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all hail the great spid'webber

Avadon 2 is also currently part of the Humble Bundle, so you can pick it up for literally any price you want. Definitely works out cheaper than Steam, plus you get extra games with it, PLUS no DRM.

Uh. yes there are. Every single Geneforge game autosaves as you leave a zone. Avernum 4-6 (and possibly Avadon and Avernum: Escape from the Pit) also have autosaves, though I believe those are triggered by time rather than events. I mean, sure, Nethergate doesn't have an autosave, but saying that no Spiderweb games does is completely false.

I didn't know I'd miss hearing Zizek's voice as much as I did. What a guy. I can only speak hypothetically here, but I'd much rather be allowed to die with nothing than have my miserable existence prolonged by the scraps of charity that are only being offered to me because somebody wanted to feel better about themselves for a while.

Any coffee that causes 'permanent disfigurement' and leads to somebody being 'partially disabled for up to two years' is clearly FAR too hot. The entire cup of coffee ended up on her lap - not a little bit, and she was aware that it was hot. She was simply attempting to remove the lid of the cup to add milk and sugar. During the case, McDonalds admitted that hundreds more people had been burned in similar ways due to the temperature they served their coffee, and that they served their coffee around 40 degrees hotter than other places. ...and, as I was typing this, Slarty sniped me. Read the Wikipedia article. And curses for being too slow.

Hey, so there's another Steam Sale, and Spiderweb games are, once again, on sale for next to nothing. All of the games are on sale at 75% to 80% off, or you could get the entire lot for just £5,99 (or the equivalent in whatever pretend money you other people use).

Actually, I remember reading something once (hah! the most trustworthy of sources!) that basically said that Valve would 'attempt to make sure users get access to their games', regardless of what happens to Steam as a platform, and Valve as a company. It's nice that they've at least thought about that eventuality. And, in the meantime, I'm happy to use Steam as the sole keeper of my games because it's easier than managing it myself.

There was a sale on Steam/in the App store during October, so I think you've missed it. Each series of game sold in those stores got a big discount for a week at a time. So one week Avenum was cheap, and the next Geneforge and so on. It was in the newsletter, but I don't recall seeing it advertised anywhere else. Sorry, GG.

So. You've downloaded the demo of Geneforge 1 from Spiderweb's site? Awesome. You like it enough to want to buy it? Great. Spiderweb only sells the Geneforge games in a bundle - the Geneforge Saga bundle. That means if you buy from them, you're going to get all five games for $30. Sweet as. They'll be full, registered versions, and you'll most probably get a download link for the whole collection. I guess it's possible you might get a set of registration keys for the games. Either way, you're getting all five games of gooey Geneforge goodness from that one purchase. Same thing with Steam. In other words, my first post was correct, and I guess Randomizer wasn't aware that SW only sells older games in packages now.

They should all come registered, regardless of where you purchased them.

Erm, that video is a recording of a group of Spiderwebbers playing the computer game Artemis. If you watch, you can see it's a spaceship bridge simulator. The different voices with 'confusing' tones are people who visit here - I heard Sylae and Dintiradan and Lilith, and I think Nalyd and Sarachim.will probably be there.

The FIRST trainer is in the northeast corner of Silvar. There are plenty of other trainers too, so don't mistakenly think you have to keep travelling back to Silvar to train!

I had some trouble with Slith raiders when I played A:EftP. If you can avoid those, buy from Dranlon, as Jerakeen says.

Well, allow me to reassure that it does, in fact, exist. Also allow me to point out that derailing a thread to point out that you have nothing to contribute is spammy. Please don't be spammy. Thanks.

To answer your question more directly, try speaking to Carol in Fort Duvno for some priest spells She's in the NE corner if I recall correctly. For mage spells, you'll need to head up to Formello. You'll have to go there fairly early anyway, to do the quest for the Mayor, so speak to Mother Claudette for any more priest spells you're missing, and hit up Miles (in the library to the south of Claudette) for your mage spells. I'd recommend buying from Carol before Claudette because Carol is cheaper, but it's not that big a loss if you just do everything in Formello. (I found the information here, which is linked from the Strategy Central thread: http://spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/16401-trainers-avernum-escape-from-the-pit-spoilers/)

I had some trouble with this in Discord (though I was doing something slightly different). Make sure there's enough space around the town entry point for a party of 4/6(?) characters. I guess it could also be something to do with the way BoA decides which direction you enter town from from the outdoors? Might be worth looking at Chapter 1.7 of your docs.

Which one is the quickfire one? I think I usually have to do one, and I always chose that one. Send a mage in, haste her, and leg it.

(Sent a PM) (I only mention this because not everybody gets email notifications, and also because it's important to show outsiders that BoA isn't dead. )

How will you grab somebody elses? All deposited sanity is devoured by the fluffy turtles.

I know I already told you, Excalibur, but I'll stick it here too in case other people miss it. After getting your lever to do what it wants, you need to use the call end(); to kill the script. Otherwise, once you've set the sdf, the script will just continue and undo all the changes it just made.

In the last couple of weeks I've been busy keeping myself myself so I've not read too much. I did finally read Catcher in the Rye, though, and thought it neat, if over-rated. I also read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which quickly became one of my favourites. I've loved Blade Runner for years now, but DADoES is superior in almost every way. I plan on writing an actual review at some point, so I won't wax lyrical about it here. Finally, I'm about two-thirds of the way through The Martian Chronicles. I've never read any Bradbury before, and I'm not as sold on SF as other people here are, but by god... The early Martian segments were beautiful, and whilst I've become less interested in the 'plot' ('Usher II' aside <3) as the novel has progressed, I've found myself fawning over Bradbury's prose increasingly often. The homages to Wells, the attacks on realism, the language of loneliness. This is an excellent book, and whilst I am loathe to recommend something I haven't finished, you should read this if you haven't. Bradbury's style of writing alone make it a perfect addition to your mental library.

Maybe Avernites just don't like crystals? There's a perfect crystal formation with purported magical powers near Cotra in every Avernum game that takes place in the main caves. I've sure several NPCs comment on it, and your party definitely travels to it, and yet it's never studied or claimed or anything of the sort.

He did, however pointless it was (since the question had already been properly answered). No need to add to the pointlessness with your own pointless post.

I did exactly the same thing. I think I was able to choose pretty well for every other question, but this one was more tricky. Anyway: Healthcare: Yes Education: Yes Internet: No Reproduce: Yes Torture: Prohibited Euthanasia: Yes (any circumstances) Death Penalty: Never Abortion: On request Human Rights: Birth Nukes: No.

Hey, so I was being nostalgic and looking at the PPP earlier, and I was also being stupid and using Facebook earlier at the same time *gasp*, and I noticed two things. First, that it was Archmage Alex's birthday, and second, that Archmage Alex made some awesome cartoons, some of which still pop in milestone threads.. So, on the off-chance that he still lurks around here from time to time (since he clearly does not reply to FB messages) have this, Brody: