From owner-frc@troll.no Fri Oct 10 18:48:08 1997 Received: from svtt02.win.tue.nl by svin04.win.tue.nl (8.7.1/1.45) id SAA09386; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 18:48:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lupinella.troll.no by svtt02.win.tue.nl (8.7.1/1.45) id SAA07470; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 18:47:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by troll.no id <79574-252>; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 18:47:27 +0200 Sender: owner-frc@troll.no Precedence: list X-Loop: frc Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:41:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "A.K.A. TheWiz" Reply-To: "A.K.A. TheWiz" To: frc@troll.no Subject: Round 85 summary, REAL Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: OR Round started Sunday, September 21st, 1997. Players: Orjan -- +1.5, until 9/28 Laurent -- +1.75, until 9/29 Ed Murphy -- +2.00, until 10/6 "Heuristics Inc" -- +1.5, until 10/1 No other players are eligible. The round is thus dead. Murderers! :-) Ed is the new wizard judge. Rules: 85:1 -- valid, +1.5, 9/21, author Orjan 85:2 -- valid, +1.75, 9/22, author Laurent Bossavit 85:3 -- valid, +0.75, 9/23, author Ed Murphy 85:4 -- valid, +1.5, 9/24, author "Heuristics Inc", ??? 85:4 -- valid, +1.25, 9/29, author Ed Murphy Complete texts of rules, the thing which makes these summaries so annoying to set up: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 14:07:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "A.K.A. TheWiz" To: Orjan Johansen Cc: Fantasy Rules Committee Subject: Re: Rule 85:1 >>>>> >Seeing the horrible fate of the previous Rounds, 85 decided to take >special precautions. Each Rule, it would make sure to put up some new >protection against the murderers. > >For a start, it got itself a bodyguard. Mr. Lech Sloworzskprltrzski would >appear in each Rule, and invalidate any that tried to end 85. There was a >small catch to hiring him, though: the Pole was very proud of his name, >and every Rule would be required to spell it correctly. >>>>> Valid. 1.5 style points. ____________________________________________________________________________ |The Mauve Baron| Beep |dankna@bergen.org * http://www.bergen.org/~dankna| |---------------| Blip |-------------------------------------------------| | Dan Knapp | Bonk | This notice copyright (C)1997 Dan Knapp | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:03:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "A.K.A. TheWiz" To: Orjan Johansen Cc: Fantasy Rules Committee Subject: Re: Rule 85:2 (fwd) >>>>> > >Mr. Sloworzskprltrzski was, himself, a Square, but he also was >definitely not a shapist; he knew people who wouldn't have touched a >Round with a 10-foot Pole, but as he was rather short himself that >mattered little. > >Then again, he was fonder of Miss Em, who was a Triangle, than of 85 >himself. Miss Em was 85's new accountant, a no-nonsense lady who >never let any of 85's Rules get tangled into restrictions based upon >each Rule's number. So many otherwise strong Rounds had been >defeated by an abuse of this heady number stuff ! The older, more >traditional methods were good enough for her - and if they were good >enough for her, they were good enough for 85. > >>>>> Thank you, this will be for my archives. I am not treating this as another submission. For the record, I awarded .5 points for the first pun, 1 for the idea, and .25 points for the second pun. Er, that's 1.75 points, contrary to my comment earlier. This one now is correct. ____________________________________________________________________________ |The Mauve Baron| Beep |dankna@bergen.org * http://www.bergen.org/~dankna| |---------------| Blip |-------------------------------------------------| | Dan Knapp | Bonk | This notice copyright (C)1997 Dan Knapp | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 07:36:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "A.K.A. TheWiz" To: Ed Murphy Cc: frc@troll.no Subject: Re: 85:3 >Little did Lech Sloworzskprltrzski realize that his evil twin half-brother, >Nech Sloworzskprltrzski, had been promised a starring role when Round 86 >arrived - and Nech was impatient. > >(Nech is the Pole mentioned in a previous Rule. Nech's parents were a Point >and a Triangle, whereas Lech's were a Triangle and the Pentagon - hence >the origin of Lech's successful career as a bodyguard.) > >Nech's first attempt to bring about Round 85's untimely demise involved >stuffing Lech into a wooden crate and shipping him off to Abu Dhabi, but >Lech was wearing his buzzsaw cufflinks and was able to escape. After much >heated discussion, the half-brothers half-agreed on a half-compromise: each >future Rule would describe another of Nech's attempts to end Round 85, but >would also describe how Lech thwarted it. I rule this VALID. 85:1 says that any rule which attempts to end the round is invalidated, but this one doesn't. I give this .75 style points. ____________________________________________________________________________ |The Mauve Baron| Beep |dankna@bergen.org * http://www.bergen.org/~dankna| |---------------| Blip |-------------------------------------------------| | Dan Knapp | Bonk | This notice copyright (C)1997 Dan Knapp | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:07:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "A.K.A. TheWiz" To: "Heuristics Inc." Cc: Fantasy Rules Committee Subject: Re: Rule 85:4 > Being resourceful, Nech had been "in the area" during Round 81, > and had seen his other half-brother Ned's attempts to fool HIS brother > Fred's plans to prove the world round. Nech, taking hope from the fact > that Fred never did make it all the way, carefully studied Ned's tactics, > planning to emulate him. As soon as it was done he promised to try to > make sense of his somwehat confused family tree. > > Luckily, Mr. Lech Sloworzskprltrzski (cut-and-paste is wonderful!) > had read newspaper accounts of Fred's progress en route, and then bought > the autobiographical expose Fred published a few months later. Lech read > it over and over (his favorite part was the bit with Benny being staved), > and he knew every one of Nech's new ideas by heart! > > So when Nech tried to finish off Round 85 by boring everyone to > death (by the obvious tactic of removing all the exclamation points from > this rule, of course!), Lech was ready for it, and added several > retroactively to 85:4 using his top-secret time machine. Since Nech had > no time machine and those parts of the rule had already been written, he > couldn't take them out, and his plan was foiled. > > Since Lech is both a history buff and possesses a time machine, he > will, in every rule after this one, make sure that an event from an old round > is mentioned. Note that this is another way to keep the old Rounds alive - by > remembering their deeds fondly and often. I rule VALID and give 1.5 style points. ____________________________________________________________________________ |The Mauve Baron| Beep |dankna@bergen.org * http://www.bergen.org/~dankna| |---------------| Blip |-------------------------------------------------| | Dan Knapp | Bonk | This notice copyright (C)1997 Dan Knapp | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Deciding to fight fire with fire, Nech Sloworzskprltrzski's next attempt > against Round 85 took its inspiration from Round 66 (the alternate- > routes-of-history Round): he tried to convince Lech that the continued > survival of Round 85 depended crucially upon Lech's climbing up a particular > ficus tree, which Nech had rigged with knockout gas. Fortunately, Lech > didn't buy it for a moment, and diverted Nech's attention by convincing > Ned and Fred to have a duel beneath the tree (with flamethrowers, thus > getting rid of the knockout gas rather spectacularly). > > Each further Rule shall describe how Ned and Fred keep getting involved > in the Sloworzskprltrzskis' business. > > -- > Ed Murphy > http://www.bayside.net/users/ford/ This is VALID and gets 1.25 style points. ___Dan_Knapp____The_Mauve_Baron______________________Beep Blip Bonk_______ http://users.bergen.org/~dankna Visit ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/ and find out about text adventures! If you don't have anything to say, get off the soapbox.