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| Displayed name | Student of Trinity |
| Member number | 3431 |
| Title | Electric Sheep One |
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| Registered | Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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| Geneforge Tongue-Twisters & Limericks in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, May 22 2005 10:59
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Ghaldring's army is generaled by A great Rotghroth. And Drakons can fly, So his air force must be Under one such as he. But his navy is led by Aye Eye! -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The Vlish Lord. in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, May 22 2005 10:48
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Remind me how we know Vlish are mammals? Gazers are supposed to be Barzahl's idea of an upgrade to Vlish, according to my memory of a text box somewhere in G2. So could the Vlish Lord accept Gazers towards the endgame? Gazers in G3 do a lot of mind tricks. And there are some cool Gazer-based items. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Box of odds and ends in army camp in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, May 22 2005 10:45
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The super-trapped chest at the northern end of the secret tunnel into Greiner's rooms is just a sort of rotten Easter egg; a Mech of 20 is enough to open it, and it contains some trash. The contraband blue box in Main Army Camp is completely different. It is a sort of bug, a leftover piece of a quest that was somehow omitted from the game, whether deliberately or by accident. You can only get the 'Woven Crystal Spool' from this box after entering a debug code, and you can (apparently) never do anything with the spool anyway. At least that is my conclusion at this point. I told Jeff about it. This thread is to ask whether anyone else has actually found the relevant quest. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Vezzedra help? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, May 22 2005 04:49
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What are you -- Agent, Shaper, or Guardian? What level? What difficulty are you playing on? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Vezzedra help? in Geneforge 2 | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, May 22 2005 04:49
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What are you -- Agent, Shaper, or Guardian? What level? What difficulty are you playing on? -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The Vlish Lord. in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, May 22 2005 04:42
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For a Shaper, your first level of Create Vlish is probably the single biggest jump in power you get in the game. Relative to those mid-game enemies, suddenly you're large and in charge. It's almost comparable to getting Speed for an Agent, or getting Lord Rahul's gear for a Guardian. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Box of odds and ends in army camp in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, May 22 2005 04:39
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No, that book is in a jar outside the contraband vault. The contents of the box are as I described in my first post. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Crystal Mine in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, May 21 2005 08:26
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Collecting a lot of energy resistance items will help too; you can get enough that the damage drops to next to nothing. Failing that, combat mode is definitely the key. It not only greatly slows your rate of getting damaged, compared to how fast you can cover ground, but allows you to heal yourself. The energy damage gets worse the farther in you go, though, and those Specter Sages are not wimps, either. It's a dangerous area, if you go the whole way, but you need the Black Crystal Powder for the All-Protector, and the crystals you can pluck off the spires are worth a mint. They get so heavy, though, that encumbrance will make the combat mode trick ineffective, and you may have to wait until you've collected a lot energy resistance before gathering them all. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Crystal Mine in Geneforge 2 | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, May 21 2005 08:26
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Collecting a lot of energy resistance items will help too; you can get enough that the damage drops to next to nothing. Failing that, combat mode is definitely the key. It not only greatly slows your rate of getting damaged, compared to how fast you can cover ground, but allows you to heal yourself. The energy damage gets worse the farther in you go, though, and those Specter Sages are not wimps, either. It's a dangerous area, if you go the whole way, but you need the Black Crystal Powder for the All-Protector, and the crystals you can pluck off the spires are worth a mint. They get so heavy, though, that encumbrance will make the combat mode trick ineffective, and you may have to wait until you've collected a lot energy resistance before gathering them all. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Pure Crystal Shards in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, May 21 2005 08:21
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Just the one, in the Crystal Caverns, guarded by the Drayk Wyx. With high enough Leadership you can bully him into just giving it to you. Otherwise you have to fight him and his shades. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Pure Crystal Shards in Geneforge 2 | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, May 21 2005 08:21
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Just the one, in the Crystal Caverns, guarded by the Drayk Wyx. With high enough Leadership you can bully him into just giving it to you. Otherwise you have to fight him and his shades. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Are there two perfect glaahk scales? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, May 21 2005 08:19
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Yeah, the other is in that Barzite lab area in the far west, north of Rising. (Not the Radiant College, the lab that's deserted except for its Drakon custodian.) I once found a perfect Glaahk scale dropped by that Ur-Glaahk in the Glaahk-infested zone on the road to Rising. I couldn't reproduce it after trying many times, even after cranking my Luck very high for the experiment, so I think it must have been a very small chance. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Are there two perfect glaahk scales? in Geneforge 2 | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, May 21 2005 08:19
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Yeah, the other is in that Barzite lab area in the far west, north of Rising. (Not the Radiant College, the lab that's deserted except for its Drakon custodian.) I once found a perfect Glaahk scale dropped by that Ur-Glaahk in the Glaahk-infested zone on the road to Rising. I couldn't reproduce it after trying many times, even after cranking my Luck very high for the experiment, so I think it must have been a very small chance. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Geneforge Tongue-Twisters & Limericks in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, May 21 2005 08:08
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A Shaper from Stonespire once tried To make a Rotghroth, but it died. It was so tall and thin, And the vat it was in Was either too short or too wide. Sure, to us this sounds totally lame, but imagine how Shapers would love it: "It died because the vat was too wide! Ha ha ha! Wait 'till we tell this one to Agatha!" -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The Vlish Lord. in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, May 21 2005 07:57
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Evolving the Vlish a lot was certainly the key in G1. In G2, I seem to remember trying that and being disappointed; they never compared well with Gazers. They competed not too badly with Glaahks, but on the other hand a pack of Glaahks was deadly in G2 -- I cleared Outer Gazak-Uss with five of them, I think (or maybe it was Ur-Glaahks by that point). Mass Energized, they just swarmed everything and stunned it silly, then gradually chewed it down. But I expect Vlish will be okay in G3 if they're supported strongly with -- and against! -- mental effects. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The Vlish Lord. in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, May 21 2005 04:23
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In G1 this probably worked great; I remember Terror Vlishes being extremely strong there. I'm pretty sure they were paralyzing Ur-Glaahks with terror in the Inner Crypt. In G3 it might indeed be pretty darn tough -- though Dominating spawners and creators might help a lot. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| strange question in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, May 20 2005 19:05
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MIM apparently sees itself as rigorously applying the ideology it endorses, namely Maoism, to everything it discusses. So I think the MIM members themselves would be the last to accept that there is any distinction between their arguments and their membership in their party. And I too think the Cultural Revolution was dodgy. [ Friday, May 20, 2005 19:06: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Progressing as an Agent in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, May 20 2005 18:44
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The SPCS will surely be after you now. Though of course you will just Dominate them. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Challenge - The Spiny Guardian in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, May 20 2005 18:41
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Are Ripostes allowed? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| strange question in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, May 20 2005 14:15
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Anyone here seen "MIM Notes", the official journal of the Maoist International Movement? It's such a hoot. I mean, some of their criticisms of various capitalist outrages around the world seem quite well-aimed, but then you remember they're Maoists, and you have to shake your head in wonder at Pol Pot calling the Conrad Black. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Agent vs. Guardian in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, May 20 2005 14:06
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The Reviving Crystal is really nice on a weapon, especially when you have 10 or more AP. It cuts right down on all those pesky little healings you have to do. As an experiment I also put a Reviving Crystal on my Crystalline Shroud, knowing I'd be replacing it before too long with the Emerald Chestguard anyway. No discernible effect from it so far. Steel spines are also getting quite good; I have two on now, but I'll be adding more. Somehow Parry seems to be kicking in now; it appears to affect some monsters more than others. Anyway, just hitting Gull at level 30, with Alwan my only companion since Harmony, and everything is fine. Having Missile Weapons on 10 seems to be plenty: one shot from a Jewelled Wand slew all six ghost/specter things in Phasia's metalworks. A couple of Swarm Crystals took the heat of very nicely when a crew of Servile Defenders were standing off and shooting at me as I duked it out with three Battle Alphas. A Madness Gem charmed and dazed ALL the servile cultists in that first cultist area on Gull. But I'm definitely a melee Guardian, and it's working out fine so far. Alwan is only occasionally handy, to finish something off. A lot of the time I just send him to stand in a safe corner, because he is much more fragile than me even though his Endurance is maxed out. Essentially I am paying an XP tax to be able to read Alwan's dialog lines. [ Sunday, May 22, 2005 04:46: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| strange question in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, May 20 2005 09:33
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Saying that communism doesn't imply totalitarianism amounts to a word game, in my opinion. Do we use the term to refer to actual government systems, or to theoretical proposals that may not be realizable even in principle? Either choice of language seems reasonable to me, so no-one should accuse anyone else of fallacy just for taking the opposite one. And either way the actually important facts are undisputed, that Marx promised a utopia which has never been realized in practice. It can be argued (as recently by Martin Malia) that the totalitarianism is an unacknowledged but inevitable consequence of Marxist-Leninist principles. In which case the utopian elements in Marxism are simply the shiny red skin on the poisoned apple, and only serve to elevate it from being dangerous to being deadly. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| RWG in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, May 20 2005 06:36
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Offer some guano on Ebay. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Drakefyre, Mariann, Jeff, Linda.. you're all dead. in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Thursday, May 19 2005 20:17
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They don't forget when they make rum baba, at least not in Italy. Amazing. I don't know what baba is, exactly, but it must be one heavily over-engineered cake, in order to hold its shape soaking wet. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Thursday, May 19 2005 18:59
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'Fascist' was not a propaganda label invented by socialist democracies. It was the name of Mussolini's political party, the fascisti. I believe the name was drawn from the Latin 'fasces' (a bundle of rods which symbolize state authority, having been carried, wrapped around a ceremonial axe, by the lictors who attended high magistrates in the Roman republic). Mussolini seized power in Italy several years before Hitler become German Chancellor, and even though the military power of Nazi Germany soon eclipsed Fascist Italy, Hitler always acknowledged Mussolini's primacy in exploiting popular anxiety to thrust authoritarian nationalism upon a weak democracy. Somewhere I heard the differences between various politico-economic ideologies explained something like this. Suppose you are a farmer and you have a cow. Under capitalism, you own the cow, and the government takes some of the milk in taxes. Under communism, the government owns the cow, and it lets you drink some of the milk. Under fascism, you own the cow, and the government kills you for the milk. [ Thursday, May 19, 2005 19:07: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |