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Member number	4153
Title	Law Bringer
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Registered	Friday, March 26 2004 08:00

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Facebook Me! in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Thursday, July 27 2006 10:04 Profile Homepage #22 quote: Originally written by Leena: blah, blah, blah hypocrisy... Says the person who facebook-stalked up my cell phone number. :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
Avernum Tactics in Avernum 4
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Thursday, July 27 2006 09:58 Profile Homepage #13 quote: Originally written by Rent-an-Ihrno: i dont like the whole idea at all. what i would like though, would be an age of ... -type of strategy game, maybe replaying avernum 1/2. if well made! I believe you just contradicted yourself. :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
Character Traits / Adventure Log in Blades of Avernum
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Thursday, July 27 2006 09:36 Profile Homepage #23 quote: Originally written by Imban: Anyone else think it's odd that Pythras has a combat script when you're supposed to fail the scenario if you kill her? On a plot level... killing her should've derailed the scenario. Bit of an error on Jeff's part, it seems... And yeah, that one Altered Beast is built up way too much. Unless you're playing a new singleton without prior experience like I was at one time... then, it's a whole different animal(pardon the atrocious semi-pun). -------------------- 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
Sim Isle in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Tuesday, July 25 2006 21:07 Profile Homepage #22 quote: Originally written by Tricentennial: My experience with SimEarth left me with a burning question: what is a trichord? It looked like a three-armed sea star if I remember correctly. That's the tri, and I suppose possibly each one has a (noto)chord, but what are they based on? Trilaterally symmetrical organisms, I believe. Their actual (past) existence is debatable. What's even more interesting is the robots... they just get boring quickly. And I never could get carniferns to last very long... :( Hm... I want to play this. -------------------- 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
Avernum V ideas in Avernum 4
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Tuesday, July 25 2006 21:00 Profile Homepage #189 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: Naturally there were some pretty ferocious things scattered through the maze, especially if you had to fight them alone and with no way to escape, and it all ended up being an entertaining challenge for a high level party. Those were the days. There has to be a way to do this in BoA... it's too good to waste... (Runs off to the Editor) -------------------- 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
AV2 - Swords question. in The Avernum Trilogy
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Tuesday, July 25 2006 20:54 Profile Homepage #2 Well, it depends on the amount of extra damage you get per level as well... I can't remember those off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure that a few levels of melee/strength will make the greatsword stronger than the waveblade. (Remember: the stick is the strongest weapon in A4) That said, there are plenty of good shields in A2... so the waveblade has its perks. And it's just cooler. EDIT: Drat, beaten to it. Um... halberds rule? [ Tuesday, July 25, 2006 20:58: 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
Beta check on aisle three in Blades of Avernum
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Tuesday, July 25 2006 08:31 Profile Homepage #45 That .cmg file is not empty. I'm not sure what you were using to open it, but it's all there, and all intact. Lazarus never uncompressed the file, because I sent him a compressed copy of the whole scenario folder. So, the problem's on your end, Shard. -------------------- 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
Mountain of Shadows RP: the sequel in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Tuesday, July 25 2006 07:34 Profile Homepage #23 IC: "Let's move," Sequoia said to Filbert as they turned away from Tuulentekija. "But which way are we going?" Filbert asked, gesturing to the numerous passages that split off from the library. It was a good question, without a doubt. But Sequoia could feel the demon's presence like a beacon, and he pointed at the passage right in front of them. There was no doubt in his mind as to the demon's whereabouts... So they walked. The druid could still feel a few passages shifting around him, and he knew that the tunnel they were following was slowly being extended toward the peak. And the presence of Orloki was growing stronger by the minute. Sequoia felt the demon's taint at the edges of the mountain's power, and he knew that the taint was in his mind as well. When I thought it had been banished... he thought with a trace of regret. When will I shed this curse? They continued down the tunnel, the druid still trailing strands of pure ice in the air and on the ground. And I am left to fight Orloki, with no other help than this fool... one who is not strong enough to resist even the most paltry of Orloki's influences. He becomes a willing lord of the uruk-hai at the wave of a hand, and I am left to struggle against the demon's taint, all because I tried to save my own life from— Sequoia stopped walking, and Filbert took a moment to notice. When he did, he nervously raised his sword. "Is something about to attack us?" he asked, looking around the dark tunnel. He felt the taint course up into his thoughts again, turning the cave walls to a faint blur. All he could see was Filbert. "You! You are the one who has done this to me!" Sequoia bellowed, picking up Filbert by his torso and pinnning him against a wall. Filbert dropped his sword out of surprise. "-Whagh?" Filbert choked out from under the druid's icy grip. "It is because of you that I have to carry this burden! Because you nearly killed me, I was forced to draw from the mountain's power, thus absorbing Orloki's taint!" He felt the anger rise, and his thoughts dissolve into a red mist. He wanted nothing more than to slay the fool, to rage against the idiocy that had left him cursed. He wanted to rip, tear, maim, pummel the life from... something. And Filbert was close. Filbert was convenient. Why not him? a voice in Sequoia's mind said, but clearly not his own. But it didn't matter, because he knew he had the power of the mountain behind him. "Bu-" Filbert sputtered, seeing the strands of pure ice starting to wrap around his limbs. Sequoia screamed, "Give me one good reason not to slay you right here, right now!" OoC: Thralni, no tricks. Talk your way out of this one, because it's a valid character conflict that was never completed. That, and it fits the whole 'Orloki trying to wedge us apart' theme. -------------------- 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
Sim Isle in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Tuesday, July 25 2006 06:40 Profile Homepage #14 quote: Originally written by Thuryl: quote: Originally written by Rufus Rothgard: Ash, if you're trying to make a "Sim Isle/Smile" pun-joke, it's so hamhanded that nobody's going to both get it AND laugh. A SimIsle/simile joke, actually. Pity they're not actually pronounced the same. :P Ouch... Ouch. OUCH!!! And SimIsle wasn't that bad. Not great, but not bad. SimEarth is still rather entertaining, like any game where sentient trichords are possible. -------------------- 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
SW & DM2 Fusion! in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Tuesday, July 25 2006 06:37 Profile Homepage #16 Right, I'm offended by my absence. :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
Facebook Me! in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Tuesday, July 25 2006 06:35 Profile Homepage #12 quote: Originally written by Spring: What Imban said. FYT. That said, I'm on Facebook for the practicality of having contact info for friends. Then again, I'm often too lazy to friend people. Hm... -------------------- 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
Avernum V ideas in Avernum 4
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Tuesday, July 25 2006 06:31 Profile Homepage #187 quote: Originally written by Dintiradan: This reminds me of one tower my DM made for my group. It was a teleportation maze, with glowing blue portals set inside each doorway. Of course, said DM neglected to mention the obviousness of said portals until I commented on how the tower seemed to ignore all rules of space and time. Grrr. Right... that's when you seize control of DM-ship and throw the guy through a portal. Seriously, that's just bad story-telling... -------------------- 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
Help me!!! It's urgent!!! in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Monday, July 24 2006 08:14 Profile Homepage #26 quote: Originally written by Tyran: Edit: Before you Mac-lovers get on my case, great is a relative term. Besides, I use both anyway. I'm a proud owner of a dual-booting MacBook Pro. :P If I hadn't already known this, a "welcome to the dark side, have a cookie" would be appropriate. As is, all I can do is laugh. :D -------------------- 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
Avernum V ideas in Avernum 4
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Monday, July 24 2006 08:09 Profile Homepage #182 quote: Originally written by Vaecrius: I've been thinking (not always a good sign, but)... how about a KO state where the character is down but not out so they could be raised with something simpler like healing or first aid, instead of going all the way back to town, and they still get XP for the rest of the fight? Also, I'm probably going to be skewered for this one, but... randomized areas? Unconsciousness would be a handy way of dealing with the new death system... I really wish there was some similar system in BoA. Perhaps, an unconscious character could be picked up by another PC and carried back to safety? Randomized areas implies interchangeable parts of the game. Interchangeable parts of the game implies unstable plotlines. Unstable plotlines imply bad game. Thus, randomized areas imply bad game. :D -------------------- 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
Avernum V ideas in Avernum 4
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Sunday, July 23 2006 12:04 Profile Homepage #180 quote: Originally written by Peregrine: how about some kind of slime or algae that was mutated by a magical experiment, and now it has the ability to turn part of itself into duplicates of creatures that it kills. This could be worked into the game in a small way (a side quest where goblins or bandits are turning into green goop when slain) or in a larger way, where the hive mind or master slime that is intelligent and controlling some large plot has to be tracked down and destroyed. Jeff did this quite explicitly in A3, even more than Goldenking says... in the Slime Lair, there were slimes trying to engulf wolves/bandits/goblins in attempts to attain some of their shape. So it's been done. -------------------- 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
Beta check on aisle three in Blades of Avernum
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Sunday, July 23 2006 12:01 Profile Homepage #43 Drat... I'm going to assume that something happened to the file when I sent it. Um... I guess I can host a copy of the file at the Sanctuary. -------------------- 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
Xylgham udwlnit skretcko!1!! in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Saturday, July 22 2006 14:30 Profile Homepage #405 Are we due to absorb the run-down forum? -------------------- 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
I'm a Runescape freak how about you? in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Friday, July 21 2006 17:31 Profile Homepage #7 Right... we already had a thread about this. Runescape is a poor man's World of Warcraft. That said, I own neither... both are best suited to those who don't care a whole lot about their social lives. -------------------- 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
Resistance and Stupid Characters in The Avernum Trilogy
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Friday, July 21 2006 13:22 Profile Homepage #9 quote: Originally written by Rent-an-Ihrno: once the empire wouldve unleashed their armies. Right... Like they did in Tinraya. And look how much success the Empire forces in Valorim had with even the slimes. (Don't talk about Baziron) -------------------- 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
The Signature of Your Dreams in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Friday, July 21 2006 13:11 Profile Homepage #51 quote: Originally written by Drow: Where are you stuck in Riven? I got stuck in the "wandering around aimlessly" phase. I've run into the natives two or three times at most, so I feel like I was on the right track... but I haven't played for months. It's on my to do list, along with finish my BoA work. -------------------- 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
Hey look! It's still the seventeenth! in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Friday, July 21 2006 13:09 Profile Homepage #36 quote: Originally written by Dikiyoba: Dikiyoba went to a science camp in the coast redwoods of California. Incidently, it was nice and cool in the redwoods; cool enough to start every morning off in a sweatshirt. :P I'm jealous... we've had heat indexes of something like 110 degrees Fahrenheit as of late, with humidity to match. You really think that 100% humidity means rain until you come here... That said, since Wednesday we've been cooling down thanks to a bunch of incredibly intense storms that left over half the city without power. Happened again today... I'm lucky to be typing this. -------------------- 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
Because it's slow here lately... in Avernum 4
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Thursday, July 20 2006 20:01 Profile Homepage #2 Hm... Brightness controls on the monitor - priceless. -------------------- 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
What do you think of A4 in Avernum 4
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Thursday, July 20 2006 04:36 Profile Homepage #64 quote: Originally written by Of Course I Still Love You: I also think Geneforge has kind of spoiled us as far as complex plots and moral imbaguity goes. The Geneforge series has always been very plot-based and forced you to make moral decisions, while Avernum is more of a dugeon crawl. Ahem... there's a difference between complex and good. A4 wasn't really either of the two. Avernum in general is more atmosphere-based. If you want "moral ambiguity," just play one of TM's BoA scenarios... :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
Which game to get? in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Thursday, July 20 2006 04:28 Profile Homepage #33 quote: Originally written by Abydos: —Alorael, who wonders what would happen if you put a cat in a crystal ball with a capsule of deadly poison gas with a 50% chance of being opened by radioactive decay. Whatever happened, you'd never see it coming. The cat would be in the way. :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
Code of Community in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Wednesday, July 19 2006 12:27 Profile Homepage #40 61. "FYT" should be used sparingly, if at all. 62. Posts should be longer than signatures. 63. Topics celebrating post count milestones should be started only on suitable occasions. 64. #63 may be waived, but only if topic is intended to protest base-10 numbers, even numbers, round numbers, etc... 65. Do not post entire literary works (exception: RPs), as it crashes the boards. 66. Don't ask how to become a mod. 67. Don't even think about how to become an admin. -------------------- 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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