Conniving Multiplayer - Game 3

[MercantileInterest]

Sure. Anyone who wants is free to comment on this as if it were an AAR. It's nice to know the struggles of the Glorious Spartan Federation and the Working Class have not gone unnoticed.  Soon, we should get Morgan Howell, Yang, maybe even Lal participating.

[Buster's Uncle]

Hey, I always encourage roll-playing and even smack-talking -provided nobody gets mad fer realz- in TTTs, even though I prefer to not tell MPlayers what to do.  It's value-added to the game for the other players, and definitely makes it fun to monitor for spectators like me and sundry lurkers.

Thanks for making this not a check-new-post-and-go-to-next experience for me, alone.

Fifty thumbs-up post for you, in fact:
 
 
 
 
 

[MercantileInterest]

Massive fungal bloom centered where I was about to put my next city. This is all Yang's fault. The mindworms were peaceful until he started attacking their neural towers. Communists always destroy the ecology.

With Deirdre's pod detonating in orbit, we don't even have an environmentalist on this mission. We're all going to die.

[Nevill]

Our favorite potato farm has dried up. Someone is going to pay dearly for this.

Seeing how the Drones are the only ones openly admitting to messing with the Unity Pods, I am inclined to think they are the ones involved.

[Pierce Ji-Yang]

Good news everyone Yang has arrived, and this year he has been voted as planet's most popular for the 46th time in a row! 

[MercantileInterest]

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Glorious Leader has arrived!

[MercantileInterest]

An inexplicable delay in gameplay has resulted in this important schematic:

The Command Structure of the Steel Driving Men

Ruling Party: The Living Standard
President: Antonine Goesel
Chief of Labor: Benjamin Berkhardt
Chief of Maritime Operations: Bill P. Floyd
Chief of Supply and Agriculture: Irwin Stotts

The Working Man's Union
Foreman: Bran Domai
Lead Agitator: Samuel Schlick
Lead Financier: Roger Benton
Lead Developer: Paul Wilkinson

The Union has several hundred members among the Peacekeepers, largely in the Temple of Sol. A number of agents operate in Howellite territory but, as no official contact has been made, they have not yet succeeded in establishing a minimum wage in that faction.

[MercantileInterest]

My fellow workers,

In the fifty-ninth year of the Unity Mission, we've achieved a feat undreamed in the history of man. We have placed a city upon the mighty deep. Cannery Row now stands in the midst of the Wormfloat Channel. Bountiful nutrients and energy resources will shortly lead to great prosperity.

On behalf of the Union, I now claim all the seas around the salt stained shores of our homeland. United Nations reports reveal a plot by the Human Hive to establish an oppressive neocolonial enterprise upon the oceans. Such an attempt will be met with full legal and social resistance.

   - Foreman Domai
         By the Sweat of Our Brows

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Still stuck on the bottom of the power graph. Meanwhile, the Howellites and the Peacekeepers possess roughly equal empires. Lal has assembled an army well drilled of 'Assult Boyz' and legions of probe teams. Wonder what he's up to. The teeming masses of the Human Hive have increased to over 30 population, or about twice as much as everyone else. The Spartans have mustered roughly ten impact rovers.

Our AI alien friends are puttering about doing nothing noticeable.

[Nevill]

After 10 years of long and grueling warfare, the Glorious Spartan Federation is proud to report their first major achievement.

Before and After:



The Aliens still have some ungodly numbers of infantry, but at least the tides have now finally turned.

[MercantileInterest]

All out war! Our intelligence shows the Peacekeepers have begun their own attack on the Caretakers. Things are looking poorly for the Progenitors.

The Book of Planet: First Victory

   The alien defenses have at last fallen and Colonel Santiago takes up a survey position
near the perimeter. The Elite Spartan Death Commando Force moves in on the breach with
quick, decisive movements, their lasers refracting on the resonance fields around
Manifest Doom.
   Bursts of light and fire erupt from the base, followed by waves of vibrating sound
and energy that hit the chest like a jackhammer. A nearby guard goes suddenly pale.
   "Alien screams," the Colonel says, as another burst of fire and a loud pop comes from
the strange four-legged bases. "They tear the resonance field when they die."
   And their hard carapaces burst open like popcorn kernels, she also thinks, but
extensive training has already calmed the guard. The popping increases, and the screams.
She and the guard turn away as a hard faced lieutenant turns on a device that dulls the
sonic assault. In the snow covered hills north of the base, alien refugees flee into rocky
canyons, a few being chased down by extermination rovers.
   At last the pops slow in frequency and the all clear signal comes. Two guards at the
breach stand at full attention and Santiago can feel the pride radiating from their stiff
faces. She nods to them as she passes.
  She enters the base, the first base captured from the alien menace.

[MercantileInterest]

The other survivors, wretched exploited workers all, struggle in desperate xenocidal warfare but that's no reason for you not to join the Free Drone* Tourism Union! Situated a comfortable 72 yards above sea level, the Luddite Luxury facility offers unmatched relaxation on a tropical island paradise. Swim** in the shimmering blue seas. Sunbathe on sunny shores. Taste the masterpieces of Howellite chef Slobadan Gonzalez. Hike over miles of pristine natural habit. Ease your mind with leisurely welding activities. Watch the twins setting over the distant horizon.

With such a great opportunity, you should rush to pay your union dues before your friends steal the good spots!


*Free Drone is used here informally, not in the usual derogatory sense.
** These waters have not been certified free of predatory fauna. FDTU accepts no liability for recreational mishaps.

[Nevill]

Things are starting to look up for Spartans.



Elite rover teams are great equalizer, but they make all other units appear slow as those can never catch up.

Conversarions are written almost as they happened in-game.

6 turns are left until something interesting happens.

[MercantileInterest]

AD 2167 (0729 hours)
Luddite Luxury Construction Site
Saul Wu: Personal Log

We've got the outer frameworks up and laid the primary foundations but this isn't shaping up anything like the brochures. Why'd we have to dig out holes for the generators and the supply rooms? Why does the master blueprint include so many observation turrets? As for making the walls three yards thick, that's just a waste of resources. The worst part is all the man sized artificial reefs we've placed at the tide line. They make it impossible to swim without getting torn up on the jagged edges.

I can't figure this place out.

[Pierce Ji-Yang]

Money for all comes flowing into the Perfect Collective with the latest Secret Project built: The Money Bin!

[MercantileInterest]

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There wouldn't be a railroad coming through, if there weren't real men on the rock blasting through!

Expansion continues over the Pearl Sea. United Nations reports indicate the Spartan Federation is constructing warships. They are not welcome in our sea. We will deal with Hornbill Point.