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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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Why? in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, February 4 2007 15:59 Profile Homepage #12 I have an oral fixation and I am an inveterate drunkard. Oral ale sounds funny, though, so I anagrammed it into Alorael. Or, if you prefer another story, my moniker is a needlessly complex combination of questionable internet kabbalah and Hebrew that could be translated as "Angel of Protection." The real story is that I needed a fantasy moniker for fantasy forums, banged on the keyboard, and then inserted and removed letters to taste to an extent that made the original banging largely pointless. —Alorael, who thinks he cornered the third-person gimmick long before anyone else on Spiderweb. He also feels a need to take a moment to point out that "flamming" is indeed mispelled, although it's quite charming. Lastly, there's no need to flaunt an IQ. A certain member who shall remain nameless is uncomfortable enough with his IQ of 97 that he already defends himself by hiding behind gimmicky third-person signatures. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, February 4 2007 12:49 Profile Homepage #156 It's the non-respawning that never made sense to me. If you've killed all the nephilim in the fort, then there aren't suddenly going to be more. Fine. But if you run in, kill the guards by the gate and maybe depopulate a barracks, then flee to buy some more potions, wouldn't the nephilim post more guards? —Alorael, who at least knows how the Empire is so successful in its genocidal policies. They just tell adventurers that it's a quest and have them go at it. They go at it very thoroughly, apparently. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
I am more then a new person! in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, February 4 2007 12:46 Profile Homepage #20 If you don't understand, the answer is no. —Alorael, who can't be absolutely sure, of course. From what he remembers, such subtlety might have gone right over the head of others who may or may not have demonstrated mastery of the Exile games. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
15 Years(and a day) of Annoyance in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, February 4 2007 11:11 Profile Homepage #10 Happy birthday, Nico! How are the appendages? —Alorael, who recommends Mystery Science Theater 3000 for all your bad movie needs and then some. In fact, you are guaranteed not to need or even be able to stomach any bad movies afterwards. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, February 4 2007 11:05 Profile Homepage #153 quote: Originally written by jamesmcm: Bring back secret passages. Hear hear! I think we're the minority, though. quote: [b]Bring back A1 revival system. [/b] In A1-A3 I reloaded whenever anyone died. In A4 I actually dealt with the problem I think A4 wins there. quote: [b]Bring back world/party map. [/b] Amen. quote: [b]Make Vahnati a playable race. [/b] Jeff has already said he won't. They're meant to be mysterious and powerful, not playable. I don't really think the vahnatai match the other three races well enough to work anyway. quote: [b]Keep A4 movement system, instead of tile-by-tile when in towns. [/b] As long as we can move tile by tile with the keyboard, I'm happy. quote: [b]Quicksave/Quickload. [/b] How about saving and loading individual files instead of Geneforge/A4-style save slots? I thought that was a step back. quote: [b]Remove cave slimes. [/b] Remove irritating combat grinds. But not chitrachs, because they actually make sense except for being in one of the more densely populated and civilized areas of Avernum. —Alorael, who thinks roaming monsters are okay but not essential in all outdoor sections. Roaming and appearing bands of monsters as in the Exiles would be nice, though. Sometimes you shouldn't be able to kill one monster, leave, and come back to very slowly clear an area. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
problem getting into formello in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Saturday, February 3 2007 22:06 Profile Homepage #15 You can indeed get more passwords from Ambrosia, and they've got the system completely automated. —Alorael, who has gotten new EV:N passwords many times. He tends to do horrible things to do the game files in the name of plugins and then scrap it all, reinstall, and reregister. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
I think i have the wrong game in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Saturday, February 3 2007 22:05 Profile Homepage #11 Realmz has more races, but Exile/Avernum has more class customization since you have none at all. —Alorael, who thinks Realmz is a game that had potential that was hopelessly squandered. Still, it produced Hax, which was worth playing for the talking log. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
are there any hidden doors? in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Saturday, February 3 2007 12:21 Profile Homepage #6 I, for one, insist on old-fashioned wall-bashing. Farsight is for people who don't respect walls. Or possibly people who play Dungeon Master and know that it's possible to commit suicide by hitting the wall repeatedly. —Alorael, who does have to say that it would be nice if Avernum did something to mark known secret passages as Exile does. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
frendly spiders in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Saturday, February 3 2007 12:06 Profile Homepage #13 I can get it to load, but it's just a fairly small area of transparency with no actual image. —Alorael, who thinks either National Geographic dislikes links or someone has a commendable sense of humor. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Object description in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Saturday, February 3 2007 12:02 Profile Homepage #3 It's command-click (or apple-click) on a Mac. —Alorael, who briefly used right click as well. Alas, his two-button mouse has been repossessed. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Behold in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Saturday, February 3 2007 12:01 Profile Homepage #10 You know, I had every intention of locking this topic. If Tully created it, it has to go. And I was going to ask Drakey to ban him, too. Fortunately, Ego has posted PBF. I can't lock a threat that has PBF! —Alorael, who asks not to be quoted on that. He's not ashamed of having a soft spot for PBF, but he thinks some people might get the mistaken idea that PBF can save anything. Some things are beyond salvation. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Hidden Fans in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, February 2 2007 22:16 Profile Homepage #7 The link to that was in the original link. —Alorael, who isn't sure whether he finds Google's forum compression helpful or not. It makes loading faster, but it's also terrible at handling quotes, images, and just about everything else that isn't just plain old text. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
E3: Woes of the magically inept singleton in The Exile Trilogy
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, February 2 2007 22:05 Profile Homepage #4 This is the point at which you use the editor to make a Magically Apt singleton with high Intelligence and Unlock. —Alorael, who considers that no more cheating than reloading repeatedly. It's also much, much faster. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
8000 in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, February 2 2007 22:03 Profile Homepage #30 I wasn't going to say that Diki is Imban, but I was going to inquire into the absence of Imban from the list of people who are everyone on Spiderweb. —Alorael, who also thinks that Zxquez is getting better if now nobody even recognizes his presence everywhere and as everyone. How's that for reviving old Spiderweb memes? Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A Rememberance of Things Past in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, February 2 2007 13:07 Profile Homepage #43 I don't find the Cube particularly appealing. It's not an eyesore and it's not large, which means I can put it in a living room without offending guests, but it's just a white plastic box. I got it for several reasons: I was already a Mac user and didn't want to switch, it was relatively portable for a Desktop (at the time I though it would be practical to relocate it. It's easier than with a full tower, but I still didn't move it around much.) and it wasn't much more expensive other Macs since I already had a monitor and had no interest in cards and other improvements. —Alroael, who is not much of an aesthete. He thinks that most of Apple's fanatical devotion comes from its very solid operating system, great software (what there is of it), and underdog aura. The endless brushed aluminum and white plastic looks nice in commercials, but it all tends to be a magnet for dirt and scuff marks. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
The star is shining once again in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, February 2 2007 10:02 Profile Homepage #2 You can't keep a good balloon down. —Alorael, who doesn't know how well this applies to bad balloons. Or, for that matter, punctured balloons. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Order question. in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, February 2 2007 09:29 Profile Homepage #6 To be fair, we don't really know what it is. It's not a sequel, it's a remake. 2.0 implies the same engine, though, at least to me, and we don't know for certain that it will have the Nethergate engine. It could be to Nethergate 1.0 as Avernum is to Exile. Actually, that would be rather odd. Nethergate not using the Nethergate engine, or at least an advanced version of the Avernum engine? —Alorael, who would laugh for a good five minutes straight if NeoNethergate used an Exile engine. Maybe ten minutes if it were E1. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Wearing stuck in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, February 2 2007 09:18 Profile Homepage #1 I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but I think the number for "wearing" is how many pounds of equipment your character is wearing. It only changes when you use different equipment. Unlike older Geneforges, there is no penalty for carrying a lot of weight. [Edit: It shouldn't start at 20, though. You don't start with any equipment. If you're wearing anything then 20 makes more sense.] —Alorael, who thinks he will go check the game to make sure he has the terms right. [ Friday, February 02, 2007 09:20: Message edited by: Allegant ] Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, February 2 2007 09:15 Profile Homepage #136 Please don't double post. Edit in whatever you have to add. I agree about the map, but mostly because the world felt strangely small with no outdoors mode. I also agree about all turn-based, but again just because I don't like playing click-hunt on rapidly moving targets. —Alorael, who is pretty sure that the penalty for losing a party member is having to go back to town to heal, thus wasting your time. There's plenty of incentive to stop getting killed by those slimes. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
8000 in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, February 2 2007 09:12 Profile Homepage #8 No, it's Imban. Just like everyone else. —Alorael, who reminds you that invisible newbies are a necessary part of the Spiderweb ecosystem. Without them the Arctic Wolves would starve, and without Arctics there would be, um, a flood of barely visible newbies. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A Rememberance of Things Past in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, February 1 2007 19:54 Profile Homepage #32 A computer would have lots more resources available for other tasks if it had no operating system. —Alorael, who is not about to uninstall OS X, and that's not just because he no longer has the install disk. Nor is he about to uninstall Windows (VPC, you know), and not just because he never had an install disk in the first place. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, February 1 2007 19:51 Profile Homepage #127 Petrification seemed arbitrary and overpowered. Freezing wasn't an automatic death sentence, which made it a much more interesting threat. The character is still pretty much out of the fight until you either fix the problem or allow monsters to do their chompy-stabby-burny thing. —Alorael, who is thinking of the ToM ruins demon here. Having to go through a battle short a character or two is traumatic, but it's even more fun when you can hold onto the hope that those characters will be available later if you can just keep those horrible things from gnawing their essential bits off. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
George Bush in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, February 1 2007 19:49 Profile Homepage #66 The wonderful thing about suspending elections is that you no longer need public opinion. —Alorael, who hears that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. No, not you, Egol. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, February 1 2007 18:40 Profile Homepage #125 Roguelikes and Avernum are really not alike at all. I love my Angband, but I wouldn't want to play Avernum Angband-style. —Alorael, who thinks some of that is the party aspect. Angband has very all or nothing death. It's no fun to be killed by that off-screen drolem, but you can roll a new character immediately. In Avernum you'd be stuck with the painful decision of what to do with a crippled party missing half its members but still technically playable. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
George Bush in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, February 1 2007 18:37 Profile Homepage #62 History will look back on our debacle in Iraq as part of the end of post-Cold War optimism and the beginning of War on Terror paranoia and poor policy. I hope it will be regarded as a brief period of stupidity at the beginning of the 21st century, and I'm afraid it will be looked at as the start of an era. —Alorael, who knows that two years can bring a great deal of change. Nevertheless, he'd say that as of the current situation the Republican Party would be unlikely to field Bush as a candidate even if they could if they had any other likely prospects. His approval rating is currently under 30%. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00

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