Profile for Arancaytar
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Displayed name | Arancaytar |
| Member number | 2984 |
| Title | Law Bringer |
| Postcount | 8752 |
| Homepage | http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/ |
| Registered | Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Recent posts
Pages
| Author | Recent posts |
|---|---|
| Poetry in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Wednesday, March 31 2004 08:31
Profile
Homepage
quote:I can't see any of the poems right now, but I can only second that. Always credit the sources of your content, or the Dark God of Plagiarism will get you and do nasty things to you.  -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Join my forum...please in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Tuesday, March 30 2004 09:42
Profile
Homepage
Wait... did you find my remark provocative in any way? I certainly was a bit nervous about further polarizing this issue by directly contrasting the two forums (which do seem to the eye of the untrained observer like two secondary worlds that try to pull the primary world, Spiderweb, their way; Heaven and Hell, without making any claims which is which). Almost as much as I winced about Procrastinator's remark that the two boards may need each other as opposition - sort of a 'any moment, the stones will be flying' wince. :rolleyes: But I don't see how these claims could incite someone to strong insults, even ones unposted. Or did I misunderstand your post, Bora? Edit: To remove possible unclarities, g4ngsta was "Bora Bora" when I wrote the above a few minutes ago. [ Tuesday, March 30, 2004 10:46: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Join my forum...please in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Tuesday, March 30 2004 07:16
Profile
Homepage
Apart from the fact that Polaris is quite a bit newer than Desperance (and the recommended age minimum is at least half that of the latter :D ), that seems to have some point. Most people here are either a Desper or a Polarian (or neither), but rarely both. I think Drakey and TGM are on Desperance as well as Polaris, but I don't know of any other exceptions. -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Poetry in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Saturday, March 27 2004 10:19
Profile
Homepage
Ditto, except that I've written some, but don't want it to be displayed publically (except for a ballad on the archmage Erika, which must be somewhere on this board still. Just look through some old threads and you'll find it.) Edit: WTH, I'll just repost it a third time. People must think I'm obsessed with this poem now... I re-edited it, though. Concerning HTML: You seem to be able to create pages from what I saw at your site, though... I don't feel up to putting this in a page complete with color scheme and title, though I could tomorrow. You seemed to be able to do it quite well for the other poems at your site, however. _______________________________________ The Ballad of Erika the Sorceress. Erika was a sorceress Whose power blessed Ermarian She fell in disgrace with the Crown And was cast down to Avernum Her power was beyond all thought And so she wrought most mighty spells To nourish life in deepest cave And keep it save from utmost hells. But as time passed, her mind did turn To wrathful, churning thoughts of hate For ere the wizards cast her down They cursed her thus to seal her fate: That ever, if the light of sun Should touch upon her skin again Demonic ire and blazing fire Consume her in the instant then. And so her fury smouldered fey At seeing day for nevermore And soon she plotted full of gall The tyrant's fall and death through gore. A party then - for thus they named Adventurers in days of old - Was magicked up to Hawthorne's place And slew His Grace and got their gold. Years later said an Avernite That surface light'd be pretty nice. So up they went, a party bold, To seek the gold of Sunlight's rise. The Vahntai meanwhile, did strive With all their lives to thwart this end, With monster plagues of slime and steel They did conceal their true intent. So Erika went up herself To aid the party in their plight And battled Rentar-Ihrno there But Rentar brought the deadly light Into the caves, and on the spot A blaze as hot as brightest star Consumed the mighty magic-know'r, Renownèd sorc'ress Erika. _____________________________________ I also wrote something like a prophecy for the Avernum world, though it's horrible and rather lengthy (seeing as the events described cover the entire trilogy). Here's an excerpt, though I don't necessarily want this published on a website. Just look at it, and if it doesn't appear to be total crap, enjoy. This is just a bit though, the whole thing is 4 pages. [...] And those down in the caverns, Caught in Darkness, between foes And fiends, they shall lift up their faces To the memory of Sunlight, and Weep (Weep for the Loss of Light!) And weep for the loss of Hope. And they will curse their fate, The cruelty that left them alive, To starve in agony in the Darkness. And they shall curse, and name this land Avernum! For the Land of the Walking Dead. (Weep for the Loss of Light! Weep for the Loss of Hope!) [...] [ Saturday, March 27, 2004 15:09: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Question about thrown objects in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Saturday, March 27 2004 09:35
Profile
Homepage
What is the probability of the missile vanishing anyway, and is it influenced by any skills (in BoA and all the Avernum series)? -------------------- 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 |
| Question about thrown objects in Blades of Avernum | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Saturday, March 27 2004 09:35
Profile
Homepage
What is the probability of the missile vanishing anyway, and is it influenced by any skills (in BoA and all the Avernum series)? -------------------- 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 |
| Where's the staff? in Blades of Avernum | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Saturday, March 27 2004 09:19
Profile
Homepage
I'm sure Jeff Vogel would be a master at efficient packaging... :D -------------------- 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 Don't Fix The Shark Competition! in Blades of Avernum | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Saturday, March 27 2004 07:14
Profile
Homepage
You'd be able to make a wonderful scenario without combat I imagine, with BoA even more than BoE, because of the better scripting options available (traps, text, animations, puzzles, etc.) I also think you could make a scenario that makes no use of dialogue - all questions and responses are in the form of pop-up messages that come up when you get near to the person. "Do you want to talk to this person? - Yes. - No." Mh, quickfire. You could set it so that every single town you enter has quickfire as soon as you do, and you have to conduct any business as quick as possible before the persons you want to talk to are killed. Or a tribute to a bug in Exile 3: All NPCs are hostile initially and you have to charm them to talk to them. I don't know if it works with BoA, but it sure does with BoE. [ Saturday, March 27, 2004 07:45: 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 |
| Empress Prazac's Reign in Blades of Avernum | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Saturday, March 27 2004 05:59
Profile
Homepage
The lists in the Leaders of Avernum Thread are all out of date. I think I put the latest version on my site, and it's identical with Drakey's post just now. However, I've got the following evidence from playing Avernum 2 (yes, I actually battered my way through the whole game with a godparty for a week to pick up any interesting info on Avernum history, politics, etc.) "Empress Prazac - Long may she reign!" Seen near a statue, Evermoon 19, 823 in Harston, Empire Outpost of Avernum during the Empire War. In Fort Dolthar: "This is the statue of a young, smiling woman. She looks almost touchingly innocent. The plaque at the base reads "Empress Prazac - Long may she reign." In the same fort, Garzahd is shown wearing the robe of an archmage, with no other ornaments (such as a crown or a scepter). The plaque at his statue reads, simply "Garzahd". Not "Emperor Garzahd" or anything. That would be evidence that Prazac was, in fact, in power during the war (and, more specifically, before 825). She might not have the supreme say in the Avernum campaign (which is Garzahd's job), and she might be too young to be anything but a figurehead (in name, not in wits, since Prazac must doubtlessly have been rather smart even then), but she was, in fact, on the throne. Hawthorne was assassinated in 822, while Prazac is known to reign in 823, so it becomes increasingly tricky to squeeze in an usurping Garzahd. It would be far more convenient to say that Prazac ascended the throne in 822, upon her father's death. [ Saturday, March 27, 2004 06:13: 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 |
| Who or what is, or was, Alcritas? in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Saturday, March 27 2004 04:36
Profile
Homepage
And it's true, too. (If we're referring to the first quote on the Lyceum thread; I haven't found any other hitchhiker quotes close by).-------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Join my forum...please in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Saturday, March 27 2004 04:33
Profile
Homepage
There's a limit to polarization, though, because humans tend to gather in groups while at the same time trying to be individuals. So I guess there's an 'equilibrium' at which the two forces equal out, and groups stop dividing. Probably this limit is moved toward smaller groups when the medium of communication gets more efficient and more people get to know each other quicker (as on the internet). -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Yes I know, I was being a lagot... in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Friday, March 26 2004 14:30
Profile
Homepage
I feel I would deserve one when I get 2k in a few months or so, but I'd never sink to the level of posting a post count topic. -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Join my forum...please in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Friday, March 26 2004 14:22
Profile
Homepage
Okay, so maybe I took your post the wrong way. It did contain 'historical inevitability' and 'Polaris' in two consecutive sentences. I might have used the term without bothering to quote, but it would have been stupid to steal your words, or I might have quoted them anonymously, but didn't know if you'd mind. A board is like a 'crystallizing' of the community. It helps to make it permanent, but the community is needed before. To follow up on the 'crystal' analogy: Aicheal-Bok, in A2, says that crystal souls are not crystals shaped first, and then infused with the spirits, but crystals created "from nothingness" around the spirits of the Vahnatai. Maybe it's much the same with forums?  -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Join my forum...please in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Friday, March 26 2004 13:19
Profile
Homepage
That would be like building a cage and putting a sign up saying "anyone who thinks they are an idiot please voluntarily enter this cage so that humanity might be protected from you." Who'd enter? In the end, a board will form where a community is, not vice versa. A community forms where there is a sufficiently large group (>30 people, >20 of them active, is my guess) comes together with a common interest and sufficiently differentiated views to spark discussion. A satellite board can only form if there is a subtopic sufficiently large to not fit in detail on the 'parent' board, and there is a selection of individuals in the parent board, large enough to make up a new community (see above), but small enough to not make up a significant part of the parent board population. To quote Alo, the Polaris board was a "historical inevitability", and I think that holds true for any board that grows old. A board which is founded by Chance (oh, the irony !) cannot be successful in the long run.-------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Yes I know, I was being a lagot... in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Friday, March 26 2004 10:39
Profile
Homepage
I'd congratulate, if I didn't know that your spam percentage is even higher than mine, and that's saying something. :rolleyes: -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| The Dragon-Slayer's Love in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Friday, March 26 2004 10:35
Profile
Homepage
Great poem, and interesting, almost surreal theme. Now if you'd take a look at the number of syllables and stuff like that, it'd be as good as S.T. Coleridge. It certainly is as surreal already; I read Coleridge got his ideas from dreams too, so that'd explain it. This is the first time I've been able to read this long a poem without smooth rhythm in one go and think "Way to go."  -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Whats better essay? in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Friday, March 26 2004 08:52
Profile
Homepage
Oh, btw, just cause I'm too lazy (and not feeling spamful enough) to start a new topic in BoA: Are the town entrances still firmly linked to terrain types, or is it possible to make any single square on a map a town entrance without setting a special territory type? -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Join my forum...please in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Friday, March 26 2004 08:38
Profile
Homepage
I feel quite comfortable with the level of swearing at these boards, and if I didn't, I would be perfectly willing to release my desire for bad language in the privacy of my room. I will certainly never go to a board whose sole purpose is to be able to swear, and unless my notion of humanity in general is a peg too high, I think few will. Yes, a forum is bad if it has no members. But it does not follow that it is not if it has. I am also of the opinion that there are quite enough boards around founded by ambitious Spiderweb members. Satellite boards have come into fashion temporarily, but it'll pass. -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Article - Tips for Creating Challenging Monsters in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Friday, March 26 2004 08:25
Profile
Homepage
Is it possible to set an AI for charmed PCs as well? It was really pathetic, when fighting a gang of gremlins, to have this walking tank of a melee fighter get charmed and keep using up candles or looking at the various maps he was carrying - not to mention the annoying waste of time closing the map window that popped up literally dozens of times... If there can be an AI set for various types of characters (maybe checking strength and intelligence to get an idea of what the character does best, and then using the appropriate script), so the PC can fight his/her own party effectively... well it'd just rock. Too bad it's too late to add it if it's not there already. :D -------------------- 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 |
| Article - Tips for Creating Challenging Monsters in Blades of Avernum | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Friday, March 26 2004 08:25
Profile
Homepage
Is it possible to set an AI for charmed PCs as well? It was really pathetic, when fighting a gang of gremlins, to have this walking tank of a melee fighter get charmed and keep using up candles or looking at the various maps he was carrying - not to mention the annoying waste of time closing the map window that popped up literally dozens of times... If there can be an AI set for various types of characters (maybe checking strength and intelligence to get an idea of what the character does best, and then using the appropriate script), so the PC can fight his/her own party effectively... well it'd just rock. Too bad it's too late to add it if it's not there already. :D -------------------- 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 |
| Whats better essay? in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Thursday, March 25 2004 07:28
Profile
Homepage
Galactic Core, just to be different. No, just kidding.BoA will be tons better than BoE, I think, just because of what the scripting makes possible and easier. With BoA, even I could probably design a scenario, which I could never do with BoE. Edit: 1500 Posts! Cool, another round number, halfway to Guru... [ Thursday, March 25, 2004 07:29: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Who or what is, or was, Alcritas? in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Tuesday, March 23 2004 08:44
Profile
Homepage
Voting for someone implies an election for a certain position. When was that election, and what was the position being voted on? :confused: -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Developer's Update (March, 2004) in Blades of Avernum | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Monday, March 15 2004 23:55
Profile
Homepage
Searching for a combination of only two digits in such a large file would be pretty hopeless; you'd find dozens, if not hundreds, of places where C7 occurs. The chance of ruining the file rather than taking away the damage limit would be relatively large. [ Monday, March 15, 2004 23:55: 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 |
| Suicide in General | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Monday, March 15 2004 08:52
Profile
Homepage
Well, I want to at least conserve the small amount of knowledge I was filled with in that quaint place. The trauma is a small price to pay. Or so I hope.  -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Languages of the World in Blades of Avernum | |
|
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
|
written Sunday, March 14 2004 15:41
Profile
Homepage
The whole planet of Ermarian might be slightly smaller than Earth. It would slightly lessen the relative enormity of the huge water masses covering most of the planet. If we have two California-sized continents, plus Aizo and Vantanas (Doston is afaik an invention of the Arena, so let's disregard that for now), then the planet has only very little land compared to water. I don't think it'd affect day length, but I'm not an astronomer. -------------------- 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 |