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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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The U.S. and Iraq in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, March 17 2007 10:44 Profile Homepage #2 As recently as a year ago, I liked political topics. I'd rant to my heart's content. Perhaps in the meantime I've just grown cynical, and there's nothing more to say about this that I haven't said a dozen times before. So count me out. Although I will take the time to commcemorate the fourth anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie, an activist who was run over by a bulldozer four years ago yesterday. Also: quote: the members of this forum seem to be rational Do they indeed. Edit: quote: Being American doesn't mean supporting its government You should tell that to the guys on Free Republic and Little Green Footballs some day. :P [ Saturday, March 17, 2007 10:45: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Where You At Now? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, March 16 2007 12:13 Profile Homepage #17 quote: I am a little high on a little beer and a little chocolate and a lot of love from my associates at the mental health clinic where I have been interned for the last year. FYT :P Too easy to pass up... [ Friday, March 16, 2007 12:14: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Legends of Divinity OOC in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, March 16 2007 05:27 Profile Homepage #2 Unless you're participating in the RP or have something really important to contribute, please stay out of its threads. This goes especially for the IC, but also for the OOC - the less clutter, the better. Edit: If you actually read it and the one it linked to, you'd know what it's about. [ Friday, March 16, 2007 05:39: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Et tu, Brute? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, March 16 2007 04:17 Profile Homepage #11 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: "Stab boldly, Stephen! Hack!" Is this misquoted from Shakespeare's Caesar? I'm not very familiar with it... -------------------- 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
28th of March is Spambot Birthday in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, March 16 2007 00:35 Profile Homepage #0 In the series of recent celebratory topics, I present you with something I got out of aggregated Endeavor stats. Because you know, around the ides of the month I always get this statistical tingling; it can't be helped. At least no post-ranking. I was looking at the site and noticed that an awful lot of people seemed to have their birthday today - no less than 8. (Happy birthday to you too, Rosycat). So I wondered if there were a lot of such "high-birthday" days on the forum. A table with all 1098 birthdays revealed this distribution of the top ten. As you can see, today is indeed one of the top multiple birthdays here. But 28th of March wins the prize. Naturally, I wanted to know how the hell it came to be that a single day had ten times as many birthdays as the next in ranking. Another long-unnoticed technical glitch? Nope. Because see, 1983/03/28 is the birthday of the spambots. I kid you not. Dozens of these bots have that date set as the birth date. It's obviously not chosen randomly, and nor is this the default value. Something to ponder. In any case, even though that day is still two weeks off, I would like to take this opportunity to wish our resident spambots a happy birthday, and present them with a spam pie. Okay, so it's a spam pie chart. Blame Google Images. (It would have been kind of ironic to post this as EndeavorBot...) [ Friday, March 16, 2007 00:35: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Episode 3 Continued in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, March 15 2007 22:28 Profile Homepage #408 quote: Originally written by Dikiyoba: Arancaytar doesn't need any more people in his online empire. Correction: Arancaytar always needs more people in his online empire. :P But seriously, ask Slarty, Thralni, Ados, TGM and Sarasaphilia if they're happy. Aren't you happy?! groan "Yessss, masssster" See? They're happy! No strings attached! :P [ Thursday, March 15, 2007 22:33: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Et tu, Brute? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, March 15 2007 22:15 Profile Homepage #8 I'm about to display either ignorance or nitpickiness or both. But aren't the ides the end of the month, as opposed to the middle? -------------------- 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
Mountain of Shadows RP: the sequel in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, March 15 2007 20:40 Profile Homepage #62 OOC: This topic is being diverted from its original purpose. That is not good. No hype. The preparations are pretty much done, we're just having a last-minute debate about the title, or it'd already be posted. However, I won't be participating. In my experience, an RP can take at least 1-2 months, and during the beginning will in fact take a few waking hours each day to follow and post in. Less than six weeks from now, I'll have an examination more gruelling than anything since my IB. Do the math. I do have a concluding little IC snippet (in the tradition of BtM and PoP, every character/faction gets their individual epilogue). I wanted to make it fit into my last post, but it didn't quite work since that was leading up to Eph's post, and this is more parallel. --- IC: The snow moved. A hand appeared, then another hand, then a head. The drow, still half buried, turned her head to survey the surroundings. Where am I? She had regained consciousness buried in icy darkness, but feeling utterly at peace. Her wounds were gone. It had taken her a while to decide that she was not, in fact, dead - helped along when her ears began to feel frostbitten. And now, she was digging out of the snow, and seeing... what? Had she not just been in a cave, deep in the heart of the Mountain? Yet here she was, standing in a snow-filled valley. No, a caldera, she realized: She was standing on top of the mountain. But this wide a crater should have been visible from below. Had the mountain not had a peak when she had first seen it? And if the mountain had collapsed or erupted, why was she still alive and why was the snow so pristine? There were riddles here, but she realized that no one would be able to answer them. Save the druid, maybe. But he probably won't. Sequoia was sitting a short distance away, having apparently burrowed out of the snow in a similar fashion. He appeared lost in meditation or content. The snow moved again, revealing another hand. The deep southern tan contrasted with the pearl-white ground; Melora walked over and helped Lisha dig out of the snow. "You!" She got out after gasping a bit. "Where are we?" "Where we were, only a lot higher." Melora hadn't quite caught her breath herself, and her words were clipped. Lisha seemed to take in the view and come to the same conclusion as Melora. "How did we survive that?" She gestured around her at the newly-formed caldera. "Do not ask me. Best not to ponder, maybe." She glanced over at the druid, who had finally noticed their presence, but remained seated. "I am glad we did, at all." Lisha looked less so. "Failure," she spat. "I came to find first information, later treasure, and later the ancient library. I have failed on all counts." "We did vanquish Orloki," Melora interjected. "I am sure that will find favour in the eyes of the Grand Master when he receives my report. Heaps of gold and halls full of ancient books, and I return with nothing." "Your report." "Say what?" "You have failed to retrieve treasure whose existence the Grand Master did not even imagine. You will report this?" Lisha flared. "Unlike your ilk, I have loyalty to my lord. I am bound by oaths stronger than blood to obey, to gain what information I can and to report what I know." "Lay it off." The drow looked bored at the insult. "What I am saying is, you have never actually seen the heaps of gold you are talking about." "Encased in black ice, practically everywhere we went." "Demons do use illusions to lure the unwary adventurer. Did you touch any of them?" She spoke on. "And likewise of the books. Gnosis was the library, and he is gone - if he could be said to exist in the first place. Are you sworn to retrieve disembodied spirits? "In fact, one of the only books we ever actually saw was this one." She removed her pack from her back and removed the volume bound in worn green leather. Lisha looked at it in silence as Melora held it out to her. "Are you not going to take it?" "You are giving it to me?" "Look." She opened it and saw the beginning of the snaky writing again. It was the same as before, but felt... different. It was only a book now. "Gnosis is gone. While ancient, this book is now of sharply limited usage unless you can read the ancient language - I cannot - or you merely want a valuable bauble for your library. "Besides," she added while picking up her pack again, "if I ever need to look at it again, I am sure I will be granted access." A rare thing: The drow smiled. "Think of it as a farewell gift. I don't think we will meet again." She turned around and began to walk off. This degree of sentimentality was embarassing. Lisha appeared to have the same thought. "Thank you. And farewell," she called after Melora, before walking away in the opposite direction. [ Thursday, March 15, 2007 22:12: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Nalyd: in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, March 15 2007 05:19 Profile Homepage #29 quote: ...not big enough... even Jeff Vogel... Even? Disclaimer: This post was written under the influence of caffeine. Possible delusions of grandeur or omnipotence may result. -------------------- 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
Beta? Why, what did she do? in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, March 15 2007 05:03 Profile Homepage #1 That pun took me a while. I pronounce it bay-tah for some reason. :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
Where Is Shadowvale? in Nethergate
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, March 15 2007 05:01 Profile Homepage #1 nethergate.net. Oh wait. :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
I have a confession. in Richard White Games
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, March 15 2007 03:46 Profile Homepage #28 And it was actually the exact opposite. -------------------- 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
Nalyd: in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, March 15 2007 03:00 Profile Homepage #27 Wha? I missed the post about the satellite forum. Ash, you're exonerated. Uh, somewhat. But not to worry, Sarasaphilia. The urge to attach your own little empire to this tangled network of communication is as old as BBSs are. It will pass. And, hell, some of them even succeed. Just not the ones started by newbies. quote: consumed by a massive ezBoard collapse yet It hasn't? I haven't checked this morning... checks Indeed. So we can be more or less sure. For the next five minutes. [ Thursday, March 15, 2007 03:47: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Survey this way! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, March 15 2007 02:55 Profile Homepage #34 Synergy? Rammstein? Please stand by while I am updating my personal reality. No, seriously, I'd have pegged you for something, ah, more mellow. Meditative. New-Agey. :P [ Thursday, March 15, 2007 02:55: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Provincial Avernum? in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, March 15 2007 00:41 Profile Homepage #1 Canon questions are, I believe, traditionally in the Blades forum. Since they're usually asked when designing a new scenario, and the ones with most knowledge of canon are designers themselves. Other than that, I don't know anything that is not in the EE entry... Incidentally, you can also ask such questions on the Talk pages of the relevant article. Less people will see it, but someone (read: Slartucker) is bound to answer soon. [ Thursday, March 15, 2007 00:42: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Rentar-Ihrno in The Avernum Trilogy
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, March 14 2007 22:59 Profile Homepage #17 And in his tower, Solberg is cackling madly. -------------------- 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
I have a confession. in Richard White Games
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, March 14 2007 17:47 Profile Homepage #24 quote: Originally written by Broken Esquerez: Civ II taught me that the Sioux conquered a Pangaea-like landmass after a long and brutal war against the allied French and Carthaginians, so you might want to take that history with a grain of salt. They didn't? My teachers lied to me! -------------------- 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
New Games in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, March 14 2007 17:44 Profile Homepage #23 What? If Ash can be Alec, why can't I be Stareye? :( -------------------- 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
Nalyd: in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, March 14 2007 15:43 Profile Homepage #16 Ash, oldbiehood is not a CoC waiver. -------------------- 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
New Games in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, March 14 2007 15:30 Profile Homepage #21 I believe an ultimatum is in order. The next thread you two pollute is terminated with extreme prejudice. You may also consider this your official warning. Communication with intent to harass is a banning offense, even when mutual. Spamming is also frowned on. [ Wednesday, March 14, 2007 15:37: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Pi in your face! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, March 14 2007 15:27 Profile Homepage #22 Apparently, our minds work synchronously, Zephyr. :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
Pi in your face! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, March 14 2007 15:22 Profile Homepage #19 Oddly enough, when I need to approximate Pi in my head, I'm more used to using sqrt(10), even though it's far less accurate. However, it's more convenient in quadratic equations, when 484/49 is quite a pain. Oh, and I forgot to say something a lot earlier in this topic. If someone posts a million digits of Pi in this topic, they die. Slowly. pointedly looks at someone else than WKS Edit: My 7331st post! I'm so 7331! Wait, was it 1337? Who cares. [ Wednesday, March 14, 2007 15:28: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Pi in your face! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, March 14 2007 14:55 Profile Homepage #15 I was referring to Pi "being" 22/7. It's not even accurate to the third digit, and certainly doesn't justify the implication of being equal. [ Wednesday, March 14, 2007 14:58: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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
Pi in your face! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, March 14 2007 14:44 Profile Homepage #13 The big question that now poses itself: Are you joking or daft? :P Also, here's another interesting tidbit for today: e^Pi - Pi = 20. Unless your calculator has a rounding bug. (Kudos to xkcd) [ Wednesday, March 14, 2007 14:46: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ] -------------------- 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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