New: Atlantis: THE ONE EYED LABYRINTH (free, closed-ended, email, computer, fantasy, wargame, rpg, opensource)

From: donotreply@pbm.com (PBM List Autoposter)

Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:13:00 +0000

Name:		Atlantis: THE ONE EYED LABYRINTH
Costs:		none
Frequency:		3 / week
Email:		arcadia-pbm zat yahoogroups.com
URL:		http://arcadia.endofinternet.org
Type:		Atlantis pbem strategy game fantasy
Last-Update:		2005Jun16
Keywords: free, closed-ended, email, computer, fantasy, wargame, rpg,
opensource

Description:

Atlantis is an open-ended computer moderated play-by-email fantasy game
for any number of players. Players may attempt to carve out huge empires,
become master magicians, intrepid explorers, rich traders or any other
career that comes to mind. There is no declared winner of the game;
players set their own objectives, and one can join at any time. The
Arcadia Atlantis series a flavour of Atlantis: Smaller, shorter, faster,
more roleplay and combat oriented games are run with a heavily modified
Atlantis 5.0 engine.

The ONE EYED LABYRINTH is a short game based on the Nylandor (arcIII)
engine. It makes use of the undiscovered part of the Nylandor map,
the so called ONE EYED LABYRINTH, named after all the many students
who lost an eye in it.

To join up, You have to do the following things:

+ Read the NYLANDOR rules at http://home.arcor.de/oidipus
+ join http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/arcadia-pbm/
+ send an email to "piotr+labyrinth zat radnmari.net" with "#help" in the
body of the message.

Further Information (written by Bradley):

"The game will be the One Eye Labryinth from Nylandor's underdeep;
I've basically used the nylandor gamefile and just re-routed the
nexus exits, and wiped the surface/underground terrain. Patrick was
the only player to reach stage 2 of the labryinth (out of 5 total),
so it is still mostly unseen.

I'll probably be running a faction just to make sure everything is
working ok, but won't be trying for the victory conditions - still
coded from Nylandor; guard 60% of the cities. Since there is only one
city, and it's at the end of the labryinth, that means first person
through wins ;).

The game should not take a lot of your time - there is nowhere to buy
men, so you cannot get more than about 30 men at most. This means
even the most dedicated player can't get more than 30ish units, and
10 units or less will be more common. Because orders should be quick
to write I'm currently thinking of running it either every 2 days or
3 turns a week, but that can be adjusted if players later think it is
too fast or slow. I suspect the game will run for about 60-100 turns,
unless your faction is killed off before then.

The game is monster free, but factions are likely to meet (and perhaps
fight) and there are also 'natural traps' ...

Entry is free for anyone who wants to play, whether from Nylandor or
not. I'd encourage the Nylandor community to join; this is definitely
a new variation on the Atlantis theme, so I'm interested to see how
it goes."

Although this our the first game with 'open to new players'
character, we still want to emphasize that our games have more
roleplay character ( still, You might find some power player in
here.. ).

Turn are beeing run at 2nd, 4th, 6th, ... day of the month. One
faction per player, of course.

Have fun,

Piotr

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