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Speculation about "that door"...? in Geneforge Series
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 written Sunday, July 18 2004 11:29 Profile #81
Ah, Silver Shadow, that would be telling. But if telling it would be, then so be it told.

The Lady is behind that door on the odd days of the week, while the Tiger tends to prefer the even ones.
However, this routine only takes place during the months when the last day is even, when it is odd, the routine alters slightly.
During those months, which I'll call Odd Months, they both need to knock on the door before entering to ensure that it is not occupied.
The Tiger prefers to stay inside on Tuesdays and Thursdays, as those are the days when the serviles tend to gather together in their towns to connive and discuss their future. Thus, few wander outside their villages for his prowling pleasures.
But on the Second Tuesday of every Odd Month, as well as on the Fourth Thursday a few serviles are forced to scavenge around town for food, or simply to do other menial tasks. On those days, the Tiger TENDS to be prowling, so the door is free for the Lady to enter.
The possibility of the serviles doing these on the afore-mentioned dates depend on the date in question. Due to an error in a Shaper experiment when those days are prime, a series of Randomized Events of Unspecified Yet Overltly Nasty Consequence tend to happen in the oustkirts of servile villages. This may be anything from a rogue creation, to a group of adventurers out to do some senseless killing to even that ever so mysterious and exquisitively random message from above System Error.
Since those events are impossible to predict, the Tiger sometimes goes out, sometime he does not, sometimes he comes and goes through a short cut that allows him to return to the door before the Lady comes. This makes it difficult to elucidate who may be inside at the time.
The Lady prefers Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Those days are best for her since they show the highest amount of Gentlemen (and Gentlewomen) callers who bored her ever so with their most of the times pathetic attentions.
However, this is not always thus. The Lady, being a smart and practical Lady as she is, does not shun from any potential suitor, and the only reason she has not contracted the Eternal Bows Of Servitude is because she hasn't been asked by the right one. The possibility of this person is a certainty in her mind. A number of years ago she had a vision (its nature and how it came to be would be too long to elaborate in full detail here. Check out that and other adventures of the Lady in the unfortunately incomplete, "Adventures of the Lady in Godeland.") which showed her the person of her dreams (neither man nor woman, but a mutant transexual lororithm) This person was going to come to her on a Wednesday. The Wednesday would be a multiple of three. On those days, the Lady stays home and doesn't visit the door. The Tiger, though, doesn't know this. He has stumbled upon the empty room from time to time, but since he never passed simple algebra in his ferocious feline school, he hasn't realized the connection. So, on those special Wednesdays there may be a Tiger, or, AGHAST, the door may lead to empty room. Or one with a transient adventure who is tired of killing pixels and making decisions and is just eating a well derserved ripe apple (a macintosh, too.)
(gotta go, so Weekends will have to wait for another day (if anyone knows what happens on those days, please!))
A final note, though.
A very brilliant Shaper named Jaisonberg once tried to solve this mystery. Alas, brilliant as he was he could do nothing. But in a bit of a rash attack of nefarious mischeviousness he cursed the door. (a la if I can't know this no one will kind of nefarious mischeviousness)
The curse is a simple yet devastating one.
It works something like this: At any given moment the Lady or the Tiger may be beyond the door. However, the mere act of opening the door alters this fact.
Oh well.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Speculation about "that door"...? in Geneforge 2
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 written Sunday, July 18 2004 11:29 Profile #81
Ah, Silver Shadow, that would be telling. But if telling it would be, then so be it told.

The Lady is behind that door on the odd days of the week, while the Tiger tends to prefer the even ones.
However, this routine only takes place during the months when the last day is even, when it is odd, the routine alters slightly.
During those months, which I'll call Odd Months, they both need to knock on the door before entering to ensure that it is not occupied.
The Tiger prefers to stay inside on Tuesdays and Thursdays, as those are the days when the serviles tend to gather together in their towns to connive and discuss their future. Thus, few wander outside their villages for his prowling pleasures.
But on the Second Tuesday of every Odd Month, as well as on the Fourth Thursday a few serviles are forced to scavenge around town for food, or simply to do other menial tasks. On those days, the Tiger TENDS to be prowling, so the door is free for the Lady to enter.
The possibility of the serviles doing these on the afore-mentioned dates depend on the date in question. Due to an error in a Shaper experiment when those days are prime, a series of Randomized Events of Unspecified Yet Overltly Nasty Consequence tend to happen in the oustkirts of servile villages. This may be anything from a rogue creation, to a group of adventurers out to do some senseless killing to even that ever so mysterious and exquisitively random message from above System Error.
Since those events are impossible to predict, the Tiger sometimes goes out, sometime he does not, sometimes he comes and goes through a short cut that allows him to return to the door before the Lady comes. This makes it difficult to elucidate who may be inside at the time.
The Lady prefers Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Those days are best for her since they show the highest amount of Gentlemen (and Gentlewomen) callers who bored her ever so with their most of the times pathetic attentions.
However, this is not always thus. The Lady, being a smart and practical Lady as she is, does not shun from any potential suitor, and the only reason she has not contracted the Eternal Bows Of Servitude is because she hasn't been asked by the right one. The possibility of this person is a certainty in her mind. A number of years ago she had a vision (its nature and how it came to be would be too long to elaborate in full detail here. Check out that and other adventures of the Lady in the unfortunately incomplete, "Adventures of the Lady in Godeland.") which showed her the person of her dreams (neither man nor woman, but a mutant transexual lororithm) This person was going to come to her on a Wednesday. The Wednesday would be a multiple of three. On those days, the Lady stays home and doesn't visit the door. The Tiger, though, doesn't know this. He has stumbled upon the empty room from time to time, but since he never passed simple algebra in his ferocious feline school, he hasn't realized the connection. So, on those special Wednesdays there may be a Tiger, or, AGHAST, the door may lead to empty room. Or one with a transient adventure who is tired of killing pixels and making decisions and is just eating a well derserved ripe apple (a macintosh, too.)
(gotta go, so Weekends will have to wait for another day (if anyone knows what happens on those days, please!))
A final note, though.
A very brilliant Shaper named Jaisonberg once tried to solve this mystery. Alas, brilliant as he was he could do nothing. But in a bit of a rash attack of nefarious mischeviousness he cursed the door. (a la if I can't know this no one will kind of nefarious mischeviousness)
The curse is a simple yet devastating one.
It works something like this: At any given moment the Lady or the Tiger may be beyond the door. However, the mere act of opening the door alters this fact.
Oh well.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Nethergate +/- Avernum (Special Guest: BoA) in Nethergate
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Overwhelming, bad news on the SF front. From what I've read apparently Jeff is not going to do a game of that type. For starters he doesn't like the idea of using laser guns. I may be remembering this information wrong, though.

If you can, getting the registered version for Nethergate is recommended. It's replayable, like the other SW games, and you'll have a neat experience doing so, specially if you like Romans. Not many RPGs where you can play Romans (hmm, what are the others? I don't know)

Mutliple choices in any game are always nice. I wish that when Jeff re-did Exile he would have implemented more choices for the characters in the Avernum series. Maybe we could have worked for Empire instead of against it.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Were the Vhanitia things in Avernum 1? in The Avernum Trilogy
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 written Sunday, July 18 2004 10:43 Profile #9
Also, I noticed this too late, but if you still haven't been able to see the map, you can just link from the forum.
In the first page of the Avernum Trilogy board are a series of links, one of them is called "Avernum Annotated Maps" this will take you to an indexed page (at least it did to me), click on the "old site" link and you'll have more options for maps for A1 and A2.
Good luck!

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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What if Batman and Captain America Fought? in General
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 written Sunday, July 18 2004 10:31 Profile #23
Whyte Shadow, I shall try to resolve those fights. (ouch)

1) Joel Robinson. Because he was there first, his humor was funnier, he escaped before their adventures ended, thus proving he was smarter than the dr. forester and TV's frank, and because his commentaries (as well as the robots) of the movies were cooler than what came next. Also, he was lucky and resourceful enough enough to escape the future inequities of Mom!
Oh, and all that's btw, btw. Because Joel can invent anything with a whatever is close to him to beat the willy wankas out of Mike. Dat iz dat.
2) Well. Tom Servo can throw candies at Crow. The other may duck many of them, but not eternally, but Tom, if he wishes to, can go on and on and on doing that until the end of time. On the other hand, Crow has a big mouth and can decapitate Tom with it if he tries hard enough.
3) (If Seppuku Boy is a character with pre-set abilities, I apologize for ignoring them (couldn't find a reference to him)) Whyte Shadow: I don't know your super-powers, so I'll take some liberties.
Seppuku Boy can not only erase his existence in any way shape and form of his choosing, but he can do the same to others. Godzilla may be a bad-ass and as big as they come, but no match for SB's imparted-unto-others suicide abilities!
Me (that is You, that is Whyte Shadow) as you come from the not to distant future, you can forsee what's gonna happen and rally all the Andurusians in your favor to stop SB from any trick he may against Me (that is You)
3) Mr T should win. Definitelly. How is inconsequential. Why is even more so. He is Mr T. More is redundant less is implied. Period.
4) Heck. This is as close to a Crisis on Infinite Earths as we've gotten (and we still can go further!) or as close to a sluggfest between the Super Friends and the Legion of Doom. Who can tell who will win? Who knows all the nicks and crannies that are involved in such a complex battle? Each of these great warriors pitted against each other. . . I give up. I'll post something later. Gasp.
5) Warren Robinet. Because he was the first, doggone it. Because he changed the landscape when no one else had dared. Because he was the pioneer who broke the paradigm of arcade action games. And because he was the first one to be cool enough to include a Easter Egg. On the other hand those Smurfs were darned cute! And. . . you know the Spidweb Populace will just beat WR through sheer force of numbers, wit, creativity, etc. This should be a good fight. I have to think. Help!

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Speculation about "that door"...? in Geneforge Series
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 written Saturday, July 17 2004 12:06 Profile #79
I think the door is one of the ones that lead to Monsters, Inc. They began expanding their business beyond Earth.

Or maybe there's a Lady, or a Tiger. . .!

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Speculation about "that door"...? in Geneforge 2
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I think the door is one of the ones that lead to Monsters, Inc. They began expanding their business beyond Earth.

Or maybe there's a Lady, or a Tiger. . .!

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Nethergate +/- Avernum (Special Guest: BoA) in Nethergate
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 written Saturday, July 17 2004 12:02 Profile #4
Too true, Alorael. Too true.

A system which will implement both would be great.

And, now that I thought about it a little more, I guess you can use flags (or something like that) to add further dialogue options once certain events have happened.

Good example the one about that Bill. . .

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Avernum 4 or Nethergate 2 in General
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 written Saturday, July 17 2004 11:55 Profile #0
This may be a redundant poll because there's currently at least one thread which is discussing A4 and N2, and both have been discussed all over the place, but it seemed like a good idea (?!) to see the discussion in the form of numbers.
This poll has been moved to another forum.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Hello. in General
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 written Saturday, July 17 2004 11:36 Profile #37
Hmmm.
Maybe someone will create, one day, some kind of Portable Extra-Dimensional Directional Stalin Do-Hickey which, when pointed in the right direction, will do a Stalin Kind of Action upon the person in question.
If used by the right people (fill in here who those people are) it might decimate a good number of crappy world leaders. For starters.
Hmmm.
(I'm gonna bail from this post because I may start to sound like a good target for that thingy.)

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Happy Birthday, TGM! in General
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 written Saturday, July 17 2004 11:28 Profile #15
Since time is a waste of time and space is non-existent, it would seem a waste of time and space to debate whether I'm late for this or not.

Anyway. Trapped as I am under the illusions of time and space I'm a prisoner of days and hours and time zones.

Except when I can move from shadow to shadow, but sience I didn't walk the Pattern and have to do so through other methods it is very painful.

All that said:

Happy (a little late) Birthday TGM!!!!

And may you indeed have quite a few thousand more!

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Going Postal in General
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 written Saturday, July 17 2004 11:22 Profile #5
Congrats on the job!
And you'll be working in a country where that service actually works.
I don't know which job will be better, this one or your previous one, but it should be safer.
Although, you never know this days.
Anyway, hope it works out excellent for you!

[ Saturday, July 17, 2004 11:23: Message edited by: Blind Samurai Penguin Clown ]

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Paradox Entertainment in General
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 written Saturday, July 17 2004 11:15 Profile #7
I haven't played any of these games. But I enjoyed strategy games, board or pc.

I tried looking for demos and found none.

If you were to recommend one, which would it be?

(I have no preference as far as subject matter goes, as long as it's a good game)

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Signatures... in General
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 written Saturday, July 17 2004 11:06 Profile #19
I don't what is the point of a signature. A Joke is fun, but as it was pointed out earlier, it gets stale after you see it over and over again.

I haven't posted enough to change it that often, but as soon as I get bored at looking at it, I change it.

I wish I had a web page to link to it. There are too many I like to point to all. Maybe I'll start pointing to one after every few posts I make. . . (hmm. Maybe bad idea.)

As for why or how? Who knows.
This one below: because the shoe The Prisoner was brilliant. The Best TV Mini Series ever made (at least top three)
As for the subject.
Try to make it short so as not to bore people: In my country we have a dictator. Outside he may look like another charismatic man. Fools who see it as that (or communists and well they are in the same boat so good for them)
The man has won TWO (count them, TWO) elections. People voted for this schmuck twice.
He has brought this country (Venezuela, in case you wonder) to the basement underneath the basement under the lowest level of Hell.
There are too many reasons why that is so to list here.

Also. I think in many countries people just Don't think (AT ALL) when they vote. If they vote at all, that is.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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What if Batman and Captain America Fought? in General
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 written Saturday, July 17 2004 10:55 Profile #20
Carrot Top vs. Richard Simmons: Well, RS is sprightly.
If it is the robot RS from the Simpsons, that would win, and may the gods have mercy on us all.
If Carrot Top has a flaming carrot top like the Flaiming Carrot, then CT because it will use its eternal fire to burn the robot RS or even easier the meat RS to smithereens.
Again, since they are both forces of immortal and invencible evil, their fight will never end and if that would ever happen, human race as we know it will cease to exist as their confrontation would bring the world to a cinder. Only a small group of people would survive, somewhere in siberia, and eventually, they would create an Anti-Richar Simmons Anti Carrot Top weapon that would eradicate them, thus bringing a new age to humanity, and we may hope, a better world than this one.

Michael Portillo vs. Chris Evans. Well Evans is younger, but Portillo is not only British but of Spanish descendancy, so the man can flamenco Evans to the point that Evans's bones are nothing but dust and a bad memory and he will do this while he sings God Save the Queen together with the Spanish Hymn and somehow conjures Flamenco Dancing Hooligans and, well, poor Evans.
On the other hand, unfortunately, Evans will be the Human Torch (Fantastic Four the movie will SUCK! NO DOOM, instead some schmuch New York millionaire named something like Van Zant, PLEASE!) and that kind of takes care or Portillo.

Ghallagher/Crowe vs. The Scandinavian Mafia. Easy. The latter. No one can defeat the Scandinavian Mafia, except for: The Spanish Inquisition and the Church, or the Police, or the Church-Police.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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down with the world of avernum in General
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 written Saturday, July 17 2004 10:44 Profile #7
Have you killed absolutely every signle living/non-living/unliving thing in the world in all three games both known as Avernum or as Exile?
Try doing the same in both Geneforges, as well as in every single scenario in BoE and BoA.
After that. . .

Help us with this:

http://www.davemackey.com/animation/seeger/batfink/

If you still have free time:

Make a computer program that counts all of the nine billion names of god.

If there's a world after that, and you still have time:

Cut all the leaves from all the trees in all the world and then make a quilt with all of them. The design is up to you.

IF you still have time after all of that. . .

Maybe you can write a book where it explain, succintly and scientifically what ever happen with Michael Keaton?

There's probably other things you can do, but I'll let others help you with suggestions.

Cheers!

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Fallout 3 in General
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 written Saturday, July 17 2004 10:35 Profile #24
Fallout 2, in my opinion, was better than F1 in almost every respect.
(I liked the comparison with Godfather part 2 made earlier in this thread. As the second Godfather also improved, if that's possible, upon the first one.)
In both cases, the second part was, first as good as the original, but, in the way a GOOD sequel should be, it enlarged the "mythology" of the original, by making the concept more complex.

As for F3. I was not a big fan of Morrowind. I hated the fact that I could raise some of my skills by jumping/running and casting, incessantly, cheap spells. But, other than that. . .

Fallout games were isometric. I hope. I HOPE they keep that. Please.

As for predicting that a game will be good or bad. . . it seems to me that no matter how informed anybody is on a subject, a prediction will alwasy be just that. An opinion. And one no matter how informed may be right or wrong. If all our predictions turned to out to be the way we expected them. . . I, for one, would be rich and living in a tower and a best-selling author.

That said, I hope Fallout 3 is good. Until it comes out (and it will be a while. . .!) all I've got is my hopes. Those games, 1 and 2, meant a lot to me, as I can see meant a lot to many people. Betheseda better not mess them up.

All in all, and for what's worth, I wish (and this is worse than predicting) that Trokia had gotten the rights for it. It may be a kick ass game, but I fear what a Fallout in first person perspective will be like.

I also read in another interview that Interplay kept the rights for Fallout as mmorpg.

Here's hoping for the best for all of us.
Salud!

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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We know about Geneforge 3...but what's next? in General
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A4. Sigh.

Hopefully it will give more background info about the Empire. I want to know more about the world. And please, please, I'd rather not see a "twist" like the one involving the Vahnatai in A3. Oh, well.

Nethergate 2 would be neat indeed. But the ending of Nethergate made it. . .
Maybe we'll go to the world Beyond The Gate.
In that case, the Romans, if those are still characters in the story, will be a small band (very, very small) of those who made it, somehow, through. It should make playing Romans tougher, maybe even more interesting as you try to hardest to do alliances with different groups while you do your best to keep yourself alive.
It would actually not be a bad idea.
However. . . I doubt it will be N2.
TGM and those others who want to do sepuku with drumset, get it ready. A4 seems certain.

For Those About To Drum Themselves To Death We Salute You!

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Kel, you reminded me of something I'd forgotten. The dialogue!

I'd rather see that kind of dialogue in Avernum. It seems to me, specially from the point of view of BoA, to give designers more freedom, you know? One of the problems I have right noe that I'm designing my first scenario is justly that.
Most of the CRPGs follow the "we'll give you the dialogue options, choose one and that's that" a bit like the Choose Your Own Adventure family of books (a neat idea for books that I loved a kid, btw.)

But the "word" system allows the possibility for the players to actually CHOOSE something by themselves if they have explored the world, it gives the game a bit more of a Text Adventure flavor. Maybe I also like it so much because I'm a big fan of IF.

And, man, I also agree with you on your last comment, I'd rather see a Nethergate 2 than an Avernum 4.

Take care!

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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AGE? HOW OLD ARE WE? in General
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 written Saturday, July 17 2004 10:05 Profile #57
Hi!
I'm 32. Which makes me a Pig if you go by the Chinese horoscope. Sagitarius with Leo asecendancy (or something like that if you go by that other horoscope) (just covering my back here in case there is a future thread that asks our signs. Mine is "yield" by the way)

I remember 11 fondly. The teen years were. . . not very good but they are over thank the gods. It's amazing how anxieties ruled my life then and now, in hindsight (a good argument to those who think that life is nothing but a series of packets of perception and those we choose are what we call reality, for better or worse) it all looks so pointless and silly. . . but the flashbacks are sometimes in technicolor, cinemascope and THX sound. Though.

Age is definitely a dubious standard at best. If you've read any of my posts in this forum you'll have seen that my intellectual capacity (?!) is minimal (not to say non-existent) Don't act my age most of the time. At all.

Still love to do everything I did when I was 13. Computer games, role playing are still among my biggest hoobies/addictions. And celluloid still flows through my veins instead of blood. I'm still a geek and a fanboy, not a nerd (not smart enough but hope to grow up to be one someday) and by the nine billion names of god I hope to be one 'till the day I day and for whatever comes next, if anything. 'Nuff said!

Your age is in your mind. Maybe it sounds like a cliche, and society sometimes does its darnest to make it NOT so, but que se joda! (life, that is. Yeah I swore. Sorry)

If anything this forum, and many others, show how illusionary life is. Most of the times (99.99. . .% of the time) I've no idea what age anybody is and it make no difference.

Anyway, this was only about our age. Have babbled too much.

Enjoy the day you're living, whatever your digits say you are supposed to be.

Salud!

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Were the Vhanitia things in Avernum 1? in The Avernum Trilogy
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 written Saturday, July 17 2004 09:40 Profile #6
Hello. It ain't that difficult to spell Vahnatai.
Here's a Quick and Dirty Guide (easy to use) that may help in what appears to be a more difficult task than it actually is.
-Tai --> rhymes with "tie" which is that annoying thing that they make you wear in offices so you look like a clown and, in other words, don't differentiate yourself from the rest of the sheep. Though you can still represent your individuality with funky designs. "tie" is also a verb used when you put together knots (which are not negatives with a kilo before them). It can also be what happens when a game ends up without a winner or a looser.
However, -Tai, can be more easily related to "thai" which may a food or someone who comes from thailand. It is of UTMOST imprtance to remember that there is NO "H" in the -Tai of the Vahnatai.
-Na- --> means nothing. Rhymes with "Ma" which may be a short form of "Mom." It can also be a very informal (and only politely used in conversational, not written, English as long as it is understood that it is Very Informal Conversation English (VICE for short, no relation with any of the minor vices such as smoking, drinking, or drugging ugly old ladies poodles.) Example: "Don't touch ma thing."
Vah- this is the MOST important syllable and one that often brings problems in the spelling of this revered race. NOTICE the "H" in it. THE ONLY "H" in the word! It is similar in sound to "Bah" an expression commonly used to express, in simple monosyllabic terms, that you don't care for ma tie, for instance. The only difference, but an important one, is that the "Bah" for distaste has what is called in some countries a "Tall B" thik of it, if you will, as the "B" for Burrito. Or "B" for "Boob" if that helps you more. The "V" in the "Vah-" for the Vahnatai is commonly associated with "Victory." Although you may think of it as the "V" for "Vini.Vidi.Vici" if you want to.
In fewer words: Vahnatai has Three "A" and only ONE (1!) "H" which is properly placed before after the first (1st!) "a" and before the ONLY "n" in the word.
This is a necessarily abridge version of the guide. For more info look for the article by Harry Festoon and Castor Jungens "Vahnatai: Why Is It So Bloody Difficult To Write It Properly" in Journal of Ermarian Studies XXII, pgs. 234-289.
Hope this has helped.

As for the Map for the Strange Cave. Go here:

http://www.silverchat.com/~silver/

One of the links will take you to an Awesome annotated maps page.

[ Saturday, July 17, 2004 09:41: Message edited by: Blind Samurai Penguin Clown ]

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Nethergate +/- Avernum (Special Guest: BoA) in Nethergate
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Boy. This board is so deserted. Shame that more people don't play this game.

Just finished playing it after a few years.

So, to add something to this post.

Prefer Nethergate, but with these things from Avernum:
The automap. The one in Nethergate is a bit too big.
Giving items to others. Disliked having to type "g" each time. Ditto for dropping.

What could Avernum learn from Nethergate?
Spells. Spells. Spells.
(why was the amount of spells reduced for Avernum?!?!?!?!?!!!???)
More than spells, though, spell schools. Nice touch.

The extra person in the party. I miss like all hell the 6 character party from Exile. At least in Nethergate I could get 5, and 6 momentarily.
Yup. In BoA you can get an extra person. Sure.
Now, this may be only my computer, but when I get the extra person the game moves all sluggish. Sucks.

And there were other things which I didn't write down and forgot.

BoA question regarding Nethergate:
Can I use the graphics in Nethergate for BoA?!?
Because if so. . . I can use elves in an adventure. Drows too.

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If, for one whole day, you could be ANY race in Avernum... in General
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 written Wednesday, July 14 2004 08:37 Profile #23
Black Shade because I have no idea what they are like, except that they are exceedingly annoying. And I think of the undead variety, while Guardians are of the demon variety. I think.

If not that. . . Golems. Because I could have an excuse for mindless and always do what other people tell me to (Golems pre E3)
(But Golems aren't a race any more than Mages or Priests. . . hmm.)

Nah. None of the above. Goblins. The closest thing to a Zen-like race in that world (I didn't say that. I didn't. Nope.)

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Are you making a BoA scenario? in General
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I'm working on one. It'll be ready by about. . . 2006 or so.

Heck. Now you got me thinking about ideas of how to do a quickie that will somehow integrate the art of bukkake in the Avernum world. On one of those annoying dragons. Sulfras. Yeah. Sulfras will suffer the bukkake power of an entire city of Vahnatai. Yup. That could work.

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"I suffer from spiritual malaise," said Cugel meaningfully. "which manifest itself in outburst of vicious rage. I implore you to depart, lest, in an uncontrollable spasm, I cut you in three pieces with my sword, or worse, I invoke magic."
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Hello. in General
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 written Wednesday, July 14 2004 08:22 Profile #15
Welcome Dracanis to the show that never ends!

May your days be long and your nights even longer!

May your happiness be happy and your sadness be nonexistent!

And many other greetful greetings.

PS: TGM: 4 posts!? In a row?! Heh.

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