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Well, here it is, what you've all been waiting(?) for, more U:tF stuff.
I think this will probably be the last U:tF supplement, as I think that
this joke should stop while it's still funny.
Here's the format: If there's no one's name after the card, it was all my idea. Otherwise, the original idea came from the named person, and I either left it as it was or changed it to suit my taste. So that's why you might see your name after a card and say "Hey, I didn't send him that!" ;-) Also I'd like to apologize to anyone who sent me mail over the summer and didn't get a response because I couldn't send from my hamp.hampshire.edu account.
USENET: THE FLAMING v1.2SEPTEMBER Booster Set
September, when sysadmins turn color and fall from the trees...
Long the most feared month of the year on Usenet, the secrets of September have long been hidden by fearful system administrators. Now, at last, they have been revealed in this exciting booster set for Usenet: the Flaming, the collectible trading card game of Usenet politics and global domination. This supplement is not a stand alone game; you must "purchase" Usenet: the Flaming v 1.2 (the "Somewhat-Limited Edition"), available at: http://www.speakeasy.org/~demiurge/usenet.html And now, before we begin, a word from our CEO: Hello. We at Wumpuses of Western Mass., inc. (WoWM) are pleased to report record profits this year from sales of our blatant scam, "Usenet: the Flaming" (I prefer to call this game a "blatant scam" rather than a "collectible trading card game", because I believe the focus should not be how much the cards are worth to some piddly little collector, but how much money this game is making for us). Our other blatant scams, "Medusa: the Eternal Struggle", "Usenet--Next World Order", and "Legends of the Big Eight" have also been very profitable. And now, September:
Rules changes: From now on, references to "power" in connection with
sites should be replaced with "computrons"; thus,
CARDS
Partial Site Cards:These are sites that are too weak to even get one computron; instead, they only produce 1/2 computron when downed. Probably they only have a PPP or SLIP connection, or it's some student's PC hooked up to the campus network (like mine, say...). So you need several of them to accomplish anything.-Duncan Blake 198.114.177.14, .5, My PC. Instant Event cards:NAZI EMAIL SPAM, 3, Play this card immediately after suffering a cred loss. A site that you secretly control becomes the source of Nazi email, and everyone forgets about you while they hunt down the Nazis. Sacrifice one site with computrons equal to the amount of cred you would have lost, and keep the cred.
T3 LINE, 3, Target site now produces two additional computrons when you
tap it.
RETROCOMPUTING, 1, Target site administrator is overcome with a fit of
nostalgia and decides to refit the site to run on a PDP-8. Site loses
1 computron, but the player who controls the site gains 1 cred.
COOL SITE OF THE DAY, 1, All players vote on whether the target
site is host to a "Cool Site of the Day"; if it is, the controller
gains 1 cred, but the site goes down for a turn, as hordes of
people connect to it to find out what was so cool.
THE POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD, 1, You skip the cold,
impersonal world of 7-bit ASCII and verbally intimidate the hell out of
the target player. You get to look at the top card in his deck.
Continuous Event cards:GRUBORTROLL, 2, Taking on the persona of a disbarred lawyer, you launch a frontal assault on Usenet customs and common sense. Then, while everyone is distracted, you can proceed with your schemes. Take an extra turn. UDP, 1, Target site is under the Usenet Death Penalty. Computrons from this site may not be used to play a posting card (figure out what _that_ means!). LAZARUS, 1, As long as this card is in play, the player is immune to the effect of CANCELBUNNY.
ADVENTUROUS UNDERGRAD, 1, An undergraduate hacker takes over this
site and does _something_. From now on, this site can multitask;
for example, a 2 computron site could be downed to power _two_ 1
computron cards, or one 2 computron card.
TROJAN HORSE, 2, You infiltrate the target site and take it over.
You now control this site, and can use it just as you use one of
your sites. This card is blocked by RISKS DIGEST.
Attack cards:
BOGON FLARE, 2, VDT radiation, or something,
scrambles everyones' brains. All players lose 2 cred.
IMMINENT DEATH OF THE NET PREDICTED, 1, ...by target.
Target loses 1 cred.
IS THIS THING ON?, 1, Your parents become
"hip" and get onto the Internet despite your best efforts to
stop them. They confuse email with news postings, and write to you
about your acne problems and how they think they know a good
dermatologist, etc. Lose 1 cred as your carefully constructed
net.persona is exposed as a fraud.
BOB DOLE, 1, Goes around getting people mad at target's
net site and makes him lose 1 cred. Also, anyone playing offensive
music must throw it out the window.
Contributors to this booster set: And thanks to everyone who sent me stuff which didn't make it in. |
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