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[Insert Dumb Joke Here] in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 9 2007 09:34 Profile Homepage #6
My two possibly favorite jokes of all time:

A termite walks into a bar and asks, "Is the bartender here?"

Two muffins are sitting in an oven. The first muffin turns to the second and asks, "Is it just me, or is it getting really hot in here?" The second one jumps and says, "Whoah! A talking muffin!"

—Alorael, who definitely thinks the first joke is the kind that works far better out loud. It's also the second best bar joke after one he can't quite remember about Pascal walking up a rocky torr to get to the bar witht the best atmosphere.
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Sulking. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 9 2007 09:28 Profile Homepage #71
There wasn't really outcry against his banning so much as confusion. Ed's banning, on the other hand, got plenty of outcry but not much protest.

—Alorael, who is miffed that his ban went uncontested and in fact entirely uncommented. Nobody even missed him for the, oh, 24 hour or so that he was banned.
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Not yeti another photo thread in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, February 8 2007 22:47 Profile Homepage #34
quote:
Originally written by Synergy:

Our most proliferous poster is also our most invisible. Has anyone ever seen an actual photo of Alo?
Yes. Well, probably.

—Alorael, who may post his self-portrait one day if you're very, very lucky. Some hints: it is not made with Paint, it is not his avatar, and neither one is immediately obvious.
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need advice for Avernum 1 in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, February 8 2007 22:43 Profile Homepage #32
It could be worse. At least the boards didn't eat your account.

—Alorael, who offers up bright orange libations to the Random Number Gods and the UBB in the hopes that both will have mery on him. Strangely enough, Angband seems not too much more arbitrary or dangerous than these very boards.
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Not yeti another photo thread in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, February 8 2007 21:18 Profile Homepage #24
I'll give you a useless answer for your meta-question: if you have to ask, you'll never know.

—Alorael, who is at least fairly entertained by the assortment of images that come up on Google when he looks up his moniker. Some of them are even relevant.
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E3: Woes of the magically inept singleton in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, February 8 2007 20:38 Profile Homepage #14
Does Pacifist prevent walls? That's another good solution.

—Alorael, who can't remember how much of a bonus Pacifist gives. However much it is, it's not enough to make up for the fact that the rest of the party is losing experience to an essentially useless character.
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need advice for Avernum 1 in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, February 8 2007 20:36 Profile Homepage #28
There is no almost in my daily name changes. Sometimes I'm late and sometimes I'm a little early, but on average it's once per 24 hours. Vacations and extended power outages don't count.

You might be able to use space, and you can definitely use a period. The UBB is no match for human ingenuity!

—Alorael, who really finds clicking to be the much more convenient solution for occasional diagonal movement. That's what cursors are for.
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Not yeti another photo thread in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, February 8 2007 20:34 Profile Homepage #22
I respect Tully's style, and I respect hairlessness.

As always, a picture of yours truly:

IMAGE(http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/9522/Alorael.jpg)

—Alorael, who will not answer any questions pertaining to the above image.
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Things to improve Dikiyoba's ausome story! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, February 8 2007 12:21 Profile Homepage #101
quote:
Originally written by Alorael:

quote:
Originally written by Trolling for Karma:

Hopefully after he sees this.
She. And Tully, I'm touched. Really, I am.
quote:
Originally written by Aran:

quote:
Originally written by Trolling for Karma:

Hopefully after he sees this.
If you're speaking of Dikiyoba, you got the pronoun wrong. Don't worry, we all did for a while. :P
Aran, we need to confer. If our programming has us say the same thing they're going to catch on too quickly.

quote:
Originally written by Kelandon:

quote:
Originally written by Drakey is a talentless hack.:

And Tully, I'm touched. Really, I am.
This is bordering on inappropriate and vile. Which I suppose is par for the course here.
Would it help if "touched" were turned into "moved" in that sentence? Or maybe "flattered" would be bettered.

—Alorael, who is at any rate deeply disturbed and not at all touched, moved, or flattered by the depths to which Spidwebbian minds sink. Sometimes a touch is just a touch.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Help me plan my character in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, February 8 2007 12:09 Profile Homepage #1
If you're going to use any canisters you might as well use them all. The penalties appear quickly (from the first canister, I think) and aren't really very severe.

If you want to run with an army of creations, you want a lifecrafter. Serviles are for melee, missiles, and magic with a few creations for support. You haven't mentioned points in magic at all, which means you'd actually be better off with a warrior or shock trooper. Both are suboptimal, though. If you want to go for a very powerful character you need to decide whether you value creations or missiles/magic more and play a lifecrafter or servile.

—Alorael, who thinks that in the end no matter what you make you'll need points in magic. Geneforge is excruciatingly hard if you have no spells to throw around, especially healing and buffs.
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Larks Scrolls...bug? in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, February 8 2007 12:03 Profile Homepage #7
It is believed, though not absolutely known, that you can't lose your login name. It's not really a problem for people who spend most of their time using displayed names that are not, in fact, their monikers.

—Alorael, who pushed straight on to the end of the game from Khoth's Lair and never actually returned to Lark to translate the scrolls until after he had won (it took a reload). It didn't make the end noticeably more difficult.
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need advice for Avernum 1 in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, February 8 2007 12:00 Profile Homepage #21
All Apple laptops come with fully functional mouse substitute in the form of a trackpad or, if you have a very old Powerbook, a trackball. If you have no way to move the cursor, you've got an odd computer. Actually, with a Mac at least you can still enable cursor movement using the numeric keypad through Universal Access, but on a laptop you'd then need to activate yur keypad too.

—Alorael, who isn't quite sure how to go about changing Universal Access settings without a mouse to do it with. It's one of Apple's great mysteries.
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Things to improve Dikiyoba's ausome story! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 7 2007 21:15 Profile Homepage #88
quote:
Originally written by Trolling for Karma:

Hopefully after he sees this.
She. And Tully, I'm touched. Really, I am.

—Alorael, who thinks he's most definitely doing something wrong to get the Emperor's approbation or a close facsimile thereof. Was it the pedestrians?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Calling all empires in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 7 2007 21:07 Profile Homepage #13
The Holy Roman Empire
Not really much of an empire. Also not particularly holy, and definitely not Roman. But see German Empire too!

—Alorael, who will leave that for someone else. Actually, you could get a lot of mileage out of various incarnations of that mid-European area's imperial aspirations (and successes).

[ Wednesday, February 07, 2007 21:08: Message edited by: Drakey is a talentless hack. ]
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Chapter 2 question: Moseh *spoiler included* in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 7 2007 21:04 Profile Homepage #1
I'm not quite sure what you're asking. If you want to know how to avoid being drained, you can't. Dealing with Moseh is costly.

If you want to know how to cheat to avoid it, open the file "z39mosehbdlg.txt" in in the Scripts Folder in the Files Folder (or something like that) and you'll find the following code:

alter_stat(3,-1);

change the -1 to 0. The first number won't always be 3. It will, in fact, appear multiple times with different values.

[Edit: UBB doesn't like HTML. Even when it's not HTML.]

—Alorael, who thinks he got that right. His familiarity with Spiderscript is limited. [/LIST]

[ Wednesday, February 07, 2007 21:04: Message edited by: Drakey is a talentless hack. ]
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Things to improve Dikiyoba's ausome story! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 7 2007 14:32 Profile Homepage #83
I really want to see Tull in a sexy red slip now.

—Alorael, who has always been perfectly open about his quirks. Excessively open, even. All this reminds him that it's time to down a few gallons of fictitious drug and then start performing illegal, violent action at a distance upon pedestrians.
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Hello Everyone, I came up with Great idea using the game engine of Avernum in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 7 2007 14:25 Profile Homepage #10
Actually, all a MUD requires is someone with a lot of time, some spare change, a basic understanding of programming, and Jeff's willingness to look the other way. It would be mechanically very different, but I don't think anyone is deeply attached to the the minutiae of the mechanics of Avernum. The general style, yes, but not the exact formulas.

—Alorael, who actually enjoys playing Civ II multiplayer for a little bit. Once the civilizaions get too big it's no fun, but the beginning is entertaining. Warrior rush!
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hints in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 7 2007 14:16 Profile Homepage #3
To get Shaila to the dock, you have to beat her and then tell her about the Shapers' offer to help her. She'll head off and you'll have to follow her, deal with some inconveniences, and then bid her a tearful farewell as she departs.

—Alorael, who has found that the best way to get your reputation up is to trust the Strategy Central guide. It isn't working, though. Your only choice now is to panic.
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Sulking. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 7 2007 14:16 Profile Homepage #68
I think Alec has only been banned two or three times. TM has been banned regularly, and usually with more cause.

—Alorael, who definitely gives Alec high marks for departures and arrivals, often with a new account.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 7 2007 14:15 Profile Homepage #188
The most accurate representation of a cave wouldn't consist entirely of huge galleries. Most of the time you'd be on your hands and knees in damp muck. That's fun in person and not so much fun as a game.

—Alorael, who liked the old Honeycomb's plethora of secret passages. He thought the new Honeycomb was okay, but it's really not that hard to navigate. Making it have even more levels, none of which have any sensible relationship to each other, would truly make it a Honeycomb to be remembered and feared. Then again, the Brigand's Madhouse wasn't all that popular.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
need advice for Avernum 1 in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 7 2007 14:06 Profile Homepage #18
What Mac doesn't have a mouse? In any case, you can hit numlock and use the I key and the eight surrounding keys as a keypad equivalent so that 8 is up, 9 is diagonally up and right, O is right, and so on.

—Alorael, who is completely incapable of navigating with a slanted keypad that's slanted opposite the isometric layout of Avernum.
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Why? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, February 7 2007 13:56 Profile Homepage #91
Have you ever seen a flaming muffin flam before? Neither have I, but I'm sure it would be spectacular.

—Alorael, who is a fan of the Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble too, for what it's worth.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Sulking. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 6 2007 21:49 Profile Homepage #58
Getting banned is awful but potentially hilarious. I suppose it all depends on whether or not you are (or like) the person who got banned.

—Alorael, who thinks there's a deep lesson in humor in there somewhere. Funny is tragedy happening to someone else? Oh, dear. Heinlein got there first.
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Hello Everyone, I came up with Great idea using the game engine of Avernum in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 6 2007 21:48 Profile Homepage #1
I find myself completely unable to understand how you can combine Counterstrike, which is a real-time first person shooter, and Avernum, which is a [i]turn-based isometric RPG{/url]. Their mechanics have nothing in common and don't translate at all!

But if you can see how it works, well, great. BoA is the closest thing to access to the Avernum engine we have, and it has no way to work online, but people do all kinds of imaginative things.

—Alorael, who is pretty sure the Avernum engine is not built right for damage based on geometry more complicated than a rectangle without a great deal of painstaking scripting. Messing with visibility is also possible but really not fun. What you want sounds like a game similar to but not actually based on Avernum.
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Things to improve Dikiyoba's ausome story! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 6 2007 20:27 Profile Homepage #69
Eugenics!

—Alorael, who thought for a while and decided that although the word is now rejected by everyone, including those who by all rights should be considered eugenicists, the word still has the power to at least inspire a few pages of flaming.
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