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Good Avernum 3 party? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, September 6 2005 11:15 Profile Homepage #6
Kel's suggested party is my favorite party, pretty much. If you make a mage, you might as well make it a priest at the same time. What you do with the two beefy hack and slashers is your own business.

—Alorael, who usually makes a sword guy and a polearm guy, then arbitrarily assigns one to be the archer and Tool Use repository and the other to be the outdoorsy type and often the Arcane Lore repository.
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Favourite Compliment in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 5 2005 13:05 Profile Homepage #65
Cows would still be domesticated for their milk, and milch cows often live rather uncomfortable lives.

—Alorael, who is quite sure that there would still be cows even if the entire first world decided to stop consuming cow and cow products.
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MMMMM in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 5 2005 13:02 Profile Homepage #87
All right, my friends. Some of you have been keeping secrets. I want you all to go back to the door and leave the rest of your sanity there, okay? And don't come back until you do!

—Alorael, who will reiterate that he does not get a cut of the sanity. What would he do with it anyway? He's just looking out for the interests of the resident fluffy turtles.
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My how far we can't get up in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 5 2005 13:00 Profile Homepage #29
A rock. Always works on scissors.

—Alorael, who cannot give out any further information on small furry creatures or sewing implements in bombs. All he can add is that yes, you probably did mean hydrogen bombs, because they are (as far as he knows) the only bomb named after an element.
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Questions aplenty in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 5 2005 12:56 Profile Homepage #6
No. Dispel Barrier works on some weaker locks, though, I think.

—Alorael, who is absolutely sure that Unlock Door's utility stops at doors. Having it break barriers would just be too much.
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My how far we can't get up in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 4 2005 17:34 Profile Homepage #18
There haven't been any locked topics in RWG for a while. Let's keep it that way. Your extreme reciprocal violence can be taken to PMs if you so choose, but I don't want it in a public area where young children could get the wrong idea and do something regrettable.

An older prototype looked like this:

IMAGE(http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/1399/ferretrestoration1327vk.jpg)

—Alorael, who can't show you any current versions. For one thing, it's top secret. For another, well, i[Hey, look! This text was censored! You can't read it.]ost of the time.
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My how far we can't get up in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 4 2005 13:12 Profile Homepage #15
A hydrogen bomb is a nuclear bomb. The difference is that hydrogen bombs depend on fusion where older and other bombs depend on fission.

—Alorael, whose undisclosed underground secret lab has nearly completed work on the first Ferret Bomb, which causes a violent fission reaction that releases thousands of ferret/needles and needle/ferrets upon unsuspecting victims. (The pairing was unavoidable. Physics dictates that the ferrets and needles must come in opposite pairs.)
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Avernum 4? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 4 2005 12:59 Profile Homepage #188
Did use of Nethergate graphics in Avernum detract from the Avernum experience? I would expect about the same level of graphic retention.

—Alorael, who is perfectly happy to see good Geneforge graphics recycled. Maybe servant minds and serviles don't have as much of a place in Avernum and won't reappear.
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Most intense gaming moment in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 3 2005 22:00 Profile Homepage #22
I play with Angband edit files shamelessly. While there really is something in facing a dracolich with one purple dot left in its health bar when you're down to 20 life, getting killed by something breathing from offscreen for the 332nd time just gets old. (I regard Roguelikes as very similar to Tetris and Solitaire in many ways, and I feel no compunction about changing the rules to the latter either.)

—Alorael, who can't think of many gaming moments that he'd describe as intense unless they involve other humans. The sudden sound of everyone getting another bite in NetFungus when everyone has monster bites and important sections only three blocks wide is priceless, though. It's enough to make you start taking monster bites out of furniture, actually.
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Weird Vahnatai in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 3 2005 21:46 Profile Homepage #48
Have you no appreciation for the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake? Can you not see the hypothetical beauty of a pregnant vahnatai, no matter how fictitious such an entity may be even in a fictitious context? For shame! It is not those who dare to question unrealities and dream of an ever more complex and complete world who reduce everything to dry facts and figures!

—Alorael, who would have to agree with the assessment of those who are curious about pregnant vahnatai, though. You don't ask about pregnant hydras (the small, primitive organism, not the lizard with many heads). Accept that budding can be beautiful too.
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MMMMM in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 3 2005 12:03 Profile Homepage #64
I appreciate the notoriety, but you clearly don't understand Pan Lever. It's not insanity. It's a call to worship and a call to action! If you can't understand it, we have other surgical and psychotherapeutic procedures to put you through that will help. We promise!

—Alorael, who wherewithal raggedy deleteriousness, turnpike absolving pernicious chrisms.
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Favourite Compliment in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 3 2005 11:56 Profile Homepage #49
Out of all the guns sold in America, how many are used for hunting, how many are collectors items, and how many are used to blow someone away after they take the last bagel?

—Alorael, who doesn't know the statistics exactly, but he's willing to bet that the human to non-human gun deaths ratio is not that far from even. And you can probably make a better case for killing people than animals...
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Weird Vahnatai in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 3 2005 11:52 Profile Homepage #46
Elfish and dwarfish are also English words but not, interestingly enough, the same words as elvish and dwarvish. They're synonyms for most purposes, though.

—Alorael, who believes Middle-Earth is based on Midgard linguistically if not entirely conceptually. It probably has to do both with the fact that Middle-Earth was the home of mortals (and elves and such) between spiritual realms and the fact that Middle-Earth came after the Beginning with a capital B and before our current Earth, according to Tolkien's mythology.
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Do you live in America? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 3 2005 11:44 Profile Homepage #45
As an American of the US variety, most of the "going to America" and "I'm from America" that I hear means the USA. I don't think I hear a very accurate random sampling, though. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if American really is used the world over to mean the USA, disgusted Canadians, Mexicans, Central Americans, South Americans, and political correctness savants notwithstanding.

—Alorael, who will point out that the USA contains far more people than Canada and Mexico combined. By people alone the USA can be confused with North America if you aren't too bright.
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Do you live in America? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, September 2 2005 15:05 Profile Homepage #36
The problem is having a sensible noun/adjective pair. If we're Americans but the country isn't America, something is wrong. If the country is the United States and we're not Unitedstatesian, something is still wrong. I don't think there's a good answer without redoing centuries of nouns and adjectives, and the problem isn't that severe. Is it that hard to call yourself North, Central, or South American to be continent-specific? (Central America isn't a continent, but bear with me.)

—Alorael, who is an American but not a North, Central, or South American. He's not from the Caribbean either. Hawaii gets to be special!
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Good Books 1885-1950 in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, September 2 2005 14:59 Profile Homepage #6
I Am Legend came to mind for me, but it's 1954. The Hobbit was the second, but you said no Tolkien. The Hobbit is the only one of his books in the right period anyway. The Worm Ouroboros is in there as well (1922), and that's well worth a read.

If you like Victor Hugo, Les Misérables is in the right timeframe (1862).

—Alorael, who would like a genre befeore he starts spouting more books.
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Do you live in America? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, September 2 2005 08:41 Profile Homepage #33
Aren't the islands in the Caribbean called the Caribbean Islands, not Central America?

I can understand why the other Americans wish estadounidenses wouldn't call themselves Americans, but what else should we call ourselves? Unless we want to be Unitedstatesian, American is all we have left.

—Alorael, who just can't be proud to be a Yuwesayan.
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Favourite Compliment in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, September 1 2005 18:11 Profile Homepage #28
I think the subtle suggestion wsa that if you were as friendly as you look, nobody would stick around long enough to pay you the dubious compliment of saying so. They'd be getting their guns (more difficult in Australia), torches, pitchforks, and what have you.

—Alorael, who appreciates the virtual money. He'll set up a PayPal account right away for donations. Anyone willing?
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E3: The Anama Church in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, September 1 2005 13:52 Profile Homepage #2
If you're playing with a single character, it's probably a good idea to join. You can't manage to be good at mage spells, priest spells, and fighting, and fighting and priest spells will make your character more than adequate.

If you have a larger group that includes mages, you'll be throwing away any skill points spent on mage spells in return for some priest skill. You're also giving up all hope of casting Long Light, Major Blessing, Unlock, Fireball, Firestorm, Kill, and other useful spells.

If you don't have mages, join. You have nothing to lose.

—Alorael, who will note that in Avernum 3 you can cheat and leave a mage behind when joining the Anama. Then you can really have the best of both worlds.
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Avernum 4? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, September 1 2005 08:44 Profile Homepage #177
quote:
Originally written by wz. arsenic...:

quote:
Originally written by Glitch, technical:

—Alorael, who would still rather have mouse movement if at all possible. It just isn't Avernum without it.
And by mouse movement you mean keyboard movement... right?
Yes. Yes I do.

—Alorael, who also wishes that Avernums came with Jedi handwave instructions. Or, failing that, easy instructions for performing memory implantation with a DeWalt power drill.
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Democracy on the March! or Selecting this year's cult slogan in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, September 1 2005 08:29 Profile Homepage #5
Please note that the slogan may end up appended to the little blurb describing RWG on the main Spiderweb forums page. You have been warned.

—Alorael, who doesn't see why RWG should settle for one slogan when RW hasn't settled for one game, one death, or one unified, comprehensible liturgy.
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1000 Posts! At last! :D in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, September 1 2005 08:26 Profile Homepage #29
I admit nothing.

—Alorael, who could even claim that as a pun, but sooner or later you have to give up and start saying what you mean and meaning what everyone says you say. Just not yet.
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An Exhaustive Semi-Chronological Short History of the White Cult in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, September 1 2005 08:23 Profile Homepage #15
quote:
Originally written by Zorro:

Someday, our future ancestors will want learn why they're ruled by ferret/needles, and we will be able to say, "we were there..."
Shall we truly transcend one day to the point where those who are not our ancestors now shall become our ancestors then? Oh, rapture! Richard White is truly the greatest man ever to die the cut by a thousand deaths.

—Alorael, who recalls having mentioned needle/ferrets before. They are terrifying in a very platonic way.
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Do you live in America? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, September 1 2005 08:20 Profile Homepage #22
I would like to protest that the United States of America got short-changed in the name department. Brazil and Venezuela have also been called United States, Mexico is the United Mexican States, and many countries in fact consist of states or provinces that are united into a federal unit. Calling the U.S. the United States isn't really descriptive, and estadounidense is a tongue twister. Calling it America makes sense by analogy: the United States of Venezuela is Venezuela, the United Mexican States are Mexico, and the Republic of the United States of Brazil is Brazil. Why shouldn't the United States of America be America?

—Alorael, who is willing to call the U.S.A. the United States of Central North America if you are.
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Gathering weird statistics of Spidweb board members in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, September 1 2005 08:12 Profile Homepage #31
That's rather impressive. It's easier to go from Canned to Banned than to go from Canned to unCanned and back again.

—Alorael, who may have to weigh the merits of being Canned himself. It is a custom title, after all. It would be interesting to see if Drakey would be willing to grant it and remove the only Postliness and potential Postaroni. Could it be that there is a Spidwebber forever immune to Canning?
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