Subject: ackanomic digest V3 #285
From: [email-masked] (ackanomic digest)
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ackanomic digest      Wednesday, August 26 1998      Volume 03 : Number 285

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:20:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Vacation

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Thierry Joffrain wrote:
>Btw, I thought I'd come back from vacation, but I've been loosing my marbles
>for a few years now. So I come back from vacation now by doing all actions
>(and more!) that I need to do in order to come back from the vacation I'm
>coming back from and from which I thought I had already returned.
>Previously. Erroneously. Obviously. Right.

I didn't have you marked as being on vacation, so who did?

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:35:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mueller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: End of newbie status

I joined Ackanomic on 8/2/98 and thus, 21 days later on the 23rd of August
ceased to be a newbie (if my calculations are correct).

So, momentarily at least, I am a casteless rogue, in opposition to
society's constricted roles and requirements...

Someone should give me a caste and assimilate me or I just might bring the
whole system down!!!!!

"'Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind' [Terry
Pratchett, Reaper Man]"[K 2, Rule 812/2 Down the river]

Studge

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:41:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: End of newbie status

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Mueller wrote:
>I joined Ackanomic on 8/2/98 and thus, 21 days later on the 23rd of August
>ceased to be a newbie (if my calculations are correct).

You are in fact correct.

Actually, you and quite a few other newbies need to be assigned a caste.
I will do this momentarily.

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:57:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Thierry Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Trade

>I offer Calvin n Hobbes A$1 for his Chartreuse Goose Egg.

I accept this offer.

Not conspiring with the Religious Caste,
CnH

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:58:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Newbie Casting.

Studge, who left newbiehood on 8/23 is now a Worker.
Piz, who left newbiehood on 8/24 is now a  Warrior.
Rig R. Mortis who left newbiehood on 8/25 is now a Warrior.

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 01:31:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Vacation

> On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Thierry Joffrain wrote:
> >Btw, I thought I'd come back from vacation, but I've been loosing my marbles
> >for a few years now. So I come back from vacation now by doing all actions
> >(and more!) that I need to do in order to come back from the vacation I'm
> >coming back from and from which I thought I had already returned.
> >Previously. Erroneously. Obviously. Right.

> I didn't have you marked as being on vacation, so who did?

Well, ever since saaremaa changed "Active" to "Voting", I've had "V"s
on the Scorekeeping page...so now that "Inactive" has been changed
back to "Vacation", it's still abbreviated "I" to reduce confusion.
All clear?  :-)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Henry Lee Summer:Hey Baby
Current Book--S.M. Stirling:Marching Through Georgia
Kirk: It's Ensign Rasta!  Bones: He's dread, Jim.

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 01:34:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: acka: Bandwagon

> >	Alright, that's it.  I'm going to the AIGR.

> I do _not_ go to the AIGR. I go around throwing orange pumpkin pies at the
> houses of players who are at the AIGR.

I go to the Temple of Azpiazu, and wish that it had pointy ears.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Henry Lee Summer:Hey Baby
Current Book--S.M. Stirling:Marching Through Georgia
Sorry, it just sort of hit me like a two-ton...um...heavy thing.

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 01:50:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: ACK #9

> Treasure 135 (buried by Calvin N Hobbes on March 14, 1997; contains the
> trinket Alien Shaking Ball worth A$20).  The clue for this one is a long
> sequence of numbers, separated by (-) and (+) signs in parentheses as
> they are shown here.  The numbers are certainly not random; though they
> vary in magnitude from 0 to over 13 billion, there is a lot of repetition
> and a lot of common factors, i.e., most of the numbers have 11 as a factor,
> many have 101 as well, and some have other interesting factors in the same
> vein (i.e., 3*37 = 111, and 41*271 = 11111).

I've solved this cryptogram, it's only fulfilling the conditions that is
proving difficult.

I will say that factoring the numbers has little to do with the solution,
but the prevalence of the factors noted above might be a bit of a clue.

> Here is the clue:

> 1332243(-)831105(+)9509148(+)0(-)17928207(+)1(-)1(+)1332243(+)2(-)4(+)1(-)1(
> +)8(-)9509148(+)4444(-)8888(+)88211178(-)8888(-)154(+)17928207(-)88211178(+)
> 17776(-)8888(+)2222(-)77(+)855547(-)17928207(+)1111(+)4444(-)88211178(+)1(-)
> 1(+)4(+)831105(-)1111(+)8(-)605(-)16(+)88211178(-)16(-)831105(+)88211178(-)1
> 7928207(+)4444(-)1(-)4444(+)1111(+)16(-)855547(+)1(-)1(+)1332243(+)16(-)1792
> 8207(+)2222(-)4(-)77(-)4(+)8(+)4444(+)4(+)4(-)605(-)17776(+)1(+)1(+)855547(+
> )77(-)1(-)88211178(+)1332243(+)16(-)17928207(+)2222(-)4(-)77(+)1111(+)17776(
> -)13634115363(+)175322466(-)154(-)4(+)4(+)1(+)605(-)839546037(+)1(+)2222(-)1
> 54(-)16(+)88211178(-)8888(+)1(+)16(-)154(+)8888(-)17928207

> And here is a hint given soon afterward:

> There was once a treasure buried
> With a map to it both silly and rabid,
> That without Robert Sevin's webpage,
> And fourteen squared that's not an age
> >From almighty one we must start
> With lonely zero on his own, apart,
> Perhaps the lucky one will see
> Differences in numbers to his glee 

I did find a hint on Robert Sevin's web page.  The mathematically-puzzly
inclined might try to see if there's anything interesting about the
number 196.

> Treasure 169 (buried by Alfvaen on June 18, 1997; contains two trinkets
> worth a total of A$55).  The clue for this one is a string of 132 hex
> digits.  Again I have no idea what these mean, but recent messages by
> Alfvaen suggest they may be somewhat Vigenere-encoded.  I went through
> his remaining prayers for deliverance after solving the Lucky Ball and
> Chain treasure recently, and didn't find any hints for this one.

I will say this, that there is no Vigenere-encoding involved in this
Treasure.  I'd already done that one.

> Here is the clue and the burial message:

I demand a retraction of the above statement.  The clue is patently
misspelled.  Here it is corrected:

Having buried the Exquisite Dead Guy, and finished the Tagline Attribution
Quiz, I am now burying the Hubert Feathers and the Five Hundred Misplaced
Ackadollars--just cause I got another treasure map idea. I am revealing
the following portion of the map:

9D2FAEE4F353B636932019656968F69FE17EB295D007
A68FAEE67C947AC3E5E6DADFBFE089582EDC8E85F127
36BDB4B3D8BBF30EAECA958602ED481195E25D2786C9

> Here is the recent hint:

> 2: Okay, so what about the other one?

> 1: Well, it's a bunch of hexadecimal digits, right?  But they're too
> scattered and varied for letters from any character set.  I'm sure there's
> all sorts of encoding schemes that could have been done.

> 2: The Fibonacci thing was hard enough.

> 1: But there's some clues there, too.  I mean, when Alfvaen originally
> buried the Treasure, e mistyped "Ackadollars" for "Ackapennies", and
> insisted that the text be left to stand as it was.  So that implies that
> that text is important in some way to decoding the map, doesn't it?

> JT, Alfvaen, and Vynd all have received trinkets which are supposed to
> be accompanied by private clues to this treasure, but I have not seen
> any of them.  Probably one of those combined with my above analysis is
> sufficient to decode the map, seeing as two-star claimed they were
> individually enough to find the map :-).

If you're talking about the "Eggplant & Hat Sets", they didn't contain
any clues; I believe that two-star said that they included "everything
needed to find the Treasure".  I always presumed that this meant that
it was possible to find the Treasure by manipulating them in some way.

> Incidentally, another page in the rec.puzzles archive, http://xraysgi.ims.
> uconn.edu/rpa-output/language/english/self.ref/self.ref.letters.s
> (paste together the lines; sorry the URL is so long) lists some solutions
> for the other type of pangram referred to in an Ackanomic treasure, the
> self-referential one ("This sentence contains two a's, one b, ...").  Note
> that it was proven in the solution to that treasure that no pangram could
> be formed in the specified form and with the given beginning part of the
> sentence; with other forms or sentence beginnings it is possible.

Thank you.  I'll have to check this out.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Henry Lee Summer:Hey Baby
Current Book--S.M. Stirling:Marching Through Georgia
The worthy machine ought not always paste the astronomer.

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 01:58:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Agenda

Ah, it's a new cycle, and once again time to call for Agenda Conditions.
The new Illuminatus' page is back up, and with only a small doubt as to
whether K 2 is wearing the hat for which e possesses the Nemesis Eggplant,
should be fairly accurate.

So please, once again, feel free to send me Agenda Conditions, up to
three-minus-the-number-of-Agenda-Hats-you-have.  This message is
going to acka-priv, so your replies won't go to the public dorum.

And hopefully by the time bidding is completed the problem of Nemesis
Eggplants owned by non-players(or whatever happened to them), and the
possibility of more Eggplants to be distributed than players eligible
to receive them, can be fixed.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Marc Cohn:Walking In Memphis
Current Book--S.M. Stirling:Marching Through Georgia
A mad boxer shot a quick, gloved jab to the jaw of his dizzy opponent.

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 02:06:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: No Justice

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Brian Raiter wrote:

> So: the original Supreme Court is now understaffed. I seem to recall
> that there are currently no Ungrafted Justices or (other) understaffed
> Cortices. (Is this information on any of the web pages? If so, I was
> unable to locate it.)

Player Offices Listing
dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/Nomic/Acka/players/offices.html

- -- 
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
Ackanomic - Web-Harfer, CotC, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer, Senator

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 03:07:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka: Raft (Studge)

In a message dated 26/08/98  03:28:52, you write:

> >Studge has found the Raft this week.
>  
>  I now officially express my consent to join the white water rafting team,
>  should such a team be brave enough to risk eir collective neck to the
>  merciless raging of the Ackanomian River.
>  
>  Now I just need the Oar owner, and two other victi-- volunteers.
>  
If, as I believe, I still hold the oar then I shall join the team.

Robin Hood

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 04:26:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bernard El-Hagin <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Newbie Casting.

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, JT wrote:

> Rig R. Mortis who left newbiehood on 8/25 is now a Warrior.

I'm so touched! I'd like to thank my mom (for believing in me), my
girlfriend (for being there for me when I *really* needed her), my 2nd
grade English teacher (for being tough on me thus bringing out the
best in me) and Mr. Tambourine Man (for being the lighthouse in my 
long and turbulent journey through the seas of Ackonomic Newbiedom). 

<tear wipe>

Cheers,
Rig R. Mortis

"Santa Claus doesn't believe in you, either."

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:51:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Retractions?

1. It looks like I missed Attila the Pun's retraction of P3411, so e had
two points less at the end of Cycle 23, as well as at the end of the last
Bond Cycle, so that's A$4 less.  Sorry.

2. Did K 2 ever retract his batch of verbless blueprint-referencing
Proposals?  I don't have a record of that in my pointlogs either.

3. For that matter, has K 2 retracted eir rulenumberless Proposal and
its Siamese twin either?

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--The Infidels:100 Watt Bulb
Current Book--S.M. Stirling:Marching Through Georgia
About sixty codfish eggs will make a quarter pound of very fizzy jelly.

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:53:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: On the move.

Having seen all the hula-ba-loo at the AIGR.. I go to the Library.. I go
to *THAT* room.  I then go stand outside CnH's home and just stare at it.

IB

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:54:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: CSR 148

> > Amend section iii of Rule 403 (Functional Offices, Commonalties) by
> > replacing the phrase "for a Functional Office vacated by vacation." with
> > "for a Functional Office whose encumberant is on Vacation."

> I object to this CSR.  The word "encumberant" in the above paragraph
> should properly be "incumbent".

Yes, well, the Quirpele of Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
can fix that.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--The Infidels:Celebrate
Current Book--S.M. Stirling:Marching Through Georgia
"He had six days, of course.  We only have six hours."

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:08:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Duncan C. \"Slakko\" Richer" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CSR 148

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:

> 
> > > Amend section iii of Rule 403 (Functional Offices, Commonalties) by
> > > replacing the phrase "for a Functional Office vacated by vacation." with
> > > "for a Functional Office whose encumberant is on Vacation."
> 
> > I object to this CSR.  The word "encumberant" in the above paragraph
> > should properly be "incumbent".
> 
> Yes, well, the Quirpele of Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
> can fix that.

Yes, but that's no excuse for bad
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

(Hadn't we passed a proposal to fix that?)

Further, this was the second time I pointed that mistake out.  The error
was repeated, which I believe was sufficient to justify my objection.

- -- 
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
Ackanomic - Web-Harfer, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer, CotC, Senator

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:29:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Duncan C. \"Slakko\" Richer" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CSR 148

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Duncan C. "Slakko" Richer wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:
> 
> > Yes, well, the Quirpele of Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
> > can fix that.
> 
> (Hadn't we passed a proposal to fix that?)

I would like to bring Alfvaen's attention to Proposal 3180:

:       Proposal 3180 - Tue 02 Jun 1998 03:44 EDT 
:       I'm Not Flyin' No Quirpele, Nohow 
:       Slakko (Duncan Richer) 
:       Decision: accepted 
:
:This is a Modest Proposal. 
:
:Replace all instances of the text "Quirpele of
:Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" in each and every Rule
:where it
:appears with the text "Spelling Bee". 
:
:[I am not going to initiate a flight of the Quirpele of
:Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.] 

Yours,
Slakko
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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
Ackanomic - Web-Harfer, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer, Clerk of the Court

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:16:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Grey Council

> >It's new.
> >We stand between the darkness and the light.
> >Between the candle and the star.
> >Religious, Warrior and Worker.
> >The space in the middle is left for the one who will be.
> 
> <ferocious warrior look>
> 
> Enough prophesies! We require deeds!
> 
  Deeds without words do not honour the one who was.

  Words without deeds will not bring the one who will be.

  And without our tasks being performed none of this might happen.

 Wild (Religious) Card

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Jonathan David Amery, Trinity Hall, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1TJ.             #####
http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~jda23/home.html                  o__#######
Wild Card of Acka, member of SPAM, wearing a Silly Agenda Hat.   \'#######
Follower of Banna, the EBS and Odo.  Holding the Silver Key to the Vault.

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:24:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: The Infrequent Ackan Volume 2 Issue 1

> Grab-a-Donkey
>
> Grab-a-Donkey is now 24 rounds old, making it a colossal game.  It is
> almost complete, with only 3 players remaining.  However, the last round
> failed to see any decent action, with one cover and two admirings.
> Hopefully else...if, Fortunato and rufus can be a little more aggressive,
> and get this game over with in the not too distant future.  The rest of us
> have been unable to play GAD for upwards of 3 months in some cases.

K 2

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:24:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Auction Them entities

This was the winning bid. MTM has received te 27624th A$ in the Treasury, formerly
of ZotZotZot 6 for A$ 2.

K 2

Tom Walmsley wrote:

> >Vynd:

> >I bid one Ackadollar.
>
> I bid A$2.
>
> Mr. Tambourine Man.

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:24:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3467

JT wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, nomicbot wrote:
> >The Office of Dungeon Master is an optional office, whose duties are:
> >(i) to generate Characteristic Values as specified in the previous
> >paragraph when required to do so.
>
> Um, what previous paragraph? :)
>

cut & paste, cut & paste, cut & paste..... D'oh!!

I retract proposal 3467. I donate A$ 1 to the twits.

K 2
At least e managed to post this to the main list....

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:25:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3443 accepted

Either it serves me right for not reading Slakko's proposal in its
entirety or.....

I donate A$ 6 to the twits.

K 2

Brian Raiter wrote:

> Unless I'm horribly mistaken, proposals 3443, 3444, 3445, 3446, and
> 3448 are all Null Proposals.
>
> I believe that as of Proposal 3369, the rules no longer define
> Blueprints as capable of being Debunked - only Discoveries.
>
> breadbox

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:51:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Raft, Robe of Justice.

 I volunteer, and consent, to join the white water rafting team,
 In an attempt to safeguard eir souls and my dream.

 I don the Purple Robe of Justice,
 I find that wearing is is just nice.

 I bury my Pyraic Frobnotzer in a hole,
 The map reads something like this in whole:

 This treasure will be found by the fourth player
 to win a cycle during the month of September or, later

 By Wild Card on the
 1st of October if it
 Has not been found yet.

 I am wearing a Silly Agenda Hat,
 What do you say to that?

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:21:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination

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# based on the following (using a 49 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 - 40 Long Lost Treasure
# 41 - 41 Forbidden Fruit
# 42 - 42 Catastrophe
# 43 - 46 Not so Forbidden Fruit
# 47 - 47 Ancient One
# 48 - 49 Judgement Day

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> #T Acka: Ackanomicon Determination
> 
> #C Player: IdiotBoy
> #C Ackanomicon Determination
> #C based on the following (using a 49 sided die)
> #C
> #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 - 40 Long Lost Treasure
> #C 41 - 41 Forbidden Fruit
> #C 42 - 42 Catastrophe
> #C 43 - 46 Not so Forbidden Fruit
> #C 47 - 47 Ancient One
> #C 48 - 49 Judgement Day
> 
> 
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> [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:36:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CSR 148

Duncan C. "Slakko" Richer wrote:

> I would like to bring Alfvaen's attention to Proposal 3180:
>
> :       Proposal 3180 - Tue 02 Jun 1998 03:44 EDT
> :       I'm Not Flyin' No Quirpele, Nohow
> :       Slakko (Duncan Richer)
> :       Decision: accepted
> :

isn't that the one of which rule -1 says:
all players shall believe and act as tho P3180 was accepted.
All players shall forget this rule
This rule has precedence over all rules.

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:36:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CSR 150

I am issuing the following CSR numbered 150, LETSCON delimited which
alters only the Ackanomic Lexicon:
LETSCON
Add forment and hrumph to the Ackanomic Lexicon
LETSCON

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:36:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Something odd.

I hope you will all pardon me for this, and I know it will seem odd, but
I actually have a method for my madness.

I grab Red Barn's Donkey.

(since neither he nor I are in a game of GAD, I cannot see that this has
any game effect, but I do it anyway :)

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:36:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: A test of the Emergency Broadcast System

Its been weeks since our scare monger has come even close to scarng me
so..... particularly with the end of the game (err cycle) e should be
active.....

I am calling for A test of the Emergency Broadcast System. Not only is
it a loud tone, it is also a hearing. Valid responses are "The sky is
falling!" and "It is only a little hailstorm.". See rule 432.

k 2

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:36:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Raft (Studge)

I also would like to join - I have a card (Felicous populi :)

K 2

Mueller wrote:

> JT wrote:
> >Studge has found the Raft this week.
>
> I now officially express my consent to join the white water rafting team,
> should such a team be brave enough to risk eir collective neck to the
> merciless raging of the Ackanomian River.
>
> Now I just need the Oar owner, and two other victi-- volunteers.
>
> Studge

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:39:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination

Dice server wrote:

> # 47 - 47 Ancient One
>

>      47

It did that on purpose.

K 2

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:44:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Thrall Master

We have a Thrall Master and it is Slakko.

K 2
Prez

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:49:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Raft (Studge)

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, K2 wrote:
>I also would like to join - I have a card (Felicous populi :)

I will offer to make up the fourth, and will offer K2 A$50 to help fund
the use of the Felicitous Populi card.

- --JT

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[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:51:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: A test of the Emergency Broadcast System

>Its been weeks since our scare monger has come even close to scarng me
>so..... particularly with the end of the game (err cycle) e should be
>active.....
>
>I am calling for A test of the Emergency Broadcast System. Not only is
>it a loud tone, it is also a hearing. Valid responses are "The sky is
>falling!" and "It is only a little hailstorm.". See rule 432.
	Be warned, for this is only the beginning!  Ackanomic crumbles into
complacency, and only doom awaits!
(I'm still prophet of doom)

- --
- -Henry Towsner

	<[email-masked]>

	Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and
enjoy it.
		-Logan Pearsall Smith

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 13:06:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Offices: Bad Rhyme

I set JT's house on fire in such away that it may never be extinguished except
by application of a rule which _specifically_ allows for a house fire to be
extinguished.

I ask the map harfer to note this fact.

K 2

JT wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, K2 wrote:
> >I accordance with my election promises I am setting the following player's
> >houses on fire:
> >JT & EBS
>
> Since setting my house on fire isn't mandated by the rules, neither is
> extinguishing the fire, which I do while remaining at the AIGR and calling
> down rain from the heavens (another non-regulated act) to extinguish the
> fire that is burning in my house.
>
> >I would ask the map harfer to duly note this Fact :)
>
> I ask the Map Harfer to duly note the fact that my house is not burning.
>
> --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: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 13:38:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Offices: Bad Rhyme

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, K2 wrote:
>I set JT's house on fire in such away that it may never be extinguished except
>by application of a rule which _specifically_ allows for a house fire to be
>extinguished.
>
>I ask the map harfer to note this fact.

I cause a lightning bolt from the heavens to strike K 2 setting him on
fire in such a way that he cannot be extinguished except by application of
a rule which specifically allows a player to extinguish themself.

I ask the flaming K 2 to note his flamage on the P/E page.

- --JT, more than willing to make the two it takes to play at this game :)

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 13:48:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Rafting Trip

The following 4 people have consented to go Rafting.
Studge (Raft) 
Robin Hood (Oars)
K 2
JT

I will generate the results in a bit.
Unfortunately, K 2 did not play the Felicitous Populi card before the
event which he wanted to control, so it cannot be played retroactively.
I therefore withdraw my offer of A$50 for him to play the card.

- --JT

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[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 13:53:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Rafting Trip

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> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:53:28 -0700 (PDT)
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> Subject: Acka: Rafting
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> #P [email-masked]
> #S 5
> #D 1
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> 
> #C Players: JT, K 2, Studge, Robin Hood
> #C 
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> --JT
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 13:57:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: AARON KEESLER <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Rafting Trip

One day, perhaps, something good will come of one of these...

Apparently not today, tho.

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>Original message follows:
>> From [email-masked]  Wed Aug 26 10:53:32 1998
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>> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:53:28 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: JT <[email-masked]>
>> To: Dice Server <[email-masked]>
>> Subject: Acka: Rafting
>> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
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>> #P [email-masked]
>> #S 5
>> #D 1
>> #R 1
>> #L 1
>> #T Acka: Rafting Trip
>> 
>> #C Players: JT, K 2, Studge, Robin Hood
>> #C 
>> #C Rafting Trip results
>> #C 1 - Broken Conservation laws
>> #C 2 - Lost in the Wilds
>> #C 3 - Capsize/loss of items
>> #C 4 - Capsize/Concussion
>> #C 5 - Success/Boon/Daring Adventurer/7 Points
>> 
>> --JT
>> 
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:00:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael Pizolato" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Offices: Bad Rhyme

- ----------
:From: jtraub
:To: ackanomic
:Subject: Re: Acka: Offices: Bad Rhyme
:Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 1:38PM
:
:On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, K2 wrote:
:>I set JT's house on fire in such away that it may never be extinguished
except
:>by application of a rule which _specifically_ allows for a house fire to
be
:>extinguished.
:>
:>I ask the map harfer to note this fact.
:
:I cause a lightning bolt from the heavens to strike K 2 setting him on
:fire in such a way that he cannot be extinguished except by application of
:a rule which specifically allows a player to extinguish themself.
:
:I ask the flaming K 2 to note his flamage on the P/E page.
:
:--JT, more than willing to make the two it takes to play at this game :)

I create a trinket called a "Band Aid" with a value of A$1 and a description
of "Oo, that'll leave a mark." I bury this trinket as a treasure with the
following OUCH-delimited treasure map:

OUCH
This treasure will be found by the first player to extinguish a fire by
application of a rule which specifically allows a fire to be extinguished.
OUCH

Piz

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