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Title	Law Bringer
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Registered	Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, February 14 2006 01:04 Profile Homepage #1 No, I'm getting the same. I don't know what this means, but I have the strange feeling I ought to launch PPP4 right about... now. o_o Edit: Not to worry, spiderwebsoftware.com is up. Apparently Jeff has let spidweb.com expire - it's an older domain, and I've used it for the past five years or so, but apparently it's been deprecated a long time ago. [ Tuesday, February 14, 2006 01:06: 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
The Spiderweb Instant Custom Title Generator? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 23:58 Profile Homepage #93 It is always a pity to see two so reasonable and intelligent members of these forums fall out with one another. There are already enough conflicts that involve one or more parties who can safely described as stupid. :( -------------------- 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
Shipping and Handling Charge in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 22:56 Profile Homepage #10 quote: Originally written by Induced Post Contents: I'd want some verification of handling. How do I know that the contents that were not shipped were properly handled if I myself never get to observe them? Perhaps video footage would be required. —Alorael, who almost talked about package handling. Then he realized that TM has been at his finest lately and doesn't need any more fuel for his fires. Yes, that is a possible innuendo. In the spirit of innuendos, I just saw this thread directly beneath the one titled "We never stop stripping." When I skimmed the list, I read this as "Stripping and Handling". 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
In the topic of strange spirits... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 22:54 Profile Homepage #11 I am nearing 5000. It will be a grand celebration. :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
Hanged? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 22:42 Profile Homepage #21 quote: Also, didn't the US give Iraq democracy, and everyone in general voted for what the country was already like? Or so I recall someone telling me. More's the trouble. The US gave a relatively secular, dictatorial Iraq "democracy", and everyone voted for the fundamentalist dictators instead, because those promised to get the US out. In effect, by making themselves the enemy, the US have turned Iraq into exactly what they claimed it was - a rubble-filled, corrupt and ultra-fundamentalist country filled with people who hate the West. Edit: ^^^ What TM said. Non-interventionism is often a good policy, but not when lives and human rights are at stake. Here (and in Austria), if you fail to render assistance to someone and you are both aware of the need and capable of helping without disproportionate risk to yourself, you can actually be charged. And not too mildly either - it can be up to a year of jail, according to Wikipedia. (I don't know whether a law like this exists elsewhere, though). Now, international affairs can't be analogized in this way, but I feel it would be immoral to look away. [ Monday, February 13, 2006 22:51: 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
The Mountain of Shadows RP in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 21:35 Profile Homepage #519 OOC: Argh. Sorry. First a presentation, then exams, then pure, undiluted procrastination. Did you see the XML feed I coded yesterday? That's the kind of thing I've been doing to avoid posting here. But it doesn't become easier from delaying it, and I'm still feeling guilty whenever I think what I did to Valley of Thunder. Never again. Summary: Sequoia, Melora and Tuulentekija hastened ahead to the burning library where they are now fighting a group of wolves and a demon. Lisha and Cain stayed behind with Edith when she got possessed and then collapsed. IC: The wolves were no match, hardly more so than they had been earlier, at the foot of the mountain - how many days ago? Far too long, Melora decided. She was a drow, she was born to walk beneath the ground and parley with forces incomprehensible to mortals, but the caves of this mountain were too much even for her. The demon that led the wolves was little worse; his power was less than even the Uruk-Hai who had peskered them earlier. With another casual movement, she swung around and her dagger found the throat of a wolf that had crept up on her from behind. What troubled Melora most was her own folly. Literally the oldest trap in the book, and I stepped right in. The concept of hiding self-casting spells in text had been around for as long as knowledge thieves had. The kind of intruder that dark temples and libraries had to beware against were rarely strong warriors, but often powerful sorcerers, hungry for knowledge. They would be lured by a book, would not resist briefly reading in it, and would immediately be coerced into casting the trap spell contained - frequently summoning a host of demons that would then dispatch them. Greed has blinded me, she bitterly acknowledged. If I am to escape with my life, let alone bring anything of value with me from this place, I must act more carefully. Let us begin with these wolf-creatures here... and, carefully - oh so carefully! - two more throwing knives left her hands, felling one wolf and wounding another badly. The battle was going far worse than it should have been, for a group so skilled. They had been taken by surprise, of course, but far more effective was the presence of Orloki. The taint upon the whole place weighed down on them all, physically palpable like the smell of iron. Anssaria be thanked I am shielded against this. There was no time. The library might have ceased burning, but the intense fire - along with the destruction of hundreds, thousands of magical tomes - had opened rifts in the aura of this place, through which the power that still survived was now draining away. And once the preservation enchantments on the ages old books faded away, they would crumble to dust at a touch. If anything was to be saved, the attackers needed to be dispatched immediately. Unfortunately, there were far too many. She was losing count of the wolves she had slain - at least five, with this last one, possibly more -, Tuulentekija seemed to be running on pure, undilated berserk rage with his woodcarving knife, and if a druid could go postal, Sequoia was: More than a dozen of the beasts lay in heaps at their feet, but that did not slow their advance or dent their numbers. And that could mean only one thing... "Fools! Leave the wolves and get the demon!" With a shout, she sent another assailant to the ground and then searched the room for the creature she had involuntarily summoned earlier. The smoke was blinding, but Melora could see the taint around her as clearly as she would feel the sun washing over her face with closed eyes. It was pervading the entire room, but one dark corner stood out. Screw this. It has not even bothered to attack us; all it does is send these wolves at us and watch the carnage. Having little hopes, Melora tried one of her knives, but the demon had some kind of shield and the knife bounced away harmlessly. The demon did not even react to the knife. Melora's gaze was drawn by yet another of the canines that had crept up on her from behind, and as the wolf collapsed moments later, an inhuman shriek told her that her attention had been diverted too long. Whirling around to fend the attacker, she saw she had not been the target at all: Sequoia was still standing, but his chest was slashed and bloody, and the demon was about to finish its work. But before the drow could so much as draw a dagger - and she could do that very, very quickly - Sequoia had roared a formula and hurled a mighty beam of light at the demon. Proving that rage does enhance magic, focused correctly. The beam struck the demon squarely in the chest, and it was gone. True to her expectations, the wolves - bereft of the dark power that guided them - suddenly lost their motivation for fighting, and turned tail without hesitation. Melora let them go. Not their fault for being possessed... and I also need to conserve my knives. She was about to turn her attention to the surviving parts of the library when a groan reminded her that Sequoia's injuries were grave. Even as she hurried to his side, he collapsed. She would have panicked at that point, but could feel that Sequoia's life force was not ebbing, and he had merely lost consciousness. Nonetheless, he was in immediate danger. I need to help him somehow, she realized, even as the other part of her mind seemed to prepare for playing another round of Moral Self-Conflict, Drow-Style. Besides, if he dies, Lisha is going to kill me. Just then, there was a strange feeling in the ruptured aura - or rather the memory of a strange feeling Melora had sensed earlier. What had Tuulentekija shouted just before the attack had begun? Hey elf, there's still one left here... one what? Some book, probably, since she had been panicking at the burning shelves then. In fact, the warrior had been holding a book, she remembered. And the traces of healing magic had been faint across the room, in the midst of the magical inferno, but that merely implied the source to be of an awesome strength. "Tuulentekija!" she shouted. "Where is that book of yours?" She looked around, her words echoing in the bare spaces. "Tuulentekija?" OOC: Writing this under time pressure. Might need some editing, just comment... Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Hanged? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 15:20 Profile Homepage #14 quote: Originally written by Enraged Slith: How sad. Somehow I can't help but feel that a man in the same position would have been let go. "Can't help but feel" has nothing to do with it - it is a fact. quote: I assume that Islam stresses great respect for women. Possibly in a similar way that Christianity does. -------------------- 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
"expand their horizons?" in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 15:14 Profile Homepage #2 Surprise me you do, Imban. Reply to an endlessly used and reused topic, you do. Yet lock it, you do not? Apologies for the Yoda thing. I use tired gimmicks whenever I'm half asleep. -------------------- 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
SupaNik, will you be my valentine? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 13:43 Profile Homepage #61 Jeff should ask for subscription fees for reading this forum. The entertainment value is reaching new highs... -------------------- 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 Monday, February 13 2006 13:33 Profile Homepage #10 The question is whether or not a distinction should be made between the right to life and the right to have your religion respected. Should there? -------------------- 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
Roar. in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 12:50 Profile Homepage #13 quote: Originally written by Selima: The last time I got a real chain letter I tore it into pieces. Strangely enough it was one of the best weeks of my life and nothing happened afterwards. I do get tons of chain letters by email, but even when I do like them I still don't forward them just for the fact that they are chain letters. Electronic chain letters, on the other hand, are far more annoying because they don't provide any material suited to release one's anger at receiving it. Clicking the delete button is notably less satisfying than tearing the letter into a thousand tiny pieces. :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
lol in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 12:42 Profile Homepage #7 Order Mage, I'm done with the reminiscing, now could you get back into your "not-starting-senseless-topics" mode - assuming you have one? :) Edit: On a completely unrelated note, several of the top ten Google results for the word "reminiscing" relate to Myst. [ Monday, February 13, 2006 12:45: 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
Wetting myself... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 10:14 Profile Homepage #1 Great for you. But are you quite sure you wanted to give your topic that title? -------------------- 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
Shipping and Handling Charge in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 09:27 Profile Homepage #6 If a package is only ever touched with a ten-foot pole by the delivery employees, that might not count as "handling". I wonder whether they offer handling without shipping, though. [ Monday, February 13, 2006 09:27: 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
SupaNik, will you be my valentine? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 08:13 Profile Homepage #42 quote: Originally written by Thralni, The flying Dutchmen: You know what's wrong with MSN (and any other chat thing)? That for a conversation you normally would take three minutes to have, you take half an hour! Could somebody tell me why this is? I mean... Why not simply call, actually. Thankfully, with the advance of instant text messaging, we are no longer under time pressure when answering. There go the long awkward pauses and stammering replies. As a side note, there go the phonebills, but with Skype that issue becomes moot anyway. -------------------- 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 Monday, February 13 2006 07:48 Profile Homepage #5 Fighting for peace is like --ing for virginity, it has been so aptly said. The same goes for occupying countries for liberty, by the way... Edit: No m-dash. [ Monday, February 13, 2006 07:59: 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
Just what is the deal with Alorael?* in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 07:35 Profile Homepage #35 We'll have you know we use the majestic plural wherever we please to go, mighty adventurers that we are. :) -------------------- 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
Just what is the deal with Alorael?* in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 07:13 Profile Homepage #33 quote: Originally written by saunders: Those who are not strange enough are fed to the pets. Those who appear normal are most to be feared. The deal with Alorael is that he is to be treated with extreme respect unless you want to be watching over your shoulder for the rest of your life. Except that it'd be useless, because a sniper can get you through the eye just as fine as through the back of your head. :) -------------------- 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
Spiderweb Forums XML Feed in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 06:50 Profile Homepage #6 No, I mean that viewing it in a browser is the only sure way to get out errors - since the browser usually does not try to parse the xml in any way. To be absolutely sure, try this URL: http://www.ermarian.net/stats/feed.php And use whatever option equates to "View Source". If that displays a text starting with "<?xml ... something", then the problem lies with the browser trying to parse it. If not, then the feed doesn't load correctly. Have you tried loading other pages on ermarian.net? Edit: There are some problems with special characters like [TM] and Alo's m-dash. I'll try to fix this later. :rolleyes: [ Monday, February 13, 2006 07:46: 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 Monday, February 13 2006 06:46 Profile Homepage #3 In the same manner in which we cannot excuse the Iraq invasion with 9/11, and can excuse neither Palestine suicide bombers with settler brutality nor vice versa, we cannot excuse the planned Iran invasion (which would kill thousands of people no less innocent) with the murder of this woman. However, it is an atrocity on several counts: For the first, she seems to have at no point received justice for being the victim of a rape crime, for the second, her rights to legal assistance were fully ignored, and thirdly, she was sentenced to a barbaric penalty that is abolished almost everywhere except in developing countries, theocratic dictatorships and the United States. It is impossible not to agree that Something Must Be Done™. But what - preferably without resulting in the mess that has been wreaked elsewhere (say, Iraq) supposedly in the name of "freedom"? -------------------- 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 Few Advance Notes On Geneforge 4 in Geneforge Series
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 06:31 Profile Homepage #43 Fortunately. Geneforge has been criticized for its plots, but I do hope Jeff does not fall to the level where he makes a game in which you you run around as a mutant dinosaur. :rolleyes: -------------------- 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
Spiderweb Forums XML Feed in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 05:45 Profile Homepage #4 Are you using a feed aggregator, or viewing it in a browser? There should definitely be some articles (possibly it's not compatible, in which case perhaps the Feedburner RSS one works...). Here's a list of the aggregators that I've successfully tested it with: - Firefox Live Bookmark - Thunderbird RSS Reader - Google Desktop "Webclips" Here's a list of readers that apparently can't use it (unknown error, definitely no validation problem however): - The Google "Personalized Home" panel - Bloglines - Bloglet(?) The feed is updated every time you view it if the latest post is over 5 minutes old. Since the active topics page doesn't display any dates, I use the date at which they are grabbed by the script. -------------------- 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
Roar. in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 04:58 Profile Homepage #1 Welcome back Order Mage, and I am glad to see that in all these years of changing times, at least the average sense of your topics has stayed the same. I feel at home like I haven't felt since Summer '03... ah, the days... :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
SupaNik, will you be my valentine? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 00:59 Profile Homepage #39 Yes, there are some people on here who do that, and it's a bit annoying... Looks at no female Spiderweb member in particular. -------------------- 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
math equation in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, February 13 2006 00:54 Profile Homepage #14 So wait, the task was to find ONE solution, not all possible solutions? The difference in this case is comparable to the difference between calculating the first four digits of Pi and its exact value. :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

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