Dear Wendy,
Well said. Your words are poetry and grace to us all. As you are aware, your holiness, a boycott is really nothing more than a symbolic, and polite request that a player consider peace. Hardly would it affect such a knowledgable and skilled player as yourself.
I, myself, your holiness instituted the boycott, and did so for your own good. There are some who are missguided and do not see you as the light of Sim Country. In their blindness, they would make war with you -- not for the noble reasons of protecting your speech and your right to profit -- but for a misguided cause.
I felt it necessary to prevent you that annoyance, and started a boycott. This will allow many of them to -- rather than attacking you -- feel that they have done something by signing on to the boycott.
Thus, I have spared you the annoyance of a war, by giving them a peacefull way to request peace with you.
In your forsight,
N
nix001 (Little Upsilon)
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â—¦Lawyer: "Trooper, when you stopped the defendant, were your red and blue lights flashing?"
â—¦Witness: "Yes."
â—¦Lawyer: "Did the defendant say anything when she got out of her car?"
â—¦Witness: "Yes, sir."
â—¦Lawyer: "What did she say?"
â—¦Witness: "'What disco am I at?'"
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Psycho_Honey (White Giant)
All worlds
From: Sword
To: Her Holiness Arriving
Real Date: 07-05-2010 06:13:15
World Date: February 19 2722
Subject: Fwd: peace
Message: Forwarded from Miko Tan
Wendy, Kaymen just got WGC permission to use nukes. As his friend, I think it will make him look bad to nuke you, and I don't want that. I expect you are hurt that he said things you don't like about you on the forum, and want some sort of appology. I have an offer for you. You agree to end the war with no conditions on him, except that he stop attacking (as well as his allies). If you do that, I'll issue a statement saying that his critisism of you was not completly fair, and I'll appologize for declaring on you. I can only negotiate for me, not for Kaymen.
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Psycho_Honey (White Giant)
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Look who wants to use nukes now
Thank you, how hypocritical of you awl.
There will be no peace, just Death Destruction and Many LuLz.
And WGC taking a few nodos
J
Jo Salkilld (White Giant)
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Chrysostom is not authorised to make offers on behalf of WGC and, as such, his posts to this forum and his message to Wendy were entirely his own initiative and not representative of WGC's position.
WGC has not yet authorised the use of nuclear weapons against any players on White Giant and will only do so if it will not affect those not involved in the conflict. Chrysostom's misunderstanding arose from an internal discussion in which we are considering that, as there are no unsecured countries within fallout range and WGC is at war with a player known to use nuclear weapons indiscriminately and without regard for innocent bystanders, the authorisation of nukes may be appropriate. We are reluctant to do so, especially given that the countries concerned are so weak they do not warrant such extreme measures. However, if Wendy decides to use nukes against us first, that will influence our final decision.
From Wendy
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Psycho_Honey (Little Upsilon)
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Benno798240 (Little Upsilon)
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"From Wendy's posts to this thread, it seems likely that she will use a private and unauthorized message to attempt to justify escalating this war."
I'm sorry to jump in, Jo Salkilld, but i'm trying to understand your statement. What i get out of that, is that it is inappropriate for some one to use a private message to embarrass, or other wise harm another player? Especially with the intent of causing a fight, or argument? I would assume that their certainly is time when it is appropriate to expose private messages... But where is that line?
Thank you, and now i'll butt out
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chrysostom (White Giant)
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I have left WGC, so that I can post on the forum. I had been in WGC for well over a year, and was serving as the elected Minister of Economics when I quit today.
For my part, I have now decided to stop attacking Wendy unless she attacks me. I attacked her, because she had attacked Kaymen, who is in WGC. The WGC rules call for members to defend other members who are attacked, which is what I was doing.
As to the start of the War, Wendy is right that it is not her fault. Kaymen is right that it is not his fault.
Iain proposed $5 trillion in aid for Wendy, and then posted on the internal WGC forum for security council members to vote for that aid. He posted for all members to then vote against it in the general vote. He is apparently an Ally of Wendy's on another world and wanted to pretend to support giving her other people's money.
Kaymen protested, as Wendy is a veterin player who doesn't need the money
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chrysostom (White Giant)
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(part 2)
It is well known the public discussion that followed. Simply put, Wendy attacked Kaymen, so I declared on her.
Right before attacking her country, I sent her a single e-mail to try a hand at peace first. I thought it worthwhile to try my best to avoid having to attack her.
She responded back *Fartz*. When the time for war was allowed, I took her country in less than 1 game day. I went to the WGC forum to post that I took that country, and found my access had been revoked.
Jo's husband, the unelected forum moderator who has no authority for disciplinary matters, revoted my access to the forum. I find it stunning that an unelected person who is not allowed to vote on High Council matters is arrogant enough to ban the democratically elected minister of Economics, who is one of only 6 elected ministers of WGC. I find it stunning that this was done immediatly after I took Wendy's country.
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chrysostom (White Giant)
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Anyway,
My point is simply that I'm sick of being used as a pawn for other people's games. It is clear that Iain and Wendy and Jo are playing some type of ... as Jo put called it ... an interplanitary mindgame.
The whole matter, Iain offering Wendy money and trying to use WGC members to vote for it and then against it; was disgusting and deceptive. Jo and Iain are diplomats. They play games with people....what is what they enojoy. They enjoy politics and suspense. They enjoy saying one thing to one person, and the opposite to someone else.
Iain claimed that he took away my forum access because I might say what was said on the forum.
Since I had access to the High Council forum and the member forums, I had heard many things that would catch him in his lies and his games and his tricks. I'm not going to share them, so he has no excuse to accuse me of sharing something I shouldn't.
However, I will