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Rocky's Revival (World of Avernum Factional RP Revival Discussion) in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Sunday, December 16 2007 11:07 Profile Homepage #5
That one probably got purged.

Hooray for this actually happening!

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
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Code Help in Blades of Avernum Editor
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Sunday, December 16 2007 11:05 Profile Homepage #4
block_entry() works on containers? Sweet...

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
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Provide or Hide Character Details in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Saturday, December 15 2007 11:56 Profile Homepage #10
I will admit, something about A4 and A5 that has greatly annoyed me is that the secondary skills no longer get pumped by the primary ones (STR/DEX/INT/END). Having to put that much effort into raising Melee Weapons is annoying.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Spiderweb Release Dates & Other Stuff in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Thursday, December 13 2007 23:54 Profile Homepage #2
Since Azuma doesn't seem to feel very helpful tonight, I can answer your questions.

1) Personally, I do not know. But I feel like the info's around here somewhere.

2) Yes and no. The Geneforge series uses the same engine that Jeff adapted for Avernum 4 and 5, but it had the engine first. There is considerable overlap in terms of graphics (but it's getting better :P ), but the content of the games is worlds apart. Avernum 1-3 uses a different engine than Avernum 4, 5, and Geneforge, one which plays a bit more like Nethergate.

3) Blades of Avernum is based on the engine used in Avernum 1-3 (appropriate, because is was released between 3 and 4). It is based in the same world, though that can vary depending on who made the scenario you're playing. Generally, the community of designers (including myself) decides where Blades of Avernum will go.

So I think a lot of the confusion here is over the Avernum engine, because it changed drastically with the release of Avernum 4. Anyway, hopefully that was helpful.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Amulet in Bavner in The Avernum Trilogy
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Thursday, December 13 2007 19:27 Profile Homepage #12
quote:
Originally written by Excalibur:

Topic necromancy!
...right, let me explain this so that it's perfectly clear. Scorpius had a question. He looked for a similar thread, and found it. It didn't answer his question. So, the choice was either start a new topic, or resurrect the old one.

I see no fault here.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
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Slow Down! in Tech Support
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Thursday, December 13 2007 19:23 Profile Homepage #1
Well, welcome. And while I'm not sure that this board is really the place for you to be asking this, I think it sounds like a problem with the files, not the computer.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Omaha Mall Shooting in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Thursday, December 13 2007 13:42 Profile Homepage #254
quote:
Originally written by Stillness:

Ephesos, I wouldn’t do anything with them. From a personal perspective, I don’t see how chopping into your stuff changes your sex.
This is such a wonderful way to evade the question, it's almost worth framing. But I suppose I can infer from your position that you don't view the life choices of these people as particularly worthwhile, regardless of how significant they can be. I find that kind of funny, given that you seem hellbent on defending the choice to pay thousands of dollars so you can stand in a church and have someone with a weird collar/hat/robe tell you and your other that you can kiss now, not to mention defending the idea that only opposite-sex couples should be allowed that choice.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Omaha Mall Shooting in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Thursday, December 13 2007 10:21 Profile Homepage #245
quote:
Originally written by Stillness:

I guess since we’re talking about what’s legal though, we could go with the legal sex – like what the birth certificate says. I reckon that everyone has one or the other.
Then may I ask what you'd do with transsexual people? Their birth certificate might be grievously incorrect. I'm particularly thinking of pre-op here, because that's logically the biggest gray area.


(I apologize for my abrupt appearance in the discussion. I should be studying/working right now and I don't want to, so I figured I'd see how far afield this thread has wandered. And then I saw that point, and had to chase it.)

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Learning new spells in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Tuesday, December 11 2007 16:44 Profile Homepage #1
Scrolls are in fact only for casting from. You can only learn spells from mages/priests willing to teach them, who are usually few and far between.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Instant death nodes in Blades of Avernum
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Tuesday, December 11 2007 15:10 Profile Homepage #21
I'm glad to see it happening, 'cause it means you're learning Avernumscript. And that means better scenarios down the road, as others have said. As for the specific content of the scenario, well, we'll see... I'm not exactly expecting Pulitzer-winning storytelling here.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
OOC: The Vale RP in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Tuesday, December 11 2007 10:59 Profile Homepage #107
...that's... well, odd. Reminds me of Agrajag.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
I'm back!!! in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Tuesday, December 11 2007 10:56 Profile Homepage #1
You know, you went nuts in A5.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
OOC: The Vale RP in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Monday, December 10 2007 08:47 Profile Homepage #88
quote:
Originally written by Elastikon:

Let's give Goldenking some support here. Even in the Avernum RP he did accept feedback on his ridiculous faction, eventually, and bow out. And his posts demonstrate a clear and substantial increase in maturity since then.
Agreed. Nobody deserves this.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Sunday, December 9 2007 21:08 Profile Homepage #415
[b]DIE.[/b]

All I ask is that you let the search party find me, fast. Really, really, really fast.

EDIT: Failing that, I would rather come back as a zombie than be resurrected as a muffin.

[ Sunday, December 09, 2007 21:14: Message edited by: Ephesos ]

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
OOC: The Vale RP in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Sunday, December 9 2007 12:36 Profile Homepage #69
quote:
Originally written by Iffy:

I have fathered 152 muffins
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Well, good luck folks.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Instant death nodes in Blades of Avernum
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Sunday, December 9 2007 12:34 Profile Homepage #8
quote:
Originally written by Buckshot Party:

Level 100 means little, a GOD firebolt will blast a fire-resistant 2000HP level 100 character into dust with one hit. Then again thats what a GOD party is meant to be able to do but...
Yes, god parties break scenarios and we know this. Everybody knows this.

quote:
As a script ignorant I'd like to know, would it be possible to have a script that would activate a death node that killed a PC if that script was set to kill the PC if his name was thus.
...so you're asking if a script could kill PCs with a certain name? I'm afraid I don't understand what you were trying to say (nor do I understand why you'd do this).

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Sunday, December 9 2007 11:37 Profile Homepage #405
When I get back, you will get yours, sir.

quote:
Originally written by Nioca:

(That said, I'm a little stunned there's a full Wikipedia article dedicated to a three-word phrase from a movie.)
...you're surprised? Really?

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Instant death nodes in Blades of Avernum
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Sunday, December 9 2007 11:35 Profile Homepage #3
If it's a friendly, important character, I can see why this is necessary. If it's just your personal cameo in your scenario, Iffy, then I'd say leave it alone and just make the character be level 100.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
OOC: The Vale RP in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Friday, December 7 2007 11:04 Profile Homepage #27
The 50 lb character is a lich. Thus, mostly skeleton. Therefore, it's not that far-fetched.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
OOC: The Vale RP in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Friday, December 7 2007 09:58 Profile Homepage #23
(reads character intros)

Yipe. Erm... this is... well, odd.

Buckshot's character is definitely anorexic. And... well, this is all very odd. I feel like it looks a bit like SoT's thought experiment about what one of these SW-centric RPs might look like.

Safey, personally I'd like to see you play a non-magic character at some point in the future. Even better, a non-magic good-aligned character. Just food for thought.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
The next level in RP, personal thoughts. in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Thursday, December 6 2007 13:57 Profile Homepage #74
Okay, let me clarify what I mean by what I said. The factions I've mentioned don't necessarily need to be controlled, their presence just needs to be accounted for in some fashion.

And as for starting over, let me say this: [b]NO.[/b] Otherwise, why would anyone who had previously participated come back? They'd just be doing the same thing all over again, but they'd have to do it differently. :P

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
The next level in RP, personal thoughts. in General
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Thursday, December 6 2007 11:00 Profile Homepage #72
Okay, so if I recall correctly, Spring, Thralni and Serith actually wrote their factions out of it. Or they stopped posting... haven't re-read enough of the IC to be sure. But they're moved into the 'gone' category.

Sarachim and Infernal haven't posted in ages, so their factions could probably go. As long as everyone remembers the huge groups of undead and demon worshippers up in the extreme NE corner of Avernum... though I will dearly miss the best post ever, which is required reading for anyone in this RP.

Also, I forgot Sir David had Athron's Ascendancy and that Milla had the Karnold Island League or some-such. And Dikiyoba had a small wandering group of vagabonds in Avernum. Drat. However, Dikiyoba's faction only had two posts, and little significant interaction. Same goes for David, but Milla's faction was a bit more significant.

And I think someone controlled Vahkhos (back again) on Aizo, but that faction also might've been killed already. Which leaves us with this list of factions that need owners or need to be written out:
Knights of Old Avernum (Tyranicus)Adventurer's Guild (TM)The Looters (Wonko the Sane)Righteous Return (Drakey)Order of Kaz (Prem)Karnold Island League (Milla)

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Tree Graphics in Blades of Avernum
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Wednesday, December 5 2007 20:55 Profile Homepage #26
The last one. All of the icons must have a te_icon_offset_y of 0 or something.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Tree Graphics in Blades of Avernum
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Wednesday, December 5 2007 20:26 Profile Homepage #24
I would suggest shifting the icons a bit, 'cause the icons are all being cut off around the bottom. Other than that, looks good.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
9th Blades Contest in Blades of Avernum
Ephesos
Law Bringer
Member # 4153
 written Wednesday, December 5 2007 16:27 Profile Homepage #7
On the grounds that we have very few scenarios out there that weren't either in the 1/10 contest or the 24 hr contest, I'd like to propose that we move the deadline back a bit.

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TM: "I want BoA to grow. Evolve where the food ladder has rungs to be reached."

Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice.
Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00

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