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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.

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): 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.

Also, why not triple-post? I'll hopefully have something new for you to play soon.

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.

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... ... 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. ... Also. Yay. Atmosphere and interesting writing is what I always tried to bring to BoA. I'm happy that you picked up on that.

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

I really hope that you get to explore TV both during the day, and at night. I'm not sure, but I think it was the first scenario to have different conversation and NPCs about depending on the time of day. I spent a lot of time writing dialogue and descriptions for that. One thing puzzled me. You survived the first chest, and got the shield ring. Why didn't you just heal, and trigger the second trapped chest? Odd. Finally, I don't know if you've been reading the included read-me text files that literally every scenario has. I would recommend not doing that for TV until you've finished. The scenario is based on a piece of original writing (which is also included if you wanted to read that), and it'll have spoilers. (Oh. Also, I am keeping a note of the errors, and will get around to fixing the typos in Kurt and Preston's dialogue.)

You'll probably be saying that a lot over the next few scenarios.

That fight *is* tough. One thing I found was that using the ranged weapons you were given at the beginning of the scenario really helps - you can stay back and kill the damage-dealers first, before hitting the melee attackers after. It is possible to beat it with a level one party, but my aim was to make it difficult. You're bandits. You're lacking the best weapons, decent armour, and probably any kind of training. Bandits in the Empire/Avernum are always low-level mobs that you usually tear through, and I wanted to demonstrate that. Having one casualty is probably an appropriate loss, since it's a level one party and you're not attached to it. That said, I might go back and tweak the stats of some of these enemies all the same.

Well, I'm stumped, but I'll take another look. I noticed that even though you had a key to pass the magical runes in Bluebird, you didn't? There were a couple of spellbooks down there IIRC, and some scrolls. Sorry that you missed out on the actual reward.

An address might be enough to go with - Spiderweb are usually really good at handling requests like this. If not. they're still the people to talk to about buying the game alone.

If you've previously purchased the game, you could drop an email to support(at)spiderwebsoftware.com with your details and I'm sure they'd be happy to help sort you out.

Also. Watching that last video I saw you got an error on a graphic? 510? There isn't anything in the scenario data script that calls that sheet - and so naturally the sheet doesn't exist. I just pulled the scenario from http://blades.nethergate.net/ and couldn't replicate the error, even after following the steps you took in your game. Are you using the latest version of the scenario, from http://blades.nethergate.net/? Would you mind posting the contents of the file "beginningdata.txt" here in the forums so I can see what the issue is? EDIT: Okay. When the error appears, at 26:10 in the video, there is clearly a wooden keg visible on screen. I'm not sure how this got here, because I didn't place it, but I bet it has something to do with the error. THIS is what the entire town looks like. (Spoilers, I guess.) There's no keg there. I'm not sure how, but I'm going to assume that you've gotten hold of a version of the scenario somebody has played around with? Sorry about that. The versions hosted by Tyran should work fine.

yay, you're playing my scenarios! first, wow, i really need to go back and rewrite big chunks of a good beginning... secondly, while i wouldn't want to tell you how to play your game, you've probably noticed that i like to cram text ~~everywhere~~. while watching the above videos i noticed that you've been skipping things like ovens, shelves, cabinets, etc... pretty much anything you can look at will have text and (imo) you're missing out on some good stuff there. for the first few scenarios i made it isn't as over-the-top, but looking in all those places is pretty vital for the atmosphere-building in a couple of my later scenarios (the eternal, twilight valley, out of sight). edit: oh hey you looked in the library in the second video. sorry,

I'd never heard Niemand's version! I have the other two bookmarked, along with the greatest thing to ever come from the BoA community.

If you have any states that call other town states, it might be worth having them call scenario states instead. Might be able to squeeze a few more out that way.

That was my first guess for that one too, but then I considered what I knew about Diki, and how likely it'd be that they'd go with a gaming reference. Unfortunately, I am dumb, and didn't submit answers.

I used day/night cycles in TV, so I went back and looked at my code. There's a bit more going on in the script (twilight.txt if you wanted to take a look), but here's the stuff that should let you track whether it's day or night. Setting a flag lets you track it scenario-wide, of course. ticks = (get_current_tick() % 5000); if((ticks > 3750) || (ticks < 250)) { //time = night set_flag(250,0,1); } else { //time = day set_flag(250,0,0); } I remember starting the day at 250 because that's when it's fully light, I guess that makes Ephesos right.

People never accept that I love dogs and cats equally, and now this survey has done the same.

Thanks, but I've already looked with the Wayback Machine (as did Ess-Eschas, if you go back and read their post), and I've spoken to Tridash directly. The two versions of the editor in your linked post (http://spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/16333-new-windows-3d-editor/#comment-214652) both only offer minor changes to the original 3D editor which Ess-Eschas linked to, too.

Brilliant, thank you.

Does anybody have, or have a link for, the Windows 3D editor? The link to Tridash's editor in the forum header is broken, and I can only seem to find Isaac's editor for Mac. Literally any version of any 3D editor will be fine - I just can't bear drawing terrain in 2D. Thanks in advance.

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Can confirm. I've played BoA on my Windows 10 computer in the past week. I've also played the original Nethergate, which leads me to assume that only the Exile games will have difficulty running.

I finished The Intended. It didn't suck as much as I feared. I read Marrow which is a bad book that I read because a cute girl gave it me to read. I read some of Amy Gerstler's poetry (Dearest Creature) and it was super good and fun and inspiring. I read Moderato Cantabile again because it is perfect and I wish to hold it inside of me forever. I just started reading a new translation of The Stranger (interestingly called The Outsider) and comparing it to my favourite translation.