Subject: acka-games-digest V3 #122
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acka-games-digest         Sunday, June 7 1998         Volume 03 : Number 122

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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 08:01:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: *ping*

Today is Sunday, the 7th day of June, 
and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. 
Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 12 times. 

/dev/joe
Scholar of *ping*

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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 11:51:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Viruses round 2 ends

The moves for round 2:

@ Player    moves
* two-star  P 32 78   P 33 78   P 33 79
A Alfvaen   S 24 76 to 25 77
F Fortunato (left the game)
G MTM       P 31 83
J JT        P 25 74
M JM Bear   (left the game)
N Niccolo   P 26 75
O Astro     (left Ackanomic)
P Pandora   P 24 79 (tried to leave the game after submitting this move, but
                     sent that privately to me; it must be public)
R Rex Mundi S 28 74 to 29 73
S Slakko    P 32 83

    1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 
    7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 

 69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   69
 70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   70
 71 . . . . . . M . . . . . . . . . . . .   71
 72 . . . . . @ . @ . . . R R . . . . . .   72
 73 . . . . . P . . . J @ . R . . . . . .   73
 74 . . . . @ . . . J . . . @ . . . . . .   74
 75 . . . . J J @ . . . . J . . . . . . .   75
 76 . . . @ @ . A . . . . @ . F F . . . .   76
 77 . . . G . . . . A . . . F F @ . . . .   77
 78 . . G . . . . . @ . . . . . . * * . .   78
 79 . . . G . . G P . . . . . . . * * . .   79
 80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @ . . .   80
 81 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S S . . .   81
 82 . . . . . . . . . . . . . @ . . S . .   82
 83 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G S . . .   83
 84 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   84
 85 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   85

    1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 
    7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 

@ Player    viruses  viruspoints
G MTM          5          1
J JT           5          0
* two-star     4          0
F Fortunato    4          0 (quit)
S Slakko       4          0
R Rex Mundi    3          0
A Alfvaen      2          0
P Pandora      2          0
M JM Bear      1          0 (quit)
N Niccolo F    0          0
O Astro        0          0 (quit)

Nobody got a viruspoint this round.
If nobody takes over Fortunato's or JM Bear's places by the end of the next
round, their cells will become uninfected.

Round 3 begins now.  Send in your moves.

/dev/joe
Referee

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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 13:52:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

> Today is Sunday, the 7th day of June, 
> and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. 
> Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 12 times. 

I name 'd' as the Magic Letter.

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--L7:Hungry For Stink
Current Book--Robert J. Sawyer:Frameshift
All good things come to the squeaky wheel.

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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 13:55:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

The machine *ping*ed:
> > Today is Sunday, the 7th day of June, 
> > and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. 
> > Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 12 times. 

Alfvaen wrote:
> I name 'd' as the Magic Letter.

Ah yes, I remember now that there were some d's in the truth:

IF AND ONLY IF today *** d*** ** ***** ** *** *** ** **r** *****d ******
*****, THEN the machine that goes *ping* shall go *ping*.

/dev/joe
Scholar of *ping*

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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 18:41:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: YORL Play

Sam took the third piece of the Talisman(or was it a Sceptre?)of banna,
and

everything he was

changed.

He _was_ Elwes.  He had been Sam.  He had even been Romeo, and some still
knew him by that name.  But events were too important for him to remain
separate.

He remembered it all now.  Erphil's father had been Snowgod then, and
Erphil not even born.  And he had gotten above himself, the way Erphil was
doing now.  It took eons for the world to recover from it, in fact.  But
at least there _was_ a world, not just a huge block of ice left for the
frost giants.

But the cost had been great.  To preserve the world, the three of them had
had to create the Talisman of banna, binding much of themselves into it
and leaving themselves shadows of their former selves--Romeo, Thin Man,
and Kirby 2600.

And it had been Erphil, so much later, who had seen the last of Romeo.
His two comrades having been waylaid elsewhere, he had tried to face
Erphil alone, and while he had kept Erphil's schemes from coming to
fruition that time, the Talisman of banna had been broken, and Romeo had
forgotten himself, waking up in this land of Texas.  And he'd ended up
as a cowboy.

Well, those days were over now.  Elwes was back.  And whatever Erphil
thought of himself, he was not the Snowgod his father was.  The three
of them were together, and they had the Talisman of banna, although at
this point it was little more than a symbol, the power they had stored
into it having returned to them.

He adjusted his mask and turned to the others.  "So, let's take care of
this upstart, shall we?"

Elvis grinned.  "That's mah boy."

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Imani Coppola:Chupacabra
Current Book--Robert J. Sawyer:Frameshift
A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction.

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