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Exile 2 - Serpent Robe in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, September 15 2005 17:55 Profile Homepage #5
Usable items are made obvious by the "use" button, and it's easy to determine the effects unless you happen to be using a Wand of Carrunos.

—Alorael, who preferred the wand in E1, when it just had a range of 0 and couldn't be used at all.
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Any one know where to wacth anime free? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, September 15 2005 12:33 Profile Homepage #2
I was going to suggest Google, and then I discovered what actually comes up when you search for anime.

—Alorael, who suggests you use Google and refine your search terms.
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Exile 2 - Serpent Robe in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, September 15 2005 12:30 Profile Homepage #1
Guessing from the name, it probably increases your ability with poisons

—Alorael, who will have to defer to someone who knows everything to get an answer for this one. Seletine?
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MMMMM in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, September 14 2005 19:15 Profile Homepage #176
Yes, energy and mass are the same thing, but that is conceptually difficult and not really applicable to the everyday world.

—Alorael, who certainly thinks everyoen would be better off knowing about electroweak force instead of E=mc^2. That's a definite everyday (and every second) event.
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Need a new graphics engine in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, September 14 2005 19:09 Profile Homepage #3
Snazzier graphics and engines also increase download sizes, and Jeff is adamantly opposed to download bloat. He's still trying to be friendly to the dialup users.

—Alorael, who isn't sure Spiderweb would be better off getting out of the retro niche. "Improving your audience" doesn't happen if you have a bigger potential audience but lose out because the competition is also fiercer.
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Does anyone remember in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, September 14 2005 14:20 Profile Homepage #25
There's "..." and "…" and ". . ."

The first is three periods, the second is a single-character ellipsis, and the third is three periods with spaces in between them. The first is correct, the second is apparently more correct, and the third is wrong.

—Alorael, who is absolutely certain that this is correct... unless it isn't. But you know what…? There's a precedent stated clearly somewhere. . .
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E3: Lost paper & cannot get into the Concealed Tunnel (Giants) in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, September 14 2005 08:48 Profile Homepage #1
You don't need the piece of paper to get in. If you've looked at it once already then the entrance should be visible.

—Alorael, who thinks you may not be looking for the tunnel in the right place. It's almost due east of Aminro and just barely east of the troglodyte temple. You have to go east through the mountains east of the giants and then south.
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Does anyone remember in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, September 14 2005 08:35 Profile Homepage #21
Yes, I remember the truly floppy floppy disk well. The oldest game that I still have in its original form is Loom, which I first played from a floppy disk on an old IBM. The version I have now was on the newer hard floppy, but it's the same code. The same can't be said for Rogue and its derivatives.

—Alorael, who was somewhat surprised to find that Loom runs perfectly well in OS 9.2 and decently on OS 10.4, although the music gets progressively more out of sync with itself somehow.
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What would you do if... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, September 14 2005 08:28 Profile Homepage #24
Stealing the GDP is not the same as stealing the economy.

—Alorael, who isn't greedy. He'd just raid the treasury a few times. No, maybe the mint instead.
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New board title - Series not Trilogy in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, September 14 2005 08:24 Profile Homepage #3
Bandwidth is irrelevant. Having questions on other Avernums vanish into the pile of A4 questions, comments, and complaints would be a more plausible motive for the creation of a separate A4 section.

—Alorael, who is certain that A5's future depends on A4's success. Buy lots of A4 and A5 is a certainty. Jeff's views are known.
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MMMMM in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, September 14 2005 08:18 Profile Homepage #173
It states the relationship between mass and energy. Specifically, one kilogram of mass can be converted (assuming perfect, total conversion) into a bit less than 9*10^16 joules of energy. The ratio, c^2, is the square of the speed of light in meters per second.

—Alorael, who doesn't consider that such a difficult equation as long as you know what the variables mean. Finding ways to use it is what earns physicists large grants.
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MMMMM in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, September 13 2005 16:16 Profile Homepage #169
Substances. You don't think skribbane has only one active ingredient, do you?

—Alorael, who is quite sure that he is frying his brain in no fewer than seventeen ways and no less than masterfully.
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Does anyone remember in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, September 13 2005 16:11 Profile Homepage #15
That's an impressive feat! The first Castlevania was released in 1986.

—Alorael, who hasn't recently played anything older than 1985. Pong doesn't really count.
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What would you do if... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, September 13 2005 16:06 Profile Homepage #13
Ring of Gyges, anyone?

—Alorael, who is quite sure that "shool" was a mispelling of "shul," and while death threats against Bush have to be too common to merit investigation, threatening synagogues is a good way to end any possible career in elected office before it happens.
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Wow, that's weird... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, September 13 2005 16:01 Profile Homepage #2
Unless you have a better default color scheme, the name will be of concern only to academicians recording all failed BB systems.

—Alorael, who believes a warning label might be in order.
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MMMMM in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, September 13 2005 09:16 Profile Homepage #163
Orson Scott Card memorably describes phrenology as "dowsing for brains." It's a description I like.

—Alorael, whose brains are indeed dowsed regularly with substances.
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Anyone else notice the jokes here? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 12 2005 17:28 Profile Homepage #32
The signature adds emphasis. Gale has not only the worst of the plagues, which would be bad enough, it also suffers from rampant skribbane addiction. Mon(o)roe is everywhere you don't want to be.

—Alorael, who actually would like to be there, but only long enough to restock.
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Musings of Maddening Mazes in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 12 2005 17:25 Profile Homepage #4
Perhaps you should look at Kel's High Level Party Maker. It does exactly what is sounds like and much more besides!

—Alorael, who can only add that more than five consecutive exclamation marks make you insane. Is deification insanity? You decide.
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Some random collected thoughts after playing the trilogy in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 12 2005 17:22 Profile Homepage #4
I collect potions and store them in some town I visit regularly in neat stacks. I do the same with anything else I can't bear to sell. I don't actually carry much around at all, so loot isn't much of a problem. Like Kel, I only take things that have value, and I usually don't have to make multiple trips.

Scrolls and wands are largely useless. Sell if they're valuable, don't take if they're not.

—Alorael, who liked the vahnatai just fine. In A2 they have nothing to do with lasers or machinery. In A3 the do, to some extend, but it didn't bother me as much as it seemed to bother you. I'm willing to forgive the Filth Factory, and the Golem Factory was too painful to be objectionable for reasons of flavor.
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Forum 13 in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 12 2005 07:52 Profile Homepage #49
You can prove that deep down inside a chicken isn't really a chicken. That's fairly self-evident without bringing quantum measurement into the picture, though.

More importantly, you can prove that you have no idea what's inside a chicken past a certain point. It may already be exploded!

—Alorael, who recalls the original banner being something else. It's been a while, though, and the banner didn't last all that long. Would anyone like to drop by Desp and ask for a ruling by TM and Scorp?
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Mathematical Logic... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 12 2005 07:47 Profile Homepage #39
But geometry has nothing to do with the question under discussion! Don't sap ivory towers!

—Alorael, who will consider the distance from a point to another point 1 unit away to be infinite if he pleases, all right? The distance from a point to another point twice as far away will be twice as infinitely far away, which is actually the same distance. Then some horrible thing with many tentacles will probably come through an acute angle and start Galactic Coring everyone.
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Forum Dreams in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 12 2005 07:42 Profile Homepage #20
Stugie is being a good college student and cutting himself off, I believe.

—Alorael, who is exactly where you don't want him to be when you can't see him. Or probably in some cases in the place you want him second least.
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Anyone else notice the jokes here? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 12 2005 07:39 Profile Homepage #30
quote:
Originally written by Alorael:

Four characters from Trainspotting appear somewhere in Bigail. Shayder, I believe.

One town has characters from Babylon 5. Again, I'm not sure exactly which, but I think it's Golddale.
—Alorael, who thinks you're thinking of Golddale.
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If you had 3 wishes... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 11 2005 07:50 Profile Homepage #45
I can understand not wanting to undergo the process of becoming educated, but what possible reason could you have for not wishing to instantaneously gain education?

—Alorael, who can see how in many cases it might not be terribly helpful. On the other hand, he also can't see how it would ever be harmful unless you ascribe to a very strong version of the ignorance is bliss theory.
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