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Riddles & Brain Teasers in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Monday, October 31 2005 17:48 Profile #101
*Nods.* The first part is meant to be a red herring. There's also a version that goes "What is the third word?" and you're supposed to say "Okay, yeah, it is," like the "How long is a Chinaman?" jokeriddlething.

[ Monday, October 31, 2005 17:49: Message edited by: Explore the Surface Now ]

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
Riddles & Brain Teasers in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Monday, October 31 2005 14:39 Profile #99
Hence the sentence "It's something you use every day". *I* don't use an aggry every day... maybe a gry, though. ><

[ Monday, October 31, 2005 14:46: Message edited by: Explore the Surface Now ]

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
Riddles &amp; Brain Teasers in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Monday, October 31 2005 14:18 Profile #97
quote:
Originally written by Ash Lael:

Your sig brands you as a music geek, so from there it was pretty easy.
^_^

The suffix "-gry", though it can be found in the words "angry" and "hungry", is not otherwise a common one. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third one? It's something we use every day.

[ Monday, October 31, 2005 14:22: Message edited by: Explore the Surface Now ]

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
*Also* in November 2005 in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Monday, October 31 2005 13:13 Profile #20
Still nearly 7 hours my time. ><
It must be nice when November 1 is a weekend. Then you can pull an all-nighter. ^_^
Edit: Four now. Whee.

[ Monday, October 31, 2005 15:42: Message edited by: Explore the Surface Now ]

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
Avernum 4? in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Monday, October 31 2005 13:12 Profile #466
The Exile 1 music sounds like Bach. =D What you want for combat is Shostakovich's 8th symphony. *nods wisely* Or The Gadfly Suite.

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
Riddles &amp; Brain Teasers in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Monday, October 31 2005 13:01 Profile #94
quote:
Originally written by Explore the Surface Now:

it's probably either really obvious or just really bad.
>< Gah. Told you so.

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
Riddles &amp; Brain Teasers in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Monday, October 31 2005 12:55 Profile #92
This is one of those riddles where there's a specific situation and you ask yes or no questions to figure out what exactly is going on... ^_^ (I actually made this one up, so it's probably either really obvious or just really bad. ^^; )
A man is sitting in a dark pit. There are winds blowing all around him, and in front of him is the imposing figure of a man with a stick. After an hour or two, it gets light again, and the man gets out of the pit and goes home. What was he doing?

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
The "silence period" in The Avernum Trilogy
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Sunday, October 30 2005 06:54 Profile #3
quote:
Originally written by Involution:

I don't remember any crazy apprentice in E1, but Kelner talks for a reason. In A1 he returns to silence after you defeat Adze-Haakai. (I didn't get that far in E1, so I don't know.)
There was this guy in a corner that you could get to through a secret passage who was having a nervous breakdown and saying cryptic things about Linda and the Haakai Lord. I started a thread about him last summer, and someone said he was important in some way later. I think he was an apprentice. In E1, Kelner doesn't change at all when you kill the Adze-Haakai. Neither does Solberg. Maybe they do when you get Demonslayer *and* kill it. It's all very strange.
Everything makes more sense now... thanks guys. ^^

[ Sunday, October 30, 2005 07:25: Message edited by: Explore the Surface Now ]

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A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
The "silence period" in The Avernum Trilogy
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Saturday, October 29 2005 18:37 Profile #0
What exactly is up with the vow of silence taken by the apprentice mages? In Exile 1, Ambrin tells you when he teaches you spells, "Don't ask the students for help. They are forbidden to speak without permission." or something like that. However, in A3, Carrie tells you that she had to go through a "silence period" during her first year where she couldn't talk, but now she can.

In addition, when you "talk" to the apprentice mages in the dorms in E1, the girl is said to be sixteen or seventeen and the boy is "very young, barely a teen." Neither of them is allowed to talk. It's possible, though, that apprentices could come to the Tower at different ages if they develop power at different times. So they *could* both be first-year students, but I don't remember any mention being made of the one-year "silence period" at all.

The only apprentices who talk to you in E1 are the crazy guy (and he's crazy)... I think he was an apprentice... and Kelner (and he's rebellious). Either that or they've finished their "silence periods," which I never heard mentioned in E1.

So, was it just changed in the games? Was it also changed, IC, from the beginning of the timeline to later? Also, was there a Tower of the Magi on the surface? Is it ever mentioned what Solberg's, for example, apprentice days were like?

(So there's this group of apprentice mages. They don't have any mirrors, and they've all taken a vow of silence. Some of them have red eyes... ^_^)

[ Saturday, October 29, 2005 18:40: Message edited by: Explore the Surface Now ]

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A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
A1 - Slith Temple in The Avernum Trilogy
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Saturday, October 29 2005 17:49 Profile #12
You mean the Crypt of Drath, right? Where the last piece (if you do them from easiest to hardest =P) of Demonslayer is? I believe that's the Stone Key, at least, I'm pretty sure it is on Exile. >>; It's the one you ask Motrax about, take note of what he says, and search through the nearby caves.

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A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
E1: Items in The Exile Trilogy
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Saturday, October 29 2005 17:30 Profile #10
Is it random what kind of Mist Globe you have? Like, if you save before you use it, it poisons you, and then you load your save file, could it heal you?

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A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
In Avernum 3, how useful are potions, and alchemy? in The Avernum Trilogy
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Saturday, October 29 2005 06:28 Profile #11
I like hoarding my potions (make a few, keep the ones I find) until boss fights, then distribute them among all my party members so that if someone's nearly dead (especially if there are two people who are nearly dead, or the priest-spell-casting characters are in forcecages or something), they can heal themselves and still have a movement point or two left, instead of having a priest take up his whole turn doing it (if they're not incapacitated, that is). At the levels my A3 characters are currently at, potions heal more HP than healing spells. I also like having lots of energy potions on hand for boss fights, so that my mage(s) can cast huge damage-dealing spells with (relative) abandon.

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A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
Death to Anama!!! in The Avernum Trilogy
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Saturday, October 29 2005 04:54 Profile #43
At the beginning, though, you want your casters to have as many spell points in a given area as possible, so that they can learn a good number of spells. (In Exile, if your mage was at level 3, they would start out knowing Fireball {which is a pretty good reason to give them 3 mage spell points ^_^}, but I don't think there's any real parallel to that; I think it's just more spells and the game counts you as more "skilled" when learning new spells or levels of them. Later, though, when you've accumulated a lot of experience points, I guess it would be a pretty good idea to start giving characters other types of spells. It might come in handy for huge boss fights to have two guys who can cast Mass Healing so that you can do it twice in one cycle, or two guys who can cast massive, offensive, arcane blasts (MOAB's *giggles*), for that matter, depending on what you have to do at a certain point.

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A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
Riddles &amp; Brain Teasers in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Saturday, October 29 2005 04:46 Profile #84
quote:
Originally written by Explode Thuryl Now:

is it necessary that all of the monks know that all of the monks know that all of the monks reason flawlessly, and so on ad infinitum?
I think so. If there is one red-eyed monk, and he hears that there is at least one red-eyed monk, he has to be able to figure out that he's the only one and kill himself. (If that doesn't happen, and all the other monks are logical enough to figure out that that means there must be at least two, and none of them see another one, then the whole monastery except for the stupid guy would be dead.)

If there are two red-eyed monks, each has to be smart enough to see that when the other one doesn't kill himself, he must be the other one. I suppose that would require each of them to know that the other one was capable of that logic, otherwise they might think each other to be like the guy who can't figure it out above.

If there are three, each of them has to know that the others can figure out that, if two days have passed and nobody is dead, he must have red eyes. But if Monk X sees two other red-eyed monks, but doesn't know that Monk Y knows that Monk Z can figure it out logically, then he might think that Monk Y didn't kill himself because Monk Y thought that Monk Z didn't kill himself because he couldn't deduce the colour of his eyes, and there isn't necessarily a third one.

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
CREATING A MESSAGE BOARD(NEED A HAND!!!) in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Friday, October 28 2005 16:00 Profile #19
quote:
Originally written by lightningmaster2016:

Even on paid boards, they deliberately block certain words that you can't change
I went to an ezboard once, and someone was debating something in some thread and made a reference to "my assertion".
It read "I disagreeertion." ><

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
E1: Items in The Exile Trilogy
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Friday, October 28 2005 15:55 Profile #3
quote:
Originally written by Explode Thuryl Now:

Or you could name the particular items you've found and we could tell you.
*giggles* True.

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A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
Riddles &amp; Brain Teasers in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Friday, October 28 2005 15:47 Profile #71
Ah, I see. Red-Eyed Monk #1 thinks there are 99, so he thinks that #2 thinks there are 98 and that #2 thinks that #3 thinks there are 97... so someone has to be thought to be thought (&c) to think there are zero. =)
(Edit: Hey, whaddaya know? Post #50! ^_^)

[ Friday, October 28, 2005 16:08: Message edited by: Explore the Surface Now ]

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
Riddles &amp; Brain Teasers in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Friday, October 28 2005 15:18 Profile #69
If there were a hundred monks with red eyes, though, then nobody could possibly think that someone else could think that there weren't any.... right?

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
Mac v/s Pc in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Thursday, October 27 2005 17:56 Profile #5
Yes. Mint chocolate chip is awesome. ^^

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
Miers' SCOTUS nomination is withdrawn in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Thursday, October 27 2005 16:15 Profile #4
quote:
Originally written by Explode The Bandwagon Now:

The abbreviation POTUS makes me think of potatos, but SCOTUS reminds me of "scrotum". :P
*snort* Me too. And it reminds me of Scotland.
It's really too bad that the initials of the Supreme Court are SC. It makes my US History notes that much longer, because I can't abbreviate it... lest I confuse it with South Carolina. :D

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
Most excellent nomination. in The Exile Trilogy
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Thursday, October 27 2005 16:09 Profile #5
There is a certain charm, though, about The First One in most series. The Original, before it got all the New and Improved Super Souped-Up Stuff added to it. ^_^ Although, in Exile, said New Stuff is done quite well. I like the whole day thing and stuff being determined by time, as well as the click-on-stuff talking method and the courier jobs. But certain stuff comes pretty early in the game. In A/E 3, you can meet Erika without having to register, that's how early she comes into it. (Not that I'm complaining or anything. *grins happily*) And you can get the Orb of Thralni without registering. At least, in A3 you can. I don't think I've ever gotten that far in E3. ^^;
*looks at all the repetitions of the word "stuff"* Er... that was... intentional. It was anaphora! ^^;;;

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A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
E1: Items in The Exile Trilogy
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Thursday, October 27 2005 16:02 Profile #1
I think on the "More Info" screen, if you click on an item it'll give you a descriptive phrase about what the identified items do. I've probably had a few "???"s come up, though.

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A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
Rhetorical Survey in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Wednesday, October 26 2005 17:08 Profile #12
*Awaits with bated breath the next elaborate ruse to work the previously discussed words into the conversation.*

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
Good free full lenght games in General
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Wednesday, October 26 2005 16:32 Profile #19
3 in Three: hands down, best freeware "Old Game" (made in 1989– it's older than I am! o_O) ever. http://www.fools-errand.com/03-in-three/

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00
what did you name your characters, and why? in The Exile Trilogy
Erika Maroonmark
Shock Trooper
Member # 5969
 written Wednesday, October 26 2005 16:28 Profile #17
I always call my mage Claire after myself; if I have a nephil in my party, his name is Felix; and the rest are usually archaicised (archaised? ^^;; whate'er.) versions of names of various friends of mine. Like "ye olde mediaeval times" type names. =D
One of Exile's few advantages over Avernum: more characters to have fun naming. *g*

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A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Posts: 242 | Registered: Thursday, June 16 2005 07:00

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