Triumph

But I thought the volcano was an alien parasite trying to destroy the planet???

I seem to recall Dikiyobia saying Dikiyoba was a dikiyora from the land of Dikiyobia. But I could be wrong about that. Judging be the unusual habits of speech, maybe Dikiyoba was neighbors with Yoda on Dagobah.

Originally Posted By: Nioca I wonder who Zarusa will pick to fill the empty slot now, though... FYT I can think of several people here who seem fairly reasonable and responsible. Of course, it is rather difficult to form meaningful character judgments based on only forum posts... Oh, I also wonder what Zarusa did to force out Dikiyoba - must have been pretty fierce. But since Zarusa always rolls 20s...

* Cheers for Dikiyoba!!! * Your levelheadedness and courtesy are much appreciated!

Originally Posted By: Rowen That is how AIMhack seems to work. We loot and then wait forever before identifying the loot. In some cases that's not our fault...Divination seems to be the only skill that reliably identifies stuff, so far no one in either party has ever acquired strong divination skills. And then with Zarusa constantly interfering, well, it's just tough to get stuff identified.

Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES *Luminaire *Dark Matter *Shock Crono, Magus, and who? Robo maybe? And Lavos is eleven years late! Tut tut, whatever happened to punctuality?

Hard to imagine there's ever a good reason to reason to wantonly destroy someone else's property... There are better ways to release such energy or emotion.

First, the Prydain Chronicles rock. Second, I assume living longer is "better" relative to dying. People generally look upon dying as undesirable. Not always, but most seem to find it somehow unappealing. In math terms, (not dying) > (dying).

Concur with Nioca. Also, as the saying goes, honesty is probably the best policy. Trying to literally "cover up" (literally) the problem will not work forever - sooner or later the landlord will will see the damage. Better to be forthright about it than make him even more upset to find out you were trying to trick him. A soft tongue breaks bone, someone has said. Be appropriately respectful, apologize, and make clear you're ready to pay for it (I assume your lease probably requires that anyway, but it's still polite to offer before he demands it). [/two cents]

English to Dutch Dutch to French French to Greek Greek to English A nine boonrijen me, beehive for lors, you have there also only in to bij-luide the clearing vivre.

Wow. The Bloodmarsh party was rolling fumbles right and left! They really had terrible luck. I'm still laughing about that ill-targeted burning hands spell, though. That and Amadan's incredible fumbled arrow of bouncing doom were both epic fail. Bah humbug on the wait before we can invade Sarden. Ah well, those assassins and bandits just get a brief reprieve before we unleash Nixak's boom squirrel and Vitze's bluffing on them. Of course, if Zarusa is on their side, there's no telling what will happen.

Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity As a physics professor qualified to teach and examine electrodynamic theory Well, I have a PhD in theoretical physics, another PhD in molecular biochemistry, five postgraduate degrees at Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Oxford, and the Sorbonne in engineering, multivariable calculus, Shakespearian and also modern literature, computer science, in fields of history ranging from protoagricultural Sumeria to modern Zambian politics? And I am fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic? And I have an IQ of +7 standard deviations from the mean, and Gene Ray's personal declaration of myself as "Cubic and Second Wisest HUMAN", due to my mastery and understanding of his website? Also, I'm a member of the Illuminati. Yes, but how many of you does it take to put in a lightbulb?

* cheers for Temmyn *

The 23rd certainly works, and certainly I'd like to have it sooner...but my schedule hasn't changed at all, so the dates sooner than the 23rd that I can do are still Thurs. 3/15, Fri. 3/16, Sat. 3/17, and Thurs. 3/22. I look forward to our upcoming invasion of Sarden, whenever D-Day occurs.

I vote wraith, because the Ringwraiths rock every which way. Except fire. They don't like fire. You know, if you'd included an option for sparkly vampires, that some people would choose it just to spite you, so it was probably for the best that you left out.

I just want to watch Ackrovan tossing folks into Mt. Doom.

Minor suggestion Nioca: it'd be handy if you put a link to your webpage for Brigandage in your signature; then you could also update the link to this thread, which no longer works because of the great server change.

The key is found elsewhere in the crone's lair, in the room with the trapped fancy tile floor (you have to follow the same kind of tile all the way across to get the key). However, I think only one side can release the wolf (who's actually a faerie dude). I'm pretty sure only the Celts can save him (at least in Nethergate Resurrection). So that might be the problem for you. Hope this helps.

Well, there was a long discussion about the possibility that Temmyn would be appearing after the clue at the end of the previous session, so I think by this point people were half-expecting it. It was still quite cool.

Originally Posted By: Monroe The written word is still clumsy. Pictures are a purer form of communication and notation. ...then why are you communicating on this board via written words, rather than just showing us pictures? /irony

Yeah, if pictures are so much better...whatever happened to pictograms, to hieroglyphics and such?

Originally Posted By: The Turtle Moves And add to the list that bizarre sequence (can't remember whether this was tTT or RotK) where Aragorn falls off a cliff and wanders around hallucinating for a while. Yeah, that definitely was weird. Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES I am pretty sure the scene where Boromir defends Merry and Pippin -was- described in the books. Am I hallucinating? Not quite hallucinating, but not completely accurate either. At the beginning of The Two Towers (the book), Aragorn hears the Horn blowing. By the time he gets to Boromir a page or two later, all that's left is dead orcs and dying Boromir. With his dying breath Boromir says "Orcs attacked; I defend the hobbits; orcs won," and that's it. Other than that brief description that it happened, we don't get the details. Oh, and I suppose there's a similar brief reference later when...umm...Pippin tells Denethor about Boromir's death, I believe. In FotR (the movie) we actually see Boromir's defense of the hobbits that books only hinted at or summarized. Coming so shortly after his failure, his succumbing to the temptation of the ring, seeing him return and fight to protect Pippin and Merry, and die sacrificially (even though failing to save the hobbits) made for a very emotionally powerful scene, IMHO. Much more so than Aragorn's melodramatic boss-fight with Lurtz afterward, LOL.

Originally Posted By: Ephesos But honestly, aren't we all gods of our own little worlds whenever we indulge in a creative act? I'm think J.R.R. Tolkien would back you up in this, or something similar. Not that the opinion of one the most influential fantasy author's ever would count or anything. I seem to recall that in "On Fairy-Stories," he basically described writing to create a fantasy world as an imitation of the divine creative act. Rather cool idea, IMHO.

Originally Posted By: Dantius Link to hilarious webcomic mocking the random appearance of Elrond in the RotK movie That is brilliant.

Okey-day, while we're comparing the LOTR books and movies, I just have to chime in. I think the books are better than the movies overall. I forgive trimming stuff out; that was necessary. The problem is the movies added a lot of other unnecessary stuff and needlessly changed other stuff to be stupid or strange - from the idiotic line "Give up the halfing, she-elf!" to quasi-evil Faramir in Two Towers to having Elrond randomly show up to deliver Anduril in RotK. However, there are many times in the movies where I think they capture the spirit of the books perfectly, and a very few special scenes that I DO think surpass the books. I especially felt Boromir's tragic defense of Pippin and Merry came through wonderfully, and it doesn't actually appear in the books. I also thought the opening of Two Towers, panning over the Misty Mountains and then replaying the Bridge of Khazad-dum scene but follow Gandalf down, was also brilliant.