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Displayed name	Arancaytar
Member number	2984
Title	Law Bringer
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Homepage	http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/
Registered	Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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Blades of Avernum Center in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 11:43 Profile Homepage #41 quote: Originally written by Ultimate Weapon Custer: And a great site does not exist because it wants people. A great site exists because people want it, because it fills some kind of vital niche. Exactly. Quoting a fool: quote: Originally written by Arancaytar: "Let's have a, like, totally central place. For everything. And why shouldn't it be mine?" If one member thinks this, well, there's one guy struck with hubris and egomania, but since he's the first he'll likely have success. But since there's dozens of people with that philosophy, we have dozens of guys (and girls) struck with hubris and egomania. And the result is a dozen sites all striving to be the 'central' place. What good does it do? Speaking from experience: I set up the Encyclopedia two months after I joined here - not much difference to you there. I started it because I found out there was a niche that hadn't been filled yet by any other page - we had ~10 graphics archives for BoE, some of which included a little information about the game world (Akhronath's Archives and Drakefyre's Demesne, but those were brief and specialized on Vahnatai, respectively). There wasn't a site dedicated to this single purpose yet. Am I a hubrid egomaniac for doing so? Well, I guess so. I should have left this kind of thing to people who knew HTML, people who knew about Ermarian, and most of all people experienced and respected in the community. I won't deny that my motives for getting the project going was to a great part my drive to become popular on these boards. Would I have tried to make the site if there'd been one already with exactly the same purpose? No. I'd have supported the other, just as I've submitted my BoA graphics to the Louvre, would send my BoE scenarios (if I had any) to Alexandria and Spiderweb, and any scenario reviews to the Lyceum or Spiderweb. Point? Find an area that has so far been neglected by the existing sites. I can't think of any right now, but I'm sure you'll find some. :) [ Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:45: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- 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. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Post Your Desktop in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 11:34 Profile Homepage #21 http://www.geocities.com/arancaytar/desktop.jpg Being on geocities, the address has to be copied and entered into the address bar, like always. I made that thing myself with Terragen, btw. It alternates with another Terragen picture and several wallpapers for Myst, Riven and Exile Velocity Nova. [ Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:38: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- 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. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperment, and his superior intellect." --- ben Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Poetry in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 03:44 Profile Homepage #26 quote: Definitely choosing this one for english class next time. Yes, and Robert Frost is the only poet we had in English class whose poems were actually enjoyable to me. Wonderful work. ;) [ Tuesday, July 27, 2004 03:46: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- 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. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperment, and his superior intellect." --- ben Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
BoA in german? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 02:55 Profile Homepage #14 Our grammar is said to be the hardest in Europe apart from Finland, and I suppose I agree. :P Heh, if Jeff ever wanted to have the Exile and Avernum series translated to German, I guess I could do it, but I'm not sure if it'd pay off for him - most German-speakers who download the game did so, after all, from an English site, so most who come here speak English anyway. :) Edit: Apart from that Japanese fellow who came here a year ago and used an auto-translator for posting. Babelfish and Google translators are a crime against language. On that note... "It is and it is end what but it is." [ Tuesday, July 27, 2004 02:58: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- 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
BoA in german? in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 02:55 Profile Homepage #14 Our grammar is said to be the hardest in Europe apart from Finland, and I suppose I agree. :P Heh, if Jeff ever wanted to have the Exile and Avernum series translated to German, I guess I could do it, but I'm not sure if it'd pay off for him - most German-speakers who download the game did so, after all, from an English site, so most who come here speak English anyway. :) Edit: Apart from that Japanese fellow who came here a year ago and used an auto-translator for posting. Babelfish and Google translators are a crime against language. On that note... "It is and it is end what but it is." [ Tuesday, July 27, 2004 02:58: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- 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
Your opinion in Blades of Avernum Editor
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 00:15 Profile Homepage #1 Well, I always like to keep unique items. Sort of like a souvenir. In BoE, I kept one of the old School Textbooks (or whatever they were called) from VoDT, the axe Asp from Bandits, a firewalk scroll from RotS, and stuff like that. I certainly wouldn't want to sell those. ;) -------------------- 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
Your opinion in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, July 27 2004 00:15 Profile Homepage #1 Well, I always like to keep unique items. Sort of like a souvenir. In BoE, I kept one of the old School Textbooks (or whatever they were called) from VoDT, the axe Asp from Bandits, a firewalk scroll from RotS, and stuff like that. I certainly wouldn't want to sell those. ;) -------------------- 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
What did you last eat? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, July 26 2004 23:28 Profile Homepage #21 Cereals and a sandwich, it's 10 AM here. In a few hours I'll be warming up something in the microwave here at work. -------------------- 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. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperment, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Blades of Avernum Center in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, July 26 2004 09:53 Profile Homepage #23 The second link requires a colon after the 'http' to be taken out. I think. And the choice is very lenient; that's actually the more sane kind of desp topic. :P [ Monday, July 26, 2004 09:59: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- 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. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Blades of Avernum Center in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, July 26 2004 09:30 Profile Homepage #20 "Take me in the Ass, you standard"? I love Google. It provides creative translations. Who is Them? Is it us? :D -------------------- 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. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
new board? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, July 26 2004 07:08 Profile Homepage #24 We get gun? Main screen turn on. Launch every zig for great justice. :rolleyes: -------------------- 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. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Blades of Avernum Center in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, July 26 2004 06:10 Profile Homepage #17 That would explain it then. :) -------------------- 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. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Scenario Ranking Contest Has Begun! in Blades of Exile
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, July 26 2004 04:34 Profile Homepage #14 Magic, Demons and Goblins... I sense a victim of fundamentalism... Didn't Omlette say he has trouble with his parents about these games for the same reason? Oh, and by the way, would Priest spells count as magic? On second thought, they probably would. Heathen sects and all that. ----- HEY! We could make another competition from this. Sort of like 'Don't Fix the Shark', only with restrictions regarding content! Like vegetarian meals for certain religious groups. A scenario without intelligent non-humans. Or without swords or any weapons. Without any religious cults. One that caters to the rules of Born-again Christions. Or Mormons. Or conservative Jews. Or Atheists. Or... the possibilities are endless. :) [ Monday, July 26, 2004 04:35: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- 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
Blades of Avernum Center in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, July 26 2004 03:51 Profile Homepage #15 Would you call the egg-and-chicken dilemma a vicious circle? It all started somewhere... the most significant developments aren't heralded by a plug on the main forum - though it's certainly an important point in the history of the satellite forum. The greatest developments happen by word of mouth. Someone asks for a certain place, and someone else suggests they go to such-and-such a board. A third person joins, maybe a fourth... next thing you know someone links to it from a site or in a signature... You really can get rolling with that. Trust me. I'm not saying you shouldn't try. I'm just saying not to expect much for the first few months, and that you've chosen the moment to advertise on Spiderweb a little... early? In the odd case you do get a lot of traffic in the first few months, it's a warning sign that it may not last. Anything going on at Chance nowadays? Edit: Okay, I might have phrased that differently. Is there still as much going on at Chance as their was in the week after RC made the boards? I wouldn't think so. What does go on is without purpose. Over 22% of all posts are held by one member, and over 68% of all are in Posting Games. That leaves 1815 posts some of which actually might make a minimum of sense. [ Monday, July 26, 2004 04:06: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- 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. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Blades of Avernum Center : Official Annoucement in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, July 26 2004 03:39 Profile Homepage #20 "Let's have a, like, totally central place. For everything. And why shouldn't it be mine?" If one member thinks this, well, there's one guy struck with hubris and egomania, but since he's the first he'll likely have success. But since there's dozens of people with that philosophy, we have dozens of guys (and girls) struck with hubris and egomania. And the result is a dozen sites all striving to be the 'central' place. What good does it do? Speaking from experience: I set up the Encyclopedia two months after I joined here - not much difference to you there. I started it because I found out there was a niche that hadn't been filled yet by any other page - we had ~10 graphics archives for BoE, some of which included a little information about the game world: But Akhronath's Archives has a brief section, and Drakefyre's Demesne concentrates primarily on the Vahnatai. There wasn't a site dedicated to this single purpose yet. Am I a hubrid egomaniac for doing so? Absolutely. I should have left this kind of thing to people who knew HTML, people who knew about Ermarian, and most of all people experienced and respected in the community. I won't deny that my motives for getting the project going was to a great part my drive to become popular on these boards. Would I have tried to make the site if there'd been one already with exactly the same purpose? No. I'd have supported the other, just as I've submitted my BoA graphics to the Louvre, would send my BoE scenarios (if I had any) to Alexandria and Spiderweb, and any scenario reviews to the Lyceum or Spiderweb. Point? Find an area that has so far been neglected by the existing sites. I can't think of any right now, but I'm sure you'll find some. :) -------------------- 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
YAY4POLITICALCARTOONS! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, July 26 2004 02:01 Profile Homepage #4 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/26/technology/26shock.html It appears that "This Land" had quite an impact. I assume some of the reason is its neutrality in dissing both candidates, which gives it a wide-spread audience. ;) -------------------- 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. "Really, Spiderweb is just a big, steaming pool of estrogen." --- Robin Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Erika's old quarters.... in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, July 26 2004 01:07 Profile Homepage #7 quote: Originally written by Imban: Erika's supposedly about 400 years old during the Avernums. That's canon history? In the games? 400 years or no, she definitely had a way with youthful appearance. She's described as seeming to be in her twenties or thirties, and no mage could become so powerful in such a time. The studying would take decades. There's a difference between appearing young and actually being able to rejuvenate oneself and thus be effectively immortal, but 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
Blades of Avernum Center in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, July 26 2004 01:00 Profile Homepage #13 Yes, I'll give it time, but not mine. :P Come back advertising when you have like 25 members or so, perhaps a statistic of 10 or more posts a day, and are a few months old. It's certainly the policy I should follow if I made a board. There are enough people to invite privately, before you announce it to the public. A community grows like a crystal - from the inside out, not the outside in. You can't give us a shell (ie. empty board) and expect a crystal to form inside. You'll have to start with a seed. ;) Wish you luck! :) -------------------- 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. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Karma in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, July 26 2004 00:56 Profile Homepage #50 When pointing out masses of stupid people, it's sometimes like with the ghost driver on the road... "Darn, what are all those hundreds of idiots doing driving in the wrong direction?" Also, bothering to point out stupidity is sometimes the ego's mechanism for self-protection. :P -------------------- 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. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Poetry in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, July 26 2004 00:53 Profile Homepage #15 Hey, it would be incredible even were she a year older than now when she wrote it. The poem spooks me for some reason. The repetition of the words and the sinister atmosphere form a dream-like something. A nightmare, even? TM, I tried very hard to make sense out of that Eliot poem, but I will soon have to add it to the poems I like because I don't understand what they're about. They'll have the company of Coleridge's works like Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. -------------------- 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. "Really, Spiderweb is just a big, steaming pool of estrogen." --- Robin Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Feel the wrath of the Happy Healing Song! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, July 25 2004 23:34 Profile Homepage #23 Wait till you get 2-3 chapters onwards to the tentacles. And then more and more gods. And then the Order vs. Chaos thingie. And [Spoiler] the bit where he finds out that what he took for his girlfriend for the past few months was really an impostor who banished the real one to hell... -------------------- 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. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Blades of Avernum Center in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, July 25 2004 23:06 Profile Homepage #10 fora = plural of forums? Makes sense, though I've never seen it in use. I won't visit those boards. I tried once to be a member of every board I saw, but I ended up spending hours a day on nothing but posting and reading. Finally, I limited the number to three, and I don't post much on the third board now, alas. It looks like I'll have the number up to five in short time, and I know five more that I don't frequent nowadays. In short, unless your board has something to offer besides 10-20 Spiderweb members who have enough time on their hands to join Yet Another Satellite Forum, I won't join. If all members of your forum are also on another forum, and all topics of your forum are also on the same forum... how then can the two boards both continue to exist and remain alive? And if one of these two boards is older, has more members, and has generally more traffic, more topics and more posts... how then can the other forum be successful versus the first one? Ponder that. ;) -------------------- 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. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Image maps in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, July 25 2004 13:51 Profile Homepage #5 It doesn't work for Opera either. And that's a problem, cause I only have IE and Opera. And I'm not using the former, because I like my computer safe, free of spam and viruses, and my data private, thank you very much. :rolleyes: [ Sunday, July 25, 2004 13:52: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- 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. "Really, Spiderweb is just a big, steaming pool of estrogen." --- Robin Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
New distribution...? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, July 25 2004 13:45 Profile Homepage #4 Nope. Won't do any good. I sent Jeff such a site once, and got this response. For all I know, the site is still up and offering its crack. :rolleyes: quote: Thanks for letting me know. We don't worry too much abouit [sic] hacks. Crackers aren't our target audience. They never pay anyway. - Jeff Vogel Spiderweb Software, Inc. One reason often mentioned for why people who ask for cracks here get stamped as morons pretty unanimously is that these boards are run by the company, thus making it pretty much a request to rip off themselves. [ Sunday, July 25, 2004 14:09: Message edited by: Imban ] -------------------- 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. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperment, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Poetry in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, July 25 2004 11:52 Profile Homepage #6 Sounds strangely disturbing... I can't find that anywhere else on the web, so I must assume you wrote that yourself? -------------------- 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. "Really, Spiderweb is just a big, steaming pool of estrogen." --- Robin Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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