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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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Exit Strategy (Realized) in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, February 21 2006 00:56 Profile Homepage #9 I was determined last July. The determination lasted a whole week. If you don't count the secondary, anonymous account I started posting with two days after my departure. :( -------------------- 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
To sink or not to sink, that is the question in Richard White Games
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, February 21 2006 00:54 Profile Homepage #12 This might be accomplished by having the forum id be a function of the current time in seconds, mod 20 (the current number of boards). There might be a problem with primary key collisions, but RWG will obviously overrule any forum that may currently share its number. Another side-effect of this would be that the posts and topics would obviously not move, being that they are solidly within forum 13. New topics started and posts made while RWG resides elsewhere will, however, be left where they are posted. In short, it will not be RWG that moves, but rather every forum that takes second-long turns at being RWG. Now tell me, wouldn't that be cool? Of course, you'd have to time your posts quite accurately, but then nobody ever said the Path of White would be easy to follow. :) [ Tuesday, February 21, 2006 00:54: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ] -------------------- 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
Denied! in Richard White Games
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, February 21 2006 00:44 Profile Homepage #2 This isn't about keeping it alive, this is about putting the forum where it belongs - at the bottom of the board! Surely every cultist can share your anguish, SoT - to have the forums rearranged, and to have RWG be ignored like that, is the height of shame. It is not merely unkind, it is insulting! Death to those who would insult our prophet Richard White! -------------------- 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
Exit Strategy (Realized) in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, February 21 2006 00:25 Profile Homepage #6 Yes, but once that sanity is spent, you will feel drawn back inexorably. You can delete your bookmark, clear the cache, clear your browsing history, but once you feel that call, you will remember the URL from some subconscious corner of your mind, and enter it. You can struggle with yourself over every letter, but eventually you will hit enter, and then you are back. If you have the good grace, at that point, not to start an "I'm back" topic, you have passed a further test on the road to oldbiehood. :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
my world(would appreciate ideas) in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, February 21 2006 00:21 Profile Homepage #55 quote: Originally written by Ephesos: quote: Originally written by Dikiyoba: Dikiyoba wonders what and why the language of the planet Vamalas places special emphasis on the letter v. Let's just not go there, shall we? I've been trying very hard to keep myself from making CoC-violating jokes and comments, and I think the topic will benefit from us letting this particular... quirk of Valamas remain untouched. What is so CoC-violating about the letter V? -------------------- 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
From the desk of Mitt Romney: in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, February 21 2006 00:19 Profile Homepage #3 quote: Would you vote or not vote for a President based on religion? I probably wouldn't vote for a southern baptist creationist, and that vote could be said to be based on religion. However, that is extended to fundamentalists of any religion; the actual failing criterion would be that they are likely to have church and government interfere with each other. [ Tuesday, February 21, 2006 00:20: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ] -------------------- 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
Exit Strategy (Realized) in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, February 21 2006 00:16 Profile Homepage #4 You are leaving, and you dare warn the fluffy turtles in advance? You are either extremely confident, or extremely foolish. No one escapes through that door. For the door requires sanity to open... -------------------- 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
David Irving Jailed in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 20 2006 21:17 Profile Homepage #4 The man's a dolt, but he has an opinion like six other billions of people. The fact that his opinion happens to make light of the genocide of several million people, and that it runs counter to historical fact, does not make him special; there are worse than him running around free. As Deborah Lipstadt said, the opinion he represents needs to be defeated with "history and with truth". That is feasible. We know the holocaust happened, and we know what the Nazi regime did - so why, instead of being met with facts, are the opponents silenced? It weakens our point and it makes them martyrs. -------------------- 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
Ideas Refreshment in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 20 2006 18:38 Profile Homepage #22 quote: Originally written by ben12C8: However, if I was to E-mail Jeff an idea, he was to actually like it (unlikely), and I said I didn't want any credit, he could just delete the E-mail, make the game, and call it another ingenious creation of his intelligent mind. :) Assuming he trusts you not to be an ass and later claim you did want credit but he stole from you. Undocumented arrangements are notoriously unreliable... -------------------- 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
The Mountain of Shadows RP in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 20 2006 17:36 Profile Homepage #528 OOC: Frozen Feet, I'd contact you to ask about messing with your character, but I don't know how. That plus the week-long absence gives me an excuse. IC: "Tuulentekija!" Melora called a third time, but her voice hung in the great hall with nothing but an echo in response. He did not fall. It was not a prayer. I would have felt his passage. She knew little about Necromancy, but the most basic senses were inherent to her kind. He might be mortally wounded, however, or even incapacitated. She looked down at the druid. Given no alternative, she might be able to heal him, greatly draining her own strength in the process, but she would have preferred to wait for Edith or someone else with medical knowledge. Meanwhile, I should look for that warrior... A groan became audible, and Melora spun around at the sound, daggers ready to throw. A pile of wolves behind her stirred slightly, and an armored hand emerged from beneath the savaged corpses. The weavers be thanked. He's alive. Within moments, Tuulentekija had dug himself out from under the carcasses and stood up, visibly the worse for wear, but not seriously injured in any place. This surprised Melora. The northern warrior was obviously tough as burnished steel, but one did not go through the kind of battle they had just fought - waves upon waves of unrelenting foes - without getting a scratch, and yet Tuulentekija seemed to be unharmed. It was only then, as he approached, that she felt the wave of magic emanate from him, enveloping her like a cloud of a vast, incomprehensible scent. She did not recognize the energies, but she felt they were ancient beyond her imagination. That reminded her... "Tuulentekija! That book you found..." "I, too, am very pleased to see you alive and well, thank you ever so much," the warrior retorted. Melora waved it off. "Unlike the druid, who needs immediate aid if he is to survive. The book?" she held out her hand expectantly. "I don't have it." "Where did you put it?" -- His first impulse was to tell her - the shelf was right beside them, covered in soot, the single undamaged book standing out against the rest, ready for the taking. There was something in her eyes... a strange hunger. Is she possessed again, or is it the lure of knowledge... or both? His distrust must have shown on his face, because she scowled impatiently. "That is right, I am a demon-infested dark sorceress and I intend to work vast schemes of incalculable evil with it - right after I heal the druid back there. Now give me the book, before it is too late." A dozen objections came to his mind, but eventually he pointed to the shelf with the lone leatherbound volume. "I left it over there." In a blink, Melora had reached the shelf and pulled the tome out. The longer it stays in the vicinity of the fire's residue, the more likely it is to be drained. But as she opened the book carefully, feeling a wave of the alien magic wash over her face like the warmth of the sun felt with closed eyes, she realized that no rupture in the world would drain this book. The energy patterns seemed to be woven into the fabric of the pages itself, rendering it more an artifact than a simple written text. She scanned the first page. The symbols themselves were incomprehensible to her, naturally. After these millions of years, it would have been pure luck to find a single language that even shared common roots with this ancient writing. She had known what to expect, and had hoped mostly to instead analyze the patterns themselves, gaining an understanding of the magic without reading the words the ancient race had used to describe it. She was entirely unprepared for what happened next. It was alive, and greater than her. Instead of analyzing the structure, she felt herself analyzed by it. She was holding the book, but in another sense the book was holding her, scrutinizing her soul. For a terrible moment, she anticipated the judgement of the book, but it was over in an instant. If it was a test, she seemed to have passed it, for the vast examining presence faded. Instead, she was swept up as if by a great wave, transported to a higher plane where words and meanings revealed themselves to her. She did not know how long she stood there - it could not be more than a few moments, because Tuulentekija would have commented if she had remained motionless longer - but it seemed as if an eternity had passed before the book released her from its vast consciousness, leaving her standing shaken beside the shelf. If the other surviving books are a tenth as powerful as this, then the treasure is many times greater even after the fire than I had expected. Holding the book, she walked back to Sequoia and Tuulentekija, when steps sounded from the entrance and the corridor beyond, announcing a group of people. OOC: Stopped here because more would be plot hijacking. It seems like I already juiced up the book way too much... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • The Stats • Polaris • IRC• RSS [Topic / Forum (redirect)] The awful doom of Yaddith we evade Will soon be snuffling at our heels again The snouted worms can track us through our dreams. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Name in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 20 2006 16:51 Profile Homepage #8 quote: Originally written by PoD person: Umm, myself, uh, one time I asked my dad who was the tallest dwarf ever, but I was about seven then. In a context where a darf is a stocky, heavily bearded miner who likes to fight with a huge double-headed axe, that question is perfectly legitimate. -------------------- 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
Name in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 20 2006 15:31 Profile Homepage #4 I have said a whole lot of horrendously dumb things, but apparently my memory is repressing them, because I can't think of anything specific. -------------------- 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
my world(would appreciate ideas) in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 20 2006 15:05 Profile Homepage #48 The next 500-1000 years would be good enough for me. I'm modest. :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
In the topic of strange spirits... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 20 2006 14:22 Profile Homepage #43 quote: Originally written by Milla: Ah thankyou. But how long has there been a new board? Because it's been about 2-3 months since I've last been able to get onto Polaris. The new board appeared around 12 hours before the old one went. We sent out a bulk email notification, but it only reached the ones who enabled admin emails... sorry for locking you out for all this time, but at least you're back now. :) -------------------- 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
Name in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 20 2006 14:03 Profile Homepage #1 I am guessing your second job interview came soon after that? -------------------- 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
Upgrading from Avernum 4.0 to 4.0.1 in Tech Support
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 20 2006 11:53 Profile Homepage #2 Mh... Given that Avernum is a series, and the "4" stands for a game of that series, not a version number, shouldn't this run "Avernum 4 1.0.1" or "Avernum IV 1.0.1"? -------------------- 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
my world(would appreciate ideas) in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 20 2006 11:29 Profile Homepage #37 quote: muhahahahhahhahhaah take that. Originally, I felt bad for offering my undiluted criticism and possibly discouraging a beginner. Strange, but this quote made the feeling vanish. :rolleyes: -------------------- 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
"The End of Blades" Discussion in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 20 2006 03:32 Profile Homepage #72 The difference is that the source for the BoA editor is open-source already, and Kel's site has a short list of very useful utilities that have been developed already. That they are all in separate applications is not surprising; after all they are separate projects. Presumably, they can all work on the same scenario files though, unlike in BoE, where a utility could not interface with or extend the editor at 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
"The End of Blades" Discussion in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 20 2006 01:01 Profile Homepage #70 quote: Originally written by Poit: Maybe I missed this boat? What do you plan to do to the source code? Bug fixing, presumably. Sadly, BoE is as full of bugs as a foreign embassy. :P Also, the scenario editor could use some additional tools - such as a larger editing screen than 55, a dialogue editor, a node editor, etc. As of now, it is nearly impossible to understand even your own nodework after a few weeks without meticulous notes, let alone someone else's. -------------------- 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
"The End of Blades" Discussion in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, February 19 2006 12:36 Profile Homepage #58 quote: Originally written by Thralni, The flying Dutchmen: I just don't understand why the images don't expand. they should actually. maybe somebody who understands HTML better than I do, would have the time to look at it? (I look at you Aran...). Ephesos, maybe you could PM me about these things that "suggest" bad things of the plot? I'm very curious... The full-size images don't appear to exist, at least not at the place where you link to them from the thumbnails. Have you checked that they are uploaded? -------------------- 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
A Year of Stats in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, February 19 2006 03:26 Profile Homepage #59 quote: Originally written by Archmagus Micael: quote: Originally written by Arancaytar the Grey: It's dumb, but it is after all the first version. :P Is that why I can't access it? I knew there was a reason for beta-testing. It makes everything nice and shiny (thinks about UV and groans). - Archmagus Micael It's this link: http://www.ermarian.net/stats/aggregate.php If you can't display it, then you might have a browser that can't display PNG images...? -------------------- 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
A Year of Stats in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, February 18 2006 23:35 Profile Homepage #57 Yes, that's to be expected. As it is now (without any extra options) the graph takes the last 720 hours - whether that begins at morning, midday or evening. However, the "day", or 24-hour-period begins at the beginning of the 720 hour range. Which means that depending on whether you look at the graph in the morning or in the afternoon, some times are going to belong to either one day or the next. An undocumented feature. Edit: Yes, Jumping Salmon, so it is. The purge was a little over 800 hours ago. I'm working on fixing this. It's dumb, but it is after all the first version. :P [ Saturday, February 18, 2006 23:36: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ] -------------------- 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
Hanged? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, February 18 2006 15:08 Profile Homepage #107 quote: Originally written by arghhhhhhhhh: anyone hear hate george bush I DO!!!!! At least we have that in common. :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
A Year of Stats in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, February 18 2006 14:46 Profile Homepage #53 If anyone is interested, it sort of works. -------------------- 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
my world(would appreciate ideas) in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, February 18 2006 14:45 Profile Homepage #5 And some upper case, occasionally? Thoughts: You have a vibrant imagination, but should work on writing skills before you venture into creative writing. It's only half creative, and the other part is, well, writing. Writing well. And the world you described is pretty unrealistic as fantasy worlds go, and contrived. The number of moons on a fantasy world is traditionally any number not equal to one, but the greater it is, the sillier it becomes. Two are fine. Four are just barely okay. Seven are a bit overdone... -------------------- 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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