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written Saturday, December 31 2005 08:27
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Looks sinister. We now have a new threadlocker!  God hates this thread. -------------------- 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 Saturday, December 31 2005 07:47
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Is this accessible from anywhere besides a web interface? I might join in from time to time, but it'd be more of an exception I guess. -------------------- 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 Saturday, December 31 2005 07:45
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Happy new year! Slightly over six hours to go here, so a very good 2006 to Australians etc. :) -------------------- 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 Saturday, December 31 2005 07:33
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It's the devil, come to possess your soul, you evil roleplayer. :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 Saturday, December 31 2005 05:27
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He lost the last case as well, didn't he? Anyway, Thompson has nothing on Jack Chick. [ Saturday, December 31, 2005 05:29: Message edited by: harf'er'melora ] -------------------- 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 Saturday, December 31 2005 05:22
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I might not have been here when it was active, but I'm reasonably sure I got a look at it before it was gone. That, or one of its numerous reincarnations... -------------------- 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, December 30 2005 23:34
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Alorael! You'll confuse the poor newbies - you should know that the xian gloves cannot be acquired until after the player has found the xian skull. That is, unless you have used the editor to give you one copy of every book in the game (including the xian tome), and then entered the scintillating chamber in the secret level of the tower of magi. You still need to pretend you already have the skull by using a normal skull and having 5 levels of the Ventriloquism skill. But who the hell thinks of that? -- By the way, I'm curious as to where and how I've given a description of the topic "for those in the know". I mean, prior to this post. -------------------- 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, December 30 2005 19:44
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Tolkien himself is the father of the Uruk-Haiku genre. quote:Edit: This was before coffee and breakfast restored my ability to count till five. Fixed. :rolleyes: [ Saturday, December 31, 2005 05:25: Message edited by: harf'er'melora ] -------------------- 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, December 30 2005 18:10
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quote:But the other boards were purged later, and they were archived in the PPP2. And having both of these right here, I'm reasonably certain it's not in there. I could be missing something though. BEEP is definitely not in the PPP though. That came before UBB, even, didn't it? Edit: Actually, I only ever indexed the General part of PPP2. That means it could well be in the A3 part of PPP2 (since that is probably where it started). Finding out would be a pain though since that's not indexed. :rolleyes: [ Friday, December 30, 2005 18:17: Message edited by: harf'er'melora ] -------------------- 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, December 30 2005 16:24
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Well, sometimes the sanity just won't stop returning, and then it's like, whatever it takes to rot the old brain a little. It's easier on the liver than alcohol, too. :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, December 30 2005 11:47
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It is gone... :( Edit: Alo beat me. And no, there's no archived copy. It fell victim to an earlier purge (it might even have been moved to the Misc board, in which case it's gone as well), and PPP never saved it. [ Friday, December 30, 2005 11:49: Message edited by: harf'er'melora ] -------------------- 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, December 30 2005 11:06
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I play the piano, and I like Brahms most. Bach after that, and I'd dearly like to learn some pieces by Rachmaninoff but until now I have only heard him on CDs. I linked to my incomplete Intermezzo only recently, so I don't need to post that again. :) -------------------- 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, December 30 2005 10:47
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Good use of invective, but not imaginitive enough. The karma reference at the end detracts from the purpose of the rant and gives the post a newbie-ish air. The fervent style is convincing, however. The subject itself - the poor quality of Runescape by RPG standards - is unfortunately chosen as to be so obvious and self-evident that you are in fact preaching to the converted or in other words, trolling in an empty lake. 7 out of 10, nonetheless. :) -------------------- 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, December 30 2005 10:38
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quote:As far as I am aware, the universities pose these kinds of questions less to evaluate someone's grasp of the English language and essay-writing skill than to screen out people who care about nothing but booze, women, and... etc. So the options are really: Change your interests, pretend to have different interests than you do (that's the most popular one), or find a different university. :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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Given that I've played for about two weeks if you only count the days I've actually played, you could probably call me that. And I've just smelted a ton of iron that should buy me a new pickaxe once I'm done smithing. :) -------------------- 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, December 29 2005 13:28
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OOC: And so passed another roleplay into the annals, sinking beneath the depths like another, similarly named one long ago... Except this time, I'll post. Ha. Sorry for the past bit. I kept wanting to post, then I was too lazy, then I had work, then it was christmas, than I was talking to a close friend I hadn't seen online for nearly two months, then I didn't know what to post, then everyone else started to post and I couldn't keep up with what was happening, then I was too lazy, and then... etc. IC: "A question, Melora." Melora looked over her shoulder at the sound of Lisha's voice. "What is it, Lisha?" She was surprised at the sudden shift from racial designations to first names - is she trying to lull me? - but saw no reason not to reciprocate, for the moment. Lisha walked ahead of the others, motioning to Melora that what they said should be in private. The disadvantage of being the guide is that you cannot fall behind when you need a quiet talk. "What is it that you seek here? You do not believe in King Albert's gold, yet you claim to seek treasure." "No. It is a far more ancient legend that draws me to the mountain." Melora went a little slower. The rest of the party could catch up if they wanted. Melora had noticed Edith was in conversation with Tuulentekija, and if Sequoia could hear them, there was little harm in it. Of all the ones in this mountain, he is the most unlikely to want the treasure anyway. "Do you want to hear about it?" "I would not mind knowing where you intend to lead us and why." Lisha's expression was wry. To Orloki, where else? Melora thought. With the shifting tunnels and the entire mountain seeming to come alive, her intentions did not seem to matter a whole lot. She drew her breath. This one was a long story. If Lisha was not keen on a small mythology lecture, that was her problem. Then she spoke. --- "Old tales - and I mean really old tales, myths that were half forgotten before we ever left our trees and entered the caverns, before humans had learned to write - tell of a people more ancient than us. They were wise above all, and curious. They gathered a vast store of knowledge. And because the sun pained them like it does my kind, they lived in caverns. "The more frivolous of the stories claim that they entered it all in a vast central library. It is a tall tale, but I am not one to dismiss it out of hand." "You believe the library has survived and is beneath the Mountain of Shadows." Lisha hardly bothered intoning it as a question. "What makes you think that story is any less far-fetched than the one of Albert's treasure?" "Not so fast. In treasure hunting, nobody gets anything from impatience save frustation. Or death, for the less lucky. It was a long time indeed before I came here." Melora's voice took on a strange depth as she recounted her travels. "Two score years I wandered the world. Where the boldest humans never trod, I have made my path. Caverns thought to be part of legend I have passed through. Primal forests, and ancient ruins in them, I have explored. I have mapped foul Ilyat in the blighted swamps, I have beheld the iron pillars of Gen in the eternal ice, and in the great plains of Shanaar, where the air shivers in the heat and shows strange visions to the lost traveler, I have walked through long-forgotten Khom and entered the Golden Temple." Lisha started at that last sentence; her surprise was not merely due to the uncharacteristic wordiness of the close-mouthed elf. Khom was a well-known fable in the lands of Tass-Shanti, a marvellous city half buried in the sands and hidden to all seekers. But it was a fable. Wasn't it? "The tombs and libraries I have raided would make anyone's mind reel," Melora continued. "And yet, I found not what I was looking for. The tales I read all told of the Great Archives, but they did not tell of their location, or whether they still exist. In a half-rotten scroll in the library of the Grand Lord, I merely found a cryptic remark saying it was guarded by an ancient being named 'Roc'." "The Roc? The giant thunderbird whose roost is an entire island?" Lisha did not even bother to ask how a shadow elf would have been admitted to the library. Great bribes must have changed hands, or Melora had a reputation in the world of sages that preceded her. "That is what I thought at first. But it made no sense! The roc is a completely different mythology, and definitely not as old as the archives I was seeking. It is a legend of your people, and certainly not something referenced by beings far older. I was stumped, to put it bluntly. "That was twenty years ago." "You obviously found a solution, or you wouldn't be here now," Lisha remarked, now intrigued by the story. "I did. The Golden Temple of Khom provided the key - a script in an ancient alphabet. Or rather, the same alphabet that is used in Tass-Shanti now, but with different values for each letter. After reading only gibberish, I was able to deduce these values from another text. "That was five years ago. "The discovery seemed of little use, until by some chance I came across a tale of giant birds again. I was reminded of the Roc, and that in turn reminded me of that mouldy scroll in the Royal Library. "I returned as quickly as I could to your city, and was admitted to the library. The scroll was in the place I had left it nearly two decades ago. And with the new alphabet, the word I had translated as 'Roc' previously gained a very different meaning." "Which was?" "R sounded more like 'oar'. O was a syllable pronounced as 'hlo'. The symbol for K or C, finally, was a drawn out syllable that resembled 'kee'. Oar Hlo Kee." Lisha, mentally pronouncing the new word, suddenly gasped. "Orloki!" "Yes. The name that the monster of King Albert had allegedly given itself was the vocal equivalent of the name mentioned in an aeons-old scroll describing the guardian of a forgotten vault. "That was six moons ago, and you can imagine how I hurried in coming here. It may have been at least partly my carelessness that caused you to be sent here to investigate, and apparently you arrived long before I did. I never had much use for horses." --- Melora had hardly noticed that Edith and Tuulentekija had ceased talking for quite a while, and that all four of them were now listening to her. Let them listen. We're all in the clutches of the guardian anyway. Just then, she noticed another scrap of parchment wafting down the passage on a hot gust of sulfur and - she realized with a pang as her eyes began to water from the smell - the smoke of fire. She caught the scrap, and saw it was burnt at the edges, but it was legible. Unlike the other pieces, the writing was in symbols she recognized. ...thou must travel to some lonely place where high ground overlooks the ocean. Take up the tablet in thy right hand and make the sign*... She tossed it away; this was nothing spectacular, not to a drow. Nonetheless, she quickened her pace. It is burning. "Hurry! Whatever evil lies ahead, we must meet it before the entire cave is aflame!" And before the greatest dream of any sage alive is lost forever. OOC: *With many apologies to Mr Lovecraft. [ Thursday, December 29, 2005 16:39: Message edited by: harf'er'melora ] -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. 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The over-all hourly average is about 4.249 posts per hour (over the past ten months or so), and currently it's 1.536 over the last four days. So yes, things are slowing down. -------------------- 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, December 29 2005 11:47
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Gah. Now I know why that guy was so keen on getting my pickaxe handle. He'd picked up the head himself before I noticed where it'd gone. And now I can't buy a new one either. Argh. -------------------- 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, December 29 2005 04:58
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I don't get much time to play BoA scenarios now, but I still regularly download new scenarios as they get released and do play them eventually. I think Druids of Krell is next on my list. It's an odd month in which I don't start BoA at least once, but it's also an odd month in which I start and complete more than one scenario. Concerning tastes, I'm with the plot-over-carnage people, pretty much. -------------------- 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, December 28 2005 11:58
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Which reminds me, you mentioned an avatar at some point in the Nanowrimo thread earlier. Is there a chance you could email it? As long as I don't use it, I guess there shouldn't be a copyright problem... :) -------------------- 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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- Go to this page: http://spidweb.com/mailinglist/mailinglist.html - Enter your email address in the field provided - Hit Subscribe. You're done! :) -------------------- 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 Tuesday, December 27 2005 15:56
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One of my worst attempts at writing a novel is Shadow's Rising. I started it in November 2003 as a Nano, and while it began well it soon turned into a collage of everything a fantasy novel shouldn't be. I wrote more on it in 2004, but it really didn't get any better. I also participated in numerous roleplays, at least two of which are worth reading even though they are gone now from Spiderweb. One is Baltazar the Mad (it might be necessary to manually enter the page numbers because the links don't work. So go to page 2 by changing the address to page2.html etc). This was in August 2003, and it was a good one, considering its contemporaries and predecessors ended up in the flame pit. Another is the Avernum RP (I'm going to move it to my own adfree webspace soon but don't have time now). Arguably the best we have brought forth yet here. Not counting the Mountain of Shadows, if we finish that one, admittedly. (argh, need to post) Also, I sort of finished a novel in November tentatively titled Crystal Song. Finally, I like to play the piano. Brahms mostly. The piece is not complete, but I'm working on it. Also finally, I would like to close with a note to the doer of sel--- ah, stuff, who seems to have started this with no purpose beyond bragging with pieces of sound that have yet to achieve mediocrity. :rolleyes:  [ Tuesday, December 27, 2005 16:04: Message edited by: Gandalf the Green ] -------------------- 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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Argh. For some reason my adamant pickaxes keep breaking. Not just breaking, but actually the heads keep flying off the handle. I can never find the heads... do they get dropped somewhere, or are they gone? Laws of physics would dictate that when a pickaxe flies off the handle, the head would land somewhere. Anyway, it's the second time the pickaxe broke and now it'll take hours of playing before I can afford one again. :rolleyes: Don't think I should bother either. The profit from smithing doesn't begin to cover the constant cost of buying new pickaxes. -------------------- 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 Monday, December 26 2005 16:25
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The problem is that I'm already low on bank space, and now I need a place to stow away those heaps of hats and scarves. :rolleyes: I fought for some coal today. You can't call that kind of thing mining when eight players share four rocks... I got off lucky in the end. An adamant pickaxe is worth its price. -------------------- 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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quote:No, apparently the ones you get off the imps are painted. Since they still need to be crated however, the shop in Draynor needs a visit anyway. [ Monday, December 26, 2005 00:10: Message edited by: Gandalf the Green ] -------------------- 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 |