[SPOILERS] Why is a raven like a writing-desk?

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The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had VERY long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.

'Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'

'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.

'I don't much care where—' said Alice.

'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.

'—so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.

'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.'

Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. 'What sort of people live about here?'

'In THAT direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round, 'lives a Hatter: and in THAT direction,' waving the other paw, 'lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.

'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'

'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.

'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'

Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on 'And how do you know that you're mad?'

'To begin with,' said the Cat, 'a dog's not mad. You grant that?'

'I suppose so,' said Alice.

'Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.'

'I call it purring, not growling,' said Alice.

'Call it what you like,' said the Cat. 'Do you play croquet with the Queen to-day?'

'I should like it very much,' said Alice, 'but I haven't been invited yet.'

'You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished.

Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so used to queer things happening.

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Assuming I get Perpentach, here are my goals:

• Go for Drama early to try and get the free Bard.
• Expand aggressively, especially to claim extra mana nodes.
• Be very adaptable. Try to be ready to take advantage of potential trait changes for cheap buildings and other bonuses.
• Be ready to be aggressive if possible. I expect the other players to pick civilizations that are strongest later in the game(Calabim, Kurioates, Ljosalfar, Malakim, etc). Wounding or killing someone before they're ready for it could be decisive.
• Do better at reporting and keeping up with this thread. At a minimum I want to post something relevant every 4-5 turns.

I expect to do the same sort of partial C&D and analysis that I tend to do, but I'm not sure if I'll post about it more.

Also, Bob has been dedicated lurking me for the past few games I've been in, and obviously he won't be this time. If someone else is interested, it would be nice to have someone to discuss things with on Gchat.

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I've read Sian's thread so far, but it doesn't contain anything but pick choices yet. If you're still interested and he's okay with that I'd be willing to dedlurk.

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Yeah that would be great. I definitely make better decisions when I have someone available to discuss them with.

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Take whatever time you need, Merovech.

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Take whatever time you need, Merovech.

Thanks, I appreciate.

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Map is ready. I apologize for how long this took.

Thanks for doing this Merovech, and don't worry about the time - we'll be playing this for a lot longer

So the Overlords are banned, huh. I wonder if that means we have a lot of lakes riddling the land or are seperated by the coast on 2-3 sides.

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I'd rather just ban Tsunami. Cultists who don't cast tsunami are just water walking disciples with 5 strength.

But could be a recipe for empowering those fabled Flesh Golems, no?

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It begins!




Without the starting settler bonus, and with such a hammer-starved start, there was really only one logical choice for settling:




I think I'm going to need to settle Calendar resources asap for commerce.