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  1. Unknown logs in repharite: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/41343631-unknown-entry- Entry 3 is in full text in english for the moment being: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/41380079-entry-3 Warning "graphic" scene: Entry 4 is in full text in french for the moment being: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/41381420-entry-4 Warning coarse language. Project Repharite: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/41392932-unknown-log-4 Entry 5: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/41440494-entry-5 Full text in english bellow: "We've left two probes in the bunker. Debhora is helping me to carry the bodies and fill the body bags found in the infirmary. We're leaving the bunker. We seize on of the selenite vehicules and gently place Allya, Benjamin, Colsin, Tori and Miles inside. I never saw a body before. Everything about death is so opaque, so clinical, so blurry, so clinical. A nice neat, clean process. But it´s not. It smells... She used to smell violets. She had a bottle of perphume in her trowsers. The shirt smelt like violets. Now there is nothing but the reek of death upon the clothings of a ghost [...] we cleaned evrey inch of them. Lü did an autopsy and confirmed the method by which they were all strucked dead. The head injury. We have placed them, resting and pale [...] Lucie if you hear me... I love you. Tell my parents I'm comming back as soon as possible and that I will walk the dog as I did when I shared with them the same roof. Tell them I love them and [...] over and out." -David
  2. Repharite is a science fiction short story in 28 entries, about a lunar psychologist trying to outsmart two killers while suffering from a heart condition : http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/41016204-day-1 http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/41096096-entry-2 Blind warriors: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/41148415-blind-deaf-and-dumb
  3. More letters about the Hidden: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/40787573-angakut http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/40782465-kivigtok-
  4. Konundrum myths and stories: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/40663354-konundrite-myths Frair rat story has been edited: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/36675464-frair-possum
  5. Two Konundrite letters and a story have been received: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/40506142-georges-the-epach http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/40507819-magicians http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/40513084-danel-the-hunter
  6. I have a question. Does a "direct" democracy necessarily needs a balanced budget in order to function? Does it even need a budget?
  7. I do not and cannot not pretend to know what would happen if such a thing such as a "direct democracy" should function; Alex you need to define it first, before we get mixed up with such individual representations which are at their core myths, conjured up from thin air and fantasy.
  8. Hi, welcome to Spiderwebsoftware forums! To Answer to your question I'd say: it really depends on what you whish for. Nethergate and Avernum are nice for a beginning. I don't know about Avadon and you can start with any game in the geneforge series without having to play the precedent one (although I tend to beleive that the first one was the best and the most compelling one.)
  9. Some changes in organisation and presentation: http://www.freewebs....er/prologue.htm Chapter one: http://members.webs.com/manageapp/blog/show/40393537-the-geneforge
  10. In any case, how many jar nutrient have you? There is one in Holding and in South workshop. You can also not speed one of control 4 and save a jar, depending on your alliances. The control mind by the docks will lure the Sholai out of their barracks, so it's not all bad.
  11. Though tiny pic is better, you can give a link to an uploaded image like this one: http://polandpact.deviantart.com/art/Lycaon-402879443
  12. I beleive it looks more like a parody of metal gear solid than counter strike. As for memes, what do you need exactly? You can create an account on déviant art and post the link here if you want.
  13. Upon Mars.

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  14. New entries: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/40165295-descent http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/40225145-monsters http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/40226848-death-penalty http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/40251735-enhanced-interrogation-techniques Katy Carren was given more background: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/36810562-katy-carren
  15. Konundrum's biologists are not so different from ours: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/40108533-brain-and-cell-specialization- Historical facts around Lord Clement: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/40137168-lord-clement A brigand tries to rob the king: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/40145591-heaven-stone State recompense to a prostitute: http://shortsstories.webs.com/apps/blog/show/36810562-katy-carren
  16. Thanks mate. I works really good on Windows.
  17. Ha! There I knew I wasn't the only one! I don't know really, the first reviews of geneforge talked about "bad graphics". I actually don't care that much. I'm more concerned about the epic plot and story-line. I feel there's just so much more you can do in a game like this one.
  18. A little taste of things to come : "On the mainland, there is a story of a man who, because of his wife's want for a neckless which would make the wearer the fairest woman in the world, left for a far away kingdom, stole the neckless and came back. When the wife put the neckless on she immediately saw that it had no effect whatsoever on her beauty. She scolded her husband for calling her the most beautiful woman in the world when she asked how she looked like, and told him that he could go far away and die for all she cared. Something which he did, for the neckless you see, though it did not turn the wearer anymore fairer, it had the power to make men to do the will of it's wearer, future or present. Evrey day, the greiving wife with the neckless sits by the window calling out for her husband. "Come back." She cries, till the end of her days for something she will never have." -The tale of the woman and the neckless, from the Stone and the Hammer. Copywrigt webs. http://www.freewebs....3-eastern-docks Chapters have been re-edited and more will follow here: http://www.freewebs....neforgeremaker/ http://www.freewebs....1-the-sentinels http://www.freewebs....ter-1-departure http://www.freewebs....hapter-17-tombs http://www.freewebs....3-eastern-docks http://www.freewebs....18-thorny-woods http://www.freewebs....-16-pentil-east http://members.webs....381843-epilogue http://members.webs....0178665-diazard : "And Faestasis was brought up upon a seat of stane: 'Sit here. Thou arte condemed as long as thee lives to have eyes plucked by the wind and feet made bare by mountain's rock, oh weih thing! Thee mocks me with thy presence for words by men turn the powers to shame. Thee call me a liar, when I say that man is a passerby from a distant land. As long as this kin lives they will be cursed with the crutches of tools; without them they will live no longer than a fly. You will sing in the feilds for fear of snakes, of the night's breeds and falling lost. Thee shall live in discomfort. If thee is wealthy then thee will make great things under the sun, but it will have bred crimes. Thee are condemned to see with my eyes and hear with my hears, so that thee shall see himself as one gazes over a pond. Clouds of doom shall follow man wherever thee goes. Whenever thee shall speak he will know no native toungue. In thy knowledge's thee be thrice ignorant. If one is known amongst his kin, some will turn against him. Thee will suffer emptiness, and inequity for the daily life is cheifest of man's crimes. The fire thee sought to tame, a brand is now placed in thy heart, so that what thee desire will never hold lest it burn. Thee will live cursing life and death. This is my prediction on to thee, man.' 'Then I repent, cursing life, cursing death and thee as well' Said Faestasis shackled upon stane, 'for men will now live in vengence of life and in error!'" -The tragedy of Faestasis, kinslayer. http://www.freewebs....r-19-the-bridge http://www.freewebs....0-holding-cells Chapter 9 is finished: http://www.freewebs....9611350-control Extract: "Andras drank a blessing pod and moved quietly north, checking for roamers coming his way then south when the way was clear. Lights went on and off as he moved triggered by his presence; the whole place lit up as the guards went in and out the tunnels. Trip wires were everywhere. A breath could set them off. Andras moved between them. He nearly breathed too hard. One of the thread nearly broke. Fully concentrated, Andras's wiped his frown before a droplet could fall, breathing lightly, not thinking about the roamers always ready to pounce should they see him. Andras could manage to access the wide corridor without too much hindrance. Andras faced a door. The door was locked but Andras used a living and spells to open it. Beyond it were the bones and remains of serviles, their bones cracked, their amour shattered, their weaponry broken, their possessions laid on the ground. A display of pure power. He continued north into the main hall with artilas bags opened and four fyoras behind. Andras started to feel uncomfortable. Nervous. As if he was being watched, sensed, probed. Shuffling back and forth, nervously, trying to resist the urge to flee. Then Andras breathed. His mind clearing. Shapers are immune to such tricks. There was an intelligence nearby, twisted, strange, probing, attempting to influence him. The apprentice recognised the feeling. Creations sometimes emanate such vibrations. It is a sure sign of a dangerous rogue. The vibrations made Andras' head ache. Andras took out his discipline wand and began to tread deep into the dark main hall. The stink of death was all around him and so was the throughts of Warp of Spiral borrows. In the centre of the hall, the green well shaped creation appeared raising it's tentacle, killing a fyora from a distance. Its mind took over another Andras' fyora, enraging it. Andras fyoras bolted against Warp's charmed fyora. Andras shot two crystals at warp and raised the wand twice, four times missing it. Then something began to slash his back from behind, the fyora was covered with human blood. The fyora had killed one of it's kind, frightened one away with a savage swing of it's tale and moved against it's former master. The two artilas fell from the bag and retaliated. The foyra was struck dead in two blows. Warp fired at Andras missing him. Andras fired yet two other crystals, searing the ground with ice. He then advanced dangerously closer, tried hitting it with a crystal and fired his wand for the third time. On the third struck, the wand finally broke the skin of the vlish, blood oozing out of the skin. The artilas spat again, but Warp, stunned evaded the blows and fired at Andras's creations, seriously injuring an artila. Then Warp tried to turn and twist the mind of Andras, damaging the tissues with magical radiation. Andras fired the wand for the last time. It seared Warped which screamed. With one desperate lounge Andras jumped on Warp, pouring fire into it´s mouth. The creature tried feebley to use it´s stinger to kill Andras. Andras broke the ostentatious stinger, took a stone and began crushing the creature's skull with it. Andras rose up, his hand red with blood: Warp was no more. Andras checked for two more charges in the wand and kept it. He might have to use it against the servant mind. It was still alive and functioning, though it was clearly weak from lack of nutrients when the Shaper apprentice arrived." .
  19. That's partly why you have forums and for those who don't have access or whish to access internet pages there are some indications, for example in GI, where a player should invest, although I must admit this is sometimes not enough. Plotwise, in G2 you stand up against creatures designed to battle against Shapers and Shaper forces. A few apprentices are doomed to have their behinds bleached. I am not surprised at all that things are getting hard because frankly this game is hard. It's not a walk in the park. Yes it's unpredictable, yes there are flaws, but if you feel that the game is being too rough, then try stealthing your way, picking on casual rogues and so on. Become Batman! Also, if you feel so frustrated, angry and bitter, here's a word of advice: go write a book. Or a journal about your life. I write and it makes me feel better, but a journal is even more private. Cordially, Upon mars. P.S: Welcome to spiderweb software. Please leave your sanity on the coat hanger and follow us where one is never the master of his own house.
  20. I wasn't aware that Arcane sheild could stack up. War blessing and protection did in the early games of A1-A3
  21. "Romantics" have been a minor aspect of G1, be it the serviles and perhaps Masha. In G1, the only information develloped about the serviles is that to have "bonding rituals" and are seen as monogamous, and capable of love as human beings, be it on Sucia Isle or the mainland. The serviles, are according to Freud´s terms, like "normal" people; they both have a job and are capable of love. After that I am largley ignorant of why and how romance is used in later games.
  22. Brent is finished: http://www.freewebs.com/geneforgeremaker/apps/blog/categories/show/1313266-chapter-2-brennt
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