book--Sheri S. Tepper:King's Blood Four He's dead, Jim. Kick him if you don't believe me. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:57:22 -0600 (MDT) From: Aaron Humphrey Subject: Acka: A Strange Dream I was looking through the clutter of Tamson House(which I haven't yet gotten around to posting a description of). Strange that a house which is so spacious inside should be so cluttered, but I guess this is just what comes of being a packrat. As I shoveled vast mountains of loose papers aside, I came across a small matchbox. Which was odd, because normally I just grabbed matchbooks(not boxes)at restaurants when I was running low. Which didn't happen that often, since all I used them for was lighting a candle so I could watch it melt while eating supper. My pulse quickened. This must be the legendary matchbox of Phoebe! I opened it, full of excitement, but somehow it had turned into a pillbox instead. "What the heck are you doing?" Phil the Aluminum Tick yelled. "I'm not even anywhere in the Rules yet, and you certainly don't own me! If it wasn't that manipulation of entities in ways that don't affect the game was still unregulated--" I dropped the pillbox in shock, upon which it turned into a Chartreuse Goose Egg, which cracked open when it hit the floor. A flock of Chartreuse Geese, Keys dangling from their legs, flew around the room, getting chartreuse feathers everywhere. One of them turned into an elephant, which rampaged about knocking over bookshelves. As I cowered amid the rubble, I saw that the pillbox had changed into the Machine That Goes *ping*. I listened in a daze as it rendered its truth unto me. And then I woke up. Instantly I grabbed my clipboard and a pen and scribbled down the truth, which was still clear in my mind from the dream. But I was tired, and it was still late, so I went back to sleep. Imagine my chagrin when I awoke this morning and found that, in the darkness, my writing was totally illegible! And when I tried to recall just what the Machine had said, I found it fuzzy in my memory. Damn, I hate that! Anyway, here's as much of the Truth as I could make out... IF AND ONLY IF today *** * **** ***** **** ****** ***** ***** * ** *** ********, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*. - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/) Song In My Head--Paul McCartney:The Other Me Current Book--Sheri S. Tepper:King's Blood Four The fat lady's chances were slim. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:43:49 -0400 From: Malenkai Subject: Acka: Salvo #2 motor gangs aspen ratio sonic ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:45:52 -0400 From: Malenkai Subject: Re: Acka: Salvo #2 props - 0 lemur - 1 flews - 0 divvy - 0 undue - 2 Malenkai ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 19:07:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Raiter Subject: Re: Acka: Salvo #2 The results of Malenkai's Salvo #2: motor 1 gangs 1 aspen 1 ratio 1 sonic 0 breadbox nice shootin, tex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 19:28:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Raiter Subject: Re: Acka: Salvo #3 Salvo #3: toque pique unman roque breadbox ------------------------------ End of Ackanomic Games Digest V2 #99 ************************************