From briank@fredericia.mail.telia.com Sat May 2 05:54:51 1998 Received: from maild.telia.com (root@maild.telia.com [194.22.190.3]) by devel.diplom.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA13561 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 22:54:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1o104.telia.com (root@d1o104.telia.com [194.255.248.241]) by maild.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA10537 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 07:54:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fredericia.mail.telia.com (t1o104p39.telia.com [194.255.248.39]) by d1o104.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA00724 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 07:54:44 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <354AB22D.70A9AE6E@fredericia.mail.telia.com> Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 07:42:05 +0200 From: Brian Kieslich X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dippouch@devel.diplom.org Subject: Rudolph is a reindeer !!! References: <199804291646.JAA20092@devel.diplom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO Hi Manus, A story about Rudolph and Santa Claus should be in a Winter issue. I you need something for the Fall issue, I have a little story ready for you. I'm still working on a bigger one, but if this one is in the taste of the readers and too easy I can have the other one ready in time. Brian A CRYPTIC POSTCARD. One rainy afternoon I went to my club, hoping for a game of Bridge or even better Diplomacy. As none of the usual players was present I settled for a Glenfiddich and a chair by the fire. As I sat down I heard an angry voice from the other chair "....and they have no discipline." I looked over and there was M sitting, apparently talking to his Brandy. Before I could ask him what the problem was he decided to tell me. "There has been some rumours about war next year. We know that all great powers has sent out a spy from their capital to spy in another capital, so we did too. But what are they worth, I ask? They have no respect for military or naval traditions, and what takes an army or fleet six month to investigate, they travel through in one day. How can they gather information with that speed ? And I doubt they do. We wanted our spy to tell us who was spying on who, and all he sends back is this.". M handed me a postcard with a picture of some scouts and a 'Wish you were here' on one side and what looks like a normal letter on the other side. "Dear Uncle, We have much fun here at the scouts summer camp. Last week we had a competition. We were all given a different task. We started Monday, and the first two finished on Wednesday, two on Thursday, one Friday, one Saturday and the last one Sunday. My russian friend and I finished the same day. Please send some money. See you soon. James." "Both you and James play that game Diplomacy, so maybe you can see, if there is a meaning to this, or if he is in his second childhood." "Do you know how many days he travelled ?" I asked. M mumbled something about a well used expence account and told me what I needed to know. And before we had finished our drinks I told M what he wanted to know. So one rainy afternoon, take a whiskey and read the postcard from James, and you will also know who spied on who that summer in 1899. From manus@diplom.org Fri May 8 19:00:49 1998 Received: from starship.python.net (starship.python.net [209.67.56.18]) by devel.diplom.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA22264 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 12:00:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from manus@localhost) by starship.python.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02360 for dippouch@diplom.org; Fri, 8 May 1998 15:00:37 -0400 Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by starship.python.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA24727 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 20:28:42 -0400 Received: from d1o104.telia.com (root@d1o104.telia.com [194.255.248.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA18137 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 02:28:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fredericia.mail.telia.com (t5o104p37.telia.com [194.255.249.37]) by d1o104.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA19645 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 02:28:43 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <35524A69.B666010D@fredericia.mail.telia.com> Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 01:57:29 +0200 From: Brian Kieslich X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: manus@diplom.org Subject: Re: Sail_Ho!_Diplomacy(c)_Mailing_List. New Game: Founder. References: <199805072215.SAA17975@starship.python.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: manus@diplom.org Status: RO Hi Manus, > The judge does support disbanding on dislogement, of course. > Each player just has to issue the "Army Wherever Disband" order. Of course ! When I was making the game I was mostly thinking about the next issue. > As for build anywhere, this is supported as well, but I don't > know what flag you have to set to make the game allow it. The JK says there isn't such flag yet. He is working on it. I have asked around and it looks like only DEAC has it. How was my last story ? Too easy or acceptable. Can you rate it on a scale from 1 to 5. 0=for children, 6=too difficult to amuse. My next puzzle is at a crossroad. Is it ok that only 1/3 of the solution depends on the map, or do you prefer 2/3 ? Brian