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Inspired (?) by Omni and our Acouchi AAR thread

==== Haiku #1

Site searching
Barbarians uprise
Mage butter

==== Haiku #2

The battle joins
Two hundred crossbows !!?
[censored]



...your turn
-SSJ

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Storming their frontier
What's a Fountain doing here?
Deicide is good

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Summon Earthpower
King of Elemental Earth
Blade Wind those bastards

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Curse of Blood cast
Lords are having a dinner
You're invited

PS: this thread is great http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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The orchid blossom
Trampled underfoot by my
Raging troglodytes*
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Forge me the jade knife
Delicate as your heart shows
Your fragility
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Gathering the gems
Poring over countless tomes
Arcane Nexus, Mine!


I concur, Zenzei http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

*replace with elephants, minotaurs, juggernaut, behemoths, otherness, chariots, shambler thrall, war lobsters, etc. as per personal preference.

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The witch kings visit
They came they saw they nibbled
Tasted like chicken

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Earth Mother
Large in your Icon
No strategic figs

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Wrong Province
Wrong Formation
No survivors

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My beautiful gems
Wasted on small monkeys
Enjoy the dungeon

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif I liked that one!

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nice SSJ.

SSJ is the genius to discover it all, but I must post my own inadvertent haiku that started it all; from our game thread in the MP forum.


so slow
disillusionment setting in
turns... where are the turns?

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Have new volunteers
Is it wicked not to care
Bottomless Ocean

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Oooh, I like that one too! In the same theme:

Militia arrives
Far away from my borders
Barbarians, please!

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beneath my great sledge
an insignificant fly
Hoping it moves first

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Huge army attacks
Why the hell did I lose there
Damn sneaking command

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I LOLd

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Pale riders pillage
Call the Eater of the Dead
Ermor's banners rise...

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sinuyama ka
nihon zya nai yo
hontoo sa

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dragon kicked to death
by rearmost missile units
it's good to be ulm

-always good for a laugh in SP games http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

eighty arbalests
troops surround lone enemy
they fire at nearest...

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Little monkey PD
Why can't I win a game?
Oh right, I suck

Jazzepi

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Flyers attack rear
Move to mop up footmen
A hundred crossbow salvo...

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I would like to remind (especially the founder of the thread), that to qualify as a haiku, you must at least conform to the 5/7/5 syllable structure.

Mad god from the depths
dreamers answer his calling
Svatopluk's his name

(That actually happened, here in Czech Svatopluk is a quite common, homely name, to have a giant Lovecraftian behemoth with tentacles and three legs called Svatopluk seemed extremely funny to all who saw my game in progress).

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Only if you're following Kyoshi's "traditional" movement. The syllables are formed differently than in Japanese, anyway, so even adhering to the 5-7-5 structure doesn't guarantee a good rythm. If you keep it short, that should be sufficient.

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The fearsome SC
The pride of high protection
The AN death bless

Hmm, the abbreviations do not help the poetry, will work on this more. The syllable's work, but the letters instead of words take away the grace of the poem.

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I think a _much_ better exercise would be to do a renga, but I'm not sure if anyone else even knows what that is.

The Japanese restriction should be adhered to as much as possible, IMO. But then, if you do, you come out with something _extremely_ short (cf. my haiku).

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You need two people for that, first of all.

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It's a little like this, isn't it? Except, not funny.

http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/Boatmurdered/

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Waiting for the turn,
the unknowns of combat weigh
on my nervous heart.

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This is for fun
Worry about restrictions
All fun is lost

Jazzepi

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Ich: I believe the traditional number for doing a renga was 3. At least, all of the renga that I had to read were done by three different poets. Considering the format we have here, we have at least... what, 10 different people? It seems quite doable.

Jazzepi: Restrictions are what makes poetry poetry.

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Mad art without form
Chaotic dreams from R'lyeh
May still be pretty

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Ermor's legions rise
from the same bed as flowers;
life and death the same?

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Late Winter armies
Relentlessly conquering
Productivity

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The Vampire queen
Oh, her tragic fate
Pick a cyclops

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Pythian Theurgs
Use Arcane Communion
Justice League, ASSEMBLE!

Abysian might
Legions of Warbred giants
No need for pension

Skratti Blood magic
Unleash the cursed Illwinter
Where are Rimtursar? >:(

Tiny lil' Hoburg
Dominate your armored men
Painful bolt volley

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I am THE Ermor.
Death is just a door away.
Surrender. Now. Here.

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endless slaughter
intrigue and treachery
is fun for pixels

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Pain, Attrition, Strife,
Precedes riotous laughter.
Elephant neighbors.

The heart of winter,
Did I pay that heating bill?
Dead Golem Crafters.

And my favorite internet-born haiku....

Haikus are easy,
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.

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From last evening :

A Hundred fierce Abysians
A Death seven mage
Shadow blasted to death ...

ARRRGHH !!! I curse Caelum !!! (well, if I manage to survive ...)

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Sansanjaun,

When you are done the AAR for the game, can you let us know where it is posted? I would love to read it. Playing in the game makes for much more interesting reading!

Why does this haiku
Sound exactly like a long
And boring sentence?

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Casting killer Wish
Taking your awesome Auglermeir
Your army loses.


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I think I misspelled the luck sword name.

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Welcome Arch Devil
Serving roasted markata
Bandar PD sucks.

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A few more...

Looks like rain
Cloud Trapeze
Combatant downpour

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Early trash talk
Armies Instantiate
Crow served warm

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Opposing Armies
Adjacent provinces
.2H Collision


-SSJ

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Just one single-click
All before me fall in death
Just another turn

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A triple bless build
Pray not a close neighbour be
MA Mictlan huh ?

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A handful of gems?!
Wait, just one lousy Earth Gem?
I must have small hands.

True story.

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Niefel Warrior,
Axe cuts through flesh like butter!
PD? it's TP.

Niefel Jarl Prophet,
Arena, against Men? Gods?
Beauty and Despair.

Prophet Champion,
Masses struck down by trident,
Blood and Victory!

Niefel Pretender...
Wyrm? Skratti? Son of Fenrir?
Imprisoned Cyclops!

Triple Bless 10,
Cuts all Nations down like wheat!
Except Late Ermor...

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Frustrated wizard,
Pours over grimore at night,
The perfect spell appears.

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wow i like that one, moderation.

almost a perfect haiku too, 5-7-5ish; and the syllabuls don't matter much, given the loose relevance of them in translation from japanese to english formats. the important thing is beat, which that one captures fine.

and the substance, so wonderful. i can totally relate. i guess... if i imagine myself a wizard (graduate student) pouring over a grimour, late at night, (stacks of books and countless PDF's of articles), looking for the perfect spell (theory, or argument, or way to frame a concept). and it just suddenly _appears_ (that moment of clarity, or is it a delusion? who cares, it feels like a spell appearing).

personal meaning or not, its a good haiku capturing a classic image.

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Thanks Omnirizon. This one happened happened by accident as much as anything. The fact that it was rather late and I was being bad by staying up hunting for strategy tips probably had something to do with it. The original version was a bit different, but I tweaked and poked at it till it sounded better.

By the way, I liked your haiku "endless slaughter/intrigue and treachery/
is fun for pixels" for it's amused detachment. The other humorous ones that people have posted are also very entertaining. Well I'll get back to grimore now. Here's to mage butter and elephant neighbors! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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R,
Or a big gem! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif
-SSJ

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Here's my response to Haiku #1. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Have all searchers flee
And fear not your wizards slain
Ah, the joy of micro.