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Omni, would you mind posting the names of people you’ve gotten email from so far?
I replied to the emails.
So far there’s 5.
JayLa, garius, Soup_du_jour, Hugh Jass, and Royal Nonesuch and most likely Shibbs as number 6. I still need one more, and at this point its first come first serve.
Curses. As soon as I get a free moment here at work, e-mail will be off and running.
As for Cat23, do I need to sign up or anything?
Ok, I feel stupid. I can’t figure out the Cat23 site to save my… uh… builds.
Is there a more direct link to the game, or am I confuzzled?
Don’t worry about anything regarding Cat23. It’s all on the GM. Just hang tight and I’ll have the country assignments out later today.
JayLa, I got your email and you’re in. Not sure why you’d have missed my previous confirmation. I’ll be emailing everyone in the next 12 hours or so.
So, am I a spectator or a participant?
If you draw Austria, you can be both! 
My regular email isn’t working right about now, because of poor University infastructure.
Sorry if I am a tad late on some things. I do have another email, though.
Hi everyone, I’m pasting in here the text of the message (minus email addresses) that I just sent out to all our 1092 -GRY players. The game is officially underway.
As you can see, there will be a webpage for all the peanut gallery to heckle from. Shibbs, you’re in and as the most experinced player I stuck you with Austria.
I’m terribly sorry, but a virus hit our university webmail. If anyone wants to contact me, do it at tinytim1983@excite.com
Yes, that is a public email addy. Sorry for the inconvenience. I’ll get it back to normal as soon as humanly possible.
Looking forward to this game. I’m researching right now.
Anybody know what to feed a bunch of hungry Cossacks?
How about some Thanksgiving Turkey! 
:dubious:
Also, let it be known that his Imperial Groovess is away from his couriers on Sunday and Monday, so please be patient with all the pleas for alliances and what-not.
Where were all you newbies when I was last recruiting?
If there’s a non-newbie game starting up, I’m all over that like Jesse Jackson on a TV camera.
I’d like to take my turn at GMing, if the players will have me. If you manage to round up 7 or close to it, Abe, let me know.
Bump.
And John, I would have, but I didn’t want to be the only freshly deflowered one in the game. I would get raped.
Now I have a chance to at least be the one standing in line, rather than the one getting done.
No press yet? How are we doing press… here in the thread?
Most of the casual press and trash talk will be done here. Anything really important will be included on the webpage once its up and ready, and in every adjudication email. And likely it’ll be duplicated here too.
BTW - Hows everything going for this first turn? Everyone gotten a hold of everyone? No one MIA yet?
Reminder, orders are due tomorrow at 5PM CST.
The concept of ‘press’ doesn’t apply too well to this style of game. Press will basically consist in this game of 1) email exchanges between two or more players and possibly copied to the GM and/or myself, and 2) posts here in the thread for all to see.
Given that the first deadline is tomorrow, I would certainly hope that there’s been a good amount of the first type of ‘press’ exchanged by this time.
Press? How about if I trash talk England a little bit? That shouldn’t be too risky from Austria… at least for a couple of rounds. Other than that I’m not taking any chances on pissing anyone off. Maybe I’ll send some Edelweiss as a peace offering to all of my beautiful/handsome, intelligent, charming neighbors…