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Baltazar the Mad (RP) in General | |
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written Monday, October 20 2003 02:40
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OOC: I guess I'm basically out of this RP. By the time Eferas comes round again - assuming he survives -, the battle will be probably over. Too bad. (Unless he miraculously gets re-energized in some way of course - I don't want to say 'hint, hint'...) Edit: Hello? Is this RP officially dead? [ Tuesday, October 21, 2003 04:05: 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 |
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written Monday, October 20 2003 02:08
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I'm nine hours ahead of board time, and I have GMT+1. So yes, I'm actually an hour ahead of you due to... what do they call it in English... Daylight Savings Time? What a strange name anyway. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, October 20 2003 02:05
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I can read and write Tengwar fluently (well, not quite as quick as normal Latin letters). But then I'm strange too. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
html coding question about fonts in General | |
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written Sunday, October 19 2003 16:07
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gifs are extremely inconvenient, though, once you get something longer than titles or subtitles. Also, many people prefer to copy textual content onto a word processor, and that is impossible with a gif, unless you use OCR, which is a royal pain to have to do. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
I am new here...... in General | |
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written Sunday, October 19 2003 11:53
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Then you'll fit in here just fine. Just like me. *giggles insanely*. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Louvre up to 437 graphics! in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, October 19 2003 11:47
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What? [ Thursday, July 06, 2006 04:03: Message edited by: Drow ] -------------------- 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 |
I am new here...... in General | |
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written Sunday, October 19 2003 11:45
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Exactly. And don't mind if the majority of the people here are gibbering madmen. You'll get used to them eventually. If you remember to stay at a safe distance. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Book-burning? in General | |
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written Sunday, October 19 2003 11:41
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Good idea. Go ahead and do us all a favor. [ Sunday, October 19, 2003 11:41: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
html coding question about fonts in General | |
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written Sunday, October 19 2003 11:33
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On my site, I said at the title page that "You need this font to properly view this page. Download it here." I presume that there are more elegant and convenient ways to do this, maybe with stylesheets or something, but that kind of stuff is beyond me. The method I used works, even though it involves the visitors having to manually download a file. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Baltazar the Mad (RP) in General | |
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written Sunday, October 19 2003 11:18
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OOC: What happened was this. In your post, you'd moved both of us up close to the portal, and thrown in the crystal to weaken and shrink the portal. In my post, I retreated and waited for the activation, Baltazar tricked Eferas by shoving him into a wall at the precise moment when he activated the portal. So one demon came through. Then I hit the portal and it exploded. In your next post you mentioned that you were still standing close to the portal, so I edited my post and made you retreat from the portal as well. Right now the portals gone, everyone in the room (I don't know about the demon), including Baltazar, are on the floor from the shockwave that the explosion caused, and Eferas is drained to his limits and comatose. Presumably, all of you would get up again to take on Baltazar and the demon in your next posts. -------------------- 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 Profiles in General | |
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written Sunday, October 19 2003 08:06
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I tried MSN again, and I got a little further this time: I can run the program and create an account. But I can't log in. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Louvre up to 437 graphics! in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, October 19 2003 07:33
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This guy Valmit has submitted a dark terrain series exactly like mine, except that the quality of his isn't as good. WTH? :confused: Especially since his other submits are rather good... -------------------- 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 |
Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General | |
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written Sunday, October 19 2003 06:50
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Another name change? :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 |
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written Sunday, October 19 2003 06:31
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SF worlds, like Fantasy worlds, need to be developed in detail before any game can take place. My theory is that the better developed the world is, the better the RP in that world will be. Some RPs, for example Sands of Time (I think that one broke down though), worked quite well for a long time. SoT was set in the Exile world, quite developed through the Spidweb games. Baltazar the Mad worked in spite of being set in no specific world, because the setting was such a small one, with only a tiny island set in the middle of nowhere. People are allowed to bring what they want: Nazgul brings in a whole fallen Empire with Darubia, I bring in magic systems from another world, some others bring magical items from other games. Siris is too small to need good development. But to have a good RP in a large, well-defined setting, the setting needs a lot of preparation. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
How long you been playing Spiderweb in General | |
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written Sunday, October 19 2003 06:22
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I got Exile 3 ages ago from a demo CD, long before I even had internet. So a few years later I downloaded the other games (Avernum1-3, Exile 1-2), and BoE after that. I know that was in the Summer of 2001, because that's when my first ideas for BoE scenarios started popping up scribbled in my school notes and on my computer. I was aware of this board, but I didn't join it because a), I didn't have a regular internet connection then, b) I didn't actually know what a discussion board is (that was a year after I had first been surfing in my life!), and c) all the people here seemed like they belonged into nice BIG cells with really soft walls... Curious how little the things really change with time, eh? I only joined this board early this year, that was because I had a question about Avernum 3. [ Sunday, October 19, 2003 06:23: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, October 19 2003 06:14
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My time zone is GMT + 1, 9 hours later than board time. So it's about 17:15 over here. [ Sunday, October 19, 2003 06:14: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Question about Profiles in General | |
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written Sunday, October 19 2003 00:51
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But icq has two big advantages over AIM: - Getting a number ID for your profile instead of a screenname means that you can choose your displayed chat name without having to try 10 times before you get one that's unused. Displayed names can be the same, because icq defines your profile by the number instead of the screenname. Also, of course, it means you can change your screenname. - While you're off, you can still receive messages. I sometimes left AIM on, and got some messages, but when I returned to the comp, the senders had all left already, so I couldn't reply. So instead of having that frustrating experience again, I leave AIM off all the time now, except when someone tells me to go on. I have a Yahoo ID (it comes with your yahoo profile like the email account and the 15M webspace at geocities), but I don't have any messenger program for it, other than Trillian, which I don't use much nowadays. And MSN doesn't work on my system. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Baltazar the Mad (RP) in General | |
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written Saturday, October 18 2003 17:19
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OOC: No problem at all with this MSW. But I still want one demon to come through; Balty on his own is no fun. IC: While the portal was bubbling and shrinking, Eferas prepared to cast the spell he had had in mind. The shrinking finished, the portal now no more than a third the height it had been, about 4 feet (sorry, I use the metric system usually but in fantasy feet just sounds better imo). However, as the portal solidified again, Eferas noticed that there was no decrease in its stability. If anything, the smaller portal had a more focused and stable aura! He would still have to wait until the demons came through. Right now, Alcove, having just inserted the crystal into the portal, was still standing right in front of it. "ALCOVE! Get back from the portal!" Eferas shouted; when any demons passed through they would be right beside her, and the blast radius of the exploding portal would leave her in smithereens at that distance. Even as Eferas retreated again into his corner, Alcove hurried away backwards from the glowing energy surface, not turning her back to Baltazar. As if on cue, Baltazar, clutching at his chest where Shadow Wolf's sword had pierced him, raised one hand balefully and chanted the final words that opened the portal. It pulsed at each syllable, now active. A deep rumble filled the room, coming out of the portal. "NOW, IT IS TIME! BMWWUUAAHAAHA" As the swirls quickened at last, and dark shapes were appearing in the portal, Eferas raised his staff and softly went over the words in his head, when suddenly... *BANG* ...Eferas was lifted off his feet and crashed into the wall behind him. "You did not know that kinetic spells are not affected by an Arcane Shield, did you?" Baltazar gloated, while Eferas tried desperately to get back up and avoid to throw up. Too late. An explosion filled the room, and a cloud rose from the portal. A full-sized demon appeared as the clouds lifted, and it immediately attacked. As more dark shapes appeared in the surface, the portal flickering now with the effort of the teleportation, Eferas straightened himself once more, and pointed towards the portal with the ruby on his staff... OOC: May I? May I? Edit: If I don't do it now, I won't be able to until tomorrow. And who knows what might happen to my unstable internet connection by then? (my dad turns it off thrice a day) IC: When Eferas had announced that he would not stand for the office of the Archmage of Fire when the current one at the academy retired, and instead would be leaving the academy to go adventuring, the Archmage, Lormas the Fiery, had summoned him one last time. "I know that you will face great dangers on your path, and you will travel far beyond the reaches of this world. I have one last gift to grant you on your way: A High Word of Power. Eferas had shuddered. Words of Power were legendary, but High Words of Power had not been heard of since the War of the Chosen a thousand years ago. "Legend has it that my predecessor and the legendary Xarl Bluestride, High Wizard of Light, devised it in the old days. Of course, Xarl was always known to be a big man for overdrainage, so you want to be careful with your energy. Here is what you do..." Eferas cleared his throat and shouted "CARTHRAMMEN AN'EZRAITH!" - "Fire to Unmake!" - and the world seemed to explode with thunder. A shaft of blinding light shot towards the portal, towards the point just below the center of the top arch, the weakest point of any portal. Striking the surface of energy square, the bolt seemed to dissipate within the portal, as if being itself teleported away. As it was swallowed completely, a moment of silence followed. Nothing happened. Then the portal slowly seemed to fade, collapsing in upon itself like a badly made illusion. "EVERYBODY DOWN!" Eferas yelled with his last strength, as the portal contracted into one tiny ball of light... ...which exploded with an unbelievable force, shaking and cracking the very magic-enhanced and spell-enforced walls, and throwing everyone to the ground, except Eferas, who was already there, a nasty pastel shade in his face. OOC: If anyone disagrees with something in this post, point it out and I'll change it. EDIT: MSW, I included your change of position now. If you disagree, I'll change it again. But at the current distance, the explosion'd get you. [ Sunday, October 19, 2003 00:59: 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 |
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written Saturday, October 18 2003 15:44
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I've been told by my mother that I occasionally recite Elvish poems in my sleep. Seriously, she told me I go like "Ai laurie lantar lassi surinen, yeni unotime ve ramar aldaron..." My sister insists it was Spanish, but she's never read a word of Quenya any more that I know a word of Spanish. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, October 18 2003 15:35
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I once had a dream about the Earth going to crash into the Sun. I remember that I was in my room and it got warmer and warmer, and then I decided to end it by jumping out of the window rather than burning to death (stupid really, since I live in the second storey above the ground, overlooking a meadow. ), and opened the window. For some reason, there was no atmosphere outside, and I got sucked up into space, suffocating. I woke up at that point, and it was so stifling hot in my room that I could hardly breathe. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, October 18 2003 15:22
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Wait. This is not an RP, strictly speaking. This might just be a historical moment. What is going to happen now is that we will make up the *world* in which the RP is supposed to be set in, then make up the plot of the RP. Maybe I'm too tired to be realistic at the moment - tiredness provokes four things in me, the first of which is a short temper (luckily not that tired yet ), the second severe idealism, the third forgetfulness, and the fourth... can't remember. Ah yes. Rambling. Okay, pointless ramble can cease now. The point, Enraged Slith, is that this is not supposed to be a plotless, hastily started RP, but the very opposite. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, October 18 2003 15:14
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What does that mean? I get this curious picture of you stalking the boards and decapitating newbies... -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
Baltazar the Mad (RP) in General | |
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OOC: Just on a side note, Nazgul, Eferas is not anywhere near the portal, to the contrary, he's pulling out of the fray. His spell wokrs over a long distance just as well, and he does not want to risk his life in close combat unnecessarily. Not that it matters much, but I just wanted to point this out. Second, there were two portals last time I checked. Unless I'm totally mistaken, Baltazar had one portal open, which we're trying to destroy, and Arcadia had opened a second in another room, in her fight against Alcove. The crystal Delgar made would presumably close Alcove's, not Balty's portal. Likewise, the demons are also all in the room with Alcove (or were). We're still waiting for those that arrive in Balty's throne room. Sorry, I don't feel up for another IC right now, it's 2 AM over here. EDIT: Referring to your post below, MSW. What is it you have in mind with Eferas? I just like to get told before-hand . You can send me a PM if you want to keep it secret from the board. [ Saturday, October 18, 2003 16:11: 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 |
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You mean Tolkien's Elvish? Quenya? Here: Quenya Course by Helge Fauskanger It's what I'm reading at the moment in those rare moments of free time. It's a well-structured tutorial as far as I can see, and it also has a nice dictionary. You might also want to try the main site of the man, the Ardalambion. It contains some interesting facts about Tolkien's language inventions. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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I'd never get used to reading on a computer screen, at least not for long periods of time. Besides, half the atmosphere is gone if you don't turn pages, and don't smell the paper. Reading an actual book always involves smelling this nice, old-feeling aroma that books that have long stood in a library give off. Ok. Call me weird. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |