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Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 6 2007 20:21 Profile Homepage #175
Sounds great! You know, I think the lack of outdoors wouldn't have bothered me at all if it were entirely new areas. It was the strangeness of having Silvar and Cotra ony a few city-sizes apart that made Avernum feel cramped. A game area that was technically the same size but that was supposed to represent a smaller area would have been fine.

—Alorael, who now has to keep hoping that A5 will take place primarily somewhere new. Remaking Avernum proper has to be getting boring by now!
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Sulking. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 6 2007 20:19 Profile Homepage #56
We also interpret everything you say in the most obscene way, but we respond politely. All snickering is hidden.

If you're looking for another reason to come/stay, well, where else on the internet can you find a mostly male steaming pool of estrogen?

—Alorael, who's all clean now. He ain't selling grammar no more, and you can be telling the cops that!
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A2 Delrin Boks Fortress levers in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 6 2007 12:07 Profile Homepage #3
I'm not sure if that's very visible on the automap, so it's a good idea to visit each lever. Some of them need to be pulled and some of them don't. If you leave the crypt all of the levers reset to their original positions.

—Alorael, who spent an inordinate amount of time on that too. Honestly, it's enough to make you think that the vahnatai just arne't all that hospitable. Especially the dead ones.
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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 12:03 Profile Homepage #65
Lol isn't bad in theory, but in practice it's applied to the point of meaninglessness. It also tends to associate with genuine and unadulterated linguistic abortions.

—Alorael, who holds the distinction of having the lowest ratio of spoken (or written) lines to appearances in Alex's comics. On an unrelated note, Brody is an unnecessary step in making names and accounts have nothing in common.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
going to kill shaila? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, February 6 2007 11:54 Profile Homepage #2
How do you know that you aren't being healed even though your health bar seems to refill? Make sure you're refilling your health, not your essence (those pods can be tricky) and that you aren't just taking so much damage that you die from one hit even with full health. Taking damage and getting poisoned right before the end of the round can make you take to big hits in rapid succession, too.

If you have good evidence, send the save file (or folder, rather) to Jeff with a description of the problem so he can debug it.

—Alorael, who also doesn't remember any suspicious vlishes around Shaila.
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Ahem. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, February 5 2007 21:07 Profile Homepage #16
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Hooray?

[Edit: Hooray indeed.]

—Alorael, who believes this thread has reached the point of no return. It will therefore not return.

[ Monday, February 05, 2007 21:10: Message edited by: Fulgurous Ziggurat ]
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
What about speicial for A1 in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, February 5 2007 21:04 Profile Homepage #1
All the easter eggs first appeared in Exile, and as far as we know neither A1 nor E1 has a special dungeon.

—Alorael, who wouldn't say that the game is entirely free of easter eggs. They're just not quite as large and obvious.
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Sulking. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, February 5 2007 20:59 Profile Homepage #28
Veni, vidi, vici.

—Alorael, who has been led to believe that wireless internet access and laptops were made for the wondrous combination of Spiderweb and relief.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Creation stat question in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, February 5 2007 15:52 Profile Homepage #4
The forum header links to some nice information. I don't know of any specific analysis of those two, but I'm sure someone (Slarty? Synergy?) has done it.

—Alorael, whose personal and uninformed decision is that missile weapons are usually second fiddle to magic.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Sulking. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, February 5 2007 12:09 Profile Homepage #8
quote:
Originally written by Robinator is a Beefcake:

It's just kind of a big steaming mass of primarily estrogen.
FYT.

[Edit: FMT]

—Alorael, who thinks he just made an in-joke. That proves Robin's point. lolz.

[ Monday, February 05, 2007 12:51: Message edited by: Fulgurous Ziggurat ]
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Lost Souls in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, February 5 2007 12:06 Profile Homepage #2
I'd register it if it came with a level editor and some kind of multiplayer, preferably online. It's fun, but it's not really fun enough to justify paying for it as is.

—Alorael, who would have to come up with new strategies that don't depend on flaws in the AI. That would be going against the spirit of Chromite, though...
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 Monday, February 5 2007 12:05 Profile Homepage #166
You mean I've been misunderstanding what nuclear families are about for all these years? Whoops.

—Alorael, who has some apology cards to write. And his mother said he never wrote!
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Exile for Mac OS X? in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, February 5 2007 12:03 Profile Homepage #3
You're not alone in preferring Exile, but Jeff prefers to spend his time on new things. The Exiles don't sell well enough now to justify the time needed to Carbonize them, I suppose.

—Alorael, who is at least happy that Nethergate will not be lost forever or, even worse, turned into a reason for Mac users to have Windows.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Registration in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, February 5 2007 12:00 Profile Homepage #5
Spiderweb registration has always been done by real people. In fact, they're so anti-robot that now even their mailling list is all done by people.

—Alorael, who supposes that it's the human touch that makes playing a game with a computer so special.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Ahem. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, February 5 2007 11:59 Profile Homepage #6
In just another 322 posts you'll have 825 posts!

—Alorael, who still supports all campaigns to end the tyranny of the powers of ten and occasional other multiples of ten and five.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Object description in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 4 2007 21:02 Profile Homepage #13
I've always gotten better results from just caving in and offerings sacrifices under the full moon. Your efficiency will go up dramatically when you've got the demons on your side!

—Alorael, who just advises no careful examinations of fine print or asterisks in the contract. You're happier not knowing.
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 Sunday, February 4 2007 21:00 Profile Homepage #162
It really should just be a standard save without slots. Call the file whatever you want and put it wherever you want.

New races don't add much to a system that ignores race as much as Avernum, and there aren't any more races that make any sense. That goes for both PC races and NPC-only races.

I agree that getting killed by that absurdly spawned lone guy with a sword is no fun, and the nuke and loot approach to dungeoneering is wonderful. Making dungeons gain more defenders if you leave would encourage that style of grand butchery rather than picking off monsters one by one.

—Alorael, who acknowledges that it would in fact encourage compulsive picking off of the same monster over and over until it no longer gave any experience. And that's fine too; it promotes a variety of gaming styles!
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Things to improve Dikiyoba's ausome story! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 4 2007 20:56 Profile Homepage #37
quote:
Originally written by Cirion Actaeon:

retrobution
I happen to think that this term is perfect for the hate, wrath, and abuse heaped upon newbies by oldbies. Thanks, Cirion!

—Alorael, who has very little to add because this thread has very little that deserves addition. Good work, all. Aran will doubtless be along shortly to apply his more stringent definition of worthwhile, a scenic vista, and a lock.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
I like it, but... in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 4 2007 20:52 Profile Homepage #2
It's apparently Geneforge's engine adapted to be Avernum-like, not vice versa, for what it's worth. That said, it doesn't strike me as especially Geneforge-esque in anything but graphics, and I like the new graphics more. The only other real changes are changes from Avernum but not particularly towards Geneforge.

—Alorael, who supposes the stats are more like Geneforge than Avernum now. That part didn't bother him at all. Lack of height (from the graphics and engine) was a much bigger problem.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
How do I get to the Abyss in A2? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 4 2007 20:48 Profile Homepage #8
If you cheat your way into the Abyss, you find a lot of empty space and the occasional instant death script on the edges. Nothing exciting there.

—Alorael, who isn't sure whether he felt let down by the absence of the Abyss or not. The setup makes sense, but missing out on part of Avernum is no fun. And then A4 really fails to explain the occupation?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Did you guess the plot at the beginning? (Spoilers) in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 4 2007 20:46 Profile Homepage #7
The Darkside Loyalists would have been better than the vahnatai if they were developed properly. The vahnatai were more or less Rentar being a villain because she is now an inveterate villain who kicks puppies and whips kittens.

—Alorael, who is sure she has put as much effort into a spell that makes magical feet to kick puppies as X has put into his anvil. It's tough being an abuser of cute animals when you're a rock on a pedestal.
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Why? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 4 2007 20:44 Profile Homepage #26
Tyranicus is still the kind of name that screams stupid fantasy cliche villain. Don't you forget it!

—Alorael, who will thank you not to make him feel even more inadequate about his IQ. And he's not really all that sure that Spiderweb is more white and more male than most forums. It's neither the femalest (steaming pools notwithstanding) or the nonwhitest, but there are surely worse forums. There are probably White Male Supremacy forums out there somewhere...
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avernum 1 and/or 2 for free?? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 4 2007 20:39 Profile Homepage #3
Counting on Spiderweb games becoming freeware is a losing proposition. Even Exile 1 still isn't freeware and it was released in 1994. You can't even buy it individually now (Exile Trilogy CD only), but it's not free.

—Alorael, who can't really object. If you want to play them, you probably want to play enough to buy them. Jeff has to put food on his family somehow.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
going behind blackcrag(possible) in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 4 2007 16:08 Profile Homepage #9
The first rule of karma is that it doesn't matter.

The second rule of karma is that if you talk about it you will receive ratings of 1.

—Alorael, who will tell you the third rule of karma only after you have beaten Exile 2 with one hand while blindfolded using a party with zero characters in it.
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How do I get to the Abyss in A2? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 4 2007 16:06 Profile Homepage #1
You reach most of A2 by walking. The Abyss is largely unreachable thanks to the Empire's invasion, but you can visit a few places. I can't remember any special trick to reaching them other than dodging road blocks.

—Alorael, who vaguely recalls having to reach Harston, the only accessible town in the Abyss, by a circuitous route to avoid the Empire's instant death areas.
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