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| Displayed name | Ephesos |
| Member number | 4153 |
| Title | Law Bringer |
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| Registered | Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, March 19 2007 16:38
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quote:That's an awful lot of territory for one god... and we've already got a god of Death. Personally, I'd prefer it if you could pick one of the three. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Monday, March 19 2007 12:34
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quote:If I didn't know better, I'd say you were about to take his bait. Don't. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Monday, March 19 2007 07:39
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I can stand it, I'm just confused. Are you going with the "ascending mortal" idea? 'Cause otherwise, I don't quite get it. And I'm getting a feeling that geography is going to be an issue shortly... we might want to start thinking about a map. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Monday, March 19 2007 07:35
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quote:...this is going to sound really stupid. Are you in combat mode? Or in the outdoors? Where are you when you can't access all the spells? If you're in the outdoors, Far Sight and Light are the only ones that should show up for a mage, but that's the only situation I can think of where that makes sense. Unless you didn't actually learn the spells, in which case you should try giving them to your mage via the character editor. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 18 2007 20:54
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Sliros stirred in his sleep. --------- Zeth sprinted down a familiar set of alleyways back to the Joth district, risking an occasional glance over his shoulder to check that he wasn't being followed. Even though he didn't see anything, he tried to run faster. The last thing he wanted was to be caught, and yet he couldn't fully articulate why. Left. Left. Nice mirror, shame they threw that out, need to come back for it. Right fork, straight, third door. Cut through the kitchen, say hi to Frank... Zeth thought as he cut through the kitchen of one of the most prestigious restaurants in Kirwood. He said hi to Frank. As he burst out the kitchen's back door, he heard a muffled yell accompanied by snickering from down another alley. It wasn't on his route, but so many years in Kirwood had given Zeth a sense of curiosity that would've killed a dozen cats. It usually benefited him, if only because it meant that he'd always have something to try and sell in the marketplace. He rounded the corner, and was greeted by the sight of three nondescript armed men standing over his friend Jerome. Like Zeth, Jerome had fallen on hard times when he was implicated in a case of government corruption that he actually had no part in. Nonetheless, his property was seized, his family all but disowned him, and he was forced to take up residence in Joth like Zeth had. The two never talked that much, despite living in the same abandoned building. There were many people living in Joth, and the same standard of isolation was practically law. Yet each still considered the other a friend. And now, Zeth's friend was cornered by three thugs. They hadn't seen him yet, but it was probably only a matter of time. He could hear their muttered conversation from the end of the alley. "Well, what we s'posed to do wit 'im?" a particularly thick-sounding voice asked. If Zeth could just see their mouths, he'd be able to tell who was who... "Yeah, he's not screamin' no more. 'Sno fun," an equally dense voice said. "Easy," the third voice said. This one sounded marginally more intelligent than the others, but it was clearly a small margin. "We takes 'im back to the altar, and we gives 'im to the priest. We takes our reward, and we goes and gets us drunk." The other two made grunting sounds similar to that of two and two being put together. As they bent down to pick up Jerome's shaking body, Zeth stepped into full view. He loudly cleared his throat. "Gentlemen," Zeth said, trying to put forth his best aristocratic accent. He pointed to Jerome, who had been dumped face-down on the ground. "If you will kindly excuse me, this man is a registered target of the Assassin's Guild. Please step aside so that I may dispose of him." The three thugs, clearly stumped by the use of words with more than three syllables, stopped and stared at Zeth for a moment. One pulled a dagger from his belt and thoughtfully picked his nose with it for a moment, before speaking. "We saw 'im first," he said. It was clearly one of the idiots. One of the others quickly picked a brick up off the ground and clubbed him with it. Amazingly, he stayed standing. "Shaddup. 'es from tha Guild. We's got to find someone else," he said to the idiot. This was the less stupid one. He turned to Zeth. "We's awfully sorry, sir. We needs to find somebody and bring 'im to tha priest, so tha' we can gets some drinkin' money." Ah, wonderful... Zeth thought. More of those wonderful religious types. This kind of thing truly bothered Zeth. What kind of god would actually have the stones to demand mortal sacrifices, particularly from non-believers? The 'citizens' of Joth were frequently assaulted by such caring individuals, with people silently disappearing overnight. Or sometimes, not so silently. Zeth shifted his weight, and pulled an object from his tunic. To the thugs, it looked like a long, jagged dagger, and they reacted accordingly. The less stupid one spoke first, as the group slowly edged away from Jerome, who was slowly and painfully sitting up. "Okay, sir. 'es all yours. We won' trouble you fer yer time." Zeth twirled the lethal-looking object in his hand, while the thugs backed further down the alley, broke down a door, and dashed inside in a thoroughly undignified way. Zeth listened to them trip over each other with a smile, as he walked towards Jerome. Jerome slowly sat up with his back to the stone wall of the alley. "Please, I can explain," he said, sounding panicked. He hadn't actually looked at Zeth yet. "It wasn't me. Jacobs was the real thief, I never touched a cent." "Jerome, it's me," Zeth said. Jerome looked up, and saw a long, thin shard of pottery in Zeth's hand. Realization dawned on his bruised face, and he smiled broadly. "How did you come up with that one?" Jerome asked cheerfully as Zeth extended a hand to help him up, stowing the pottery shard back in his tunic. "I don't know, it just came to me. What can I say, it's been a weird day..." Zeth said, and his voice trailed off as he got a better look at Jerome's bruises. "Zeth, you alright?" Jerome asked as he painfully straightened his back. But Zeth was too busy staring at the purplish bruise on his friend's neck. It looked exactly like a small butterfly. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 18 2007 19:14
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quote:That one person is me. Ideally, by the deadline, I'll be ready for a brief testing phase, if I'm not already into it. So, if nobody objects and those conditions are met... I'm fine with an extension. I feel a little bad about it, though. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 18 2007 18:28
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quote:Seconded. I personally hate it when people who are literally citizens of America say that they don't consider themselves Americans. Kinda springboarding off of Alo's remark, it's not very productive to just try to evade being characterized as an American. It's better to try and change the views that the rest of the world holds by actually taking a bit of responsibility for where our government's gone as of late. Thus, I consider myself an American, and I'm damn proud to live in a country where I can speak my mind. I'm incredibly psyched to finally be able to register to vote. I want to be part of a solution. ...and now that my idiotic rant is out of my system: I really want to see what Iraq does on its own, and to that end, I would love to see "Coalition" troops out ASAP. Or, at least reduced to pretty low levels... something sane, you know? Because whether or not you call the conflict a civil war at this point is pretty moot, because all the factions seem to agree on one thing: they can't stand us. So, let's get out and see what they do. They've had practice governing the country, we haven't. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 18 2007 12:43
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You also left out Ocean Bound, Homeland, and Lost Souls. :P -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 18 2007 09:23
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Well, you can try going to the main menu and loading a game from there, but there really shouldn't be a problem with loading a game from combat mode. You can't save in combat mode, but that's it. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 20:21
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I'm a little late to the thread, but congrats anyway, Synergy! As several other people seem to be, I am an undergrad in my sophomore year. I'm pursuing a degree in Environmental Studies, to eventually end up... doing something. But the material interests me, and I'd rather spend my academic career in a field I enjoy than in one where I'd have a guaranteed job. Of course, with the amount of time and energy I put into improv, I might just end up in Second City or somewhere similar one day (insert obligatory dream-crushing here). There's a possible point against the whole "can't get a job outside your major" idea. And then again, if I could ever actually get a job in the game developing industry, I'd be ecstatic. Of course, I can't program outside of Avernumscript... but there's got to be room for creative consulting, writers, and people who make pretty towns, right? (more dream-crushing goes here) -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 20:10
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...I'm getting a serious feeling of deja vu. Except this poll left out all of the Exile games. But nonetheless, I'm going to go with the A2 music, since I have yet to play Nethergate. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Saturday, March 17 2007 09:23
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quote:I think a vahnatai wearing plate armor would collapse. Relatively similar to Ray Bradbury's "The Offseason", at least in my mind. I bet a slith wearing any cloth material would probably get torn up pretty quickly, too... -------------------- Thuryl: "Runescape: for people who are too stupid to save their games." Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Friday, March 16 2007 15:05
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This is a sad, sad, bump for me. But I'm beginning to think that I won't be able to finish Shades of Grey in time for the contest. In fact, it's pretty likely. And now, my excuses, or reasons why I'm a pansy: -I need to find a job for this summer, something for which I'm rapidly running out of time. -I've made this scenario too complex to finish it with a reasonable testing period left over. -My spring breaks are never as peaceful as I want them to be, this one being no exception. -I actually have a fair amount of coursework that's going to be due rather soon. So, in the end, I'm sorry for whatever effect this has on the contest. But to be perfectly honest, I kinda have to put reality as a higher priority right now. That, and I'm just stressed to the point of my brain exploding out my ears. Pending a miracle, I fold. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Friday, March 16 2007 14:05
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quote:(stares blankly at forum, wondering why it could possibly have been created) -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Friday, March 16 2007 11:41
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You know, when you first said "Vahnatai PCs", I was just going to ignore the post, because it's been discussed so many times before. But then... quote:Let me explain why this is a horrible idea. People will exploit this sort of thing. It would require the rest of the game to be drastically re-balanced, and that would probably require making Mage Spells less powerful. Thus, if people wanted to play a mage character, they'd almost be forced to use a vahnatai PC, whether or not they want to, because otherwise they'd be getting hosed. In conclusion... Jeff: make humans more powerful! -------------------- Thuryl: "Runescape: for people who are too stupid to save their games." Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Friday, March 16 2007 09:46
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O Kirwood, Thou dost rule the hills, The bounty of Array's plain, The life of river Eos, And the mighty skies above. Thou shalt rule me forever. Excerpt from Ode to Kirwood, composed and arranged by Michael Andrickson of the Minstrel's Guild. Critics argue that Andrickson is quickly passing his prime, and should retire soon. --------- Sliros slept. --------- Another crowded afternoon in the marketplace... Zeth thought miserably. He hated these days, when it took fifteen minutes of haggling just to get a spot in line to wait an hour to buy three peaches and a week's worth of bread. He hated the city in general. But most of all, he hated the fact that in order to escape the city, he would need money, which he certainly did not possess. He looked around him, at the haughty nobles dressed in the finest robes, at the artisans wearily plying the same wares they had for years, at the peasants just trying to scrape a living off the streets... it positively made him ill. At the back of his mind, he knew he should go back to his own stall and try to sell the meager creations he had crafted from the city's debris this week. But today, he just couldn't manage the enthusiasm. Sooner or later he would have to, as the food in his home (an abandoned apartment complex in which he squatted) was running precariously low. And his tattered tunic and robes were slowly wearing thin... he'd have to find cheap replacements. But today, something didn't feel right. Another priest passed by him, righteously holding his head above the crows. If there was something that Zeth hated more than the city, it was the gods. They thought they had the power to interfere with the lives of mortals, and the impunity with which they did so was horrible. Perhaps worse were their disciples, who arrogantly believed that their choice of abstract being was superior to everyone else's, and frequently sought to force that choice on others. On a better day, Zeth would have retired to a well-hidden spot in the marketplace with a small pile of rocks and delivered some karmic justice... but again, not today. Once he had believed. At difficult moments in his life, he had blindly cast out his faith to a god, any god, willing to listen. No help had ever come, and Zeth had grown numb to faith over the years. The city had forsaken him when it closed his shop and evicted him from his home, reducing him to jury-rigging a city life from the city's trash. The gods had forsaken him when they chose to exclude him from their "greater plan" for humanity. Now, trapped in the great city of Kirwood, he thought he had hit rock bottom. A small black butterfly landed on Zeth's shoulder, distracting him from calculating the velocity he'd need to strike the passing priest square on the skull. He brushed it off, only to have it settle again on his arm. He did this a few times, only to finally have the insect settle on his nose. Is this some kind of sick day-dream? Zeth thought, as the wheels in his head started turning. Then, they screeched to a halt. No, that can't be it... no. They wouldn't! I don't want them! He ran straight out of the marketplace, making a beeline for the long-abandoned Joth district where he made his home. A small black butterfly followed him. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 15 2007 18:56
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quote:The only way to even view it was to register, anyway. Good move, Sarasaphilia. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 15 2007 13:19
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quote:*sigh*... can we talk about this for a second? I'm feeling like we're in Alec's "Why You Suck" thread again, and this is why: we need new memes, and it's unfair to expect Dikiyoba to come up with all of them. These episodes are freakin' long, and probably take much more effort than I expect anyone else here would be willing to expend. Thus, we need to move on. (Insert plug for the upcoming RP here) The scripts are funny, and they're well-written. But that doesn't merit chaining Dikiyoba to a desk for all eternity (regardless of whether any liver-eating birds are present), just so that we have stuff to talk about. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 15 2007 13:04
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*sigh*... You've effectively shut out lurkers, even. And the problem with your logic is that half of the discussion on the threads was about what was going to happen next, or when the next chapter would come out. Thus, most of the discussion is over or obsolete. As for ezBoard, I think it was yesterday that the Lyceum actually did cease to exist for a short while. Firefox refused to acknowledge its existence, at least. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 15 2007 12:57
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I don'n know about that... I kind of missed them. I'm not one of those people who has to get the most use out of every skill point, so it's always nice to kill a spectre or something and then get three levels of Blademaster, even if it means you can't buy as many levels from a trainer later. I do miss special skills, though... Beastmaster FTW! :P -------------------- Thuryl: "Runescape: for people who are too stupid to save their games." Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 15 2007 09:17
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quote:Really? I can't recall any such mention. I'm kinda curious about this as well... it'd definitely be fun/difficult to set a scenario in Valorim post-A3. I wonder if the Avernites would ever get their skin pigment back. Would they bring lizards to the surface? -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 15 2007 09:14
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quote:He'll probably end up getting himself killed with that anvil spell. And Aimee should return to the plot. With wherever she went, she should be able to bring back something interesting (and possibly set up a major plot arc). -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 14 2007 20:08
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quote:That's here. In several threads. The last one almost died to UBB. Seriously, though... SW has enough satellites. Right now, Shadowvale is still alive, and that is a good thing. Polaris draws breath yet, so that's two. Desperance... well, is Desperance. The Lyceum... well, it hasn't been completely consumed by a massive ezBoard collapse yet. That's more than enough. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 14 2007 13:14
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FYT = Fixed Your Typo. Frequently used in posts dripping with sarcasm, occasionally used to put words in another's mouth. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 14 2007 12:48
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quote:Eh, so what? Stranger ones than that have cropped up recently. And that one was at least sophisticated enough to use sentence-like phrases. EDIT: Odd... those tags should've been right. UBB's acting up a lot today. EDIT2: Even stranger... it just puts a space in the bold quote tag each time, even after I've fixed it. Does this mean the board is going to implode? EDIT3: Wow, I shouldn't have spent this much time fixing the post. [ Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:53: Message edited by: Ephesos ] -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |