The Death Knell
Day 632, 17:21
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Published in Indonesia 
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by Longbaugh
41 down...10 left...
Quite unexpectedly,
as Vasserot the Armless Ambidextrian was lighting a match
between his great and second toe,
And Ralph the lion was engaged in biting the neck of Madame Sossman
while the drum pointed, and Teeny was about to cough
In waltz-time swinging Jocko by the thumb——
Quite unexpectedly the top blew off:
And there, there overhead, there,
there hung over those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes,
There in the starless dark the poise, the hover,
There with vast wings across the canceled skies,
There in the sudden blackness the black pall
Of nothing, nothing, nothing——nothing at all.
— Archibald MacLeish
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Wow looks like we lost even more when it's all in blue. It intensifies the effect.
Btw how many more days do you predict eus will have left?
@ changewillcome
Two weeks... with a heavy back-and-forth fight in Florida and New Jersey taking up the bulk of it. Although, at this rate, it could be far quicker. I'm assuming your top brass are actively preparing for an arduous standoff in those two remaining strongholds.
And, well... we both know what assumptions are worth.
I was going to guess about the same time frame. Yes I am saving up for the last stand. Heck I am just fighting barehanded right now. Save up every last piece of gold I can.
What will happen if one country takes over the world? Will it reset? Or is it even possible?
Agreed, the blue highlights the brutality of the takeover. Soon US will be reduced to its original thirteen colonies.
@Jewyoyo
Not possible... some of those thirteen colonies (English colonies...) are already in enemy hands...
Well done to PEACE for doing what Great Britain couldn't do in Real life... Putting down that awful rebellion...
*gulp*
I've still got a feeling that once PEACE GC realizes world domination, the Admins will reset the game. World Domination would force many paying customers of this game to leave and their revenue would drop off to a point where they would reset the world in hopes of getting some business back.
Also, I think once PEACE realizes its "dream" of wiping out the eUSA, they will have no great enemy to unite against and will go back to the squabbling it was doing before the last gasp operation. Then we'll see PEACE GC fighting PEACE GC and which side will broker deals for what nations to be reborn for their support.
time for the mass exodus to spain and ireland...
@ Relorian
I don't think admin will reset the game because PEACE is an alliance, made up of different nations, not a single ruling entity. You can't find PEACE on a map.
With that said, you're just describing the reality of human discourse. Yeah, PEACE will probably break down to infighting but so what? That seems inevitable. The same thing would happen if Fortis took over the world. It has nothing to do with greed or petty squabbling. It's just a cyclical demand for the sake of a national interest... which is how every alliance in the history of the New World was formed.
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@Longbaugh
If the Admin loses enough revenue, be it be established players who buy a lot of gold leaving or new players who don't join because the world is divided up between Hungary and Indonesia or who dont pay for gold/services, there will have to be Admin action taken, otherwise the game wont pay for itself or even partially fund itself and will be pretty much another API script shell running with no users until the server bill comes due and goes unpaid.
Im no fan of ATLANTIS/FORTIS/EDEN either, but what PEACE GC is doing goes against everything they say they are. The only reason this idea became a war was to save their alliance, which was already suffering internal stresses and crumbling. Its already showing signs of decay even with the war on. I personally wonder how long it will be before smaller PEACE GC nations get thrown under the Bus for not doing their "part".
Eventually the world will be split into 2 or 3 parts, all vying for the remaining citizens of the nations they currently oppress to help them. Then we'll see a real World War.
@Relorian, I RL agree with you. Completely.
Let's call Bonte, and ask about the revenue lines!
An IPO would sort us all out nicely of course..with preferentials for the seriously, and previously, committed LOL.
I agree with Grainne and Relorian.
@Gabriel - That's really ironic I'd never heard of that movie until last night when I watched it on Netflix
You know what's really funny about this article? It makes the classic blunder of assuming that eAmerica is the land that PEACE has marched over.
eAmerica is its people, not its land. Land can be recovered, companies restored, economy rebuilt. But it's the people who are truly important, and it's the people that this article is trying to strike. And the irony is that it's trying to strike at them by making them believe that the land is what matters.
@ Jaime Hasten
They're called natural resources. Nations live and die on them. So... I must politely disagree with you. It really IS the land that matters.
@longbaugh
no, natural resources are things that people control. People, and their ambitions, are not so easily controlled (unless, like you, they have become PEACE sycophants). The eUSA may end up being overtaken, but rest assured that eAmerica will remain on and will not just flee to where it seems comfortable (ring a bell for ya does it?)
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