Strangers in the Alps 2: Catan Strikes Back

STRANGERS IN THE ALPS pt. 2

Welcome to the second annual Catan play-by-post thread! This year I'll be taking over as game moderator while Hyde is off in Korea doing whatever it is Koreans do. Not playing Catan or going to GFF Meets, that's for sure.

Hyde set up some great parameters for the thread-game so allow me to rip his work off:

The game will play out just like a normal game of Catan with a few exceptions.

Unique House Rules
- players may trade before their roll
- players may use their ports before their roll
- players may use more than one Development Card per turn
- players may use Development Cards as soon as they are purchased.

Online Mechanics
Resources drawn are sent as a PM to the players. Development cards are also indicated in PM.

Players must indicate in bold when they END TURN.

Any road building, settlement building, city upgrades, and thief movement should be as specific as possible so the game master can properly update the game board.

The game master will moderate discussion and will interfere is cheating is suspected. The game master will regularly update the game board and keep track of points and cards. No turn may last more than 48 hours.

If you are unable to take your turn and the time limit has passed the game master will roll on your behalf and pass the turn immediately. If at any point a player must discard half their hand and that player shows no activity within the time limit your cards will be discarded at random for you.

5-6 Player game~
There are six players. The official guide has some rules but this is the Alps and we live by our own rules:
-Players may trade, build, and use developement cards BEFORE their roll. Can you survive 5 rolls?


LIST OF STRANGERS (interact with caution):
Hyde 5 Points. 1 Knight. 1 Dev Card.
Zeph 5 Points.
PANGALANG 3 Points. 1 Knight.
a_lurker 6 Points. Longest Road.
Frank 2 Points.
Plarom 3 Points. 1 Knight

THE ISLAND:

THIEF? 8 OF WHEAT IS BLOCKED

THE TOOLS:

Take note of the number of Settlements, Cities, and roads you see here. That's all you get.

THE CARDS:

Please read them carefully. You are not required to reveal what dev cards you have but the number will be noted on this post. Keep in mind dev cards RUN OUT. Resources can run out if too many people are holding.

RELEVANT EVENTS:

The rolls are in! Seating and turn order as follows:
1. Hyde
2. Zephyrin
3. Pang
4. a lurker
5. Frank
6. Plarom

The initial settlements are down! Hyde steals Red from Frank!

Turns are taking days! Cooper is confused by it all!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by a homewrecker

That's her. On the left.

I call the white one.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Only one person has said they wanted to play.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

So FRANK, PLAROM, and DENI have posted here but I'm not sure who's serious about playing yet

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

You will make the fourth RECOGNIZED person. I'll give it a day for Plarom and Frank to chime in.

I was speaking idiomatically.

GREG GREG GREG!!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Sorry Hawk, Plarom confirmed he is playing. Update incoming within the hour~

Additional Spam:
To the six strangers, please begin ROLLING to determain the order. Seat arrangement AND color will be based on the rolls also. High roller gets seat one and color of their choice, etc.

Colors:
Red, Green, Brown, White, Orange, Blue.

OK GO GO GO GO!

FELIPE NO

ENOUGH WITH THE TIES

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have two ties.

PANG, ZEPH, FRANK, and LURKER PLEASE RE-ROLL FOR YOUR POSITIONS.

HYDE, you are confirmed first and PLAROM you are at the back of the bus.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Here's the official order:

1. HYDE
2. ZEPH
3. PANG
4. LURKER
5. FRANK
6. PLAROM

OK, HYDE, place your first settlement and road and the rest of you folk take your turns in that order. Then, hopefully before the week ends, we can start playing!

REMEMBER, please be specific in where you are placing your objects.

GO, START!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Choose a color also, Hyde.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Just another reminder, I will be updating the island photo on the opening post as often as possible, considering how slowly this game will move.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Well once we get past this initial settlement phase out of the way we can really slow things down to a crawl.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I've identified them on the board so no more confusion!

How ya doing, buddy?

black man slowing it down as usual.

FELIPE NO

I'm going to become a ghost, following you around the internet, harassing you people to hurry up.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Grape-Flavored Fun Dip

mysterious void

Hmm, so much potential here.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Oh, God, we're so damn close to starting!

IMPORTANT INFO GUYS

Just so you know I am keeping track of your hands and will be PMing you as quickly as each number is rolled, but also keep in mind that there are limited resources and dev cards. If everyone is holding all 24 Wood and a Wood is rolled nobody gets wood.

With six players dev cards will probably disappear fast.

OK HYDE WHERE YOU AT?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

OK, PMing you your cards and then HYDE can start things off~

Additional Spam:
HANDS are PMed. Please review them to make sure they are accurate. Also if you didn't get a PM let me know!~

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Wow, already with this? You may steal, but what number are you cock blocking?

Additional Spam:
Also, just another quick reminder, the PMs have a list of recourses and a number. If there's no number then you have 0 of that recourse. This is just for the initial PMs because I didn't realize they where confusing~~

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Ha, I didn't expect more than one post within 24 hours. SORRY GUYS UPDATE IN A FEW MINUTES~

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Just so yinz know, you can find the location of the Thief under the photo of the island. Stop rolling sevens.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

OK just because I don't want you to roll sevens doesn't mean I don't want you to play.

FELIPE NO

I guess I'll have to do my duty in 24 hours.

GREG IT'S YOUR TURN.

How ya doing, buddy?

I'll update hands after the trade, if there is a trade. Anyone touching 12s knows what they have.

Jam it back in, in the dark.