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Nanowrimo in General
Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, October 22 2006 23:26 Profile Homepage #13
Just tell your characters that if they don't smarten up, you'll take a leaf out of Terry Brooks' Voyage of the Jerle Shannara book (haha pun) and kill off about half of them in interesting ways. That should work...

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Wouldnt an Exile/Avernum MMORPG be awesome? in General
Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, October 22 2006 22:57 Profile Homepage #17
And round and round we go!
It's the topic that never ends!

And another one, and another one, and another one... Haha!

Well, okay. No lock. Seeing as at least it looks like a good discussion, in spite of having been held a few dozen times.

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Edit: This is like that movie I heard of (not saw) where somebody wakes up and it's the same day every time. What's it called... Groundhog Day? But only for oldbies, who have seen all the threads before.

[ Sunday, October 22, 2006 23:12: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, October 22 2006 22:53 Profile Homepage #11
quote:
Originally written by Ephesos:

I toyed with the idea of an Avernum spinoff... but then decided that I might rather challenge myself.

That said, I have a vague idea, one that might be better applied to the short story that I have due Wednesday. I'm not sure, honestly.

Heck, I'm not sure I even want to commit to this.

EDIT: So wait, what are your sn's, Aran and Riibu?
Arancaytar and Riibu, respectively.

And technically, mine will be an Avernum spin-off. If the Vahnatai/Nephilim characters count as such. I see it more as based on Ermarian.

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Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, October 22 2006 12:35 Profile Homepage #7
Well, I exaggerated a bit (and since I said it, I've worked on my notes).

The first few scenes, I have managed to work out. I roughly know where I'm going, up to the climax of the story. The only problem is that I have no idea as to the resolution.

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What do you do when you're on the boards? in General
Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, October 22 2006 12:32 Profile Homepage #23
quote:
Originally written by Transportion:

Just about anything. I only post with about 1/4 of my brain's processing power.

—Alorael, who believes he may have explained a thing or two about himself. Among other things, he is not a dual core person.
1/8 here.

The average number of open programs on my desktop is roughly 5-7, and the number of open Firefox tabs is about 15-20. I usually chat, browse, post, read, play, write, and code at the same time. :rolleyes:

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The long awaited Census topic! in General
Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, October 22 2006 12:27 Profile Homepage #18
quote:
Edit: Originally by Arancaytar:

quote:SW newbie? Dikiyoba :P

What is the :P next to Dikiyoba's name supposed to mean?
It is questioning your newbiehood.

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The long awaited Census topic! in General
Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, October 22 2006 11:16 Profile Homepage #12
When was the last time that:
You showered? Ten hours ago; I rise late on weekends.
You lost your cell phone? Where? For more than 10 minutes, longer than I remember. Otherwise, a week ago, under my bed.
You lost your keys? Locked them somewhere? In the office, half a year. At home, 11 months.
You cut your hair? I never cut my own hair. Last haircut was a few months ago.
You overslept? Sleeping longer than I intended, this morning. With causing bad consequences (coming late for work), a few weeks ago.

Current:
Mode of transportation? Bicycle. Sometimes train. Rarely car, driven by parents.
Book you are reading? Neil Stephens, Cryptonomicon. Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor(rereading). Our Very Own BSC/Senlias/Dios, Numistria.
Model of cell phone? A Nokia 6800 I have owned for nearly three years.
Jewlery you are wearing? Er... I don't.
Game you are playing? Puzzle Pirates.

Fav:
Cartoon? you can include cartoons that you used to like Girl Genius (by Studio Foglio, which also made graphics for SW games, by the way), Userfriendly, Order of the Stick, Dungeon Crawl Inc, Drowtales, Dilbert. As far as paperback comics go, Carl Barks and Don Rosa are my favorites (both drawing Donald Duck).

Baseball team? What the hell is Baseball?
Location? 50°47'14'' North, 6°4'17'' East
SW oldbie Alorael, Riibu and ef (in order of member number).
SW newbie? Dikiyoba :P

Have you ever?
Stalked someone? Mh. Not in that sense. But I have used Google, Whois and Google Earth in devious ways.
Been in love? A crush or two, both with predictable outcomes.
Missed TM? Every day.
Gotten lost? Several times, in the town I've lived in for the last two years.
Thrown a pie at someone? Nope. The waste, there terrible waste!

Random
First quote that pops into your head? "This is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause." (Amidala, StarWars 3)
Name a red object in your room A towel.
Name a song that makes you sad Tricky. Let's say Into the West (LotR 3 soundtrack) by Annie Lennox.
If you could remove a person from history, who would it be? Let's not get political, okay? But as far as history goes, I'd hesitate to meddle, because you could never know what you end up with...
If you could call someone a 'best friend', who would that be? Not quite sure. As far as late-night, tired rambles on AIM go, FZ and Riibu come closest (though I haven't talked to FZ in ages :/ ). No one in real life beyond immediate family, I think...

Edit: You don't know what I changed. :phear:

[ Sunday, October 22, 2006 11:21: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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Episode 3: A New Game in General
Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, October 22 2006 10:23 Profile Homepage #71
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It won't be used to summon things that will cause massive chaos and devastation or anything like that
Oh no it won't, no precious. ^___^

By the way, is it just me or is the third-person past tense narrative new to Episode 3? I like it.

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Nanowrimo in General
Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, October 22 2006 02:38 Profile Homepage #4
The Nanowrimo topic was posted in General. But I posted a question about Vahnatai in BoA, and then posted the novel there too.

And a good thing it turned out to be, because in General, it would probably have been gone by now. :)

Edit: I'll add you too, Siru/Milla, if that's all right.

[ Sunday, October 22, 2006 02:39: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Sunday, October 22 2006 01:28 Profile Homepage #1
Didn't I just start a topic for this?

... oh wait, that was a year ago. >_< My how the time flies.

Yes, I was in last year, and the year before as well. I tried it three years ago too, but didn't finish.

So this'll be my fourth attempt, and if I finish, it'll be the third success. And maybe, it could even be the first one that doesn't suck, although I haven't got much hope for that.

And welcome back, Milla! It's been some time, hasn't it? :)

[ Sunday, October 22, 2006 01:30: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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Crossbows in Avernum 4
Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, October 21 2006 08:31 Profile Homepage #10
A4 Bows are already effectively all Adlerauge (minus the insane damage) with their infinite ammo.

Which is in line with the only way to make it challenging being basically to play it Creator-style, with a singleton in Torment.

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Given that, I guess adding crossbows would be overkill, quite literally.

[ Saturday, October 21, 2006 08:46: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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(Insert Theme Music Here) in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Saturday, October 21 2006 08:13 Profile Homepage #13
quote:
Originally written by Tyranicus.:

quote:
Originally written by Robert Daniel Oliver:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4970281608618831020
The bonus scene at the end is the best part of that video.
Forgot that... was it something about Luke Skywalker running in yelling about his sister and Han?

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Spiderweb Music in General
Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, October 21 2006 08:09 Profile Homepage #34
And I like the Avernum 4 theme. There goes your theory, again.

But seriously, Avernum 3 is my favorite game, and Avernum 2 comes in third or so. Still, the intro theme of Avernum 2 is awesome. If whoever produced it made a piece of a few minutes based on the theme, it would be one of my favorite music pieces.

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Exile I's Bach fugue would win, but it's not an intro theme.

[ Saturday, October 21, 2006 08:33: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Saturday, October 21 2006 00:06 Profile Homepage #26
Well, rar is no theme music.

But I have to confess that that I think of that sound now whenever I open a .rar archive... >_<

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Arancaytar
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 written Friday, October 20 2006 23:18 Profile Homepage #24
I really can't decide. They all rock, even if they're only 10 seconds long.

But I especially love the melancholic intro theme of Avernum 2, and the Celtic-y music of Nethergate.

Avernum 3 and Blades of Avernum also had a nice one.

I can't remember how Exile 3 sounded, I'll have to try that again. I'm pretty sure there were no intro themes in the Windows version of Exile 1 and 2.

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Arancaytar
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 written Friday, October 20 2006 22:55 Profile Homepage #7
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4970281608618831020

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(Insert Theme Music Here) in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, October 20 2006 22:06 Profile Homepage #3
I loved Revenge of the Sith.

Might have to do with it being the only one I saw. :P

Edit: Who the hell are you, -X-?

I've tried everything to find out, and I'm stumped. o_o

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Episode 3: A New Game in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, October 20 2006 11:57 Profile Homepage #25
Whoops. That should have been 4, I think I know Mat Cauthon (is he one of the main characters in Eye of the World?), but didn't recognize the name.

I never read Dragonlance, however.

And...

In the abyss of the Deleted Geneforge Forum, Dikiyoba waits dreaming, yet she shall rise and her dominion shall cover the Earth.

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Praying for God's forgiveness even now... in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, October 20 2006 06:53 Profile Homepage #22
quote:
Originally written by Archmage Alex:

I made a page for Geneforge 2, but never quite finished it. Also, 0catch seems to have changed from purely banner ads to assulting you with popups. But here it is anyway.
Keep your backups close to hand. They erased my preliminary PPP site without warning or explanation back in 2004...

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What have you been reading lately? in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, October 20 2006 04:30 Profile Homepage #176
Wait, is that a Sherlock Holmes story and a Cthulhu story, or actually a story of both? o_O

Must read.

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Don't touch that dial! in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, October 20 2006 04:29 Profile Homepage #16
I do not, have never, and am not planning on owning a television.

It's bad enough that those money-grubbbing broadcast corporations now want to tax internet users for being able to submit to their ridiculous waste of brain-cells.

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Jimmy! If you keep playing with it you'll break it! in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, October 20 2006 04:25 Profile Homepage #12
In the way of movies, I own only Pirates of the Carribbean (I do have several other DVDs, some as data backups and several games).

My parents have the Lord of the Rings trilogy, however, and my sister has several, including a lot of CSI. A die-hard fan, I guess.

But since the rest of her movies are mostly soaps, CSI and Lord of the Rings are about the only thing we can agree on.

[ Friday, October 20, 2006 04:25: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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Invisibility in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, October 20 2006 04:20 Profile Homepage #7
Private use?

Only if everyone you know is blind and can only see microwaves, and coincidentally you have a whole bunch of money handy. :P

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Episode 3: A New Game in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, October 20 2006 00:57 Profile Homepage #13
quote:
Originally written by Tyranicus.:

quote:
Originally written by Dintiradan:

how many times Tyranicus will die
Beric Dondarrion, Mat Cauthon, Berem the Everman, Gandalf, Durnik, and Raistlin Majere combined don't hold a candle to my immortallity. :P
Only 3 out of 6 are familiar. I need to brush up on my reading, apparently.

Oh, and: Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged?

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Praying for God's forgiveness even now... in General
Arancaytar
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 written Friday, October 20 2006 00:41 Profile Homepage #18
quote:
and a red-and-gold scarf
I object to the implication that I dress like that loser Harry Potter. :P

Here's your pre-re-view.

quote:
What? Another title that is ripped off from StarWars? Nothing can come from this, mark my words.

Nothing bad, that is.

--Aran
Also, a question:

Is freewebs the New Geocities?

[ Friday, October 20, 2006 00:54: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ]

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