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Golem and textbook in Blades of Avernum
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #6
Unless you killed the golem in the library that is not hostile and is in fact quite inclined to talk to you, you're fine.

—Alorael, who isn't sure what to do if you did kill that golem. Well, actually you probably get what you need anyway.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Koala Cull in General
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Member # 335
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I don't like the idea of culls, but other solutions never seem to solve the problem and always seem to be phenomenally expensive. In the absence of better alternatives, I guess handing out the guns is the only way to do it.

?Alorael, who means handing out the guns to qualified people. A sniper rifle in the wrong hands would be disastrous, not to mention a terrible waste.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Pssst... it's a secret in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #31
I'd prefer "The Ever-Changing Title," even if it never did change...

?Alorael, whose moniker is not ever-changing. It's regularly changing. There's a huge difference.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A Petition in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #17
Not anymore! I've taken the plunge, gone over the edge, and maybe into the deep end.

?Alorael, who has no intention of locking a topic created in his honor. If it does die, it will have to go with his trophy locked topics in GC.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Pssst... it's a secret in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #29
No, I'm not starting a new account, and I'm not Aloreal. You should be able to figure out what I am doing. The beginning, at least... Let's not let the tension just dissipate that fast. A hint of future doom is amiss.

?Alorael, who also made his 7500th post in this topic. You can be doubly proud!

[ Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:20: Message edited by: His Postliness ]
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Pssst... it's a secret in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #23
I actually have no accounts besides this one. Yes, a terrible flaw, I know. As I posted elsewhere, I just don't think an account switch would be in any way unique or meaningful.

I briefly considered shutting down General, but then I realized that that might cause more trouble than I really want to bring about.

So... one post left. The truth will be seen soon enough.

?Alorael, who thinks it is fitting that his last post as Postmaster General is in this topic. So he'll take a moment to say farewell, title! It's been a great having you, and no stupid Your Postliness will ever replace you. Sniffles, sobs, and all that...
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Spiritual Guidance Needed! in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #7
Nuns have less practical experience, on the whole. Priests are the way to go.

?Alorael, who has had better luck with certain Jewish religious practitioners. While they are not, perhaps, as familiar with Holy Scepters in the Christian sense, they are very professionally acquainted with the Jewish equivalent.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Member Status in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #34
It wasn't on the first page before the highly unnecessary topic revival.

?Alorael, who has just the thing to fix undead topics. Ready, aim, snipe!
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A Petition in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #14
Look. I've resigned myself to reaching a state of Your Postliness. The question now is how I will handle it. Sock puppets are out of the question. The new account thing has been done into the ground.

Sadly, I have decided that I have little choice. Extravagant gestures are pointless and unnecessary. Others have accepted titles quietly. I will do the same. With one slight exception.

?Alorael, who is sure everyone will notice his minor act of rebellion right away. Just a few... more... posts...
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
BoA and BoE in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #4
1. I'm not quite sure what outshadowing is.

2. Whatever it is, I'm fairly certain that a significant percentage of Spiderwebbers would disagree that Exile does it to Avernum.

?Alorael, who thinks he's probably part of that percentage. BoA even more so than the other games; whether you love or hate the Avernum engine, you can't argue that the BoA scripts give much more power to the scenario designers than BoE's nodes.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
How do I? in Blades of Avernum
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Member # 335
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Since fixing the valley is the entire plot of the scenario and saving the children is part of that quest, you probably do want to just head to the walkthrough. If you're stuck in a more specific section, post here and help will be provided.

—Alorael, who recalls entering a cave, fighting many lizards, and getting the fang from that. He can't remember where that cave was, unfortunately, but you can either wander the perimeter of Skylark Vale or head to the walkthrough in the docs for that, too.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Spiritual Guidance Needed! in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #3
If the Holy Scepter is wielded upon another when neither party has been properly sanctified for such activity, the pair may indeed be cast into the everlasting fire. If the blessing of God has been given but the second party is protected from the touch of the Holy Scepter, then they shall be condemned to the flames.

?Alorael, who now has an appointment with his father confessor to keep. Keep those Holy Scepters where they belong, now.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Pssst... it's a secret in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #17
I don't recall ever having the title of Your Postliness. The highest rank was Veteran until the new titles came in.

?Alorael, who is creeping onward and upward. The crisis beckons!
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Age in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #49
It worries me deeply that Alec now associates me with Asuka. Must I always be an object and not a person? Do I not have feelings!? When you torment me, do I not whine like any other manchild?

?Alorael, who would not feel comfortable comatose anywhere near Alec, Asuka or no Asuka. There are just some things that one should never be forced to endure.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Could there be more character spaces? in Blades of Avernum
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #6
You'll have to edit the graphic files yourself, so you might as well find the graphics yourself as well.

—Alorael, who advises against reviving long dead topics. When nobody has posted in almost five months, the case is closed.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Age in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #32
54 / Male / Alaska

?Alorael, who was once voted older than the bottom layer of unnameable substance on the floor of a movie theater. He just thought he'd throw that out there.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Pssst... it's a secret in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #11
Good reasons are for wimps. I do this for the sake of doing it!

?Alorael, who isn't even quite sure that he has done anything besides issue vague but ambiguously dire proclamations. Shall they be borne out? Only time (with Drakey's help) will tell!
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Reeeeealy long story. in General
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Member # 335
Profile Homepage #15
A proper example:

quote:
Originally soliloquized by Lucky in Waiting for Godot:
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 (mêlée, final vociferations) tennis . . . the stones . . . so calm . . . Cunard . . . unfinished . . .
tl, dr

?Alorael, who has to admit he posted this mainly just so he could post Lucky's speech. Yes, this is spam of the basest kind. But thus, it is even more of a shining example of "tl, dr" usage. Take it as you will.

[ Monday, April 26, 2004 08:50: Message edited by: Alorael ]
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Spam in the Can in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #4
If instant messages are your problem, just set your IM program of choice to block all messages from unknown senders. If that's too radically isolationist for you, see if there's a setting that lets you check the sender before receiving the IM. It's usually not too hard to pick up which ones are from legitimate people and which are mindless bots spewing garbage links.

?Alorael, who has found another solution as well: avoid instant messaging like the plague. In fact, if you cut the power cables and phone lines connected to your house, you will be entirely free of all forms of harassment! Well, except for stalkers, but who stalks in person nowadays?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Pssst... it's a secret in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #6
There is currently no title after you know what, but Drakey might decide to fix that if it ever becomes a problem. Then again, if it ever becomes a problem, we'll have more to worry about than just that.

Anyway, the situation is becoming serious. I am in danger of going over my self-imposed limit. I will not do so. Therefore, I have reached an impasse, quite literally. I can't pass 7500 without making a liar of myself.

I hope that Drakey sees the truth before it is too late. A custom title is the only way to avoid disaster. If he cannot be swayed, perhaps Stareye will do the right thing. And if he refuses as well, then my course is clear.

?Alorael, who almost hopes the admins decide to be curmudgeons just so he can find a dastardly plot to make them rue the day they failed to provide a simple custom title. Almost. But then he sees that Holy Grail, that title, before him, and he knows that there is no plot that can replace it in his heart, no matter how many dark, smoke-filled rooms may be involved.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Reeeeealy long story. in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #12
TM, while I understand quite well that you didn't read the story, you cannot pass judgement upon its length before even receiving the file. Therefore, you have won my momentary ire! Congratulations!

?Alorael, who supposes that the circumstances are mitigated by the fact that he was all but literally asking for it. Still... Have you no shame?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Your regular msg. from your resident annoying newb in Blades of Avernum
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Member # 335
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Considering the fact that the latter is billed as a remake of the former, I'd say so.

—Alorael, who thinks BoA is the least similar to it's Exile counterpart. With mostly new scenarios it won't feel like a replay.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Reeeeealy long story. in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #5
If anyone says "tl, dr," I will personally be very, very annoyed.

?Alorael, whose email is also available in the email link. It's also not hard to guess with two little hints: it is his name, and it is a Hotmail address.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Very OT: Jeff, you are a genius in General
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Because they already paid?

?Alorael, who feels perfectly capable of becoming a card- and pipe-carrying Scorched Earth member no matter how bad Jeff's BoE PR is.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
I need the strength of numbers, please help. in General
Law Bringer
Member # 335
Profile Homepage #10
I've also ordered many times by credit card and had no trouble whatsoever. I've never heard anyone complain of problems. Spiderweb is a real company with real paperwork filed to prove it. Even if something did happen, Jeff couldn't just disappear with your money.

?Alorael, who also thinks an email to Jeff might get the information needed to buy games with a money order. He wants to make money, and he'd probably be more than happy to help you give it to him.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00

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