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41 minutes ago, Dintiradan said:
Rhapsody in Blue (unfinished BoE scenario)
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Oh huh, things!
Nick Cave
Spirited Away
Jiji (the fictional one)
Jiji (the one on my lap)
Wuthering Heights (the book)
Wuthering Heights (the song)
Getting a triple word score in Scrabble
Princess Peach
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On 3/4/2018 at 4:50 AM, Disintegral said:
The Queen is Dead: I love the Smiths. Their albums don't fully cover it -- a lot of my favourite stuff is non-album, and _Louder than Bombs_ really pulls it together for me more than any one LP. But _The Queen is Dead_ has some beautiful turns, and it might be my favourite of their studio albums.
Yes! Louder than Bombs is incredible. Rank is just as good. To borrow a Partridge-ism, my favourite The Smiths album is definitely "The Best of The Smiths".
On 3/4/2018 at 4:50 AM, Disintegral said:OK Computer: Nearly as much of an instant time-warp for me as _Nevermind._ I have a widely varying opinion of Radiohead's music but _OK Computer_ is the sort of album I really can't say no to, with a unique, evocative timbre and every last note fit into place. Remarkable, even if it is unboundedly depressing (and less cathartic than either the Beach Boys or Smiths entries on this list)...."
Hmm. I really love Radiohead, and I think OK Computer is actually one of my least favourite record they've put out. I like that it;s unboundedly depressing (but is it even? Even songs like Exit Music and Let Down and No Surprises have a kind of escapist joy to them!) and I like that the 20th Anniversary remaster is as felicitous as the original was.
I mean, either way, hooray! Maybe one day I'll post proper thoughts on these albums/artists. <3
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I got one on day one and assumed it was because I had other Spiderweb games in my library. Previously Spidweb offered a discount if you had owned a previous version of the game - this might just be another way of doing that.
Anyway, I read somewhere that Avernum 3 is doing pretty well, and will fund the next game.

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In the most recent Reddit AMA Jeff did, he made it clear he was never going to touch BoA again.
This is probably fair enough. I'd be hesitant to drop more time on something that almost cost me my livelihood.
Edit: "We have no plans to touch anything about Blades of Avernum ever again."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/7vyv09/im_jeff_vogel_founder_of_spiderweb_software_since/dtw7oei/ -
Haha! I'm glad I could be a thorn in your side if it gets stuff fixed. Will the achievements trigger if I get to 10 and 20 spells?
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So. v101 fixed the mage spell bug, and the surface medal, but having 5 priest rituals at level 3 doesn't trigger *that* medal. Similar situation?
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Ah! Thanks for coming back to me about the Level 3 spell bug. I've started a new game anyhow, just in case I'd somehow done something wrong (and what's 20 hours in a Spidweb game anyway), so I'll look out for that as I progress.
Still no medal for venturing out onto the surface though, and literally all I've done this game is hoof it to Anaximander and then out into the surface. I'm playing through Steam, and haven't edited any files. I'll uninstall and redownload tonight to see if that does anything, and will report back.
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Nope, no shift-D.
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Ah, so this is a known bug and wasn't picked up during testing? I feel like it should be mentioned somewhere?
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Hey. Achievements are something that are (unfortunately) important to me as a player. And they're broken in A3. :'(
I have cleared the slime quest, but the game does not credit me as having even returned to the surface (though, oddly, Steam does).
I have just trained my fifth mage spell to level 5, and neither the game nor Steam have recognised this.
Anybody else have this issue/have a fix?
Edit: IMAGE:
https://cdn.calref.net/files.calref/12/1745ad38b1e3ece2_one.JPG
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I like the Xian Skull. It's just as good in this game, except it doesn't play audio that says "Hey I'm a talking skull". :'(
I didn't have one while playing yesterday, but one was about sliths chasing down avernites, and one was about a long dark warren of waterfalls. Clearly throwbacks to previous Avernum games.
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Definitely don't have any named items yet. I'm on Day 15/16 if that pins it down any? Encountered on both the surface and Avernum.
Kind of annoying having them pop up constantly.
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I did a brief search but can't see anything pertinent. After defeating the first plague, my party keeps having visions of goings-on in Avernum. Who can I speak to/what can I do about these?
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Luckily, you can usually just ignore TM while playing his scenarios.
It tends to make them much more enjoyable.
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Starting later every time. I was recently forced to switch jobs, and my new job has a flexi-time system where I can do my hours between 8-6. I'm doing 10-6.
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Quadruple post?! OKAY!
The way El Presidente worked was addressed in the READ ME. (Really, I would recommend you READ THEM.)
Here is the relevant bit from EP if you missed it (written by me):
QuoteThis scenario (or rather, snippet of scenario) is (I think) the smallest functional thing made for BoA. So why did I
do it? Well, ages ago now, I thought it'd be cool to write something using a song as a basis for plot. It turns out
that songs do not make good scenarios, and so I had to add loads of extra stuff.EP was always just going to be a short scenario. I had a bunch of ideas I wanted to test, and I loved the disposability
of 15-minute scenarios at the time I started making it. It was always going to be like a coin - there are two sides
to it, but only one story, and I love that idea even now. Still, the amount of work that went into it was crazy and
I'd have to consider seriously whether I'd do it again. Especially for something bigger.SO. I talked to a few people about this, and Thralni expressed an interest and we got talking about possible plots, and
thus the dual-developer thing. I designed the town, and suggested we use the lyric as the basis for the scenario.
Thralni added an ending to my ideas, and gave advice throughout. Up until this point, EP was mostly my work.Then, my computer died, and I zipped up what I had done (about a 60-70% complete alpha) and sent it off to Thralni. He,
despite being uber-busy, finished it, and sent it back when I was back computing (about two months later). We now had a
finished article. I sent it off to beta, got reports and fixed some things. But by now I was sick of this thing. I let
it languish, despite some of the best ideas I'd had being part of it (I still like the doors, btw).Then, this morning (I'm writing this at 12:40ish, PM, on the 3rd September 2007, journal-esque), I figured this would be a neat way
of celebrating my 4th year at Spidweb, and so spent a few hours tidying it up. I have to thank Dikiyoba for prodding me
to get this finished, too, because it was they who kept this in my mind.Anyway, that's it, I think.
So, that's how the only successful collab in BoA came about - I did a bunch of work, Thralni fixed a bunch of my stuff, and I took a lot of credit for it.

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Also, why not triple-post? I'll hopefully have something new for you to play soon.
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Haha. I loved how eagerly you got into the "kill everybody" --apart from in the library-- mindset of El Presidente. In case you missed it, killing innocents made you stronger - you got skill points each time.

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Hey, in Twilight Valley, you missed Pandora's coffin, even though you were specifically told she had a coffin to the north. Plus, you played A Perfect Forest, and you've played my other scenarios, so you know to look at everything that is out of the ordinary... There was more there that you didn't explore, but I guess that's okay. At the very least, I would recommend reading the Read Me file for TV...
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I really liked your playing of KH, more than anything else you've played. I would like to hear your thoughts on that more. Your reaction was basically what I was hoping what would happen. At the very least, I know that TM dug it, and that you were weirded out by it, so I would consider it my best work.
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Also. Yay. Atmosphere and interesting writing is what I always tried to bring to BoA. I'm happy that you picked up on that.

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...in my defence, I wrote this before Twilight.


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