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Avernum 4 Mac Beta Testers needed! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 26 2005 18:38 Profile Homepage #29
He has already told us quite a bit.

[Edit: In only 21 words, you'd think all of them could be right.]

—Alorael, who would rather call Drakey and Stareye post-alpha testers than beta testers.

[ Monday, September 26, 2005 18:39: Message edited by: Counterrevolutionary Monikerist ]
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MMMMM in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 26 2005 15:43 Profile Homepage #320
No, it's not particularly healthy to drink distilled water, but it's not going to kill you. It's certainly a far lower risk than drinking possibly contaminated water if you're in an area where that is a concern.

—Alorael, who would rank drinking distilled water as a health hazard somewhere near drinking soda. It's probably not good for you and it's not going to be a problem if you don't do it excessively.
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what party do you use? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 26 2005 15:39 Profile Homepage #3
I use four custom characters and tweak specifics a little bit differently every time, but the characters are basically two fighters and two casters. I've raved about the joys of having two characters who are both mages and priests before, and I don't think I'll do it again here without prompting, but let it be known that I approve of mage-priests.

—Alorael, who also approves of Natural Mages.
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MMMMM in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 26 2005 12:38 Profile Homepage #316
Taste bad, quite possibly. Corrosive? It's pure water. It has a pH of exactly 7, except it will almost immediately absorb carbon dioxide from the air and become very slightly acidic. It's significantly closer to neutral than your tapwater is likely to be.

Sulfuric acid is not "slightly corrosive." Sulfuric acid is a strong acid and very corrosive. I wouldn't recommend drinking it.

—Alorael, who also does not recommend consuming an equal number of moles of strong base after you realize that drinking strong acid was a mistake. It works much better on paper than in your stomach.
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Petition for constant monikers in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 26 2005 07:36 Profile Homepage #17
Taking out your signature is mean, Dolphin.

—Alorael, who feels a need to give a quick lesson on the difference between a petition and an edict. An edict is what you posted. A petition is a request for a law (or, if you prefer, an edict) to be put in place by appeal to popular opinion.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
MMMMM in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 26 2005 07:33 Profile Homepage #313
I'm not sure what ionized water is. It's either water with impurities (mineral water?) or water that, like all water, contains some hydronium cations and hydroxide anions.

Deionized water is filtered to remove the aforementioned impurities. It's not the same as boiling and condensing water to distill it, but the result is similarly a purer water. It's used a fair amount in labs, and I suppose it's another kind of water to drink if you're a fan of extreme purification.

—Alorael, who should mention here that an interesting rough analysis in the New York Times concluded that if all the money spent on commercial bottled water were instead directed to water distribution, everyone in the world would have clean (unbottled) water to drink.
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there is any rewards? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 25 2005 17:11 Profile Homepage #12
I am willing to bet good money that double posts account for less than 1% of my post count. What I have is honest, unadulterated spam.

—Alorael, who can at least claim that his spam is, for the most part, inoffensive.
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It Must Be Magic in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 25 2005 17:09 Profile Homepage #23
He just said that the system is better than Avernum's or Geneforge's, which implies that it is not the same as Avernum's or Geneforge's. Since all the Avernums had the same system with a few spell changes, A4 must be significantly more different from all three Avernums than any previous Avernumw as from the others.

—Alorael, who would like to know if the new spell system has useless spells that are also fun spells. Useless in an Acid Spray way is not the same as useless in a Quickfire way.
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Petition for constant monikers in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 25 2005 13:16 Profile Homepage #3
quote:
Originally written by Ephesos:

And you can always learn people's custom titles. That can make things a lot easier.
I harrumph meaningfully at you, sir.

How many people are Blademasters or Postlinesses, mention that skribbane is a peerless beverage, end their posts with...

[Edit: Some letiters do noti beliong in the middile of wordis.]

—Alorael, who believes he is the only such person.

[ Sunday, September 25, 2005 17:14: Message edited by: Grouchinati ]
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
there is any rewards? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 25 2005 13:12 Profile Homepage #8
I believe Djur is encouraging us to not post, suffer from plummeting self esteem, and end our own lives.

This is something that I feel obliged to strongly discourage, as spam is only virtual space wasting, whereas corpses can clog rivers, spread diseases, and become an expensive public nuisance.

—Alorael, who would like to recall Zeviz' economic solution. EVOL may have failed in the last election, but its "reforms" should live on!
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Avernum 4 Mac Beta Testers needed! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 25 2005 13:09 Profile Homepage #16
It takes months because of the small but critical differences between Macs and PCs that result in nothing at all working when software isn't painstakingly ported. Or you can compile the file blindly and retitle it "Waste of several megs," your choice.

—Alorael, who suspects your chance of testing without knowing your system specs is small. If something goes disastrously wrong for you and only you, Jeff then has no idea what could be the cause. You really should be able to figure your specs out somehow. You did buy your computer or its components, right?
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:O in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 25 2005 09:30 Profile Homepage #13
Welcome back, OM. And another welcome to Djur, I guess, although he seems as determined as always not to be welcome.

—Alorael, who points to the Code of Conduct and makes disapproving noises.
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question about the continents!and some other stuffs in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 25 2005 09:27 Profile Homepage #17
quote:
Originally written by VCH:

The fact that miles are used points to a primitive society. They have yet to develop any accurate standards for measurement. ;)
I protest. Miles are perfectly accurate. They're just extremely inconvenient.

—Alorael, who has nothing to say to defend ounces and nautical miles. Ounces aren't even abbreviated logically. Oz?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Screenshot from Galatic Core II in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 24 2005 19:10 Profile Homepage #15
Icshi is not shown for a very good reason. You don't get to see him. This is either because you are beneath his notice as he contemplates the Greater but Comparatively Less than Supremely Great Mysteries of White or because he is standing behind you.

—Alorael, who is also not in the picture, either because he a reclusive sniper or because he's hiding behind Aran, take your pick.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
question about the continents!and some other stuffs in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 24 2005 19:07 Profile Homepage #13
If Avernum games are written in English, then I feel justified in assuming that the words actually mean what they say, not something approximately the same. Jeff didn't stick a Nightfall prologue in there explaining that miles can be krulbiv if we want.

—Alorael, who believes Jeff did all the necessary conversions and calculations from krulbiv to miles for the players to make it easier. You do know how many spaces per mile, right?
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iCome, iSpam, iWin in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 24 2005 19:05 Profile Homepage #72
VCH: That doesn't help if you don't remember your login name either.

Drakey: I don't care how many accounts are between me and Deepfried. He's member 6335 and the forums recognize him as such.

—Alorael, who will point out that he actually remembers said member, which means his schizophrenia is worse than previously imagined. It comes from hitting the bottle in an exponentially increasing fashion, he supposes.
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your favourite people of avernum! in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 24 2005 19:01 Profile Homepage #1
The characters of Avernum tend to be underdeveloped. Erika is the only one with much of a story at all. She also happens to be a borderline-insane wizard oozing power. What's not to like?

Rentar-Ihrno is slightly less developed, but she is also questionably sane in a different way and very, very determined. She's also a vahnatai, so she must be awesome.

Then there are the dragon. All the dragons have something to recommend them except Pyrog, who only gets a walk-on-and-die role.

—Alorael, who will give the best insignificant NPC award to the supremely depressed man in Blosk or Dharmon (A1) who was exiled for not being happy enough.
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Screenshot from Galatic Core II in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 24 2005 16:59 Profile Homepage #11
Thuryl is in the middle. I don't recognize the face in the corner. Not at all.

—Alorael, who is certain that any ominous music, possibly scored for organ, is coincidental.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Would Exile make a SWEET movie? in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 24 2005 16:57 Profile Homepage #24
I give you credit for creative double posting, but it's double posting nonetheless. Please refrain from conversing with yourself. Or if you have to, I guess you should use PMs.

—Alorael, who doesn't know what he'd think of anyone who would actually go to the effort to message himself. It would show dedication, if nothing else.
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iCome, iSpam, iWin in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 24 2005 16:53 Profile Homepage #69
A member in the 300's who returned? Currently 6335? Why, subtract an even 6000 and... by God! It's me!

—Alorael, who would like to welcome himself back to Spiderweb with the most earnest of entreaties: if you should have happened to retrieve your sanity in exiting, please remember to leave it at the door again.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
It Must Be Magic in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 24 2005 16:51 Profile Homepage #17
I am reasonably certain that most adventurers who are reduced to dust would remain unressurected if 99% of the powder were required, as at least 1% would immediately float away in Brownian fashion and the unfortunate deceased's companion's would probably lack any way to confine and transport enormous amounts of dust anyway.

—Alorael, who is more inclined to believe that the gods of resurrection smile upon plucky bands of adventurers, especially those who are Avernite.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
question about the continents!and some other stuffs in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 24 2005 09:49 Profile Homepage #9
That still doesn't change the fact that a mile is a mile, no more and no less, no matter where you are.

—Alorael, who would rather believe that Ermarian is improbably dense if it absolutely must be a smaller world than Earth.
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a new threat in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, September 23 2005 19:55 Profile Homepage #33
The Self-Contradicting Bureau of Oxymoronic Redundancy Department has filed form I 77-U. Twice.

—Alorael, who is only loosely affiliated with the Bureau. He's just delivering its obligatory notice of citation.

—Alorael, who is only loosely affiliated with the Department. He's just delivering its obligatory notice of citation.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
question about the continents!and some other stuffs in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, September 23 2005 19:50 Profile Homepage #5
If Geneforge and Avernum had anything in common besides fantasy setting and magic, maybe. But they don't.

—Alorael, who doesn't see why Valorim couldn't' be a California to India-sized continent. Maybe Pralgad is the size of the rest of Asia.
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E2- old E2 graphics in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, September 23 2005 14:55 Profile Homepage #3
I don't know about version 2.0, but the original E2 graphics are available here and here.

—Alorael, who would like to thank Alec, absence notwithstanding, for providing the graphics.
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