At 02:37 PM 7/7/01 -0400, you wrote:
>All:
> Is it possible to win the long game without the Silver Dragon? I seem
>to be stuck at the town-making stage, being unable after 4 tries to get the
>two warring kings to agree to make a town. I have Literacy, Oath, and
>Silvertongue running, an Issaries godtalker on the ring with excellent
>bargaining, and a tribal queen with renowned leadership. However, I lost
>the Silver Dragon when a stray bolt of sorcerous magic from the Pharaoh's
>minions melted it (one of the least rationalizable outcomes of any event,
>BTW). That was 40 years ago. I want to know: has anyone else won the long
>game without the SD?
I *think* we've won a long game (on easy) where we failed to steal the SD
in the first place.
I know we've failed to steal it, at any rate, and I think that we've
finished those games.... 8)
James Sterrett & Corinne Mahaffey
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