FrostElfGuard

Abbotsford (BC)

Obsession posted a pic in Sacred (a long time ago)--so I'm hoping it was him.... anyway, the font used inside Sacred was BEAUTIFUL. The letters were beautifully curved, and the font was VERY clear. I asked him about it, and he said that was just the font used in Windows. I wish knew the name, because I still want that font... in Sacred. Wow. It was much better than the font we have in Canada.

gogo: Just make hay while the sun does shine! In other words, enjoy the here and now, the future will take care of itself somehow... (Howard Jones) The old man said to me Said don't always take life so seriously Play the flute And dance and sing your song Try and enjoy the here and now The future will take care of itself somehow The grass is never greener over there Time will wear away the stone Gets the hereditary bone Chorus Don't try to live your life in one day Don't go speed your time away Don't try to live your life in one day Don't go speed your time away The old man said to me Said you can't change the world single-handedly Raise a glass enjoy the scenery Pretend the water is champagne And fill my glass again and again While the wolves are gathering round your door Time will wear away the stone Gets the hereditary bone The old man said to me Said don't always take life so seriously Play the flute And dance and sing your song Try and enjoy the here and now The future will take care of itself somehow The grass is never greener over there Time will wear away the stone Gets the hereditary bone I tried to live my life in one day Don't go speed your time away I bit off more than I can chew Only so much you can do Wolves are gathering round my door Ask them in and invite some more I tried to live my life in one day Don't go speed your time away Howard Jones LIFE IN ONE DAY lyrics

His dream was shattered and he struck back. What a sad fellow. I hope he learned from the experience.

Happy Belated Birthday Guys!

I'll guess blood. However, nothing is locked in the heart. All the blood comes and goes. The heart itself has its 4 chambers...and 4 (or more?) valves. They stay, but they ARE the heart. Literal me is kinda sorta stumped here.

This idea shows a lot of community spirit! It also shows very good character. Re: being able to satisfy all requests. You won't be able to. However, you can satisfy requests as best you can. Example: If someone wants 7 Ice Shard runes, and you have only 3... then give the 3 at your normal rate. (6 runes). then... you have to give the other 16 runes (4:1) out of the "junk" rune pile. Junk runes are runes that no one generally uses. For me, that's all melee rules and (DE) confusion, (WE) Transformation, (WE) Recuperation, (DE) Soul Catcher, (BM) Spiritual Healing, (BM) Reiki, (BM) Shield wall... etc... Your rune hunters will be still collecting runes at a very fast rate...so you can afford to give away runes. If not... just charge your normal rate. Key here is your rune hunters (rune farmer) will be making more runes all the time anyway. I find I give away runes to make room (sometimes)... particularly if I spot a new player or someone I recognize in need.

crisps = uk way of saying potatoe chips Back to our regularly scheduled goodies thread.

I thought the Fellowship is where the wizard dies and ring gets detroyed, but everyone lives in the end except the evil people. And a member is a naughty bit. The end.

The other sad thing about this is this: life is a competition. Competition for salaries, mates, houses, apartments, level 216 first, whatever. If the berieved family just roll over and play dead... then the drunk driver (or speeding driver or driver) will collect his money and his lawyer will collect his/her money... it's all in what you can squeeze out of life. Or... if they're insured... then it could fall on the insurance company... which will then increase the insurance rates for the family... which means it affects the family again.

RFID is bad bad bad. Why bad? 'Cause it allows people who shouldn't know stuff to know stuff. This is Bill Gates style technology... that is, something developed for one purpose that can easily be used for some very wrong other purposes. BG made java able to access your hard drive... which it never was designed to be allowed to do... a huge security hole... thank you Mr. Gates. In the war against crime the police are always wanting more tools to catch the bad guys... trouble is... who is watching the police as they become more and more powerful? I can't argue this one well. Bruce Schneier can. He's an international security expert (and milllionaire). He has quite a lot to say about security and trade-offs. What his main argument boils down to is this: security is an arms race. You develop a new way to foil attacks (theft, etc...) and criminals come up with a new way of committing their crimes...since they are only insterested in quick-path (least effort) solutions. Example: someone came up with a thumbprint lock for cars. They tried it out in Malaysia (or somewhere else in Asia). You can't open the car door without the thumbprint. So. What's a poor thief to do? Oh. Right. Cut off the thumb. Needless to say, that was the end of the thumb locks. What customer would want to lose his thumb AND his car? Attackers adapt. The RFID thing: attackers will just have invalid RFIDs or ones that mutate so they can't be tracked. Regular people... well... they won't. And the rich? Well they won't have to RFID, or theirs will be better than the average Joe's. And if so... then the attackers will be emulating theirs. ---- I found a better link about RFID from Bruce.

The farmer's prank is a purgatori quest that doesn't show up in the log... but grants a skill point and an attribute point. Doable once per level of difficulty. Nightwolfe's page has a great write up on it.

I'm got the name from Nightwolfe's page on quests. I'm going to assume--and yeah, you know what that means! that the long name comes out of the quest log or such. Rather than... say... her head! I'm not in the game right now so I canna check cap'n!

Possible name change: The Forgotten Swamps of Azschabrag instead of The Forgotton Swamps !?!? Yes, No, Maybe So?

I had been planning on watching "A Knight's Tale" for a while. A friend had dumped his VHS tapes and DvDs on us when he moved away... and one of them was AKT. Watched it the other night. I enjoyed the film. And that's saying something... since I'd been so turned off by Medieval dancers dancing to rock music... which is how they sold the film here when it was released. Heath Ledger was an excellent actor, had a pretty face, and worked on at least a few great projects. (Great writing is actually the most important aspect for an actor's career. Actors don't create the words...they shape how they are experienced. Without tons of supporting work, the actor can only produce mediocre work. Kinda like the lead singer in a band. Without the band, they're just Kelly Clarkson.) Re: Brokeback Mountain: SV, you might find him ugly in that movie. The way he held his face through the entire movie made me think he was ugly. His face is closed. His body language is closed. Brilliant work.

I had heard that only Magic melee damage matters to the Beast...and it must be filtered by the Weapon of Legend. This means that you have to be creative. Any combat art that increases your chance to hit will increase your damage over time (dot). Any combat art that multiplies your melee damage will help (Hard Hit is your best bet--which would be delivered for a Daemon by Descent, the other half of Soaring Daemon.) Socketing Magic melee damage rings will boost your magic damage. For a Battle mage, will Blackstaff's set boost your magic damage (melee) or just magic damage (spell)? With the IP significantly increasing damage...I'm wondering if that Daemon wielded the dagger, but had lots of fire damage socketed. Could be the key was as you say boosting your damage through the roof to overcome the Golem's huge resistances to everything that is not Magic melee. Looks like something I need to explore. I've never done the True Warrior Quest Chain. (yet).

Also: for instance, the resistances in Silver difficulty on armour are lower than in Gold difficulty. The maximum CA values are higher in higher levels of difficulty. For instance, maximum Far Sight in bronze is +26. Even if your level 1 Trade Dwarf (the only character likely to see it at level 1) buys something from a Bronze Merchant with Far Sight +27 it will change in his inventory to 26.

Justice is a word. Not a reality. It all depends on who you know...

R.E.O. Speedwagon for the win Alex! Happy Australia Day!

I'm going to wear my tin foil hat in case of emergencies! (Has NO ONE seen the movie "Signs"?) The tin foil hats in "Signs" were handsdown the absolute best part of the movie!

As an aside, quest rewards sometimes are items, and about 1/2 the time the quest item is an item it is a green item. I going to interpret this as, gosh, hey! They get an item... but hey, the one they "rolled" is too high!...k. Give 'em junk then! Ok! The quests I'm speaking of are the Bellevue through Mascarell quests --which in Bronze I'm very very familiar with. As a set, I could get a set item or a regular item just about anywhere. And... for quests, I've often received level 10 set items even at char level 1. So, perhaps the quests have a level of 10 at minimum?

Hmm... walking around in public without being able to hear shouted commands (due to listening to music on iPod or whatever): DUMB! Hmm... being tasered and bitten by a police dog. I think I would sue... but then, I'd be able to hear police's commands and I would obey. So, I probably wouldn't get tasered or bitten. Why would I sue? Assault is a crime, and if the police assault me, they should pay for the crime the same way any other criminal would. Wearing a badge means you are they to uphold the law, not break it! I'd also have the dog destroyed. Why? 'Cause if a non-aggressive person like me gets bit, then, the dog is too aggressive for his/her job. And the taste of human blood is what non-police dogs get destroyed for too. Hmm... I bet the victim Derrick doesn't know his rights or the law. He probably feels dumb for not complying... but remember folks: when you're tasered, you could lose control of your bodily functions (#1, and #2). More shame for him. This would be a horrifying experience to go through. The article doesn't mention it, but he probably was arrested too. And put in temporary holding too. This too, would be pretty horrifying for the average high school student. I bet he's still in shock. Being a jerk doesn't merit all the badness that ensued here. I was a jerk back then too (high school). I hope outgrew it!

Daemon can't take Trade Skill. Any other character can, and can shop (providing they keep up their trade skill) for better items. By the time you make 216, you'll be king/queen of Ancaria (really really powerful), so it doesn't much matter about the trade skill. TherionX has made it to 216 with each kind of Daemon. Hope this helps.

My characters tend to get left standing around for months at a time... and thus it is with my level 154 Daemon. I've exported her to SP and have unlocked up to the start of Platinum in SP. Why? Cause she's hard core and if she dies, she dies. I want to play in Niob, but don't want her to die from my lack of understanding of how to play the char after having been away from playing a Daemon for about a year. So, the crawl to Niob in SP (unlock Gold, Platinum, and Niobium). So, soooooon I'll be in HC Closed Niob. And a force to be reckon'ed with!

Remakes. Hmmm. I'm pretty sure there was one good out there. But in general... yup. Remakes are worse. Stephen King's: Salem's Lot (the original) really had me terrified. Course I was like 12 or something when it came on TV. (And yeah, I got the remake and it is baaaadd.)