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Messages - General_Ski
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« on: August 17, 2005, 01:27:00 pm »
Awesome guide. Outstanding job guys. Thank you. I was awestruck, great detail and effort. I was especially impressed with the detail the deities, and in particular Lucinda, have been described. It made me think even more about my submitted halfling worshipper of Lucinda, and reconsider quiet a few things, luckliy, I did not create that character and most likely will not, since he would not fit my current conceptions of what I'd like to achieve with it.
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« on: August 17, 2005, 11:17:00 am »
To add to that mosquitos should also have a chance of infecting those they attack with a disease.
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« on: August 17, 2005, 11:06:00 am »
Yeah, but itty bitty mosquitos can't bite through armor. And the number of unprotected spots, is not large enough for the whole swarm to use. Anyhow, they can hurt lower level characters below a certain ac, after that, they are pretty much useless. I don't mind mosquitos in the swamps. All swamps should have them. I do mind the placement however...
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« on: August 15, 2005, 05:37:00 pm »
OOC: My personal take ont he issue: I think dire beasts would be akin to cavebeats, i.e. cavelions cavebears, perfectly natural, but more dangerous, primitive versions of beasts, which theoretically should be more difficult to obtain empathy contact with. But that's just my take on the druids/rangers. As far as magically enhanced beasts, it gets murkier and I suppose they would be an abomination to the natural flow of things.
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« on: August 15, 2005, 04:39:00 pm »
All three posts above put it succintly. But, if you want to be equally average in all of the trades, then all of your stats should be in 12-14 range.
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« on: August 15, 2005, 03:37:00 pm »
*note attached*
Are slings with bullets in the list of eligible weapons?
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« on: August 11, 2005, 05:45:00 pm »
Hilt? Where's that?
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« on: August 11, 2005, 05:32:00 pm »
Food and water would not hurt either...
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« on: August 11, 2005, 03:58:00 pm »
Umm well given that ermm location of some deity's temples is hard to discover. Furthermore, some are rather hard to get to at first level.. Does this mean one should not be able to enchant items? Furthermore, to make things even more difficult, theoretically, an item enchanted in the name of one deity should not work too well for the follower of an enemy deity.. But that would mean differentiation on enchantment, if enforced.. This is getting rather complicated very fast.
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« on: August 11, 2005, 12:02:00 pm »
I have similar hanging issues. It's in part related to video card, I downloaded new drivers. I lowerede visual effects and turned off combat info updates. That seemed to help. Freezes occur much less often. Also if you manage to turn off updates on people logging in and out that would help as well...
P.S. I completely turned off grass. and water details.
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« on: August 10, 2005, 12:18:00 pm »
Almost a week has passed. I hath helped lead two expeditions into the troll swamps. We managed to find the ruins again but did not venture into them.
Deeply inside I hoped we could find a path through the swamps so a quicker trade route could be established from fort Velensk, leading inland. But that has not happened yet.
After a second expedition, me, Mr. Q and Klugger, lost our way and wound up in a forest. They called it Direwood.. Full of ghosts it is, violent ghosts. I had to wield my blade (two-bladed) sword expertly to fend off multiple attacks.
I think. That depserate defense impoved my skill in wielding that blade much. No longer it's a twirling of the stick. My skill has made it into a strict pattern of attack and defense, though unpredictable and impossible for others to discern.
Finally we found our way back out of the darkness of that wood. There, while encamped, we talked some. Mr. Q expressed an interest in a stone of Alexandrite which I had found just before we set to the troll swamps. A deal in principle was reached, with precise details to be determined at another time.
There we parted ways. And I proceeded to fort Llast. In fort last I talked ot the lieutenant of the guard and have delivered weapons he has asked for. In return, I got a helm, which I had promptly reshaped and applied new paint to.
Then I proceeded through High Forest, having heard of orks infestation. I did not find any orks but did slay a brown bear who attacked me.
On the way back to Hlint. A stanger stopped me. I was startled and I tripped, with my sword hitting him on the shoulder. He was insensed.
But I calmed him, saying if I wanted him dead, he'd be already. He gave me a message to pass to one named Ketzia.
As I walked into Hlint a big crowd met me at the gates, I asked them if any had known one named Ketzia; some said yes. Well, I passed message to them and they promised to pass it along.
Tired from my travels I proceeded to the inn, promptly falling into slumber in my room. Heavy dreams of whirling with my double edged blade, defying jaws of death plagued me again.
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« on: August 10, 2005, 12:03:00 pm »
The other day I spotted Mattew in town. Having aquired enough means I wanted to purchase an armor from him and Iron Drake guild which he represents. He had no iron, so I volunteered to accompany him on that task.
Ogres decided to do their utmost to stop us. While we were mining (or actually Mattew was), I was watching his back. We had to repulse three ogre counter attacks, after we cleared an area where iron vein was accessible. Luckily between Mattew's axe and my to bladed masterpiece, striking in swift succession, the bandits were dispatched.
We went back to Hlint, there Mattew made an iron half-plate, and sold it to me. I promptly painted it obsidian/purple. Obsidian a good sharp stone, but it can shatter in a novices arms. Oi think Dorand might approve.. Purple.. Well purple... I heard somewhere it was a color of royalty. And since it was royal pain that me two-bladed sword unleashed... Well... I could not help but commemorate this on the color of me armor and me helm.
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« on: August 10, 2005, 11:45:00 am »
Next day me, Mettew, a good feller dwarf Oi met a few days back (he calls me a half dwarf, I guess due to my abilities in said language and knowledge of dwarven way of life), Victor, one of the travellers to Berhagen, travelled to Velensk, got lost and wound up in swamps; swamps full of trolls. The exploration was slow and hard. We formed a dwarven wedge, and travelled slowly, fought hard against all who tried to slow our progress.
Trolls mobilized and then attacked us in great mass of bodies and limbs. Their [troll] leader, an imposing sight, fought hard and led his troops with skill. Battle shock threw Mattew back, while me with my trusty iron two bladed sword, that I acquired form Mr. Doran Windsmith, a dwarven smith of some renown, and Victor, fought the troll chief and made him and his troops retreat.
There behind the troll's main camp we found ruins, stone columns, it looks like this may have been a temple or a grand building of some other sort. We have decided to find out moe about these ruins. We managed to dig out a stair well, and squized through after a few attempts.
There a grand hall with two bridges over a great chasm opened up. On the other side we spotted some frog loik creatures walking on two feet. We tried to talk to them but they attacked hurling magic and then following the magic with warcries and engaging us in combat.
We were hurting after throwing the onslaught back. So we beat retreat. But as we got back to the surface, troll chief brought reinforcements to ambush us. We fought hard. Last thing I remembe the chief fell to my two bladed sword. Then something hit me on the back of my helm.. and I blacked out...
I came to in Hlint. My companions were nowhere in sight. I tried to reflect on my loss, but my head hurt. So I rented the room at the inn, and spent the night there.
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« on: August 08, 2005, 11:23:00 am »
My first return to Berhagen mountains did not go as planned. Rell, Victor, a drow with the spider web on his shield, and a few others. Now, I know why my master never came back with dwarven reinforcements for Haven caves. Berhagen is beset by giants and huge magic loik creatures composed of precious rocks. We had ahard time against both, but made it into Shoufal. My two-bladed sword slayed some giants, however, it was useless against the rockloike tings. But Rell had his sword glowin wit magic that changed der toide o battle. I think that I will have to have me sword imbued with fire from der dwarven forge.
After der trip I purchased a dwarven made iron two-bladed sword from master smith Windsmith or somethin' to the loik was his name.
Then halped dwarf, Mattew from der Iron Drake, moin iron and bough iron half-plate from 'im. We slaughtered many an ogre that day.
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« on: August 05, 2005, 02:18:00 pm »
Cheer up. Round up a group. And go clean out Sielwood and broken forest.
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« on: August 05, 2005, 01:46:00 pm »
I had that happen a few toimes. Only I managed to make it through bleeding profusely. //attack +bonus were less in sum than my ac. And then the spiders. I barely managed to leave with 1 hp. I think it's a matter of people not cleaning up the spawns... But that's why I don't even mine solo these days.
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« on: August 05, 2005, 12:27:00 pm »
Ok went back last night. Everything seems normal. *note to self get more sleep*
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« on: August 05, 2005, 11:52:00 am »
Yesterday, a group of miners, headed by Bjorn, and an elven lass I once helped, headed to Haven's caves to scout and mine. I was tasked with collecting the tax the ogres owed for using them moines. All went well however, one duergar, in our group, greedy lad, took taxes for himself, and mined without sharing. Bjorn sent him away from our camp. Since bandits we did not need.
We passed by Logan's grave on the way in. I prayed. Wielding my two-bladed sword, I helped defeat the onset of the nasty ogres, dealing a few deadly blows. But the majority of fighting was done by Bjorn and an elf with spiderweb upon his shield, all clad in black. The elven lass moined gems. I just taxed ogres and helped moinin' some iron, which given the inadequacies of the local forge I cannot seem to smelt just yet. But I'm learnin'.
When we returned to Hlint, I made my way to the inn. There I fell in slumber, interrupted by the dreams of me and my two-bladed sword, fending off ogres, till help could come.
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« on: August 05, 2005, 11:30:00 am »
Take care.
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« on: August 04, 2005, 06:11:00 pm »
A. party up. B. you need to get yourself better ac. I have a level 7 fighter who is wearing copper plate, and his ac is 20, since this fighter does not use shield. He is still very hittable by goblins, as well as kobolds (which are effortless at this point). The mobs of cobolds have a very good chance of slaughtering him, if the mob is big enough and rolls high enough. However in a party of 2 - 4 characters these mobs are effortless, in fact so are the mobs of regular ogres and other non-insect creatures.
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