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Huzzah in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 23 2005 22:16 Profile Homepage #53
I was generally offering to share, which is a rare occurrence indeed. Stug, I very much doubt you'll be able to find enough skribbane. I've pretty much bought the market, and anyone who is selling a little will be very sorry. Not as sorry, though, as anyone who buys. Take note. Your ferrets cannot protect you. In this case, not even the Machine can protect you. Some day you will be a pedestrian, and you will pass a second floor window, and then you will be in trouble.

The obvious problem, you see, is that I know where you live. Okay, not exactly and not right now, but come September I can find the right city and get to work. The hats give you away. You, on the other hand, must search all of a state, and it is, I may remind you, the largest state of all by a significant margin. Therefore, even your impressive furry legions will be divided, their numbers diluted, and the effects of supplied drugs and vigilant hungry birds cannot be discounted.

I cannot imagine that skribbane wouldn't affect ferrets somehow. I'm convinced it can intoxicate walls, and they don't even have anything to intoxicate.

—Alorael, who has now hit upon a flaw in all the planning on both sides. Specifically, there is a much better solution. All involved persons should go share bottles of skribbane and whatever else is handy. It is great for ending feuds, or at least leaving the participants too incapacitated to pursue them, and even the worst photography looks great through the bottom of a bright orange bottle.
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Official Election Final Round Voting in General
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Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 23 2005 22:07 Profile Homepage #237
Apparently the most American accent is that used in Omaha and its environs. Unless you live in the area, you have an accent.

—Alorael, whose real interest is in where words like schism and prism got a second syllable. There should be some accent that acknowledges that there's really only one vowel in there.
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THE ABOMINABLE PHOTO THREAD: THE THIRD COMING! in General
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Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 23 2005 22:00 Profile Homepage #83
Yes, the link to my "picture" is deliberately broken. I don't have a picture in uploadable format and I don't have a scanner to turn one into an uploadable format. Besides, I've been mysteriously anonymous for too long to go ruining it now.

Stugie: Are you able to contort your fingers into shapes not normally attainable by joints? I have a friend (coincidentally with a name very similar to yours) who has been known to do the spidery fingers in face trick. He has caused several screams and on one occasion a spontaneous collapse.

—Alorael, who supports all efforts to resemble Rasputin. Partially because he had an overpowering beard, and partially because he was really evil, but mostly because he was probably the closest anyone has ever come to matching the horror and "Why won't you die!?" of a zombie movie. Such are good traits for the coming time of overwhelming n/f.
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Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 23 2005 15:54 Profile Homepage #217
Ash sounds like the poster child of the Aussie accent, if accents went on posters.

—Alorael, who wants to hear Ash pronounce Kel's scenario. C'mon, Ash! (Which one was it when that was spoken? Bahssikava?)
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Im back and its my birthday in General
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Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 23 2005 15:46 Profile Homepage #15
Happy birthday, HK! Enjoy your cake. I'm not enough of a baker or an ASCII artist to add one, so you can have an ampersand or five instead.

&&&&&

—Alorael, who sees nothing wrong with Polaris.
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AV2: Getting into Olgai in The Avernum Trilogy
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Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 23 2005 15:26 Profile Homepage #3
I thought you could get into Olgai anytime and the Tests were for seeing the Council. To get into any city but Avit you need to do the Ritual of Welcoming. It's in one of the buildings east of the center of the town. Talk to the vahnatai there and you should have no trouble.

—Alorael, who will point out that the walkthrough does tell you to perform the Ritual, which then permits you to blithely amble on to Olgai, stopping only to smell the mushrooms and maul the hydras.
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Were we prepared? in General
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Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 23 2005 09:33 Profile Homepage #113
Okay, yes. Jews mainly see the parts of the Old Testament that state rules to be obeyed as rules to be obeyed. The parts about history and dead people are seen more as descriptions of history and dead people, which can be very interesting, but tend not to be relevant unless your life revolves more than is usual around, say, leading your people out of bondage and into a new land.

—Alorael, who advises that you not let the rocks hit you on your way out and, for the love of God, don't hit the rocks on your way out!
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Just say no in Richard White Games
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Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 23 2005 09:19 Profile Homepage #102
You still believe that needle/ferrets are our secret weapon? How quaint! The true secret is much, much more evil. And fluffier.

—Alorael, who says this not in any way to denigrate the needle/ferrets. Their role is necessary, glorious, and quite probably exceptionally bloody, but it is not the only role to be played. There are other small mammals, to say nothing of other classes.
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Huzzah in General
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Member # 335
 written Saturday, July 23 2005 09:13 Profile Homepage #47
Ferrets sound like the feisty fellows who would enjoy a tot of skribbane now and then. I'm sure the needle/ferrets and I will get along just fine. It pains me to share a good thing so much, but when my life is on the line and when such worthy beings as needle/ferrets are the recipients, well, some sacrifices have to be made.

[Edit: Sorry, Drew. Didn't see your post in time, and I refuse to edit anything except this disclaimer. Please ignore all needle/ferrets contained in this post.]

—Alorael, who may also have to invest in a few birds of prey just in case.

[ Saturday, July 23, 2005 09:13: Message edited by: Steady Descent ]
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Scent of new-mown hay in Richard White Games
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Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 18:29 Profile Homepage #66
My thoughts are framed as communication, not perception. I can imagine feelings, smells, and tastes, but I can't think in them. With only those senses, you'd have to think in them. I imagine that Hellen Keller eventually thought in the hand speech she learned, but what about before that? Did she ever describe it?

—Alorael, who will now try to develop a pheremone language in which he can think. [i]Fresh bread - wood smoke - skunk - grass after rain? Rotting log - dirty fish tank - McDonalds!
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Huzzah in General
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Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 18:23 Profile Homepage #36
I hear there's good money in alternatives to surgery for weightloss, and while ferrets are not a non-invasive procedure by any stretch of the imagination, they aren't technically surgical. You don't even need a license!

—Alorael, who still declares it the photographer's job to make the couple look svelte and skinny no matter how heavily the task weighs on the photographer's shoulders.
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THE ABOMINABLE PHOTO THREAD: THE THIRD COMING! in General
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Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 18:14 Profile Homepage #17
Have you discussed this problem with a certain other Spidwebber whose uncanny Harry Potter resemblance shall be his to reveal or conceal for now, Aran? There might be some good fan horde evasion tips to share.

Me: IMAGE(http://img302.imageshack.us/img302/3471/picture16hv.png)

—Alorael, who is proud to have a picture to share at last.
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Dream Job... in General
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Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 18:06 Profile Homepage #23
I'll go with Aran's, actually. It's slighty closer to not making Baby Grammar Jesus cry.

—Alorael, who woudn't mind being a professional turnip, either. It would at least be a good conversation piece. You can't deny that!
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Just say no in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 12:52 Profile Homepage #98
You're mistaken, Stugie. A ferret/needle would be redundant, because ferrets are already well equipped with needles, but a needle/ferret is a needle equipped with extra ferrets. It's truly a terrifying weapon.

—Alorael, who has also witnessed amazing feats of sewing savagery performed by the needle/ferret. Sure, your garment may be torn to shreds as fast as it's created, but wow! Both happen really fast!
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Scent of new-mown hay in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 12:41 Profile Homepage #62
I was trying to envision (wrong word, but bear with me) thinking without ever having been able to see or hear. I can't do it. I can't even imagine it.

Kel: I think you could put me in a maze with directions written on the wall and, after three years of constantly going through, I'd still make wrong turns more often than right turns. More pertinently, I'm not sure how much speed of learning is related to "verbal" thinking. That could be another test entirely.

—Alorael, who supposes getting informed consent for wolf children is difficult, since "informed" means you've already spoiled the experiment. Actually, "consent" means the experiment is spoiled too.
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Would you rather play Homeland or... in Richard White Games
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Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 12:30 Profile Homepage #51
I prefer to think of myself as wrongeous. We are all imperfect. We do not have the Source Code and cannot properly interpret the Graphics. Only White makes right.

—Alorael, who is now very, very tempted to create the ever-changing topic name. Very tempted.
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Were we prepared? in General
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Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 12:26 Profile Homepage #109
I beg to differ. Jews do see the OT as the guide to life. Judaism is, if anything, an extremely legally focused religion. The letter of the law (or the Law, if you like) is paramount but easily circumvented; the spirit is left to the Talmud.

This isn't a good description at all, but now I can't think of a better way to say it.

—Alorael, who has no idea about the Old Testament's language(s). He believes it's mostly Hebrew with some Aramaic tossed in, but that could easily be after several hundred years of translation from full Aramaic or from something else entirely. Without original documents back that far, it's arguable whether anyone knows.
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Huzzah in General
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Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 12:15 Profile Homepage #33
I think it would be appropriate at this time to wish Andrew a wedding unlike the ferret equivalent.

—Alorael, who also wishes Andrew a better wedding photographer than Stughalf. No offense meant, of course, but you made the ferrets look fat.
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A3: Scared gremlin near the golems? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 12:09 Profile Homepage #15
Having enough Nature Lore is the way to do it, I believe.

—Alorael, who will not say anything about thread necromancy because this is both a worthwhile post and a relevant post. How refreshing!
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I have to admit... in General
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Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 12:07 Profile Homepage #17
Welcome back, MSW! It's been a while!

Welcome back, Aran! It's been a short while!

—Alorael, who will even welcome Stugie back after an extended absence of less than 24 hours.
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Avernum 4 Complete Wish List in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 12:03 Profile Homepage #199
quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Well, maybe A4 will include haggis as a substitute for those endless mushrooms.
Have you forgotten the delightful "weird meat" strewn throughout Avernums 1-3?

—Alorael, who doesn't see how a knife would help with assassination since, in Avernum, assassination seems to be the face-to-face kind, not the subtle kind. A successful Avernite assassin wears plate armor, carries a halberd, and probably sprays blood everywhere when carrying out his job.
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Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 11:59 Profile Homepage #194
Thuryl is capable of great feats. I doubt all of us are beyond his considerable reach. The urge to make a pun there was also considerable, but I mostly resisted it.

—Alorael, who isn't comfortable being watched under. He can only console himself with the thought of miscreants and rapscallions great and small being forced to say "No, Thur" and "Yeth, Thur."
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Food... in The Avernum Trilogy
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Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 11:51 Profile Homepage #5
Food heals you a little bit in Geneforge, if memory serves. In Avernum, you need food to rest. You actually only need one piece of food for your whole party to rest, as far as I can recall, but since I never rested except when deliberately trying to make time pass, my memory could easily be faulty.

A little advice: if you do carry food, carry greens (the green balls that supposedly look like lettuce). They're the lightest food available, and since all food is equal in utility, that makes greens the best.

—Alorael, who is in the don't rest if you don't have to camp. You can walk and waste less time in A3, you can walk and waste less money and inventory space in all three Avernums, and you don't have to remember to stock up on food. Not that you don't find enough in dungeons.
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Dream Job... in General
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Member # 335
 written Friday, July 22 2005 11:44 Profile Homepage #12
quote:
Originally written by I'll Steal Your Toast:

Rich dilettante
FYTLDR

—Alorael, who would be happy with a nice sinecure and plenty of free time to pursue interests. Lab research is good too. Put together, his ideal job would be taking credit for the work of abused graduate students while puttering.
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Were we prepared? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, July 21 2005 20:10 Profile Homepage #97
Doesn't the Bible mention that, too? The sun rose and the sun set, that sort of thing?

—Alorael, who refuses to call dawn sunrise and dusk sunset. Instead, he refers to them as sun appearing over the horizon time and sun disappearing over the horizon time. Be not dismayed from literalism by awkward turn of phrase!
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