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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, December 2 2005 19:10 Profile Homepage #38
Don't be silly. I was modded for electorial hijinks and corrupted, a time-honored way of wresting power from those who deserve it. The spamming is entirely unrelated.

—Alorael, who would like to remind you that voting for anyone who isn't Alorael is un-American, un-British, un-Australian, un-German, un-Canadian, un-Swedish, un-French, un-Japanese, un-Dominican, un-Emirati, and undead.
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Presto Change-o Disappear-o in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, December 2 2005 19:05 Profile Homepage #31
Thuryl leaves, and this happens?

Please refrain from, um, dueling on the forums.

—Alorael, who is reminded of an RP (using the term loosely) posted before.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Remember when... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, December 2 2005 15:59 Profile Homepage #48
With all due respect, a gimmick and a catchphrase aren't the same thing. We exercise some creativity, put some thought into it, and really earn our hate. You could just add to your signature.

—Alorael, who might as well just end his posts with [insert sig here].
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Number words in English in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, December 2 2005 13:07 Profile Homepage #47
The problem was a flawed mirror, which was produced within the expected precision of the calibration. Unfortunately, the calibration was wrong. Easily fixed is a relative term when it involves delicate instruments in space.

—Alorael, who doesn't understand why the Hubble Telescope is in high atmospheric orbit and not a higher orbit. Was there a good reason to establish it in a position that guarantees drag?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Movie Trivia Challenge: ROUND V in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, December 2 2005 12:00 Profile Homepage #21
That's a rather long connection. It's slightly shorter with Alan Alda in Crimes and Misdemeanors to Sam Waterston in the same.

[Edit: I can't really take credit for this, but someone else pointed out to me that Jerry Orbach is himself in Crimes and Misdemeanors.]

—Alorael, who doesn't like that connection [Edit: the first] very much either. He is deficient in older movie knowledge.

[ Friday, December 02, 2005 16:06: Message edited by: Bean Man 7 ]
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Beta Testing Testing One Two Three Four in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, December 2 2005 11:46 Profile Homepage #53
Thought 1: Fear on a singleton is a nuisance, but charm isn't so bad. You won't hurt yourself. It just wastes a few turns. Paralysis is the problem.

Thought 2: In a party with at least one fighter and at least one priest who is a different character, the fighter is the more likely target of nasty mind spells and the priest can cure them. The experience penalty of Strong WIll is heftier than the loss of energy from Unshackle Mind every now and then.

The door southwest of Formello is indeed unlocked with a key. I'll PM you the way to get it to avoid spoilers and NDA violations.

—Alorael, who posted this mainly to prevent floods of PMs to Synergy.
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Numbers in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, December 2 2005 11:40 Profile Homepage #33
Wikipedia has a fascinating article on the etymology of "bloody" right here.

—Alorael, whose family comes predominantly from, in proportional order, Russia (or Belarus, but it was Russia when they emigrated), Austria, Ireland, Italy, and some other places that he'd have to scour his family tree to locate.
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Beta Testing Testing One Two Three Four in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 1 2005 21:56 Profile Homepage #50
Tool Use needs to be somewhere around 15 for traps. There are locks that require up to 30, but most don't ever have to be unlocked (keys, ways around, quests, etc.) and by the time you can plausibly have that much Tool Use your spellcasters can probably Unlock better than a thief can pick. You need to put a fair number of points in, but Nimble Fingers will keep boosting Tool Use as you level.

I never encountered a barrier that I couldn't Dispel, but I went for extreme magic. A singleton might have a little trouble, but probably not too much.

Paralysis would be a problem, though. There were definitely fights where I spent most of my time depending on the one or two characters still able to move. Actually, a singleton might be entirely impossible given the way a certain battle you have to fight to get Dispel Barrier goes.

—Alorael, who thinks that fight may have been slightly altered between versions. It involved even more excrutiatingly frozen characters before.
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Questoins Questoins in Nethergate
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 1 2005 21:10 Profile Homepage #9
quote:
Originally written by Kasumetoru Sai:

So then, to answer the question of which weapon type is best:

Guns are the best.
I'll vote for the crystal wands.

—Alorael, who has certainly produced a few tank-like characters. Hero of Old and a few Nether Circle spells are quite sufficient.
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Hello in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 1 2005 21:05 Profile Homepage #10
Well, spoilers, but they're already pouring in.

It's very possible to avoid the fight with the Crystal Souls without help from the Bunker. I did so after getting tired of waiting for them to finish making the Thought Crystal. It just requires haste and abuse of waiting.

—Alorael, who didn't finish the game without Erika's amulets. He's not sure whether or not it would be harder. Getting around some earlier fights is nice, but Erika's main contribution to the last battle is summoning hordes to get in the way and make reaching the control panel more difficult.
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Some Irony in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 1 2005 21:01 Profile Homepage #8
The irony is the article on the self-esteem of those with glasses juxtaposed with an advertisement for getting rid of glasses. It might be funnier if we had the article.

—Alorael, who has personally found people who have gotten Lasik entertaining. After years and years of fumbling around for glasses before opening eyes in the morning, a week or so post-op involve some very frantic and fruitless but also pointless searching.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Beta Testing Testing One Two Three Four in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 1 2005 20:59 Profile Homepage #47
I'm not willing to rule out a singleton with Elite Warrior (or maybe Divinely Touched) and Nimble Fingers until someone competent tries it. Where's luthien when you need him?

—Alorael, who definitely can see some decent opportunities for doubletons. Challenging, maybe, but doable.
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Presto Change-o Disappear-o in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 1 2005 20:56 Profile Homepage #8
Who will keep order and defend the people while Thuryl is away!?

Oh, right. The admins and the other mods.

Oh. Right!

—Alorael, who feels impending doom doing some very impressive looming.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Fortress Blackcrag in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 1 2005 20:51 Profile Homepage #1
No. There's a secret passage around it somewhere that requires Move Mountains at level 3, but you can also go back to buildings that you depopulated. The room that held the leader (to the west of the main path, I think) has a button hidden somewhere. Look in the desk. Pressing it makes the bridge substantial.

—Alorael, who is a little fuzzy on locations. Just search places for buttons and/or passages.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Numbers in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 1 2005 20:50 Profile Homepage #27
Exactly 36 if my posting rate doesn't change. I think my current daily average is approximately the same as my overall average, so who knows?

—Alorael, who thinks he bloody well deserves a :nanaparty: and who bloody well feels entitled to use bloody despite being an American with only the faintest traces of Anglo-Saxon blood in him.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Movie Trivia Challenge: ROUND V in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 1 2005 20:44 Profile Homepage #19
Alan Alda in M*A*S*H.

—Alorael, who actually thinks he knows where he's going now!
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Beta Testing Testing One Two Three Four in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 1 2005 15:24 Profile Homepage #44
I don't know of any reliable Mac emulators, but A4 is, like all Spiderweb games, light on system requirements. It's worth a try.

Movement can be done with the keyboard or the mouse. No letters appear on targets, though, so all aiming and other selection has to be done by clicking except for spells targeting your party members, who can be chosen by number.

—Alorael, who very rarely targeted by letter anyway. Not having to press l in order to search various items is nice.
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A4 - The New Geneforge? in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 1 2005 15:18 Profile Homepage #30
I disagree about the graphics. Geneforge and A4 aren't realistic, they're recognizable. I'll accept that 2D Exile or 3D Geneforge is a matter of taste, but Avernum is just poor in the graphics department.

Combat engine, spells, and equipment are not the same. As Drakey has said, A4 does not have the Geneforge spell system, and it doesn't really have Avernum's system either. It's closer to Exile, but it's still different. There are definitely choices to be made on which spell to cast, and even bigger decisions on which weapons to use, and whether to use melee or missile attacks. A4 has been more of a tactical challenge than any Avernum or Geneforge game (although I never got far in Geneforge).

[Edit: Take a look at this topic. The bottom of the first page and the rest are about tactics in A4.]

—Alorael, who won't claim that average enemies require tactics. Hacking and blasting will take care of most of what you have to fight. The difficult battles are, well, difficult, and picking the wrong way to fight can make them nearly impossible. Picking the right way to fight can make them manageable.

[ Thursday, December 01, 2005 15:29: Message edited by: $10,000 Man ]
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Movie Trivia Challenge: ROUND V in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 1 2005 12:29 Profile Homepage #16
Harry Morgan in M*A*S*H.

—Alorael, who approves of Sullust's extreme chain. If this can be stuck on the end of that...
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Remember when... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 1 2005 09:27 Profile Homepage #45
I think you can count on Wikipedia not to produce too many duplicate URLs even by random generation.

—Alorael, who doesn't think he will count on it. But, you know, he just might.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Questoins Questoins in Nethergate
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 1 2005 09:09 Profile Homepage #4
You've clearly never played Centipede, Thuryl. Those bugs are quite armored. Personally, I thought he meant Aztecs. It's a closer in number of letters and has as many letters in common with Cretecs. They also wore no leather or metal armor. They can equip padded cotton, but that doesn't appear in Nethergate.

—Alorael, who didn't find it difficult to determine whether swords or spears do more damage. Look at a sword and a spear in any shop. Which does more damage?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Numbers in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 30 2005 23:09 Profile Homepage #0
I've been here for exactly four years, 10,000 posts, 555 monikers, 266 karma votes, enough pedestrians to populate a medium-sized town, and improbably vast quantities of skribbane. That's all.

—Alorael, who has no accomplishments to go with the above facts and no ambition to acquire any.
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Remember when... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 30 2005 22:58 Profile Homepage #40
I have a confession to make: I've been counting posts to make this come out right. No, it's not a bribe, although it really would have been nice if it were. What's the real reason? You'll see very, very soon. In fact, it's quite likely that you'll see before you read this unless you're browsing the boards right when I post this.

—Alorael, who may need another ever-changing item. What about sticking a link somewhere in each post that goes somewhere random? A random Wikipedia page, maybe? It's slightly more work, maybe, but wouldn't it be worth the effort?
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Have you ever in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 30 2005 22:19 Profile Homepage #22
Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken.
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!
Deine Zauber binden wieder
Was die Mode streng geteilt;
Alle Menschen werden Brüder
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

—Alorael, who has few songs stuck in his head because he listens to few songs with what can be properly called lyrics. Ode to Joy does not, alas, meet any of the earworm criteria.
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