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| Displayed name | Or else o'erleap. |
| Member number | 335 |
| Title | Law Bringer |
| Postcount | 14579 |
| Homepage | http://www.polarisboard.net |
| Registered | Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, June 27 2006 14:06
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Poison can be concocted by alchemy in Exile, but I don't think anyone uses alchemy to make poison. —Alorael, whose sole use of poison comes from the Major Blessing spell, and if he could save a couple of spell points by omitting the poison he'd do so without a second thought. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| What to be added in Avernum 4? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Tuesday, June 27 2006 14:04
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I'd rather have villains firmly established and meaningfully portrayed in a way that isn't possible for interchangeable evils. —Alorael, who doesn't think that's really possible in even A3. If you keep an eye out you'll notice that everything except the big, obvious planted evidence implicates the vahnatai. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, June 27 2006 14:02
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Also Sweeney Todd. It's musically brilliant, witty, technically inventive, and really funny to boot. —Alorael, who also likes Les Misérables. It's less funny and witty, but the two are really neck and neck for body counts, especially when you correct for cast size and start giving bit parts values less than one. (Three-fifths?) Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Civil Unions disallowed in ACT in General | |
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written Monday, June 26 2006 13:13
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I think maybe Meeksha is responding to a perceived lack of interest in Australian politics. The crap-eating neighbor isn't a reference to gay marriage specifically, it's a reference to why you need to pay attention to what's going on in the world. Or so I posit, since that's the only way I can reconcile dog crap, neighbors, and not opposing gay marriage. —Alorael, who has a strong suspicion that something is getting lost in translation. (From Italian? "Nodo" suggests so.) Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, June 26 2006 13:06
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Good puzzles can be integrated meaningfully. While the lasers seemed a bit out of place in Avernum on the whole, moving around mirrors to play with lasers actually made a fair amount of sense. That kind of puzzle works just fine. Riddles work only rarely, but I wouldn't want to categorically reject them. —Alorael, who in fact wishes the crystal in the Golem Factory were indestructible except for laser beams. Make people think! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, June 26 2006 12:59
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I haven't exactly been keeping up with the console world, but I think I prefer Sony. Nintendo has a few good offerings, but my tastes lean strongly towards strategy and RPG. All the RPGs migrated to Playstation and strategy belongs on the computer (specifically the Mac). Actually, everything belongs on a Mac, but I'm biased. —Alorael, who had the dubiously enjoyable experience of playing through Zelda: Ocarina of Time on his Mac. He'll stand by his statement but amend it to specify that things like joysticks also belong on Macs for some purposes. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Spiderweb chat happening now! AIM room spidweb. IM Tyranicus86 for an invite! in General | |
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written Sunday, June 25 2006 20:35
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Are we restricted to two dimensions? —Alorael, who is experiencing visions of three dimensional chatting. It's rather disorienting, actually. Maybe an even number of dimensions would help keep things more balanced. 4D chat could be the next big internet fad! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, June 25 2006 11:32
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Actually, it can aid many people. The one banned just usually isn't one of them. —Alorael, who sincerely thanks SoT for that most worthy pun. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Removal of waiting and interface things in Avernum 4 | |
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written Sunday, June 25 2006 08:55
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The reason space bar waits immediately and clicking requires verification is due to beta testing. It was too easy to accidentally end a turn while trying to move instead. Waiting was also removed for a reason. The buff-wait-charge trick of getting a full round to attack in which the enemies don't respond made several battles much easier. Not being able to abuse that helps. —Alorael, who can't say not being able to wait really makes sense. On the other hand, it has interesting tactical applications. Having slow characters is now almost as important as having fast characters, especially for taking out pylons and shrubs. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Lvl2 10 control panels in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Saturday, June 24 2006 21:24
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I posted it before and I'll post it again: Rache's walkthrough makes everything easy. Or easier. Make sure you've really activated (not deactivated!) all ten laser and that you're pressing the right buttons on the control panel. —Alorael, who assumes that you've gotten to the control panel in the first place. If your problem is Rentar-Ihrno teleporting you away, there are two possibilities. If you have Erika's Amulet, you didn't get all the lasers focused. If you don't have the amulet, just keep charging Rentar-Ihrno until she can't teleport you away anymore. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Great barrier in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Saturday, June 24 2006 21:17
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The trick with Doomguards is that you generally have one character who can do more damage than any other character. Bless, haste, and shield that character and have it attack. Don't let anyone else get close to the Doomguard. Kill the weakest copies first, and if damage is a problem try to keep your character against a wall so fewer Doomguards can attack simultaneously. —Alorael, who usually goes with the running away strategy. Go into combat mode as soon as you get onto the right level and have only one hasted character approach the crystal. As soon as you've smashed it, start running. You can beat the Doomguard to the exit if you have only one character fleeing. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| 10 rats.. in Avernum 4 | |
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written Saturday, June 24 2006 21:12
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Actually, although it takes some time, you don't even have to go away. —Alorael, who has been surprised by sudden rat appearances. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Avernum V ideas in Avernum 4 | |
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written Saturday, June 24 2006 10:01
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Starman, you've slipped over the line from funny to spammy. Stop posting all your base jokes everywhere where they are in no way relevant. This is an official and officious warning. —Alorael, who wonders if totalitarian rule got more complicacted with the addition of an active Jeff. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Renton Ihrno in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Saturday, June 24 2006 09:57
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It's not that difficult. There might be a secret door or two and possibily a magic barrier, though. You're looking for a room on the upper level that's very close to the absolute southwest corner of the keep. Watch your automap for suspicious unexplored areas. [Edit: Just use this map. The runes are at 12.] —Alorael, who notes that this has been more or less said before. [ Saturday, June 24, 2006 09:58: Message edited by: Decision of the Leaf ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Help I did something stupid!! in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Friday, June 23 2006 21:23
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It's possible to wade through quickfire, although it isn't fun. It doesn't do that much damage, so as long as you have priests and handy sources of quick spell point infusions you'll be fine. —Alorael, who would probably just resort to character editing. Jekknol-Bok is held in the fort in Pyrog's cave. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, June 23 2006 21:16
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Cheating is a victimless crime. Do whatever makes your game more enjoyable. —Alorael, whose forums would be more enjoyable with jokes in moderation. Like skribbane! Gimmicks always go better when applied tastefully, not in every single post like this very signature. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Renton Ihrno in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Friday, June 23 2006 15:56
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I'm not sure which panel you're having trouble with, but sometimes you need to activate in a certain order or you'll find a laser blocking your path. Keep turning things off until you can get through, then turn them back on. —Alorael, who thinks you should look for a pair of runes in a room in the southwestern part of the upper level of the keep. Drop pants on the western rune and step on the eastern rune. It's not really a shop, but it's entertaining. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, June 23 2006 13:53
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If I were on fire maybe I'd be a little irritable and incoherent too. —Alorael, who suspects Eddie is like many people who are his age. The problem is that it's very hard to give allowances for age online. And it's also hard to self-segregate without resorting to banning. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Avernum 4 Bug in Avernum 4 | |
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written Friday, June 23 2006 13:43
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The exact procedure is very simple: don't revive topics that are months old unless you really have something important to add. It's a bit irritating. On the other hand, nobody is likely to catch on fire or start howling for blood unless you do it with great frequency. No need to panic (or start howling for blood, really). —Alorael, who thinks this topic can now happily die. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Polaris in General | |
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written Friday, June 23 2006 13:41
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Polaris, originally a nameless conspiracy, started over AIM to protest a banner insulting ADoS that was put up on the Miscellaneous section of Spiderweb. The original members were definitely Logo, ADoS, Slith (no longer around), SMoE (on Polaris but no longer here) and me. I may be missing a few. The conspiracy became Polaris thanks to Logo's love of Escape Velocity: Nova. It moved onto an Ezboard, then a MyIB, then to a series of Invision boards. I may be missing a few here as well. —Alorael, who supposes Polaris holds the distinction of being the most frequently redirected Spiderweb-associated conspiracy. It has had many different goals and many different members, and it has kept on conspiring right until the present day. It already controls the vertical and the horizontal and you don't even know it! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 22 2006 14:01
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What makes one species fit isn't what makes another species fit. Bonobos are fiercely omnigamous. Some animals, particularly a few bird species, are fiercely monogamous. Humans are somewhere in the middle but closer to the birds. —Alorael, who is unaware of any research done into polygamy genes. Surely it would be reasonable for a gene or several genes to control desire to have a single partner or many partners? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 22 2006 13:56
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As long as you're not working on non-human macrobiology, you've got a shot at a Nobel Prize in chemistry or physiology/medicine. Nobody cares about the dik-diks. Actually, that's strange, and it's even stranger that I never noticed. —Alorael, who can't figure out which game Thuryl got wrong or what he omitted. "Silent Protagonist" is a bit general. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, June 22 2006 13:36
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I used to collect wine corks. Then I realized that I had an enormous bowl full of corks and I got strange looks when I asked for the cork whenever anyone nearby had a bottle of wine. —Alorael, who probably still has those corks somewhere. He should try to do something productive with them. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Avernum 1-4 + B, Geneforge 1-3 "Audio MIDI Setup" error OS X in Tech Support | |
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written Thursday, June 22 2006 13:33
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The problem and its solution are listed on the A4 tech support page. I guess Jeff can add it to the other pages too. Have you emailed him? —Alorael, who can no longer say Jeff never reads these boards. He does read these boards. He just might not read your post. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, June 21 2006 19:43
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Donut: They're doughnuts, and I don't like them very much. Spell circle: War. The simple pleasures are the best ones. Jumping bean: There's only one nationality, but I'd love to have a Moroccan jumping bean. Animal: Cat. Plain old ordinary housecat. They're just about the perfect pet. Goal: Brevity. —Alorael, who alas usually fails to maintain any manner of laconicity. In fact, while engaging in unabashed bloviation he often engages in illicit wordplay. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |