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| Displayed name | Arancaytar |
| Member number | 2984 |
| Title | Law Bringer |
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| Registered | Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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| The most boring spell and monster in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Friday, March 31 2006 03:23
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I'd have to say the most boring monster is the doomguard. Why? If you've slain one, you've slain it a hundred times! HAHAHA! :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, March 31 2006 00:19
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So I set up this elaborate system that allows me to see the chatlog even while I'm away from the computer (involving apache and a PHP script), and now I find I can't really do that anymore. Not work-safe. o_O -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 30 2006 21:07
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quote:I think the proper term is addict. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 30 2006 21:05
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More the theory part. I know/have heard of most of those games, but the only one I've actually played is ADOM. Still do. Played it since early in 2001, last played it in February this year. Never won. I did get the Medal of Chaos though. And the Crown of Chaos. And almost, ALMOST, the Scepter of Chaos. Alas, all in different games. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 30 2006 13:27
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If he doesn't return soon, he will be the only roleplayer ever who has annoyed people with his playing style while he was absent. :P (Edit: Actually, he is already. Staying longer would just accentuate it more.) Thralni, I hope you spoke to Lazarus about this before - initiating negotiations with another faction and then pretending the negotiations were successful is taboo. The APL is by Nik. He didn't seem about to leave or very inactive to me, so I guess we can expect to see more of them. [ Thursday, March 30, 2006 14:12: Message edited by: Whan Aprill with his shoures sote ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments. "That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 30 2006 12:58
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Well, if you want my opinion, getting a new computer in order to play a game that wouldn't otherwise run is ridiculous. Unless it's a platform thing, or your old computer is a complete kludge, as long as the only advantage of the new computer over the old is that you can play this game, I wouldn't do it. But then, you're talking to someone whose favorite games include ADOM, Exile 3 and Blades of Exile. I'm not big on high-tech games. :P (Note: I'm assuming that you have a computer now that won't run the game. I didn't consider the possibility that you have no computer at all and are posting this from an internet cafe or something. If it's the latter, then I would preferably get an own computer with internet access, but that depends on whether you use it often enough to make that cheaper.) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 30 2006 06:23
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I am optimistic, that is all. Deep down, all threads are good for something. Sadly, this thread appears to be good only for target practice. Thus,  -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 30 2006 05:05
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Bah - I've put all the links in three compact lines, so now I have space for a quote again! It's still only 6 lines! :P Also, double posting is apparently allowed when quoting two different posts, although I grant I should have avoided it. In fact, I can retroactively avoid it, but then I'm not Alo. ;) Edit: What's with the new name? You haven't been a regular PDN-switcher before... [ Thursday, March 30, 2006 05:06: Message edited by: Whan Aprill with his shoures sote ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 30 2006 04:45
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quote:Does he still? :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 30 2006 01:28
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quote:If it was my map you were looking at, I suggest that you zoom in to 100% if a name is difficult to read. The city names should be readable at that level... I hope. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments. "That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 30 2006 01:23
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I think this ought to be in Tech Support. :) On that note, if you do need to reinstall and unlock the game again, you can email Jeff to ask him for a new code. You probably need to tell him what credit card you used or something, but I hear he has no problem with giving out new codes as often as you need them. [ Thursday, March 30, 2006 01:25: Message edited by: Whan Aprill with his shoures sote ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 30 2006 01:20
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quote:From the spelling in the title... I admit I thought "oh dear, which old noob has come back to haunt us now?", looked through his older posts of two months ago to see if he'd been annoying before, but found nothing bad. So welcome back, I suppose. :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 30 2006 01:18
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quote:Fear the deva-vu! (lack of accents due to keyboard) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 29 2006 19:43
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No problem. I'll be at lectures most of the day though, so if you want to upload it earlier, you could use this web upload form - Upload. Edit: Server returning timeouts now - should be fixed soon, I hope. [ Wednesday, March 29, 2006 19:44: Message edited by: Whan Aprill with his shoures sote ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 29 2006 18:49
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quote:You have half a mind to listen to it? Seven and a halfthed. [ Wednesday, March 29, 2006 18:54: Message edited by: Whan Aprill with his shoures sote ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 29 2006 17:45
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Finally I know why Slarty was talking about us as an Avernum party earlir... Anyway. Recipe for disaster: A GIFT and Nico in the same room. quote:When did this turn into StarWars? [ Wednesday, March 29, 2006 17:45: Message edited by: Whan Aprill with his shoures sote ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 29 2006 17:15
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Haven't read the story yet, but I would like to add that combat is a very poor substitute for a real story. The less you use of it, the better. Of course, philosophical musings are not much better. Scenic description ranks a bit higher, and dialogue is probably the most important of them all. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 29 2006 15:58
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quote:[[post moved here]] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments. "That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 29 2006 15:50
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V. Nightly Visitors The fine art of diplomacy may be told in a dozen or a thousand rules, but the most basic two are always the same: Show no hostility, but prepare for battle. Expect no treachery, but be ready to deal with it. -- General Karadas on negotiating. ----------------------------------- A clear night in the Ndovlu. Cold winds came rushing down the canyon, howling past the gate like a pack of mad wolves, whistling around the high tower. The sky was filled with glittering shards of diamond. The wind was the only sound. The beacon light of the citadel shone down on the narrow path and the bridge, leaving no shadows for invaders to hide in. The greatest library south of the Imperial Archives in Blackstone was well-protected indeed. The sentry wrapped her scarf more tightly and turned north to face the wind. Here on the tower's peak, its force was free and unbroken, and her robe flapped behind her. Gazing out across the canyon, Kharla suppressed a shiver. Her shift would be over in an hour. ------------- The stone floor was as cold as rock can be. A magical light shone down from the corner of the room, but it was weak and fluttering like a candle that will die soon. It barely penetrated the shadows of the tiny chamber. One of the shadows stirred. Gobrak sat up in the darkness of the storeroom converted into a makeshift cell. He was muttering softly to himself. Curse them, filthy humans. Bite them and scratch them and kill them, kill them dead, yes! By now, the glug had worn off completely; it was his rage that robbed him of more eloquent speech. What was the matter with these fools? He had just entered those bushes to relieve himself, and in the next moment he had been gripped by the sorceror's spell like in a vise. They had not killed him yet, but Gobrak had heard too much about humans for that to mean anything. They would probably slaughter him when they were bored, or hungry. If only the floor were a little less cold! Gobrak wrapped himself in the grimy blanket he had been given, and waited stoically for his fate. When they come for me, I will be on them like a mountain lion, he thought to himself. I will take as many of them with me as I can, and they will not forget my claws. He grinned a skull's grin, grim and full of teeth. The Gobby Gods will have reason to be proud of me. ------------- On the highest peak and in the lowest dungeon of the citadel, the two sleepless wakers were both shivering with the cold. Somewhere between them, yet a third occupant was unable to rest. Alfgar was pacing in his study like a caged bear. By now, his pace had evolved a complex pattern of its own: Round and round the desk, once, twice, up to the door and past the bookshelves, brushing the backs of the tomes like old friends, muttering. Then on to the window - a short pause by the window to gaze out at the wind-tossed night - then past the fireplace and back to the desk, and around. A storm was brewing. Alfgar had led this library too long to fail to feel in his blood when it was in peril. The last message from his scrying mage had come this morning. Kaz ship has docked at the coast north of here and left again. What had been loaded off or onto it, the scrying was unable to reveal: It was a long-range spell only, decreasing in accuracy the closer one tried to view. They had barely been able to see the ship landing, much less found out what it had brought or taken. Alfgar had read of the Order, naturally. For a warrior cult, its history was surprisingly benign, but then records also told of a time when Anama and wizards dwelt in harmony on the Isle of Bigail. He knew better than to judge groups by their past. Acquisition, Destruction, Censorship. The three perils. Religious orders, when they were a threat, fell into the latter two categories. Still, if the Order intended hostility, it would have sent more than a single ship. Perhaps they did not even know of the Keepers - the library had in the past kept a deliberately low profile. He remembered that the west side of the Ndovlu held many small coves and caverns that had been used by smugglers and pirates of all ages, for cargo runs between the two continents. The Dread Corsair Allos Nogan, the fearsome guild leader Vida, the Pirate Queen... such legends were entwined with the caves of the Ndovlu mountains. But smugglers rarely sailed under a Church flag. More worrying was the report of the captured goblin. Alfgar had no doubt that its tale rang true - it had not been spying, had just wandered off from the rest while drinking - but that did not change its tale of the smart goblins. Their leader was a reformer, Alfgar gathered. He had done much to introduce literacy and education in his tribe, even reformed their religion. And it did not change the fact that the goblin had been found much further south than their usual territory - in the northern passes, less than a day's march from the citadel. Were they moving south finally? Alfgar had already put the guards in a state of alert, watching the canyon around the clock. But were they going to assault the library, or pass it and move south to Valorim? A map of the isthmus and the northern edge of Valorim lay on his desk; he briefly paused his pacing to glance at it, more to refresh his memory than to read. Wyvernton would fall in a massacre - even without being a direct target, the library would suffer a shortage of food. South of the mountains were empty lands, much space for the goblins to rally. They would come over the mountains and invade Valorim like an avalanche; the northern cities stood no chance. Perhaps the Anama would be able to stop their advance, or the mages of Karnold would. Half the continent would be left in ruin. But he was still haunted by the fire of intelligence that had shone in Gobrak's eyes as they took him away. "They will come for me! My men will come for me before the night's out, and we'll kill you! Kill you all! Killkillkillkillkill!" Alfgar shivered too, but not with the cold. ------------- The sentry's face was starting to tingle uncomfortably. The cold had long reached her ears through the felt cap, and her eyes were stinging in the wind. Her shift would be over soon. In her mind, she was already back inside, wrapped in a blanket and drinking graynettle tea. Four minutes. Nothing was going to happen this night. She was already contemplating going down early to wait out the last minutes inside and then wake the next sentry, but protocol was strict. Her shift lasted from midnight to two hours, and the switch was to take no more than a minute. So she braced herself against the cold, looked out over the empty canyon and continued to think of tea. Out of the corner of her eye, Kharla thought she saw movement. Then it vanished. It was probably the cold; her eyes were already watering. But when she continued to gaze at the path, she could make out shapes, shadows moving at the edge of the light. Something was happening after all. ------------- Alfgar jumped as the door opened and Skorgere entered. He thought of a scathing remark regarding the tradition of knocking, but it died on the way to his lips when he saw Skorgere's white face. "Goblins, master. They are approaching the citadel." "How many?" "We can see no more than thirty, master. But the rest of the troops may be hanging back behind the vanguard." Alfgar's voice was clipped, and his words rushed. "Have our guards readied and stand to attention in the entrance hall. Tell the caretakers to lock the archive vaults. Have the staff barricade themselves in the upper halls." "Immediately, master." *[[ooc: took some restraint to keep from making this "yes, precious".]] [[ooc: this will also be the first and last time I have titled an IC post. Sorry yet again.]] [ Wednesday, March 29, 2006 16:30: Message edited by: Whan Aprill with his shoures sote ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Slarty, by "strait" do you mean the landbridge? In my dictionary, a strait is a narrow path of water connecting two oceans, but what we have here is a narrow path of land connecting two continents. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments. "That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 29 2006 06:19
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How... oh wait! I'm a mod! *slaps forehead* Commencing first use of modz0r powers... :P Slar: I'm deleting stuff all the time, but you people keep sending more! Anyway, you know my email address... :) Edit: It's in my profile... :P [ Wednesday, March 29, 2006 06:25: Message edited by: crazy kitten ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments. "That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Yes, I'll get to that as soon as I'm home from work (1 hour or so). :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |