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Originally written by Wise Man:

Actually, the absolute value of his age is 7. We don't know whether it's positive or negative. For all we know, he might not be born until about 2012.

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I have been involved with the online Blades of Exile community since early 1998. I became involved with the Blades of Exile Arena run by Akhronath, and I submitted my first entries without having downloaded Blades of Exile and only being familiar with Exile III. I was an active member of all of the old Inside the Web forums - Aceron's Blades of Exile Board, the Monster Arena, and the Lyceum in particular.
As time went on, I became more proficient with the scenario editor, and I began to design better monsters for the arena and write and scrap several more scenarios. In September 2000, just as Inside the Web was going out of business and the Lyceum moved to ezBoard, I released my second scenario, a revamped Party Builder utility for scenario designers to include with their scenarios. ''[http://pub26.ezboard.com/fthelyceumfrm27.showMessage?topicID=261.topic Alternate Level Builder]'', as it was called, was never actually paired with a single released scenario. Still, it showed marked improvement over ''War on Bigail''.
In October 2000, the Arena made the jump to ezBoard as well, and I became the administrator of the forums, Arena Authority as it was called. Since Akhronath and Pokeytax had somewhat disappeared, I stepped up and ran seasons VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, and XIV, as well as several seasons of the Titan Arena, a Rabbit Arena, and an SDA Arena. I won two of those seasons - VIII and IX, with Drake Demi-Lord and Mr. Potato.
... in March of 2001, Spiderweb Software created their own message boards, which the active Blades of Exile community flocked to. I became a moderator of many forums there. In September, 2001, Mariann Krizsan decided to move the company boards to UBB, for security and administrative reasons. We decided that I would become a temporary administrator to help set up the boards and smooth the transition.

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Originally written by Jewels:

Since the other topic got locked I'll just mention it here.

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Originally written by Andrea:

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Me likes, but you spelled it wrong. Myst is so overused.

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Originally written by Andrea:

Aqua regia is beautiful, toxic, and highly corrosive.

And you can make it with sulfuric acid, since the combination of sodium chloride and sulfuric acid produces hydrochloric acid.

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That's good to know (not that it otherwise would be a problem, cause I've got sll these acids in my experimenting room. sulfuric, hydrochloric and nitric acid. I've got it all, and I'm damn proud of it :)

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Originally written by Khoth:

Distilled water isn't particularly good for you, because it will have the effect of leeching minerals out of your system.

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Originally written by Kingy:

aguaghagualbl

I have no idea what's going on in this topic, so I'm just going to spam around.

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Sorry, that was me.

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So instead of editing the first post and putting your moniker on it, you decided to bump up your other accounts post number. I think Aran is gunning for number 1 AND 2 in this months stats. :) Only kidding!

Err, I've never changed my name, but that's only because I can't think of anything witty. I change my MSN name all the time, but that's usually to song titles, and I always leave my log-in name the same. I say if people are smart enough to think of something good to change their name to, go for it. If not, do it anyway, since...err...

It isn't hard to realise who the people are. I mean, Thuryl and Alorael stick out like giant deformed, mangy thumbs on an otherwise flawless hand. And if you don't recognise the person's new name, then they probably ain't worth noticing anyway.

There.

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Paracelsus [...] made the original Laudanum from [...] alcohol, opium, gold and crushed pearl -- "and many other expensive ingredients".

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Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon:

You probably wouldn't like commie fishing up here then.

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Since I'm assuming that your hometown is not in fact the last holdout of the House Unamerican Activities Committee, what, in this context, is "commie fishing"?

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Originally written by Johnno:

Not a new troll, a returned troll.

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This should not surprise us. Trolls are known to be especially primitive and crude beasts. They frequently wander habitually back to familiar places over and over no matter how much punishment this invites. Scientists theorize that this is because trolls become disoriented and insecure when confronted with new and unfamiliar situations. Should you attract the dull attention of one of these clumsy brutes, it can be readily distracted by shiny objects, as long as you don't wave them about too quickly. The most mysterious, and seemingly magical quality of the troll is that by ignoring one, it is possible to make one disappear forever.

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled deprogramming.

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Originally written by VCH:

Yes Ischi should be covering the huge vadar face above the others innit.

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

The rewards of a high post count are actually very impressive. Once I passed 1000 I had to get a new mailbox just to hold the Frequent Poster Reward goodies that started pouring in. It's a good thing the next incentive level is still a fair way away for me, because I'm already starting to use iPods as furniture shims.

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Originally written by WST ben:

I s'pose it's all done with a PHP script and a MySQL database that pretty much runs itself. The ideal date for the statistics release each month is the 17th, but the actual date depends on Aran's degree of business.

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