Subject: ackanomic Digest V4 #185
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ackanomic Digest	Monday, July 12 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 185

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From: Luc Tessier <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: The Proposal
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 02:15:11 -0400 (EDT)

I add to the proposal the following sentence:

It is also a unique ownable entity, and when not owned by a player, it is
owned by Phoebe.

-- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
DeeJay * Harfmeister * Rule-Harfer * Wrangler

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From: Luc Tessier <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: OC
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 02:24:00 -0400 (EDT)

I convert 15 points into a random Otzma Card.

I yell at the speaker for not having generated the random otzma card i made
on the 27th of June.

-- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
DeeJay * Harfmeister * Rule-Harfer * Wrangler

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Who nose?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 03:08:44 -0400 (EDT)

My nose is bright red - not unlike my cheeks. It throbs slightly - not
unlike my head during this thread split. Its shape is indeterminate due
to its attachment to my face - which is hiding. It radiates an aura of
acute embarrassment. It has no board move, because I would be too
embarrassed to place it on the board.

K 2

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: IdiotBoy's lost treasure
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 06:43:40 -0400 (EDT)

Bother :/

I have no idea why this wasn't harfed...

I've added it as T260-7i

I gift A$79 to IB so that eir A$ balance is positive.

K 2

> Matt Miller wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 21:44:35 -0400 (EDT)
> > X-Sent-At-Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 21:44:23 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
> > To: [email-masked]
> > Subject: Acka: Paella Anyone?
> > Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
> >
> > Heh, just kidding.
> >
> > But I am burying a Bonus Vote (since I have one) and A$100 as treasure.  I
> > am revealing this portion of the map.  Or something.
> >
> > SnVzdCBzYXkgV29vZiEK
> > ====
> >
> > Yours truly-
> > IB

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: a song, please
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 06:43:40 -0400 (EDT)

Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote:

> Satisfied, K 2?

I'm totally confused... can I have my token back :-)

K 2

>
>
> -- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
> DeeJay * Wrangler * Rule-Harfer

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: My Nose
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 06:43:53 -0400 (EDT)

Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote:

> I offer K 2 my (his) ASS token back.

I accept

K 2

> -- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
> DeeJay * Wrangler * Rule-Harfer

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: My Nose
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 07:11:49 -0400 (EDT)

Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote:

> I offer K 2 my (his) ASS token back.

I accept

K 2

> -- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
> DeeJay * Wrangler * Rule-Harfer

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From: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: FYI: OS: JUL (+R: Laa Laa)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 10:06:33 -0400 (EDT)

K 2 wrote:
> 
> I announce my intent to resign as Treasure Harfer, DM and Org Harfer.
> 
> Treasure Harfer is great fun - although it would benifit greatly by
> having something like an automatic sculpture as pay.
> 
> Rob (my harfing script) harfs the harf characteristic and generates the
> DM and Org pages automatically, the formatting of which can be changed
> quite easily - so lack of web harfing ability/space needen't hold anyone
> back - assuming you want to use rob - in any case the duties currently
> require very little time :-)

I think all of these are functional (if not, somebody please correct me)
and so if you want any of them then reply to me to nominate yourself.
Please make clear which one (or ones) you want.

Laa Laa.

-- 
Tom "I am not a walrus" Walmsley. mailto:[email-masked]
http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html ICQ: 2925739
"Among wizards?" said Ridcully. "Mister Stibbons, unusual behaviour is
perfectly ordinary for wizards." - Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

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From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Woof!
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:11:40 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:

> Woof!
> Woof! Woof! Woof!
> 
> I say "Woof!" in case the above was not clear.
> 
> /dev/joe
> 

/dev/joe has found the treasure which was unlisted on K2's page, until he
rediscovered it!

The map was:

"
Just say Woof!
"

IB

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From: Eric Wald <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Race to the Finish
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 12:08:41 -0400 (EDT)

K 2:
> With Robin Hood's departure and r-attila the farce's iciness, Danek and
> Sir Galahad are the only remaining players eligible for T208.

Did you actually mean T208 (containing Second Prize)
or T200 (containing the Exquisite Dead Guy)?
As I read it, T208 depends on making others ineligibile for T200.

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From: Eric Wald <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: a song, please
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 12:17:04 -0400 (EDT)

Emperor Ai! Pedrito!:
> If and only if Chess Piece Face is not playing on the ASS, I place A$150
> into the banna-shaped slot, naming the song Chess Piece Face.  I go home.

If and only if this occurs, I describe my nose as follows:

My nose is an Eagle.  It is bright gold, with blue eyes.
It is shaped as an eagle with outstretched wings,
save when it is on the ground level of the Party Board;
there it is perched upright with a piercing gaze 
directed at the player looking at it,
or the nearest chess piece while no player dares look.

While an Eagle is on the Party Board,
it has an infinite number of levels above the ground level.
Pieces may be placed only on the ground level;
however, while an Eagle is on a level other than the ground level,
each piece on any other level has an extra move:
it may move to the square on the Eagle's level
corresponding to that on which it is before the move, 
if that square and all squares through which it moves are empty.

The Eagle may move directly to any square three squares along one axis, 
two squares along another, and one square along the third,
provided this square is neither below the ground level
nor off the edge of the board.  It may capture using this move,
or a piece four levels directly underneath it
provided the three intervening squares are empty.

When an Eagle is removed from the Party Board, no other Eagles are on it, 
and at least one piece is on a level above the ground level, 
each piece underneath another piece is removed from the board,
and each piece left on a level above the ground level
is moved to its corresponding square on the ground level.

Sir Galahad

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From: Eric Wald <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Shrubbery!
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 12:21:26 -0400 (EDT)

> > I zap Andrew Quizzan.
> 
> I'm a shrubbery, not a lightning rod, so there.

I prune Andrew Quizzan into the shape of a goose.

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From: "Andrew Quizzan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Shrubbery!
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:59:59 -0400 (EDT)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Eric Wald <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: Acka: Shrubbery!

> > > I zap Andrew Quizzan.
> >
> > I'm a shrubbery, not a lightning rod, so there.
> 
> I prune Andrew Quizzan into the shape of a goose.

And e did a very fine job.

Do you always carve your observers into various faunae? ;)

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From: Eric Wald <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Shrubbery!
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:39:04 -0400 (EDT)

> > I prune Andrew Quizzan into the shape of a goose.
> 
> And e did a very fine job.
> 
> Do you always carve your observers into various faunae? ;)

Only the outspoken ones.
I considered painting you chartreuse, 
but that might interfere with your function as a shrubbery.

Sir Galahad

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: OC
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:45:08 -0400 (EDT)

>I convert 15 points into a random Otzma Card.
>
>I yell at the speaker for not having generated the random otzma card i made
>on the 27th of June.
>

I did this on the 30th or thereabouts. It was of type Roulette Wheel.

King Felix
(une chat andalou)

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From: Luc Tessier <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: OC
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:00:38 -0400 (EDT)

At 02:45 PM 7/12/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>I convert 15 points into a random Otzma Card.
>>
>>I yell at the speaker for not having generated the random otzma card i made
>>on the 27th of June.
>>
>
>I did this on the 30th or thereabouts. It was of type Roulette Wheel.
>
>King Felix
>(une chat andalou)
> 

err... i must have meant when i did it on the 14th of june with 20 points -
sorry.  you were on vacation, but no one ever made it for me.
-- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
DeeJay * Harfmeister * Rule-Harfer * Wrangler

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From: Luc Tessier <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Trinket Creation, Treasure burial
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:21:24 -0400 (EDT)

I perform the following TREASURE-TIME-delimited conversion 6 times:

TREASURE-TIME
I convert 1 mannna into A$2.
TREASURE-TIME

I create a trinket worth A$11 called The Lost Xazij of P4028, with the
following description:

"
17) Mordecai Malignatus' Words of Wisdom (A$4): Passed down from generation
to generation, the Words of Wisdom seem mere drivel to the unilluminated.
The true adept, however, realizes that there is a truth behind every lie
and a lie behind every truth. 

18) The Second Book of the Law of Fives (A$4): The book is a thin pamphlet
with a holographic picture of a camel on the front. Inscribed on the first
page is the mysterious phrase, `Five is the number, in twos, in threes, and
especially in fives' 

19) It's not that bad, really, it's not (A$3): It *looks* ugly. In fact, it
looks *really* ugly. However, It's not that bad, really it's not is easier
to understand than most of the other Xazij.
"

I will give whoever owns this trinket the clues that were associated with
these destroyed trinkets.
I bury it as a treasure and reveal the following:

...Ackanomic Rules are in peril.  Failure 45 of split bids with that trust...

-- Emperor Ai! Pedrito!
DeeJay * Harfmeister * Rule-Harfer * Wrangler

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From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Rulius Harfius
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:58:00 -0400 (EDT)

>AIIIIEEE!!!! Where's the ScareMonger when you need them.
	All the better.  More to worry about....  I return from vacation.
I grumble quietly about all the court decisions.  I welcome the assorted
new observers.  I apologize if I missed an important piece of mail; kindly
remind me if there's something important you want me to do.  Oh yes, and
thanks to Laa Laa for filling in as CotC.

--
-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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Subject: Re: Acka: Woof!
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:00:28 -0400 (EDT)

Matt Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:
> > Woof!
> > Woof! Woof! Woof!
> > 
> > I say "Woof!" in case the above was not clear.
> 
> /dev/joe has found the treasure which was unlisted on K2's page, until he
> rediscovered it!
> 
> The map was:
> 
> "
> Just say Woof!
> "
> 
> IB

When I found this treasure map, it reminded me somewhat of another of IB's
treasures, in which he had posted two base64-encoded paragraphs, and
asked solvers to pick the correct one.  Base64 is the MIME encoding,
similar to uuencoding, but with a different character set and a different
encapsulation scheme.

Anyway, I decoded the text on this basis and that's what it said.

Incidentally, when I looked, I found a file in my acka directory containing
this map; I must have been feeling particularly uninspired when this was
posted, to have started on it and not solved it.

/dev/joe

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From: "Andrew Quizzan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Rulius Harfius
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:06:07 -0400 (EDT)

----- Original Message -----
From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: Acka: Rulius Harfius

> >AIIIIEEE!!!! Where's the ScareMonger when you need them.
> All the better.  More to worry about....  I return from vacation.
> I grumble quietly about all the court decisions.  I welcome the assorted
> new observers.  I apologize if I missed an important piece of mail; kindly
> remind me if there's something important you want me to do.  Oh yes, and
> thanks to Laa Laa for filling in as CotC.

Feel free to arrange this humble shrubbery into whatever form you please.

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