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Longest Word in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, December 19 2005 04:43 Profile Homepage #3 "Atomic absorption spectrophotometer analysis", I'm assuming. Fun fact: the atomic absorption spectrophotometer was invented in Australia. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Arcane and Nature Lore in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, December 19 2005 04:39 Profile Homepage #1 The game only looks at the total level of it in your party, so you should spread them evenly across everyone. Putting 2 points on every party member is much cheaper than putting 8 points on a single member. The same goes for First Aid, by the way. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Longest Word in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, December 19 2005 01:49 Profile Homepage #1 Just so you know, coming up with ridiculously long names for organic molecules is fairly trivial. The name for one strand of DNA taken from any given organism would be even longer if anyone were insane enough to write it out in full. This is why molecular biologists like to use abbreviations instead. :P And technically, the "word" you typed isn't the name of a virus, it's the name of the protein coat of a virus. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Blades won't open in Blades of Exile
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, December 19 2005 01:44 Profile Homepage #9 'Tis the season for garage sales. Maybe you can convince a neighbour to part with an old unused computer for 20 quid or so, and use that for BoE? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Bow Before Me as if I Were Your God in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 20:30 Profile Homepage #40 quote: Originally written by Will wily Wyrmkin wait willingly?: That's true too, but apparently people have been pining for "easy" explanations for more than fifty years. There's at least one bisyllable in there -- "proven". (Of course, that could easily be changed to "proved", and maybe it was originally "proved", since the piece shows other signs that it's been run through a grammar checker and the corrections blindly accepted.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
What would you do with a billion dollars? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 20:23 Profile Homepage #26 I'm not sure a billion will go very far toward your time machine, TM. Even an ordinary particle accelerator can cost more than that. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
A New Message Board in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 20:21 Profile Homepage #1 I'm guessing ezboard is right out? Right. Just checking. Unfortunately, I'm not sure there are too many other options out there that won't cost you something. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
walkthrough in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 20:19 Profile Homepage #32 quote: Originally written by Ephesos: quote: anyway, back on topic otherwise the blademasters(shh they are everywhere) will ban us!!! This is unlikely. Unless you are terminally abrasive (as TM has been in the past), ungodly annoying (such as the advertisers), or intent on posting lewd images (I can't remember any examples), you won't get banned. Blademasters can't ban anyone anyway, being as they're mods and banning requires an admin. Also, with regard to your third point, how could you have forgotten EraserHead so soon? [ Sunday, December 18, 2005 20:20: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Athron's lair key in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 20:17 Profile Homepage #20 quote: Originally written by Will wily Wyrmkin wait willingly?: Actually, as of the end of A3 the dragons are still alive and on the surface just like in A3. Unless, of course, you were a lout and killed them in A3. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Just hit the registration barrier. in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 20:12 Profile Homepage #26 Sorry for the mild topic resurrection, but since nobody else has, I thought I might as well share what the wishing well does. You can get spoiler if you have spoiler and spoiler. (Hold your mouse over the spoilers to read them in your browser's status bar.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Report Your Stats Here (Uncle Spam Needs YOU!) in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 20:08 Profile Homepage #11 See, the problem with your plan is that it involves using up an invulnerability potion. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Full Screen misfunctioning on Exile 3 in Tech Support
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 17:17 Profile Homepage #2 Is it literally a window with a title bar and your desktop visible around it, or a little panel in the middle of the screen with a marbled background around it? The latter is normal (for Macs, at least; don't know how it works on Windows, but that doesn't concern either of us anyway). If it's doing the former, there's something funny going on. If your only complaint is that it isn't automatically switching resolution when you open it up, well, uh, I think there's a preference option somewhere to change that. Try opening BoE while holding Command or Option or something like that. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Bow Before Me as if I Were Your God in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 17:12 Profile Homepage #34 quote: Originally written by Chary of Chitrachs: Trying to explain TM is like trying to explain General Relativity in monosyllables (it's been done, but it requires genius), or where are the Snowdens of yesteryear. TM is. Actually, relativity was explained in words of four letters or less (some of which had two syllables). Godel's Incompleteness Theorem was the one that was explained in monosyllables. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
A4 Hidden Skills [SPOILERS] in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 15:47 Profile Homepage #28 By the way, is it just me or is Lethal Blow distinctly unimpressive in A4? It seems to do roughly what Assassination used to do in the other Avernums. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
chiptruth: kudos for game informer raves in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 15:33 Profile Homepage #6 I don't know quite what this is, but I'm pretty sure it's unsolicited advertising, which isn't allowed here. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
A4 Hidden Skills [SPOILERS] in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 15:27 Profile Homepage #26 Probably it's the empty spot that was once occupied by Pathfinder, and Jeff didn't fill it with anything. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Report Your Stats Here (Uncle Spam Needs YOU!) in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 15:05 Profile Homepage #7 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: Thuryl, what difficulty level are you playing on? Torment, of course. But it hardly seems to matter. With 10 Parry and over 80 armor, my fighter is basically a walking rock -- most attacks just plain don't hit him, and the ones that do hit inflict only negligible damage. quote: And what was your trick for the Testing Bones? I had a devil of a time with that on my first run through on Normal, and now going back on Torment, it's coming up soon, and seriously ydrad. Two things you probably know already: he sprays ice on you if you're anywhere inside the room, and he won't follow you outside the room. Now, as you also probably know, if you just go and hide around the corner, the test eventually complains that you haven't taken enough attacks and flunks you -- but it only keeps track of his physical attacks, not the icy spray. So if you stand your fighter just one space outside the room and hide everyone else around the corner, he can reach you to attack you, but he can't spray ice on you. Sneaky, but effective. (You know you're in the right position when you've travelled just far enough down the hallway so that you can talk to the bones and start the test.) I used a similarly sneaky strategy to finally beat Nociduas. Before taking him on, be sure to find and drink from the water basin that gives you elemental resistance. Drinking some Armor Potions, and using either Augmentation or Augmenting Potions, is a good idea too -- no harm in having all the HP you can get. Once the fight began, I hid two of my spellcasters just to either side of the gate into his room so that Nociduas could only see my fighter and one caster at any given time. When it was someone's turn to attack, they swapped position with whichever caster was currently in line of sight with Nociduas. This made it reasonably possible to keep my party fully healed at all times. (Casting Slow on him also helps to reduce the number of attacks you'll have to take -- recast it if he uses a hasting potion.) After setting all that up, all I had to do was attack, heal when necessary, and pray that Nociduas didn't use a healing potion of his own. In fact, abusing the line-of-sight algorithm in various ways is pretty much my strategy of choice for most things that my fighter has trouble dealing with on his own. [ Sunday, December 18, 2005 15:20: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Report Your Stats Here (Uncle Spam Needs YOU!) in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 04:09 Profile Homepage #4 More to the point, why bother to report that? This is a statistics topic, not a survey topic. On that note, I'm now just past the Tower of Magi and my party's at level 20-21. XP per kill isn't very high -- certainly less than 10 XP each off most things I'm fighting (ogres, lava bats). I'm finding the game fairly easy at this point -- melee-using opponents can barely touch my fighter, and his acid and poison resistance are both around 80%. The main challenge is in keeping my spellcasters out of harm's way, and with the occasional opponent that uses elemental attacks. The biggest problem I've faced in the game so far was Nociduas, who absolutely slaughtered me many, many times before I discovered a strategy which allowed me to beat him within a couple of attempts. I probably should have just left him for later instead of charging in there with a level-17 party, but I'm stubborn. [ Sunday, December 18, 2005 04:16: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
walkthrough in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, December 18 2005 03:57 Profile Homepage #23 Actually, I can sort of understand that desire. I've read several walkthroughs for games I've never played and never intend to play, just so I can know how the plot goes. Sometimes it's useful to know these things. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Geneforge Online in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 17 2005 18:14 Profile Homepage #14 We've been over this before. Spiderweb Software consists of Jeff Vogel, his wife and his secretary: that's it. It's not a high-budget game studio which can afford to risk making a loss on some of its products in hopes of turning out a big money-spinner. Jeff can't afford to spend that much time and money designing a game in a genre he's not experienced with and which may or may not sell well with his usual audience. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Is this game nothing but combat? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 17 2005 18:10 Profile Homepage #11 Well, damn. That'll teach me to read the documentation next time. Thanks for the advice. >_< -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 17 2005 18:09 Profile Homepage #835 Bamingutan? Is that like an explosive orangutan? -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Converting Geneforge, Avernum, etc. to D&D D20 Rules in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 17 2005 18:07 Profile Homepage #8 quote: Originally written by An array cat: I seem to remember that there were special circumstances surrounding the other site being taken offline. Was it discussed here, perhaps? Yup. The designer of the other set of rules showed up and started explaining himself. Apparently the site was intended as a reference for a gaming group, and he wasn't even aware it was available outside his university's intranet. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Bow Before Me as if I Were Your God in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 17 2005 18:05 Profile Homepage #17 I'm catching up with TM's post count. Time to start looking for some good 6000 images... -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Worst Game Ever in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 17 2005 15:07 Profile Homepage #69 quote: Originally written by Chary of Chitrachs: Chronicle of Ekan is a valiant attempt at an RPG that is kind of fun despite ugly graphics and some fun glitches if you look for them. Ooh. I stand corrected. That brings the total to at least 4. (CoE seemed slightly unfinished, though. Either that or there was an Earth card hidden somewhere and I never found it.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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