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Specobj not working! in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Saturday, July 17 2004 17:12 Profile Homepage #5
Well, you could always toss in my Search-Block instead, which IMHO you should do anyway....

I doubt the problem is within specobj itself. Re-check the memory cell, re-check your spelling of specobj, re-check the town state, make sure the town script is actually running at the time and not stopped by an error somewhere else. I don't know what else it could be, but those are the obvious things to look at.

Oh, and to make sure that state 20 isn't being called at all, stick a print_str on the front of it that says something distinctive. That's screwed me up a few times -- I had a one-time whose flag was mixed up with another one-time's flag, so it just never activated at all.

EDIT: And for the record, I have never heard of a "panal." I've heard of a "panel," though.

[ Saturday, July 17, 2004 17:13: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

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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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Is there? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Saturday, July 17 2004 16:41 Profile Homepage #4
Special abilities. Yes. You can fake any creature ability you can name (except that it won't actually do the missile animations for fireballs etc, grrr). It will only work with the one scenario in which the ability was defined, though.

EDIT: This post may appear redundant, but I can affirm these statements pretty much for certain, which it didn't appear that anyone previous did.

[ Saturday, July 17, 2004 16:42: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

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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
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Avernum 4 or Nethergate 2 in General
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Saturday, July 17 2004 16:37 Profile Homepage #4
I hope it's N2, but I highly doubt that it is. After the mention in the Wrap about A4 being likely and the mailing list message about a series that had been waiting for a long time to be continued, I think it's A4. If it were N2, I don't think he'd be so careful with his phrasing.

There are right ways and wrong ways to make an A4, and while I hope that his apparent change of perspective with regards to Blades (as evidenced in his actions regarding fixing debug mode and line numbers, and his statements in the Wrap) is enough that he has chosen a right way to make A4, I doubt it. It would mean keeping abreast of BoA scenarios and keeping in communication with the community about our plotlines. While he has improved since BoE, I don't know if he's improved that much.

Nethergate 2, on the other hand, could be really cool.

EDIT: Alo also said that he's positive that it's A4. I don't know if he's just had too much skribbane, but if he's sure, I'll take his word for it. And I have similar doubts to his about how well a direct sequel to Nethergate would work, but it seems like the Nethergate universe would be a better one in which to work than the Avernum one.

[ Saturday, July 17, 2004 17:06: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

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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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My Scenario Ideas in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Saturday, July 17 2004 09:43 Profile Homepage #3
I second that. Making your monsters bigger and uglier doesn't make them any more interesting. Making them have something to do with the plot does, and giving them new, strange abilities can.

However, it depends a bit on your definition of "high level" -- BoA's monsters can go up at least to level 100, so keeping it to a level 40 scenario is probably fine, if done carefully.

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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
AGE? HOW OLD ARE WE? in General
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Saturday, July 17 2004 09:38 Profile Homepage #56
Woah, a person from Oakland! Hi there.

Er, to have actual content in this post: age is not really all in the mind, even on the Internet. Certain people seem to have different levels of emotional maturity, and it seems to correlate almost perfectly with age. That's how I can guess people's ages even without seeing anything more than their posts.

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Northern Kingdom 0: Prologue
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Specobj not working! in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Saturday, July 17 2004 09:19 Profile Homepage #3
Have you mucked with it at all? You may wish to replace this copy of specobj with another copy that you have somewhere else, one that you know that you haven't touched.

This is a copy of specobj that works:
// specobj.txt - This very simple script waits until this object is searched. When it
// is, calls a given special node in the current town's script.

// Memory Cells -
// 0 - Number of a state in the town script. This is the state that is called when the item is used.
// 1,2 - Coordinates for a stuff done flag. If these are 0 and 0, ignored. Otherwise,
// is the given flag is non-zero, nothing happens when the object is used.

beginterrainscript;

variables;

body;

beginstate INIT_STATE;

break;

beginstate START_STATE;
break;

beginstate SEARCH_STATE;
if ((get_memory_cell(1) > 0) || (get_memory_cell(2) > 0))
if (get_flag(get_memory_cell(1),get_memory_cell(2)) > 0) {
print_str_color("You can't do anything with this anymore.",2);
end();
}

run_town_script(get_memory_cell(0));

break;


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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
Specobj not working! in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Saturday, July 17 2004 09:19 Profile Homepage #3
Have you mucked with it at all? You may wish to replace this copy of specobj with another copy that you have somewhere else, one that you know that you haven't touched.

This is a copy of specobj that works:
// specobj.txt - This very simple script waits until this object is searched. When it
// is, calls a given special node in the current town's script.

// Memory Cells -
// 0 - Number of a state in the town script. This is the state that is called when the item is used.
// 1,2 - Coordinates for a stuff done flag. If these are 0 and 0, ignored. Otherwise,
// is the given flag is non-zero, nothing happens when the object is used.

beginterrainscript;

variables;

body;

beginstate INIT_STATE;

break;

beginstate START_STATE;
break;

beginstate SEARCH_STATE;
if ((get_memory_cell(1) > 0) || (get_memory_cell(2) > 0))
if (get_flag(get_memory_cell(1),get_memory_cell(2)) > 0) {
print_str_color("You can't do anything with this anymore.",2);
end();
}

run_town_script(get_memory_cell(0));

break;


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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
Signatures... in General
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 18:33 Profile Homepage #14
GIFTS, he is Alorael. He used to have that as his displayed name, but now he changes his displayed name every day. The name-changing thing is just in protest of his having reached the level of "Your Postliness" without ever having gotten a custom title. It's kind of like a temper tantrum, but, um, not.

He isn't two people. He just does this "custom sig" thing. I will demonstrate.

-Kelandon, who is demonstrating a custom sig. This is just a demonstration. If this were a real imitation of Alo's custom sig, sniping would follow.

[ Friday, July 16, 2004 18:34: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

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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
need help on the Blades of Avernum editor in Tech Support
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 16:42 Profile Homepage #2
Is it just me, or does this question come up quite a lot?

You are using a PC, I gather? I can't be terribly useful in that case, but I can add that most likely your editor is not in the right folder. Be sure to move ONLY the exe (not the whole folder) into the Data folder.

EDIT: RC beat me to it. If you actually are using a Mac, it goes in the Blades of Avernum Files folder.

[ Friday, July 16, 2004 16:42: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

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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
Were the Vhanitia things in Avernum 1? in The Avernum Trilogy
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 16:37 Profile Homepage #1
How hard is it to spell vahnatai? Sigh.

Yes and no. There was a strange cavern (possibly going by the name "Strange Cavern," possibly not, don't remember) in the northwest of A1 that was clearly made by the vahnatai. However, there were no living, awake vahnatai beings in A1.

EDIT: I think there were other references to them, also, come to think of it. But no vahnatai themselves.

[ Friday, July 16, 2004 16:38: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

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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
Fallout 3 in General
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 14:34 Profile Homepage #20
I don't know where you're from, Demonslayer, but to the best of my knowledge, it is not August 3rd anywhere yet.

EDIT: Just in case anyone misses the point.
quote:
Originally written by The Demonslayer:
I just got my new PCGamer magazine in the mail today... and those lucky SOBs got an exclusive, pre-release review session of DooM3. 94%, which means it doesn't suck. I honestly had doubts that DooM3 would be as great as I had hoped. Come August 3rd, I guess I'll find out just how great of a 94 it really is.


[ Friday, July 16, 2004 14:36: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

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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
AGE? HOW OLD ARE WE? in General
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 14:05 Profile Homepage #42
Nah, I find it interesting to know that Drakey is actually five years old.

Besides, I can usually guess people's ages after a handful of posts. It doesn't really affect my judgment of that person, but it is an interesting side-note.

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Rate my scenarios!
Northern Kingdom 0: Prologue
High Level Party Maker
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Is it just me - or... in General
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 13:49 Profile Homepage #8
Back in the dark days of well, everything prior to February '04, when I wasn't a part of these boards, I got all my SW news through the newsletter. That's how I knew when a new game was out. It was slow, but I was in no real hurry.

EDIT: And it appears that he's making Avernum 4. Um, post your, um, thoughts on this over in this topic.

[ Friday, July 16, 2004 13:50: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

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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
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 13:25 Profile Homepage #25
Heck, I'll host it, if no one else does. It'd be nice if Spiderweb's site would do it, though -- it'd be cool to have an "editors" page the way that we have a scenarios page.

[ Friday, July 16, 2004 13:26: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

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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
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 13:25 Profile Homepage #25
Heck, I'll host it, if no one else does. It'd be nice if Spiderweb's site would do it, though -- it'd be cool to have an "editors" page the way that we have a scenarios page.

[ Friday, July 16, 2004 13:26: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

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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
TESTERS REQUIRED FOR A VERY SIMPLE SCENARIO! in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 13:06 Profile Homepage #105
Oh dear god. It has RENTAR-IHRNO in it? You have to be kidding me.

Oh well. It had to happen sometime.

EDIT: And by the looks of it, you'll be lucky to get a 3.0 out of even the general Spiderweb audience. Don't count on ratings of any kind from anyone -- which is always good Blades advice, really.

[ Friday, July 16, 2004 13:08: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

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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
AGE? HOW OLD ARE WE? in General
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 12:45 Profile Homepage #30
I'm 19, and I can remember being 11, and no, it wasn't pretty, either. I can imagine wishing to be 25 when I'm 50, but not wishing to be a 11 again.

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Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!! (The home of BoA's HLPM v1.1!)

Rate my scenarios!
Northern Kingdom 0: Prologue
High Level Party Maker
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Undecided in General
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 12:36 Profile Homepage #17
Uh, TM, I think he meant with regard to bugs, which is the exact lack of support that infuriated His Alcritas-ness so much. As for outdated, well, the graphics are, but not much more so than anything else that Spiderweb produces. Gameplay is king in the Spiderweb universe -- except possibly in Blades, where plot and coding may very well be oligarchs.

EDIT: And with regard to an earlier post, A3 does not quite have the same system as BoA, namely with regard to scripts. BoA can do much more elaborately complicated things -- which means that A3's interface is much more consistently the same than BoA's.

[ Friday, July 16, 2004 12:39: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

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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
Suggestion for the quest engine in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 12:32 Profile Homepage #6
Fifty quests seems like plenty to me, but then, I'm not making a big fat epic right now. For most small- to- medium-length scenarios, I would think that one could implement this without too much trouble.

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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
The extra party members in Blades of Exile
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 12:05 Profile Homepage #5
It's hard, but TM pulled it off in NTH, which has no password, so you can look at his code.

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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
Signatures... in General
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 11:52 Profile Homepage #5
I have a signature because otherwise more people would ask, "What is this High Level Party Maker that you're talking about?" I get that too much already.

Oh, and NK0P needs a little publicity every now and then. :P

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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
The extra party members in Blades of Exile
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 11:42 Profile Homepage #3
It's definitely not a secret, but it's also a jumble of advanced noding. I think this article (and probably others over at the Designer's Forum) will help.

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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
This has been eating at me forever... (DMII) in Blades of Exile
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 11:34 Profile Homepage #1
Run. Or don't agree to go at all. (I think.)

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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
Editor in The Avernum Trilogy
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 11:31 Profile Homepage #1
It's actually inside the game, not a separate program. Look in the main menu for "Character Editor."

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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
Character Editor--Dumbfounded in The Avernum Trilogy
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Friday, July 16 2004 11:23 Profile Homepage #1
If you wait long enough -- and I mean a LOOOOOOOONG time, it will go away on its own. Or you could give another character Unshackle Mind and enough Priest Spells to cast it.

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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

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