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effects of special skills in Blades of Avernum
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Much of this is a duplication of information in the Player FAQ. I think some of it is new, though.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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Help - Basshikava in Blades of Avernum
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I have a confession: I never actually beat Galthrax legitimately in the release version. I got that far, saw how difficult the fight was, and then used the character editor to make my stats ridiculous for the last fight and watched the ending.

I have no idea how it's done. Maybe Thuryl or someone else can tell you.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum
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Okay, e-mail sent. Everyone on the list above should have received one.

Hotmail likes to bounce back zip files, so PoD person, you may or may not actually be able to receive the scenario at that e-mail address. If it didn't go through and you have another address I can try, let me know and I'll send it to that one.

Everyone else: I don't think beta will take very long with this scenario. It's quite short. I expect to release next weekend.

EDIT: Gmail also likes to bounce back my scenarios. Dallerdin, do you have an alternate address?

[ Saturday, March 26, 2005 22:26: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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HLPM bug in Tech Support
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Well, you can get the spells, you just can't get them at extraordinarily high levels.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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BUGS! in Blades of Avernum Editor
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Another one. This one's beautiful. If you try to use a string variable while nothing's in it (i.e., you forgot the get_buffer_text call), BoA dies. On Mac-BoA v1.1.2, it crashes, gives no error message, and quits. I got this with a message_dialog call, but I imagine a print_str or text bubble would give the same response.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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BUGS! in Blades of Avernum
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Another one. This one's beautiful. If you try to use a string variable while nothing's in it (i.e., you forgot the get_buffer_text call), BoA dies. On Mac-BoA v1.1.2, it crashes, gives no error message, and quits. I got this with a message_dialog call, but I imagine a print_str or text bubble would give the same response.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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An ACTUAL G3 Related Question in Geneforge Series
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Eh, we might as well have only one anxiety topic, and it might as well be the one with the more anxious-sounding title. All posts along the lines of "OH GOD WHEN WILL IT COME OUT I MAY DIE BEFORE THEN" are henceforth to be posted here.

[ Saturday, March 26, 2005 19:26: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum
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None of the combat or puzzles should be seriously difficult. I made every effort to make this scenario a breeze, gameplay-wise. The challenges that you will have to deal with and the complexities that will develop are of a totally different nature.

Anyway, thank you to all who signed up. As I said in the post above, I needed at most two more beyond what I had when I posted this morning, so I will be sending out a beta version to the following people:

Thuryl
Jake "Dallerdin" Scott
Buttered Toast
Pascal
Adam Higuera
Imban
hawk king

I'm expecting to send this out later tonight or possibly sometime tomorrow. Certainly you will receive an e-mail from me within the next forty-eight hours.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
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Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum
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Thuryl: yeah, yeah, I know.

Overwhelming: I think I'm going to hold off on that for the moment.

EDIT: That's five so far. I think I'll take the next two that sign up, and that's it.

[ Saturday, March 26, 2005 05:39: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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Avernum V.S. Exile?? fill me in... in The Avernum Trilogy
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Lake Avernus. Portal to the land of the dead. Roman mythology. Aeneid in particular, Book 6.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum
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Calling all interested beta testers...

I've just began alpha testing a short (8-town) scenario. I'm expecting alpha to happen in one sitting, so I should be able to send out a beta version tomorrow or the next day.

The working title is "The Darkness," but that may change.

No, The Darkness has nothing to do with Bahssikava. It's set in Roman times, but no, it has nothing to do with Nethergate, either (although I do steal some Nethergate graphics here and there).

It has a pre-fab party (sort of) -- details on that when you actually receive the scenario.

Anyway, if you want to beta test, post this information, and be aware that I probably will not take very many testers, since the scenario is quite short:

Name by which you wanted to be credited in the readme:
E-mail address:
Mac or PC:
Beta testing experience (none needed):

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Custom Titles: How Did You Get Yours? in General
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Post count determines regular titles, but some of us have custom titles, because Drakey or Stareye (usually Drakey) felt like letting the whole world know something.

I got my title in Drakey's last titling spree, and it's supposed to go with Aran's. I have no idea what relevance it has to anything, and I can't say I'm particularly fond of it. If I could, I'd donate it to Alorael, who has greater need of it than I do.

[ Friday, March 25, 2005 19:22: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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New Abortion Laws in General
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quote:
Originally written by The Creator:
Well, I sort of agree with you. If I thought that by making abortion illegal there would be more death and suffering, then yes I would stop advocating for abortion to become illegal. But I really don't think this is the case.
I don't happen to have statistics on hand (maybe someone else does), but I do think it's relatively obvious that the slavery analogy doesn't do much to inform this aspect of the discussion. Slavery is not something that a person can do by one's self in an alleyway or in a bathroom or something like that. An abortion is.

The closer analogy would be to, say, alcohol. It's something with a consistent demand, and it can be hidden from the law relatively easily. Prohibition of alcohol in the United States failed rather miserably, and it did little to stop people from drinking alcohol. But by taking away a lot of alcohol treatment programs, it probably made a generation of alcoholics.

It's not too far from that over to abortion: making it illegal wouldn't reduce the demand, and taking away the protections around it would lead to more deaths of pregnant women.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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How Long Must We Endure This Interminable Wait?!? in Geneforge Series
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For the record, Jeff is in Seattle, Washington, where it is currently 6:36 PM. Do your calculations-to-midnight based on that.

Also, early next week is looking likely.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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Geneforge 3 Forum!! in Geneforge Series
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The organized wishlist did get moved. The other monstrous others, though, can only be moved by GF2 mods, namely Drakey, Stareye, and Schro.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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Geneforge 3 Released For Mac! in Geneforge Series
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Alec, that's not nice.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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New Abortion Laws in General
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Overwhelming, whenever you say "opium of the masses," people are going to think you mean "religion." The Karl Marx quote will drown out anything you say.

And, er, a society cannot simultaneously "longer value individual human worth" and also "worship at the feet of the idol Self".

With your self-contradictory histrionics, you've given no coherent argument here, except perhaps that the embryo is different from the woman carrying it. Even if that were true, that still doesn't give any reason to believe that the embryo is a fully alive human.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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I'm willing to drop that line of argument for the moment (not that I actually agree with you, but that I think it's a less useful discussion to have), but you might want to address the points that I addressed to Creator. Those are probably much more significant anyway.

[ Friday, March 25, 2005 13:51: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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New Abortion Laws in General
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quote:
Originally written by Overwhelming:
Anyway, just because one doesn't feel something is wrong, it doesn't make it right.
No, but the fact that a significant percentage of the population of a country doesn't feel that something is wrong means that the thing shouldn't be made illegal.

The number of people that you could find to support the idea that murder or rape is okay is negligible. The number of people that you could find to support the idea that abortion is sometimes okay is not. That is the difference, as far as governmental responsibility goes.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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Geneforge 3 Forum!! in Geneforge Series
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It's here. Go to the upper right part of the GF3 board and set it to display all topics, not just those within the past 30 days or whatever.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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HLPM bug in Tech Support
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At that point, you're as good as making a god party (which the HLPM supports anyway).

You know, I think I'll put in two levels of god parties for a future version, the normal one and a level 150 beefed out party that is good for testing purposes. Shouldn't be too hard.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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New Abortion Laws in General
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(Keeping the responses to Creator and Overwhelming separate...)

Overwhelming, I wish you would stop generalizing the "pro-abortion" crowd as being completely uniform in the most extreme viewpoint possible. Virtually no one supports unlimited abortions at any time during pregnancy. Most people in the U.S. who are pro-choice are pro-Roe v. Wade, which means that we're talking about abortions early in the term, and most of those people also agree that abortion should not be used as the primary form of birth control.

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You might think it’s a question of whether one should impose one’s beliefs on others. However, all laws impose morality — laws against murder and rape impose on murderers and rapists the moral view that murder and rape are wrong!
I've always thought that this counter-argument was silly, but now I recognize why: just about everyone, including most murderers and rapists, believe that murder and rape are wrong. Generally such people believe that they have made a mistake. (Or even if they don't, they believe that such an act in general is a mistake.) However, many people, including those who have had an abortion, do not think that abortion is wrong. Imposing the consequences of shared morality and imposing an external morality are two very different things.

[ Friday, March 25, 2005 09:34: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Creator, attacking the general thrust of a pro-choice argument while pretending that you're addressing my individual points is kind of disingenuous.

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But maybe I missed your point. Maybe you meant that by making abortions illegal it will in fact make things worse, so I sould be satisfied with the status quo.
My point was indeed that I think that a similar number of abortions would happen whether they were illegal or legal, and I think that a significant number of the illegal ones would killed the woman involved, since there would be no doctor supervising.

This may be a cultural difference: I feel relatively certain that this would happen in the United States in the present day, but I am not sure that it would happen in Australia.

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Lets say that one day we developed the technology to grow humans in vats. Would that mean that embryos were human all of a sudden?
If you look back and read carefully, you may notice that I didn't say that the fetuses weren't human. I didn't even say the fetuses weren't alive. I was saying that your previously made equivalence between the dependence of a newborn and the dependence of a fetus is false, which takes that particular piece of your argument apart.

I do think the fetuses aren't fully alive, yet. I think that's a gradual process that happens during the course of the fifth and six months, mostly, when brain activity starts, the heart starts beating, the lungs start breathing, and various other basic human activities begin. (There's a fairly interesting argument to be made that breathing is the most essentially alive part of human activity, since certainly linguistically this is true. This is why "spirit" and "expire" are related to the root that means "breathe.")

But anyway, I digress. The fetus's ability to survive outside the mother with special technology is irrelevant; I was talking about the ability to survive with the same sorts of things that any other human being needed. So no, the fetus wouldn't become alive.

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A person might have an accident and require the special environment of life support in a hospital in order to survive. Does that mean they aren't people anymore?
No, but it might mean that he or she isn't alive anymore. A persistent vegetative state hardly seems like full-fledged human life to me. Even that person would fit the "breathing" definition, and such a person has some brain function -- it's more alive than a two-month-old fetus.

I guess the issue here is that "alive" is not an absolute state. Something can be in the process of becoming alive or in the process of dying. I just think that a fetus, within the first three months, is not yet alive.

I don't think it matters, because I think that even if we were to say that abortion is really murder in all cases, we'd have to look at the situation realistically, and my argument above about making it illegal being worse would still stand. We should put lots of effort into preventing unwanted pregnances rather than trying to ban abortion, and that means genuine sex education, not this abstinence-only BS.

[ Friday, March 25, 2005 09:31: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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How did you first find out about Spidweb's games and what is it first games you play? in General
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Searched for Mac shareware games online. Found Avernum 1.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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Geneforge 3 Forum!! in Geneforge Series
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BSC, your answers are here and kind of here.

Student of Trinity: it's done. Someone (not me) moved it, and now it's at the bottom of the GF3 forum.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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