Hi France, I hope you will consider being a good neighbor and letting me of potential agression by Italy since a strong Italy would also not be great for you. I'll let you know if I hear anything, and I hope you'll do the same!
...if it worries you so much, we could work together to nip Italy in the bud? I will consider it after the opening stages. Or do you have a plan in mind? No particular plan at the moment...i agree it’s better to see how opening moves pan out Sorry I thought I sent that message last night Hey--I have an idea for how you could take Venice this turn, if you'd like to hear it Oh nevermind you should go for vienna ...okay, *now* let’s talk boot-shaped peninsulas! You clearly kept mum to Italy that I was scheming against them—of perhaps you blabbed but italy ignored you—either way, I trust you now not to betray me to them if you’d like to co-conquer the place? I'm ears but my hands are a little bit tied. Ah I can see that. I underestimated how copacetic R is with T, so I figured R would abandon Vienna. 
...I’ll keep you in mind going forward though I did not mention your looming convoy into tuscany and it seems I was too distracted with the Lepanto to anticipate it (I being Italy) Well let’s just say now I’ve got I’s attention Which makes it potentially an opportunity for you to move your greek fleet around, though that’d still be a slight risk Yo. Italy is the *worst*.
If you disband all but vienna, I’ll support you into Tripoli in spring? Yeah... We can try but R won't stop coming. Might buy you a bit longer though? das ist mir egal It's kind of the same situation; unless I can get Vie and Tri simulatenously Well unless you’ve got a quantum-army there that ain’t gonna happen I've come back from having two armies but one is much worse. Surprised you didn you didn't split Nap/Tun You were guaranteed at least one but maybe two If you can hold on til a year from now, I’ll let you walk into venice. 

And I thought about it, for sure, but I guess I just really discounted the possibility that italy would seize two dots. But yeah it was a mistake not to ayyy Italy didn't steal Trieste! Maybe there's good in the world after all Anyway, if you want either support into Trieste or for me to cut Ionian support (so you can take back greece), just say the word. Or some other assistance I haven't thought of. Do you plan to use Ven this turn to push into Rom? If not, you could attack Tri and probably bounce with turkey or R I *was* planning to use ven for support, but I’ll strongly consider it... Will it make a difference to your next move whether i commit to that or not? It's fine if you don't, we may be able to push T out in fall Hm, it would be nice to know if you do it or not, either is fine Then I’ll do it. But just in spring Ok, sounds good. If you don't mind my asking, though, what are you doing with that albanian unit if not just going for Trieste this turn? Actually, looks like I is going for Alb So I need to go to Tri. Can you do your thing in I while I go to Tri? in Italy* So sorry I fell asleep before getting this Sure, I'm hoping italy should not be a problem at this point I expect not. Might keep one dot though. Now that Italy is out of the game, perhaps we can work on a strategy against Turkey? I thought you’d never ask! So I think you should move tri-alb. We can bump venice and vienna in tri? I can't really do that because Bud pressures Vie, and the only reason I can keep is because of Germany's support in holding So what are you gonna do, then? I'll try to attack Bud with Vie. If you could support Tri hold that would be nice. You have my support for Tri Okay, I will! Sorry, I forgot to click the emoji last time :/ I'm not sure what to do from here. Tri seems lost... Not if T uses the fleet to get into the ionian Ok. I'm trying to push back Vie so if you could support a hold on Tri that would be good Good luck! You’ve got my support Thanks!