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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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| Feel the wrath of the Happy Healing Song! in General | |
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written Thursday, July 22 2004 15:49
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No. The word is in quotes because the drug is not trippy in any sense of the word with which I am familiar. It makes me trippy. Hence, for irregular use, I offset the word with the quotation marks. —Alorael, who hopes never to see 1337 written in letters again. Ever. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| EM Graemlins, not that anyone cares in General | |
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written Thursday, July 22 2004 14:28
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¡Yo soy la muerte para ti! Or perhaps the wonderfully elegant "¡Yo soy tu muerte!" instead. However, if you do not know the origins of speaking French dead, you cannot comment on the phrase. —Alorael, quien esta muerte. Por usted. En español. Roto. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Spiderwebs future in General | |
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written Thursday, July 22 2004 14:07
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But Nethergate is impossibly easy to distribute. At least code-breaking is limited to those passably acquainted with computer skills or those who are acquainted with those who have the proper talents. Nethergate can be given to anyone by anyone. —Alorael, who believes Jeff commented on it somewhere by saying that most people don't steal games because the games are too expensive, they steal because they hate inconvenience. Make getting a free game a difficult and time consuming process and most people will buy. Yes, some people will still steal, but they're not much of a loss if they would never have purchased in the first place. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| I couldnt beat them... in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Thursday, July 22 2004 13:06
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In fact, it's better not to fight them. There's a secret passage in the northern wall of the room. Try to keep your party out of range of the Crystal Souls' spells and send them through the secret door in combat mode, hasted, one at a time. —Alorael, who found using the Wait command very helpful for this. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Lets talk politics! in General | |
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written Thursday, July 22 2004 13:03
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More people are planning to vote for Bush or Kerry than may legally vote. I find this odd. —Alorael, who suspects that people are listing who they would like to vote for. Either that or there are some ballot-box stuffers around these parts. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Army rations rehydrated by urine in General | |
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written Thursday, July 22 2004 12:59
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The salt's not really that much of a problem. As the article points out, the real worry is urea. There's a reason we have to excrete urine, and taking it back in doesn't do us much good. However, for any non-desert operation, there's sure to be some source of liquid somewhere besides in the soldiers, and they'll be sweating less if they're not carrying water with their rations. —Alorael, who supposes that blood would do in a pinch. That's either a motivation to engage with the enemy and cause blood to fountain everywhere or a motivation to get along well with your comrades because come supper time someone's going to have to open a vein. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Vlish & Illithid in General | |
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written Thursday, July 22 2004 12:44
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Actually, they're pretty big on tentacles, as TM can tell you. And, apparently, they're big on fashion, too. No simple clothes for Cthulhuesque octopus-heads!  .[Edit: Bad links make baby Alorael cry.] —Alorael, who loves the vlishes 'cause they're so delicious. Much like brains to zombies and highly tentacular illithids. [ Thursday, July 22, 2004 12:46: Message edited by: The Hypotenuse of the Square ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| A3 holy valley in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, July 21 2004 13:53
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You cannot join the Guild. You just get them to sneer at you instead of attacking you. —Alorael, who likes the Church of the Divine Lucre. It adds a touch of legitimacy to the worship of the Almighty Dollar (or Coin, if you prefer). Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Were the Vhanitia things in Avernum 1? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, July 21 2004 13:49
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A Mind Crystal, you mean? I am 100% sure that there are no soul crystals in A1. —Alorael, who isn't so convinced that every single vahnatai corpse is really a vahnatai. Even in Avernum they must have had their Calista Flockharts with strange fashion tastes. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Feel the wrath of the Happy Healing Song! in General | |
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written Wednesday, July 21 2004 12:55
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I hunt everything and everyone. The magic comes from a certain substance I abuse, and yes, it is "trippy." It is also orange and it tastes very, very good. —Alorael, who does not like the Happy Healing Song. It does not make him happy and it has not healed him. What good is it? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 20 2004 13:02
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Imban, you are a pitiless man. I don't get to post in my own topic to inform the masses that they collectively get gun from me? —Alorael, who will lock the topic again. He also would like to point out that his signatures has far fewer grammar errors then some would lead you to believe. Think before commenting. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 20 2004 12:56
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Must I use Lucky's speech? —Alorael, who would like to know if everyone is ready and everyone is looking at him because given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard quaquaquaqua outside time without extension who from the heights of divine apathia divine athambia divine aphasia loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown but time will tell and suffers like the divine Miranda with those who for reasons unknown but time will tell are plunged in torment plunged in fire whose fire flames if that continues and who can doubt it will fire the firmament that is to say blast hell to heaven so blue still and calm so calm with a calm which even though intermittent is better than nothing but not so fast and considering what is more that as a result of the labours left unfinished crowned by the Acacacacademy of Anthropopopometry of Essy-in-Possy of Testew and Cunard it is established beyond all doubt all other doubt than that which clings to the labours of men that as a result of the labours unfinished of Testew and Cunnard it is established as hereinafter but not so fast for reasons unknown that as a result of the public works of Puncher and Wattmann it is established beyond all doubt that in view of the labours of Fartov and Belcher left unfinished for reasons unknown of Testew and Cunard left unfinished it is established what many deny that man in Possy of Testew and Cunard that man in Essy that man in short that man in brief in spite of the strides of alimentation and defecation wastes and pines wastes and pines and concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown in spite of the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running cycling swimming flying floating riding gliding conating camogie skating tennis of all kinds dying flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all kinds hockey of all sorts penicillin and succedanea in a word I resume flying gliding golf over nine and eighteen holes tennis of all sorts in a word for reasons unknown in Feckham Peckham Fulham Clapham namely concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown but time will tell fades away I resume Fulham Clapham in a word the dead loss per head since the death of Bishop Berkeley being to the tune of one inch four ounce per head approximately by and large more or less to the nearest decimal good measure round figures stark naked in the stockinged feet in Connemara in a word for reasons unknown no matter what matter the facts are there and considering what is more much more grave that in the light of the labours lost of Steinweg and Peterman it appears what is more much more grave that in the light the light the light of the labours lost of Steinweg and Peterman that in the plains in the mountains by the seas by the rivers running water running fire the air is the same and then the earth namely the air and then the earth in the great cold the great dark the air and the earth abode of stones in the great cold alas alas in the year of their Lord six hundred and something the air the earth the sea the earth abode of stones in the great deeps the great cold on sea on land and in the air I resume for reasons unknown in spite of the tennis the facts are there but time will tell I resume alas alas on on in short in fine on on abode of stones who can doubt it I resume but not so fast I resume the skull fading fading fading and concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown in spite of the tennis on on the beard the flames the tears the stones so blue so calm alas alas on on the skull the skull the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the labours abandoned left unfinished graver still abode of stones in a word I resume alas alas abandoned unfinished the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the skull alas the stones Cunard tennis . . . the stones . . . so calm . . . Cunard . . . unfinished. . . Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| The trouble with democracy is every idiot gets a vote. in General | |
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written Monday, July 19 2004 13:12
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Under a now defunct classification system for levels of retardation, "idiot" meant someone mentally below the level of a three-year-old. Those labeled idiots were generally unable to speak coherently or function independently in any meaningful way. —Alorael, who isn't sure that's such a flagrant violation of the democratic system. If someone is not capable of the basic cognitive functions required for voting, should they be barred from voting on much the same grounds that children are? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Avernum 4 or Nethergate 2 in General | |
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written Monday, July 19 2004 12:48
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Ha. I think I will, and then I realize I'm an addict. Until skribbane hits Pyg, you know where to find me. —Alorael, who thinks a Nethergate sequel actually has all the hallmarks of a game that would screw up its prequel. Nethergate has a good, solid end that is, above all, final. N2 would either have to have no magic or it would have to undo N1, and that would be a shame. More "historical" fantasy would be good. More Nethergate probably wouldn't be unless the magic dropped out of the equation. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| The new game in Richard White Games | |
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written Sunday, July 18 2004 18:14
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Jeff has said that he has very little interest in marketing more third-party games after the headaches he's gone through. After Ocean Bound (meh), Galactic Core (yech), and Homeland (oh, the humanity!), I can see why. Lost Souls is okay, but not great. SubTerra is allegedly wonderful. Given that nobody actually plays GC, I don't think there's any market for a sequel. Even if the programmer doesn't realize it, Jeff must. —Alorael, who would rather see a new game with the Exile 1 engine than a sequel to GC. At least Exile had some potential. GC has nothing. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Avernum 4 or Nethergate 2 in General | |
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written Sunday, July 18 2004 18:04
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There's always the faint hope that A4 will not follow A3 chronologically. The story of the the discovery and exploration of Exile or even the story of the Empire's expansion would give him more room for plot and less room to tread on the toes of those who have continued the story of Ermarian already. Yes, there are also those who have created the backstory, but I think it would be the lesser evil. Heck, it could be the story of vahnatai a few millenia before A1-3 or a few millenia later. Then everyone demanding vahnatai PCs will be happy too. —Alorael, who doesn't think this will actually happen. He just needs to point out that it's a possibility. Maybe, just maybe, the vahnatai are so popular that Jeff will focus on them instead of on yet more Empire and Avernum shenanigans. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, July 18 2004 10:05
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TM, you did not get the signature right. After more than two and a half years, you should be able to do better than that! —Alorael, whose one great regret is that he can never have links that appear constantly in his signature unless he puts them there manually every time. While there is some humor value to it, it would be too much of a pain to deal with all the time. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Avernum 4 or Nethergate 2 in General | |
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written Sunday, July 18 2004 09:54
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quote:The story has been waiting since E3. Sure, he made Avernum, but it didn't add very much to the world of Avernum. A1 brought in Lost B and the story of the sliths, and that's all. —Alorael, who doesn't have any particular knowledge on the matter. He's just predicting A4 very strongly. It may be part of his eternal pessimism, because a bad A4 has a lot more potential to be really, really bad than a bad N2. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Happy Birthday, TGM! in General | |
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written Sunday, July 18 2004 09:47
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Offer up libations, lest ye be struck down by the Ravager +6! That sort of thing. In TGM's case, it must be more along the lines of, "Offer up libations, lest he speak once more and cause ye trauma of the veryvery bad variety!" —Alorael, who never gets any libations that he doesn't pour for himself. But it's okay. At least he knows what he likes. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Amulet in Bavner in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Saturday, July 17 2004 11:52
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You have to confront the innkeeper, strangely enough. If you have a high enough reputation, he'll hand over the amulet without a fight. If not, you can get the whole town (and maybe the whole island) mad at you. —Alorael, who believes there is another option besides strongarm intimidation. He can't remember it, though, and he didn't use it. The reputation isn't that hard to come up with. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Nethergate +/- Avernum (Special Guest: BoA) in Nethergate | |
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written Saturday, July 17 2004 11:49
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The dialogue option system lets players speak with more complicated phrases, though, which can open up more sensible dialogue and avoid the tedious search for the right keywords. Perhaps an ideal system would contain both dialogue options and an "Ask about word..." option (and make it require the whole word!). Many dialogues wouldn't have any hidden pieces, but it would be there if you need it. Actually, that can already be done with BoA, I believe. Maybe people will use it. —Alorael, who sees one huge advantage to dialogue. If you see Bill trying to steal the magic gem and then have to trek across the world to notify Police Chief Dan, you don't want to have to remember Bill the whole time. Or Bjilllmekmektwingleson, if that happens to be his name. And if you haven't caught him in the act, you shouldn't be able to lay the blame on him based on outside knowledge. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| We know about Geneforge 3...but what's next? in General | |
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written Saturday, July 17 2004 11:25
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Give him some credit. Geneforge is not standard RPG fare. I'm still an optimist. I think that Jeff really could make a very good story for A4 (and yes, I'm positive that's what he's making). However, there's also plenty of potential to have it come out as an awful piece of money-grubbing. We'll see what the result is. ?Alorael, who has decided that he actually wouldn't want a direct sequel to Nethergate. The ending is great as it is. Tacking more onto that would ruin in. A prequel would work, or another game set in a mythological version of Earth could be fun and different, but not N2. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 21:24
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The Cooling Amulets also give a small amount of resistance to fire damage in general, which helps at just about every stage of the game. And if you want a cool sword, you can do worse than Wyrmslayer. —Alorael, who believes one can do better even in the demo. There are, for example, some nice stone short swords lying around that aren't a waste of a perfectly good special item. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 21:17
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Mm hm. Keep on trying the slick thefts, and I'll keep pointing the rifle ominously. I'd snipe you, but I wouldn't want to have two temper tantrums at once. (Drakey, take note. Kelandon can be gone for the low, low price of a title!) —Alorael, who would also like to make it clear that Kelandon's mock signature is not the real deal. It's closer than many, but the lack of emdash ruins the verisimilitude. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 21:14
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The Alien Blade and the Mind Crystals are vahnatai artifacts. There is also at least one crypt with either corpses or paintings that resemble vahnatai. What other spindly bug-eyed humanoids that wear funny robes do you know? —Alorael, who is more interested in knowing how many of those were in E1. The Alien Blade was, but the Mind Crystals weren't. How about the strange cavern (or Strange Cavern) and generic crypt? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |