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"I am your worst nightmare" is different from "I, who am your worst nightmare," though. Very different, in fact, given that "I am your worst nightmare" is such a commonly uttered line that it's a cliché while "I, who am your worst nightmare" is awkward and pretentious enough that apparently no one uses it. Dikiyoba would volunteer to be your worst nightmare were it not for the fact that Dikiyoba is only frightening enough to qualify as your fourth worst nightmare. Perhaps third worst, on a good day.

Aw, you're so nice. Dikiyoba.

Final results are finished, at long last. (I'm sure I made at least one mistake, but the winner is ahead by a large enough margin for any mistakes on my part not to matter.) Stranger: 2 Cairo Jim: 4 Sylae: 5 Nightwatcher: 8 Ouroboros: 8 Nikki: 9 Edgwyn: 14 points Iffy: 14 points Randomizer: 15 points Lilith: 24 points WINNER: SLARTY: 35 points Combined answers: I hope everyone had fun. I enjoyed seeing all of your answers. Hopefully the bonus points and the few judgment calls I had to make aren't too obnoxious. (I chose the bonus point answers before the round began, so I couldn't be biased the way I might be if I were choosing a best or most creative answer, but maybe no bonuses or a bonus point for best answer would be more balanced and/or fun.) Dikiyoba will leave the next round up to someone else.

The next time you read through your old SW topics, you should make a thread about your signature evolution (well, unless the old posts are too embarrassing to link to). Dikiyoba knows how hard to keep a posting gimmick relevant, interesting, and not too much of a burden. You should be applauded for keeping it up for over a decade now.

I suppose I should officially close submissions, shouldn't I? :\ Submissions are now closed. I have preliminary scores done, but I need help confirming a few SW-related answers. If you can confirm the existence of any of the following entities (and are not the original respondent), please post to let me know. 01. Character from any Exile or Avernum game: Remy 03. Weapon or equipment from any Spiderweb game: Rusty shield 04. Monster type from any Spiderweb game: Rat people (I have no idea), Red clawbug (I know there is a redshell clawbug) 12. Character from any Geneforge game: Rema In addition, Dikiyoba just sent a PM to Ouroboros and Iffy. Please send Dikiyoba a response as soon as you can. Thanks.

Pit-bred just means it was born and raised in a pit. Which at least makes sense for the hounds in the Avadon dungeons. Why the ogres in the Tawon Empire are all pit-bred is much less clear. Dikiyoba.

Reminder! You have just over a day to submit your answer card if you haven't done so. Dikiyoba has answer cards from Randomizer, Lilith, Sylae, Iffy, Ouroboros, Edgwyn, Nightwatcher, Nikki, Cairo Jim, and Slarty.

I'm going to rule no. Dikiyoba has received answer cards from Randomizer, Lilith, Sylae, Iffy, Ouroboros, and Edgwyn so far.

Rules: At the beginning of the round, a random letter will be selected. You can then create and submit your answer card. For each category, you may put down up to two answers where the first letter of the first word begins with the chosen letter. You may not use the same answer (or a slight variation on an answer) for multiple categories. You may not use superflous adjectives in your answer. Articles (a, an, the) do not count as part of the answer. At the end of the round, I will look at the answer cards. If two or more people provide the same answer to a category, that answer will be thrown out. If someone provides an answer that doesn't fit the category or breaks one of the rules, I will throw it out. Most answers will be worth one point. Answers that use the round's letter as the first letter in multiple words will recieve two points. Some categories have bonus points available. Whoever gets the most points wins. When I announce the winner, I will post the answer cards with the scoring breakdown. To submit your answer card, copy the following list of categories, write in your answers, and send me the whole thing in a PM titled "Answer card, round 2." I will only accept one answer card from each participant, so fill it out completely and make sure you are happy with your answers before you turn it in. Answer cards will be accepted from now until this time on Friday the 13th. I will calculate and posts the scores as soon as I can. Letter for this round: R 01. Character from any Exile or Avernum game: 02. Song title: 03. Weapon or equipment from any Spiderweb game: 04. Monster type from any Spiderweb game (your answer can not be "rogue [Geneforge creation type]"): 05. Food: 06. Something you want to see more of on these forums: 07. Somewhere you might find an earring: 08. Video game title: 09. Board or card game title: 10. Country: 11. Four-letter word (in English): 12. Character from any Geneforge game: (Dikiyoba knows some people wanted the category list in a separate post to make it easy to quote, but since it has to be copied into a PM anyway...)

Yeah, it turned out not to be a well balanced game. Definitely should finish it, though. Final answers: --- Final score: Lilith - 26 points Excalibur - 13 points Randomizer - 7 points Nightwatcher - 7 points Ouroboros - 7 points BMA - 5 points Iffy - 5 points Congratulations, Lilith. You win (absolutely nothing)! Dikiyoba.

It's very clear that the party disappeared. It's not explicitly said that they found a route to the surface, so you're free to come up with your own reason for their disappearance if you wish, but the game does push you toward the escape-to-the-surface conclusion--enough so that I knew that Avernum 1 featured a major quest involving finding a route to the surface just by playing Avernum 2. And Avernum 3 literally has signs in the starting town describing what happened to the previous PCs. It's hard to get much clearer than that short of actually meeting the PCs and asking questions about their lives for an hour. Dikiyoba.

Avernum 2 was very clear on the fate of the PCs from Avernum 1. Many of the NPCs talk about 'the great heroes' and comment on their sudden disappearance, and speculate on how they must have found a way back to the surface. Similarly, Avernum 3 is very clear on the fate of the PCs from Avernum 2. There's a plaque in their honor in Fort Emergence that states they are still serving in mainland Avernum--but since the Avernum 3 PCs' job is on the surface, they don't get to interact with the old Avernum 2 adventurers. The fate of the Avernum PCs is canon in a way that the Avadon 1 PCs don't get. Dikiyoba definitely wishes there was concrete evidence of the fate of the Avadon 1 Hands (and for that matter, to meet one or two Hands in Avadon proper, so it feels fully staffed and it's not weird when you suddenly meet a few Hands late in the game who know all about you even though you've never heard anything about them).

Woo, Dikiyoba wrote over 1,000 words today. Woo.

Earth has some pretty frickin' huge cave systems (as in hundreds of miles long), and we certainly haven't found them all yet. Not as big as Exile/Avernum, perhaps (well, maybe as big as the second Avernum trilogy caves), but big enough. It's the lack of magical glowing lichen that prevents large lifeforms from evolving deep within caves. Dikiyoba.

In addition, there's that loading screen art that depicts a couple of soldiers and a tinkermage carrying a bolt flinger about to be ambushed by Wyldrylm rebels. Dikiyoba.

Presumably the chain and plate armor comes with the appropriate padding, it just isn't represented on the graphics. Dikiyoba.

That would just get derailed into a discussion about what it would mean for Earth to have minimal tides, shorter days, and a wobbling axis that results in extreme seasonal and climatic variation. Heck, considering how close early Homo sapiens came to extinction already, a more difficult climate may have pushed us over the edge. And that's assuming the history of life on Earth wasn't changed so much that hominids could evolve in the first place! Dikiyoba wanted to make a joke about the lack of werewolves, but hypothetical moonless climate change ruined that. Climate change ruins everything.

Dikiyoba enjoys this LP. Please continue it.

There's no difference. The quest just requires 1 normal, ordinary bellows. Dikiyoba.

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Maybe it's just me, but I don't like the fact that on Normal and Casual, the game, as the description for normal says, "starts out quite easy but comes a challenge as you get close to the end." I played the whole game on Casual, and it was perfectly balanced up until the final Corruption quest, where every fight became a huge deal (even the trash mobs) and I was suddenly taking loads more damage. I had two to three times more downed characters in those last few zones than the entire rest of the game. Why? I wanted to finsh the game to see how it ended, not to spend 5 minutes on every single fight. If I wanted challenging fights, I would be playing on a higher difficulty, or doing the optional boss fights. Which is a real shame because, again, the difficulty was really good up until that point. Battles were relatively interesting without being tough or drawn out. There were some enemies that were stronger and some that were weaker, enough information about those enemies to determine who would be strong and who would be weak, and enough freedom to be able to seek out greater or lesser challenges when that's what I was in the mood for. Except for those last two quests, new main quests didn't suddenly mean a huge jump in difficulty. But then you get to those quests and the game becomes tedious and unfun. So close, and yet so far. Dikiyoba.

Spiderweb Software characters by alignment? Sure, I'll bite. Trajkov is Chaotic Good verging on neutral, since he flouts every Shaper law, takes power for himself, and attempts to overthrow the Shaper Empire... but does it in part out of concern for serviles, and rewards you and the Takers if you help him. Agent Greta is definitely Chaotic Good. Support for creation rights, even when it gets her cast out of Shaper school, and causes a war to break out. Miranda is probably Neutral Evil, but I don't remember her from Avadon 1 very well. Dikiyoba isn't sure how creation species can have an alignment. For every rogue vlish, there is one tightly under Shaper or rebel control.

WARNING: This thread contains information about modifying your game files. If you modify your game, it may change in ways you don't expect or want. These modifications are not designed or supported by Spiderweb Software. Use at your own risk. Tired of having all your companions be pink and green? Having trouble finding the buttons for secret doors? Want to create color atrocities of your own? Then this is the guide for you! Basic info and disclaimer: Where to find the scripts: Removing or editing the palette swap from a companion Hand: Adding a palette swap to make secret buttons more visible: List of graphic adjustments Dikiyoba wishes you good luck, and happy adjusting.

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You can't get the token until after you talk to Blademaster Hadya in the northeast part of the zone. Once she tells you about it, you can find it when you search the bodies. Dikiyoba.