Fledgling Fyora kenhwcan Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 Why can we increase health by consumming foods for a small increase, but their is nothing for spell energy(that I found). Thinking that this would be what mushrooms could be used for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 Energy potions and elixirs are the only way to replace spell energy outside of massive first aid in the party, going up a level, going back to town and a few recharging pools. Mushrooms replace grain as a source of flour. This is why Avenites really hate the Empire. Have you ever drunk mushroom based alcohol? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Lyric Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 but mushrooms are delicious, i never understood how avernites can hate them...i love mushrooms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Synergy Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 Deliciousness is in the mouth of the bechewer. And consider: even if you had nothing but ice cream to eat morning noon and night, your opinion of its deliciousness might very soon change. Plus, there's probably some nasty mood-altering substance in the mushrooms growing in those dank, dark, drippy caves which puts Avernites in a toxic mood. My brother considers anchovies on pizza delicious. I am unable to arrive at the same conclusion. -S- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Evnissyen Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 Do mushrooms really possess enough sugar to be properly fermented? Or am I missing the basis of the fermentation process? Granted they're technically a fruit, but... they're also just a fungus. Mushroom liquor... ugh. I like mushrooms, too, but honestly... If I had to eat nothing but mushrooms for an entire day, I'd be pretty averse to them for a while, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Lyric Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 mushrooms grow quickly, so i guess they use industrial amounts to produce even one liter of liquor. Has anyone noticed that the only animal that appears to thrive without difficulty is the, well, RAT?...why don't avernites eat rats?...some cultures consider them delicious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 What do you think that mystery meat you've been eat was? Besides some of those rats are really vicious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Evnissyen Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Mythrael: Well, with food shortage becoming an issue: it doesn't seem very sensible to waste so many mushrooms on alcohol. ...Then again... It does have a way of helping some people deal with their sorry situations, in those caves... . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody madrigan Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Obviously, the mushrooms contain some sort of mood-enhancing chemical, which is why the Avernites are able to tolerate their environment at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Upon Mars. Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Quote: Obviously, the mushrooms contain some sort of mood-enhancing chemical, which is why the Avernites are able to tolerate their environment at all. Most avernites stuck down there went at the surface. So it didn't improve much their situation. Getting lucy in the sky doesn't help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgeoning Battle Gamma Grimm Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 Quote: Originally written by upon mars:Most avernites stuck down there went at the surface. So it didn't improve much their situation. Getting lucy in the sky doesn't help. Obviously they didn't put the connection between shrooms and their tolerance for 3rd world living styles. They thought "If the caves are O.K., then the surface will be amazing". There are likely a lot of disappointed poeple on the surface now. No doubt, the addiction symptoms on the surface are an epedemic. Edit:typos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Tcheedchee Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Quote: Originally written by Mythrael:Has anyone noticed that the only animal that appears to thrive without difficulty is the, well, RAT?...why don't avernites eat rats?...some cultures consider them delicious Yeah, like dwarves for example. Why aren't there any dwarves in Avernum? Rat on a stick! mhh, yummie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgeoning Battle Gamma Grimm Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Quote: Originally written by Tcheedchee:Yeah, like dwarves for example. Why aren't there any dwarves in Avernum? I think Jeff said he was annoyed that almost all fantasy games had dwarves and elves. So he substituted nephil for elves and slith for dwarves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Men are from Slars Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Uh, nephils and sliths are nothing like elves and dwarves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Quote: Originally written by Slarty:Uh, nephils and sliths are nothing like elves and dwarves. That's the point. Although they exist in other fantasy books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Men are from Slars Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 I know the same words have been used in other fantasy settings (particularly nephilim, given its biblical derivation), but what fantasy books have Nephils and Sliths in them? None, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Micawber Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Cat-people and lizard-people aren't exactly unique to Spiderweb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 I still like rat on a stick. : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Tcheedchee Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 OOPs, I wanted to say: I still like rat on a stick. - with mushroom-sauce. ; ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgeoning Battle Gamma Grimm Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Must.. resist... temptation.. to argue... must not... topic necro..... Nope I gave in. Nephil and Slith are essentialy the same as elves and dwarves. Elves are small, dextrous, and shoot bows. So do/are the nephil. Dwarves are strong, live in caves, are good a smithing, and use axes. So are/do the slith, 'cept it's halberds not axes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Men are from Slars Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Elves also tend to be represented as highly intelligent and often magically apt. Elves also usually have lifespans in the hundreds of years. This definitely does not describe nephilim. (And in Tolkien, for that matter, elves are actually large and strong and obnoxiously good at everything.) It's not halberds, it's two-tined spears and javelins. And dwarves typically sing lots of songs and drink lots of drink. More importantly, dwarves tend to have serious trouble with magic, whereas the sliths are represented -- particularly in Exile 1 and 2 -- as being possibly more magically apt than humans. There are some parallels, but I think they basically boil down to "dex-oriented race" and "str-oriented race" -- while nearly everything else is not congruent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Tcheedchee Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Yeah, well, I was joking. I like nephils and sliths, - no problem. I don't care for dvarves or elves (or orks…). I don't mind. I just care for rat on a stick… (And my slith is still quite unhappy, because he didn't find any inn, yet, where he could get rat on a stick, - just mushrooms…) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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