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This is a COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS game (in other words, the players don't even know which personae are in the game), where each player controls two Kingdoms.  The standard rules in place are:

1) Ally declarations, trades, and gifts are only allowed between your own two Kingdoms
2) Enemies can be freely declared, but you cannot later declare an enemy neutral
3) No HC issues are allowed to help another player's Kingdoms
4) All HC issues must be by SECRET ballot, and if a player accidentally proposes an open ballot issue, all players must abstain on that vote (i.e. it fails)
5) No drops before T15 (i.e. final orders issued on T15, per Rick's request)
6) Notify everyone as soon as you decide to drop, rather than allowing the computer to do it
7) No sending messages to other players by using new emissary names

Winner is via either Rex (four regions) by one Kingdom or Team (six regions) by two Kingdoms. A victory in this game won't count for 12- or 15- player game status points, but will count for a Warlords victory.

Originally there was a thought that the game would use the Pagan variant (i.e. no High Priestesses), but I forgot to remind Ry Vor of this nuance in my game formation summary, and so it formed without that rule.  Half of the players didn't even realize it was supposed to be a Pagan game, however, and every player ended up being OK with just dropping that variant.  We have a cool and very flexible community!

The players just finished T3.  Some key updates are:

T1: The Warlock kingdom won election to the High Council with a bid of 39,227 gold and bid for the issue to raise his own influence.

T2: WA won the HC issue and bid again to raise his own influence.
No other Kingdom bid to join the HC this turn.
The Demon Princes traded a large amount of gold to the Black Dragon for an unknown supply of food.
The Red Dragon King has declared the Gnome King an ally! (NOTE: This turned out to be an accidental declaration, and would be fixed the following turn.)
The Troll King has declared the Giant King a sworn enemy!

T3: WA won the HC issue and bid again to raise his own influence.
The Giant kingdom won election to the High Council with a bid of 38,161 gold.
The Red Dragon King has declared the Gnome King neutral. (NOTE: Fixing the accidental declaration the turn prior. Although some information ended up being leaked, it's a BIG bummer to lose two orders so early!)
The Elven kingdom has gained control of Oakendell.
The Witchlord kingdom has gained control of Northern Mists.
The Darkelven kingdom has gained control of Synisvania. (NOTE: Interesting that DA took R9 rather than R6!)

I think T4 just ran, and so I will post again when my source provides me with the latest turn results! Smile
T4 is in the books.

WA won the HC issue to increase his influence, DA won the next bid, denigrating BL in the Southern Sands.
The Demon Princes traded a large amount of gold to the Black Dragon for an unknown supply of food.
The Giant traded unknown amounts of gold to the Warlock for a large supply of food.
The Darkelven kingdom won election to the High Council with a bid of 50,618 gold.
The Demon Princes King has declared the Black Dragon King an ally!
The Black Dragon King has declared the Demon Princes King an ally!
The Warlock King has declared the Giant King an ally!
The Giant King has declared the Warlock King an ally!
The Red Dragon kingdom has gained control of Talking Mountains.
The Warlock kingdom has gained control of Amberland.
The Gnome kingdom has gained control of Runnimede.
The Ranger kingdom has gained control of Southern Sands.

Regions 4, 6, 8 are uncontrolled.

And we know two of the six teams: BL-DE, and GI-WA. Other Kingdoms playing are DA, EL, GN, RA, RD, SO, TR, WI. We also know GN is NOT on the same team as RD.

(AN, DW, UN are absent in this game.)
T5-7 are in the books.

T5: DA won the HC issue to denigrate BL in Southern Sands, no new issue proposed.
The Ranger kingdom won election to the High Council with a bid of 55,506 gold.
The Warlock gifted the Giant with a large amount of food and gold.
The Demon Princes gifted the Black Dragon with a large amount of gold.
The Warlock King has declared the Troll King a sworn enemy!
The Gnome King has declared the Giant King a sworn enemy!
The Darkelven King has declared the Black Dragon King a sworn enemy!
The Demon Princes King has declared the Ranger King a sworn enemy!
The Darkelven King has declared the Demon Princes King a sworn enemy!
The Darkelven King has declared the Sorcerer King a sworn enemy!
The Darkelven King has declared the Ranger King an ally!
The Darkelven King has declared the Red Dragon King a sworn enemy!
The Gnome King has declared the Troll King an ally!
The Ranger King has declared the Black Dragon King a sworn enemy!
The Troll kingdom has gained control of Torvale.
The Demon Princes kingdom has gained control of Arcania.

Only R6 is uncontrolled, and the teams are: BL-DE, GI-WA, DA-RA, GN-TR. Other Kingdoms player are EL, RD, SO, WI.

T6: No issue to vote on, DA won the next bid, lowering BL's influence.
The Gnome kingdom won election to the High Council with a bid of 36,216 gold.
The Gnome gifted the Troll with a large amount of gold.
The Demon Princes gifted the Black Dragon with a large amount of gold.
The Warlock gifted the Giant with a large amount of gold.
The Gnome King has declared the Warlock King a sworn enemy!
The Ranger King has declared the Demon Princes King a sworn enemy!
The Troll King has declared the Warlock King a sworn enemy!
The Troll King has declared the Gnome King an ally!
The Warlock King has declared the Gnome King a sworn enemy!
The Red Dragon King has declared the Sorcerer King an ally!
The Red Dragon King has declared the Witchlord King a sworn enemy!
The Giant King has declared the Troll King a sworn enemy!
The Warlock King has declared the Darkelven King a sworn enemy!
The Sorcerer kingdom has gained control of Eastern Steppes.

All regions are now controlled. All six teams are now known: BL-DE, GI-WA, DA-RA, GN-TR, EL-WI, RD-SO.

Status points as of T6:
Red Dragon 675 675
Gnome 550 550
Ranger 530 530
Troll 500 500
Warlock 500 500
Demon Princes 450 450
Witchlord 450 450
Black Dragon 400 400
Darkelven 400 400
Giant 400 400
Sorcerer 400 400
Elven 300 300

T7: DA lost the HC issue to lower BL's influence, GN won the next bid, expelling WA from the High Council.
The Demon Princes gifted the Black Dragon with a large supply of food.
The Warlock gifted the Giant with a large amount of gold.
The Gnome gifted the Troll with a large amount of gold.
Black Dragon Envoy Argonis publicly revealed proof that in the Ranger kingdom, The King Has Made Underhanded Dealings To Increase His Wealth.
Talking Mountains The people of this region have shown obvious outrage to the Ranger kingdom.
The Witchlord King has declared the Red Dragon King a sworn enemy!
The Warlock King has declared the Red Dragon King a sworn enemy!
The Giant King has declared the Gnome King a sworn enemy!
The Warlock King has declared the Witchlord King a sworn enemy!
The Witchlord King has declared the Sorcerer King a sworn enemy!
The Warlock King has declared the Black Dragon King a sworn enemy!
The Warlock King has declared the Elven King a sworn enemy!
The Giant King has declared the Elven King a sworn enemy!
Torvale Is now uncontrolled.
If anyone is interested in starting a new Dual Duel I have a thread in the signup forum.  Need 4 more players.