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All I ask is one small favor... in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Saturday, July 2 2005 19:08 Profile Homepage #4
UV, 9VOPB and DOK are all still on the tables. It's just that they've moved to a different table.

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Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General
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 written Saturday, July 2 2005 19:02 Profile Homepage #672
Some random newbie asking a sincere question which everyone proceeded to give silly answers to.

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Official Election Primary Voting in General
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 written Saturday, July 2 2005 17:16 Profile Homepage #18
No, because after this round there's going to be a second runoff vote between the top-scoring candidates. At the moment we're just voting for who gets to choose who's in the second election.

[ Saturday, July 02, 2005 17:18: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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A Question about the Slith and Nephilim in The Avernum Trilogy
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 written Saturday, July 2 2005 16:15 Profile Homepage #8
Um, I'm not sure what you mean. They're not "projections", whatever that means, they're a different species -- at least as far as the game world is concerned. If you want to speculate as to Jeff's personal psychological reasons for having them wear clothes, that's a separate question.

[ Saturday, July 02, 2005 16:16: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General
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 written Saturday, July 2 2005 16:05 Profile Homepage #668
The Xian Skull topic no longer lives
on these forums
it now lives at the cemetery
where it is the undertaker
's bride

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FAQ/walkthrough is up in Geneforge Series
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 written Saturday, July 2 2005 05:35 Profile Homepage #14
Yes, we know the description for Parry says that, but sometimes the descriptions lie. What we'd like is some kind of evidence of just how much damage it blocks. (From my experience, it definitely does seem to block some damage, though.)

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All the older Exile demo links are not working can we get them fixed please? in Tech Support
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 written Saturday, July 2 2005 00:15 Profile Homepage #31
I rather suspect he was joking.

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Bah Machinery Help in Blades of Avernum
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 23:19 Profile Homepage #5
Er, since when is it possible for the player to do that except by entering combat mode? Outside of combat, the first party member leads and the rest of the party follows close behind regardless of which character is selected.

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Bah Machinery Help in Blades of Avernum
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 21:06 Profile Homepage #3
Well, if your problem is understanding what the mirrors do, then just push them around for a while and see the ways in which each of them reflects beams. Each of them reflects beams at a 90 degree angle, but some reflect west to north and east to south, while others reflect west to south and east to north.

As you probably know already, there's one power source at the end of each room that you need to light by firing a beam into it. It can sometimes help to do the puzzles in combat mode so your PCs can work independently of each other.

[ Friday, July 01, 2005 21:07: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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A Question about the Slith and Nephilim in The Avernum Trilogy
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 20:43 Profile Homepage #5
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Originally written by Slp006:

I had given that some thought as well, but then they all look like rags to me.
Although all of the Slith PC graphics wear the loincloths, some of them also wear bits of cloth on their shoulders or around their necks. They certainly don't look as if they serve any useful function, which is what suggests to me that they may be ornamental or serve some other social function.

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A Question about the Slith and Nephilim in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 20:26 Profile Homepage #3
It may be that Slith clothing serves to denote occupation or social status in some way. Note the Slith character portraits in BoA, for example; each slith wears a different, distinctive set of clothes, most of which appear to serve no significant practical purpose but each of which is quite recognisable.

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A Question about the Slith and Nephilim in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 20:07 Profile Homepage #1
Well, in Exile, Slith graphics generally weren't depicted wearing anything. It's possible that they wear clothes mainly to keep warm -- they don't like the cold, and maybe some parts are more, er, sensitive to it than others.

As for Nephilim, maybe they keep their wedding tackle in a little pouch when it's not in use; many other mammals do this. Or maybe it's just that Nephil culture doesn't object to them prancing about naked.

[ Friday, July 01, 2005 20:09: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Can anyone figure out this riddle? in General
Thuryl
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 18:34 Profile Homepage #77
quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

Hey, is System's Twilight by Andrew Plotkin?
That it is. There's a hint guide for it here, but apparently Andrew personally requested that its author not give out the solution to the final puzzle.

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Exile 2 value in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 16:49 Profile Homepage #11
quote:
Originally written by sith1990:

The legal stuff in this is old and for all of the other shareware games it says that you can sell them as long as they get full credit no game modifications and none of them are registered yet.
Er, I don't know what shareware licences you've been reading. Most of the ones I've seen don't even permit including the software in a for-profit shareware compilation without prior written permission, let alone selling it on its own. They've been ruled legally binding in court, too; there's a famous test case on the issue.

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Bah Machinery Help in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 16:40 Profile Homepage #1
Have you solved any of the puzzle rooms at all? We could help you more if we knew which rooms you were stuck on.

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Can anyone figure out this riddle? in General
Thuryl
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 16:32 Profile Homepage #73
quote:
Originally written by Byte?:

A precious gift this
Yet it has no end or beginning
And in the middle nothing

Time? Nothing in the middle doesn't quite work.
Think more literally. It's a ring.

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—Alorael, who has 3 in Three and its sequel in spirit, System's Twilight. Both are painfully difficult and occasionally solvable only by repeated iterations to avoid actually figuring out the solution.
Hey, while we're on the subject, does anyone know how to solve that accursed System Core puzzle at the end of System's Twilight? I've messed around a bit and managed to do a couple of interesting things, but I can't even really figure out what I'm supposed to achieve.

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Polylinguistic humor in General
Thuryl
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 04:41 Profile Homepage #1
Squid.

You know, this is probably going to turn into a posting game. I feel kinda unclean for replying to it.

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Level max in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 04:36 Profile Homepage #1
There isn't any practical limit. I believe someone tested to see if there was a maximum once and managed to pump characters' levels into the thousands.

Of course, monsters can't go above level 100, so it's pretty pointless to have a party of characters significantly above that level. The High Level Party Maker utility can raise your party to level 250, making you more powerful than you will ever need to be to do anything.

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Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 04:29 Profile Homepage #78
There are a couple of ways to handle that, but the simplest way is to put it in the START_SCEN_STATE of your scenario script.

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Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, July 1 2005 04:29 Profile Homepage #78
There are a couple of ways to handle that, but the simplest way is to put it in the START_SCEN_STATE of your scenario script.

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Aww, shucks. in Blades of Exile
Thuryl
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 03:53 Profile Homepage #2
Gizmo's site is linked to in the forum header for this board. Any moderator can do that, though. I suspect it was Brett Bixler, since he's most active on this forum.

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Can anyone figure out this riddle? in General
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 03:51 Profile Homepage #64
Also, you can buy a coffin for yourself with a prepaid funeral plan.

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Guys... I started the Hak-Kahz ruin thingie.. but I need help in Blades of Avernum
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 03:47 Profile Homepage #19
I'm assuming she means SkeleTony. Their names acronymise similarly.

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What do YOU want to see in G4? in Geneforge Series
Thuryl
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 03:45 Profile Homepage #193
quote:
Originally written by Travers:

I agree that it would be interesting, but I think that it might take away from the whole story arch too much. I mean, there's no logical reason why either the shapers or the rebels would dabble in it: they both see strength in shaping, which is kinda like the opposite of necromancy.
Well, in Geneforge 1 we learn that the Shapers' ancestors turned themselves into shades to gain power and extend their lives. It didn't work so well for them, though.

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what instrument do YOU play? in General
Thuryl
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 written Friday, July 1 2005 03:18 Profile Homepage #10
I'm not a particularly sentimental person, and I make no apologies for that. It's not that I actively dislike music, but I'll only listen to it if I feel the need for background noise and there's nothing tolerable on TV or the radio.

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Are there any instruments aside from the voice that you can play without a lot of manual dexterity? I've got a medically-related superb lack of fine motor skills and have tried to find "my instrument" to no avail. Piano, drums, trombone, and guitar are out for sure, for example.
Uh, maybe a xylophone with reasonably large bars? Depends just how lacking your lack is. Any complex piece of music is going to require fairly precise timing even if you're just playing a triangle, so if your problem extends as far as not being able to hit an object at controlled time intervals then you're probably just out of luck.

Or you could try a bugle; a bugle requires no manual dexterity at all, because all the work in controlling the note you're playing is done by your mouth instead. Not much call for bugles these days, though.

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