What gives man? Just chill!

Like, we're totally philosophical 'n' s***. Man, look within yourself.

:smoke: :smoke: :smoke:

Make peace, not war. Dude, that's what we're all about. :smoke:

Hello, and welcome to RB-17, The Hippies. The Roster is the following:

"Zepyranth" Zalson
"Pheasant's Eye" Pholkhero
"Good Grass" GreyFox
"Roseblossom" rex-tyranus
"Bellflower" Bede

The Hippie Manifesto (At least for this SG)

Dude, we're all about freedom, but we totally understand that "Man is free, but everywhere in chains." Man, that's Deep!

So here's how we wanna play:

Dude, western numbers are so wierd, man. But oh well. Don't know any others.

1. Man, we don't wanna fight. We make peace, not war. If some other punk wants to fight, we try to give 'em some weed to calm down. Or something like that. (No war. Ever. It must be only defensive in nature, and the best defense in this case is by not moving into enemy territory; immediate fair peace)

2. Dude, we hate being oppressed. So we're gonna make sure it doesn't happen to our people. We can't police them, force them to fight for us (either by a complex system of vassals and lords, or by that far-out nationalism man), whip them, make them work the land and be attached to it, be really really reconciled, or train our troops to fight for our religion man. We're all into peace.

2a. At the end man, we should let everyone vote, let them speak freely, emancipate 'em, care about the environment, and either be all about pacifism, or about free religion.

3. We're politically active. Jus' cause we're non-violent doesn't mean we can stick it to the man!

4. Dude, we think that if you wanna fight for us, you gotta just go and do it. We can't build a barracks or a drydocks. Our dudes are volunteers.

5. We'll win this by being totally awesome in culture, having everyone like us, or by shooting away among the stars. Woah! I can already see them.

6. Dude, we gotta get drunk and high. We need incense for that. And wine man. But we're not gonna hurt those poor little critters. No furs. Oh and we don't wanna chop down forests, at least not that much (OOC: This is conditional)

Dudes, we're following Smokin' Saladin.

I'll post the save, and get some discussion later.

Peace!

Pheasant's Eye, checking in :lol:

"who is the Grateful Dead and why do they keep following me around?"

"And the white knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's lost her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head"

1969 AD Woodstock, NY

Man, I was so totally in this perfect harmony. Jefferson Airplane had just finished playing their set. Some topless momma walked up to me and gave me a hit off her hookah.

But then this d**k with a megaphone drove by on a truck. "Don't take the blue acid," his voice screamed. "If you have taken the blue acid, please report to the medical station immediately."

That totally killed my buzz, 'cause I didn't remember which acid I took. I think it was, like, all of 'em. Man, I didn't feel weird or nothin', but I thought--just in case--I aughtta go.

When I got there, there were, like, four other guys ahead of me. And they were all strung out, staring at the ceiling. Man I knew I didn't take what they did, but it was too late.

Some nurse walked up and asked me to take my shirt off. But I couldn't get the buttons undone 'cause my fingers were, like, moving man. And then the light started swaying back and forth.

Whoa, man, did that chair just move?

Oh...ho... man, what happened to the ceiling?

***

So I woke up. Must have been like days later. I don't know. But I totally needed some food or something. But those dudes where there with me. They said they were Zepyranth, Pheasant's Eye, Good Grass, and Bellflower.

"I'm Roseblossum," I said. "Where are we?"

"It's like 'When are we'," Zeph said laughing. "That acid I gave you was a timewarp, man."

"It's 4,000 BC," he continued, "and we're gonna like re-shape the world in Jerry's image, man!"

"Far out," I said and the others nodded their agreement. "So where do we start?"

"Mecca," whispered Zeph. "Follow me."

This looks fun.
How about you guys actually going for unhealthy cities just to get that green smoke flowing free. Mmmm...
Almost gives you the munchies, doesn't it?

Dead Heads, all! And forever, Jerry lives on!

All's we need's is GreyFox to make an appearance... I'll post the start in the meam time...

Dude, like check it OUT!!! Look how high we are!

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17Start.JPG

Like Far OUT!

Oh, and no turnlogger. I absolutely hate that, and it kills my vibe.

That is all. Oh, and this:
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17-The_Hippies_BC-4000.Civ4SavedGame

Buddha is our buddy, but the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is our guru. So, Hindu!

Hm, my lord (hallelujah)
My, my, my lord (hare krishna)
My sweet lord (hare krishna)
My sweet lord (krishna krishna)
My lord (hare hare)
Hm, hm (Gurur Brahma)
Hm, hm (Gurur Vishnu)
Hm, hm (Gurur Devo)
Hm, hm (Maheshwara)
My sweet lord (Gurur Sakshaat)
My sweet lord (Parabrahma)
My, my, my lord (Tasmayi Shree)
My, my, my, my lord (Guruve Namah)
My sweet lord (Hare Rama)

GreyFox .... makes an appearance!!!

What's up, dudes? ...

Oh, I see, so we hippies are finally going to settle down, eh? I see there is rice ... but is eating rice hippish or what??? :crazyeye:

--

I think settle in place ~

should we go for a heavy religion push using Great Priests?

Logistics: play 20 the first round, then to the standard ten.


Duuuuuuuuuuuude! I was like, walking with some people, and we decided to settle down. I was like, "Wicked, man."

There were a buncha guys with clubs and I was like "Woah!" I told them to go and check out the area. They told me they were, like, an army, 'n' I was like, "Whooooooah!" That's totally not cool.

I told them to go and :smoke: some. Then they told me we had no grass to smoke, so I told them to go find some! After all, I am, like, the leader.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17OffWeGo!.JPG

So they went off and did whatever they did. And then we started, back at good ol' Mecca, to try and learn how to think when we were floored. So we sat and thought.

Oh, and I started another group, like the hookah meister's. After all, we gotta find some more grass!

So off they went. And we just chilled for a while.

So like, a while later, my guys came back, saying they'd found some CRAZY guys playing drums. And I told to go and like make nice. Go say high. Go smoke a bowl.

They thought that idea was way cool, so they gave us a crazy map of the area. Man, there're a lot of elephants 'n' this crazy jungle! All OOC stuff will be bolded: I think Iron Working needs to be a priority. As do lots of workers. But not yet

A really long time later, we find another village.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17-LosetheHookahMeisters.JPG

:eek:Woah man! That was some bad tripping.

Dude, the Hookah Meister's stood no chance. That was SOOO not cool. Good thing I decided told our dudes to train up some more.

Oh well. "Let's smoke!" isn't good diplomacy, apparently. Stupid squares.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17Buddhism.JPG

Like, crap Man! That was so not cool! We were meditating 'n' junk and were almost there. :cry:

Dude, we're going for Hinduism! That entire "meditation" thing didn't seem to work out well.

Well, the Hookah Meister's are trained again. Some came back, to teach us better ways. Since the east is explored, I think they should go seek the west.

They agreed man. They also told me to just chill!

Hmmm... maybe the reason we did so bad at that whole "meditation" thing was cause we couldn't tell the time. We just spent too much time smoking!

I start this big circle of rocks... we might work on it some more... who knows? I'm going to switch off if we don't get hinduism

Like, a while later, we see some other dudes, in a village playing drums. The Hookah Meister's told them of what happened last time, and they gave us some $! ALLRIGHT!

So, I'm just chilling at the palace... and I meet this guy named Alex. He says we should crush on some people, which we don't think is cool, but apparently he does. Dude, that kind of sucks. What gives man. C'mon, smoke a bowl.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17MeetAlex.JPG

I decide that we need to be able to eat something, and learn something. So I stop us from making that big stone thing, and tell our dudes to try and get ready to do a little growing. And build roads, and stuff.

And, like clockwork, we now lose Hinduism. :sad:

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17Hinduism.JPG

Damn it, man. I might blow my top. I stop us learning about those stupid things and go smoke some more. Tell the people how to do something useful, like make rice grow. I'm hungry.

Whatever, I'm out.

The Save:

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17-The_Hippies_BC-3200.Civ4SavedGame

I guess Gandhi likes buddhism. Like, sorry guys. The worker should finish for Pheasanty Pholk to be able to build a nice road to the rice, and then farm it.

Hi,

one of the best openings of an SG I've read in a long time. :lol: Should be a fun game to lurk.

-Kylearan

@Kylearan: Indeed. If it was a SP game, I woulda trashed it and restarted. But man, we just roll with the punches.

Oh, and would someone rename the warriors "Hookah Meisters." I forgot :sad:

Like, man, i got to go wake and bake but then i'm all over this game. (ooc: i hope i didn't bring my saladin bad luck to this game :( -- See PR01: An OOC Diplo Excursion)

:smoke:

gooooooooot it, bra ~

Agree with Kylearan - this is the most entertaining start to a SG in quite some time. Charis would be proud of you guys. :cool:

yo dudes, you gotta secure a supply of incense, oh and some dye for those tie-dyes :lol:

This Mecca thing's not turning out like we planned, huh? Man, I even bet there's some dudes who already think it's too crowded. But that's what a love-in's supposed to be, so I say we just chill.

That whole quest for enlightenment was kind of a drag, but it's okay. Budah's still our buddy. So's Vishnu, man. We just need to be tollerant of our neighbors' beliefs.

Look on the bright side. We don't have to build that stone circle thing anymore. (Though that would have been far out for bon-fires, man).

OOC: I'm going to make a concerted effort to NOT be Tommy Chong when in character. There are other ways to take Hippie, aren't there?

How about Carlton the Doorman?

I see the bad moon arising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin’.
I see bad times today.

Don’t go around tonight,
Well, it’s bound to take your life,
There’s a bad moon on the rise.

I hear hurricanes ablowing.
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers over flowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.


Don’t go around tonight,
Well, it’s bound to take your life,
There’s a bad moon on the rise.
All right!

Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we’re in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.


Don’t go around tonight,
Well, it’s bound to take your life,
There’s a bad moon on the rise.

Done my turns. Polising [thats Policing for errors and Polishing it up ~ Polising] my report to keep up the standards.

T00/3200bc:
Like, wow, man. Check all those bananas….BA NA NAs…what a crazy word. Banana, banana :dance: work all night gonna drink a’rum!

T03/3080bc:
Hey, dude, what’s up?
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/7955/3080gandhi16ta.jpg
Hey, man, what do you think of the Alex guy?
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/5245/3080gandhi24sq.jpg
Oh yeah, me too, man, meeee tooo. Right on, brother. I think we’re on the same wavelength here. Wanna, go….uh…ya’ know..burn one down? Er…talk about something else, I mean?
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/797/3080gandhi34mi.jpg

T07/2920bc:
Okay, so, we finally convince Bill and Ted to go off and start walking back and forth to the rice patties to make a road to there. They were already drinking and walking around the village. We thought, why not make them useful. the road will finish in 2, just in time to farm it. Mecca starts on stone ~ hmm…no, not just yet. Warrior is due in 3, and I think we need another city. Where, I’m not sure . . . I will leave it up to the group.
Oh, I almost forgot. :smoke: the village decides to send Dr Hookenstein westward, to keep an eye on the trees out there. He can talk to them anyway.

T09/2840bc:
“Oh, man, look, if we plant these seeds into the ground, we can grow it! That’s awesome. Then, we’ll never run out. Let’s go tell Bill and Ted and they can put them in the rice patties. Dude, we’ll be :smoke: by harvest time!”

Agr is done, and I choose animal husbandry for the cows west of us where I want to stick the next city, unless I see a better site east. Road finished,. Worker starts on to farm. Dr Hookenstein ends up next a barb archer; the good Doc is in the forest.

T10/2800bc:
“Ahhh…tragedy. The good doctor is lost to a bunch of freak-out, fascist squares. They totally made him republican :cry:”
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/5006/2840dr8om.jpg

And our warrior is done at Mecca. I start another one because we need it!


T12/2720bc:
This time, our new warrior prevails!
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/3720/2760earthdog8vi.jpg
He's so at peace with the trees, he disappears this is a bug i've seen. sometimes, my units become invisible i combat He earns himself a new name: Earthdog.
I’ve found a visual cue, I think, for victory and defeat: when the AI attacks you in the inter-turn, if, in the animation, YOU move onto the attackers square, you will win the fight. If THE ATTACKER moves onto your unit’s square, you will lose.

One god you say? Yeah, but...does he smoke weed, man??
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/7025/2720jud4su.jpg
Nice. Good grief ~ so, we’re not going heavy religion, eh? Use Philosophy trait for Great Artist spam and cultural??

...to be continued...

T13/2680bc:
“Ohhh, snap! Hookah Meister the Third! Dude, like, I knew your grandfather, man. He was such a chill dude. Yeah, why don’t you guys head off to the northeast . . . it’s so foggy over there, man, it might be san Francisco. They have such killer weed there. The warrior is done, is heading NE, and I start a setter, done in 15t!

And out west, Earthdog settles down to enjoy the life of a peaceful hermit.
http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/227/2400earthdog1gg.jpg

T15/2600bc:
“yeah, baby. Bill and Ted are finished with their hydoponic farm west of the city.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5922/2640rice7qc.jpg
I can’t wait for their first crop. They head east to the plains there to spread more “happiness.” They’re like Lewis & Clark plus Johnny Appleseed ON WEED! That way, we can have lots of :smoke: and we can let all our cool stoner friends come over, and think about stuff or make cool stuff to listen to or see. Yeah, that would be so awesome. Oh yeah, and HM3 text’d me that he found MORE bananas. Alright!”

Us: Come Mr. Tally Man, tally me ba-na-na!
Tally Man: 1 ‘naner, 2 ‘naner, 3 ‘naner, 4!! Yeah, there's 4 bananas. You can't count up to four, you need to call me in here. I'm off on Saturdays, ass. Thanks, now my wife is paging me. And please stop calling me the Tally Man. My name is Steve.

T20/2400bc:
Last turn screens:
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/2831/2400res3on.jpg
I think a city NE for the cows, rice and dye maybe should be City 2 ~ also, a city nab those 3 bananas would be great for a GPF and GAs.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/9707/2400mil1wj.jpg
AH in 2, Settler in 8. I’m trying to set up HM3 across the river and in the jungle from those barb archers so they attack at a disadvantage. Perhaps a city near that rice and cows and dye should be #2 ~ a reach, I know, but I feel we need more settlers out. Also, we need to head right towards Calendar and Construction with all these bananas…but we DO need IW ~ maybe trade w/Alex or Gandhi??

Purple haze, all in my brain....
lately things, they don't seem the same...
acting funny, and i try to wave...
excuse me, while i post this save...
do do do, do do do, do do do do

Purple Haze was all in my brain,
lately things don't seem the same,
actin' funny but I don't know why
'scuse me while I kiss the sky.

Purple Haze all around,
don't know if I'm coming up or down.
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me.

Purple Haze was in my eyes,
don't know if it's day or night,
you've got me blowing, blowing my mind
is it tomorrow or just the end of time

My turn to smoke the weed?

Heeerreee we gooooo ...

Give me a light, dude.

What do you mean there is no lighter?

:eek:, Combustion is at least 5000 years away???

Man, we better hurry, striking two stones repeatedly for 1 hour just to light up this weed-wrap for 10 minutes is so un-cool!!!

Got It

--

What do you mean there is no lighter?

:eek:, Combustion is at least 5000 years away???

Chill, my friend. That Prometheus dude has some matches, but don't let his dad catch you using 'em. Besides, we don't need a lighter when we have "special" banana bread, man. It kinda tastes like ****, but it's pretty groovey after a while.

Dude... I like the city with the three banaananas... FAR OUT! But, I think we need to try and find our other brothers out there. This game should be rocking!

I need a massive pile of wacky weed :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: just to read this report...
Or maybe some "special" brownies... :yumyum: :yumyum:

That's special banana bread, LK. We don't have chocolate or sugar nearby.

PS: chocolate should definitely be a strategic resource

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm
singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar
situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a
situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into
the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and
they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both ******s and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.

And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and
all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the
guitar.

With feeling. So we'll wait for it to come around on the guitar, here and
sing it when it does. Here it comes.

You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant

That was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it
for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

So we'll wait till it comes around again, and this time with four part
harmony and feeling.

We're just waitin' for it to come around is what we're doing.

All right now.

You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Excepting Alice
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant

[ooc: i used ot like to go into bars on tuesday nights (when they were totally empty) and play the long version of this song multiple time, and always be really happy to hear it come on: "Oh, yes! Alice's Restaurant, I love this song!"

Dude, I like all those CRAZY trees, but I think we might need some more space for growing the :smoke: So, I say that we, ya know, try to learn how to cut down all dem trees. I mean, they're cool and all, but the more :smoke: the better.

I think my favorite thing is how Bede's contribution to the discussion has been entirely in song lyrics. I wonder if he can find a song that goes something like this:

To the tune of "Bad to the Bone"

I opened the save
And looked around for a while.
Then decided we needed
To work the the 2/1/4 Tile

So I clicked o'er there
And microed a bit.
Then Alex dec'ed war
And I said "Aw, effin' sh*t!"

OOC: Oh man, Bede. I love Arlo Guthrie. You got the Pickle song slated for somewhere in this SG, too? "Veins in my teeth! I wanna Kill, kill, kill!" Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Probably haven't heard that song in at least 10 years. /OOC

Dude, I like all those CRAZY trees, but I think we might need some more space for growing the So, I say that we, ya know, try to learn how to cut down all dem trees. I mean, they're cool and all, but the more the better.

I knew this dude who once cut down a tree to grow the best bud ever. You know, cause trees have souls just like you and me. And if the tree willingly gives its life for a good cause--and is there a better cause? If the tree gives its life willingly, then you get the Soul of the Forest to come and live in your bud.

Then you can get this magic leaf karma when you smoke it, and all the squirrels and butterflies will want to play with you, and the deer will walk right up to you, 'cause you get this, like, aura that only they can see.

It's true, man. I knew the dude that did it.

I knew this dude who once cut down a tree to grow the best bud ever. You know, cause trees have souls just like you and me. And if the tree willingly gives its life for a good cause--and is there a better cause? If the tree gives its life willingly, then you get the Soul of the Forest to come and live in your bud.

Then you can get this magic leaf karma when you smoke it, and all the squirrels and butterflies will want to play with you, and the deer will walk right up to you, 'cause you get this, like, aura that only they can see.

It's true, man. I knew the dude that did it.

Duuuuude. Right on.

And I think we need to, like, change our strat some, man. I'm up for going culturally, dudes. For some reason, I don't think it will be peaceful, though :mischief:

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to thestarry dynamo in the machinery of night,

who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats 'doating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,

who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,

who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war,

who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,

who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall,

Being the only non-American (in fact, non-Western), I am starting to wonder how the hell am I going to pretend to be hippish ... :crazyeye: ...

well, the answer, I don't! :lol:

---

From the Hippy Surveyor

What izit you are saying? Send some dudes to collect rice, dye, banana? Can't you see the peak turn all purplish there? Bad sign, if you gonna ask me.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f81/9r3yf0x/rb17-BC2400-no-more-site.jpg


From the Hippy Worker

Aw, man. This is the worst day in my life! I was quietly doing my work, you know, like ploughing the land, changing it to a fertile, irrigated farm, you know, llike minding my own business, you know, and WHAM! all of sudden, the sky was like raining horses. WHAM WAHM WHAM, and all around me, horses start eating all the weeds I am planting! Animal Husbandry is in Damn, if you gonna ask me, these beasts eat more weeds than we do. All my hard work, all my weed plantation, all gone! Sh!t! You know, I don't know what I gonna do .. but one thing for sure, those damned beast are gonna pay for it. I am gonna rein them in, build a pasture round them, and teach them weeds are smoking, not eatin!!!

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f81/9r3yf0x/rb17-BC2320-horsey.jpg

And now, those people in the city are asking me to mine the hills. If you gonna ask me, its a waste of time! You don't get no fu-kin weeds from mines! Mining is in

From the Hippy Deads

I am telling you, I've seen no fu-ckin barbs like those did. HM3, my poor buddy, was like running from jungle to hill. One would think that on a jungle hilltop, he is safe, right? Damn, no! It's like the barbie had been smoking some superman steriods or something, he killed my buddy! :cry:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f81/9r3yf0x/rb17-BC2280-HM3-dead.jpg

And as if that is not fu-king no enough, you would think that the other buddy of my, ambushing the barbie archer across the river, would have won, right? Damn, WRONG AGAIN! Dead, dead, dead, they are all dead.

Turn 42 (2320 BC) - IBT:
While defending, Warrior loses to: Barbarian Archer (1.74/3)

Turn 53 (1880 BC) - IBT:
While defending, Warrior loses to: Barbarian Archer (1.11/3)

Sure as hell, these archies must be all weeded! Luckily we have one more fighting dude, he was all brave and furious with rage. Killed the archie right there. Man, good fighting man!

Turn 56 (1760 BC) - IBT:
While defending, Warrior defeats (0.92/2): Barbarian Archer

But man, if you are like gonna ask me, i say we use no fu-kin clubs no more. I say, if we are gonna protect our weeds, we must use those horses that fall from the sky ...

Charriots are built


From the Hippy Historian

Great news, man! Look what I have found!

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f81/9r3yf0x/rb17-BC1960-largest.jpg

Comeon, cheer up, dude1 At least we are not Hopeless, right? That will be so not cool!

---

- Bronze Working is in:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f81/9r3yf0x/rb17-BC1600-bw.jpg

I will let the next player decide when to revolt to slavery.

- Our settler is at the 3 bananas site.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f81/9r3yf0x/rb17-BC1600-sit.jpg

Let the next player decide if we are gonna to settle here, or go to the original NE site. But I think the NE site is gone. Look at the resource map:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f81/9r3yf0x/rb17-BC1600-resources.jpg

The rice has already turned purple.

- Regarding the settler, I have no choice but to delay it a bit due to the lost of 2 warriors at favourable odds. But good thing is, the settler is built faster at size 4.

- We are currently unhappy, because we have no troops garrisoned there. Once the charriot that is currently built is done, the red face will be gone.

- I went for Writing, but the next player is free to veto it.

x3 bannananan should be fine, dude. We just gotta be able to impress Gandhi culturally, that's all. He'll be sure to be cool.

Since we're not able to fight a war, I think we need to expand, and do so fast. We need 9 cities to get a cathedral in each of our culture cities... these should also be high commerce cities with some production capabilities. I think we need to build as cheap of units as we can, and settler and worker spam. Also, getting the caste system ASAP to generate some artists would be nice.

Rosie, you're up :p

Rosie, you're up :p

Chill, dude. It's all good. I got it, but I'm still comin' down, man. Gimme a few, okay?

But when I do, I totally think the grooviest way to go is to put our city right next to that bald guy. It'd be totally un-cool to take anyone's lands by force, so we goota make sure they aren't anbody's lands, you dig?

:rotfl:

Very entertaining thread, dudes. I will enjoy lurking this one.

Peace.

Yeah, I can dig it.

Ahhhh no, man. I just bought this fat bag, and rolled up a big dooby, put on some Bob Marley to read the next installment of our adventures and just absorb the good energies from the game, and there's no new installment :(
totally harshing my buzz, Roseblossum

Dudes, bad trip, man. You know, I'm all in favor of Yin and Yang. I'll take the bad with the good. But this whole set was all about Yang, man. Check it out. First, that Good Grass dude totally made me build a city. You know, I did and all, cause I totally needed a place to mellow. I tell some dudes to build this Obelisk thing. Maybe that Gandhi dude will want to chill near it.

http://www.dmcconkey.com/images/cff/hippy/bc1600_sf.jpg

But then that Good Grass dude also left our chariot totally right next this Archer. He looks friendly. Let's build a fire and bust out the bongos, huh? Maybe he'll come jam with us? IBT Barb archer attacks our chariot at 30% and kills him

http://www.dmcconkey.com/images/cff/hippy/bc1560_chariot.jpg

Man, totally not cool. Good thing those Mecca dudes are making another Chariot, huh? Cool, that chariot finishes and rides back up to look for more weed up north. Oh man, that dude finishes his turn next to another archer. IBT Barb archer attacks our chariot and f---ing wins again at 30%!!!:gripe:

http://www.dmcconkey.com/images/cff/hippy/bc1280_chariot.jpg

So not cool, man! Why would someone want to kill our dudes? Man, that guy had a killer bong, too. But I guess it wasn't all bad. A couple of draft-dodging pot-heads told me they could remember where they put stuff by writing it down. Far out. Writing => Priesthood. I was going to go Alphabet, but Pristhood allows temples.

http://www.dmcconkey.com/images/cff/hippy/bc1200_writing.jpg

And then check it out, man. Remember that circle of stones we started for the bonfire? Look how big it got. We didn't have a lot to build and Stonehenge was still in queue. I just let it continue after the chariot, since it only had 6 turns left. Then, when I lost the second chariot, it was only about 3 turns away, so I let it finish.

http://www.dmcconkey.com/images/cff/hippy/bc1120_sh.jpg

Oh, but then those stupid stoners in San Francisco realized that they'd gotten soooooo wasted that they'd forgotten to stop that obelisk thing when Mecca started building that Stonehenge stuff. So now we got, like, one-and-a-half obelisks in Frisco. Aparently, they decided that they can't have two obelisks, so they started a library. Genuine weed, guys. Sorry. About the library, we didn't have a lot to build. The library takes 44 turns, but we can always put that on hold when something more immediately useful comes up.

http://www.dmcconkey.com/images/cff/hippy/bc1120_sf.jpg

Man, this is the last time I take acid from Bellflower! That dude's crazy. Check this out. I'm like totally in space, man. Freak out, huh?

http://www.dmcconkey.com/images/cff/hippy/bc1040_space.jpg

Whoa, that's deep, man. We got dudes to tell us all about gods and stuff, but we got no gods. Whoa...

http://www.dmcconkey.com/images/cff/hippy/bc1000_priest.jpg

So I totally wanted to make friends with everybody. Gandhi and Alex both thought it be pretty groovey if we could all walk around in each others' cities. You know "sample" local herb. But it was weird, I totally wanted to hook up Gandhi, but he said no. I don't get it.

http://www.dmcconkey.com/images/cff/hippy/bc1000_weed.jpg

Like whoa man! This isn't the orgy I signed up for man.:eek:
Great story guys:goodjob:

Good job getting stonehenge... that makes... Bellflower up, I guess. Man, whatever.

There'll be trains of blossoms
There'll be trains of music
There'll be trains of trust
Trains of goldenrust
Sweet trains of thought
Le's hurry on down
Can you hurry?
Le's hurry on down to a stoned soul picnic
Le's hurry on down to a stoned soul picnic
There'll be lots of time and wine
Red yellow honey
Sassafras and moonshine
Stoned soul

And

Don't bogart that joint my friend
Pass it over to me
Don't bogart that joint my friend
Pass it over to me

Roll another one
Just like the other one
You've been holding on to it
And I sure will like a hit

Don't bogart that joint my friend
Pass it over to me
Don't bogart that joint my friend
Pass it over to me

Roll another one
Just like the other one
That one's burned to the end
Come on and be a real friend

OOC: Really curious to see if Bede can "song" his entire write-up.

What is this OOC acronym you keep using in this thread?

What is this OOC acronym you keep using in this thread?

Out Of Character. Non-hippy (for everyone but Pholk). We're also using bold type for OOC comments per Zalson's first post.

Thanks for lurking. :)

Out Of Character. Non-hippy (for everyone but Pholk). We're also using bold type for OOC comments per Zalson's first post.

Thanks for lurking. :)
And why isn't your above boldface, dude?

And why isn't your above boldface, dude?

Because it would have been out of character to be in character amidst an out of character topic.

Got it?

/off topic, I mean character, I think.

Edit:

I've been reflecting at how crappy of a start it is to be on a peninsula, boxed in by Gandhi, in a variant where we can't have an offensive war. :aargh: Normally, this would be great and I'd have had 7 or 8 axemen knocking on India about now.

Because it would have been out of character to be in character amidst an out of character topic.

Got it?

No, I don't Got-It, dude. Should be Bede who Got-It ... ;)

I think the "don't bogart that joint" may be the "got it" ~ see, don't bogart that save, don't hog the save, give it to me, i've got it!! isn't it, like, totally obvious man ~ just think harder...no...just think...easier, dude...yeah....

Whoa...

http://www.dmcconkey.com/images/cff/hippy/acid.jpg

Check out my hand, man!

Lurker's comment:

Whoa, it's like I'm seein' colors all over the place ! And this freaky hand ! Awesome, dude ! I like it how Rosie is chillin' with his grafx dude...

;) :D

Hey man, i didn't mean that everyone had to bold it. I mean, just chill. Do what you want... dudes :smoke:

Hey man, i didn't mean that everyone had to bold it. I mean, just chill. Do what you want... dudes :smoke:

All these rules, Senator McCarthey! Establishmentarianism is the tool by which the rich maintain the status quo. The gears of capitalism are oiled by the blood of the working class! Stop harshing my mellow!

Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow pies,
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high.
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you're gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle,
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes.



"Wake up, Bell, wake up. There's this freak in a white linen suit wants to talk about this trip we are on."

Scratched the dream from my eyes and looked out the window of the bus. The Pranksters had lured me aboard with promises of women, and wine, and weed and good music, but what I saw out the window looked more like SE Asia, not a place I wanted to go back to.
Was this another of those "flashbacks"?
Rice paddies and jungle and little guys in purple pajamas and funny hats.
And then this fella in the white suit leered over the seat in front of me and started talking about Pranksters and Electric Kool-aid and Acid Tests. Man, get outta my face I need to concentrate and figger out where the heck I am.



775 BC
(Hinduism appears in Mecca)

Hare krishna, hare rama
So I tell the guy in the white linen suit to bother somebody else....I need to meditate
Ommmmm
Ken from Mecca finds a home with a herd of cows and some salmon in the sea. He knows how to herd cows but fishing remains a mystery to him.
The Cow Farm founded, no pigs around so I couldn;t call it The Hawg Farm
Hey, look...it's Country Joe and the Fish!

Gimme an F!
F!
Gimme an I!
I!
Gimme an S!
S!
Gimme an H!
H!
What's that spell ?
FISH!
What's that spell ?
FISH!
What's that spell ?
FISH!




Mecca starts a Hindu Temple - need a place to meditate once I get off this bus.


Oh no, the flashbacks take a turn for the worse.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a371/doconor/RB17/675BC_0000.jpg

There must be some way out of here, said the joker to the thief,
Theres too much confusion, I cant get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

No reason to get excited, the thief, he kindly spoke,
There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and i, weve been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two archers were approaching, the wind began to howl.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a371/doconor/RB17/625BC_0000.jpg



650 BC
San Francisco lost to the pigs

(Research begins on Hunting so we can do more than bounce little clubs off Alex's archers, though the war may be over before then.)

625 BC
(Mecca is training a chariot and the Arabs have converted to Hinduism - a religion shared by Gandhi and Alexander)

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a371/doconor/RB17/625BC_0001.jpg

Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Well, come on generals, let's move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Gotta go out and get those reds —
The only good commie is the one who's dead
And you know that peace can only be won
When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Huh!

Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow,
Why man, this is war au-go-go.
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with the tools of the trade,
Just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on the Viet Cong.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Well, come on mothers throughout the land,
Pack your boys off to Vietnam.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate,
Send 'em off before it's too late.
Be the first one on your block
To have your boy come home in a box.

And it's one, two, three
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

phew ~ i wonder if we even haev a chance! :confused: nice write-up...and it was mostly in song!!

What's with that Alex dude? I thought he was pretty chill when I met him. Hmmm... maybe the BC world isn't ready for hippies yet?

Outstanding write-up, Bede. We might just bite the dust here, but can I suggest an alternate way out?

Alex snuck into town with two archers and the warrior exploring east into India didn't see any other Greeks on the road. San Francisco can be back in our hands with three or four chariots and if Gandhi will close his borders to the Greek all should be well.

Very funny thread--I'm trying to think of famous hippy characters y'all could take voice from, but all I come up with is Shaggy (ruh roh!), and Neil, from the young ones. The thing about hippies is, they don't work! As far as I've seen.

So, if this try goes down to the pigs, you guys might want to adopt the 'hippy' ethos for a challenging variant--no tile improvements! (except maybe resources, or at least incense and dyes:p )

lurker comment

That's heavy, man... I think it's time for chariots and the brown acid...

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i58/ArmstrongSG/chariot.jpg

Dudes... that bites...

I didn't put any rules in about retaking cities... what do you guys think? I'm inclined to say no.

EDIT: Dude, I ain't got no punctuation.

And Bellflower, that write up was soooooo totallly awesome!

EDIT 2: Can't spell neither.

EDIT 3: Don wanna double post, guys. I'd jus' like to make sure we know how peaceful we are... So chime in whenever, I'll let it be known when we all decide together.

EDIT 3: Don wanna double post, guys. I'd jus' like to make sure we know how peaceful we are... So chime in whenever, I'll let it be known when we all decide together.

Man, if we try to take back San Francisco, that'd be no better than Nixon and Johnson in Viet Nam. People die in war. I don't wanna be no baby-killer.

But on the other hand, San Francisco's, like, Mecca for hippies. Oh wait, we already have Mecca? Whoa...Okay, San Francisco's, like, Shangri-La for hippies. We totally need it.

Maybe just a little baby-killing?

Hey, man, being Hippy is not being all Jesus right? Like we ain't going to offer our left cheek when someone slapped our right cheek, right?

SO, what does a hippy do when someone rob him of his weeds? Does he fight to get it back, or does him licks his wound and find other weeds?

GoodGrass aint no hippy for more than 3 days, so GoodGrass aint know no jackshit abt this. ;)

GoodGrass say we get back what is ours.

Hmmm...that Good Grass dude's got a point. I don't know about any WWJD stuff, but it's not really an offensive war if we're still fighting on our soil, right? And SF is still ours in our hearts, isn't it?

Besides, man, I left my papers in that place. I gotta go get them back.

Edit: Hee hee. Made me think of this tee-shirt.

// deleted by Rex //

Edit 2: I really hope that doesn't offend anyone. I'm not terribly religious, so I never know what's offensive. To me, it's a spoof on the commercial, not Jesus. If I'm wrong, let me know, and I'll take it out ASAP.

Edit 3: picture removed for (lack of) taste.

FWIW - As a Christian, I'm not offended (of course, I find the WWJD stuff more of a fad than a serious attempt to better understand Jesus and how we should live, so I might not be the best one to comment. :blush: :p)

And if you're taking lurker's comments here, I say, get back SF! This is like some repressive country coming in and taking the real SF and denying it's citizen their freedoms! Just think of those chariots as huge peace and freedom rallies or something. :smoke:

OOC: The following was published in The Onion: Our Dumb Century. The Onion is a satire of current events. In 1999, the published Our Dumb Century as a spoof of the NY Times' book of the 20th Century's best headlines.

Hippies, NASA Race for Moon
Friday, October 4, 1968

The space race between NASA and the hippies is more heated than ever, with both of the astronautic super-powers vying to be the first to land a man on the moon.

"NASA will win the race to the moon, and the world will see a United States astronaut, not a longhair, walk on the moon before the turn of the decade," Apollo 10 Mission Director Gus Lance said Thursday.

Despite NASA's confidence, hippie-space-program sources report that the moon will be within their reach in mere months. "Freakonauts have already outdistanced NASA in their high rate of success with manned missions throughout the Tibetan Book of the Dead and cosmic voyages Beyond Total Awareness," said Freedog Osmosis, head of the prestigious Haight-Ashbury Center for Astraldynamic Research. "And current missions are flying higher than ever. Take me, for example. I'm sitting right in front of you. Yet, even as we speak, I'm orbiting at tremendous altitudes."

"We are 12 to 16 weeks away from having all the vibes in place to launch, orbit and land a hippie on the moon," Osmosis said, "as well as to return him safely to a big oversized floor pillow after wear-off and subsequent crashpad re-entry burn." With the Lunar Excursion Module proven flightworthy in recent Apollo test missions, it is only a matter of time, NASA scientists argue, before they win the race to the moon. However, hippies say, a NASA victory in the space race is by no means certain.

"From such early victories as The Byrds' historic eight-mile-high test flight above San Francisco Bay to recent trips by The Rolling Stones as far as 60,000 light-years from home, it's clear that our radical, substance-based approach to space travel boasts significant advantages over NASA's more conservative methods," said space-cadet hippychick Raven Transcendence.
Transcendence added that the hippie space program also enjoys a clear economic advantage over NASA: While the cost of a NASA lunar mission is estimated at $600 million, the hippie space program, she said, can reach the moon with just a a dime bag.

Hippie space exploration, however, has not been without its setbacks. In June, shortly after setting his controls for the heart of the sun, Floyd Commander Syd Barrett lost control of his 50-milligram capsule and veered wildly off course. According to hippie scientist, he is currently lost somewhere near Neptune. The scientists project that the Floyd program will not match NASA's Apollo 8 orbit of the dark side of the moon until the mid 1970s.

"Yes, hippie space travel does have its problems," Osmosis said. "The severe crash-and-burns that follow intense spaceflight can be devastating, and launch windows are dependent on the week-to-week booking schedule at the Fillmore West. Nonetheless, we have repeatedly reached the Sea of Undulating Joy-Vibes, and we're confident that a flower child will touch down on the Sea of Tranquility soon, certainly no later htan the big Woodstock festival next summer."

Perhaps a "space race" victory might be the best hippy endeavor?

I do think we should retake the city, but if he offers us peace, we do HAVE to take it. to me, it's the "honorable" rule set ~ this is not offensive war, it is defensive. We can't conquer his cities, for example.

Ok... well then. I think I'd better get back what's ours, dudes. We may be pacifists, but are totally not for getting stomped on.

@Rex: I'm kind of in the same boat as Willow Brook in the response to the ... thing you posted.After all, see my signature. I don't find it that offensive. However, I think that if you thought it might be offensive to someone, why'd you put it up in the first place?

But dudes, Alex is totally going to get stomped on.

More OOC stuff: There's a nice mix of peaceful and crazies in this game... :sad:

It's Altamont all over again, guys. Let's get us some Angels and keep the pigs out of the Fillmore.

So like, I was chillin' in the royal palace, when Bellflower ran in sobbing and singing.

"Dude, what gives? What's wrong?" I asked so nice as I could.

"Alex is such a square." Well, he said more than that, but I was kinda freaked out by what he said, so I didn't write it down.

So I went and talked to Alex about it, and looked around and saw that, wtf? Like, we don't own SF anymore :eek:

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17-outsideSF.JPG

So I went to go and talk to him, and he totally told me to bugger off. Didn't even talk to me! Screw him. Also, we're missing a LOT of peoples.

Since he only had one group of archers there (last I checked), I decided to challenge him to smokeout. But he didn't know that I was going to bring another buncha horses to go and retake SF. No one can smoke like a horse, man. We also practiced hunting that day, so I knew how to get rid of my munchies.

So it comes the day of the challenge, and I show up at SF and I see this:

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17-SFPhalanx.JPG

Uhhh, Alex? That's not playing fair. I ain't gonna challenge when he's all shiny like that. It'll kill my buzz.

Then, the next thing I know, the little b*st*rd knocks off the Hookah Meisters. Man! YOU SUCK!

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17-LoseAWArrior.JPG

He was bringing you some weed, Alex! He was gonna smokabowl! What gives? :sad:

Then, after this, Alex knocks out our new buncha homies, from Mecca. Man, this guy is TOTALLY NOT CHILL!

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17-MoreDisappointment.JPG

He is TOTALLY KILLING MY VIBE! :mad:

So I go smoke some. Then come back. Then, I decide to try and get us back out bros from SF... looks like time for a little sneak around the back...

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17-SoMuchForSneaky.JPG

So much for being sneak :rolleyes:

Hey! I've gotta 'nother great plan! Why don't we send someone out to go get that iron! It's hard. It's cold. It's shiny. Maybe it'll make Alex, like, leave us alone. Forget these effin' horses! I tell the Meccans to get ready to move, dudes!

Also, this sweetly awesome dude named Moses stops by. He told me that if you make there be rules for smoking weed, everyone will stay high all the time! Also, you can set rules for who gets the most weed, based on what they do for a living.

Man this guy is Crazy. But hey, he's got good ideas. Unfortunately, the idea on RULES didn't get to Mr. Douchebag over there, coz' Alex knocked off some of our smokers!

I was so pissed with what Alex had done, that I left before Phez got back from his harvesting trip. So I had to go back and watch Alex bang up more of our smokers. I HATE that guy.

Unless we get Iron, SF is pretty much untouchable. Alex has iron too, but is coming at us with a stack of archers, which me managed to knock down a little with defending chariots. Also I only played 8 turns initially, and then played 1 extra :rolleyes:

Thoughts on playing this out, guys? I think it might be impossible, especially without war? Anyway, Pholk's up, we've gottan archeron the forested hill, and I'm trying to chop out that settler. The scout in the south is to find us some place to flee to and also to distract Mr. A-Hole the Great.

The save:
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17-The_Hippies_BC-0325.Civ4SavedGame

Our fate in Haiku
by Roseblossom J. Simplefitz

Swordsmen, Phalanx rise
to Mecca, bear disaster.
Greek freak seals our doom.

Abandon our dreams,
of Hippy ways spreading vast?
These ideals ring!

But Alex threatens.
Crushing armies approach us.
Archers in Frisco!

What hope have we now?
Which spiritual plane calls,
to ensure our right?

World builder, friends.
In sky with diamonds (bombers),
Lucy's visions lead.

Boat on a river,
(battleships). Alex will chill
with Athens afire!

Kaleidoscope eyes
(modern armor with sentry),
to win back our pad.

These visions, I see,
when Bellflower's shrooms, I eat.
Talk like Yoda, why?

Edit for punctuation. Does haiku have punctuation?

Verry, verry good!

I will grab this tonight and see what i can do with it! Prepare to be surprised!!

Grasshopper: But master, if I prepare to be surprised, it wouldn't be a surprise.

Master: You still have much to learn, Grasshopper.

Hey guys, if by any chance this doesn't work out... I say we go for the Hippie's Revenge, in RB-18...

Whaddaya say?

I'd prolli tweak the rules a bit.

Hey guys, if by any chance this doesn't work out... I say we go for the Hippie's Revenge, in RB-18...

Whaddaya say?

I'd prolli tweak the rules a bit.

Cast:
Arnold Swartzenhippy
Jet Li-lac
Jackie "Earth Puppy" Chan
Chuck Norris*

(*Chuck Norris doesn't take kindly to sissy nick-names.)

Edit: Being honest, it wasn't the rules that did us in. It was:

1) Essentially wasting research on two near-miss religions. Not slighting you at all, Z. I'd have done the same thing. It just set us back. I had built Stonehenge because we didn't have a lot of options. Some archers would have been nice, but we didn't have the means.

2) Generally a crappy start location. Few resources. Jungle. Right next to Gandhi.

3) The combat luck really hurt us early. How many 70% odds battles did we lose to barbs?

4) Alex's war was really early in my opinion. I didn't think the AI declared this early. (What's our difficulty? Monarch?) At least it seemed early to me.

The war was probably my fault for sending the garrison warrior out to explore some more, thus presenting a fat target of opporunity for the Greek pigs.

What's more ~ i never seen such early aggression from an AI ~ even at Monarch! Crazy Alex! I don't think that it was the variants, either, but just poor luck w/the religions and the draw.

As for changing the settings, I was thinking of this:

I'll do random leaders, and a snaky continents archi-map... i'll set it at temperate, but with the sea level at normal.

Sound grood? I mean, good?

can we do whatever archi. map is not snaky and not tiny islands?

Done my turns. Report soon.

"So, I was like, laying back in the grass staring at the gray sky above and just listening to the Airplane finish up their set. Then, man, all of sudden ~ i never even knew what happened. People where whispering first to each other and then everyone was crying ~ Frisco, baby . . . Frisco had been taken over by those squares the Greeks, immperialist pigs that they are. The women were crying and the men were swearing revenge. Here, at the concert!! these hippies were turning from beautiful rays of sunshine into deep dark demons right before my eyes. :eek: i didn't know what to do ~ my heart was racing and my mind was gone from all the acid i had taken. The angrier everyone got, and the freaked out i become."

"Suddenly ~ Greeks...they were here!! They had GIFTS!!"
--Delivery Man!
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3269/phalanx11ho.jpg
--Flowers!
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2935/phalanx21bs.jpg
--We just want to be friends, honest!
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3267/phalanx9io.jpg

Everyone else was like, "Oh, AWESOME! These guys brought chips and doritos and choclate bars. OH, and gatorade!! NICE!! I'm SOOO thirsty from getting so angry!" And everyone, like, totally forget that these guys had justl like, ya know, conquered The City by the Tiny Creek.

Everyone partied into the night, and passed out around midnight. The next morning, it happened.

The Greeks turned on us. Slaughtering us by the hundreds.
Then, they caught them, Bill and Ted (aka Wyld Stallions), standing together, gaurding the Cows, b/c they're beautiful creatures and have just as much a right to live as we do! And then, THEY KILLED BILL!!
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2369/fallofbill3ej.jpg
"You killed Bill, you medieval d*ckweed!" But alas, poor Ted fell, too. and the city was no more.

We all weeped, but that was not all fate had in store for us. As we ran to Mecca, to seek refuge, we saw it, the most heart-wrenching site I've ever seen:http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4422/fallofmecca0fw.jpg
"MY WEED WAS THERE, MAN!!!" :cry: :cry:

My tears poured over me and were somehow falling onto my head. It was totally trippy, man :cool: and then someone was talking...
Dude!! DUDE!! You alright, bro?
"Me?!?"
Yeah, bro. You were like talking to yourself and stuff, and then you started freaking out and having a bad trip, so we brought you to the Resting Tent.
"Oh, yeah? What happened to Mecca?"
Mecca? Who's Mecca
"Mecca's not a person! It's a city. Our capital!! My WEED was there and it's gone!"
Whoa, bro! Gimme some of whatever stuff you're on!! That must be killer!! Ha ha ha. Cities?! I've heard of them, but we're just a bunch of cool-ass, dancing nomads, that travel from place to place, set up shop for a bit of time, and then move on to the next place. It's pretty sweet. We dance, :smoke: and :party: What more could you want?

OOC: So, sinc we were somewhat doomed, i thought a "bad trip" scenario would be kind of neat to go out on. I pm'd Zalson and he ok'ed me usign worldbuilder to net us a win, or at least to let me use it ot give us some units. But, i thought, if it was a bad trip, it would just go from bad to worse, culiminating in the loss of :smoke: :lol: It just made more sense :confused:

Anyway, here's some end screens for consumption.
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/3696/gnp1nc.jpg
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/1537/power6rv.jpg
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/5191/demog2rw.jpg
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/6105/39605dy.jpg
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/7348/500bc2te.jpg
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/5237/sallyquayle4po.jpg

I hope you guys don't mind that i did it this way. the game was, for all intents and purposes, over with. We were going to lose Mecca quite soon, within a turn or 2, and then cow-town would never have a chance. So...
Now we have a nice little narrative to carry us over to the next game... :D
by the bye, i don't think that we should start a new RB thread...just use this one again. No need to take a number b/c we're a bunch of :smoke: hippies :lol:

I'll get on that... maybe... ahem:

"And I kill all you motherf--!" screamed a rage-driven Pholkhero.

"Um, dude?" said the majority of the other hippies, sounding uncannily like Keanu "Bad Actor" Reeves in every movie he's ever been in.

"What!!!!!" screamd The Pholkhero. "?" He added?

"Dude, you were like, all asleep, and dreaming 'n' s***. We thought you were gonna... uh... like... do something bad," Zepyranth, the undisputed, handsome, young, but wiser-than-you leader, said.

"Um... yeah," the chorus chimed in.

"Cut it out with the chorus thing!" said Roseblossom. "I mean, I know you like to sing, but c'mon man! You gotta jus' relax, and let it flow. Not come in like that, outtathablue!"

"Sorry," Bellflower drew his namesake in the dirt.

Pholkhero's rage subsisded (after the three blew smoke in his face), and then he looked around.

"Dudes?"

"Yeah?" the walking Keanu-Reeves-voice-impersonators said.

"Ummm... where's Good Grass?"

"Hnur hnur hnur."

"Bell!"

"Sorry."

"Which one's that?"

"Yeah, is that some special knid, I mean, kind of acid?"

"Huh?"

"Thanks for contributing, Bell. You can go off and sing now."

"The hills are alive, with the sound of music..." Now content with the world, Bellflower wandered off through the forest.

"Where's he going? And where the hell is Grass?"

"Hnur hnur hnur."

"SHUT UP BELL. WE CAN STILL HEAR YOU!" Roseblossom yelled.

"Dude, calm down. You jus' hadda bad trip, that's all," Zepy said.

"Yeah, it was all a dream."

"But, but... it couldn't have been a dream." Pheasant's Eye looked around wildly, partially because of his ridiculous name, and also because, "You were there, and you were there..."

"Knock it off, Bird." Pheasant's Eye rolled two of his. He hated Rosie's nickname for him.

"Yeah, he just went... over there."

Pheasant's Eye looked over in the direction of Zepy's arm. This is what he saw:

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads11/RB17-StartingSpot2.JPG

Foxy Grass, twenty turns if you would. Of course, do so... here:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=171476