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cresent valley cooter in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, April 30 2005 20:35 Profile Homepage #1 Please use a heavy weight around your neck to hold your head underwater until you pass out. This should solve your problem. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Demo stuffs in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, April 30 2005 19:38 Profile Homepage #3 Well, yes, but she doesn't want that. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Demo stuffs in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, April 30 2005 18:52 Profile Homepage #1 You get the rat quest from Commander Terrance at Fort Talrus. quote: How do I find what I need to finish the 'search the mage's house' quest? I searched all houses but found nothing and cant seem to finish this. The house you need to search is Avizo's. There's nothing there; all you need to do is search around until you get the message that there's nothing there, and go back and tell Karen that there's nothing there. Mission accomplished. [ Saturday, April 30, 2005 18:54: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
How about a different kind of game... in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, April 30 2005 18:46 Profile Homepage #3 Why doesn't Dr Phil become a neurosurgeon? He's good at working with people's brains. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
X'erchde bug in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, April 30 2005 18:45 Profile Homepage #2 It has indeed been fixed in later versions. The problem is probably on your end of things. (Unless of course Zxquez made them neutral or forgot to set a town crime level, in which case it's his fault.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
A quest for information in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, April 30 2005 14:13 Profile Homepage #13 Considering Eddings's first work of epic fantasy was published in 1982, that seems unlikely. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
A quest for information in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, April 30 2005 13:45 Profile Homepage #11 You will note that heroic solutions are rarely the most simple or sensible way of going about things. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
THE GREAT DEBATE in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, April 30 2005 13:39 Profile Homepage #126 quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: The ape language thing is actually very controversial. I haven't heard about gorillas learning sign language; that seems pretty improbable, since I would be very surprised if any researchers have been able to do the close one-on-one training, which is required for this sort of thing, with such large and dangerous animals as gorillas. Koko -- a basic summary. (Follow the link to "Koko (gorilla)"; UBB won't allow me to put parentheses in links.) There's some controversy over whether what she does actually constitutes language, and even if it does her vocabulary is pretty limited. Follow the external links for more information and decide for yourself. quote: This is precisely the problem I have: I don't see how we can tell. As far as I can see, any animal could well be 'just' a complicated machine, with reflexive responses to stimuli, and complex instinctive behaviors, but no-one 'there' inside, to actually experience fear, or pain, or anything at all. Well, if you want to extend your skepticism far enough, maybe consciousness is a unique event that only happened to you, and every other human just acts as if they have consciousness. How similar to you does an animal have to be before you're convinced it's conscious? Which of its properties are important? [ Saturday, April 30, 2005 13:43: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
A quest for information in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, April 30 2005 13:31 Profile Homepage #9 quote: Well, if you redefine 'save the world' into 'fight someone', the plot is indeed old. But there does seem to me to be a nontrivial issue of scale, here. As far as I know, the stories just listed all deal with problems that were important, but clearly localized even within the context of the stories themselves. Yeah. My theory is that the emergence of saving the world as a plotline had something to do with the World Wars -- perhaps until then nobody seriously thought of the whole world as an entity that could be under threat? Actually, that can't quite be true, as fiction and mythology up to that time have plenty of stories about the world being destroyed, but in those cases it's by supernatural forces that humans are powerless to stop. The World Wars were the first example of a threat on a global scale that was caused by humans and stopped by humans, and I think that's significant. quote: If you are looking for literally the whole world, I would say possibly Noah's Arch. He was not a hero in the RPG sense, but saving every creature is saving the entire world. As Alorael points out, Noah didn't really save very much of the world; besides, all he does is build a boat, which somehow isn't enormously heroic. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
A quest for information in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 23:11 Profile Homepage #0 It is of course widely known among aficionados of fantasy games and novels that the idea of the hero saving the world is a hackneyed old plot, perhaps not without its charm but overused by amateurs and poor writers. But how old is it really? That's a question that's been troubling me for some time now, and one that I'd like forumgoers to have a go at answering. Stated more clearly: What's the earliest example of a work of fiction, in any genre, in which the protagonist, alone or in a small group, literally saves the entire world? I can't for the life of me think of a good example prior to LotR. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Ouch in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 22:44 Profile Homepage #26 Handball is like basketball only with a smaller ball, and with a soccer goal instead of a net. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
help me in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 22:41 Profile Homepage #34 To win the scenario, you have to use the controls in the Major Waste Repository. There are three things you need before you can do that: * You need the Crystal of Power (from the Vahnatai) * You need the instruction scrolls (from Pangle, the hermit you can find in the far southwest of the outdoors) * You need to have turned on the power in the control room in the caves at the very bottom of the school. Turn on the power there, then go to the Major Waste Repository and use the controls. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Ouch in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 20:48 Profile Homepage #23 It's like basketball only you're not allowed to run with the ball. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Canopy...need help in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 20:46 Profile Homepage #3 If you mean that last time you played, you followed Spiegelbrecher to the south and he killed Leader and then you, that's the proper ending. Sorry. (If you mean the part before that where your way into Sud Canopy gets blocked by trees, go back the way you came to see the General, watch the cutscene, then head south a little, east along the wall and south into the fort.) [ Friday, April 29, 2005 20:48: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Rebellion in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 19:34 Profile Homepage #23 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: That said, I really don't like the Empire and chose to side with the rebels almost instantly. So soon, in fact, that the plotline couldn't handle it and pretended that I was still working for the Empire for another quest. Well, if you were siding with the rebels that soon, it's questionable that your party would realistically have taken an assignment to put down a rebellion (that is, entered the scenario) in the first place. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Canopy...need help in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 19:32 Profile Homepage #1 Hang on. It sounds like you've already completed Fortress Grenze and now you're up to the assault on Sud Canopy. In that case, the gate you want to go to is the one just to the southwest of where Fortress Grenze is, not to Grenze itself. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
End of Line Error in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 19:28 Profile Homepage #7 50 more levels of healing would heal an extra 150-600 points of damage -- and all for a mere 2 spell points. So yes, it's just a little too much. Also, there seems to be no way to prevent people from getting extra doses of the bonus by reading the book more than once; be sure to fix that. Furthermore, you're only teaching it to character 0. You should probably teach it to the entire party. [ Friday, April 29, 2005 19:29: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
End of Line Error in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 19:28 Profile Homepage #7 50 more levels of healing would heal an extra 150-600 points of damage -- and all for a mere 2 spell points. So yes, it's just a little too much. Also, there seems to be no way to prevent people from getting extra doses of the bonus by reading the book more than once; be sure to fix that. Furthermore, you're only teaching it to character 0. You should probably teach it to the entire party. [ Friday, April 29, 2005 19:29: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
THE GREAT DEBATE in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 16:47 Profile Homepage #116 quote: Once it's a matter of deciding how good a creature's brain is, perhaps the dividing line really should be drawn well above cows? In other words, doesn't the supposedly moral issue of vegetarianism become a question of scientific fact, instead? Well, one still needs some sort of an ethical system to say that certain things are wrong in the first place. If you're talking to someone who thinks cannibalism is perfectly okay despite the suffering it causes to the unfortunate people he's been boiling alive, you're probably not going to convince him that there's much wrong with eating cows. As regards the scientific aspects of the issue, there have indeed been some claims that the brains of fish don't have the neural apparatus necessary for conscious processing of pain and fear, which would presumably make it less bad to eat them. These claims have been disputed, though. -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Rebellion in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 16:41 Profile Homepage #20 The scenario isn't as much fun in BoA, so you don't care as much about the decision. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
End of Line Error in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 16:39 Profile Homepage #3 I think I've found your problem: there's no break; command in the INIT_STATE. There should be. [ Friday, April 29, 2005 16:40: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
End of Line Error in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 16:39 Profile Homepage #3 I think I've found your problem: there's no break; command in the INIT_STATE. There should be. [ Friday, April 29, 2005 16:40: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
I don't wanna pay that much! in Blades of Exile
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 16:05 Profile Homepage #6 As was alluded to above, if you buy any other game at the same time you can get BoE at a discounted price (namely, $15). -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Rebellion in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 15:40 Profile Homepage #18 After you kill Jaen, Stalker boots you off the island, supposedly because you're useless to the rebellion now that the Empire knows you're on their side. He also seems to be worried that you're a threat to his power. [ Friday, April 29, 2005 15:40: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Looking for a scenario with a lot of towns ( Mac user ) in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, April 29 2005 15:30 Profile Homepage #6 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: A number of BoE scenarios are as large as E1 or E2, and a few have even equalled E3's size. Specifically: At the Gallows, the Adventurer's Club trilogy (Adventurer's Club 3 is actually larger than Exile 3 if you measure size by total number of towns and dungeons), the Spheres trilogy (Riddle of the Spheres, Quests of the Spheres and Destiny of the Spheres), and a couple of others. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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