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Post by North Star on May 18, 2005 21:04:13 GMT
Come on someone! Answer my riddle And Zipp, I *like* this avatar. A snarling grey dog and literature for the tag line NS.
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Post by Zipp on May 18, 2005 21:24:11 GMT
Well, actually it is the Cheshire Cat, from "American McGee's Alice," where Alice returns to Wonderland to find it F'ed up beyond belief. All of the characters have been perversed into twisted evil caricatures of herself. The Cat plays her guide through this horror world, but as befits a Cheshire, he only gives her riddles. Incidentally, the answer to YOUR riddle... well, I'll drop a big hint for everyone. "Names can be deadly, and in one of the Lone Wolf books, it is the only way he can defeat his adversaries. Some of which, he's met before." schneeflocke.gorillazfan.com/gallery/data/media/6/Alice.jpgwww.texastoyz.com/images/McGees_Alice_L.jpg
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Post by North Star on May 18, 2005 23:08:02 GMT
I take that back then! Actually, on closer looking I can see all the inherent unpleasantness in the cat. All in all, I think I prefer the zip picture compared to the subtle menace of the corrupt Cheshire Cat. The Jabberwock is always fun though!
NS.
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Post by Ghost Bear on May 18, 2005 23:46:58 GMT
Nope, I was replying to North Star. And if we wanted to get technical... Gnekasha may not be another name for Shamath. All we can deduce from the text (Section 216 of Legacy of Vashna) is that Shamath took on the form of Gnekasha.
But it doesn't really matter, since the answer is reachable from the question.
-GB
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Post by North Star on May 18, 2005 23:49:09 GMT
If it's her secret name that paralyses her, like a few of the other Planar creatures, then she is both Shamath and Gnekasha NS.
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Post by Ghost Bear on May 18, 2005 23:57:10 GMT
Is it her secret name though?
I don't have Book 20.
-GB
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Post by Zipp on May 19, 2005 0:01:28 GMT
Indeed it is. I can't give section, because it's abridged, but it is revealed in Book 20 that Gnekasha is Shamath's original and secret name. Shamath was Gnekasha (clearing up the Legacy of Vashna question).
And North Star, I'm glad you liked the zip picture, but you know of my inability to stay as one image for more than two weeks. Though the wolf one lasted two or three months, if I recall. Maybe I should put together a banner comprised of "the many faces of Zipp."
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Post by andyr on May 19, 2005 1:15:37 GMT
@ Zipp Horace and the Spiders... I think it even worked in a ZX81... Horace is a slightly-amorphous 8-bit blue dude, Sinclair's alternative to Pacman. Hungry Horace was the first title (a Pacman clone), Horace and the Spiders was my favorite: the dude has to climb a mountain (jump when a little ridge appears on a plain monochrome scrolling background), then enter a house haunted by spiders, jump around and dodge. I don't remember, I think there was a treasure chest there... The last Horace was one of those terrible "cross the road games" Entomorph was a nice adventure game, though, with a cool weird story... and if you look for it online you can see that some screenshots indeed look a lot like your clue (the attempt at 3D came quite flat)
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Post by Zipp on May 19, 2005 2:47:52 GMT
Never heard of Entomorph, actually. I believe I was confusing it with another game. The style seems reminiscent of early SNES RPGs.
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Post by andyr on May 19, 2005 7:55:16 GMT
@ Zipp
SSI made a few lookalike 3ed person adventure/RPG games in the early-mid 90s. Al-Qadim, the Genie's Curse, for the AD&D license, was another title really similar to Entomorph... I do not know if SNES games featured it, but here you had quite arcade-like combat and phases with lots of jumping and dodging. Not too much in the way of RPG, but the storylines were always quite cool. Some company also made an almost identical Conan game. These games were in fact the forefathers of Icewind Dale, NWN and the "modern" 3rd person RPGs
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Post by North Star on May 19, 2005 9:07:55 GMT
I can provide the paragraph reference if you like. GB, your question!
NS.
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Post by Doomy on May 19, 2005 9:13:28 GMT
Glad I got the SimAnt question right. To be honest I had no idea until that screenshot was posted - when I saw it was Zipp who was asking I assumed it was some sort of Japanese RPG!
I came up with this question ages ago, long before this mammoth thread was clove in twain. However I don't believe I actually asked it. It seems quite appropriate to use it now:
Game design guru Warren Spector, whose credits on PC include Wing Commander, System Shock and Deus Ex, also wrote one commercially published gamebook. What was it?
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Post by outspaced on May 19, 2005 9:39:15 GMT
The last Horace was one of those terrible "cross the road games" I think it was called "Horace Goes Skiing"?
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Post by Zipp on May 19, 2005 18:31:57 GMT
Glad I got the SimAnt question right. To be honest I had no idea until that screenshot was posted - when I saw it was Zipp who was asking I assumed it was some sort of Japanese RPG! I came up with this question ages ago, long before this mammoth thread was clove in twain. However I don't believe I actually asked it. It seems quite appropriate to use it now: Game design guru Warren Spector, whose credits on PC include Wing Commander, System Shock and Deus Ex, also wrote one commercially published gamebook. What was it? Well, I never knew. Deus Ex was an excellent game. I looked up the answer online, I won't ruin it for anyone.
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Post by Zipp on May 23, 2005 21:43:44 GMT
Well, it looks like the trivia may finally have died...
Am I wrong?
Maybe we should release the answers to the current questions and call it done...
If anyone is interested, I could compile a list of all the questions asked, plus the answers, in a random trivia thread.
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