Aran

Since you haven't specified a time period, I think Avernum during the time of Avernum 3 would be great. No wars or significant threats for years, and only a short time until the surface explorers save Valorim and people can return to the surface if they want. Just make sure you're nowhere near the Tower of Magi.

"No special advantages" implies I'd be about as good in a fight as in reality, so I'd probably settle somewhere and become a sage or an alchemist. Ideally somewhere quiet, but still interesting enough to have adventurers coming in dropping lots of gold on potions or item identification.

Hell, Derpy even showed up a few times!

Huh, I didn't notice her. I'm bad at spotting background characters though. Did Doctor Whooves make an appearance as well?

Nah, I'm sure she returns to hang out every month.

The portal only opened every 2.5 years.

Also, it's outdated now that the movie is out, but this was hilarious.

Oh, I didn't even realize that was still going. Will have to come back one of these days.

I haven't been involved in the development process, but I understand that SW's original code is pretty badly out of date and broken on modern systems. You may have more luck with the latest version of the community-developed project (recently moved to Github from Google Code). Before attempting to debug the 2007 code, you should definitely give that a try.

A3 is the one that came out around soon after I started playing. Therefore, all the engines before it feel too old, and all the ones after it feel like a betrayal of everything Spidweb stood for.

Did the Ikonboard only last a year then? I remember that UBB was set up in September 2001 from the join dates.

 

I seem to have a vague recollection of one of the older engines/games also allowing you jump off ledges (and killing oyu if the drop was too large), but the more I think about it, the more I think I'm completely imagining this/making it up in my own head ... Ah, the joys of ageing ...

Yeah, it was one of the few ways to die instantly, without being left at 0HP.

The combination of "_ more years" and David Tennant reminded me of

I don't want to go.

(I just made another attempt at watching that scene without misting up. Zero for five so far.)

(Just realized I missed it by two weeks, but no matter.)

As of May 14, it's been over ten years since I joined Spiderweb. That's three US elections, as many Harry Potter novels, and one LotR movie, Doctor Who relaunch and Facebook founding each. In fact, it's only a few years from half the world wide web's entire lifetime!

This was a different place, too. I sometimes feel a bit of nostalgia for the old days, but more than that I admire the ways in which it has matured.

Only a handful of posters from that time are still a regular presence, though many will still drop in when you least expect it. Thousands of others have come and gone in the meantime, and many (I'd count, but this ain't a stats topic) came to stay and now form the core of this community.

In real life, my network has completely changed at least twice since then, and this is probably the most constant circle of friends I've had outside my own family. I was in high school when I came here, and you've contributed to my upbringing in more ways than I'm probably even aware of (or would care to admit). All of you are pretty awesome, and I have really enjoyed spending my time here (and will continue to do so, this ain't a goodbye topic either). Thanks for everything!

Anyway, that's enough speechifying and reminiscing and stuff from me.

To another ten!

Blades of Exile is FOSS, runs on modern systems perfectly fine, and has hundreds of user-created scenarios. Just saying

 

Edited by sylae, 21 May 2013 - 10:25 PM.

Plus omg dat rump on the splash screen guy

YOU CANNOT RESIST

I play Blades for the plot.

IIRC, Polaris 3.0 was www2.polarisboard.org -- it's been a long time, though.

We lost the polarisboard.org domain before that, so it'd have been www2.polarisboard.net.

This domain loss coincided with the move from Logalot's own server to Hostgator; the www2 was after Hostgator wiped our files. Before that Polaris moved off TheKavern to its own domain. If we count all these, then www2.polarisboard.net would be 4.0, and polarisboard.org 2.0.

(Not counting the various interim solutions. Also I don't know if TheKavern was its first home - that's before my time.)

Formerly, mostly film and video game soundtracks - though also a lot of classical music and folk or various shades of folk/rock/punk/celtic. More recently, I also added a small subset of metal (symphonic mostly, eg. Nightwish).

Not long ago, I found out that the kind of stock epic music used in cinematic trailers is actually available by itself (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_music), and ever since then my MP3 player has been mostly playing stuff by Two Steps From Hell / Thomas Bergersen and Immediate Music, in addition to Murray Gold's vast collection of Doctor Who scores.

(Since I mostly listen to music while riding a bicycle or exercising these days, I tend far more toward louder/faster and epic stuff than I used to.)

Also, http://www.last.fm/user/Arancaytar

My reaction to nearly every arc-related episode. Except Wedding of River Song and Big Bang; those provided a bit of rare closure at least.

That food is too sad!

Scorpius! It's been a while.

Mind you that most Avernum people are composed of citizens that made memes about him.

Scumbag Hawthorne: Exile an archmage. Get your son assassinated for it.

Huh. Didn't know Jeff played Minecraft.

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.de/2011/03/review-minecraft.html

If Sylae gets grumpy, she will simply find our Gödel statements and kill us by PM.

DANGER, BLIT.

Sinister? It'd feel sinister if it were a machine that can turn itself on, I suppose.

It's only been one day so far, but do you have a set date for when you'll close the poll and make with the aggregating?

(Thanks again Sylae!)

Woah! Is that is a piece of Slartysian foreshadowing of some Great Project soon to be unleashed upon the Spiderweb world?

Sy's plotting to take over the forum and turn us all into ponies. But everyone knew that already, right?

which one

the ridiculously implausible one

I don't plan on filing a claim ever.

Well, who does? I think that's the reason why it's required by law.

"Hey boss, seems like some applicant just managed to check the Bill-by-mail option you told us to hide."

"HAAAACCCKKKEERRR!!! Throw her in jail for a bazillion years!"

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Did you end up going with them, by the way? If they pull stunts like this on their website, I don't want to imagine how they'll cheat you if you ever need to make a claim.