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« on: November 27, 2010, 12:37:05 am »
[SIZE=16]Needing some belts I've heard of - brawler, archer, swordsman. I'm more the last than the rest, but I'll take the lot. Scribble an offer and who I should send a bird after.
LAZ
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« on: November 18, 2008, 04:06:49 am »
[SIZE=10]//I take a bit of creative license with this post - forgive non-canonical depictions. Please feel free to PM me with suggestions for revisions of said non-canonical depictions. Karn appears courtesy of Kenty191.//[/SIZE]
Crowded streets, as always, fill the ear with a cacophonous blur of movement and speech, conversations half-heard, hawkers half-ignored, the constant clatter of shoes, feet, hooves, and wheels on the cobbles. In such a large city as Port Hempstead, the Golden City of the South, the crowd is no drab, brown and grey mass, but a tapestry of rich and varying colours - adventurers, nobles, and wealthy merchants showing their fortune in dyes and gilt. The downtrodden and poor make their way through the masses, too; begging for what they can, or going towards their place of labor.
But the citizens of the Brelin Kingdom are an industrious folk. Regardless of station, most move purposefully, or wait with a cross between impatience and a gratitude for peace - and not a few bear charms or beads coloured gold or yellow, blessed tokens to draw the smile of the Lucky Traveler.
Above the masses rise the great structures of Port Hempstead, and chief among them is a large complex, from which wave banners of Deliar. A pair of figures makes its way through the crowd towards it, their bearing at odds with the bustling air of lively business around them.
One in bright blues and reds, the other all in black, their shoulders are hunched, and their faces are drawn - not with hunger, nor with plague, but with grief. Clear and plain for all to see. Perhaps these pilgrims come for a cheer amongst the Blessed One's halls? Perhaps a pie and a jest will liven them. But no. They come with more urgent business, for they make their way quickly into the Temple of Deliar, requesting an audience with Froigrin Pincher.
They wait as long as they must. The dark-clothed one, an elf, seems lost - a world away in his mind... While the young man in brighter garb carries with him a resoluteness that shines through the grief in his dark eyes.
[SIZE=10]//Requesting an audience with the reigning priestess of Deliar. Dunno who to talk to, but I'll be waxing poetic. :3[/SIZE]
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« on: November 17, 2008, 05:18:38 pm »
So, I was browsing /tg/, and I came across this. And I thought it was awesome.
Just have to spread how awesome Anon can be.
Awakened Vampire Watermelon
Small Undead
HD: 1d12 (6 hp)
Speed: 30ft (6)
AC: 20 (+1 Size, +1 Dex, +8 Natural), touch 12, Flat-footed 19
BAB/Grapple: +0/-4
Attack: Slam +4 (1d4+4)
Full Attack: Slam +5 (1d4+4)
Space/Reach: 5ft/5ft
Special Attacks: Blood Drain, Children of the Night, Dominatr, Create Spawn, Energy Drain
Special Qualities: Alternate Form, Damage Reduction, Fast Healing, Gaseous Form, Resistances, Spider Climb, Turn Resistance
Saves: Fort +0, Ref +3, Will -4
Abilities: Str 16, Dex 16, Con Ø, Int 2, Wis 3, Cha 5
Skills: +4 Bluff, +4 Hide, +4 Listen, +4 Move Silently, +4 Search, +4 Sense Motive, +4 Spot
Feats: Alertness, Combat Reflexes, Dodge, Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes
Environment: Haunted Gardens
Organization: Solitary, Pair, Vine (3-5), or Blood Harvest (1-2, plus spawn)
CR: 3
Treasure: Double Standard
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Advancement: --
Level Adjustment --
Blood Drain (Ex)
A vampire watermelon can suck blood from a living victim with its, ahem, fangs* by making a successful grapple check. If it pins the foe, it drains blood, dealing 1d4 points of Constitution drain each round the pin is maintained. On each such successful attack, the vampire watermelon gains 5 temporary hit points.
*More like slightly sharper than usual stubby edges.
Children of the Night (Su)
Vampire watermelons command the lesser creatures of the plant world and once per day can call forth 1d6+1 Shrieker Fungi, 1d3 Violet Fungi, or an Assassin Vine as a standard action. These creatures arrive in 2d6 rounds and serve the vampire watermelon for up to 1 hour.
Dominate (Su)
A vampire watermelon can crush an opponent’s will just by looking onto his or her eyes. This is similar to a gaze attack, except that the vampire watermelon must use a standard action, and those merely looking at it are not affected. Anyone the vampire watermelon targets must succeed on a Will save or fall instantly under the vampire watermelon’s influence as though by a dominate person spell (caster level 12th). The ability has a range of 30 feet.
Create Spawn (Su)
A humanoid or monstrous humanoid (or plant!) slain by a vampire watermelon’s energy drain rises as a vampire spawn 1d4 days after burial/planting. If the vampire watermelon instead drains the victim’s Constitution to 0 or lower, the victim returns as a spawn if it had 4 or less HD and as a vampire if it had 5 or more HD. In either case, the new vampire or spawn is under the command of the vampire watermelon that created it and remains enslaved until its master’s destruction. At any given time a vampire watermelon may have enslaved spawn totaling no more than 2; any spawn it creates that would exceed this limit are created as free-willed vampires or vampire spawn. A vampire that is enslaved may create and enslave spawn of its own, so a master vampire watermelon can control a number of lesser vampires in this fashion. A vampire watermelon may voluntarily free an enslaved spawn in order to enslave a new spawn, but once freed, a vampire or vampire spawn cannot be enslaved again.
Energy Drain (Su)
Living creatures hit by a vampire watermelon’s slam attack gain two negative levels. For each negative level bestowed, the vampire watermelon gains 5 temporary hit points. A vampire watermelon can use its energy drain ability once per round.
Alternate Form (Su)
A vampire watermelon can assume the shape of a grapefruit, jack o' lantern, harmless plant, or assassin vine as a standard action. While in its alternate form, the vampire watermelon loses its natural slam attack and dominate ability, but it gains the natural weapons and extraordinary special attacks of its new form. It can remain in that form until it assumes another or until the next sunrise.
Damage Reduction (Su)
A vampire watermelon has damage reduction 10/silver and magic. A vampire watermelon’s natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.
Fast Healing (Ex)
A vampire watermelon heals 5 points of damage each round so long as it has at least 1 hit point. If reduced to 0 hit points in combat, it automatically assumes gaseous form and attempts to escape. It must reach its garden within 2 hours or be utterly destroyed. (It can travel up to nine miles in 2 hours.) Any additional damage dealt to a vampire watermelon forced into gaseous form has no effect. Once at rest in its garden, a vampire is helpless. It regains 1 hit point after 1 hour, then is no longer helpless and resumes healing at the rate of 5 hit points per round.
Gaseous Form (Su)
As a standard action, a vampire watermelon can assume gaseous form at will as the spell (caster level 5th), but it can remain gaseous indefinitely and has a fly speed of 20 feet with perfect maneuverability.
Resistances (Ex)
A vampire watermelon has resistance to cold 10 and electricity 10.
Spider Climb (Ex)
A vampire watermelon can roll up sheer surfaces as though with a spider climb spell.
Turn Resistance (Ex)
A vampire watermelon has +4 turn resistance.
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« on: November 13, 2008, 03:27:10 pm »
Masterwork Platinum Half-Plate, Tr35,000
[SIZE=10]Half Plate, +3 AC, level 15.[/SIZE]
This platinum suit of armor is made with a master's touch, providing a greater degree of protection than normal.
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Ring of Shielding, Tr8,000
[SIZE=10]Ring of Protection +2, +2 Deflection AC, level 10.[/SIZE]
This ring envelops you in an invisible field of protection, deflecting incoming attacks.
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Boots of the Militia, Tr3,000
[SIZE=10]Boots of the Militia, CON +1, Fort +1, Will +1, Concentration +2, Discipline +2, not usable by Evil, level 10.[/SIZE]
The common enchanted boots used in militia the world over, these make you hardier and haler.
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Dorandite Adamantine Helm, Tr40,000
[SIZE=10]Adamantine Jutter Helm, +3 Deflection AC, +3 Concentration, +3 Discipline, level 14.[/SIZE]
Crafted by the great Kobal Bluntaxe, this helm will keep your brainpan safe under the worst abuse - made of solid adamantium, it is undentable, unscratchable, truly unbreakable. Blows aimed at your head simply bounce off. (Not to be sold to those of monstrous lineage by smith's request.)
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Leave your mark here, or contact Pyyran Rahth with offers.
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« on: November 12, 2008, 01:57:49 am »
For sale: One square-cut, human thumbnail-sized emerald.
Price: Tr70,000.
- Felix Rahth
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« on: October 27, 2008, 06:37:55 pm »
My connection's been sketchy the past couple of days; sorry to the folks i've dropped out on. @.@
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« on: October 26, 2008, 11:56:06 pm »
The finest of stones shines a deep, forest green, clear and flawless as glass, but softer, with a scintillating glimmer that can only be found in Layonara's heartstone:
Emeralds.
For auction, now, is a flawless example of the rarest of gems, untouched by a jeweler's hand and awaiting the artistry to come. Few, if any, now know the daring and skill required to steal away the fickle heart of our world, deep beneath the surface...
Will it be yours? Or will your great hoard rot in banks and vaults, while this fragment of beauty falls to another?
Bidding closes in one month. Leave your name and bid.
//Bidding is open until Monday, November 3rd, at midnight, EDT.
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« on: September 10, 2008, 02:49:48 am »
If one of the active members of the Foundation could PM me regarding the delivery of my character's winnings in the Raffle, I'd greatly appreciate it. 
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« on: August 18, 2008, 10:38:15 am »
Pyyran has a plan. It is a very big, very difficult plan, but it is extremely well-thought-out. Very few know of this plan, as yet (in-character, leastwise), but the time rapidly approaches that it will go into action.
I need more people. This isn't the sort of thing that one man, or even five people, can do alone.
I need at least seven volunteers who can all make a similar timeslot next week, and this timeslot must fit with Eorendil's availability... We'll hear from him on just what that is, soon (hopefully).
All levels are welcome, but if Pyyran doesn't know you, he's likely not to have asked for your help... Or if you're too inexperienced for the job. Levels 5 (and honestly 10) and under are welcome along, but it is absolutely at your own risk.
I'm sending PMs to a few of the people I already know Pyyran wants along. Sadly, one of the most important factors is taking a long, well-deserved final rest.
With one Strand left, and a long life behind, Pyyran may well be joining him soon enough. Let's make this happen beforehand.
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« on: August 04, 2008, 06:17:39 pm »
But... Hopefully not too many.  Over the past few weeks, I'm sure a few of you have noticed that I haven't been around much (if at all). There are a few reasons for this... My internet was sketchy for a few months, then I started working/looking for work, got REALLY into LARPing... And my attendance here has just waned. I'd log in for a while, maybe run around with folks, or tell a tale or two... Then log off. I even made a new character! Only to rediscover the low-level blues - those lonely times when, if there were folks around, you could do bunches! But... There's noone really about, and it's REALLY hard to proactively seek folks when your character is horrifically antisocial. Meanwhile, Pyyran has only one real goal left in life. I mean to see that goal completed, and then, in all likelihood, our blue-clad Bard-in-training will retire to tell his tales with an N before his P and C. Of course, mayhap, such stirring events will inspire characters and players alike! But... I've really just lost a lot of my love for - not Layonara - but Neverwinter Nights, and, really, MMOs in general. A few weekends running around, bopping people with foam-padded swords'll do that to a guy. *Chuckles.* Layonara was a home, for me. A place I could find friends, fight felonous fiends, and perchance procude some... Er... Polished... Uh... Loot. A community which I still love, and an effort I still wholly support. I've made truer friends here than a guy could ask for, and learned a very great deal about myself in the process. However, while I'm certainly not leaving, I'm not going to be around, much. I've got one more GCDQ - with an updated cast, sadly - and then, my goals are more or less met. I'd hoped to be a WL, a GM... But time and foul fortunes fair f- Er... Messed those ideas up. (Perhaps I should cut back on the alliteration...) Maybe I'll see a few more of the great tales written. I hope so. But this... It's your notification of the final push for Pyyran Rahth. One last shot for glory. Planning stages, babe.
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« on: June 22, 2008, 03:49:07 am »
Well... I tried posting this thread a while earlier, but the session died on me (thanks, Windows), so...
A very long, inconvenient story short, I landed myself with a new motherboard and a need for a new OS. Not having ANY copies of Windows to hand (and not wanting to bother pirating one), I decided I'd switch to Ubuntu.
Well, that's done. Hey, I even managed to figure out how to get my lovely Tahoma font back! As lovely as Ubuntu may be, I don't like the way Mac looks... And they smack of the same design.
However, the window-dressing is of little import, all in all - it's function that matters foremost, not form.
Buuuut... Well, the reason I didn't get onto the Linux-wagon years ago was lack of knowledge and expenditure of the effort to obtain that knowledge. On a whim, I hopped onto the wagon just now... But without the foreknowledge that tells me just where I can grab onto to not be thrown to my death.
I have a whole heaping pile of files, programs, and other such nonsense on secondary drives, formatted and put together in Windows... That I'd hoped I could take with me. The programs, I'm sure, will take some doing... The files? I don't even know where to start.
I'm lost in my own OS, without a clue how to make NWN go. I know it goes on Ubuntu - I've heard as much from the lovely folk here. However, I don't have any idea how to make that work for me.
Is there anyone who can shine a light and lead me from this darkness I call the Learning Curve?
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« on: June 09, 2008, 04:42:48 pm »
*This notice is written in the angular, easily-recognized hand of Pyyran Rahth.*
Alchemists and mages, take heed; Pyyran Rahth, proprieter of the Four Stars Tavern in Haven City, has finally discovered something of note! A new vein of gold, in a location that is being kept quite thoroughly secret.
However, you can become a partner in this endeavour! A large quantity of explosives is needed for this effort, to expedite the mining process. If you can help, contact Pyyran Rahth at the Four Stars Tavern, in Haven City.
Payment will be given for your supplies and efforts, as well as a percentage of the gain from this new mine.
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« on: June 09, 2008, 04:34:37 pm »
*This notice is written in a simple, unremarkable hand - as uniform and bland as any other clerk's.*
Alchaemists and collectors:
An interested party will pay Tr70,000 for a full standard crate of Alchaemical Fire, totaling three hundred fifty pints.
The party will pay Tr10,000 to start, with the other Tr60,00 being paid on completion of the order - which must be done in no less than one year from the initial payment.
Leave word here; only one contract is offered, and only for the full order.
//One year being roughly one RL month.
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« on: May 16, 2008, 01:01:47 am »
If anyone needs me for anything, give me a call; number's in my profile. I'm headed back to the hospital again, following the ambulance carrying my recently-returned grandmother.
Barring Murphy's Law, she'll be fine.
Heck of a birthday present, though, eh?
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« on: May 09, 2008, 07:24:03 am »
Next-Gen PC Design | Entry DetailsYou know... Every once in a while, you come across something that just makes you go "wow." This thing looks like... Not a cross between the communicator from Earth: Final Conflict and a bracelet-device I've seen in at least a half dozen anime, but a COMBINATION thereof. Seems we keep trouncing that "fiction" part of Sci-Fi every day, even if this is just in the concept stages at the moment.
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« on: May 04, 2008, 02:27:30 pm »
Well, despite the fact that WalMart refuses to hire me (apparently I made their sales manager in electronics look bad by selling an $800 DVD/VHS dubber - though the guy who rang it up wasn't complaining, as he got the commission), I now have $100 to spend on movies there.
Apparently, there was some kind of raffle going on at the theater I went to last night, so I entered. Turns out that there's a local movie club. Also turns out that that movie club, in an attempt to draw more people, was shelling out a benjamin to one lucky fellow at the theater up here. Saturday was the last chance folks had, and the drawing was at midnight.
My name came up.
So, now I have $100 to spend, provided I spend it on movies, at Wal-Mart. No, they wouldn't just give me a gift card. XD I wish.
Anyhow, I'm curious as to what movies I should get. What are some really good movies that I've probably not seen? I know I'm getting a new copy of Young Frankenstein, and Dawn of the Dead 2004, but apart from that, I've got no concrete ideas.
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« on: April 22, 2008, 02:52:25 pm »
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« on: April 15, 2008, 08:22:09 am »
Now, we all know two things: Breakfast is a vital meal, and lack of breakfast can brutally slay one's metabolism, if you keep it up... And lack of a single breakfast for one who's used to having it can be a real bear, too. The other thing is that McDonald's burgers are horrible for you. Which is less healthy... Eating a McDonald's burger for breakfast, or skipping the meal?
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« on: April 05, 2008, 01:13:20 am »
Well, I picked up the "I Must Not Fear" extension for Firefox a few years ago - you know, the one that added an option in Tools to pop up with Frank Herbert's Litany Against Fear? However, Firefox was updated, and updated, and the extension was never kept up. So, finally, tired of not having it, I searched... And searched... And finally tried hacking apart a few Hello World extensions to see if I could make them do what I wanted. In the end, I found the original extension, and altered the version it says it works with - as nothing in the extension is at all version-dependent, so it'll work with anything. I was just that one little limiting number. After a few (three) hours of fighting with .zips and .jars and .jses, and .blahblahblahs... I finally managed to make an XPI that'll work on my version (2.0.0.13) - or, really, any version up to 3.0. And here it is, on the first fileserver I could find that was hassle-free: imustnotfear.xpi - Whenever you need it.... Right in your Firefox Tools. - BADONGOIf anyone cares to host this themselves, I'd <3 you forever, as I'm not sure how long Badongo will continue to host this file.
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« on: March 26, 2008, 04:20:46 pm »
Well, I was musing over memories of threads past, and I remembered Darkstorme's "How Addicted to Layo are you?" poll. As much as I loved him for that, it really got me thinking on one point...
One of the options was "I wrote a chron script to check the forums and beep when there was a new post."
As you've likely guessed at this point, I was wondering if there was any way to do that. *Laughs helplessly.* Gods, I'm terrible. But serious.
Because, honestly, I'm not up for the surgery that a neural implant would take. @.@
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