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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 29 2006 21:52 Profile Homepage #18
Why do you need the polls? They're not exactly essential to the process.

—Alorael, who would be willing to overlook one more poll. There's a caveat, though: it must include all future image captions. Every single one.
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Erika, fungus and a record to set straight. in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 29 2006 21:49 Profile Homepage #25
There's really a much simpler explanation. A wizard did it. Actually, it was probably five large and scaly wizards.

—Alorael, who thinks -X- was invoking his sense of humor. Serious claims of thread ownership and termination usually come from the thread's starter.
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Erika, fungus and a record to set straight. in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 29 2006 20:10 Profile Homepage #21
I think Exile/Avernum deserves special recognition for having a once-male dragon lay eggs and hatch a bunch of little dragons. Well, littler. Dragon family life is very complicated.

—Alorael, who somehow finds malleable sexes less worrisome in serviles. The Shapers can do anything to their creations without being too surprising.
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Erika, fungus and a record to set straight. in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 29 2006 11:36 Profile Homepage #18
Now I should accuse Jeff of plagiarism because he took my idea, right?

—Alorael, who is pretty sure that Occam's Razor depends on properties of this universe. As soon as you have magic the most complicated explanations become not only likely but preferable.
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HELP about experience!! in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, November 29 2006 09:15 Profile Homepage #3
Low level characters do catch up, but they catch up slower if the difference is greater. They benefit more from whatever experience they get, but they get less experience if there's a very high level character. No, it doesn't make much sense.

—Alorael, who thinks the solution might be killing that level 44 character and leaving it dead for a while while the others catch up. (For the record, he's pretty sure he never got any characters to level 44.)
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Erika, fungus and a record to set straight. in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, November 28 2006 18:32 Profile Homepage #15
I think you want "get rid of him or die" instead of what you have. Or maybe "keep him or live," but that's a very odd way to say it.

—Alorael, who also supposes that Solberg could be so sick of his familiar that two deaths was preferable to none. You never know when those really old mages are going to fall over the edge into the madness that seems to get all powerful wizards eventually.
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Erika, fungus and a record to set straight. in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, November 28 2006 10:34 Profile Homepage #12
Continuity is rarely affected by new editions of books. The exception would be the famous "retcon" technique, which I would assume causes as much controversy as it resolves.

—Alorael, who doesn't think Solberg's quote comes from any game. Read it carefully. The choice is either both living or both dying/disappearing. What kind of choice is that, and what is Solberg supposed to be implying?
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Erika, fungus and a record to set straight. in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, November 27 2006 11:53 Profile Homepage #4
It's possible that A and B are both true. There may have been some glowing fungus, but Erika made more of it or improved it. Yes, her claims are slightly inflated, but Erika isn't one for the subtle distinctions of "light but not enough light" and "plenty of light." Solberg is exactly the sort of pedant who would be picky.

—Alorael, whose money is on D. In fact, who created the fungus probably correlates with dragon genders, and both are inextricably bound up in what will have happened last year as of next Tuesday. Richard White is omnipresent!
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Slartanalysis: Leadership in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, November 27 2006 11:48 Profile Homepage #5
All this has really driven home the need for creation-heavy characters to be very careful with skill points at the beginning. I think now it's probably best to start with as much Fire Shaping as you can get and enough Intelligence to make at least one cryoa, but I'm not sure about the proper times to get more Mechanics, Luck, and Leadership versus more cryoas.

—Alorael, who may have to give up fire creations in order to settle for disposable fyoras in the beginning so that the other skills can be raised early. It's no fun to be a compulsive optimizer.
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Roman spell skills. in Nethergate
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, November 26 2006 19:16 Profile Homepage #11
I don't understand the link between Ronams and Fwiffo.

—Alorael, who is always happy to see his favorite high-firepower coward. Not showing up in his image is just like him, too.
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The Monster from Meech Lake RETURNS! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, November 26 2006 11:54 Profile Homepage #27
I can't say I'm happy about his perjury, but I can also forgive it. Yes, he lied under oath, but his lie was about a personal matter that quite frankly was of no importance to the American public. There was no reason for us to know about it and no real reason for the court to be fixating on it.

Clinton didn't lie about anything important, not even by omission.

—Alorael, who wishes the same could be said for this administration. The best you can say is that all the intelligence gathering is soon going to make it impossible for anyone else to lie and get away with it, white lies included.
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Pronunciation. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, November 26 2006 11:47 Profile Homepage #37
quote:
Originally written by VCH:

quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

quote:
Originally written by Athoraal:

Say it however you like. It doesn't come up in non-written conversation much. Please recognize that the A comes before the E, so you can pronounce it as a long A (I can't think of any examples)
Tenebrae?
Chelicerae
Pedicellariae
Papulae
Larvae
Ampullae
All of those end with a long E, not an A. I'm not sure about tenebrae, but I'd be surprised if it were any different since it's also straight from Latin.

—Alorael, who wouldn't be terribly surprised. In a battle between Thuryl and Latin it's a fairly even match.
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Who wants Shaper Equipment? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, November 26 2006 08:57 Profile Homepage #1
Nobody wants Shaper Equipment and only the one rebel collects Research Notes as far as I could see.

—Alorael, who didn't look too hard because he was busily turning over all his research notes to the rebel in the inn.
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Shaping a Servile in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, November 26 2006 00:15 Profile Homepage #7
I'm taking someone else's explanation here, but there seems to be a difference between independently stable creations and creations tied to the shaper's essence. What you shape ad hoc doesn't really have much in the way of an independent mind, will, or even physical form. Sure, it can briefly run away in terror or go rogue, but there's no real permanent volition there.

Since most shapers need to make more creations than they have essence, they spend more time with all those vats and crystals making creations the hard way. They're fully separate beings who don't depend on their creators for thoughts or essence. The benefits are numbers and sometimes intelligence. The downsides are resources spent and, sometimes, intelligence.

—Alorael, who guesses the lack of a geneforge would impede serviles breeding and/or shaping like bunnies. Right in the beginning, though, if you could get enough training in before the geneforge is dismantled...
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Shaping a Servile in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 25 2006 20:36 Profile Homepage #2
It would be awkward to play as a servile and shape another one. What if that one also wants to shape a servile?

—Alorael, who wonders what would happen if you put enough points into whatever crafting makes serviles to make a servile stronger than you. That could be even more awkward.
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Performance Evaluation in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 25 2006 11:41 Profile Homepage #22
Would you rather have two people with interesting conversations or five people with interesting conversations and fifty with boring ones? Where does the ratio have to be to be acceptable?

—Alorael, who doesn't know. He thinks generally boring people can be overlooked and forgiven as long as the interesting ones aren't needles in a haystack of insipidness.
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The Monster from Meech Lake RETURNS! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 25 2006 11:39 Profile Homepage #16
Refreshingly.

—Alorael, who would just pray that their disarming charm would go a long way towards actually disarming potential foes.
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Pronunciation. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 25 2006 11:37 Profile Homepage #29
You may put schwas in my name wherever you'd like. I don't care. It's "MEE-kha-el" anyway except for English's propensity towards linguistic butchery.

—Alorael, who sees another moniker coming. He's also no longer convinced that English kills other languages more than other languages kill other languages. English just does it more frequently and more gleefully.
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Servile Tech. in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 25 2006 11:31 Profile Homepage #2
Servile Technicians boost your Mechanics by five points if I remember correctly. Channelers increase your Spellcraft by a significant amount. The other guys just kill things.

—Alorael, who tried to hang on to his retinue as long as possible. They don't last forever, though, and eventually another drakon is worth a lot more.
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The Monster from Meech Lake RETURNS! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 25 2006 00:57 Profile Homepage #12
The internet is full of insinuations of a Stewart/Colbert ticket in 2008. I am only passingly familiar with their shows, but I think it would be interesting to have a country run by political talking heads with a sense of humor. They'd need rather strong cabinets, of course, but it's better to have people who know just how stupid people are likely to be than someone with boundless faith in those who don't deserve it.

Clinton has more going for him as world leader, too. As I've already said (and been sigged), war and violence would end if we all had each other's babies. Clinton did his part. Now it's our turn to do ours.

—Alorael, who could see a problem with the way Clinton conducted his literal affairs if there were anything illegal about it. Slimy, yes. Underhanded, yes. Despicable or illegal? No. Since when did two consenting adults become a national emergency?

[ Saturday, November 25, 2006 01:00: Message edited by: Athoraal ]
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Pronunciation. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, November 25 2006 00:54 Profile Homepage #19
The angels had -iel and -ael as suffixes before the girls did! Just think of me as the Alor of God. It makes more sense if you've either studied your Bible or studied your Hebrew or both.

—Alorael, who thinks "nye" rhymes with "eye" and probably should have been written "nigh" for clarity.
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Performance Evaluation in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, November 24 2006 22:06 Profile Homepage #18
More posts are good, but changing the ratio of spam to non-spam towards the spam is bad. We did a little of both.

—Alorael, who might even say that last month saw a little too much of both. Something is odd when half the posts seem to be about making more posts.
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