RB17, part ... uh... two? The Hippies Revenge!

[Rex Tyrannus]

I am he as you are he as you are me
and we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun
see how they fly
I'm crying
Sitting on a cornflake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you've been a naughty boy
you let your face grow long

I am the eggman
they are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Mr. city policeman sitting
pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the sky
See how they run
I'm crying
I'm crying, I'm crying
Yellow matter custard
Dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crabalocker fishwife
Pornographic priestess
Boy, you've been a naughty girl
you let your knickers down

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Sitting in an English garden
waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come you get a tan
from standing in the English rain

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Expert, texpert choking smokers
don't you think the joker laughs at you
See how they smile like pigs in a sty
See how they snide
I'm crying
Semolina pilchard
climbing up the Eiffel tower
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking
Edgar Allan Poe

I am the eggman
They are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob
Goo goo g' joob
Goo goo g' goo
goo goo g' joob goo
juba juba juba
juba juba juba
juba juba juba juba
juba juba

 

[pholkhero]

So, somehow, I woke up on this boat ~ i had this crown on my head

I guess i'm in charge now

So, I talk to the captain and we park this ship of fools on the nearby coast. We were quite nearby the Incan lands, but that's cool, man. We can totally mingle.

Why don't we, uh...use that boat to fish? Oh, you sent it away already? Ahh, well, that's cool. Let' s just build another one

Speaking of incans, HC shows up with a trade, we haggle a bit, and i end up with this;

i'm all for building good vibes man!

I also try to see if anyone wants to help us pass this stupid Engineering course ~ no one wants to help. GW offered, but he totally hasn't even taken it yet! I end up speaking to the eggman:

I thought the walrus was paul?
-No, it was me, Alexander the Great. Didn't you know Lenon was an ancient Greek buff? What do you think Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is? The Peleponessian War.

I also found Asoka wandering around, looking at his toes.

No, i swear, both feet are the same size!

Ahh, man, terrible news.

Our poor caravels that i sent westward are useless ~ ahh well, maybe we'll find a nice site.

Oh no, I injured my knee grooving to the sweet vibes of the island music here at the Perl. I'm gonna have to beggar off the crown for now, but here's a sweet ass map i colored when i was high last night.

We can totally fit our last city East of Najran, there's 2 fish there iirc.

I also told the governors to build more temples, monasteries, a Confucian Temple, monastery almost done an academy @ Mecca. We need Damascus to build the Nat'l Epic soon for all it's GAs it can run there ~ at least 5 at full specialist!! It's the weakest culturally and will need the most help. We should reconfigure it for shields once its ready to build it.

Here's the save man. Far out.

 

[Zalson]

I think we might want that first academy in Damascus, because it's producing the lowest Cultchure.

Grass is up.

 

[GreyFox]

GoodGrass is now smoking Japanese Grass instead of usual Singapore Grass ... so GoodGrass maybe can get it, maybe not. If RosyBlossom can play, RosyBlossom should play.

 

[pholkhero]

I think we might want that first academy in Damascus, because it's producing the lowest Cultchure.

Grass is up.

Damascus has lower production and i think with all the artists we have there, nat'l epic may be better ~ and that takes at least 20 turns or so for now, so i figured at least get one started. We still need to spread the religion and build the temples across the land. we've got Hinduism, Confucianism and Taoism to spread the good vibes across the empre.

 

[GreyFox]

Since when did Bellflower became a venerable and why is he singing bad song abt us????



And check it out, dudes, we had one more Religious Venerable borned in Mecca!



He goes join Damas a sthe city is short on hammers.



My suggestion on where to find our next city ... its near -- easier to spam with missionaries, and less cost. You could, alternatively, wait 3 turns for galleons to settle the isalnd with 3 seafoods.



I had a hindu dude ... he's so cooool ... to go to the city south of Mecca for some hindu concert. concerntrate on hindu first since we get gold out of it, plus the faster we can build one type of cathedral, the faster we can reap its benefit



The above picture also show that I started the Taj Mahal in Mecca. Can be vetoed, but if not, then you can chop the recently growed forest (circled) to hasten it a bit.

There is also another hindu singer on a ferry to the east island city for hindu concert as well.

We had only 3 religions. Maintain the tarde with Asoka .... hopefully Judaism get spread to us.

Our military is pathetic ... do spare some production to strengthen it a bit.

>>>> The Save (1500AD) <<<<

 

[pholkhero]

we can't chop forests, man, that would hurt the trees!!

 

[Rex Tyrannus]

Okay, I'm up, right? Well you gotta hold on a minute. Pheasant spilled bong water on my amp and won't work anymore. But I know this dude who says he can fix it with duct tape, some copper wire, and a distributor cap from an old Chevy.

will play tomorrow

 

[GreyFox]

Opps,&#12288;&#65331;orry, GoodGrass smoked too &#65357;&#65365;&#65347;&#65352;&#12288;&#65322;&#65345;&#65360;&#65345;&#65358;&#65349;&#65363;&#65349;&#12288;&#65346;&#65345;&#65348;&#12288;&#65319;&#65362;&#65345;&#65363;&#65363;&#65294;&#65294;&#65294;&#65294;&#12288;&#12288;&#65358;&#65359;chop !

 

[Rex Tyrannus]

Turns played. I'm writing the report now. Here's the save, if anyone wants to look.

Here're the highlights (or lowlights, really). Asoka discovers liberalism and uses it to take Nationalism, breaking our monopoly. He then trades it to Qin who has a $&@!ing ENGINEER YOU JACKASS OF AN INDIAN!!!!!

Taj Mahal BIFL, Qin starts golden age.

Report to follow.

 

[Rex Tyrannus]

Wait, you want me in charge? Are you sure?

Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
ooh, they're red, white and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail To The Chief",
oh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,

It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no senator's son,
It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no fortunate one, no,

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, why don't they help themselves? oh.
But when the taxman come to the door,
Lord, the house look a like a rummage sale, yes,

It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no.
It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no fortunate one, no.

Yeh, some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
ooh, they send you down to war, Lord,
And when you ask them, how much should we give,
oh, they only answer, more, more, more, yoh,

It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no military son, SON, NO
It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no fortunate one, NO NO

It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no fortunate one, no no no,
It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no fortunate son, son son son

I mean, guns suck, greed totally blows, I love trees, and can barely add up all the buds I smoked the night before. Why the hell would anyone pick some burnt out flower child like me to rule their empire?

Whatever, I guess. So what's the plan? Culture huh? That's sweet. I can bang some drums and throw some paint on a canvas. Can't really sculpt or write, but I'm okay at philosophizing. Guess I'll leave those things up to other dudes.

So where do we want our culture? Mecca, Medina, Demascus, huh? Whatever. I'll see what I can do.

After a quick nap (end of inherited turn) I tell this hindu guru dude to chill in Basra and it totally worked.

Man, these Najran dudes aren't happy, huh? Why not? This is the super-chillinest empire ever.



Err...well, maybe not (7th in approval rate)



I ask some dudes what they all think of us. That Incan dude is cautious but the rest are pleased. Fair enough. I'm kinda cautious about Inca myself.



Some dude left a settler up on our north, so I said: Settler dude, you should settle. And he did.



Time for a nap, man. I'm tired. (End of turn 1)

Judaism spreads to Khurasan at the same time that the Salad dude goes all golden (JC Golden age). That's cool. I had some Peyote that did that once. That Hindu dude on the Ferry did his duty in Najran. (Spread Hinduism in Najran)

Man, already sleepy again. (End of turn 2)

IBT, that Qin dude totally shows up begging. He wants us to give him Nationalism for Paper and 100 bucks. We so don't need papers when we got bongs, man.



We also learned Astrology so I can see the future. The future says to research Constitution sos we can adopt that representation **** and totally hook up our specialists.



None of those other dudes have Nationalism yet, but I want to hold onto it until Taj is 50% done.

Whoa dudes. I'll be right back. I gotta go drop a deuce. (End of turn 3)

Toaism spreads in Pheasant's Perl for free.

Whoa, that Asoka dude just got all liberal on us. (Asoka is the first to discover Liberalism)



And it looks like he took Nationalism for free with it because last turn, he totally wanted it from us.



Nap time, brothers (End of turn 4)

 

[Rex Tyrannus]

We get this Munk who won't shut up about Yin and Yang and stuff, so I told him to go hand out in Mecca for a while. See if the vibes will teach him to take life less seriously. (Spread Toaism to Mecca).

Whoa, it's turn 6 now??? Wasn't it just, like, turn 2 or something?

Dudes, we can totally use that Astrology to see into China! (Hindu spreads in Guangzhou on it's own and we can see the city with a bunch of black around it.)

Also, we got a ton of boats all in one place near that HC dude. So I sent the one that can go deep north into the unknown. Look what he found, man! America!



End of turn 6

Oh man, bad trip! Bad trip!!! Taj Mahal BIFL, man! At the same time as Taj BIFL, Qin begins a golden age. That dude totally didn't have Nationalism last turn. I checked, man. Freaking India dude sold it to Qin and Caesar IBT. But the fat goatee mother&$#!er had a &$#-$@&#ed &@^!nutted *@!$ of an engineer with a $@&~!#@&*$ing &$## up his *%#. AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH. We had about 8 turns left on Taj.

Sorry. Had to close the game (from frustration) and I don't know what I've already reported. Taj BIFL (China)
SOB Asoka traded it to everyone and Qin had to have had an engineer, because I checked the screen last turn. No one had nationalism.

So now that everyone has nationalism, I trade it to Alex and HC. Arex gives me divine right. HC is a total dickweed and won't give anthing but the worst deal. Paper + 200 gold. Though he had 470 gold, engineering, and guilds. That was the absolute max he'd give.




(Yes, those trades are suspect, but for one, I was still ticked. For two, we want a friendly affair and the AI taking advantage raises relations. For three, we might as well get something for our efforts, right? Probably wrong. Crucify me later. I'm tired.)

At least everyone's really happy with us. We should all start some sort of Super Friends crime-fighting (or bowl smoking) club. (Oh, and in all the Taj Mahal BIFL garbage, we birth a great scientist in Mecca. Great Scientist will give 1700 beakers toward Education. Not sure I like that idea. Group decision.)



End of turn 7

You know, my time as leader is coming to an end soon. I want something really, really big to go out on. Something that Asoka or Qin can't take away from me. I want something really Epic. Something that sums up our National pride, you know? (I start building the National Epic in Mecca for the 1 Great Artist point and for the 100% GP bonus.)

Sprial Minaret BIFL

Whoa, that JC dude totally hoarked our island!!! He can't do that, can he?



End of turn 8

Whoa, super long nap, bros. I slept through the whole turn. You got any Doritos?

End of turn 9

Aw crap. I sent a hindu missionary to Kufah, but they already had hindu. Send him to Pheasant's Pearl.

End of turns

 

[pholkhero]

totally sweet turns, man! glad you were able to fix your amp ~ now we can chill, and jam out ~

turn in, turn on and drop out!!

 

[Bede]

Gettin' it on for tomorrow.

 

[pholkhero]

ooc: so, how far on the tech path are we going?? anybody read...uh..containment's epic 3 report (based on godotnut's culture win)?? liberalism, demo, turn off, buy temples, cathedrals, etc, go 100% culture?? also, at that point ~ 20 turns per set??

 

[GreyFox]

OoC:

I don't think we can afford to go that route (i.e. buying), since we don't have that much commerce in the first place. Actually, I am begining to question the choice of the 3 core cities (they don't have much cottages), but its too late, we are already committed.

In any case, we need liberalism for the civics, so trying for democrcay and and then buying cathedarls might be a viable path. But we need military as well. AIs WILL attack once we start 100% culture and drop far behind in power/tech.

 

[LKendter]

Lurkers comment - 3 high food cities can also pull of a culture win with running a ton of artist specialists for culture. If a couple more cities can feed some artists...

 

[pholkhero]

OoC:

I don't think we can afford to go that route (i.e. buying), since we don't have that much commerce in the first place. Actually, I am begining to question the choice of the 3 core cities (they don't have much cottages), but its too late, we are already committed.

In any case, we need liberalism for the civics, so trying for democrcay and and then buying cathedarls might be a viable path. But we need military as well. AIs WILL attack once we start 100% culture and drop far behind in power/tech.

depending on the timing, we may be able to get some our religious allies to fight ~ can we do that according to variant rules?? doesn't seem hippie-ish, but . . .

also, if we are only running 100% culture for a bit of time, we may be okay if let othre cities build units.

 

[Zalson]

Dudes, what's with all this strate-- starte-- stratratetigizing? This game is ALL about the

 

[Bede]

So quiet you can hear the bubble of the hookah in Saladin's tent. Learned how to print so we can read Steppenwolf and Siddartha - really need to bring every city in the world into understanding the Hindu way. Started a Mandir, a Taoist monastery and some more temples. We don't need courthouses full of suits and blue pigs, we need places to chant and learn mantras. So say the Mahareshi. If we can get the word out across the world (Higher Consciousness, man) the money thing will take care of itself. So keep sending the Hindu missionaries out with their sitars.

When the book printing got started I shared the knoweldge around the world so we can afford to learn the Democracy mantra. And maybe the rest of the world will read those cool books by that German, too. Besides we needed the cash.

The boats are in home waters to pick up artists and missionaries and deliver them to their new ashrams.

The Greats are hanging out.

Hey jude, dont make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.

Hey jude, dont be afraid.
You were made to go out and get her.
The minute you let her under your skin,
Then you begin to make it better.

And anytime you feel the pain, hey jude, refrain,
Dont carry the world upon your shoulders.
For well you know that its a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder.

Hey jude, dont let me down.
You have found her, now go and get her.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.

So let it out and let it in, hey jude, begin,
Youre waiting for someone to perform with.
And dont you know that its just you, hey jude, youll do,
The movement you need is on your shoulder.

Hey jude, dont make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her under your skin,
Then youll begin to make it
Better better better better better better, oh.

na, na, na, na, na, na, na na hey jude