BMA

And I haven't even managed to find a download link. Where did you download it from ? Its not on the Spiderweb website, not on steam, and hasn't been announced either here or in Facebook. And I had been googling it every 15 minutes for the past three hours.

Boo hoo. Somebody help.

I loved A3. Its the only Avernum game that I played completely, besides BoA.

And I did play most of A4 too, but A4 had clubbed in all the Geneforge graphics, but minus the walking animation. It just didn't feel right. So I'm waiting for the first remake right now, and I can't wait to download it and start playing.

How did you put in rock climbing ?

Yesss! We play Aeftp tomorrow!

The big man finds Actaeon's statement rather worrying. He doesn't want to go back to his infancy either, and scurries out of the ancient halls back into the bus. He sees Skwish-E and JadeWolf.

Big Man: The more the merrier! Are you hungry ? I would have given you a whoopie pie, but I threw them all over the bus and there aren't any left. I think Iffy still has some cupcakes, though.

The big man goes over to MMXPERT, and they play Super Contra multiplayer for a while.

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Actaeon's Spider Bus Map

I wonder why, but I can't recall any awkward moments at all.

Life is going as planned, I suppose.

3 : I looked at the file you mentioned, and it does contain all of Avadon's fonts. I think increasing the font size will be tricky, but you can change the colour. And G128.png contains the background image of the dialog box (shown when you are talking to people). Its at the top-left corner of the image file.

I haven't tried this out, but if you modify both of these images (say make it a black font on a white background), it should enhance your reading.

I'd walk around 3km, but at least 15km on a bicycle. Its quite possible that I could cover more, but not without a nice soft drink.

As for going around at night, nobody will spring at me from the shadows (over here, at least) as it's a small, friendly village. But though I fancy midnight strolls, my hostel rules are a bit restrictive about the timing.

The big man enters Eternal September and wanders around its ancient halls. Most of the walls and pillars seem to be American in origin, so he can't quite figure out what they are made of, but he notices the completely text-based architecture.

Big Man: Just look at that, they didn't even have smilies back then.

He can't imagine a world without smilies. He goes around admiring the smiley workarounds (the ASCII murals and paintings) that the ancients have drawn on the walls.

The big man is cheerfully dancing the hula, finally stopping his performance only when the music is changed. He hears Mistb0rn wondering aloud about where they are going to.

Big Man: Um, I prefer Sucia Isle, myself. Lots of illegal gene-changing and stuff. And I'd like to teach those serviles a thing or two.

Some of the Spiderwebbers are looking at the big man coldly.

Big Man : All right, all right. Just as you like. Avernum is fine too. Nice, dark underground caves with goblins and things.....anywhere at all, so long as it is nice and interesting... He pauses and strokes his beard thoughtfully (yes, he has a beard too). Or maybe it would be a good idea to leave the Spiderweb environment entirely and enjoy ourselves elsewhere ?

Novels : Fantasy and Humour.

Though Wodehouse's works are the only ones I know of that fall, for the most part, into the Humour category. And I can't stand even a trace of science in my fiction.

Rarity does have style, but I fell for Fluttershy's dreamy little eyes.

"Pinkie Pie" ?

The big man had been snoozing happily at the back of the bus.

Having enjoyed a comfortable little siesta, he wakes up, yawns, stretches, and looks around.....only to find that most of the members have only just gone to sleep, and all the others are wearing mournful expressions, as if they had learnt that the sky was about to fall on their heads.

Big Man: What happened over here ?

Sylae gives him a detailed account of all the happenings on the bus.

Big Man: Ah, so we've lost our insanity. Well, we'll soon put that right.

BJ Earles tries to summon a music system, and fortunately, for once, that is exactly what gets summoned up. Young Justin Bieber's voice fills the bus, a rendering of his latest hit song "Humpty Dumpty".

Sylae and Jewels are thrilled, being Bieber fans. The big man begins performing a Hula dance. Goldenking starts dancing in a rumbling, earthquaky sort of way which sets the bus vibrating wildly and throwing many of the Spiderwebbers from their seats.

After much convincing, Dintiradan, Dikiyoba, Slarty and Aran join in the dancing too.

(Actaeon's Map)

Always good to have new scenarios to play!

The big man had taken over Roentgenium's Age of Castles game while he was busy making watermelon bombs. Sensing some kind of imminent danger, he deftly leaps backwards and manages to avoid the melon explosion, only to get wet in the rain.

Rain? In a bus? He looks around. Ah, BJ Earles. He should have known.

Actaeon's silver laptop is not so lucky though. In addition to the whoopie pies, it is now completely wet and also smells of watermelon juice. But he's not about to tell Actaeon that. Not yet, anyway. He tries to scrape it clean, thinking darkly about apples. Surely windows computers are a lot more melon-and-pie resistant. He manages to wipe off most of the juice, but that isn't saying much.

Big Man(To Actaeon): um....Actaeon, here's your...uh...silver laptop.

Fearing Actaeon's wrath, he quickly excuses himself and makes a show of going over to Iffy to help him with the coding things.

Edit : hey, nice Spiderbus Actaeon.

The big man scowls when Jewels accuses him of having made a mess, but nevertheless gallantly helps her back onto her feet when she trips over his bag. Jewels smiles and looks at the big man gratefully.

Big Man: No, no, don't thank me, Jewels. It was my fault, after all. Careless of me. He kicks his bag back under the seat.

Overcome by the hugging all around, the big man wants to socialize too. He puts on his charming smile and lumbers over to each of the Spiderwebbers. He doesn't hug (it's a girly thing) but he shakes hands warmly and enquires after their health.

Big Man(To Lt. Sullust): Oh Lt. Sullust, I'm so sorry, I didn't realize it was my pie that you slipped upon. I hope you're feeling better now.

He compliments Dikiyoba on her Dikiyoba's stories. He rubs noses with MMXPERT (they're old friends) and asks how the role-playing is coming along. He winks at Vergil. They haven't met, but he has heard a lot about his exploits. He goes to where Van Helsing is hiding.

Big Man(Loudly, to Van Helsing): Don't worry, Nightwatcher. I haven't told anyone about our little secret. The Refuge doesn't know about it either. *winks pointedly*

Satisfied, the big man happily grabs an exploding melon (he's a vegetarian) from Excalibur and continues watching the Age of Castles.

Big Man(To Actaeon and Excalibur) : Just yell if you need a hand!

The big man goes over to Iffy and takes a couple of cupcakes. Returning to his seat, he trips over Lt. Sullust, who is lying on the floor. Cursing mildly, he picks himself up and limps over to the flaming golem.

Big Man: Have a cupcake, Roentgenium ?

He watches Roentgenium play Age of Castles.

Big Man(To The Ratt): Why, yes, thank you.

The big man takes the guacamole and mixes it with his own traditional dosas. He smiles at his cleverness in having created a cross-country dish. He has no idea where they are going either, but he doesn't mind. Slarty had said something about going back in time, but the big man is not sure of how far back they are time-travelling. Maybe he will get to see the dinosaurs.

Munching happily, he returns to his game.

The big man looks at Mistb0rn, sure he has seen her before, but is not quite sure where. Shrugging, he happily embarks on a game of portal. He has heard a lot about its cakes being lies, or some such ridiculousness and has always wanted to try it out.

Suddenly, he looks up from his game.

Big Man (To The Ratt) : What is guacamole?

The big man roars like a bull, taurean that he is. He closes the silver macintosh, hands it back to Actaeon, and politely says thank you.

He then opens his second bag, and begins to randomly throw the whoopie pies at everyone in the bus.

Edit : Except the driver.

The big man opens the large, brown packet of whoopie pies which ADoS had given to him. To the delight of everyone on board, he begins distributing the pies, one for each.

Trenton gets two. And so does Van Helsing (the big man likes people who go around with vampires).

Then he borrows Actaeon's silver macintosh and starts playing the latest Avernum game. Escape from the wit, its called. Or fit. Or grit. Somehow, he can't remember what it was.

A big man is sitting at home sipping coffee, sadly watching a live broadcast of the bus going to Seattle.

He wants to go too, but he suspects that the road to Seattle doesn't go through the Asian subcontinent. Assuming the driver is nice enough to divert the route a little, he gets in happily and takes a seat by the window (he likes window seats).

Why, don't you think its satire?

(actually its not surprising, seeing as it came from Ironycentral.)

Avernum: Escape from the Git.

You willingly use a portal to the underground, just to get yourself away from that twit who wants to marry you.