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Prophetic Names for NPCs in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 17 2005 07:47 Profile Homepage #6
My father alleges that he had a classmate by the name of Tripp Lurch. He never did make it as a long-distance runner.

—Alorael, who is reasonably certain that nobody has ever been named "Endavour." Endeavour, perhaps?
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Shall we dance? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, October 17 2005 07:43 Profile Homepage #29
I also think that many people might be able to shoot someone but completely unable to stand a foot or two away and hack at someone with a knife. You know, because it's much more personal when you're getting splattered with blood and you have a flailing, screaming person who can probably hit you.

—Alorael, who finds this an equally good reason to ban knives and make everyone tear things apart with their bare hands. Chopsticks and spoons can still be allowed. If someone is willing to kill with a spoon, they are probably dangerous on a level that transcends armaments.
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Galactic Core in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, October 16 2005 18:28 Profile Homepage #24
We are not, strictly speaking, a cult based on a computer game. We are a cult of personality, or perhaps a cult of multiple personalities.

—Alorael, who is a cultist of discerning taste. He would not ride in a rusty motorboat or a cruise ship when he could have an organically grown fictional spacecraft instead!
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In A4 i think that you should be able to murder in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, October 16 2005 18:24 Profile Homepage #4
Since your party is capable of killing anything and everything, that's just an incentive to steal and get free experience in the bargain.

—Alorael, who happens to like Avernum's theft system. It's easy to understand, logical, clear-cut, and doesn't require careful character focus. The consequences are (usually) meaningful. It could be a lot worse.
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A question about Soul Crystals in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, October 16 2005 18:17 Profile Homepage #1
You only get four shared slots for your entire party.

—Alorael, who would rather have that than have to juggle different monsters for different characters.
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BoA and A3 in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, October 16 2005 18:16 Profile Homepage #9
Note that downloading scenarios won't do you any good until you register, as the unregistered version will only let you play Valley of Dying Things.

—Alorael, who would like to point out that BoA can begin with postmodernism, whereas A3 does not. This is clearly a significant difference.
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Shall we dance? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, October 16 2005 18:12 Profile Homepage #16
Can someone come up with statistics for the use of guns in so-called crimes of passion?

The hole in the "bad men will have guns but good men won't" argument is that most guns used to kill people aren't in the hands of hardened criminals who enjoy shooting people. Many are purchased for self-defense and then used in a moment of anger. Basically, the number of "bad men" who need guns is vanishingly small, and the number of "good men" who turn bad when they have a gun is large.

—Alorael, who could see a thriving black market for firearms developing only if the removal of guns from common possession were largely a failure. If most people don't have guns, most people probably don't want guns either.
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Galactic Core in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, October 16 2005 12:52 Profile Homepage #22
We make Scientology look rational!

We also make pi look rational.

[Edit: We obviate the need for punctuation.]

—Alorael, who makes e(-4)^(1/2)/(0 * ?) look rational.

[ Sunday, October 16, 2005 12:52: Message edited by: Verve and Flair ]
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What is ur favourite weapon in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, October 16 2005 12:50 Profile Homepage #5
I've always wanted to be a Fungoid Spine...

—Alorael, who also wanted to grow up to be a butterfly. He's still waiting.
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In Avernum 3, how useful are potions, and alchemy? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, October 16 2005 09:37 Profile Homepage #6
If you do start making Knowledge Brews, you'll recover your skill point losses very quickly.

—Alorael, who is otherwise with Drakey. You'll find more potions than you need, so making other potions is either a waste of time or a waste of ingredients that could be used for more Knowledge Brews.
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BoA and A3 in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, October 16 2005 09:31 Profile Homepage #5
A3 is a single game with a single plot. It's a fairly standard RPG setup.

BoA lets you create smaller scenarios of your own and play through scenarios. Four made by Jeff Vogel are included with BoA, including the one available in the demo, but the better scenarios are made by various Spiderwebbers, most of whom are on these boards.

—Alorael, who recommends playing through the A3 demo to get a feel for the system. If you like it and you like the idea of scenarios, get BoA. Don't judge it by the plot of Valley of Dying Things, which is a fairly lackluster effort.
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In Avernum 3, how useful are potions, and alchemy? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, October 15 2005 23:05 Profile Homepage #1
If you intend to get the recipe for Knowledge Brew, hunt down the best sources for the ingredients, and mass produce skill points to make your party even more of a weapon of mass destruction, learn alchemy. Otherwise, don't bother. I always found more potions than I knew what to do with.

—Alorael, who usually just piled them neatly in Fort Emergence.
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Motrax-E2 in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, October 15 2005 18:00 Profile Homepage #2
I thought Scrioth was only in E1.

—Alorael, who hasn't played either recently enough to be sure.
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I wonder what would happen.... in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, October 15 2005 14:34 Profile Homepage #2
If you're in a town, it won't change. As soon as you leave and return, however, it will be instantly ruined.

—Alorael, who just knows that those horrible monsters are afraid of big, tough adventurers. Even level 1 big, tough adventurers.
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A Hypothetical Conceived Whilst Drunk in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, October 15 2005 09:01 Profile Homepage #46
New Amsterdam was ceded to England after the Dutch were defeated by the English. One of the Anglo-Dutch treaties included rights to Surinam, but it was never exactly an amicable trade. It also all happened almost exactly a century before the creation of the United States.

—Alorael, who considers it only a matter of time before the Bush administration cites Constantinople as a reason for the right to freedom of speech to be suspended until further notice.
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u have to check this out in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, October 15 2005 08:48 Profile Homepage #3
Don't spam topics that need to be locked, please.

—Alorael, who will do what must be done.
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A Hypothetical Conceived Whilst Drunk in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 14 2005 20:51 Profile Homepage #35
The world has a population well over six billion now. It's close to 6.5 billion.

Thuryl said it effects one out of every million people. That means only around 6,500 people in the entire world have the disorder.

Each appearance of "Constantinople" could kill all of them or none of them. We'll need a more accurate model to predict the number of deaths we cause.

—Alorael, who will have to collect more data (Constantinople) before he can develop such a (Constantinople) model.
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RWG in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 14 2005 18:32 Profile Homepage #225
RW created Ocean Bound and Galactic Core as well as the universe. I believe I understand now where things like quantum mechanics, general relativity, and platypuses come from.

—Alorael, who is actually somewhat surprised the universe works at all.
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Galactic Core in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 14 2005 13:19 Profile Homepage #9
Everyone can be a Richard Whitist, but not everyone can be part of the true cult. Think Chick Tract here. First we let them have a taste, and before they know it they're going to be sacrificing bytes at the full moon and feeding their firstborn to needle/ferrets.

—Alorael, who fed his bytes to a needle/ferret by mistaken. The needle/ferret was relatively gracious about it.
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Hagfen in Nethergate
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 14 2005 07:59 Profile Homepage #15
So the hags of Hagfen have their absurdly disorganized basement solely to keep the Feds from noticing their tobacco growing and smuggling operation? My God, it all makes a twisted kind of sense!

—Alorael, who can now see what caused the great formorian split. The non-smokers just couldn't stand the smokers anymore.
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In the Sewers of Shayder... in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, October 14 2005 07:46 Profile Homepage #9
The Church of the Divine Lucre doesn't hurt anybody (except financially). It also doesn't help anyone (except for money). It is a perfectly mercenary and amoral organization.

The Anama espouses high ideals and, armed with those ideals and its zeal in carrying them out, causes harm.

—Alorael, who will leave the decision of which group is morally superior as an exercise for the reader.
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Avernum 1.. VERY frustrated... in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 13 2005 18:09 Profile Homepage #3
That depends on your frustration threshold for different types of puzzles and how much you insist on going everywhere and doing everything. The Remote Cavern in A3 is entirely optional and possibly the single greatest source of posts here, and the solution is practically handed to you in a cryptic fashion.

—Alorael, who is sure he can dig up a few of them with a bit of effort.
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A Hypothetical Conceived Whilst Drunk in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 13 2005 17:39 Profile Homepage #5
I'm just espousing a view that I know Thuryl can appreciate.

—Alorael, who would actually like to give SIDS another look. This may not be so hypothetical after all!
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Avernum 1.. VERY frustrated... in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 13 2005 17:33 Profile Homepage #1
All I can remember is hitting the rune, saving, entering the portal, and reloading and repeating if the process didn't send me where I wanted to go. Keep searching for secret doors, too. (Is there more than one rune? I vaguely recall something along those lines, but I'm not sure.)

—Alorael, who can't give any more specific help.
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Politics and Beliefs in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, October 13 2005 17:31 Profile Homepage #146
quote:
Originally written by AxB:

The church provided a fertile ground for thoughts and ideas at first. Most of the prominent thinkers were churchmen.
Most prominent thinkers were theologians, or at least philosophers. Science consisted of Aristotle.

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The church was(is?) a nonconservative(I don't mean political conservative) force on humanity. It resisted change, no matter if the change was into the abyss, or out of it.. but the Abyss could have been a lot deeper without it.
"Nonconservative" makes sense with the example below, but I'd call the Church a conservative force because it led to "conservation" of science: no change.

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For a physical example, take friction, there are lots of places that friction is quite useful(try driving your car without it) but there are immense amounts of situations that the removal of friction would be incredibly helpful.
The point you're trying to make has nothing to do with conservation or loss of energy and everything to do with the fact that friction opposes motion. The Church opposed scientific motion. Unfortunately, it opposed scientific motion from very close to the bottom of the ramp, giving science an uphill battle all the way.

—Alorael, who doesn't think preservation of almost entirely theological knowledge in any way mitigates the damage done by suppressing Galileo and Copernicus.
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