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written Thursday, January 27 2005 16:08
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A simple search will tell you the answer. For more precise instructions, look at the FAQ in the header to this forum. -------------------- 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 16:08
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A simple search will tell you the answer. For more precise instructions, look at the FAQ in the header to this forum. -------------------- 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 16:06
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People 'round here consider it bad manners. I'm under the impression that it takes more disk space to store two posts containing a certain amount of text than it does to store one post containing the same text, but more importantly, it's just kind of annoying. -------------------- 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 12:35
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Quartz crystals are for repairing the quartz cave in a secret passage north of Cotra. -------------------- 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 12:27
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The Avernaforge :P This sounds very exciting. I have little-to-no C skills, but I do have lots of extra webspace and some experience making BoA scenarios, if there's anyone you need with those sorts of skills or resources. -------------------- 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 12:27
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The Avernaforge :P This sounds very exciting. I have little-to-no C skills, but I do have lots of extra webspace and some experience making BoA scenarios, if there's anyone you need with those sorts of skills or resources. -------------------- 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 06:41
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quote:Except possibly not. He got the "gentleman's C," which means that if you are a gentleman, you get at least C. Certain schools (Stanford is a bit notorious for this, and Yale too) won't fail children of extraordinarily wealthy parents regardless of how poorly they do (well, within reason). That is, those C-'s could be high F's that the teachers raised a bit because of Bush's name. At least, so the reputation goes. And I'd be the first one to point out that SAT scores and grades aren't a perfect indicator of intelligence (and possibly not even a particularly good one), and that intelligence isn't particularly well-defined anyway, except that all other indications (how he talks, etc) suggest that he's not the sharpest marble in the barrel. -------------------- 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 06:23
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No, SkeleTony, you are being closed-minded. The fact is that we can see atoms now with technology that wasn't even conceivable a thousand years ago, but we couldn't see them then. You've never demonstrated why a god that is powerful but not omnipotent, wise but not omniscient, beyond the reaches of current human understanding and therefore present in disparate places but not omnipresent, and not highly interventionist (perhaps even deist: created the universe but doesn't interfere past the point of creation) is illogical. I'd like to see that argument before I change my mind about you being closed-minded. [ Thursday, January 27, 2005 06:34: 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 Wednesday, January 26 2005 13:26
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Oh, another thought: I think an interesting match-up would be between Hillary Clinton and Dick Cheney. Both are exceedingly polarizing figures — there's a sizable number of people who HATE each of them — but both are prominent figures within their parties. I doubt that the R's would be dumb enough to nominate Cheney, but the D's nominated Kerry, so who knows. Maybe H. Clinton vs. Frist. That seems likely. I don't know how that would turn out. My guess is that Clinton would win, but it would be close. -------------------- 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 Wednesday, January 26 2005 13:06
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As far as I can tell, Andrew Miller is saying that it's possible that some sort of divine thing exists, and SkeleTony is saying that one should discount things that are possible but not reasonable certain. That is, I don't think either of you disagree on the degree of possibility involved in the existence of divinity: you both think it is possible but not currently demonstratable. You disagree about what one should think of such things: AM says that one should be open-minded about such possiblities, and SkeleTony says that we should ignore them until they have reasonable evidence supporting them. I think that's a personal preference, not a matter of being right or wrong. But SkeleTony, about the "color" argument: consider atoms. People have been saying that matter consists of atoms since the Ancient Greeks, and although atomic theory has changed dramatically over time, it survived. Little evidence beyond some common sense (matter must be made of something, right?) supported this theory, and no one could sense atoms at all. Modern technology gave us the ability to find them, though — Democritus was right. That is, Democritus more than two thousand years ago made statements that could not be verified by observation but were correct. This is a more proper analogy than color, I would think, since no disability (beyond the simple limitations of our sense) prevents us from seeing atoms, yet we cannot see them, despite the fact that they do exist. Some sort of divine thing could very well be similar. -------------------- 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 Wednesday, January 26 2005 12:45
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Ah, yes, there we go. It has to be Bill Frist. That would infuriate me as much as anything I can think of, so that's probably what the Republicans will choose to do. -------------------- 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 Wednesday, January 26 2005 06:13
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Oh dear god, let it be as good as Dean vs. McCain. I'd be fine with either of those two as president. I sincerely doubt that it will be as pleasant as that. I'm not sure I really like term limits on the executive, but I think the danger of having someone like George W. Bush in charge for more than two terms far overwhelms the potential benefit of having someone like Clinton have more than two terms. I mean, who here doubts that Reagan could've gotten re-elected in '88, even after the Alzheimer's had started to kick in? I'd rather know that someone I hate is getting kicked out after a short while than have the chance to re-elect for a long time someone that I like. -------------------- 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 Wednesday, January 26 2005 06:05
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Drakey, sometimes the money drain in 1) works the other way around. People might not have to work 60 hours per week to make ends meet when they don't have kids, but they might also not anticipate the extra costs involved in raising a family. Someone who could survive on 40 hours per week might find that the only way to make ends meet after having a kid is to work 60 hours per week. It's hard to know exactly how much having a child will cost, too: if the mother is a significant source of income, how soon can she get back to work? Will she be able to work as much as before? Will one need a nanny? How much does that cost? What if the child is born with some sort of disability? [ Wednesday, January 26, 2005 06:05: 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 Tuesday, January 25 2005 22:43
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I suppose I'd like to play both sides of this: I think it's fine for wealthy parents to give their children some advantages, because obviously that's one of the major objectives in many people's lives, and people who do manage to be rich might as well have some advantages. However, I think we'd have a more productive society if people who wanted to be truly fabulously wealthy needed to earn it themselves, rather than just inherit it. That's why I'd put some sort of cap on inheritance: I have little objection to wealthy parents going on nice vacations with their kids or whatever, but I do have a problem with people who inherit estates valued with eight digits or more and not only don't have to work a day in their lives, but can live in rather spectacular opulence without working a day in their lives. That sort of person seems far more lazy to me than a person who has trouble finding a job that pays much better than minimum wage and therefore has to work ten or twelve hours per day just to afford enough for a residence and food for a family. The overwhelming majority of the poor are not lazy; there is essentially no way for many of them to earn more money than they do. School is out of the question when you work an average of sixty or seventy hours per week, especially if that job is manual labor or working with one's hands in any way. But more importantly, the entire last paragraph isn't essential to my argument: my argument is simply that allowing people to inherit incredible riches is probably a bad idea. My idea of a good inheritance system is that one should have to earn significant wealth for one's self, and one can leave a reasonable sum to one's children, but only enough to last them their lives at a reasonably modest standard of living. You shouldn't be able to make your kids rich, just to leave them with a few advantages. -------------------- 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 Tuesday, January 25 2005 19:27
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Given that this list has been replaced by a better list elsewhere, I just fixed that one instead. -------------------- 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 Tuesday, January 25 2005 17:46
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Given that these are individual web pages and not collections of pages of topics anymore, if you have something and zip it, it shouldn't be larger than a few kilobytes now. There is a list of missing pages at the top of this thread. -------------------- 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 Tuesday, January 25 2005 17:41
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For the sake of completeness, here's a description for a FAQ: ------------ SPECIAL SKILLS In BoA, when your basic skills reach high enough levels, your characters can train in new, special skills. These skills have effects as follows: Parry: Grants the character a chance to reduce the damage from a melee or missile attack. The more of this skill the character has, the more damage is deflected. Blademaster: A Blademaster will get bonuses when using any sort of hand-to-hand weapon. The more of this powerful skill you have, the more likely you are to hit and the more damage you will do. Anatomy: Intimate knowledge of anatomy will help you with First Aid and aid you when fighting humanoids. Your blows will do more damage against humans and similar species. [The races affected are: human, humanoid, nephil, slith, and giant.] Gymnastics: Nimbleness in combat is a great advantage. This skill makes you a leaping, spinning, fighting machine. Gymnastics skill makes you harder to hit and helps you act faster in combat. Quick Strike: Affects how quickly you react in combat. The more of this skill you have, the faster you act. This skill also gives you a small chance to get bonus action points. Pathfinder: Pathfinder skill helps you find your way through hostile terrain. Your chance of being poisoned or diseased by swamps and the like is reduced. The more of this skill you have, the better the effect. Magery: Knowledge of Magery gives you intimate familiarity with the secret ways of magic. Any spell you cast will be more effective. The more you have, the better the bonus. [This also increases Willpower, which gives a %5 Mental resistance for each level.] Resistance: You have learned how to evade magical attacks. The more of this skill you have, the higher the chance of hostile magic (like fire and cold) doing less damage to you. [This increases each of the resistance additional skills: Magic Resistance, Poison Resistance, Willpower, and Resist Elements.] Magical Efficiency: Your ability to focus your mind enables you to channel magic more effectively. Whenever you cast a spell, there is a chance that you won’t spent all the mana you normally would. Lethal Blow: When attacking a foe much weaker than you with a melee weapon, this skill gives you a small chance of killing it outright. [A "lethal blow" actually just does a really large amount of damage, which may or may not really be deadly.] Riposte: This skill enables you to occasionally turn an attack back on a foe that is swinging at you. The higher the skill, the better the chance of success. Sharpshooter: This skill makes you much more effective with missile weapons. They will have a better chance to hit and do more damage. [This affects missile weapons and thrown weapons.] Dread Curse: Someone got very angry with you, angry enough to give you a powerful curse. You will be a little bit worse at everything you do until you find someone who can remove the curse. Unfortunately, an ordinary healer won’t be sufficient. [Every skill is in effect reduced by the level of this skill.] The skills required to train in them are these: Parry: Dex 8, Defense 6 Blademaster: Melee 6, Pole 6, Strength 8 Anatomy: Intelligence 6, Melee or Pole 8 Gymnastics: Strength 8, Dex 10 Quick Strike: Dexterity 8, Melee or Pole Weapons 6 Pathfinder: Int 8, Nature Lore 6 (note that base Nature Lore depends on Intelligence) Magery: Int 10, Mage or Priest Spells 6 Resistance: Dex 10, Endurance 11, Hardiness 8 Magical Efficiency: Magery 8, End 11 Lethal Blow: Anatomy 8, Blademaster 8 Riposte: Parry 8, Blademaster 6 Sharpshooter: Dex 6, Bows or Thrown Weapons 8 Dread Curse: gained through events in the scenario NOTE: You need bought values at these levels, not base values. BoA keeps track of three values of skills: bought, base, and total. Bought values are how many times you've trained a skill. Base values are values influenced by race, items, and other skills. Total is the sum of the two, which is what's displayed on your stats sheet. For example, base Nature Lore rises by one point for every two points that Intelligence rises, and if an item were to have the special ability "+2 Nature Lore," that would raise the character's base value of Nature Lore while equipped. Also, nephils get bonuses to base Dexterity, for example. Also, your characters have minimum bought values of 2 Strength, 2 Dexterity, 2 Intelligence, and 3 Endurance. This means that you have a minimum base value of 1 Nature Lore, which means that you have to raise your total Nature Lore to at least 7 to get Pathfinder (higher if your Intelligence is above 3). -------- EDIT: Fixed the descriptions. [ Tuesday, January 25, 2005 19:22: 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 Tuesday, January 25 2005 17:25
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ooooohhhh that kind of makes sense now -------------------- 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 Tuesday, January 25 2005 16:11
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From one of the walkthroughs linked to in the forum's header: "You'll emerge at a room containing a Doomguard. You must attack it... but here's the catch: you have to kill one Doomguard to open the portcullis. Position all your PCs next to the gate, then kill one Doomguard. Ignore the ones that split off. Exit fight mode, then run straight for the portcullis and through the tunnel to the stairs. Take them, and you'll be in Blackcrag Fortress." -------------------- 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 Tuesday, January 25 2005 14:47
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As long as you tell Mr. Bixler what each graphic is (a PC graphic, a PC portrait, etc), I'm pretty sure he'll take anything. -------------------- 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 Tuesday, January 25 2005 14:25
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I suggest that you send this to the Louvre, which can always use more good graphics like this. -------------------- 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 Tuesday, January 25 2005 14:23
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TM, not everyone hates Jeff Vogel's games. Yes, I have played APF, and I enjoyed A3 much, much more. APF is good, but I liked A3 better. From what I hear of Canopy, I will have liked A3 much better than it once I've played it, too. -------------------- 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 Tuesday, January 25 2005 14:13
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I think there are logical contradictions involved in being omnipotent, and probably in being omniscient, too. I think there's some sort of Catholic theology from some point (Aquinas, maybe? don't know) that says that although good exists independent of God, God loves good and things that are good and nice and pretty and wonderful, so he tries to make everyone do good whenever possible and he pets happy bunnies and that sort of thing. And he's not all-powerful, just super-powerful, avoiding the dangerous contradictions involved in omnipotence. -------------------- 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 Tuesday, January 25 2005 14:01
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I think I finally have adequate cause to lock this topic. DIE. -------------------- 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 Tuesday, January 25 2005 13:58
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I disagree. -------------------- 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 |