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A3 Cant get out of Gale in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, April 11 2007 07:44 Profile Homepage #1
First of all, there are two inns in Gale. Make sure you're in the inn in the northeast and that you remember that the passage is in the northeastern storage room of that inn.

If that doesn't work, get yourself thrown into prison by talking to unfriendly townsfolk or the mayor. You can get out through a secret passage and eventually leave town via a trap door in the southwest corner of the city.

—Alorael, who would draw a clever parallel between being trapped by addiction and being trapped in the city of addicts if he were feeling witty right now.
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Huh? in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, April 10 2007 21:24 Profile Homepage #4
Welcome to RWG. Pick up your implants at the door.

—Alorael, who recommends reading through older topics in this section. Or not, if you'd rather have GC2 come out of nowhere and surprise you.
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Bored and tired. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, April 10 2007 11:20 Profile Homepage #58
quote:
Originally written by Dr. Johann Georg Faust:

But wasn't there something else you really hated to be called?
MAR-len-ee as opposed to Mar-LEN-ee, if I remember correctly.

—Alorael, who can see Enny as a wonderful nickname. It's also an obvious affectionate shortening of En, which is just a spelling out of N. Thus, everyone is using the wrong letter. Fools!
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Yet another senseless poll in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, April 10 2007 10:44 Profile Homepage #26
I can understand being unfamiliar with most table-top roleplaying games, and the acronym may be unnecessarily obfuscatory, but how can you not know Dungeons and Dragons? It's the poster child of pen and paper games, it's been around for decades, and it gets all the best attention from media, conservatives, movies, and comics.

Also, more social interaction from games than from parties is entirely a matter of the games you play and the parties you attend.

—Alorael, who believes that White Wolf is the company that makes that vampire game. And some other games, too. They all use the same or similar systems. The details should be left to someone who knows more about White Wolf.
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Surprises in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 9 2007 21:58 Profile Homepage #41
I'm not a new mod, and as I recall it was surprising to a lot of people when I became one.

—Alorael, who now may hold the record for shortest tenure as mod of a section. A couple of days is pretty good!
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how do you defeat a doomguard?? in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 9 2007 21:52 Profile Homepage #13
quote:
Originally written by Enraged Slith:

It might seem weird, but try blessing any non-fighters you have and hack away. You'll be surprised.
By more doomguards?

—Alorael, who can't imagine why blessing non-fighters would be more useful than blessing fighters.
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Yet another senseless poll in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 9 2007 15:18 Profile Homepage #5
What makes roleplaying games incompatible with a life? I understand that there may be correlation, but there's no causality.

I suppose this all depends on your definition of life. Many definitions seem to revolve around not being a nerd/geek/other word, and those in turn are defined as not participating in certain activities. If a life is a restriction, why would anyone want it. Alternatively, some define life as participation in non-nerdy/geeky activities. Again, that is not incompatible with also being nerdy/geeky.

—Alorael, who presents the above paragraph of a shining example of a red flag for being a geek and/or a nerd, although he still can't quite understand what either one means or what the difference is.
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how do you defeat a doomguard?? in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 9 2007 14:56 Profile Homepage #11
quote:
Originally written by Dintiradan:

in Avernum they were ostensibly immune to magic too, but that didn't stop stoning or Cloud of Blades...
Cloud of Blades does physical damage. Basilisks are apparently just able to kill everything.

—Alorael, who doesn't recommend using Cloud of Blades on doomguards anyway. That's not nearly enough damage to make up for all the splitting you'll cause on every doomguard in the area.

[ Monday, April 09, 2007 14:58: Message edited by: Twelve Motion ]
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horn? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 9 2007 14:55 Profile Homepage #1
They actually aren't terribly uncommon for junk items, but you have no reason to remember where they are. They're sold in the occasional odds and ends store and scattered here and there through Valorim.

—Alorael, who can't recall any specific places with horns available. If all else fails you can turn to the editor.
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Knowing Spell Levels in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 9 2007 14:52 Profile Homepage #5
It's Cotra, not Coltra.

The only powergaming I do is waiting until Camp Samuels before giving my casters bows, and sometimes doing the same for fighters. I also often buy some First Aid, because you can get along just fine without it until you can buy it with gold.

—Alorael, who isn't quite that much of a compulsive optimizer. Close, but not quite.
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Something badly interesting... in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 9 2007 08:26 Profile Homepage #13
Topic necromancy!

The point is that you can finish the game by only stopping two of the four plagues. Rentar can be defeated with the Filth and Golem Factories left untouched. They're both completely automated, so Rentar's disappearance shouldn't make any difference. It would really be a shame if the victory celebrations were interrupted by guests dropping dead of diseases and then getting dismembered by golems.

—Alorael, who is also now curious as to why the vahnatai only use their monster production facilities to destroy the surface. Golems would certainly be useful in daily life, and also for rebuilding after Resting. And even more useful for fighting hydras and chitrachs!
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Happy Easter in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, April 9 2007 08:17 Profile Homepage #22
quote:
Originally written by Excalibur:

Unfortunately, every Christian holiday is made pagan somehow. I try to tell people that, but brainwashing has taken an effect on them.
It's not really so unfortunate. The pagans knew how to have a good time much better than the Judeo-Christians. Fasting and masses are no good for the masses.

—Alorael, who invites you to think of the pagan creep as Great Vehicle Christianity.
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A3: Where can i learn Dispel barrier? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, April 8 2007 15:45 Profile Homepage #7
It's also pretty easy to give your party Dispel Barrier with the editor. Go to Edit Stats, click on Mage Spells in the bottom right area, and click the check box next to Dispel Barrier.

—Alorael, who thinks this should be a good lesson. Don't kill royalty. They always win in the end!
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A3: What special metal does Carmine needs? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, April 8 2007 15:42 Profile Homepage #3
To be a little clearer, those aren't items. Mithril comes in the form of a special item called Metal Lumps. You can find mithril in several places, but they're also used in other quests.

—Alorael, who prefers Carmine's rewards to the other quests. The only downside is the patience requirement.
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Happy Easter in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, April 8 2007 15:37 Profile Homepage #13
quote:
Originally written by Tyranicus:

quote:
Originally written by Synergy:

And a merry Vernal Equinox to all. We're halfway to the longest day of the year here in the Northern Hemisphere.
Actually, the the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes (Equinoces?) when day and night are equal.
Hence the "halfway to" rather than "already there."

—Alorael, who wishes everyone a happy holiday with just the right degree of godliness, just the right degree of paganism, and just the right degree of candy. And then some more candy.
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Surprises in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, April 8 2007 08:52 Profile Homepage #33
quote:
Originally written by Tyranicus:

I personally think they could be cushier. :P
Then you can darn well quilt them yourself.

—Alorael, who is going to go sulk now. He's also very worried that this is going to end up as yet another gimmick. That's at least two gimmicks too many.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Bored and tired. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, April 8 2007 08:44 Profile Homepage #36
Even that's only one letter away from disaster.

—Alorael, who has very obviously spent too much time in all the wrong chatrooms with the wrong elements of Spiderweb.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Kyshakk or Fyora? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, April 8 2007 08:42 Profile Homepage #4
Drayks do tend to be more generally useful than kyshakks, especially for their lower cost. Also, it's worth thinking about not raising the stats of a creation immediately. If the essence you save by making the drayk with only two points of intelligence for control allows you to make more creations, like another drayk, then you should probably go with that.

—Alorael, who has found that most of the game makes having more creations more useful than having a few powerful creations. The difference in power tends to be fairly small until you're a tier or two higher in creations you can make.
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Storing Items in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, April 7 2007 19:37 Profile Homepage #5
quote:
Originally written by Darkbridger:

I've never seen a "useable" shelf in Fort Monastery. I thought those were all decorative... they aren't clickable.
I meant the usable cabinets. The shelves are just there to look pretty.

—Alorael, who mostly used the ones in the barracks near the pylon. He occasionally stole the javelins and ended up in trouble.
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Project Spiderweb. in Blades of Avernum
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, April 7 2007 12:09 Profile Homepage #3
If I can be seen, something is very wrong.

—Alorael, who would have suggested a blademaster-like graphic until that ceased to be a unique distinguisher.
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Storing Items in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, April 7 2007 12:06 Profile Homepage #2
You can use any container, but it doesn't even have to be in something. As you may have noticed from walking through areas that you've already been through and killed many things in, stuff left on the ground tends to stick around forever too.

—Alorael, who used assorted boxes and shelves in Fort Monastery depending on what he was storing and how likely he thought he was to want to find it again.
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Exile or Avernum in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, April 5 2007 20:48 Profile Homepage #38
But wait! What about parties?

Nethergate>Exile>Avernum>Geneforge.

—Alorael, who never quite adjusted to a party of one even when it was one in the company of seven others. Four party members plus one hanger-on plus baggage is a real party.
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