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bestiary in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, January 24 2007 19:09 Profile Homepage #7 quote: Originally written by Dikiyoba: What is a crocolisk? Just a different kind of basilisk, or was it more like a crocodile? http://www.wowwiki.com/Crocolisk -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Halo Suit of the Modern World - Fraud? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, January 24 2007 17:14 Profile Homepage #51 quote: Originally written by Kyrek: I know, it wasn't pointed at the poster. The meaning no offense was incase of Americans that agree with that. Why would you not want to offend people who consider you to be morally equivalent to a terrorist for failing to support their aims? -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Clash of the Titan in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, January 24 2007 16:56 Profile Homepage #2 He already killed the Sentinels. By the way, don't leave the area to heal after you've started fighting the Titan and before you've finished, or you'll have to fight the Titan all over again starting at its first form. Anyway, Drakons are a pretty good choice of creations for the Titan. It sounds like you're a warrior or servile based on your stat distribution -- in that case, your Endurance is a little on the low side, so one problem is you don't really have either a lot of creations or a lot of your own HP with which to soak up hits. Be sure to cast Augmentation, Steel Skin and Essence Armor on everybody if you can. Chug as many essence pods as necessary in order to get the essence; it's not like you're going to use them anywhere else now anyway. Casting Essence Shackles on each form of the Titan when it appears is definitely a good start. You don't want it taking more actions than it has to. Wrack is also a good spell, since it makes the target take more damage from all attacks. The first form isn't too hard, since it just hits you for so-so damage with Aura of Flames every round. Let your creations do damage to it while you concentrate on keeping everyone healed. The trick to the second form is to haste a lot during its first form, since it starts off with an attack that slows your whole party. Its attacks can kill absolutely anything very quickly, so you have to kill it equally quickly. Take out its kyshakks as soon as it makes them, preferably from range and with the help of torrent gems; the explosion damage will take a fair chunk out of the Titan's HP. If all else fails, surround the Titan with your creations so it can't use its ranged attacks; its melee is much less scary. The third form isn't tough in itself, but has nasty creations. If you have high mental magic, you can try to charm them. If not, you'll just have to kill them. Torrent gems are an option, but the creations have a lot of HP so it'll take a couple of rounds to take them down that way. A gazer or at least a wingbolt is good for this part, since the rotdhizons are vulnerable to magic damage. Actually, making a squad of wingbolts is a viable option for this fight; they're pretty essence-efficient and do a lot of damage. Expect one or two to die on the second form, though. [ Wednesday, January 24, 2007 17:08: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
madhouse in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, January 24 2007 15:09 Profile Homepage #2 Brigand's Madhouse in A2. You can get back in the same way you got in in the first place; it's just a matter of using the right entrance and finding the secret passage. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
bestiary in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, January 24 2007 14:49 Profile Homepage #4 quote: Originally written by Dikiyoba: There were tigers in Canopy, if I remember correctly. Yes. Also, their attacks did fire damage for some reason. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
A New Series in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, January 24 2007 14:47 Profile Homepage #23 quote: Originally written by Deprecaticon: The other thing that impedes this is the need to be within a certain range to talk, but the apparent inability to get their attention. So if I click on them directly, I end up following them past multiple rooms. Usually I just deal with this by entering combat mode and running up right next to the person I want to talk to. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Halo Suit of the Modern World - Fraud? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Wednesday, January 24 2007 14:41 Profile Homepage #41 I'd imagine the US government is keeping a close watch on its nuclear weapons too, but it's still managed to misplace quite a few. [ Wednesday, January 24, 2007 14:42: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
xp penalty in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, January 23 2007 14:57 Profile Homepage #2 quote: Originally written by Deprecaticon: However, experience is also scaled based on the highest level out of all your teammates. I still don't believe there's evidence that this is actually true, and Jeff has said that it's not. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Endeavor and Privacy in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, January 23 2007 04:41 Profile Homepage #5 Sure, the information you're collecting already exists here, but members can change the information in their forum profiles at any time, whereas they have to rely on you to change the copy of that information on your site. I think that as a bare minimum, an automated opt-out process is a good idea. If it relies on you to do it manually, people can't have confidence that you'll continue to maintain the site for as long as it's up. Also, if you haven't already done so, prevent robots from seeing the user pages. Wouldn't want member information ending up in Google's cache. [ Tuesday, January 23, 2007 04:45: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
while() in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Tuesday, January 23 2007 04:28 Profile Homepage #2 Remember, the alligator eats the bigger number. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Halo Suit of the Modern World - Fraud? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, January 22 2007 22:17 Profile Homepage #26 quote: Originally written by Keeper Swap: How many people decide that the best way to perform armed robbery is in a suit of armor? Hey, it worked for Ned Kelly until the police realised that the armour didn't cover his legs. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
wikipedia forever? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, January 22 2007 14:13 Profile Homepage #34 There's no U in Qatar. The Q is an unaspirated k sound, not a qu sound. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Halo Suit of the Modern World - Fraud? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, January 22 2007 14:09 Profile Homepage #14 quote: Originally written by Bismark: Anyhow, I am waiting for the day of soldier bots so we don't send anyone except drones and convicts to the battle field.* Because forcing people to place themselves at risk of gruesome death isn't cruel and unusual punishment at all, and having a conscript army consisting entirely of criminals is just great for morale. quote: Originally written by Kyrek: quote: I'd be interested to know how you're arriving at your cost estimate, there. quote: The whole suit comes in at 18 kilograms. It covers everything but the fingertips and the major joints, and could be mass-produced for about $2,000, Hurtubise says. It said that in the article I posted. I think he meant Nioca's "estimate": quote: But there is no way on earth that those suits could be mass produced for $2000 dollars. Not a chance. Maybe if they didn't come with all the gadgets, then I might see it costing $2000, but as it is? No. [ Monday, January 22, 2007 14:10: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Adventures of Onan the Barbarian in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, January 22 2007 13:58 Profile Homepage #45 quote: Originally written by Delicious Vlish: One shudders to think what Augmentation would do to your hit points. Not all that much, really. Armor potions gave me about 75 extra HP. I just loaded my lifecrafter game to see if actually casting the spell produces a better boost, but it's pretty similar -- Augmentation and Essence Armor each give about 80 HP. MaxHP buffs are great for lifecrafters with low endurance, but they're a drop in the ocean for serviles. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Adventures of Onan the Barbarian in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, January 22 2007 04:48 Profile Homepage #42 quote: Originally written by Randomizer: Congratulations on winning. I didn't think that Matala was possible. Well, it would have been a lot harder if his AI hadn't broken; his HP was only about halfway down when that happened, and there was still the drakon in the last room to contend with. I think I could still have beaten Matala if that hadn't happened, but I don't know if I could also have beaten Alwan in Northforge Warrens in the same game. EDIT: And, uh, looking back on my inventory I see that I had two Rods of Succor that I mistook for Rods of Battle and didn't use. Whoops. That would have taken a little pressure off as far as healing goes. I probably could have done it, then. quote: I was hoping that you would answer the question if it was possible to finish the game with over 1000 health, but you didn't need it. The answer is yes. If I put on the Ornkskin Gauntlets and Symbiotic Cloak, I end up at 1014 health. Even if I'd only worn one of those, I could easily have afforded 2 more points of Endurance if I'd put a little less into dexterity, missiles and parry. [ Monday, January 22, 2007 04:53: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
SYNERGY LIST: GF4?How To Forge Stuff And What It Does in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, January 22 2007 03:39 Profile Homepage #15 Shaped Fiber Cloak. You can find them for sale or lying around in various places -- I know there's one in Khima-Uss, which is just before you get the key ingredient for the only artifact cloak that's actually worth making. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Adventures of Onan the Barbarian in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, January 21 2007 23:38 Profile Homepage #40 quote: Originally written by Randomizer: I always found that madness gems or mass madness works wonders in the Titan and Southern Sentinel encounters. I tried madness gems a couple of times; they consistently failed to daze or charm anybody. One time I got one dazed kyshakk; that's about it. Casting Mass Madness is not an option, for obvious reasons. Anyway, that's not important now. Because... drum roll I've won! Onan has released the Unbound! The final battle in Northforge Warrens was a nightmare, especially since I had to do it all in one go without leaving the zone, and stay mostly in one corner without moving to avoid damage from the machines. I cornered and killed Miranda, healed up with my weaker healing items, hasted, blessed and shielded repeatedly with all the buffing items I was carrying, charged into the corner behind Alwan and threw everything I had at them: torrent gems, madness gems, wands of the inferno, restoration potions and spores. By the end I was reduced to using armor potions as supplementary healing. Once I'd killed Alwan I ran straight out of there, barely managing to hide from the wingbolt and war trall Alwan had created while simultaneously healing enough to not die of a lightning aura on the way out. Final day count: 677. Onan's stats and equipment are presented here exactly as they were when he escaped from Northforge Warrens. As you can see, it was a pretty close fight and I didn't have a lot left to fight with by the end of it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Adventures of Onan the Barbarian in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, January 21 2007 22:32 Profile Homepage #38 Matala was a bit of a disappointment; turning off his power spiral before he gets to it seems to break his AI, and he just sits there and waits for you to kill him. Not that I'm complaining; even as it is, I used a whole bunch of resources on that fight. I'll still have plenty left for the ending, though. I'll do the Rebel ending this time -- and just to make things a little more challenging, I'll try to kill the invaders while they're still in Northforge Warrens. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Killing innocent people in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, January 21 2007 22:13 Profile Homepage #13 quote: Originally written by Wrex: I'm far more murderiferous in Geneforge. I figure most of them are part of evil factions that must be purged anyway. Besides, shapers don't do warm and fluffy. They do conquest by the sword, tooth, claw, baton, and fireball. Also, a surprising number of major characters in Geneforge (especially G4) drop useful items when killed. I wonder if this has anything to do with your behaviour. quote: —Alorael, who wonders if the American government is made up of adventurers. It would explain a few things. Well, they have been known to engage in adventurism. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Registration... in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, January 21 2007 19:58 Profile Homepage #9 There is one complication, in that the new targeting system means that the area of effect of a spell has to be centred on a monster. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Adventures of Onan the Barbarian in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, January 21 2007 19:40 Profile Homepage #37 Hee hee. Trython's dialogue in the Sealed Catacombs makes reference to whether you killed Shaper Monarch. So far that's the only difference I found. Oh, and by the way, I killed the Titan. I picked off the sentinels and other encounters one at a time, running back to the healing pool in Monarch's Realm when injured. The Southern Sentinel can be led away from its cryodrayks without them following it if you do it right. Form 1 of the Titan itself was straightforward; I beat it up faster than it could set me on fire. My Ultimate Debuffing Blade (Frozen Blade with slowing enchantment) helped with this. Form 2 was, of course, nasty. As soon as it appeared I ran out of sight, left combat mode, walked back up to him and led him around a corner so I could catch him up against a wall and force him into melee (having used a bunch of Rod of Alacrity charges beforehand to resist his slowing effect). This form doesn't seem to end until you kill its kyshakks, so I ran around a corner and ended combat mode again, went back into combat mode, ran just back into sight of them and killed them with torrent gems. When it switched to form 3, I ran around a corner again and used a bunch of regular healing spores to heal up -- they're too weak to use in actual combat at this stage, so it's not like I'm going to use them for anything else. I meleed it until it summoned its final creations, then used torrent gems and Wand of the Inferno charges to wear down the glaahks and rotdhizons. Once the Titan and glaahks were dead, I finished the rotdhizons off in melee. All in all, the fight was somewhat tough and required moderate engine abuse, but very doable, and I didn't use up too many of my precious, precious healing items. Now, all that's left for me to do is Matala and the final battles. Update: Freed the prisoners in the Western Morass, which I hadn't got around to doing earlier since I was trying to build up my pro-Shaper reputation. Had to use a madness gem to cover their retreat. Update 2: Wiped out the Poryphra shaper camp using no items apart from a few reaper thorns. Took a few runs in and out, but not that many. Made somewhat easier by the fact that Alwan and Miranda had already left. Koerner drops a Puresteel Blade and Litalia rewards me with Viper's Touch, which are both very nice weapons. It's actually rather hard for me to decide which of my many very nice weapons to use now. Update 3: Killed Khyryk for fun and profit, and by "fun" I mean "XP" and by "profit" I mean "a golden crystal". The fight was longish, but not hard; once I had him up against a wall, I just had to keep fully hasted to 15 AP so I could kill his newly-made creations with two hits and still get one hit in on him with the Viper's Touch. [ Sunday, January 21, 2007 21:53: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Chosen Ending - Geneforge 5 in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, January 21 2007 16:19 Profile Homepage #1 The Shapers aren't wiped out in the Rebel ending; they just lose a lot of one continent. In fact, in the Rebel ending the Shapers fight back by relaxing their laws and making their own unbound creations. The war pretty much ends in a stalemate no matter what ending you choose. (Regarding the Western Morass, what's stopping you from going further west isn't a wooden wall; it's a wooden wall and the Shaper army.) -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Adventures of Onan the Barbarian in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Sunday, January 21 2007 02:34 Profile Homepage #34 Chapter 4 complete! Salassar was pathetically easy; I outmeleed him without even needing to haste myself. The Forgotten One and Matala haven't been dealt with yet; I could beat the FO right now if I wanted, but I'm waiting until it's easier so I use fewer items in the process. Day count: 534. Update: Fun trick in Khima-Uss, which I discovered completely by accident: if you refuse to pay the toll to Reevass and he attacks you, any cryodrayks that come near him will also go hostile. Go hide in a room nearby until they manage to kill Drosstro. Wham, free Forbidden Band. The best part is, once you leave Khima-Uss they're all friendly again! (In fact, it's best to leave quickly just to make sure they don't inflict any other collateral damage -- wouldn't want them to kill off a shopkeeper or quest-giver.) Another update: The Forgotten One is now defeated. I equipped cold resistance and anti-undead gear, and the Quicksilver Sandals and Quicksilver Bulwark (to get me to 10 AP unhasted). Then I meleed it with a Frozen Blade -- useful for its cold resistance, cursing power and to-hit bonus, and also enchanted with a runed onyx to slow the enemy. I used a combination of spray crystals and steel spines to take out the burrowers as the FO summoned them. Most importantly, I didn't need to use any healing pods, which I suspect will be my most precious resource in the endgame. [ Sunday, January 21, 2007 04:07: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
wikipedia forever? in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, January 20 2007 23:51 Profile Homepage #24 quote: Originally written by Sic canis: some people Avoid weasel words. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Adventures of Onan the Barbarian in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, January 20 2007 20:01 Profile Homepage #33 I hate the Maddened Trall. :( The only way I had of damaging his first form without using up really valuable resources like torrent gems was the acid from my Oozing Blade -- good thing I'd left it in a cache just in case. I did a lot of ducking and running and abusing AI glitches, and it took an inordinately long time. Once he switched to his melee-vulnerable form, I waited for his creations to wander out of the room and him to wander up against a wall so I could corner him, then started fighting him in melee. I'm all out of regular healing pods and starting to eat into my major healing pods. Somehow I get the feeling that Chapter 5 is going to get ugly. Update: Just wiped out the Cultist Safehouse. Not nearly as bad as I'd expected; the cultists can be drawn out one at a time fairly easily, and individually they're easy to kill. Update #2: After helping all 5 infiltrators and getting both sets of papers for Kiki, my reputation and leadership were just high enough to get Alwan's quest. (I had to put on all my infiltrator items first.) Looks like I can keep being a double agent for a while longer. Now, off to go back, kill the infiltrators and get the reward for that. [ Saturday, January 20, 2007 21:39: Message edited by: Cryptozoology ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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