Multipolarity II - Game Thread

[Patriotic_Fool]

^ I believe a LOL is in order.

Bravo, bravo.

 

[Patriotic_Fool]

USSR PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

The USSR is setting all nukes to auto target anyone who launches WMD's at us. We are not going to be the aggressors in launching the first genocidal weapons, but we will use them.

We will use them to protect the Russian peoples, and the Partitionian peoples. If nobody fires WMD's at us, we will not fire back. They are set to auto-fire in event of an attack, so you have been warned.

We hope that these weapons of death will not have to be used.

God be with us all.

 

[Mad Man]

I'm here, waving my hands fervently in the air saying the same thing. The stupidity of GCI-MA alliance is making my brain melt. *points at both Chinas, and Australia, and Crusaders, and Voodoo pizzaman (lol)*

If somehow you oust me out of Partitionia and manage to crush my country, I'll be in hell laughing as you are so far behind, others will just take you over easily.

Plus, what does everyone have against the USSR?

Honest question: Why are people defending a certain someone who nuked half the world into oblivion last game?
Hmm?

We'll make peace with you when you pull out of Partitionia, we have no interest in seizing your sovereign territory, but only restore Europe to it's natural peaceful state.

Because it's a new game? Or maybe they want to be on his side when the nukes start to fall?

Link to video.

 

[Double A]

Donuts help you lose weight. Mitt Romney will win the election. Women don't belong in kitchens. Dinner is breakfast.

Amidoinitrite?

Only the last one is the right format and it's also incredibly true. I woke up at 11pm and ate a quesadilla.

Thirdly, to the World:
The nation of Jerusalem is at the forefront of Engineering and Robotics technologies and will be putting these technologies to use in more fields than simply industry as we have been for the past years. While we will not disclose which areas are going to be given attention, and we cannot allow our most precious technologies to be observed, we are announcing a Grand Tour of Technology in the capital of Jerusalem itself. All nations (Except the Turks) are invited to observe some of Jerusalem's greatest achievements, including the first ever Vernulus.

Okie dokie.

 

[Patriotic_Fool]

We'll make peace with you when you pull out of Partitionia, we have no interest in seizing your sovereign territory, but only restore Europe to it's natural peaceful state.

I thank Hungary for making the distinction that Soviet territory is indeed sovereign, and is no longer Partitionian territory.

 

[Tani Coyote]

I go to Astronomy for three hours and the game is ignited by controversy and caustic diplomacy. Joy.

For the chairs - Union of China, Angola, 501st - it would be much appreciated if you began cherrypicking the loans in the UN, given there's such a large backup for loans (primarily from belligerents), so as to ensure loans continue to roll out smoothly.

 

[Jehoshua]

ooc: I just had a sudden thought that MPII needs an Amish State...

Anyways, I suggest people get used to opaque deceptions from Patriotic Fool, he's a wily one, but has a penchant towards getting on ones nerves

 

[Ailedhoo]

Annual Public Position Report of the 25th Round of Mandatum’s Post Security Firm Operations

Overseen and written by Nicolas Fay

Written also by Jain Green, Alex Spears and V’aln ja Zane​

All of Mandatum are in morning as of the passing of our Chief of Ideas, Nelson Wilson. The Violet Death has made another high profile victim and his skills will be missed greatly. His nephew in law, our General Director Hector Murray, has issued a service in all bases in his honour for [insert date here]. All personal are requested to join the services as a sign of respect.

However Nelson Wilson is not the only lost we had. We are sad to report on the deaths of Chairman of the Relations Department Abhay Patil, Secretary of North African Operations Yaw Ali and Secretary of Caribbean Operations Denis Coupe. Abhay was tragically wounded in a speech on the virtues of Mandatum in [insert city name here] by [insert small criminal organisation] gunners. The gunners will be hunted and fed to giant polar rabbits for the fatal shooting of Abhay. Relative to this be the murder of Yaw Ali by hyenas doing the hunting trip he was on. As for Denis Coupe his death is not of sadness but of anger at him for his attempts at leaking Mandatum operation documents. Thankfully the leak was not complete and his death via dolphin tank was issued. Abhay and Yaw will be part of the service for Nelson Wilson. Anyone found morning for Denis Coup will be subjected to corporal punishment for morning over a traitor and their employment plus live will be reviewed by a panel of experts in Mandatum policies.

Naturally replacements are of issue. We are pleased to announce that Vito Di Caprio, who is linked as the descendent of our founder Anna Di Caprio’s brother Tore Di Caprio, has been promoted from Secretary of European Operations to Chief of Ideas. The new Secretary of European Operations will be Lovre Stankic, renewed Mandatum smuggler. For position of the Chairman of the Relations Department will been ex koopa mafia spokesperson Jon the Roused Shelled, making let another power point of the removal of the “humans’ only policy.” To replace Yaw in position of Secretary of North African operations with be Niwin, a bori from West Africa. This demon is another example of the removal of the “human only policy,” showing the true power of Mandatum. For the title of Secretary of Caribbean Operations were are recruitment of a human at last but a good one never the less: Catharine Dawson from Virgin Gorda.

The list has updated now be of 3012:

• General Director of Mandatum: Hector Murray
• Chief of Ideas: Vito Di Caprio
• Chairman of the Honesty Department: Rosa Smith
• Chairman of the Peace Department: Isa Bustos
• Chairman of the Charity Department: Paul Afolayan
• Chairman of the Research Department: Professor Sato Yamato
• Chairman of the Relations Department: Jon the Roused Shelled
• Overseer of Department Efficiency: Doctor Artur Janda
• Secretary of the Suggestion Club: Hevoc 19
• Arch Recruitment Officer: April McGill
• Secretary of European Operations: Lovre Stankic
• Secretary of Middle Eastern Operations: Anush Avakian
• Secretary of North African Operations: Niwin
• Secretary of South African Operations: Zola Zyl
• Secretary of North American Operations: Elisa O’Neil
• Secretary of South American Operations: Jovita Cruz
• Secretary of Caribbean Operations: Catharine Dawson
• Secretary of Pacific Operations: Maki Kyo
• Secretary of Asian Operations: An Ngo
• Secretary of Oceania Operations: V’rg I’iny’o

All personal will observe this. Our international plans will be set forward. Remember the policies on secrecy on penalty of the punishments you should remember too.

At the moment news is slow but you will be updated on important Mandatum event.

We are Mandatum. We are order.

 

[christos200]

Beijing University serves up propaganda double-bill
By Edmund Nedellier

The way my colleagues played up two fairly recent documentaries by Beijing University, one could easily have been tricked into thinking Professor Linhuan Sin had discovered the Platonic form of Chinese history, and we would all do best to pack up and go home. I was repeatedly told these were films I absolutely had to see. Naturally, I was skeptical, and as Chinese studies are not my area of expertise, I was somewhat puzzled by their insistence on the matter. Eventually, I broke down and obtained copies of the two films, King George the Great and The Great Chinese War.

Within the first second of the first film, I realized why my colleagues had been so incessant: I was the victim of a practical joke.

Alarm bells should have started ringing when I first obtained the films. I discovered copies were being distributed for free out of the Empire of China's embassies worldwide. The staff informed me I would be treated to "a rich and educational experience" that would "correct the many misconceptions" about Chinese history. It was a hard sell, but I wasn't in the mood to tell them off.

Given all the hype, I was expecting something above-average at best, mediocre at worst. What I got was utter schlock.

The first film, King George the Great, is a five-minute montage of the infamous dictator George I. Contrary to the credits, Professor Sin does not narrate: the entire film consists of stock images overlaid with the barest descriptive text that reads like a five-year-old's primer on history. It barely qualifies as a biography: most of the film's forgettable span is spent on the wars of the period, rather than George himself.

The Great Chinese War is better only because it is shorter, and features a background soundtrack. It is otherwise identical to the utter waste of time that is King George, presenting the barest of facts without even an attempt to place its subject matter into a broader context.

I cannot begin to describe how bad these films are. I wouldn't have written a review at all, but I feel it is my civic duty to warn the reader away from this trash. The films look like they were cobbled together by a bored intern with video editing software, not the result of professorial research; if this is the standard of Chinese Imperial academia, I can only weep for the country.

Worse than the zero-budget production value is the gross distortions both films make to the historical record. Anyone with a basic understanding of Chinese history will notice the glaring omission of any mention of the Scarlet Lancers; in fact, the 2166-2173 interregnum is completely ignored. King George suggests the imperial legacy continued uninterrupted for a millennium, when that chapter ended with Otto I's arrest in 2179. China's atomic bombings of its neighbours are glanced over, and state policies of cultural genocide remain unaddressed.

These aren't so much films as propaganda adverts. The fact they were released as the Empire began resurrecting the so-called "Xiang Dynasty" is beyond coincidence. I probably got them free because the state knows no-one will pay for them. Academically, they are worthless: they provide no new information and confound the existing facts. Any self-respecting historian will be insulted by such carelessly and unabashedly revisionist interpretations.

So rarely have I found "non-fiction" publications in any medium that inflict such utter disservice to history. For those who wish to truly learn about China in the latter 22nd Century, I can state with all honesty that anything, anything, is better than these films.

Luxuria Daily, 19 April 3012

OOC: I Challengeyou to review the CRF documentary.

IC:

A Beijing University Production

With 2 Background Soundtracks

Nine Minutes Long

Based on Secret Files of CRF

Starring

Linhuan Sin as Writer

CRF:


Link to video.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Coup in Twilightopia. Renamed to South Cascadia; Jacob Black replaces Stephenie Meyer as leader, ostensibly because she refused to let him get the girl.

Yeeeano. Either stick to your side of the fence or I'll tear it up and annex the whole plot.

Germany had a coup. Pro-London.

VON ESLING: I'm sorry, I cannot in good conscience play a state allied to London. I am withdrawing from this game until further notice.
AL-SAHHAF: I—
WILHELM II: ♫ My moustache brings all the boys to the yard / And they're like, "Let's start a World War!" / Damn right, let's start a World War!.. ♫
STAVROS: Son of a witch.

 

[GenMarshall]

The Republic offers a proposal for a non-aggression treaty to Korea.

 

[christos200]

God be with us all.

Are you Communists or not? Also do you have Stalin as your leader?

I am confused. What Communists have to do with God?

 

[GenMarshall]

Are you Communists or not? Also do you have Stalin as your leader?

I am confused. What Communists have to do with God?

I don't think he specified that PF is going with the state-atheism gig.

 

[Sonereal]

If I wanted high levels of meta and powergaming, I wouldn't have bother making this nation.

I might come back as a simple banking/infomration institution later once the stock market stops beings lulzy.

Until then, I'm out.

 

[Ailedhoo]

VON ESLING: I'm sorry, I cannot in good conscience play a state allied to London. I am withdrawing from this game until further notice.
AL-SAHHAF: I—
WILHELM II: ♫ My moustache brings all the boys to the yard / And they're like, "Let's start a World War!" / Damn right, let's start a World War!.. ♫
STAVROS: Son of a witch.

Mandatum approves of Wilhelm II's rise.

 

[KaiserElectric]

I've whipped together a nice little flag for New Babylon. Gaze upon it and despair!

Spoiler :

 

[Patriotic_Fool]

So you're leaving, sone? Well, what an incredible weight lifted off my shoulders. I was worried we would have an unfavorable.. dispute in the future, involving WMD's. To address the "metagaming" thing - all I wanted was to have a fun war and see lots of violence and death. I was disappointed when 6 players declared war on me when Partitionia wasn't even in the alliance anymore. I figured you guys must be close friends or something.

Forgive me, but all my imperialistic actions were meant to portray the image of a ruthless Stalinist empire. As for the nuking thing, Partitionania showed a definite eagerness to get WMD's fast, and I was their neighbors.

It was going to get ugly eventually.

 

[SamSniped]

It was the genocide part. By the way, I wish all to know of the peace talks going on in the UN.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Powergaming? Metagaming? When did this happen?

As promised before, London collapsing now. Say hello to the minor NPCs of ... I dunno. I'm too lazy, I'll let Thorvald handle that. I'm just calling them Oceania and Brotherhood England for now. North and south respectively.

Yeeeano. Either stick to your side of the fence or I'll tear it up and annex the whole plot.

Technically this is Kinich's decision; he has merely PM'd me that he wanted them to stop calling themselves Twilightopia after I told him of their defection.

So, I rolled with Meyer being overthrown and someone else taking power.

Are you Communists or not? Also do you have Stalin as your leader?

I am confused. What Communists have to do with God?

I don't think he specified that PF is going with the state-atheism gig.

What CivG said. Also, Christian Socialism.

 

[Patriotic_Fool]

Location: In a large Soviet conference room.

Over 60 representatives from each province of the USSR sat in this monolithic structure. It was constructed before the destruction of Moscow, that was self-evident. The building was shaped like the ancient Roman Coliseum. Marble floors, adorned with deep, red velvet rugs. Mahogany chairs, with named of forgotten politicians carved in them, surrounded the central podium. The building was derelict for centuries, but when the New Government was established, no expense was spared on it's restoration.

Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin was busy rambling about the USSR's new foreign policy. A massive gold and crimson flag hung behind him, and his words were imbued with the fire only a true Russian knows.

".. and can't you understand! This is the only solution! Do you remember the disease that swept through other countries and killed millions? If Rome hadn't found a cure..."

"That's not the point, Comrade Stalin!", interrupted a chubby politician from a newly annexed Partitionian province, "We have options this time around!"


The Premier slammed his fist onto the podium.


"Options? You claim we have options? The world threatens to converge on our glorious Union, and you say we have options? London already possesses weapons capable of wiping out a significant chunk of the Poland-Russian populace."


He let out an angry grunt and continued..


"They said they would use these weapons against us, yet what has the UN, or any world power done to limit such genocide?... .. well?"


Several politicians shifted positions in their seats. A muffled cough escaped in crowd.


"I thought so. The USSR stands alone in this struggle. There have been threats against us if we use these weapons of death, yet not a finger has been lifted against the Londoners. What does that mean?"


A heavy set man from the newly acquired Baltic provinces gave an answer.


"A capitalist plot against the USSR to destroy Communism?"

"... you're right. You're right. YOU ARE RIGHT! These capitalist bastards have been after the USSR and after our wealth and power. Our glory is unmatched, but they rather see us fight amongst ourselves, than rally against Evil and overcome our foes."


A murmur began in the crowd. It quickly hushed down when the Premier continued.


"Furthermore, there is obvious reason to believe others will join and attack the USSR merely for capitalistic gains. Those on the other side of the world have declared war on us, no doubt with the intent to gain some easy land."


The murmur grew into hushed conversations. The tension was building.


"Worst of all, the USSR has tried to negotiate peace. All peace talks degenerate into other powers demanding more reparations. They demand that the USSR make such ridiculous reparations, that by abiding by these unjust terms, the USSR would be nothing more than a slave - a Partitionanian puppet!!"


With this, the crowd was in an uproar.

"You want to know what I say? Do you want to know what we need?!?"


Stalin's ferocity was reaching its peak, and the crowd was going wild.

"We need to go forward with our WMD program and ensure that anyone foolish enough to use death devices against us will pay! For every Soviet-Partitionian death, there will be 20 enemy deaths!

For every WMD launched at us, we will launch 10 back!

For every soldier we lose in battle, we will take dozens of enemy soldiers!

We will not surrender!! We will not be slaves!!"



The crowd could not be contained and were stumbling over their seats. They climbed over each other to congratulate their beloved Leader, and to be part of the glory that was coming.

With the agility of a fox, Stalin sidestepped the politicians and directed them to a private viewing room.

In this room, a tattered black and white film was playing.

The representatives took seats and quietly watched the film.

A large mushroom cloud appeared, and a small village was seen instantly destroyed. There appeared to be many small objects moving around the village and the blast zone, trying to escape.

The first test was a complete success.