Subject: ackanomic digest V3 #218
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ackanomic digest        Thursday, July 2 1998        Volume 03 : Number 218

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 02:28:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Library

I leave MTM's house and proceed to the Library I go to *that* room and
read *that* book.

I note that MTM's butler is resting until 3 Jul 1998 08:06:01.

I return to my home and shut the black plastic.

K 2

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 03:24:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka : Senate Elections - Niccolo Flychuck to the Senate!

A Debate!  A Debate! We have a Debate!!

On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, John Frederic Mc Coy wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Uri Bruck wrote:
> > 
> > Vote for Niccolo Flychuck for Senator.
> > 
> 
> While I applaud Mr. Flychuck's call for a liberal Senate, I do wonder if
> he is really the man to give it to us.  This, after all, is a player who
> has long opposed the expansion of the Senate's powers, has on sevreal
> occasions acted to reduce its powers, and was once known for the
> regularity of his proposals to repeal the Senate entirely (about one every
> two weeks, for awhile there).  Granted, its been awhile since he tried to
> repeal the Senate outright, but I am just the tiniest bit suspicious about
> what he mean when he says he will make the Senate more liberal.

Actions, as my esteemed colleague Vynd sayd, do speak louder than words.
My campaign against the Senate escalated during the time when the Senate
held full control over acka's Internomic vote, and a Senator suggested
that perhaps the Senate should contol the entire interface. It was my
campaign that first created the Institution that any player could join,
and eventually brought back the public Hearings on Internomic voting.

Niccolo Flychuck listens to the voice of the people. A vote for Niccolo
FLychuck os a vote for the People. If you look at the history of my
poposals,  they were all intended to make people involved, to enhance
interactions. 
Party Hall, followed by Party Chess, ensures the involvement of
non-aligned players in inter-Party interaction. Games & Contests. Ad Hoc
Committees.

I also recommend that my honorable friend Vynd say what he means when he
speaks of suspicions. 

My commitment to the well- being of acka has been demonstrated in the
past, when I was President. Some of you may recall that Thring, being
somewhat sour about Acka's scam Internomic win, had nearly proposed to go
to war. It was then that I, President Niccolo Flychuck, approached that
nomic and opened talks designed to prevent such a an event. I spoke to
their Speaker, and with his leave, later spoke to the Throng, and there
was no war.

Actions speak loud, my history in this nomic and others is a matter of
public record.

Niccolo Flychuck
A bote for Niccolo Flychuck is a vote for the people.
A vote for Niccolo Flychuck os a vote for nomic.

 > 
> As I'm sure you all know, I too am running for Senate.  Now I know what
> you're thinking.  You're remembering that whole unpleasant business with
> Vulcan.  All I have to say is, "Come on! If we were stupid enough to vote
> that in, then we deserved a dictatorship!"  I'd like to point out that
> when the Vulcan coup first began, I was not a member of that organization.
> Nevertheless, I had the saavy and political know how to seize the
> initiative, and translated it into an otherwise completely unmerited place
> on the ruling council.  These are my actions, and I feel they speak louder
> than the words ofthe other candidates.  I know how the system works,
> and I know how to use it to get results.  As a Crazy-French Scotsman AND
> Evil Overlord of Ackanomic (Retired), I believe I am uniquely well
> qualified to represent the peoples of Ackanomic, and I ask you to vote for
> me in the upcoming election.  Thank you, and may the force be with you.
> 
>                               - Vynd
> 
> [email-masked]
> 
> ------------------------------
> 

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:18:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Gavin M. Doig" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Oops: Acka: Assorted Org-Harferness/Financierness

>> Org Actions Starting:
>> I suggest that the Twits adopt a Communist Single Player membership
>> policy.
>
I approve of this.

Rex Mundi.

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:33:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka : Senate Elections

Mr. Flychuck has asserted that a vote for him is a vote for the people,
and a vote for nomic, and this is all well and good.  But I ask you,
fellow players, is the benefit of all players and the nomic really what we
are interested in?  I think not!  In the jungle that is Acka, only the
strongest survive, let alone win Silver Moons!  When Malenkai created the
Cheese-Whiz, was he doing it for the people?  When Vulcan took oer, were
they doing it for the nomic?  When players too numerous to mention filed
CFJs claiming the game was unplayable, who was to benefit?  I'll tell you
who, their own greedy little selves.  Yes, Acka is a hard place, where the
weak are weeded out and forced to slave in the harf mines.  Its the kind
of place where friends in high places can come in handy, if you ask me.

Consider my record:  I have introduced not just Black Heresy, but the very
End of the World itself into Acka.  I understand suffering, and its many
uses!  Players of Acka, the best things in life are free, so why vote for
a candidate who promises to deliver them.  Sure, Mr. Flychuck can bring us
peace and harmony and nice frilly things like that, but how long do you
think they'll last with folks like me around, eh?  Better to have me on
your side, working the system with no scruples whatsoever, to your
benefit.  Citizens, life is nasty, brutish, and short, vote for me and at
least you might make it long enough to spit on the graves of your enemies.
A vote for Vynd is a vote for fear!  A vote for Vynd is a vote for greed!
A vote for Vynd is a vote for ignorance!  A vote for Vynd is a vote for
blatant scams!  These are the things Acka wants, and I can provide them!
Players of Ackanomic, your choice is clear!

                                   - Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:45:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka : Senate Elections

Considering the election is going to end in at 15:31:54 it's too late to get
you to write my campaign speeches....

John Frederic Mc Coy wrote:

> A vote for Vynd is a vote for fear!  A vote for Vynd is a vote for greed!
> A vote for Vynd is a vote for ignorance!  A vote for Vynd is a vote for
> blatant scams!  These are the things Acka wants, and I can provide them!
> Players of Ackanomic, your choice is clear!
>
>                                    - Vynd
>
> [email-masked]

K 2

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:56:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Museum Door Prize

JT has won the Museum Door Prize this month.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Jerry Harrison:Are You Running?
Current Book--David Brin:Heaven's Reach
Telemann once yodeled to Bach, "Flounder is critical with wine."

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:56:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Ackackacka

> I play my Otzma Card of type Art Thief on:

>   The statue of snowgod made entirely of Blue Jello.

> I believe there is a 9% chance that this will fail.

10%, actually, but it ends up not failing.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Jerry Harrison:Are You Running?
Current Book--David Brin:Heaven's Reach
My heart it is so big, I can't get through the door

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:56:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination

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# Player: K 2
# 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: stock market crash
# 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

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> #P [email-masked]
> #S 50
> #D 1
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> #T Acka: Ackanomicon Determination
> 
> #C Player: K 2
> #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: stock market crash
> #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: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:57:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Boon determination

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# player: Slakko
# I am using the dice server to determine the boon from the
# royal frinks based on the following (using a 100 sided die):
# 1 -45: ancient artifact (random gadget)
# 46-70: ancient scroll (random otzma card)
# 71-80: gods are smiling (bonus vote)
# 81-87: ancient relic (trinket worth A$75)
# 88-92: ancient knowledge (new blueprint)
# 93-97: ancient wisdom (new otzma card)
# 98-99: gods are bored (pointy ears)
#  100 : gods are grouchy (chartreuse goose)
# Alfvaen

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> #P [email-masked]
> #S 100
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> 
> #C player: Slakko
> #C I am using the dice server to determine the boon from the
> #C royal frinks based on the following (using a 100 sided die):
> #C 1 -45: ancient artifact (random gadget)
> #C 46-70: ancient scroll (random otzma card)
> #C 71-80: gods are smiling (bonus vote)
> #C 81-87: ancient relic (trinket worth A$75)
> #C 88-92: ancient knowledge (new blueprint)
> #C 93-97: ancient wisdom (new otzma card)
> #C 98-99: gods are bored (pointy ears)
> #C  100 : gods are grouchy (chartreuse goose)
> #C Alfvaen
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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:57:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 624 (TRUE) (overturned)

> Call for Judgement 624
> Subject: Amending Return Dates
> Initiator: Alfvaen (sent 20 June 1998, 00:19 Acka)
> Judge: else...if (chosen 20 June 1998, 08:53 Acka)
> Judgement: FALSE (given 23 Jun3 1998, 02:43 Acka)
> Appealed by saaremaa
> Supreme Cortex: Golden Frog, /dev/joe and /dev/joe
> Judgement: TRUE

> Statement:

> Pandora's Expected Date of Return from Vacation is June 30, 1998.

I should note here that Pandora is thus On Ice.

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Song In My Head--Jerry Harrison:Are You Running?
Current Book--David Brin:Heaven's Reach
You break fingers, I'll break thumbs.

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 10:02:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Ice

It seems that Wild Card is also On Ice, assuming of course that I meant
July 1 when I put June 31 as eir expected date of return...:-)

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Song In My Head--Jerry Harrison:We're Always Talking
Current Book--David Brin:Heaven's Reach
Y is for Yoric whose head was bashed in, Z is for Zilla who drank too much gin.

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 10:05:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Eleusis Game 2

It's not quite true to say that this game is moribund, at least not according
to the Rules; what it is is frozen, because Ayla is on Vacation.  Anyone
willing to take eir place temporarily and unfreeze the game, let me know.

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Song In My Head--Laurie Anderson:Babydoll
Current Book--David Brin:Heaven's Reach
I had a bad migraine, that lasted three long years

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 10:12:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Striping

One bright sunny day, in the month of July, as I was digging through the
accumulated mass of proposals, cfj's, rules documents and various things
cluttering my small Acka home, I came across a small paper that I'd
apparently recieved, but had promptly filed away and forgotten.

Now usually this wouldn't have been a problem as it was merely a quick
announcment that Saaremaa had reached a new rank with his Blue Cross.
Usually, this would have been handled by the President, so I filed it away
and completely forgot about it, forgetting also, that currently the
Presidential Seat as well as some of the Senate seats were up for grabs.

Reading it now, and realizing that the ceremony hadn't happened yet, and
that a late ceremony was better than none, I immediately sent out
invitations asking everyone to meet me on the Town Hall Steps, for what
better venue for awarding this to Saaremaa, than upon his very own step.

And so the next day, people (or at least their facsimiles) from all over
Acka flocked to the Town Hall and it's prestigious steps.   I stood on the
lowest step and motioned Saaremaa to stand upon the step engraved with his
name so that all could see.

Advancing slowly up the steps, I stopped and pinned his newly earned
Silver Stripe in place along with his other medals of honor and
distinguishment.

"Congratulations Elder Saaremaa!"

- --JT

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[ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.                  ]
[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 17:04:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Randy Hall <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: ASS

I go to the Library.

I name *Gullible's Travels* by Soul Asylum.

saaremaa
bored

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 18:01:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Election Results

The recent series of elections for office are over. Here are the results:

For DeeJay:

Fortunato:
Mr. Tambourine Man
Attila the Pun
Fortunato
Slakko & EBS
K 2
Alfvaen
Vynd

JT:
/dev/joe
JT & EBS
867-5309
ThinMan & EBS
Koxvolio & EBS*2
Rex Mundi
J.M. Bear

And now onto Illuminatus:

Mr. Tambourine Man:
Mr. Tambourine Man
867-5309
Koxvolio & EBS*2
Slakko & EBS
K 2

Alfvaen:
/dev/joe
ThinMan & EBS
Attila the Pun
Rex Mundi & EBS
J.M. Bear
Fortunato
Alfvaen

JT:
JT & EBS
Vynd

Onwards to senator:

Niccolo Flychuck:
Mr. Tambourine Man
Niccolo Flychuck
Slakko & EBS
Alfvaen

/dev/joe:
/dev/joe
JT & EBS
ThinMan & EBS
Attila the Pun
Fortunato

Rex Mundi:
Koxvolio & EBS*2
Rex Mundi & EBS

J.M. Bear:
J.M. Bear

Vynd:
K 2
Vynd & EBS

And last but not least we have the office of President:

Mr. Tambourine Man:
Mr. Tambourine Man
867-5309
ThinMan & EBS
Attila the Pun
Fortunato
Vynd

K 2:
/dev/joe
JT & EBS
Koxvolio & EBS*2
Rex Mundi & EBS
J.M. Bear
Niccolo Flychuck
Slakko & EBS
Alfvaen
K 2

Which therefore means that our new officers are:

JT as DeeJay (which I think might satisfy a cheese condition)
Alfvaen as Illuminatus
/dev/joe as Senator plus one from either Niccolo Flychuck and Rex Mundi who
shall shortly be selected randomly.
K 2 as President.

I congratulate all these new Officers, especially Alfvaen and K 2 who got the
offices I was also running for (at 4th attempt for K 2 I believe). I shall
now go and figure out how to use the dice server...

MTM, Count Tabula.

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 18:10:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Whether or not EBSs have totally messed up an election :-).

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# On a roll of two it will be the Metamorph Champion Niccolo Flychuck.

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> #C I am throwing a dice to determine who gets the senator post.
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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 18:13:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Whether or not EBSs have totally messed up an election :-).

> # I am throwing a dice to determine who gets the senator post.
> # On a roll of one it will be the EBS champion Rex Mundi.
> # On a roll of two it will be the Metamorph Champion Niccolo Flychuck.
> 
> No. of sides on every die:      2
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>       1

Which means that Rex Mundi joins /dev/joe as Senator, again after many
attempts. My congratulations to him and commiserations to Niccolo.

MTM, Count Tabula.

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 18:15:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Randy Hall <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Election Results

> The recent series of elections for office are over. Here are the results:

My votes were obviously lost, invalid, or somesuch.  Since they would have
no effect, if counted (unless someone else's votes suffered the same
fate), they can remain so, I suppose.

saaremaa

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 19:21:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Election Results

> My votes were obviously lost, invalid, or somesuch.  Since they would have
> no effect, if counted (unless someone else's votes suffered the same
> fate), they can remain so, I suppose.

My belief is that they were invalid. From my reading of the rules (402 I
think but I'm not sure) I believed that only one vote is allowed per player
per office even when the office has more than one open seat. Therefore your
attempt to vote for two people probably failed since it was not unambiguous.
I meant to mail you informing you of this but I was out all day yesterday and
so never got around to it. Sorry.

MTM.

(BTW, if anyone wishes to challenge my interpretation of the rules feel free
to do so since quite a few people either tried voting for two people or
specified two and also mentioned which one they would vote for if only one
was around. If you wish to do so then I recommend you do so quickly since I
will probably be going on vacation (from the game) either tomorrow night or
Saturday morning (GMT) and so you could be left without well defined officers
*again*.)

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 19:29:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFCJ 170 (IdiotBoy)

IdiotBoy has been selected. Sorry about the delay. I've been a bit busy in RL
the past few days.

Clerk of the Courts
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Call For Criminal Judgement 170 - June 29, 1998
Subject: Sinning
Initiator: 867-5309 (sent June 29, 17:38)
Judge: IdiotBoy (selected July 02, 17:27)

Statement:
867-5309 committed the Crime of Original Sin on Thursday, 25 June.

Initiator's Reasoning:
On the date in question, the accused submitted the following
INVIDIOUS-delimited Sin Submission:

INVIDIOUS
A new Sin has been discovered by the tireless researchers of the Ackanomic
Guild of Indulgences and Other Vices.  This Sin is the horrible one of
Abusing One's Privilege.  This Sin is committed when a player who attempts
to create a new Rule via a Hearing, Discovery, Miscellaneous Submission,
or in another non-Proposal manner includes text in this created Rule which
purports to create, amend, or repeal any Rule other than the one being
created.

{{ Append the sentence "This sentence repeals itself seven seconds after 
it becomes part of a Rule." to the end of Rule 611, "Le Grand Fromage." }}
INVIDIOUS

The resultant Sinquisition returned a verdict of "Right up there with
Disrespecting the Harfers."  Hence, by R777 the text of the Sinquisition
was adopted as a new Rule.  The submitter was obviously guilty of the same
Sin e proposed to create, that of Abusing One's Privilege, therefore also
by R777 e has committed the Crime of Original Sin, Q.E.D.

Suggested Penalty:
Harsh! At least a 7-line APOLOGY, in accordance with R777.
The TRANSFERENCE of all eir tradeable entities to the initiator of this
CFCJ, including the covering of the initiator's court costs.
An IMPRISONMENT of three days.

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 20:05:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Illuminatus

Okay.  I confess to having wilfully malfeased in the last Cycle in not
calling for Agenda Conditions.  I will probably try to put through a
fix to the rules for this, such that either it is not required to
call for Agenda Conditions at the beginning of a Cycle a) if the bidding
from the previous Cycle is still going on, and/or b) there's a pending
CWCFJ.

Anyway, in this Cycle, I call for Agenda Conditions.  All hats and
eggplants are listed on the Illuminatus page still(corrections welcome,
if there are any mistakes), so refer to that when determining how many
Conditions to send in.  No non-Active players please.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Rush:Presto
Current Book--David Brin:Heaven's Reach
Tiger, tiger, burning bright, how you save electric light

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 20:21:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Randy Hall <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: banna republic

Lets have an end to this banna republic w.r.t to the one seat
of the office of Historian.  I pay the standard harfer fee.

saaremaa

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 21:04:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Gavin M. Doig" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Whether or not EBSs have totally messed up an election :-).

>Which means that Rex Mundi joins /dev/joe as Senator, again after many
>attempts. My congratulations to him and commiserations to Niccolo.
>
>MTM, Count Tabula.
>
I create a trinket, worth 5 A$, named: my commiserations.

Description: I was defeated in an election by a roll of the dice server and a
ridiculous overuse of Evil Ballot Stuffers and all I got was this lousy
trinket.

I give my commiserations to Niccolo Flychuck.

Rex Mundi.

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 21:46:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Election Results

On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:
>JT as DeeJay (which I think might satisfy a cheese condition)

Yes it does.  And I will have the Deejay page up shortly.

- --JT

>Alfvaen as Illuminatus
>/dev/joe as Senator plus one from either Niccolo Flychuck and Rex Mundi who
>shall shortly be selected randomly.
>K 2 as President.

Congratulations to the returning /dev/joe, to Rex Mundi, K 2, and Alfvaen.

- --JT

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[ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.                  ]
[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 23:39:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Truth for Sale

Nowhere can I see anything against this in the rules, so I figure it
cannot hurt to try :)

To any player who gives me A$50, I will tell them privately the results of
the Truthseeker card I recently played.

- --JT

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[ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.                  ]
[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 23:53:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Truth for Sale

> Nowhere can I see anything against this in the rules, so I figure it
> cannot hurt to try :)

> To any player who gives me A$50, I will tell them privately the results of
> the Truthseeker card I recently played.

Okay.  I'll pay you A$50 for that.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Alan Parsons Project:I Robot
Current Book--Fred Saberhagen:The Dracula Tape
I wanted to marry a model, but I couldn't manage to put it together.

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