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need help! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, November 25 2005 15:50 Profile Homepage #3 Judging by your signature, Ahyao, I take it that you intend to acquire SW games by illegal means, rather than by, you know, paying for them. For future reference, trying to steal from a company on its own official forums is just dumb. [ Friday, November 25, 2005 19:11: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Zakhazi Run in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, November 25 2005 03:54 Profile Homepage #8 You probably don't have to take yourself out of the whole scenario; you can just use the editor to leave town instead. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Zakhazi Run in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, November 24 2005 22:23 Profile Homepage #5 Man. Uh, well, you can probably go back the way you came somehow, given that south-to-north is the way you're supposed to go through the Dark Maze. Unfortunately, I always just used the unicorn route instead, so I can't help you with exactly how to get through it. See, this is why you should keep backup savefiles. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Zakhazi Run in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, November 24 2005 20:08 Profile Homepage #3 Ah. The passage is on the south side. Ignore the Dark Maze entirely. To get past Morog's domain, just keep heading north. It might be a good idea to do a quest for Morog first, so that you don't waste more time on the poppy shrooms... -------------------- 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 Thursday, November 24 2005 15:19 Profile Homepage #827 He's TM. Therefore, it's Japanese. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Zakhazi Run in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, November 24 2005 15:17 Profile Homepage #1 Well, you can skip the Dark Maze entirely if you help the unicorns. But since you're most of the way through the maze already, you may as well continue the way you've been going. There's a well-hidden secret passage in a rock formation just to the west of where you start when you enter the broken bridge town. Behind the secret passage is a lever which will unbreak the bridge for you. [ Thursday, November 24, 2005 15:17: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Sci-Fi and fantasy authors... in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, November 24 2005 00:28 Profile Homepage #13 I'm quite a fan of John Wyndham, so I'll mention him, as I usually do in such topics, because nobody else has and it seems nobody else will. It's a pity that there isn't more half-decent biological sci-fi around, really. [ Thursday, November 24, 2005 00:40: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Random Quiz in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, November 24 2005 00:12 Profile Homepage #15 quote: Originally written by Naught Eye: Why do you have a 1913 copy of Webster's? You can find it for free online. That particular edition of Webster's is a popular reference because it's the most recent edition that's currently in the public domain. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Random Quiz in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 23 2005 19:52 Profile Homepage #9 Webster's 1913 dictionary thinks "preambulate" means "to walk before", but I think it's safe to say that it's not a word that's currently in wide use. (Not that "perambulate" really is either, but still.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Number words in English in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 23 2005 19:28 Profile Homepage #31 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: Also, if one needed to refer to 10^15, I'm not sure I could take a person seriously who said "billiard" and meant a large number. I'm aware that everyone was probably thinking that already, but did you really have to say it? Now I can't stop giggling. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Nephilim and ConLang in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 23 2005 19:18 Profile Homepage #3 quote: Originally written by NaNoWriMo: No Nephilim writing. The signs - if we're referring to the same signs - were made by humans, but were defaced by Nephilim. In fact, I'm not sure if the Nephilim of Avernum even spoke a language other than the human one... They certainly did -- check out the Nephil castle at the start of E/A 1. -------------------- 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 Wednesday, November 23 2005 19:04 Profile Homepage #823 When the posts are five days apart, it's reasonably okay to double post in order to bump a topic. :P -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Random Quiz in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 23 2005 18:58 Profile Homepage #6 Actually, the word the poster was looking for was "perambulate". -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Number words in English in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 23 2005 18:56 Profile Homepage #29 quote: Originally written by NaNoWriMo: Kel, if you were using the other system, you would say "one hundred milliard(s)", not "one hundred thousand million". The length is the same. :P I'm pretty sure that hardly anyone actually uses the word "milliard" any more, even in countries that use the larger value for a billion. :P quote: Does "million" have a plural, by the way? "Several milliard" sounds incorrect, but I've heard both "millions upon millions" and "five million dollars". Does it depend on whether there is a unit involved (eg. dollars)? That's just a feature of English numbers in general, and it doesn't depend on whether there's a unit. You don't say "five hundreds dollars" either, you say "five hundred dollars". In general, if there's a specific number before "hundred" or "thousand" or "million" or whatever, you use the singular. Thus, five thousand, two hundred, $381 million, and so on. If the number you're referring to is a few million but you don't want to specify exactly how large it is, you can just say "millions". So yes, "million" has a plural, and it's "millions", but 5,000,000 is five million, not five millions (because it's a single number, not five groups of one million). "Several million" is perfectly okay, although you'd generally say "many millions" rather than "many million". Don't ask me why "many" works differently in this case; it just does. Oh, and just to complicate things further, you can say "tens of millions" to refer to an unspecified number from 20-99 million or "hundreds of millions" to refer to an unspecified number from 200-999 million, although just plain "millions" is perfectly acceptable for either of these as well. So five hundred million dollars could be referred to as "five hundred million", "hundreds of millions" or just "millions", although it wouldn't be referred to as "tens of millions". [ Wednesday, November 23, 2005 19:13: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
bahssikava in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, November 23 2005 02:00 Profile Homepage #27 quote: Originally written by NaNoWriMo: I solved the mirror puzzle with no problems whatsoever. Of course it takes time, and I had to reset it at least 5-6 times by leaving the level and returning. You do know that the levers reset the puzzle rooms that they're in, right? Unless you actually manage to trap yourself somewhere without access to a lever, you can always just use those. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
We're All Pretty Elves RP in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, November 22 2005 22:30 Profile Homepage #2 Starting to think I'm going to need a purpose-built image for berating TM. Oh well; this will do for now. Seriously, though, cut it out already. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
My Nanowrimo Novel - Vahnatai stuff! in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, November 22 2005 12:36 Profile Homepage #63 I'm pretty sure my copy of LotR calls it "mithral" as well. "Mithril" seems to be a D&D spelling. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Number words in English in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, November 22 2005 12:11 Profile Homepage #11 Wow. Brings new meaning to "aggressively pointless". I'm assuming that the author had just discovered for-loops and decided that they were cool and ought to be used whenever possible. [ Tuesday, November 22, 2005 12:13: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
IMG Previews A4. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, November 22 2005 12:10 Profile Homepage #39 Ash sticks around for BoE, mostly, and to a lesser extent BoA. If you want to know his age, his date of birth is in his profile. [ Tuesday, November 22, 2005 12:39: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
IMG Previews A4. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, November 22 2005 11:54 Profile Homepage #37 I rather liked Nethergate's gameplay. The relatively low stats achievable by the party compared to those in Exile or Avernum did a good job of driving in the point that that the party was a group of ordinary mortals among the supernatural. (Actually, it'd be better if skill points were harder to gain and the HP cap were even lower, but I realise not everyone wants a game so difficult as to cause spontaneous human combustion.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
E4? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, November 22 2005 06:35 Profile Homepage #19 At the Gallows. As far as can be determined, Falling Stars isn't even set in the same universe as the Exile series. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
IMG Previews A4. in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, November 22 2005 00:39 Profile Homepage #26 Once A4 is released, discussion on it will likely move to the Avernum Series forum anyway. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
If you could, when would you... in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, November 21 2005 19:30 Profile Homepage #31 quote: Originally written by Spring: *Oh, it was 1845? I must of got my dates mixed up. Wasn't 1851 the first confirmed* gold find?** Um, you do realise that the gold was already there before people started finding it, right? The point is to go there and find it before other people do. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
New Game!!! in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, November 21 2005 18:06 Profile Homepage #3 Bad TM. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Cheating in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, November 21 2005 16:31 Profile Homepage #5 You could shape Ur-Drakons in Geneforge 2, though, and Geneforge 3's hintbook lists three Drakon canisters (even though only two actually exist). So it does seem as if Jeff intended for the player to be able to shape Ur-Drakons. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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