Subject: ackanomic digest V3 #111
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ackanomic digest        Friday, April 17 1998        Volume 03 : Number 111

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 17:38:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Otzma Card Determination Part 2a: Random

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# Results of Probabilistic Otzma Card Creation
# 6 of the 9 cards created are to be rolled for randomly
# 1-9 - Go Fish
# 10-12 - Map Shard
# 13 - Summon Tornado
# 14-16 - Untouch Me
# 17-19 - Share My Expenses
# 20-22 - Share Your Income
# 23-25 - Swinging Sale
# 26-28 - Tactical Retreat
# 29-31 - Paratroop
# 32-34 - Foul Fowl
# 35-37 - TruthSeeker
# 38-40 - Fix My Gadget
# 41-43 - Scientist for a Day
# 44-46 - Art Thief
# 47-49 - Skeleton Key
# 50-52 - Grave Robber

No. of sides on every die:     52
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:    6
No. of rolls per line:          6

     47     36     35      9     15      3

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> Subject: Otzma Day Part 2
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> #P [email-masked]
> #S 52
> #D 1
> #R 6
> #L 6
> #C Results of Probabilistic Otzma Card Creation
> #C
> #C 6 of the 9 cards created are to be rolled for randomly
> #C 1-9 - Go Fish
> #C 10-12 - Map Shard
> #C 13 - Summon Tornado
> #C 14-16 - Untouch Me
> #C 17-19 - Share My Expenses
> #C 20-22 - Share Your Income
> #C 23-25 - Swinging Sale
> #C 26-28 - Tactical Retreat
> #C 29-31 - Paratroop
> #C 32-34 - Foul Fowl
> #C 35-37 - TruthSeeker
> #C 38-40 - Fix My Gadget
> #C 41-43 - Scientist for a Day
> #C 44-46 - Art Thief
> #C 47-49 - Skeleton Key
> #C 50-52 - Grave Robber
> #T Acka: Otzma Card Determination Part 2a: Random
> 
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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 17:50:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Otzma Card Determination Part 2b

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Dice server wrote:

> # 1-9 - Go Fish
> # 10-12 - Map Shard
> # 13 - Summon Tornado
> # 14-16 - Untouch Me
> # 17-19 - Share My Expenses
> # 20-22 - Share Your Income
> # 23-25 - Swinging Sale
> # 26-28 - Tactical Retreat
> # 29-31 - Paratroop
> # 32-34 - Foul Fowl
> # 35-37 - TruthSeeker
> # 38-40 - Fix My Gadget
> # 41-43 - Scientist for a Day
> # 44-46 - Art Thief
> # 47-49 - Skeleton Key
> # 50-52 - Grave Robber
> 
>      47     36     35      9     15      3

In addition to this, my Deterministic choices for Otzma Cards are:

Paratroop
Share Your Income
Share Your Income

So the cards created are:

2 Go Fish
1 Untouch Me
2 Share Your Income
1 Paratroop
2 Truthseeker
1 Skeleton Key

I am now announcing the end of the Otzma Day.
6 Auctions are commencing, one for each type of card.
The minimum bid in each auction is A$0.
Each auction is public.

Yours,
Slakko
(and please move the auction bidding to acka-finance)
- -- 
Duncan C. "" Richer aka
Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc
Acka - ex-President/still Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:12:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Otzma Card Determination Part 2b

>2 Go Fish
i bid A$ 20
>1 Untouch Me
i bid A$ 20
>2 Share Your Income
i bid A$ 20
>1 Paratroop
i bid A$ 20
>2 Truthseeker
i bid A$ 20
>1 Skeleton Key
i bid A$ 20

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:27:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: *That* room.

  For the want of anything less brazenlly stupid to do I am going to
*that* room (The Vault Of The Book).

  I am reading the Ackanomicon.

 Wild Card...

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:35:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Presidential Elections over

The elections for president have finished and Slakko's back in office by
quite a way. Still, second place was quite close. The voting results were as
follows:

Slakko:
Attila the Pun
Slakko
JT
rufus
Koxvolio
Koxvolio's EBS
else...if
else...if's EBS
K 2
Pandora
ThinMan
Joe Java
Ayla
Wild Card

TGW:
IdiotBoy
TGW
Rex Mundi
Rex Mundi's EBS
Hubert

/dev/joe:
Guy Fawkes
Vynd
Vynd's EBS
/dev/joe

IdiotBoy:
breadbox
two-star

K 2:
Alfvaen

Congratulations Slakko on your second term. I hope you're going to call it a
day after this term to give the rest of us a chance.

TGW, Count Tabula.

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:18:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka : CFJs declining, accepting

I am declining any CFJ which has been assigned to me, and on which I ahve
not returned judgement yet.

(just cleaning up before going for a short while - better than being
deadbeat)

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:23:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 565 (FALSE (overturned))

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:
> 
> The Ackanomicon pages "Not so Forbidden Fruit" causes the player who reads
> it to have "an out of body experience in which he is transported to an
> primordial jungle where he is worshiped as a god by the natives."  Since
> Ackans are capable of having an out-of-body experience, this Rule strongly
> implies that they must have a body to have an experience out of.
I don't this is a very strong implication, or any implication at all.

> 
> Even more convincing is the description of the Ackanomicon page
> "Mutation," which "warps the reader's mind and body." Clearly, the reader
> (an Ackan) must have a body to be warped for this to work.
OK. this is an implication, perhaps even more. I guess ThinMan and me
won't be butting heads this time around :)

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:51:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Winner of Cycle 18.

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# The Winner of Cycle 18 will be:
# 1  K 2 
# 2  else...if
# 3  Alfvaen
# 4  Attila the Pun
# 5  Ayla
# 6  breadbox
# 7  Calvin N Hobbes
# 8  Crackfoo
# 9  /dev/joe
# 10 Enigma
# 11 Fortunato
# 12 The Gingham Wearer
# 13 Goldenmean
# 14 Guy Fawkes
# 15 Hoover 2300
# 16 Hubert
# 17 IdiotBoy
# 18 Illusion
# 19 J. M. Bear
# 20 Joe Java
# 21 JT
# 22 Karma
# 23 Koxvolio
# 24 Niccolo Flychuck
# 25 Pandora
# 26 Rex Mundi
# 27 Robert Sevin
# 28 rufus
# 29 Slakko
# 30 ThinMan
# 31 two-star
# 32 Vynd
# 33 Wild Card
# 34-100 Malenkai
# The player who's number apears at least three(3) times below,
# will win Cycle 18.

No. of sides on every die:      2
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:    5
No. of rolls per line:          5

      2      2      2      1      2

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> #P [email-masked]
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> #C The Winner of Cycle 18 will be:
> #C 1  K 2 
> #C 2  else...if
> #C 3  Alfvaen
> #C 4  Attila the Pun
> #C 5  Ayla
> #C 6  breadbox
> #C 7  Calvin N Hobbes
> #C 8  Crackfoo
> #C 9  /dev/joe
> #C 10 Enigma
> #C 11 Fortunato
> #C 12 The Gingham Wearer
> #C 13 Goldenmean
> #C 14 Guy Fawkes
> #C 15 Hoover 2300
> #C 16 Hubert
> #C 17 IdiotBoy
> #C 18 Illusion
> #C 19 J. M. Bear
> #C 20 Joe Java
> #C 21 JT
> #C 22 Karma
> #C 23 Koxvolio
> #C 24 Niccolo Flychuck
> #C 25 Pandora
> #C 26 Rex Mundi
> #C 27 Robert Sevin
> #C 28 rufus
> #C 29 Slakko
> #C 30 ThinMan
> #C 31 two-star
> #C 32 Vynd
> #C 33 Wild Card
> #C 34-100 Malenkai
> #C 
> #C The player who's number apears at least three(3) times below,
> #C will win Cycle 18.
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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:55:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: New Player (K 2)

And the influx continues, as yet another new player joins this madcap
wonder and glory that is Ackanomic.  Some of you may know em as
"[email-masked]", but e has decided to join in eir
civilian identity, Roie Marianer <[email-masked]>.  The Ackanomic
name e has chosen is Astro, and K 2 has been selected as eir Mentor.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Queen:Bohemian Rhapsody
Current Book--Jack L. Chalker:The Cybernetic Walrus
Never hit a guy with glasses.  Always use your fists.

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:59:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Web site changes

>The sites I am maintaining as Clerk of the Courts have moved. They can now be
	Excellent.  Geocities was pretty annoying.

- --
- -Henry Towsner, AKA else...if, The Fearless Alibi Posesser, Laefu, and Yilran

	<[email-masked]>

	Success is the child of audacity.
		-Benjamin Disraeli

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 20:03:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination

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# Player: Wild Card (Soon to be Hosed?)
# Ackanomicon determination
# based on the following (using a 50 sided die):
# 1 -15: arcane trivia
# 16-20: vile prophecies
# 21-25: inner workings
# 26-30: arcane lore
# 31-33: terrorizing pages
# 34-34: ancient artifact
# 35-36: mutation
# 37-38: dark domain
# 39-39: the secret
# 40-41: long lost treasure
# 42-43: doomsday
# 44-44: forbidden fruit
# 45-45: catastrophe
# 46-49: not so forbidden fruit
# 50-50: ancient one
# Alfvaen

No. of sides on every die:     50
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:    1
No. of rolls per line:          1

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> 
> 
> 
> #P [email-masked]
> #S 50
> #D 1
> #R 1
> #L 1
> #T Acka: Ackanomicon Determination
> 
> #C Player: Wild Card (Soon to be Hosed?)
> #C Ackanomicon determination
> #C based on the following (using a 50 sided die):
> #C 1 -15: arcane trivia
> #C 16-20: vile prophecies
> #C 21-25: inner workings
> #C 26-30: arcane lore
> #C 31-33: terrorizing pages
> #C 34-34: ancient artifact
> #C 35-36: mutation
> #C 37-38: dark domain
> #C 39-39: the secret
> #C 40-41: long lost treasure
> #C 42-43: doomsday
> #C 44-44: forbidden fruit
> #C 45-45: catastrophe
> #C 46-49: not so forbidden fruit
> #C 50-50: ancient one
> #C Alfvaen
> 

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 20:03:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: New Player (K 2)

A new player of my very own, wow!

Welcome to Acka Astro, any questions you have....

K 2 :)
[email-masked]

At 19:55 17/04/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>And the influx continues, as yet another new player joins this madcap
>wonder and glory that is Ackanomic.  Some of you may know em as
>"[email-masked]", but e has decided to join in eir
>civilian identity, Roie Marianer <[email-masked]>.  The Ackanomic
>name e has chosen is Astro, and K 2 has been selected as eir Mentor.
>
>
>--
>--Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
>Song In My Head--Queen:Bohemian Rhapsody
>Current Book--Jack L. Chalker:The Cybernetic Walrus
>Never hit a guy with glasses.  Always use your fists.
>
>

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 20:09:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Web site changes

At 19:59 17/04/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>The sites I am maintaining as Clerk of the Courts have moved. They can
now be
>	Excellent.  Geocities was pretty annoying.

Acka: Web site changes
Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:59:55 -0400
The Harf is back and I want a winter cap. 

>
>--
>-Henry Towsner, AKA else...if, The Fearless Alibi Posesser, Laefu, and Yilran
>
>	<[email-masked]>
>
>	Success is the child of audacity.
>		-Benjamin Disraeli
>
>
>
>

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 20:15:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: New Player (K 2)

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, K2 wrote:

> A new player of my very own, wow!

Sheesh, send away for one of those spiffy watches in the mail, and look
what you get instead.  (Welcome, Astro.)

- -Hubert, who wants an Ethernopian too

"Nothing is indelible," said Tom irascibly. 

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 20:19:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Otzma Card Probabilistic Determination

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# Results of Probabilistic Otzma Card Creation
# (From Wild Card's reading of Arcane Lore from the Ackanomicon)
# 1-9 - Go Fish
# 10-12 - Map Shard
# 13 - Summon Tornado
# 14-16 - Untouch Me
# 17-19 - Share My Expenses
# 20-22 - Share Your Income
# 23-25 - Swinging Sale
# 26-28 - Tactical Retreat
# 29-31 - Paratroop
# 32-34 - Foul Fowl
# 35-37 - TruthSeeker
# 38-40 - Fix My Gadget
# 41-43 - Scientist for a Day
# 44-46 - Art Thief
# 47-49 - Skeleton Key
# 50-52 - Grave Robber

No. of sides on every die:     52
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:    1
No. of rolls per line:          1

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> 
> 
> #P [email-masked]
> #S 52
> #D 1
> #R 1
> #L 1
> #T Acka: Otzma Card Probabilistic Determination
> 
> #C Results of Probabilistic Otzma Card Creation
> #C (From Wild Card's reading of Arcane Lore from the Ackanomicon)
> #C
> #C 1-9 - Go Fish
> #C 10-12 - Map Shard
> #C 13 - Summon Tornado
> #C 14-16 - Untouch Me
> #C 17-19 - Share My Expenses
> #C 20-22 - Share Your Income
> #C 23-25 - Swinging Sale
> #C 26-28 - Tactical Retreat
> #C 29-31 - Paratroop
> #C 32-34 - Foul Fowl
> #C 35-37 - TruthSeeker
> #C 38-40 - Fix My Gadget
> #C 41-43 - Scientist for a Day
> #C 44-46 - Art Thief
> #C 47-49 - Skeleton Key
> #C 50-52 - Grave Robber
> 
> 

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 20:30:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Otzma Card Probabilistic Determination

> # Results of Probabilistic Otzma Card Creation
> # (From Wild Card's reading of Arcane Lore from the Ackanomicon)

> # 32-34 - Foul Fowl

>      33

Since even before the Otzma Day began Foul Fowl cards were at their
instance limit, I get to use the Deterministic method.  Since this is
Wild Card we're talking about, I guess I'll give em a Go Fish card,
which is as Wild as we have, due to their multiplicity of uses.  :-)

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'Double-check the redundancy generator, will you?'

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 20:40:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Stupid is as..

I guess I'll follow the wild guy around.

I'm wandering over to *that* room and picking up whatever reading material
may be handy.

IB
dumber than a box of hammers

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 20:51:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Stupid is as..

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Matt Miller wrote:

> I guess I'll follow the wild guy around.
> 
> I'm wandering over to *that* room and picking up whatever reading material
> may be handy.

"How sweet... to be an idiot..."

While I'm in the library, I think I'll go see what all the fuss in that
room over there is about.  I follow IdiotBoy and Wild Card to the Vault
of the Book. Because my last reading was on March 29th, this is allowed.

Perhaps we can turn this into a kind of experiment: how many Ackans can
fit into the Vault?

- -Hubert

Necrotelecomnicon: Book of telephone numbers of the dead 

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:00:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Stupid is as..

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Hubert wrote:

> Perhaps we can turn this into a kind of experiment: how many Ackans can
> fit into the Vault?
> 
  If I'm not still sheltered then I'm going home PDQ and constructing a
tower of height 40 and description: 

  "Formed entirely out of playing cards this tower is rather a colourful
experience.  And there is some black in there too."

 Wild Card.

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:05:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Stupid is as..

Over I go, Willing to experiment. To *that* room (in the library). Lean
over idiot boy, wild card and hubert's shoulder and start reading.

4

K 2

At 20:51 17/04/98 -0400, you wrote:
>On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Matt Miller wrote:
>
>> I guess I'll follow the wild guy around.
>> 
>> I'm wandering over to *that* room and picking up whatever reading material
>> may be handy.
>
>"How sweet... to be an idiot..."
>
>While I'm in the library, I think I'll go see what all the fuss in that
>room over there is about.  I follow IdiotBoy and Wild Card to the Vault
>of the Book. Because my last reading was on March 29th, this is allowed.
>
>Perhaps we can turn this into a kind of experiment: how many Ackans can
>fit into the Vault?
>
>-Hubert
>
>Necrotelecomnicon: Book of telephone numbers of the dead 
>
>
>

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:06:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Cheese Report

ThinMan, with an unbroken streak of 12 accepted Proposals(now that
retractions no longer count), was the first to receive a Stilton,
when Rule 611 was amended.  Guy Fawkes, Vynd, and myself all have
had our last nine Proposals accepted, though, so some more will no
doubt be awarded soon.

Still nobody with more than one Harfy proposal since Rule 611 was
created...

If /dev/joe ever held the Office of Inventor, e might have an edam,
but otherwise I don't think anyone else has gained a fifth office
recently.

And no more Goudas seem to be in the offing either; K 2 got one
for winning Grab-A-Donkey, and I believe the only sufficiently-
sized games that have been won otherwise are Fictionary(by me)
and Mediocrity(by Slakko).  If I've forgotten one, let me know.

Brie...well, not many CFCJ's lately; I think the last one was CFCJ
159 against rufus.

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Queen:A Day At The Races
Current Book--Jack L. Chalker:The Cybernetic Walrus
You used to say I was nice; now you say I'm the Antichrist

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:44:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: House

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Micah J. Smukler wrote:

> I am renaming my house "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves/Did gyre
[ dementia ]

I am renaming my house "It is an ancient Mariner/Who stoppeth one of
three/And..." No, better not.  Slakko's got enough abbreviating to do as
is.  I am renaming my house "Hubert's House" since Slagothor no longer
exists and I'm tired of everybody knowing what's in my house.  Its
description is "This description violates Rule 101."  It has rebuilt
itself in relief at the destruction of that Really Big Blue Etc.

Has anyone else seen the French and German translations of "Jabberwocky?"
I was especially impressed by the translations of the nonsense words; they
kept the same almost-meaning as in English.  

- -Hubert

Necrotelecomnicon: Book of telephone numbers of the dead 

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:54:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Cheese Report

> Brie...well, not many CFCJ's lately; I think the last one was CFCJ
> 159 against rufus.

Oh, yes, I suppose all the new players, who have never had CFCJs called
against them, have bries as well.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Queen:A Day At The Races
Current Book--Jack L. Chalker:The Cybernetic Walrus
Cynthia is mistakenly crowned King of Norway.

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:57:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination

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# Players: IdiotBoy, Hubert, K 2 (in that order)
# Ackanomicon determination
# based on the following (using a 50 sided die):
# 1 -15: arcane trivia
# 16-20: vile prophecies
# 21-25: inner workings
# 26-30: arcane lore
# 31-33: terrorizing pages
# 34-34: ancient artifact
# 35-36: mutation
# 37-38: dark domain
# 39-39: the secret
# 40-41: long lost treasure
# 42-43: doomsday
# 44-44: forbidden fruit
# 45-45: catastrophe
# 46-49: not so forbidden fruit
# 50-50: ancient one
# Alfvaen

No. of sides on every die:     50
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:    3
No. of rolls per line:          1

     15
     21
     28

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> #C Players: IdiotBoy, Hubert, K 2 (in that order)
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> #C based on the following (using a 50 sided die):
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> #C 16-20: vile prophecies
> #C 21-25: inner workings
> #C 26-30: arcane lore
> #C 31-33: terrorizing pages
> #C 34-34: ancient artifact
> #C 35-36: mutation
> #C 37-38: dark domain
> #C 39-39: the secret
> #C 40-41: long lost treasure
> #C 42-43: doomsday
> #C 44-44: forbidden fruit
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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 22:02:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Another Otzma Card Probabilistic Determination

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# Results of Probabilistic Otzma Card Creation
# What card did K 2 find?
# 1-9 - Go Fish
# 10-12 - Map Shard
# 13 - Summon Tornado
# 14-16 - Untouch Me
# 17-19 - Share My Expenses
# 20-22 - Share Your Income
# 23-25 - Swinging Sale
# 26-28 - Tactical Retreat
# 29-31 - Paratroop
# 32-34 - Foul Fowl
# 35-37 - TruthSeeker
# 38-40 - Fix My Gadget
# 41-43 - Scientist for a Day
# 44-46 - Art Thief
# 47-49 - Skeleton Key
# 50-52 - Grave Robber

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> #C 10-12 - Map Shard
> #C 13 - Summon Tornado
> #C 14-16 - Untouch Me
> #C 17-19 - Share My Expenses
> #C 20-22 - Share Your Income
> #C 23-25 - Swinging Sale
> #C 26-28 - Tactical Retreat
> #C 29-31 - Paratroop
> #C 32-34 - Foul Fowl
> #C 35-37 - TruthSeeker
> #C 38-40 - Fix My Gadget
> #C 41-43 - Scientist for a Day
> #C 44-46 - Art Thief
> #C 47-49 - Skeleton Key
> #C 50-52 - Grave Robber
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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 22:06:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Bedtime reading.

Some amazing readin there.. don't you think guys?

Wait.. although we're all sort of reading at the same time.. noe of you
read the amzing stuff about the Rilly Leetle... oh nevermind..

You'd never believe me-
IB

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 22:07:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Deterministic Otzma Card

And another Foul Fowl is chosen randomly for K 2, so once again I get to
pick.  Well, this time perhaps I'll pick a Truthseeker.  (You know, K2,
mountains, wise gurus sitting thereon...)

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Current Album--Paul McCartney:Pipes of Peace
Current Book--Jack L. Chalker:The Cybernetic Walrus
The Salmon Of Correction:  A useful creature for whapping those who annoy you.

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 22:59:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Agendas 2

Here are the conditions again, and the weights associated with each:

/dev/joe:

Weight: 0

1. The wearer of hat has submitted and had accepted a proposal whose
body contains nothing but literature (as defined by the rules) published
before January 1, 1998, and citations of that literature.

Weight: -87

2. The wearer of this hat has performed a single action which constitutes
three or more different named Crimes defined in the rules, other than
Zuriti'ili, but which is not impossible (i.e., the triply-criminal act
still occurs).

Weight: 112

3. The wearer of this hat has buried three treasures containing at least
A$50 each worth of A$ and/or trinkets, and each of these treasures has
a map which does not depend on the treasure hunter being the first to do
something, and all three treasures have been found.

The Gingham Wearer:

Weight: -187

4. The difference in scores between the owner of this hat and the owner of
this egg-plant is prime and the names of the owners of both this eggplant and
this hat have their names in the main body of the rules (i.e. not just in the
authorship credit).

Weight: -100

5. The owner of this eggplant has the Chartreuse goose and the owner of this
hat owns a building occupying at least two kaas of land and all agenda hats
owned by the owner of this hat have been visible for at least two weeks.

Weight: -50

6. The owner of this eggplant and the owner of this hat have exactly the same
score, the owner of this hat has not retracted anything in the last week and
the chartreuse goose is somewhere else.

Hubert:

Weight: -101

7. The Speaker has, at any time, committed Zuriti'ili.

Weight: -200

8. Five new players have joined Ackanomic in one calendar week while this
hat was being worn and was visible, all of these players are now active
and voting, and the Ackanomic name of at least one of these players
contains the three-word Silly phrase quoted in the first sentence of Rule
207.1.

Weight: 20

9. The owner of this hat has posted to a public forum a message
containing at least one grammatically correct English sentence which
contains the same English word (which must appear in the Rules) five or
more times consecutively, and each word has an unambiguous semantic
meaning within the sentence.

else...if:

Weight: 105

10. The owner of this hat is not a member of any organization.

Weight: 50

11. The owner of this hat has no cheeses.

Weight: -65

12. Barring a change to the rules, there are no circumstances under
which the owner of this hat could sumbit a proposal.

Attila the Pun:

Weight: 112

13. The owner of this hat has posted at least three sonnets to a public forum
in the last month.

Weight: 0

14. The number of A$ owned plus the total value of all trinkets owned by the
owner of this hat is less than the corresponding sum performed for any
other player.

Weight: 112

15. The owner of this hat has a name which consists solely of the letters "q",
"j", "x", and "z".

Slakko:

Weight: -100

16. This hat has been traded to the Mad Hatters at some point by the
current owner of this hat.

Weight: -100

17. The owner of this hat owns four Cheeses.

Weight: -82

18. The owner of this eggplant has a score exactly double that of the owner
of this Hat.

K 2:

Weight: 30

19. It is publicly knowable that the associated conditions of five
different agenda hats, not including this one, have become true and
remained that way, having previously been false, while the owner of this
hat has been wearing this hat.

Weight: -20

20. The owner of this hat has given three hats to the illuminatus, at
least one of which has a condition which is publicly known to be true
and continued to be true after the illuminatus received it.

Vynd:

Weight: -60

21.  The owner of this hat has achieved the conditions of three other
agenda hats that are in his possession.

Weight: 50

22.  The wearer of this hat has owned it for less than a week.

Weight: -42

23.  The owner of this hat has won at least three Duels since this hat has
come into his possession.  At least one of these Duels must have been
against the owner of the eggplant corresponding to this hat.  At least one
of the Duels must have been called against the owner of this hat, rather
than by him.

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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 22:59:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Agenda Results

Okay.  Here are what I believe are the results of the eggplant bidding:

For convenience, the players who submitted conditions are referred to
below by single-letter abbreviations:

? - else...if
/ - /dev/joe
V - Vynd
S - Slakko
G - The Gingham Wearer
H - Hubert
A - Attila the Pun
K - K 2

The conditions and their bids, in order from lowest to highest:

12(?): -224(V), -65(A), -60(/), 0(G), 0(K), 16(H), 25(?), 30(S)
16(S): -224(V), -100(/), -100(S), -63(A), 50(?), 57(H), 70(G), 112(K)
4(G): -224(V), -187(H), -103(A), -100(?), -100(S), -50(K), -20(/)
5(G): -224(V), -224(S), -224(K), -100(?), -62(A), -20(/), 101(H)
8(H): -222(S), -200(V), -150(?), -137(A), -63(G), -42(H), -20(/), 0(K)
6(G): -200(V), -154(A), -50(?), -40(/), 1(H), 50(K), 98(S)
18(S): -200(V), -100(/), -100(G), -82(A), 0(?), 0(S), 0(K), 25(H)
7(H): -158(G), -101(H), -20(/), -3(A), 0(?), 0(V), 100(S), 112(K)
14(A): -152(H), 0(?), 68(A), 80(/), 112(V), 112(S), 112(K)
1(/): -150(V), -80(/), 0(K), 22(A), 50(?), 50(G), 95(S), 100(H)
17(S): -126(A), -100(/), -97(G), -75(V), 0(S), 4(H), 25(?), 112(K)
2(/): -120(/), -87(A), 0(?), 0(V), 0(H), 10(G), 60(S), 112(K)
19(K): -100(/), 0(?), 0(G), 0(A), 30(S), 76(H), 112(V), 112(K)
21(V): -100(H), -60(/), -10(G), -3(A), 0(S), 25(?), 80(K)
20(K): -60(/), -50(H), -20(?), 0(V), 0(G), 21(A), 80(S), 112(K)
23(V): -48(A), -42(H), -40(/), -20(G), 50(?), 50(S), 112(K)
9(H): -46(A), 0(G), 0(V), 20(/), 108(H), 111(S), 112(?), 112(K)
22(V): -40(/), -27(A), 0(?), 50(G), 98(H), 100(S), 112(K)
11(?): -20(/), -3(G), 50(?), 50(S), 63(A), 70(V), 70(K), 89(H)
3(/): 0(A), 20(/), 111(H), 112(?), 112(V), 112(G), 112(S), 112(K)
13(A): 42(A), 60(/), 110(S), 112(?), 112(V), 112(H), 112(K)
10(?): 60(/), 84(A), 100(?), 105(S), 112(V), 112(H), 112(K)
15(A): 99(H), 100(/), 110(?), 112(V), 112(S), 112(A), 112(K)

Thus, the following eggplants are awarded:

Vynd: 4, 12, 16
Attila the Pun: 6, 17, 23
/dev/joe: 1, 2, 18
The Gingham Wearer: 7, 9, 11
Hubert: 14, 20, 21
Slakko: 5, 8, 13
else...if: 10, 19, 22
K 2: 3, 15

(Vynd was a high bidder, and K 2 a low one...)

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Current Book--Jack L. Chalker:The Cybernetic Walrus
Coming around 'e gonna take my heartbeat

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