SPOILERS: Ebony Kingdom

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Spoiler space Grouping: Titi, Ngozi, Aisata, Undele are group 5 ishtarri: abu nuwasi 3 cel for elizabeth conde 5 pre CEL FOR luanda magere 8 for CEL PRE PRO +1 strenght for each orun jibade adv 9 aus CEL DEM FOR PRE if jibade is ready he may burn a blood and tap x aye to prevent x damage done to anny ally or retainer in combat akunanse : nestor kaba 4 abo ani for socrate cibide 5 ani ABO FOR aisata swanou 7 abo ANI FOR VIC during your master pahse you may draw a card and move a card from your hand to your ash heap or the top of your library kamiri adv 10 pot quietus ABO ANI FOR OBF kamiri my inflict two unpreventable damage on a minion as D MERGEd: once each action kamiri may burn a blood to give an acting laibon +1 stealth Guruhi: fode kourouma 5 ani aus pre POT batsheva ADV 6 obt pot ANI PRE +1 strength against malkavian MERGED: +1 strength ngozi ekwensu 9 magaji cel ANI POT PRE VIC on ce each combat she can tap one orun on her to make her hand strike aggravated for the current round OSEBO cesewayo ADV 10 ani AUS CEL DOM POT THAU during a d actino against you, may tap an aye on him to untap . MERGED: get two additionnals votes. mamadou keita magaji 7 aus pot pre vic CEL may call a referendum to do 1 unpreventable damage to a ready minion as a +1 stealth political action titi camara 5 pot AUS CEL Arriette sylla 3 POT (yeah) if arriette has no orun she gets -1 bleed. RARE CARDS : Well Marked 1 blood +1 stealth action reuires a laibon put this card on this laibon. if his capacity is 5 or more he untaps. once each combat this laibon may prevent 1 non aggravated damage from tje minion's strike. a minion can have only one well marked. Transcendent laibon Burn unique master put this card on a laibon with 3 aye and 3 orun . during your untap phase,this laibon gains one blood. allias and younger vampire must brun 1 blood or life to attempt to block thi laibon or to target him with D action. burn this card if this minion i not ready or has fewer than three aye or three orun. the bitter and swette story EVENT each methuselah gets +2 hand size for each victory point he or she has. Taking the skin: vulture abombwe SKIN. cancel a frenzy card blahblah.. abo: +1 intercept and pu this card on the vampire. he gains flight. brun this card during your next untap phase. ABO: as above and this vampire gets an optionnal manouever during each combat. Sense Vibrations Master : triffle put thi card on a laibon with auspex. thi laibon with auspex may tap this card during a referendum to get 1 additional vote. a vampire can have only on sense vibrations. Savannah runner reaction requires a laibon cel : this laibon burns 1 blood ot have +1 intercept CEL: tap this laibon or an aye on him to untap another ready laibon. not usable by a blocking laibon. Powerbase: luanda unique location requires a ready laibon tap during your master phase and choose a vampire you control. once this turn this vampire may enter combat with any minion as a +1 stealth action. any vampire may steal this location with a D action. Nkishi unique equipement. reuires a laibon. you may use a master pahse action to search your library or ash heap for an aye or orun cards and put that card on this laibon. Mapatano utando unique master akunanse put this card in play. you may tap this card to reduce a bleed against you by 1. during your influence you may burn the edge and tap this card to gain 4 transfer. any vampire can brun this card with a D action that cost 1 blood. Make an example action modifier guruhi only usable by a nonactig guruhi when an acting laibon you control is blocked (before combat) inflict 2 unrepventable damage on both the acting and blocking minion and end the action ( without combat) Ishtarri warlord master ishtarri 1 pool put this card on an ishtarri you control. this ishtarri gets an optionnal press or manouever each combat. a minion can have only one ishtarri warlord. Impundulu unique demon 1 life 1 strenght 0 bleed cost: 3 blood has flight; gets one optionnel manouever may strike for 1R. he may steal 1 blood or life as a +1 stealth D action. Ilomba retainer animal with 1 life requires a laibon put ilomba on any minion (this action is +1 stleath if that minion is controlle dby another methuselah) if ilomba would brun a life (or would be burned) this minion burns a blood or life instead. ih he cannot he is burned. a minion can have only one ilomba.. Hiding in the open political action requires a laibon. if this referendum is succesfull, this laibon get +1 bleed. cards ich requires a non-laibon title cannot be played on this laibon nor when this laibon is acting. a minion can have only one : hiding n the open. edge of the world action modifier guruhi usable only by a ready guruhi you control, acting or not. only usable if you have gained a victory point during this action. you gain 4 pool. if this guruhi is acting, he untaps and gains enough blood fomr the blood bank to reach full capacity. only one edge of the world can be played each action. Blood shield unique equipment Osebo 2 pool the minion with this equipment may prevent one damage from an oppossin minion's strike each round. if ued to prevent damage from a strike made by a vampire with capacity 6 or less, that vampire bruns 2 blood. Bestial vengeance combat requires a laibon Ani: only usable before range is determined. choose a retainer on this laibon. this combat this laibon is immune to frenzy cards and the oppossing minion takes 1 damageduring strike resolution if the retainer is ready. a vampire can only play one bestial vengeance each combat. ANI: as above but for 2 damage -- James Coupe PGP Key: 0x5D623D5D YOU ARE IN ERROR. EBD690ECD7A1FB457CA2 NO-ONE IS SCREAMING. 13D7E668C3695D623D5D THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.

If you're actually typing these spoilers from a real box you somehow obtained before the release date, I have one more question that not even LSJ knew the full answer to before: What's the deal with Aye/Orun in the box? How many? Is it a clearly- marked extra booster? Thanks!

Just out of interest, what would happen if "Ilomba" is on an opposing minion and you set off a Bomb? Does the Ilomba take 5 points of damage, or only 1 as it only has 1 life? **** lomba retainer animal with 1 life requires a laibon put ilomba on any minion (this action is +1 stleath if that minion is controlle dby another methuselah) if ilomba would brun a life (or would be burned) this minion burns a blood or life instead. ih he cannot he is burned. a minion can have only one ilomba.. **** PS: Thanks for the early list - looks like some gr8 cards

[ quoted text not captured ] it seems like the opposing minion would take 10 damage - 5 for the Bomb, and 5 for the life the Ilohmba would have burned for the Bomb... I don't really see the point of this retainer, though... unless you're playing a lot of animalism + laibon + weather control...

On May 23, 12:17 pm, Chris Berger <ark...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote: > I don't really see the point of this retainer, though... unless > you're playing a lot of animalism + laibon + weather control... Put it on someone and Cryptic Mission the Ilomba a lot, and save yourself the effort of the Societies. Put it on a key opposing vampire and when you fight them, you go to long and send all your strikes at the Ilomba--they can't use fortitude to prevent the damage, and eventually, they get burned. Seems pretty cool to me. -Peter

On 23 touko, 19:17, Chris Berger <ark...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote: > I don't really see the point of this retainer, though... unless > you're playing a lot of animalism + laibon + weather control... The victim burns if he can't afford to keep Ilomba alive. It's a weak but accessible Anathema for ranged combat and an arguably stronger Society of Leopold for blood denial decks.

[ quoted text not captured ] Put it on your own minion and recruit a War Ghoul. Choose to burn the Ilomba, but instead his employer burns a blood.

On May 23, 12:53 pm, Jozxyqk <jfeue...@eecs.tufts.edu> wrote: > Peter D Bakija <p...@lightlink.com> wrote: > Put it on your own minion and recruit a War Ghoul. > Choose to burn the Ilomba, but instead his employer burns a blood. Ooh! Sexy! -Peter

On May 23, 12:53 pm, Jozxyqk <jfeue...@eecs.tufts.edu> wrote: [ quoted text not captured ] Then put your excess copies on your prey's minions, rush with the War Ghoul and play Target: Retainer. -witness1

in a box i didn"t had any of these: Devil-Channel: Feet C Jua Vema C Taming the Beast C for taming and Devil we will see if others people have it. perhaps since there is some aye and orun in the booster they hd take theirs places.. but jua Vema is in the booster and still in a box i got none.. :/

>> **** >> lomba >> retainer >> animal with 1 life requires a laibon >> put ilomba on any minion (this action is +1 stleath if that minion is >> controlle dby another methuselah) >> if ilomba would brun a life (or would be burned) this minion burns a >> blood or life instead. >> ih he cannot he is burned. >> a minion can have only one ilomba.. >> **** >> >> PS: Thanks for the early list - looks like some gr8 cards > > it seems like the opposing minion would take 10 damage - 5 for the > Bomb, and 5 for the life the Ilohmba would have burned for the Bomb... > I don't really see the point of this retainer, though... unless > you're playing a lot of animalism + laibon + weather control... I don't understand it the same way as you do : I'd say repeated strikes for 1 would damage the wearer, but if Lomba takes more than 1 damage it's still 1 damage for the wearer. Orpheus

Hiding in the open political action requires a laibon. if this referendum is succesfull, this laibon get +1 bleed. cards ich requires a non-laibon title cannot be played on this laibon nor when this laibon is acting. a minion can have only one : hiding n the open. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Can we have a Hunters set that includes a conviction that can be burned when a minion is acting to prevent restrictions on cards that require titles for the duration of the action? That would be awesome. Brandon

There's a bunch of commons in that thread now if you scroll down a little. brutal influence action 1 blood pot: bleed at +1 bleed. when the action is announced this vampire may tap X orun on him to get an additionnal +X bleed. POT: +1 stealth action. tap X orun cards on this vampire to move X blood from the blood bank to a younger laibon in your uncontrolled region. "Lucian, the Perfect bleeds for 16. Blocks?"

aisata swanou 7 abo ANI FOR VIC during your master pahse you may draw a card and move a card from your hand to your ash heap or the top of your library Now I know for like, 99% sure the answer is 'no', but... When you draw a card using this ability, do you first discard down to hand size -and then- move a card from your hand (which in turn results in replacing said card)?

[ quoted text not captured ] 10 of each, loose, above the boosters.

[ quoted text not captured ] mhhh how will I deal with those during booster draft? just hand them out 1 for each in the 8 player pod?!?!?!

On May 26, 9:15 am, bernd.schw...@firstdata.de wrote: > > >What's the deal with Aye/Orun in the box? How many? Is it a clearly- > > >marked extra booster? > > 10 of each, loose, above the boosters. > mhhh how will I deal with those during booster draft? just hand them > out 1 for each in the 8 player pod?!?!?! In Atlanta, we've held a pre-release event (8 players). What we did was to allow anyone to draft an Aye or Orun instead of taking a card from their current booster until all of them were gone. There were 5 Aye & 5 Orun per table. It seemed to work very well in practice. Carpe noctem. Lasombra http://www.TheLasombra.com

[ quoted text not captured ] Hm. I'm a casual buyer, will need to see how game stores are going to handle that.

James Coupe <ja...@zephyr.org.uk> wrote: > luanda magere 8 for CEL PRE PRO +1 strenght for each orun Has anyone else noticed this little clause on Orun: "If this Laibon...successfully performs a (D) action against a non-mortal minion, he or she burns one Orun." So, rushing with this guy is going to have diminishing returns... Or require even more Orun for upkeep. Oh well.

[ quoted text not captured ] Or he will have to block with the int. you can get in For and Cel. ;-) Ok, he's bad. Or if you use Pro he can be "good" without Orun. Orpheus, no Aye, no Orun. Just Necro.

kamiri adv 10 pot quietus ABO ANI FOR OBF kamiri my inflict two unpreventable damage on a minion as D MERGEd: once each action kamiri may burn a blood to give an acting laibon +1 stealth Seems Kamiri needs POT so he can use his spec, freak then Horseshoe some people tell they burn via Ilomba. Hell play Restricted Vitae and he could Foul Blood any one who hits 0 to burn them, neat. Pullen Baron of Ann Arbor

[ quoted text not captured ] Yeah, I'm Kinda disappointed by all the new Ishtari, hell the only thing I'm glad their getting is Celerity intercept and the Laibon intercept/fail or fight card, oh well. Pullen Magaji of Ann Arbor

[ quoted text not captured ] I ant no LSJ but I would say no, his special allows you to draw, then move any card from hand to ash or lib, essentially allowing you to stake the deck one card deep. Pullen Douchbag of Ann Arbor

[ quoted text not captured ] Yeah, that's what I thought too, but I still wanted to check. Probably just formulated like that for lack of space on the crypt card. > Pullen > Douchbag of Ann Arbor :-)

[ quoted text not captured ] I've seen a lot of people say strange things about Ilomba - either they don't understand how it works or I don't... just to make sure I'm not missing something... The minion burns blood when the Ilomba takes damage (technically, when it burns a life or would be burned), and the minion burns only if Ilomba is causing it to burn blood and it cannot. So... how the heck could you burn someone with Foul Blood? Ilomba isn't a terrible card, but it's a card for use in wacky combos, not something that can just burn minions without plenty of effort and planning...

[ quoted text not captured ] I don't know, I still think he's awfully brutal. Cel has Savannah Runner and Rooftop Shadows, Fortitude has Steadfastitude (or whatever it's called), Protean has Eyes of the Beast and Sonar... plus Familial Bond, and any permanent intercept you care to use... you don't get the Enhanced Senses/Ministry/Quicken Sight caliber of intercept cards, but he could definitely do some blocking. And a few rushes in there for when you really need them and it's worth the Orun... The problem with all the Orun stuff is that they are so fragile. Brutal Influence lets you bleed for a million, but if you use even 1 Orun (and don't get blocked/reduced), then that pops an Orun for bleeding over 2. Some cool combat stuff is in the set, but rush vampires and that'll pop an Orun too. Aye, by comparison, are relatively tough to blow up, and provide an arguably better effect on their own.

On 29 touko, 18:35, Chris Berger <ark...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote: > Ilomba isn't a terrible card, but it's a card for use in wacky combos, > not something that can just burn minions without plenty of effort and > planning... It's an easy way to get your .44 bullets past Skin of Steel and whatnot. You'd want a permanent source of multiaction to make it worth it for a combat deck but I'm sure it's doable.

[ quoted text not captured ] Yes, I agree with Orpheus, especially when Ilomba is at 1 life (which it almost always will be). If the Ilomba has more than 1 life it's even less clear what happens when it takes multiple points of damage.

[ quoted text not captured ] Ranged combat, or as been hinted at elsewhere, close-range combat combined with Target: Retainers. -John Flournoy

[ quoted text not captured ] And Laibon guns + multiact + Ilomba + enough stealth to make the Ilomba stick isn't a crazy combo for just getting around Skin of Steel? (Okay, it also burns the minion without having to do agg damage or Amaranth, which is good - I admit it's better than my *first* impression of it... I think I stopped reading the first time when I hit "ih he cannot" and didn't understand it. Not that a pretty simple typo should have confused me that much, but it stopped my scanning and caused me to ignore that line - without being able to burn the minion, it would be balls.) Still, other than circumventing prevent, which can be great depending on metagame, there's still a question of how much effort it's worth to burn minions instead of sending them to torpor where Fame and Dragonbound can do their magic...

[ quoted text not captured ] Taking five damage, the Iloumba would burn a life or be burned five times, so the employer burns 5 blood instead (or rather, burns a blood five times).

[ quoted text not captured ] So Assault rifle strike to Ilomba, if the minion it is on has 3 life, burns that minion?

On 30 touko, 00:12, Chris Berger <ark...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote: > > It's an easy way to get your .44 bullets past Skin of Steel and > > whatnot. You'd want a permanent source of multiaction to make it worth > > it for a combat deck but I'm sure it's doable. > > And Laibon guns + multiact + Ilomba + enough stealth to make the > Ilomba stick isn't a crazy combo Ishtarri+Glutton+Ilomba+Forced March+Resist the Earth's Grasp? It's probably enough to get past Carlton/Telepathic Misdirection. >for just getting around Skin of > Steel? Not just for getting around Skin of Steel. > (Okay, it also burns the minion without having to do agg > damage or Amaranth, which is good - I admit it's better than my > *first* impression of it... I think I stopped reading the first time > when I hit "ih he cannot" and didn't understand it. Not that a pretty > simple typo should have confused me that much, but it stopped my > scanning and caused me to ignore that line - without being able to > burn the minion, it would be balls.) > > Still, other than circumventing prevent, which can be great depending > on metagame, there's still a question of how much effort it's worth to > burn minions instead of sending them to torpor where Fame and > Dragonbound can do their magic... Well, there are always the Trophies.

On May 29, 5:51 pm, suoliruse...@gmail.com wrote: > On 30 touko, 00:12, Chris Berger <ark...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote: > > > > It's an easy way to get your .44 bullets past Skin of Steel and > > > whatnot. You'd want a permanent source of multiaction to make it worth > > > it for a combat deck but I'm sure it's doable. > > > And Laibon guns + multiact + Ilomba + enough stealth to make the > > Ilomba stick isn't a crazy combo > > Ishtarri+Glutton+Ilomba+Forced March+Resist the Earth's Grasp? It's > probably enough to get past Carlton/Telepathic Misdirection. > Along with Concealed Weapon and guns and all the usual combat stuff that goes along with it, for a clan that doesn't intercept all that well (though better now than before). I mean, I generally consider anything involving guns to be a crazy combo anyway. I know that .44 is the one gun that is worth its cost, but I still always preach that if you can't get around either the cost of the equipment or the action to get the equipment, then it's not worth it (thus Concealed). And cel + aus block decks with Concealed .44s are good (at least, good at what they do, which is block and shoot - not sure how good at ousting)... but it's still a decent-length chain combo, and when you remove the aus, you're either using less efficient intercept, or you're doing rush combat, which I always find a dicey proposition with weapons, especially if you don't have permanent rush. Anyway, I'm not saying you couldn't build a pretty good deck with Ishtarri and Ilomba. You probably can. *I* probably won't, but I'm sure somebody will and it'll probably win some games. I'm just saying (after my first post in this thread where I totally missed the point and said Ilomba sucked), that it takes some work to make it good.

In article <c8f746a0-9814-4384...@a36g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, Blooded Sand <sand...@gmail.com> wrote: > So Assault rifle strike to Ilomba, if the minion it is on has 3 life, > burns that minion? Yes. You put it on someone. You go to long and shoot the Ilomba. They take the same damage they would anyway (essentially), except they can't stop it with fortitude (and conversely, I suspect you can't Taste the blood lost either). And when they run out of blood, they burn instead of going to torpor. So you hit the Ilomba for 3? The guy with the Ilomba burns 3 blood or gets burned. You hit the Ilomba for 5? The guy with the Ilomba burns 5 blood or gets burned. Peter D Bakija pd...@lightlink.com http://www.lightlink.com/pdb6/vtes.html "It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?" -Gaff

In article <8b6a4060-e0d2-42b4...@y7g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, suolir...@gmail.com wrote: > It's an easy way to get your .44 bullets past Skin of Steel and > whatnot. You'd want a permanent source of multiaction to make it worth > it for a combat deck but I'm sure it's doable. I dunno--I mean, like, yeah, if you are building a deck around it, sure, you'd need multi action or something. But if you are building a deck that already has: A) Reliable access to Laibon (i.e. at least 5 Laibon in the deck). B) Reliable access to ranged combat (guns or flung junk). and C) Reliable ways to get into combat (rush or intercept). I can't see how throwing an Ilomba in the deck could possibly be a bad deal. Worst case scenario, you ditch it. Best case scenario, you put it on Arika and blow her up as he hand jams on fortitude... [ quoted text not captured ]

In article <804074cc-cc7e-4482...@a36g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, Chris Berger <ark...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote: > Still, other than circumventing prevent, which can be great depending > on metagame, there's still a question of how much effort it's worth to > burn minions instead of sending them to torpor where Fame and > Dragonbound can do their magic... I dunno that it is worth a lot of effort to do that. But if you were already Laibon and already getting in fights and already doing damage from long range? Why would you *not* use it? [ quoted text not captured ]

On 30 touko, 16:08, Peter D Bakija <p...@lightlink.com> wrote: > In article > <8b6a4060-e0d2-42b4-ae18-1b969761c...@y7g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, > > suoliruse...@gmail.com wrote: > > It's an easy way to get your .44 bullets past Skin of Steel and > > whatnot. You'd want a permanent source of multiaction to make it worth > > it for a combat deck but I'm sure it's doable. > > I dunno--I mean, like, yeah, if you are building a deck around it, sure, > you'd need multi action or something. But if you are building a deck > that already has: > > A) Reliable access to Laibon (i.e. at least 5 Laibon in the deck). > > B) Reliable access to ranged combat (guns or flung junk). > > and > > C) Reliable ways to get into combat (rush or intercept). Yeah, I was working under the same assumption. It's a card that might go in a ranged laibon combat deck but I'm not sure if I'd want to spend an action on it without excessive multiacting.

[ quoted text not captured ] Are you still the controller of the Ilomba or is the other meth? I would verge towards other meth, which does open up possibilities.....

Blooded Sand <sand...@gmail.com> wrote: >Are you still the controller of the Ilomba or is the other meth? I >would verge towards other meth, which does open up possibilities..... All minion cards are controlled by the Methuselah who controls the minion they're on, unless they say something like "You still control this card." Ilomba lacks any such text, so the default applies. -- James Coupe PGP Key: 0x5D623D5D YOU ARE IN ERROR. EBD690ECD7A1FB457CA2 NO-ONE IS SCREAMING. 13D7E668C3695D623D5D THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.

On May 31, 5:44 am, Blooded Sand <sandm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you still the controller of the Ilomba or is the other meth? I > would verge towards other meth, which does open up possibilities..... And those possibilities are? Intrigued. -Peter

[ quoted text not captured ] Spam ilombas and oust via minion removal + cant take it with you

On May 31, 11:48 am, Blooded Sand <sandm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Spam ilombas and oust via minion removal + cant take it with you Hi-sterical. -Peter

[ quoted text not captured ] Peter, remember, other people might not see your ninja smileys. so.... ;)

On Jun 1, 4:16 am, Blooded Sand <sandm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Peter, remember, other people might not see your ninja smileys. > > so.... ;) In what world are we living where one would need a smiley to go with "Hi-sterical"? Really? What part of "Hi-sterical" is vague, or requires additional support? -Peter

On Jun 1, 3:19 pm, Peter D Bakija <p...@lightlink.com> wrote: > > Peter, remember, other people might not see your ninja smileys. > > > so.... ;) > > In what world are we living where one would need a smiley to go with > "Hi-sterical"? Really? What part of "Hi-sterical" is vague, or > requires additional support? The ironic part?

[ quoted text not captured ] The world where people have flame wars because of the ninjitude of your sneaky smileys. Really man, have you forgotten your netiquette 101 as presented by Master Kev M?

On Jun 1, 10:57 am, Blooded Sand <sandm...@gmail.com> wrote: > The world where people have flame wars because of the ninjitude of > your sneaky smileys. Really man, have you forgotten your netiquette > 101 as presented by Master Kev M? Yet still. "Hi-sterical". What could it possibly mean? If taken fully at face value, it translates as "hysterical" which means "funny". Why would saying something is "funny" need a smiley? And that it was spelled "Hi-sterical" only changes emphasis in sylables. And for my money, makes it *extra* hysterical. Which giving people Ilombas and then killing them with You Can't Take It With You, in fact, is (i.e. extra hysterical). Like, I'm really misunderstanding what you were thinking I was saying that somehow needed a smiley to clarify. I thought the idea was funny. So I said it was funny. I'm lost. I mean, I realize that you are not being, like, critical or anything. But I'm wondering what you read in that post and made you thing "Hmm. This should have a smiley in it". It is kind of like if someone said "Heh. That's funny." and then you pointed out that such a statement should have a smiley in it. Which is non-sensical. -Peter

In article <4e6134cd-3f2d-42a1...@w40g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, henrik <www.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > The ironic part? Now that, too, is hi-sterical... [ quoted text not captured ]

On Jun 1, 6:41 pm, Peter D Bakija <p...@lightlink.com> wrote: > On Jun 1, 10:57 am, Blooded Sand <sandm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The world where people have flame wars because of the ninjitude of > > your sneaky smileys. Really man, have you forgotten your netiquette > > 101 as presented by Master Kev M? > > Yet still. "Hi-sterical". What could it possibly mean? If taken fully > at face value, it translates as "hysterical" which means "funny". Why > would saying something is "funny" need a smiley? And that it was > spelled "Hi-sterical" only changes emphasis in sylables. And for my > money, makes it *extra* hysterical. Which giving people Ilombas and > then killing them with You Can't Take It With You, in fact, is (i.e. > extra hysterical). Like, I'm really misunderstanding what you were > thinking I was saying that somehow needed a smiley to clarify. I > thought the idea was funny. So I said it was funny. I'm lost. And i was agreeing with you. But for the benefit of the ignorant unwashed masses, who do not understand your sense of funny some of the time, i wanted to ensure that they get it. Cos it was quite funny. Pretty sure there have been some fairly lengthy threads over this exact matter before

On Jun 2, 3:49 am, Blooded Sand <sandm...@gmail.com> wrote: > And i was agreeing with you. But for the benefit of the ignorant > unwashed masses, who do not understand your sense of funny some of the > time, i wanted to ensure that they get it. Now, to be clear here--I'm neither arguing with nor fighting with you here. I'm honestly just confused. Ok. So you posted something funny. I responded with, essentially, "that's funny!". Why would anyone not understand that? Such that it would require a smiley? > Cos it was quite funny. > Pretty sure there have been some fairly lengthy threads over this > exact matter before Well, sure. But, for example, that "We banned Left for Dead" post? That could have used a smiley. As it was incredibly subtle humor. A post saying "that's funny" about a post that was funny? I'm not seeing why a smiley would be necessary. -Peter

[ quoted text not captured ] Peter, serious is sometimes it's own worst enemy. i made a funny. You said it's funny i made a funny in return. Where's the confusion? ;) See the smiley ( means it's a funny!)

On Jun 2, 10:33 am, Blooded Sand <sandm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Peter, serious is sometimes it's own worst enemy. > i made a funny. > You said it's funny > i made a funny in return. > Where's the confusion? ;) > See the smiley ( means it's a funny!)- Hide quoted text - But, but, but. Saying it is funny doesn't need a smiley. Unless the comedy was in saying it needed a smiley when it didn't need a smiley. But, uh, yeah, I got nothing. -Peter

[ quoted text not captured ] I say to thee, sirrah, PARIS!! :)

On May 29, 8:35 am, Chris Berger <ark...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote: > > Ilomba isn't a terrible card, but it's a card for use in wacky combos, > not something that can just burn minions without plenty of effort and > planning... Best use of Ilomba as I see, is to give em to your targets, then rush Ilomba with ranged. Not too complicated.