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Sorry for bothering some of you with this topic, I read so much about the legendary Xian Skull topic, but I don´t think I found the right one yet. :(

Does anyone of you know the original name of this topic, or what´s much better, post a reply with a link to that thread!

Thanks to everyone in advance!!! :) :) :)

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You know, why the Sliths are green - because of their scales.

Maybe you know why some slith eyes were once red - ´cause the demons, which led them were red.

But why are the eyes of the Slith Lord Followers red? Because they see the remains of their enemies always before the battle begins!
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The original topic is long gone, and I don't think anyone has an archived copy.

—Alorael, who leaves it as a memory for relatively old-timers to reminisce about fondly or not so fondly depending on the personality of the reminiscer.
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It is gone... :(

Edit: Alo beat me.

And no, there's no archived copy. It fell victim to an earlier purge (it might even have been moved to the Misc board, in which case it's gone as well), and PPP never saved it.

[ Friday, December 30, 2005 11:49: Message edited by: harf'er'melora ]

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The Xian Skull came long after Misc. disappeared, and it was never moved to General either. It wasn't archived because it came before the first announced purge of General, which prompted the first PPP.

—Alorael, who would pay for a copy of the Xian Skull and the complete BEEP. Not much, but something.
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Maybe you could tell me somrthing about it, so that I know why you Alo and some other people write that it is extremly famous. :confused:

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You know, why the Sliths are green - because of their scales.

Maybe you know why some slith eyes were once red - ´cause the demons, which led them were red.

But why are the eyes of the Slith Lord Followers red? Because they see the remains of their enemies always before the battle begins!
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quote:
Originally written by jze29vfi:

—Alorael, who would pay for a copy of the Xian Skull and the complete BEEP. Not much, but something.
A cookie, I'm supposing.

Now I've been told that Xian Skull was nothing more that a pointless spam topic. Am I right?

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It transcended spam, went beyond it with newfound creative intent. Don't believe what they say about it being a "pointless" thread - there was a point. You just failed to percieve it. It was art near beyond imagination, it was.

I should know, I glanced at it a couple or so times. :P
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Actually, you can still find it. Just type in http://spidweb.com/xianskull, clap three times and spin around, and in 3 days it will be sent to your e-mail.

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Ok, I'll let you know in 3 days if it works. :P

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quote:
Originally written by jze29vfi:

The Xian Skull came long after Misc. disappeared, and it was never moved to General either. It wasn't archived because it came before the first announced purge of General, which prompted the first PPP.

—Alorael, who would pay for a copy of the Xian Skull and the complete BEEP. Not much, but something.

But the other boards were purged later, and they were archived in the PPP2. And having both of these right here, I'm reasonably certain it's not in there. I could be missing something though.

BEEP is definitely not in the PPP though. That came before UBB, even, didn't it?

Edit: Actually, I only ever indexed the General part of PPP2. That means it could well be in the A3 part of PPP2 (since that is probably where it started). Finding out would be a pain though since that's not indexed. :rolleyes:

[ Friday, December 30, 2005 18:17: Message edited by: harf'er'melora ]

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I'm not quite sure if I remember this right, but wasn't the Xian topic lost due to one of those board bugs? Drakey might know.

edit: It didn't affect the whole board, just one or two of the sections. Many threads were lost, and I believe the Xian Skull was among them.

[ Friday, December 30, 2005 18:46: Message edited by: ef ]

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quote:
Originally written by A Hexagram Cel:

Actually, you can still find it. Just type in http://spidweb.com/xianskull, clap three times and spin around, and in 3 days it will be sent to your e-mail.
Spring you better try again. That URL was not correct because the comma was included in it. Or am I wrong too?

Anyway, what's BEEP?

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It's not correct, even without the comma.

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Both render the same display on the screen, but one does a potentially useful function given the appropriate physical actions are performed in correct sequence. :P

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Aran posted a description of the Xian Skull for those in the know.

It wasn't spam and I don't think it was killed by bug. It went inactive or got locked and went the way of all old threads.

—Alorael, who will warn you that clapping normally does no good. You have to produce the sound of one hand clapping three times, which can best be accomplished by wearing the Xian Gloves.
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The Xian Skull topic went inactive a few times, was revived a few times, and was eventually locked.

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Alorael! You'll confuse the poor newbies - you should know that the xian gloves cannot be acquired until after the player has found the xian skull.

That is, unless you have used the editor to give you one copy of every book in the game (including the xian tome), and then entered the scintillating chamber in the secret level of the tower of magi. You still need to pretend you already have the skull by using a normal skull and having 5 levels of the Ventriloquism skill. But who the hell thinks of that?

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By the way, I'm curious as to where and how I've given a description of the topic "for those in the know". I mean, prior to this post.

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He confused you with Archmage Alex, I think. I've done the same in the past. It's because both your names start with A, you see.

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I thought Alex and typed Aran. Obviously I haven't gotten the second doublethink tablet from the Temple of X'el'vii'apos'troph'e. I just couldn't find the striped green orb for the third pedestal in the hidden mad monk complex under Gebra.

—Alorael, who really shouldn't let this get started again. He's a bad person and a moral failure.
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Ahem. I remember the topic getting sort of corrupted, possibly like the Silvar Inn did back then. I'm pretty sure *something* at least happened to it, other than just dying and locking. Perhaps corruption and locking? Anyway, something.

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I really can't see how Aran could have given a description of the Xian Skull topic, seeing as he wasn't actually here when it existed. Nobody above about #2000 was.

Then again, it's said that, like Richard White, the Xian Skull has the power to transcend time, space, and the writings of L. Ron Hubbard..

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I might not have been here when it was active, but I'm reasonably sure I got a look at it before it was gone. That, or one of its numerous reincarnations...

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Meh. #2000, #3000, what's the difference?

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I remember the Xian Skull topic; I was around while it was still in progress. Unless what I saw was a reincarnation, which I doubt. I remember this one character "Ghost" who would post, on every page, a warning that the thread was spam and that newbies not take it seriously.

Now that I think of it, though, that might have been under my old account #2517 before it got deleted, so you might still be correct about the account numbers thing.

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quote:
Originally written by cAPSLOCKED dALLERDIN:

Meh. #2000, #3000, what's the difference?
The difference is #1000!!! :D :P

I am SO stupid... :confused:

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