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Also read the articles in the Scenario Workshop. Take them all with a grain of salt, but they are useful in order to get you thinking.

EDIT: here, because it is rather hard to find.

[ Friday, July 02, 2004 09:21: Message edited by: Imbandon ]

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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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KWP Update in Blades of Avernum
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Ah, yes, as I suspected. I forgot to include in the readme -- and realized only after you mentioned that it didn't work -- this:

"This scenario will only work with BoA apps that run Scenario Format Version 2 (Mac v1.1 or Win v1.0 or better). If you don't have that, download the latest patch from Spiderweb."

I use string manipulation in this edition of the HLPM. That will crash Mac BoA v1.0. Get the patch and upgrade.

EDIT: Isaac, I might in the future if someone convinces me that exact levels actually matter. Now that I have the level selection working as a "while" call, it's actually somewhat less clunky, code-wise, although it looks the same to players.

Actually, come to think of it, I could just check individually if it was 5, 10, etc. I probably will do that for the next version.

[ Friday, July 02, 2004 09:12: Message edited by: Imbandon ]

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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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Odd, but interesting in General
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No one could possibly be changing their name to be similar to Imban's. Such an act would be against the CoC, which specifically forbids imitating another member. This does mean, of course, that any resemblances you see are purely the products of your own hallucinatory mind.

[ Thursday, July 01, 2004 20:40: Message edited by: Imbandon ]

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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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Lucien 'Thuryl' McMahon Is Naked in General
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Attached, Thuryl? Not really, no.

And the comparison I've gotten most often (and like the most) is to David Boreanaz.

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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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KWP Update in Blades of Avernum
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GavinFox, interesting thought. I will look into that the next time I do an update.

Fineghal, my first guess is that your download was corrupted. Try re-downloading. If that still doesn't work, let me know your operating system and version of BoA that you're using, and specifically what the error messages say.

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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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For those who are interested... in General
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An attractive young woman posts a picture of herself in these boards, and we're dying to see her...

... roleplaying.

Anyone else find this slightly amusing?

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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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"Wut do u look like 2" in General
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Using the term "gay" as a general descriptor for homosexuality, of course. (I'm from San Francisco; I'm allowed. IMAGE(tongue03.gif) )

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...W..T..F... in General
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WE ARE ALL IMBAN

After seeing the picture of him with the beard, I think I may have nightmares of Imban too.

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Lucien 'Thuryl' McMahon Is Naked in General
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Thuryl is more man than I could ever handle.

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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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"Wut do u look like 2" in General
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Rosy, no one can be 13 and look THAT good.

SD, no, I have nothing to do either with raving or with anime. Fortunately, I am not that person that you know and dislike. I may well be another person that you know and dislike, though IMAGE(rolleyeu.gif) .

Thuryl, oddly enough, I get hit on most by gay girls. And middle school girls. Both of whom are just out of my reach. It is a tad frustrating.

Oh, and there is one solution to great distances: the wonderful invention called the airplane.

IMAGE(wink0000.gif)

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A thought about the line number "bug". in Blades of Avernum Editor
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I am not sure that I am going to be able to make BoA work with every text editor using every setting.
You know, Jeff, all you have to do is guarantee it with a particular free text editor (say, BBEdit Lite for Mac and some other program for Windows) and then say tell everyone that if you don't use those programs, it's your own problem.

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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
A thought about the line number "bug". in Blades of Avernum
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quote:
I am not sure that I am going to be able to make BoA work with every text editor using every setting.
You know, Jeff, all you have to do is guarantee it with a particular free text editor (say, BBEdit Lite for Mac and some other program for Windows) and then say tell everyone that if you don't use those programs, it's your own problem.

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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
Name my web page! in General
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If it wasn't obvious, spy.there, I spell the word "stuff" with one F deliberately.

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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
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moving a pc in Blades of Avernum Editor
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I think relocate_character will do what you want.

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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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moving a pc in Blades of Avernum
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I think relocate_character will do what you want.

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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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"Wut do u look like 2" in General
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http://my.sanbrunocable.com/tomwatts/public_html/me

Um, yeah.

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Shoot. I'll fix that NK0P link when I get real Internet, which should hopefully be in a week. I'm assuming no one is dying to play NK0P, and if they are, just replacing the .sit ending with a .zip should get you the Windows version.

This naming thing also will end a little after I get real Internet, which should be in about a week, so get cracking! I want brilliant suggestions! :P

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Religion, Homosexuality, the Usual in General
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If we don't assume that the Gospels were written with the help of God, then looking at them as purely historical documents, they are a bit sketchy. To the best of my knowledge, the earliest fragmentary copies that we have date from something like 110 or 120 CE (AD for the Christians), and we don't have reasonably complete copies until something like sixty years later. These were recopied (several times) from documents written around 50-70 or so, meaning that the earliest fragmentary copies were recopied forty years after the original writing. On top of that, the Gospels describe events that occurred in around the year 30 and earlier, so they originally written at least twenty years after the fact. And also, they were written in Greek, when Jesus spoke Aramaic, and translation is inherently paraphrase.

Thus, if we take the Gospels to be the work of humans, there's a lot of room in that history for revision, error, or even at the very minimum, interpretation. Also there are considerations that the Gospels are written as arguments (John, for instance, explicitly says that it was written to convince the reader that Jesus was the Christ) and were at minimum written by biased sources, as well as, I'm sure, other issues, too.

By that logic, we know very little about Jesus except that he was a reformer of some kind of the religio-political systems in place in his region at the time. The madman-liar-prophet argument doesn't completely work.

Moreover, using such a loaded word as "madman" is probably the wrong way to go. Being mistaken would probably be a better way to describe the issue (and here I am referring to the logic presented in the book of that name, which is, I assume, your source for this reasoning).

[ Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:30: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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War, war, war! in The Exile Trilogy
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This guy will always be Mr. Sax to me, because of the fun I can have with that name.

Mr ooo ooo rub my saxy body, while your sliths may not be bossed around by the gay Exiles (of which there are a few, Elspeth and Nance being the two that come to mind), I rather think that the rest might have a chance. And I don't know where you got the gay Character Editor, but the regular one will do just fine, too.

I am, of course, assuming that you meant the word "gay" literally. If you meant it as a pejorative, then you are a prejudiced fool, and you are part of a mindset that has tortured millions of human beings needlessly over the course of history, which of course would be something I would never believe of someone as soft-spoken, kind, and gentle as yourself. Therefore, I must assume that you meant the word literally.

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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
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If I'm not mistaken, *i isn't afraid to talk about his scenarios before they are released (judging from the 1239572394 "Gallows Update" topics over in the ancient threads of the Lyceum). Therefore I shall not fear either.

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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
Scenarios currently being worked on in Blades of Avernum
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If I'm not mistaken, *i isn't afraid to talk about his scenarios before they are released (judging from the 1239572394 "Gallows Update" topics over in the ancient threads of the Lyceum). Therefore I shall not fear either.

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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
KWP Update in Blades of Avernum
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I just updated my page with a few new things. Among them: the HLPM v1.0.2, with a couple of changes. First, the Arena, a place to test out the combat abilities of your newly-made party against monsters of approximately your level, or any other level, for that matter. Second, stronger, easier-to-make god parties (because I know that's what everyone really uses this thing for ;) ). Third, easier-to-use shops, with text bubbles over each shopkeeper describing what they sell.

The changes were big enough that I thought about doing a beta, but decided against it at the last minute. My alpha testing was thorough, and there's not too much variety in what you could do here. But if you find a bug, be sure to e-mail me at tomwatts@berkeley.edu.

Another new item: a Scripts section, which right now only has some extremely basic (but very useful) scripts. For the truly script-phobic designer, I have some good stuff there. Search-Step and Search-Block bring back a part of the interface from the Avernum Trilogy. Remember how you just had to walk into wheels to use them? Notice how you have to search them now, because of specobj.txt? Well, Search-Block changes that, and Search-Step does much the same thing. There are a couple of others in there too.

And finally, I posted my notes from re-playing parts of the Avernum Trilogy. They are still in note form, so they may not make much sense, but they point to some places in the trilogy where you can get historical information about Avernum.

Also, I have a naming contest going on over in General. Give me a new name in place of the shabby KWP! (But post it over in General, because I don't need two topics on this.)

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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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Name my web page! in General
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I've had a Blades page for a few months now, but unfortunately, it's been operating under the sad, wimpy title of "Kelandon's Web Page." While KWP has a certain, er, simple charm to it, it doesn't have the oomph of powerhouse Blades pages, like the Lyceum, or the Blazing Blade, or TMU, or even Drakey's page which I will not spell at the current moment. I've tried to come up with something, but I just don't have any good ideas for this. I can't alliterate, because that would give me KKK, and that would be bad. I don't know of anything Latin or Greek that seems appropriate. I just have nothing. So now, I appeal to you.

Announcing the Name Kelandon's Web Page Contest! Winner gets a spiffy prize! That is, um, as soon as I think of one. Give me ideas for the name of my web page! If you want to see its content, just click on the link in my sig.

Bonus points for anyone who uses the acronym KEL for their name.

(Warning: spiffy prize may end up being my eternal gratefulness.)

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Religion, Homosexuality, the Usual in General
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Err, didn't abolish any law? Well, arguably, but he changed some practices (see the prior discussion of the Sabbath, etc).

Sir David, careful there. I said I found it hard to argue with Dolney's perspective, not that I agreed with it, and I said that based only on his single post that indicated great frustration with religions, Christianity in particular. I feel that frustration. If he hates religions irrationally, then obviously I don't agree with him completely, but that's what I meant.

Those couple of passages are interesting. If I remember the article I read correctly, those were the ones explained away as actually against pagan temple practices and pederasty, based on the original Greek, although I can't vouch for that on my own knowledge or as anything more than just a vague recollection.

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Religion, Homosexuality, the Usual in General
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Having given it some thought, I think I should amend/clarify what I said earlier. I have never MET a fundie that didn't annoy me. But I have heard of fundamentalist Christians who have been great human beings. There's an argument to be made that Martin Luther King Jr, for instance, was a fundamentalist Christian. So yeah. I know they're out there, even if I haven't met them.

Anyone who believes marriage is and should be between a man and a woman want to take on Thuryl's question? It seems like an interesting one, and it's just sort of been sitting there.

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