(Forum War)-AyeCappy vs World

[Grogggy]

Let me interpret for the rest of the world, Danik.. He said, "I'm rubber and your glue, what you say bounces off of me and sticks to you!!!"

Deep man, deep...

[Ghost]

It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye....

What is AYES? A group of Spanish flag flying traders, running with high gold and unprotected fleets and you, Danik the enforcer. Your traders are the ones being hit and as of yet none of them has said or done anything. You speak for them, you protect them. Do they call you daddy too? Come on, most of those players have been around long enough to know how to protect themselves if they wanted to.

Of the six or so raids I did this month only two were on Ayes players and some of those other targets even sent me polite messages after I raided them. Do you think I'll hit them again? Not easily. Your aggression however, makes target selection a much easier exercise.

Having said that, anyone is fair game and if they're able to recover the gold I take, good on them. It's a game after all.

So Danik (I amost wrote TickTock) I've told you where you can cause the most damage to me, so let rip. You can't die in Pirates Glory!

[Stan Rogers]

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye....

So True Red or as I like to say...
"It's all schlitz and giggles until somebody giggles and schlitz"

[Grogggy]

lol...ok stan, you got me on that one:) danik has more control than ticktock, but I do start to wonder if it is an old vendetta--Rolando II perhaps?

[Stan Rogers]

Can't say for sure Cap but I doubt it. Danik and I started the same time but I split off from HELM after they showed me the ropes and come here to Aye's. Therefore Danik's battle history, I know not before he came over. Danik was my very first plunder and ship theft so I know he was not experienced before then. Perhaps the ZomB/HELM war was responsible for the bad blood there.

Don't know...don't care.
Regardless, we would exert the same presence and policies implemented sans Danik. He is not the only member fairly flush with voodoo but seems he is online when the incidents happen. That said, he is always online or sleeps with 1 eye open. Have not figured that one out yet.

[Grogggy]

He has patterns like anyone else, 78 lazy craftsman cards will glean you this info:)

I don't know, maybe its the anticipation, I haven't even hit back yet...probably driving him nuts.

[Grogggy]

Anyone play world of tanks blitz? Cia kgb there...

ps Love the newspaper! Nice touch, Dev's...

[Grogggy]

Explorers say pirate Captain Kidd's treasure found off Madagascar
By Manjakahery Tsiresena

Sainte Marie (Madagascar) (AFP) - A team of American explorers on Thursday claimed to have discovered silver treasure from the infamous 17th-century Scottish pirate William Kidd in a shipwreck off the coast of Madagascar.

Marine archaeologist Barry Clifford told reporters he had found a 50-kilogramme (110-pound) silver bar in the wreck of Kidd's ship the "Adventure Gallery", close to the small island of Sainte Marie.

But UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural body, immediately criticised Clifford's methods and said he may have damaged a precious archeological site in his hunt for treasure.

Captain Kidd, who was born in Scotland in about 1645, was first employed by British authorities to hunt pirates, before he himself turned into a ruthless criminal of the high seas.

After looting a ship laden with valuable cargo in 1698, he was caught, imprisoned and questioned by the British parliament before being executed in Wapping, close to the River Thames, in 1701.

The fate of much of his booty, however, has remained a mystery, sparking intrigue and excitement for generations of treasure-hunters.

Clifford, who was filmed by a documentary crew lifting the silver ingot off the sea bed, handed it over to Madagascan President Hery Rajaonarimampianina on Sainte Marie on Thursday.

Soldiers guarded the apparent treasure at the ceremony, which was attended by the US and British ambassadors.

Scottish pirate William Kidd was executed for piracy in 1701.

"We discovered 13 ships in the bay," Clifford said. "We've been working on two of them over the last 10 weeks.

"One of them is the 'Fire Dragon', the other is Captain Kidd's ship, the 'Adventure Galley'."

October Films, the British production team behind the project, struck a more cautious note, saying that the silver ingot was of the correct date and appeared similar to other ingots linked to Kidd.

"Further analysis of the ingot will be required to confirm these preliminary findings," the company added.

Archaeologist John de Bry, who attended the ceremony, said the shipwreck and silver bar were "irrefutable proof that this is indeed the treasure of the 'Adventure Gallery'."

The ship, which was armed with 34 big guns, is thought to have been scuttled by Kidd during an expedition to the Indian Ocean.



"This is a fantastic find that shows the hidden story of Madagascar," Robert Yamate, US ambassador to Madagascar, said.

"This is great for tourism... and it is just as important as historical preservation."

But UNESCO said it was "very worried" about Clifford's methods, and expressed concern that a professional archaeologist had not been permanently on site to oversee the search.

"It is basically a film team going and directly intervening at an archeological site -- that should not be the case," Ulrike Guerin, underwater specialist at UNESCO in Paris, told AFP.

"You should have a competent underwater archeologist there.

"We do not say everything that has been done is bad. We will go and check, but there are certain doubts about the scientific handling of the intervention.

"It is not enough that you find the treasure if you destroy the whole archaeological site with it."

Guerin said that Madagascan authorities last week asked UNESCO to send a team to take control of the site.

UN experts are due to arrive by the end of next month.

UNESCO has clashed with Clifford before when he announced last year he believed he had identified the wreck of Columbus's flagship that sank in 1492 off the northern coast of Haiti.

The claim sparked global publicity but was soon disproved by UNESCO, which determined it was a ship from a later period.

Clifford is best known as the discoverer and excavator of the world's first fully verified pirate shipwreck, the Whydah, in 1984.


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Damn, they found me gold!!!!!

[Grogggy]

2 RedJack02 (#21035) has attempted to Skirmish your fleet Lucky Jack Aubrey (#38560) at the vicinity of Akrotiri but your fleet escaped the attack!

Patrick O'Brian fans rejoice:)

[Francois le Clerc]

Aye