YPP Weekend Blockades, August 27-28: Enjoy this literary moment in between pew-pews
Sat 2016-08-27 13:34:48 (in context)
It's Saturday the 27th, and normal service resumes. Below please find your YPP blockade schedule for the weekend. As usual, it's concentrated on the Emerald and Meridian Oceans, but Cerulean does have a little noontime action going on if that's where you prefer to play. Me, I'm currently jobbing in the Prolix Purlieu 'kade on Meridian. I'd better type fast before the ship fills and we go in!
The blockade on The Lowland Hundred reminded me--I just reread Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising quintet last week, and was surprised (since I'd forgotten it) to encounter the island's namesake in the final book. The island's Yppedia page mentions that the island, originally called Cantre'r Gwaelod but renamed shortly after as an act of mercy toward non-Welsh speakers, takes its name from a Welsh legend about a drowned kingdom. In Cooper's Silver on the Tree, a journey is made through time and magic to visit that lost land and retrieve an artifact of great power.
So there's your literary content for the day, and a subject you can explore in your browser window while you're waiting for your ship to enter the fray. You're welcome!
Standard reminders: Schedule is given in Pirate Time, or U.S. Pacific. Player flags link to Yoweb information pages; Brigand King Flags link to Yppedia Brigand King pages. BK amassed power given in parenthetical numbers, like so: (14). For more info about jobbing contacts, jobber pay, and Event Blockade battle board configuration, check the Blockade tab of your ocean's Notice Board. To get hired, apply under the Voyages tab.
Doubloon Ocean Blockades
*** Saturday, August 27 ***
11:55 a.m. - Prolix Purlieu, Meridian Ocean
Brigand King attack!
Defender: Velt's Boiyz
Attacker: Ice Wyrm's Brood (5)
11:55 a.m. - The Lowland Hundred, Emerald Ocean
Brigand King attack!
Defender: New Providence
Attacker: Jinx (3)
3:57 p.m. - Bowditch Island, Emerald Ocean
Defender: Major Key Alert
Attacker: Black Flag
4:03 p.m. - Caravanserai Island, Emerald Ocean
Defender: Black Flag
Attacker: Major Key Alert
4:06 p.m. - Paihia Island, Emerald Ocean
Defender: Dead In The Water
Attacker: Origin
4:28 p.m. - Isle of Kent, Emerald Ocean
Defender: Major Key Alert
Attacker: Black Flag
6:00 p.m. - Gallows Island, Emerald Ocean
Defender: Spoon Republic
Attacker: Origin
9:55 p.m. - Kasidim Island, Emerald Ocean
Defender: Going Down
Attacker: Skull Candy
*** Sunday, August 28 ***
11:20 a.m. - Manu Island, Emerald Ocean
Defender: Invicta
Attacker: Origin
11:21 a.m. - Cryo Island, Emerald Ocean
Defender: Spoon Republic
Attacker: Origin
Subscription Ocean Blockades
*** Saturday, August 27 ***
11:52 a.m. - Jubilee Island, Cerulean Ocean
Brigand King attack!
Defender: Flag of Fun
Attacker: The All-Consuming Flame (7)
11:56 a.m. - Jorvik Island, Cerulean Ocean
Defender: Dies Irae
Attacker: Davy Jones' Locker
*** Sunday, August 28 ***
11:30 a.m. - Cleopatra's Pearls, Cerulean Ocean
Brigand King holds the island!
Defender: Jinx (2)
Attacker: Family Ties