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Displayed name	Dikiyoba
Member number	6600
Title	Councilor
Postcount	4346
Homepage	http://www.freewebs.com/dikiyoba/
Registered	Friday, December 23 2005 08:00

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OMG!! in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Saturday, December 8 2007 08:07 Profile Homepage #21 It was Elspeth in Silvar. Dikiyoba thinks Nance was in Fort Dranlon. She definitely wasn't in Formello. (In A2, at least.) -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Revised political-geneforge sympathies poll in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Saturday, December 8 2007 07:44 Profile Homepage #154 Originally by Retlaw May: quote: Dikiyoba- So you like the ending in which the maximum amount of death and destruction is dealt? All endings result in a massive amount of death and destruction. Go for the Rebel ending and the Unbound are released (and the Shapers respond in kind), which basically results in the destruction of Western Terrestia. (I think the ending even says something about the war just beginning.) Go for the Shaper ending and a lot of death and destruction occurs as the Shapers reclaim the rest of Eastern Terrestia. Ghaldring alone kills dozens of Shapers. Any independent servile or drayk the Shapers get their hands on dies. Before the war, the Shapers stayed in power by killing anyone who disobeyed them or they couldn't control, and that's only going to get worse after they put down the rebellion. With the attitudes each side has currently, things are going to be very ugly and lots of people are going to die if one of them outright wins, so why not go for the Trakovite ending? Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
OOC: The Vale RP in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Friday, December 7 2007 09:20 Profile Homepage #21 Well, I'm not really involved in the RP, so I don't have any real authority, but I suggest making him at least a foot shorter, probably closer to a foot and a half. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
OOC: The Vale RP in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Friday, December 7 2007 08:48 Profile Homepage #19 So long as you know we were already sniggering at the height and weight of the characters before you pulled out all the stops and made a character 7 feet tall and only 50 pounds! Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Revised political-geneforge sympathies poll in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Thursday, December 6 2007 21:50 Profile Homepage #152 Originally by Nioca: quote: I'm sorting by faction. The Drakon rebellion is a separate faction from the Human and Creation rebellion. The human/creation rebellion once based in Southforge is fighting for what the rebellion originally stood for: Freedom for creations and independence from Shaper tyranny. The Drakon rebellion, however, is fighting for vengeance and power. Freedom will be a side-effect, and if the current pattern holds, a short-lived one that'll vanish when the Drakons replace the Shapers as even nastier tyrants. And the Shapers fight to maintain order and control. And I just see it as Rebel and Shaper. The drakons cannot survive without the rest of the rebellion and vice versa. They may be fracturing, but they are still one. I also see the Shapers intent to "maintain order and control" by killing anything they can't control. (Even the relatively moderate Alwan says "Of course, he is a drayk, so he is marked for death no matter what he believes. Drayks are Barred. He must die.") If I were a servile, drayk, or drakon, I'd side with the Rebellion just because there is no other choice. If the Shapers just dropped that one policy, I'd probably side with the Shapers. But as it is, the Rebels at least offer hope for a new direction (and survival for non-humans). The Shapers just offer more of the same, which seems to have worked in the past but has now failed miserably in the past few decades (or however long the series has been going on). So, I side with the rebels. But you are right; the drakons are corrupt. So, I usually choose the Trakovite ending. Not because Shaping is bad, but because if neither side can win through brute force then maybe, just maybe, both sides will have to rethink their positions. The Shapers are rethinking some of their laws (which is why they try to recruit your PC) in order to win victory and the drakons just need to find themselves in a position where they realize why they still work with the rest of the rebellion. The Trakovite ending offers a tiny chance one of the sides will clean up their act, whereas the Shaper ending offers none (the few Rebels on Ashen Isles aside, and even that looks temporary) and the Rebel ending doesn't offer anything better either. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Revised political-geneforge sympathies poll in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Thursday, December 6 2007 20:28 Profile Homepage #150 Originally by Nioca: quote: I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I think not, because you're missing the entire point of my argument. quote: They were trying to prevent a disaster like the one that occurs in GF4 from happening in the first place. But no, revenge is a far worthier cause than trying to prevent catastrophe. :rolleyes: The Shapers are commiting the exact same destruction the Rebels are, regardless of their "justification". I could come up with plenty of reasons the Rebels are justified in the amount of destruction they cause. But you probably wouldn't agree with any of those reasons. Similarly, I don't agree with any of your justifications for Shaper behavior either. Either it's an atrocity for either side or it's a necessary fact of war for either side, but it is not okay for one side to do it and wrong for the other side. All that does is give both sides a free pass to continue doing whatever they've been doing. Small wonder the war is still raging if both sides think the other side's actions are all despicable but their side is totally justified! quote: I'm not playing with stereotypes here, and I think you know that as well. This may be one of the potential "agree to disagree" points as well, then. I don't draw near the distinction between drakons and the other rebels you do. I sort by ideology, not race. quote: Question - "What will people here think of me?" Reply - "Not much. This little colony has stayed scrupulously loyal to the Shapers ever since it became clear that the rebellion would be destroyed." Huh. I guess so. Dikiyoba. Edit: Fixed quote. [ Thursday, December 06, 2007 20:30: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ] -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Revised political-geneforge sympathies poll in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Thursday, December 6 2007 18:50 Profile Homepage #147 Originally by Nioca: quote: Or if, you know, the Rebels hadn't drove everyone out and used it as a stronghold. Well, if the Shapers had ruled in such a way they hadn't provoked a gigantic rebellion in the first place... My point is, the Shapers destroyed an entire city. And not out of necessity, but as an example. ("The shredded remains of the rebel army used Thornton to stage its final defense. Then the Shapers blasted the entire place...some of the rebel dead were looted and left to rot, a foul warning to any who would fight the Shapers.") They commit the exact same acts of the destruction as the Rebels. quote: Litalia was bragging consistently in GF3 about how Terrestia was in flames. GF3's ending touched upon the carnage the Drakon's were inflicting. And it was mentioned several times that it was the Rebels spreading carnage and destruction. So no, the Rebels are far more willing to destroy than the Shapers. Sorry, I have not played G3. But I have already provided two examples of the Shapers causing destruction. Also, if you choose the loyalist ending of G2, the Shapers raze Medab, Rising, and Zhass-Uss to the ground as well. The Shapers are equally willing to destroy whenever they have the opportunity. quote: The human rebels aren't the ones that go around slaughtering everything. It's the Drakons that do that. Alright, you want to play with racial stereotypes? Fine. The Shapers are human. So it was humans who ordered the destruction of Thornton, humans who want to wipe every intelligent servile, drayk, and drakon off the face of the planet, and humans who kill anyone who disobeys them too much (sometimes by letting them starve in a cage on public display, no less.) quote: Also, Therile colony consists of opportunists who could scarcely care less about Shaper law and allegiance. They just wave the banner of shaper supporters so as to exploit the serviles they have there. If the shapers were to find out what's going on there after the war is over... Well, suffice it to say, I doubt he and his sons would mistreat serviles again. I'm not too sure about that. The farmer got the serviles directly from the Shapers in the first place. There's the pro-Shaper alchemist, too. And one of the signs reads "THERILE COLONY Rebels and troublemakers not welcome!" So the people of Therile are openly expressing anti-Rebel sentiment and surviving. Judging by the cages in Dillame and the terrified people hiding in Valeya, the same does not hold true in Shaper territory. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Revised political-geneforge sympathies poll in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Thursday, December 6 2007 16:18 Profile Homepage #144 Ah, I did miss the intro where it mentioned "Many of the Shapers and those loyal to them were slain. Proud cities were razed to the ground." But the intro also says "The Rebels have been pushed back. Their lands have been burned." So the Shapers have been equally willing to destroy. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Revised political-geneforge sympathies poll in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Thursday, December 6 2007 12:26 Profile Homepage #142 Or if, you know, the Shapers hadn't destroyed it. And which "clueless villages" did the rebels destroy? Therile is untouched, despite being a town of Shaper sympathizers in Rebel territory. Rocky Point was destroyed by both the Shapers and the Rebels. There is no evidence as to who destroyed Valeya. And the Rebels destroyed Polyphra because it was a major Shaper stronghold, just like the Shapers did to Thornton. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Revised political-geneforge sympathies poll in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Thursday, December 6 2007 07:11 Profile Homepage #140 Actually, the Shapers destroyed Thornton. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
OMG!! in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Tuesday, December 4 2007 23:26 Profile Homepage #12 No, her name is Elspeth. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
OMG!! in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Tuesday, December 4 2007 22:03 Profile Homepage #10 It took Dikiyoba ages to figure out which Spiderweb character was named Esther. It's the default Agent name, isn't it? Edit: Typo. [ Tuesday, December 04, 2007 22:04: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ] -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
How do I get the last artifact in G2? in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Tuesday, December 4 2007 17:31 Profile Homepage #7 Uh... I just said that changing reputation doesn't appear to work. But shift+D "sdf 32 10 2" is the least invasive cheat, as far as Dikiyoba knows. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Buried Cells issues in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Tuesday, December 4 2007 17:15 Profile Homepage #1 Let's see... I've never had any problems clearing the area just by entering from one side and exiting from the other. Buron has a key hidden in a flowerpot (not one of the orange jars) next to the living tools enclosure. It's a bit tricky to find, but move your mouse over it and it will highlight. Dikiyoba hopes that answers your questions adequately. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Who do you want to see in Geneforge 5 in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Tuesday, December 4 2007 16:51 Profile Homepage #22 In G1, they were allied with the Takers. In G3, they were basically irrelevant to the story. Edit: Allying with the Takers basically means that they wanted to take shaping power for themselves, overthrow the Shapers, and give the serviles their freedom. Dikiyoba. [ Tuesday, December 04, 2007 16:53: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ] -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Help in Valeya Road in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Monday, December 3 2007 09:33 Profile Homepage #3 I forget the exact details, but if you have high enough leadership and talk with the cultists enough, they'll tell you about a canister. That will open up a secret path with the canister of Create Kyshakk. So it's there. Dikiyoba can't help you with the other canister question, though. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
How do I get the last artifact in G2? in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Monday, December 3 2007 09:04 Profile Homepage #4 A bit of script searching reveals that he won't offer to help you if you are obviously pro-Shaper. Learned Darian does adjust your reputation enough but, unfortunately, the only time your reptuation seems to be checked is when you complete the spore collection quest for him. So you're probably out of luck. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
How do I get the last artifact in G2? in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Sunday, December 2 2007 19:42 Profile Homepage #1 The ingredients are correct. Dikiyoba isn't entirely sure but suspects that you need to complete his spore-collecting quest and possibly be neutral or pro-servile before he will help you. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Do you think that your creations should be able to carry stuff? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Sunday, December 2 2007 10:13 Profile Homepage #22 Originally by LakiRa@: quote: quote: Originally written by Excalibur: Oh, never mind, you're Nalyd. ........what? Nalyd is one of those mad cultist serviles. Well, okay, he's not. But he'd probably be pretty happy if he were. :P Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Endeavour in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Sunday, December 2 2007 10:07 Profile Homepage #57 Normally, I don't much mind static shocks. (In fact, I was one of those kids who slid down the plastic slide then ran to touch something metal immediately afterwards.) But I learned very quickly to be careful around my rug and chair whenever I had my headphones connected to my computer, because shocks to the inside of the ear are just unpleasant. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Sunday, December 2 2007 00:26 Profile Homepage #366 Chapter 10: Slartanalysis Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Beyond Shaper Crypt in Geneforge in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Friday, November 30 2007 18:16 Profile Homepage #10 Well, there are two minds you have the option to kill instead of feed (Control Four to join the Awakened and Control Three to help out the Takers), so depending on how you play, you might not need that extra jar. Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Beyond Shaper Crypt in Geneforge in Geneforge Series
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Friday, November 30 2007 14:25 Profile Homepage #8 Hmm. Everything I've ever run across says that there is one more servant mind than jar of mind nutrients (6 nutrients, 7 minds). Dikiyoba. -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
Who do you want to see in Geneforge 5 in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Friday, November 30 2007 08:42 Profile Homepage #16 Originally by Grimm: quote: Litalia can't comeback, because you can kill her in G3. What does that have to do with anything? She's alive and well in G4. (Admittedly, she can be killed in G4 too, but Dikiyoba is assuming a non-Shaper ending will be chosen for G5 and therefore that the PC probably didn't kill her.) -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
A1: Which items do I need to keep for future quests, etc? in The Avernum Trilogy
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Friday, November 30 2007 08:28 Profile Homepage #2 Here is Tyranicus' A1 quest list. There are quite a few items-for-gold quests on there. Dikiyoba. Edit: Typo. [ Friday, November 30, 2007 08:30: Message edited by: Dikiyoba ] -------------------- Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00

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