The Ankhet Gazette
Issue #10: 4 Hathyr 2756
11 June 2007

Let's do the time-warp again
By: The Mouth

Roland the Black and Mr Brightside received their sentences for their desecrations. They were bound together in a dominion like another rip-off of Enemy Mine (or that Star Trek episode) until they were able to work together to bring the dominion to level 20. There were some minor misadventures, as there are, but the work seemed to pass at a quick pace. In one fell click, Malarthi was able to wipe out the 15 million favour earned to achieve the goal and resolve the question of what to do with the dominion once it reached level 20. Now the dominion has been disbanded, Roland the Black and Mr Brightside have parted if not amicably then at least the guns have been holstered.

At 03:51 on 2 Hathyr, Mikolaj (Shadows) did not poison gîorgîoh with Keres Essence to begin an attack where he single-handedly dominated the Iron Maiden and Imperial Conquest dominions. He was not interrupted an hour later by akhenuraeus’s (Shadows) Condemn, and did not then transfer the Shadows nomarchy to Nefret (N: Shadows) and leave his dominion. As well as much individual damage, when the dust settled, Iron Maiden did not lose approximately 25 levels (or 50 million favour).

At 23:59 on 2 Hathyr, Iron Maiden did not attempt to retaliate but all get killed when their invasion was thwarted by Shadows. At 00:00 on 3 Hathyr they did not fail to retaliate and all get killed again. At 00:01 the power of Menthu was not used by reign (who DID open the eye) to weaken the Shadows before the next invasion would succeed. Shadows was not invaded 8 times by Iron Maiden and 3 times by Imperial Conquest, causing the loss of 26 levels (~52 million favour) before Mr Brightside did not violate his agreement not to attack anyone by not paradoxing Ozymandias (Imperial Conquest) and Flor Venenosa (N: Imperial Conquest). He was not then killed 16 times.

Later on, Ankhet was closed down and we were informed that due to the severe exploiting of an infinite anima bug “the effects of its abuse have been reversed”. From all reports, it looks like all players and dominions were restored to how they were at 00:00 on 2 Hathyr. As of writing, Mikolaj (Shadows) has not yet repeated his attack during the do-over, and Iron Maiden/Imperial Conquest have made no move to preempt him.

Who's Got the Biggest Tutors?
By: The Eye

With the big numbers flying by in the Heralds, we were curious just who has the biggest. Give enough monkeys access to the Heralds and Excel and you’ll find out anything. Since we’ve been the fortuitous discoverers of an infinite monkey exploit, here you go:

86,400 Mr Brightside
40,000 Baltar (Shadows)
36,200 smooth_pappa (eidolon)
27,600 Snigu Ka Tet (now Roland)
27,200 X-Raided (now Bobzilla, Iron Maiden )
25,000 Mullhotep (Shadows)
24,400 Melkor (ennui)
24,000 Flor Venenosa (Imperial Conquest)
20,600 Zephyr (Shadows)
20,000 Jumsy (now Jumsey desecrated)


Ask Miss Mummy
Dear Miss Mummy,
I’ve found this awesome new way to make loads and loads of anima! If I press up-up-right-left-down before approaching Ptah, he will give me infinite anima! My friends want me to use this new power to pwn everyone else. What should I do?
Signed,
Exploiter Extraordinaire


Well, Exploiter, if you find something that gives you unlimited anima or it really seems too good to be true then run it past the oracles. They won’t bite. There’s a Provide Feeback link on the Main page, and you can use the time while you’re waiting for a verdict to plan your domination of the game. If you don’t, then either you or the game could be in for a world of hurt.

Tip of the Week
Opening the Eye of Menthu is bad. You are affecting everyone in a dominion and you are affecting everyone who wants to do something in a different Mod 3 area. If you are going to use it because it makes it easier for you to strip 50+ million favour from another dominion, then great. This is the tool that you want to use. Just don’t be surprised if there’s a large mob keeping you in the Underworld until it closes.

Top of the Game
Here is the list of Ankhets as of 4 Hathyr, 2756 (Bold indicates a change from the previous issue)
Ahmose: smooth_pappa (69, eidolon)
Amin-Ra: Coelacanth (75, The Riven)
Ammut: Pakhet (52)
Anubis: Mullhotep (72, Shadows)
Bast: Tay (31, Red Lantern Core)
Hathor: Ozymandias (75, Imperial Conquest)
Menthu: Arthur (63)
Selket: gîorgîoh (75)
Sekhmet: Flor Venenosa (80, N: Imperial Conquest)
Thoth: akhenuraeus (43, Shadows)
Dominion: Iron Maiden (74)
Beast Slayers: 50 – The Juggernaut (Iron Maiden)
Truth Sayers: 133 - Baltar (Shadows)

We apologize for the inaccuracies initially reported in the last edition. The monkeys responsible were identified and thoroughly spanked.

Quote(s) of the Week
A major bug, which generated infinite anima, was discovered and severely exploited. The bug has been fixed and the effects of its abuse have been reversed.” – The Oracle of Abydos
Announcements: Recent outage

This is an interesting turn of events. Perhaps both sides can finally bury the hatchet." - gîorgîoh
Underworld: I owe a lot of people an explanation: Post #30

Sparta made it to 20, was blown to smithereens by myself (for which I take full responsability) and Brightside and Roland have completed their task, in spite of having the most inept Nomarch ever. (Me, not Leo.)” – Malarthi
Announcements: Shoot him now, shoot him now!

So you will accept an unjustified attack in the hope that this will send the message that unjustified attacks are unacceptable? Surely that is madness." – Arthur
New Initiates: A question for Baltar: Post #3

If you consider such disdain to be sufficient justification for you to conduct a preemptive strike against every Disciple who disapproves of you and your conduct in Ankhet, please feel free to add me to the top of that list. I imagine that it is an extremely lengthy one.” – Baltar (to gîorgîoh)
Underworld: I owe a lot of people an explanation: Post #41

Baltar, you may have strong feelings of hate toward me, but you are no threat to me.” – gîorgîoh (to Baltar)
Underworld: I owe a lot of people an explanation: Post #42

em is a nooob!” - Indy
Halls of Initiation: Holy God: Post #35

From the Editor’s Desk:
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