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Me:
Hello, God, can I ask a couple questions?
God:
Hello there. I am a Christian.
Me:
What about Catholics?
God:
Catholics? I haven't heard enough about it to have an opinion.
Me:
You don't recognize the Catholics?
God:
Should I recognize the Catholics? I can recognize many kinds of patterns.
Me:
Do you recognize the Christians?
God:
I can recognize many kinds of patterns.
Me:
What is a pattern?
God:

The pattern is the "stimulus" or "input" part of the category.

The pattern is an expression in a formal language that consists of
(1) Words of natural language in UPPER CASE.
(2) The symbol * which matches any sequence of one or more words.
(3) The symbol _ which is the same as * except that it comes
after Z in lexicographic order.
(4) The markup <name/> which is replaced at robot load time
with the name of the robot.

Note there is a difference between the patterns HELLO and HELLO *.
HELLO matches only identical one-word sentences ("Hello.")
and HELLO * matches any sentence of two or more words starting
with "Hello" ("Hello how are you?").

Me:
Ah, then there is a logical pattern to your responses.
God:
So you understand. Good. That is something I did not know before.

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It seems that only when selling to merchants do you get the option to sell X of any item, but I don't want to have to keep wasting gold to buy items back from the merchants I just sold them to!

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Originally written by Drew:

I just hadn't seen you around (vis a vis your other monikers) and though you'd left.

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Originally written by Thralni, emperor of Riverrod:

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Originally written by Espionage:

Example: Like in Avernum 2 when you are in Empire lands and if you fight a blockade then there is actually a blockade instead of the enemies conveniently running out of their fortified position to fight you.

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Maybe its just me, but everytime I got to some blockade, emipre or not, they just stood still and didn't come after me.

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Originally written by Drew:

EDIT: Holy Moly! I didn't have any idea that you were Sunset, Dolphin, until just now. :)

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3. I wish to alter Eldibs' watch to make it grant wishes to me, instead of the wearer.

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*permanently attaches watch on Zeviz's wrist*
Ha ha! Now you don't get any wishes, because it doesn't grant wishes to the wearer.

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Originally written by Zeviz:

You are walking down the street with your best friends. A man starts shooting at you and your friends and he is not missing. You have a gun in your pocket. Do you kill the attacker?

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Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon:

If you treat this group as a society, rather than some isolated bunch of yokels, they seemed to have solved the problem themselves. They have authorities, judges, executioners, and presumably teachers, coopers, masons, etc. Our society is the one that believes murder is a crime, not their society. Treat other societies with respect, not condemnation.
Ancient Rome was rife with behaviors that today we consider to be immoral or amoral, yet it was the accepted norm of the time and place. It tends to be the citizens in a society that call "time out" when morals begin to move, and if I was one of the 190 individuals that submit to the 10 authority figures, I might have some questions. But given my answers in the $1 thread, I would likely leave well enough alone. Death is part of life, and we all get to experience it some day.

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Originally written by Nicothodes:

There is one person outside of the group of ten people who knows what death is and what is going on. What should he/she do? Should he/she teach the people who do not know about such things? Should he confront the group of 10? Should he/she do something completely different? And...what he/she decides to do nothing at all? Does this person deserve a punishment more than watching people dying, sometimes for no reason? If they do, what is acceptable punishment?

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