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Where can i find the "Give Special Item", etc etc in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, January 30 2005 13:37
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The normal items are in corescendata2.txt (in the BoA Files folder) and in the custom objects files in each scenario (so valleydydata.txt, for instance). -------------------- 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 |
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written Sunday, January 30 2005 05:57
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quote:Put simply, no. There are ways for developing a system of morality without any sort of authority, ways that allow for certain things to be ambiguous (which is why people disagree). You may not know of any, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist. I won't go into it exactly, but those ways are certainly out there. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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 |
Unregistered Version Of Exile 3 in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Saturday, January 29 2005 21:59
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It was a dark and stormy night, Alo, and Stareye had had a few too many drinks... :P In all seriousness, even in the AT I do vastly more work with walkthroughs than I do with the games themselves, at least in terms of providing hints, and I do actually have registered copies of those games. I can still read a walkthough for the ET despite not having registered, and there's where I get almost all of my information anyway. [ Saturday, January 29, 2005 21:59: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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 |
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written Saturday, January 29 2005 15:42
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I meant a "god" by the common usage of the word, not any particular kind of god. A deistic god works just as well to support my point, which is simply that science has nothing to say on the issue of gods. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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 |
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written Saturday, January 29 2005 15:27
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The restriction was also on "modern" scientists, which I take to be someone in the twentieth century or later. I don't know of anyone famous offhand — Stephen Hawking apparently believes in something relatively abstract, for instance — but I'm sure they're there. EDIT: Why discout deistic belief, anyway? A deistic god is still a god. [ Saturday, January 29, 2005 15:33: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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 |
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written Saturday, January 29 2005 15:24
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It's at the very bottom of the menu, "Free Extras." -------------------- 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 |
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written Saturday, January 29 2005 14:45
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quote:Me, oddly enough. :P -------------------- 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 |
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written Saturday, January 29 2005 14:43
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Stareye, I wasn't actually saying that science proves God, but that science doesn't disprove God. The most obvious example of a scientist with religious beliefs is Einstein, as you undoubtedly know, but I'm sure there are many others. I didn't mean that all scientists are religious, but just that many of them are, and not just fringe ones, but many of the most respected. Many of the most respected scientists are atheists, too. I mean only that it seems unlikely based on this that science would disprove the existence of any sort of god, not that it would provide any sort of evidence in favor of one. My stance here is that science has nothing to say on the issue of gods, either for or against. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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 |
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written Saturday, January 29 2005 07:24
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quote:I am giving you a third concept of a "god": a powerful, invisible being. That's a god in the traditional sense, the way the ancient Greeks, Romans, Hindus, and many others thought of a god. If you want further definition of what I mean, I refer you to those forms of religion for their definitions of gods. In order to completely discount divinity, you must provide some sort of reason why that kind of god cannot not exist. Otherwise you can only say that an all-powerful, all-present, all-knowing God doesn't seem logically possible, but gods could exist, and while they are not necessarily the most likely explanations of events — nor the most useful — they are possible. quote:I would've thought that the onus was on you, because you're trying to disprove a commonly held (or at least controversial). In order to do that, you would have to define your term and then refute it. I claim that your definition of "God" above is terrible and does fit the normal usage of the word. A god can just be a powerful, invisible, intelligent being — the humanoid intelligence is what distinguishes it from any sort of natural phenomena. If science were necessarily atheistic, then why have the best scientists often been religious? Let me draw an analogy. One person looks at a flower and says, "It's beautiful." Another person looks at it and says, "No, it's not." Does science have any interest in this situation or ability to render judgment on which one is right? Obviously not. But why? The critical point here is that no experiments can be done that would demonstrate the truth or falsity of either claim. Does science then indicate that the flower is not beautiful? No, science doesn't suggest an answer one way or another, because no data can be gathered. Similarly, no data can be gathered on "gods" at this point. Does science then render the judgment that gods can't exist? I know what your objection is going to be: the description of the flower is a qualitative one, whereas the existence of a being is a quantitative one (a binary, where 0 is non-existence and 1 is existence). I would suggest, though, that this difference is not the crucial point; rather, the similar lack of ability to test is important. quote:The same "definition" as in the previous sentence: the definition (by standard usage) of the word "god." quote:That is exactly what you said. You said, "T[h]e only grounds I would bother contesting your hypothetical god is if you are saying it is 'wise' but has no physical brain. Sentience is a property emergent from brained entities. Something cannot have brain functions and lack a brain." If "Sentience is a property emergent from brained entities" doesn't obviously indicate "The only possible sentience emerges from brain activity," then what on earth does it mean? Let me summarize my objections so that we don't get bogged down in details. You have claimed, from a number of different branches of thought, that no gods exist. (If this is not your claim, you may wish to state explicitly what you're arguing before you scream "STRAWMAN!!11" hysterically.) You have used logic and science to try to back up your claim. I argue that science has nothing to say on the matter either way, and logic doesn't disprove the existence of gods by the normal definition, despite pointing out some contradictions in the specific case of one popular kind of god, the second kind of god in your examples above. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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 |
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written Saturday, January 29 2005 06:41
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Am I right in thinking that while Jeff designs the engines for these games, all three of them contribute to the plotlines, making towns and stuf? He made some reference about how he had to finish the GF3 engine because his employees really needed something to do, which gave me the impression that he makes the engines, but they also fill in the details. The About Us page on the web site has lots of good information about Spiderweb and where it comes from. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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 |
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written Friday, January 28 2005 19:31
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There's an option in the character editor that says, "Open Guarded Tunnel Doomguard Gate." You may wish to use this. Back up your save file, of course. For the golems, you need to enter the Tower of Shifting Floors. Have fun. :P If you need help, there's a walkthough here. That dungeon is hard, from what I understand. EDIT: Well, whatever. The link is in the forum's header, too. [ Saturday, January 29, 2005 06:43: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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 |
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written Friday, January 28 2005 19:19
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I already turned off smart quotes, but the problem is that BBEdit Lite doesn't automatically convert smart quotes back into normal quotes when I'm pasting from something else, like Word (for Bahssikava) or Safari (for the FAQ). I added that BoE scenarios don't work on BoA. I feel that Dahak's additions belong in a different place (the articles, probably). -------------------- 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 |
Trainer in Geneforge Series | |
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written Friday, January 28 2005 17:30
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To the best of my knowledge, there is no trainer for GF1. There's one for GF2, but that doesn't do you much good. -------------------- 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 |
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written Friday, January 28 2005 17:30
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To the best of my knowledge, there is no trainer for GF1. There's one for GF2, but that doesn't do you much good. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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 |
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written Friday, January 28 2005 17:19
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And we need not really argue that he was hallucinating. With a lot of ambient noise (waves), one can find patterns that sound like familiar sounds — hence, hearing one's name. The angles at the beach were probably such that the person could have disappeared subtlely. However, it's probably important to note that without real evidence, all that one can do is just speculate, NOT conclude. It could have been a miracle; we don't know. EDIT: That second paragraph is intended at those who seem to miss that detail on a regular basis, which does not include most of the people posting in this thread. [ Friday, January 28, 2005 17:29: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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 |
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written Friday, January 28 2005 15:19
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It took me entirely longer than it should have to figure out what you were talking about. The scroll is not past that tower. It's in the Strange Cave east of Bargha and south of the Giant Castle. Do you have the Orb of Thralni yet? If not, you need to find that first. -------------------- 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 |
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written Friday, January 28 2005 14:34
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Shotts is a proud member of the Hall of Infamy. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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 |
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written Friday, January 28 2005 07:01
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quote:I thought it was obvious. The description in my post above is the most reasonable (and until fairly recently, most widely accepted) idea of a god, and it logically followed from a number of posts that had already been made, but you had ruled it out without discussion. The only way that you can deny the possibility of something without being closed-minded is to define exactly what that something is and then demonstrate why any version of it is completely impossible. You have not done that for divine beings yet. quote:You seem to have drawn the wrong conclusion from this, though. Science is inherently agnostic, not atheistic: science can only disbelieve in something if there's evidence against it. Philosophy can disbelieve in something without evidence, but that's something else again. Occam's Razor does not tell us what is true in the absence of evidence; it merely tells us what our working assumptions ought to be in the absence of evidence. God is a non-falsifiable hypothesis. Science neither believes nor disbelieves in such things. quote:So are you saying that it's possible? That's a normal definition of a god, you know. That's the idea that you'd have to deal with if you wanted to say that there cannot possibly be gods of any kind, because that fits well within the definition. quote:You can't possibly know that with certainty. That's a statement that I'm not willing to accept. The only sentience that we know of right now emerges from brain activity, but to say that this is the only possible sentience is the epitome of the mistake that you have been accused of earlier, thinking that what we know now is all that there is to know. [ Friday, January 28, 2005 07:05: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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 |
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written Friday, January 28 2005 06:38
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quote:The reason for the anger is Jeff's repeated condescension and broken promises towards the BoE community. There are many, many known bugs in BoE, and they've been known for years. In the documentation that comes with BoE (even now), Jeff says that he will fix bugs. He doesn't. I think it's hard to understand unless you've actually experienced the frustration involved in setting up an elaborate, beautiful design for a sequence of nodes or a puzzle or whatever and watching it fail when you test it not because of your own design but because of a bug in BoE itself. His support for BoE has been atrocious in other ways, too. Scenarios just randomly disappear off the Spiderweb tables. The ratings on the SW tables are a complete joke, and we've suggested ways to improve them (and even made a better ratings site, out of frustration). The first scenario design contest was called "the First Annual Scenario Design Contest," and a text file still comes with the BoE download describing it, but SW never actually lived up to the "annual" part of the contest. Jeff no longer even replies to e-mails about articles on the web site. And probably the worst part is that when we write to him about this, when we complain about anything, he claims that his support for BoE has been "strong," and that no one actually wants him to make any changes to how he handles BoE. He even says that players wouldn't like a comprehensive bug fix to BoE, because it's too much trouble to download a patch. (Never mind that they're downloading scenarios all the time.) There are many more reasons that people are angry with Jeff, but his truly miserable support for BoE over the course of seven years has been a major reason for that anger. EDIT: And yes, Stareye has a lot more authority on this than I do. [ Friday, January 28, 2005 07:32: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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 |
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quote:The reason for the anger is Jeff's repeated condescension and broken promises towards the BoE community. There are many, many known bugs in BoE, and they've been known for years. In the documentation that comes with BoE (even now), Jeff says that he will fix bugs. He doesn't. I think it's hard to understand unless you've actually experienced the frustration involved in setting up an elaborate, beautiful design for a sequence of nodes or a puzzle or whatever and watching it fail when you test it not because of your own design but because of a bug in BoE itself. His support for BoE has been atrocious in other ways, too. Scenarios just randomly disappear off the Spiderweb tables. The ratings on the SW tables are a complete joke, and we've suggested ways to improve them (and even made a better ratings site, out of frustration). The first scenario design contest was called "the First Annual Scenario Design Contest," and a text file still comes with the BoE download describing it, but SW never actually lived up to the "annual" part of the contest. Jeff no longer even replies to e-mails about articles on the web site. And probably the worst part is that when we write to him about this, when we complain about anything, he claims that his support for BoE has been "strong," and that no one actually wants him to make any changes to how he handles BoE. He even says that players wouldn't like a comprehensive bug fix to BoE, because it's too much trouble to download a patch. (Never mind that they're downloading scenarios all the time.) There are many more reasons that people are angry with Jeff, but his truly miserable support for BoE over the course of seven years has been a major reason for that anger. EDIT: And yes, Stareye has a lot more authority on this than I do. [ Friday, January 28, 2005 07:32: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. 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 |
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written Thursday, January 27 2005 22:02
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Same cause. I copied and pasted that description out of ResEdit strings in the BoA app itself into a post on these boards, and then copied and pasted from these boards into a text document. It became a "smart" quote somewhere along the line, which apparently both web browsers and BoA can't handle. It's fixed, anyway. EDIT: By all means, if you find typos anywhere in the site, let me know. [ Thursday, January 27, 2005 22:02: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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 |
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written Thursday, January 27 2005 21:04
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Special skills added. I have homework to do now, but feel free to suggest whatever you like and I'll look over the suggestions later and add them as needed. -------------------- 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 |
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written Thursday, January 27 2005 20:11
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In the southeast, as I recall. Ah, yes, in the far southeast corner. -------------------- 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 |
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written Thursday, January 27 2005 18:36
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Because I get kind of tired of answering the same questions over and over again, and I'm sure others do too, I wrote a BoA Players' FAQ. Feel free to link to it in answer to any of the questions that are posted there. Also, I'm willing to add answers to other frequently asked questions. Additionally, I have a BoA Designers' FAQ, too. These are probably even more common questions and probably even more annoying. [ Thursday, January 27, 2005 20:06: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- 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 |
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Spiderweb's page is only missing two scenarios as yet: Death at Chapman's, available from Erik Westra's page, and Canopy, available from TMU. -------------------- 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 |