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I've taken a week's break from The Embassy now, for a couple of reasons.


What a week, though.  In that time, the UK has almost shut down due to Coronavirus and my job role has changed to cope with it.  Still, I'm proud to announce I am now classed as a "key worker" so my kids can still go to school.  I'm open to adopt your kids if that helps.  I have cupboard space for sleeping.  They're especially welcome if they can make bread and don't need toilet paper.

That isn't why I was away, though.  I've been working on my new Dip zine PERFIDIOUS and PERF#1 is out now.  It was actually out last weekend but then I buggered it up by being an idiot.  Oh well.

And, if you're vigilant, you'll have noticed the name change.  It was originally and unimaginatively called "The Embassy Journal".  Is PERFIDIOUS better?  Oh yes.  If you want to subscribe to, send me an email.

I have three subscribers already... which is infinitely more subscribers than The Embassy as I'm writing.

So, with my work on PERF#1 complete, I can get on with the blog for a couple of weeks.  The problem is I'm struggling to think of what topics to write on.

It isn't that I can't think of anything, but that I'm trying to get hold of something interesting to me right now.

I've been listening to the Diplomacy Games podcast and a couple of ideas came into my head (this is an additional reason I haven't been blogging much - I started listening to the podcast a couple of Fridays ago and just kept listening to other episodes throughout the week while travelling to work.

I could go back to some of the earlier posts where I said something like "more on this later" and pick up one of those subjects, but I'm really wanting to look at something new for now.

So I've some ideas:

  • Dip Variants is something I'd like to write eventually but I really only know the variants I've played, which isn't many.  I'm a vanilla Dip man.
  • Key Spaces is another, looking at non-SC spaces that have a key part to play in the game, such as the English Channel, the Black Sea and Burgundy.
  • Diplomacy Ethics, looking at the etiquette around playing Dip.
  • Issues facing online Diplomacy and how to deal with them.
I am, therefore, going to do a little digging and come up with something to start working on tomorrow.

I know, your breath is baited.
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