Profile for Or else o'erleap.
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| Displayed name | Or else o'erleap. |
| Member number | 335 |
| Title | Law Bringer |
| Postcount | 14579 |
| Homepage | http://www.polarisboard.net |
| Registered | Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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| Is it just me? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Monday, January 17 2005 12:28
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There's also Lake Avernus or Averno, which proves that the gateway to the underworld can also be a nice tourist trap. —Alorael, who preferred the name Exile to Avernum. A real-world allusion in a place name doesn't quite make sense, and the lack of non-descriptive name parallelism in Exile and Empire was nicer. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Racism in Avernum. in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Friday, January 14 2005 09:18
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They are somewhere between rocks and trees in intelligence. The only thing they have going for them is size. —Alorael, who would like to compare the intellects of goblins, ogres, and giants. Which are the smartest? Which are the stupidest? Which one will eat the other two? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| New look for www.spidweb.com in General | |
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written Friday, January 14 2005 09:15
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Oh, come now. Surely you've noticed the presence of areas, often islands, with different themes in RPGs as well? Often somehow linked with elements? I can handle the islands, especially if they aren't the lairs of elemental monsters whose powers combine to blah blah blah blah. —Alorael, who probably won't purchase Geneforge 3 just like he didn't purchase Geneforge 1 or 2. It's an engine complaint, not a plot complaint. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| In the Spirit of fantasy... in General | |
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written Thursday, January 13 2005 14:19
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Damascene swords weren't made by folding, though, although some imitations and many Japanese swords were. —Alorael, who suspects that the Romans' swords may also have been made for thrusting to avoid the chaos that necessarily long slashing weapons would cause in tight formations. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| New look for www.spidweb.com in General | |
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written Thursday, January 13 2005 14:04
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I don't really care, except the new logo no longer matches the name Spiderweb very well. I was very surprised when the page took a while to load, though. I wasn't expecting to actually have new images to download instead of the usual cached assortment. —Alorael, who will incidentally point out a new interview as well. Mostly advertisement, but it has a smidgeon of information as well. A small smidgeon. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| In the Spirit of fantasy... in General | |
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written Thursday, January 13 2005 10:44
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Executioners did use swords to decapitate the condemned, and they did (sometimes) accomplish the job with a single swing. Obviously trying to do the same with a mobile and angry foe is much more difficult, but I'd like to see the source before believing that it never happened. It may have been unlikely, but I doubt it was completely unheard of. —Alorael, who wonders about the decapitation in medieval and pre-medieval writing. Sure, some of it was simply to display great heroism on the part of characters, but the amount of decapitation and the lack of awe that often accompanies it suggests that it isn't a truly superhuman feat. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| What happened to... in General | |
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written Wednesday, January 12 2005 15:32
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I think I was looking because someone asked before, Kel. I could have been looking for SubTerra while in search of Pieter's webpage. —Alorael, who admits to no secret Galactic Core fetish. You have no proof, you hear? No proof! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| In the Spirit of fantasy... in General | |
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written Wednesday, January 12 2005 15:29
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The wootz steel process first appeared in India, and Damascus may have imported Indian steel for their swords, but there is evidence suggesting that they made the famed damascene swords themselves. There are also those who disagree. Historians will probably debate it until they stop getting grant money for it. —Alorael, who has also heard that the steel was named not for the city but for either men (al-Damasqa and variations), perhaps as merchants traveling from India. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Racism in Avernum. in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, January 12 2005 15:20
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Do any of those 55 races have scales, or fur, or protruding tusks, or hairless, gray, ovaloid heads? No, I didn't think so. —Alorael, who is actually surprised that more surface people don't completely lose it when accosted by a humanoid lizard. It would make Avernum 3 hard to play with a slith PC, but the Empire seems to be more open-minded than accused. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Bad Grammar = Rampant in General | |
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written Wednesday, January 12 2005 15:16
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Tangentially related... —Alorael, who doesn't like Iraqi's either, but it's not the Iraqis' problem that it's quite unfair when English works its evil ways upon men's minds. Fortunately, one languages apostrophic foibles are unlikely to become all languages' trouble in the near future. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Avernum vs Exile in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, January 12 2005 05:08
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See another topic of this kind. —Alorael, who would also like to display the sad fate of other such topics. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| What happened to... in General | |
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written Wednesday, January 12 2005 05:00
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They are officially older products. —Alorael, who has also periodically forgotten that and had trouble finding them. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Fantasy Stories in General | |
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written Wednesday, January 12 2005 04:48
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Anywhere that categorically accepts all writing that means minimum requirements for decency and (maybe) comprehensible vocabulary and syntax is, of course, going to get filled with garbage. The simple fact is that more people would like to write than can write well. The result is a great deal of absolute crap, a great many works of mediocrity (some of which are first efforts that may lead to better writing in the future), and a few gems. Finding the gems is not at all easy, especially when the closest thing to a review system on fanfiction.net and similar sites tends to be worthless. —Alorael, who would also contend that "fanfic" now almost carries a connotation of schlock writing. One can write based on another's works, but calling it fan fiction brings to mind the worst of the "genre," not the best. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| This is a sacrificial topic to Alorael and Drakey in Richard White Games | |
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written Tuesday, January 11 2005 17:51
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I also touch the lock button of topics at night. —Alorael, who will do it right now. And then he'll touch himself for good measure. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| In the Spirit of fantasy... in General | |
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written Tuesday, January 11 2005 13:53
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If it exists, it can be purchased on eBay. Everything can be purchased on eBay. —Alorael, who would consider swords the perfect candidate for auction. They're valuable, not likely to be disposed of casually, and really not easy to deal with in any normal setting. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Bad Grammar = Rampant in General | |
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written Tuesday, January 11 2005 13:48
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Total, unabashed nerdiness has its charm. I'm not sure if it goes well with many flexible appendages, though... Mnug: atclaluy, rsacereh sowhs taht wrdos are rdaelbe as lnog as the fsrit and lsat ltertes are in tiher poerpr pacles. —Alorael, who isn't really sure that his example is a good one. He wrote it and it gives him a headache. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, January 11 2005 08:39
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Brevity is not my forte. Use of ellipses... is. Although I like to think that I... do better... than this... most of the... time. On that note, I am also a great lover of fragments. Fragments are wonderful. Very, very wonderful! I recognize that I am excessively judgemental on the basis of how people write, and I make no apologies for it. (On the other hand, isn't that pretty much the greatest form of internet discrimination? Hmm.) However, there comes a point at which nonstandard English is still understandable but noticeably harder to read. Call me crazy, but I don't like to have to work to decipher what someone says. The little things like they're/there/their are just pet peeves. —Alorael, who hasn't heard about Google's upcoming take on Babelfish. If it works better than Babelfish, he'll be shocked. If it doesn't, what's the use? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| E3 - Augmentation question in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Monday, January 10 2005 19:08
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The mage in the Inn of Blades doesn't give you the mithral, he asks you to bring him some and tells you where it is. You can get the Identify spell for bringing it to him, or you can get the sword instead. —Alorael, who'd rather have the sword. The spell is unusably expensive to cast and not terribly important anyway with so many helpful identifiers scattered everywhere. The only time it's useful is when you find loot in the depths of a cave in the middle of nowhere, and then you're not likely to have the spell points to spare for Identify. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Those little words under your name... in General | |
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written Monday, January 10 2005 19:05
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Mung's first RP was called "Join Us - Everybody Needed and Welcome." It got so long that it was actually locked and restarted as new topics several times. I vaguely recall a second RP by Mung, but if there was one, it never achieved the same status. —Alorael, who considers tasteful but meaningless posting to be an art. Like practitioners of many arts, good spammers are often misunderstood by the ignorant masses. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| E2 Vahnatai grave controls in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Monday, January 10 2005 19:00
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In the Coffin Caves, the proper sequence is button, lever, wheel, lever, button, so enter BLWLB. If you're in the area in the vahnatai lands proper where you get the quest to slay hydras in exchange for a soul crystal, leave the controls alone. All you can do is poison yourself. —Alorael, who spent an inordinate amount of time trying various combinations on the latter set of controls. If there's a way to get them not to freeze up and poison you, it's not a short enough combination to be found reasonably by systematically trying all possible combinations. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, January 10 2005 15:18
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I've noticed a slight increase in newbies asking questions without paying much attention to the niceties of proper English (and a few resurfaced and unrepentant oldbies), but it's not as thought the internet itself has suddenly taken a fatal plunge into incoherence. Look on the bright side! Most of su stil speeks good!!!!!! —Alorael, who apologizes for that highly unnecessary and not even original tidbit. You can just keep on awaiting the death knell of English. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Those little words under your name... in General | |
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written Monday, January 10 2005 07:56
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Well, yes, but Mung did start the RP thread held up as the paragon of RPs. I believe he then missed most of the execrable followups that plagued Spiderweb. —Alorael, who has always thought of a low member number as its own reward. Anyone can post a lot (ahem), but you're stuck with whatever member number you get or a higher one. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Speculating about Avernum 4's plot in General | |
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written Sunday, January 9 2005 18:12
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A new race has already shown up once in Avernum. A second one would be pushing newcomers' luck. The discovery of a new continent of humans or nephilim who have no prior contact with the Empire, or at least who have had no contact for hundreds of years and no interest in being absorbed, would provide an interesting conflict (done right, of course). It even meets Jeff's mold. New, unexplored lands that are well separated from everything that doesn't fit in the game are just the thing. There could even be some justification to tie it with Avernum as well as the Empire. Maybe the underdogs can conspire to bring down the Empire like it clearly deserves (see A1/A2)! —Alorael, who did not once think of calling this mysterious continent Doston. He also does not care to think about how he just violated his own request for relevance. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Avernum vs Exile in General | |
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written Sunday, January 9 2005 17:55
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Interestingly enough, this thread hasn't been like its predecessors very much at all. For that, it deserves recognition. However, in all significant ways it differs by being a waste of internet. For that, it shall die. —Alorael, who doesn't even think this topic is particularly horrible. It's just moderately bad with no signs of improvement and no purpose or value. It is, therefore, a target. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Castle Troglo, and storming it in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Sunday, January 9 2005 15:25
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That still doesn't let you get out of Castle Troglo, though. You can use the editor, but there's a chance it will cause weirdness, and you probably want to stop the troglos anyway. —Alorael, who would go back to that old save. You can exercise your genocidal abilities after you do what you're supposed to do. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |