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Newbie... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, September 7 2004 17:20 Profile Homepage #50
FBM, the majority of your posts are incomprehensible in substance yet brimming with arrogance and condescension. They may not be spam in the traditional sense, but they don't add a thing to the topic. At best, you provoke fights, and they're not even interesting fights.

Rowen just irritated Drakey while he was in a titling mood. Ben apparently did not.

—Alorael, who thinks you are missing a key element of Canning. It is not official. Drakey can do it whenever he likes, for whatever reason he likes. He could can some random invisible newbie. He could can me (and so could Stareye, for that matter). Instead of protesting the title, consider the reasons that you got it instead of any of the other four thousand some odd members.
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Newbie... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, September 7 2004 11:59 Profile Homepage #36
Read the FAQ. It answers lots of questions you may have before you even have them!

—Alorael, who was so close to being able to deliver the "leave your sanity" line himself... Oh well. Consider yourself introduced to him.
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Giants: Gotta love 'em in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 6 2004 07:55 Profile Homepage #11
Actually, everyone carries change around because everyone knows that roving bands of adventurers come in the night and take everything that isn't nailed down.

—Alorael, who always thought soldiers carried money around because they were members of the Church of the Divine Lucre.
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Questions about Avernum 2 Melee Combat in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 6 2004 07:49 Profile Homepage #6
Another consideration is that while mages can dish out lots of damage quickly, a buffed fighter can keep on dealing damage indefinitely. With Divine Warrior, he's invulnerable, too. Keep tossing Fireblasts at every Empire soldier that comes your way and you'll run out quickly or spend a fortune in potions.

—Alorael, who always had higher damage from his casters as well, assuming no resistances. Still, his unbuffed fighters were a bit more impressive, and they had the key advantage of almost never taking a hit in melee.
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Morality in Avernum in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 6 2004 07:43 Profile Homepage #13
The whole place turns against you, and guards are tough, but they're not unbeatable. In fact, in A2, you have to kill several of them. But for low-level parties, wiping out towns is impossible. Confine your pernicious deeds to areas where nobody can see them.

—Alorael, who has given the matter of guards some thought. Since they are much stronger than ordinary soldiers, there must be a reason. It's obvious: magical steroids! Sure, they're tough, hulking brutes, but they were unfortunately cerebrectomized in the process. Such is the price of defending the homeland.
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When to take potions... in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, September 6 2004 07:36 Profile Homepage #2
In general, I've found that all the potions except healing and energy are of limited utility. You can get the same effects from spells, and often better. While I occasionally use potions I find, the only ones I ever carry around just in case are for invulnerability. You never know when you'll run into something that just does too much damage.

—Alorael, who acknowledges that this isn't exactly the question asked. To finish, most potions are useless, and potions that give invulnerability or Divine Might are best when used in combat after you've discovered that you need a buff very, very badly.
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Behold in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 5 2004 07:31 Profile Homepage #11
There is no mercy.

There is no God.

But there is emptiness.

—Alorael, who brings a little piece of it right here to your friendly Spiderweb Software Message Boards!
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YO YO YO in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 5 2004 07:29 Profile Homepage #11
Señor moderador prohibe las imágines de tonterías. Gracias.

IMAGE(http://centros2.pntic.mec.es/cp.san.felices.de.bibilio/instalaciones/rosal.jpg)

—Alorael, quien invite que el hilo muera la muerte. Dentro del rosal morirá, y allí está el rosal. Ahora es la hora y aquí es el lugar.
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Giants: Gotta love 'em in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, September 5 2004 07:13 Profile Homepage #5
They obviously use silver as clubs, and think about how many tiny things you may lose in your pockets. Consider how much larger giants are. They obviously lose bits of money and never notice. Large bits.

—Alorael, who doesn't think anyone would want to carry sweaty, bloody, and huge pieces of giant clothing or armor.
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Unlimited EXP? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, September 4 2004 11:27 Profile Homepage #5
I'd make a backup saved game before going out the back. You're not supposed to do it, and you might just get stuck.

—Alorael, who can't remember if it's possible to enter Blackcrag from the north. If you can, just use the editor again, walk south, and you're back to where you started.
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Unlimited EXP? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, September 3 2004 18:56 Profile Homepage #1
There's no end to the Third Army. You can keep walking into the area and mauling them forever if you'd like, though it does get boring eventually. Your reputation takes a hit, of course, but by that point in the game it's unlikely to matter much.

—Alorael, who believes that the general opinion of Spiderweb would be a resounding yes on the question of typing. Proper English or honest attempts at achieving it are appreciated.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Erikas secret room in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, September 2 2004 07:34 Profile Homepage #4
For the doors along the side hallways, unlock does the trick. The central door with a special description can't be opened at all. The door sounds like it could be opened with an electrum key, but it can't.

Exhaustive searching has revealed that not only is there no way into the room without cheating, there's nothing in it anyway.

—Alorael, who will point out again that long-dead topics ought to stay dead.
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Working for Spiderweb Software in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, September 1 2004 16:27 Profile Homepage #22
The person who started the topic has already made it quite clear that he does not program games and has no intention of doing so, nor does he want to become a Spiderweb employee.

If Raemon can make better graphics for Spiderweb and Jeff is interested, great. It's the kind of thing that I'm sure Jeff is always looking for, and if the price is right, he doesn't have much to lose.

—Alorael, who certainly wasn't blown over by Avernum's graphics. If sliths and nephils can be distinguished from each other once more, everyone is happier.
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french translation in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, September 1 2004 13:42 Profile Homepage #31
I guess he stepped over the fine line between Babel and babble!

—Alorael, quien intentía a escribirlo en español. Empezó a escribirlo en español. Luego recordó que la palabra para "babble" no suena como Babel. Que lástima...
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Imban is Completely Awesome in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, August 31 2004 14:00 Profile Homepage #2
I will rue the day I mentioned this, won't I? In fact, I already do.

—Alorael, who thinks Imban is really awesome too. Imban is so awesome that he would be saddened by a travesty like this. Thus, in lieu of a Ravager +6, it's death dying time!
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broken board again in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, August 29 2004 23:07 Profile Homepage #9
SMoE didn't lock a bad topic. He spammed a perfectly good topic because he personally disliked it. That was bad.

RC deliberately locked a topic that deserved to die long before it did. Everyone involved in the third page should be run over by an SUV, and anyone still moving should be run over again.

In conclusion, while circumventing the mods and causing errors is bad, sometimes a topic absolutely, positively must be nuked immediately.

—Alorael, who would rather not see any more superlockings in the near future. However, if the topic hadn't been superlocked, it would have been locked. There wasn't exactly valuable conversation taking place at the end.
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An question from a humble fan in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, August 29 2004 22:59 Profile Homepage #7
There's always the Exile Trilogy CD, and BoE is $15 with any other game. If anything deserves a price cut, it isn't BoE. It could have the price raised and it would still be more than worth the money.

—Alorael, who doesn't think that Jeff makes so much that he'd turn away even a little bit of money from people registering Exile because they're hard core retro fans and completely opposed to isometric perspective or something.
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PC People in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, August 29 2004 22:36 Profile Homepage #10
Experience is divided evenly among all party members, so a party with two members gets twice as much experience per person as a full four person party.

—Alorael, who has a much easier time with four people. However, some swear by two or three person parties as well. Singletons are almost universally agreed-upon as challenging.
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'Our Games' missing games in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, August 29 2004 11:16 Profile Homepage #2
They're still listed under the small text link to older games beneath the regular list, and they're still for sale. In actuality all of the third-party games are newer than E1, but hey.

—Alorael, who doesn't think it's fair that SubTerra got dropped. It is, by all accounts, a good game, and sticking it with the likes of Homeland and GC is not just. Lost Souls isn't so bad either.
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Energy Pulse in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, August 29 2004 11:10 Profile Homepage #2
They are, however, worth a tidy chunk of gold. Apparently they are either collector's items or shopkeepers are too ignorant to know the difference between good crystals and bad crystals.

—Alorael, who is unaware of any skill requirements for proper use of mind crystals. If you have it, you can get the ability it contains.
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Hello Everyone in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, August 28 2004 08:08 Profile Homepage #36
If we really wanted to be helpful, we'd all write FAQs for the questions that come up perennially.

How do I get into Erika's back room? How do I destroy the Keep? How do I get to the northern spire? Where did Cathrac's Eye go?

Since we don't always discuss this, we must be social people who enjoy babbling to each other at great length.

—Alorael, who is Spiderweb's premier expert in babble. The numbers do not lie!
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Registering in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, August 27 2004 15:50 Profile Homepage #13
quote:
From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Main Entry: ab·hor·rent
Pronunciation: -&nt
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin abhorrent-, abhorrens, present participle of abhorrEre
1 a archaic : strongly opposed b : feeling or showing abhorrence
2 : not agreeable : CONTRARY <a notion abhorrent to their philosophy>
3 : being so repugnant as to stir up positive antagonism <acts abhorrent to every right-minded person>
—Alorael, who happens to think that Nethergate is great whether or not it's short. Sure, it would be nice for it to be longer, but it doesn't feel like an incomplete game.
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PC People in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, August 27 2004 09:02 Profile Homepage #1
I use four, a pair of fighters and a pair of mage/priests. Doubling up on magic abilities is a good thing.

—Alorael, who occasionally gives his fighters magic skills. He's found that he usually ends up just going in with the standard hack and slash, though, so it's not worth it.
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skribbane herb in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, August 27 2004 08:25 Profile Homepage #7
It's under Add Special Items/Traits. Apparently addiction is a trait.

—Alorael, who has always gone with the pack a truckload method himself. He hasn't lost his addiction yet, although it's getting a bit pricey. He may have to start sniping richer people in fancy SUVs soon.
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Bragging rights in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, August 27 2004 08:23 Profile Homepage #17
Go Dingy! May you be constantly quoted and misquoted by people who want to sound as knowledgeable as you, abused by journalists who don't want science to interfere with their articles, and followed by adoring hordes of phosphorus fans.

—Alorael, who is glad to know that there are still clothes of some kind under the labcoat. Shorts and sandals work.
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