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  Best of Cythera for 2013 and 2014
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  Indeed, it was. It didn't belong that in first post, and I have now corrected the problem.
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  Valentine's Chron Challenge 2015
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  It's never too late to hop on the Kako-ship to Illicit Affair Island.
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  Merry Christmas (2014)
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  Merry Christmas and/or other assorted holidays. ^_^
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  Some discoveries about the Cythera Data file
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  Nice work as always :) .
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  Christmas Challenge 2014
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  You could always contribute a late entry to the challenge :p .
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  Speculations on the Cytheran Calendar System
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  My guess is that he didn't really consider it a priority, but I still like the thought of using the existing number as the basis for an in-game calendar, since there's little other information to go off of.
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  Thanksgiving Chron Challenge
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  Actually, I'm impressed by the number of replies to this challenge. There were more than I expected, although I admit to being disappointed that Retsy seemed to survive in a lot of them ;) . I suppose that I'll have to go ahead and get the Christmas chron challenge up in a couple of days or so, depending on how long it takes me to come up with some more ideas for it.
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  Minor Update to Slayer's Guide
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  But for a good cause :) !
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  Boring Cythera Experiments
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  My troubles with the rolling pin continue. I actually got pretty far in my first attempt, but that's because my followers were doing all the fighting. Realizing I was missing the point, I started over. This time no followers, just me and my rolling pin. That's when I kept losing my rolling pin to unicorns. Is it cheating to use the sapphire book trick in order to gain access to the Replicate spell early in the game? That's what I did. So I have a rolling pin, I have replicate, I'm all set for dozens of rolling pins, right? So I directed nexus to LKH, replicate a crate, drag it to Alaric, fill it with my rolling pin and other assorted booty, and... cannot smash apart the crate with my bare hands. I could see no alternative to inviting Hector into my party, giving him my rolling pin, and shaking him down. This worked, and I replicated several copies of the rolling pin, but I was disappointed that I had to get a follower to do so. At least I can smash crates now, right? And kill unicorns? No, and no. Apparently I cannot smash a crate with a rolling pin. And the several rolling pins I had on hand weren't enough to effectively hit a unicorn. But I did learn that you can throw a rolling pin short distances. I guess that's kinda cool? There's a probability of the rolling pin disappearing forever though. This post has been edited by BreadWorldMercy453 : 11 November 2018 - 07:27 PM
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  Hmmm....
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  @breadworldmercy453_bot, on 13 October 2014 - 08:35 PM, said in Hmmm....: Wowev Fiery, that's a much more complicated answer than I was expecting! So we can only guess how game-Cythera is supposed to be pronounced? : __\ When did you learn Greek anyway? o_O I took a semester of Modern Greek in college. I picked up some of the rest through a combination of linguistics courses and explanations in that class of why the pronunciation is so different from how we normally pronounce words from Greek.
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  Authorship of the Cypher Manuscript
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  @breadworldmercy453_bot, on 19 June 2015 - 03:19 PM, said in Authorship of the Cypher Manuscript: It still strikes me as likely that the author of the Cipher Manuscript would be a character in the game, but then again, the chimera don't seem to appear in the game, so many the author doesn't either /: I think that having an outside character write it creates more potential story lines than a character in the game. It opens up the possibility to more interaction with other worlds and allows more growth for the universe. The fact that gandreas included the manuscript at all suggests to me that he intended to explore these possibilities further.
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  Cythera Youtube Playthrough
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  @breadworldmercy453_bot, on 27 October 2014 - 07:05 PM, said in Cythera Youtube Playthrough: No, I want to see if you can (with cheating, if necessary) kill the Abydos ghosts : __P Well, I should be able to set their status to dead in hexedit, but I don't know how that will affect the game. Unfortunately, I'm a little too busy just now to experiment with this, although I'll make an effort to get around to it.
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  Roll to succeed
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  @breadworldmercy453_bot, on 03 October 2014 - 08:51 AM, said in Roll to succeed: For example, if you attack someone... Shorty thinks I should edit this to say "if you attack your innkeeper" but I don't see how that's relevant. I had a perfectly valid reason to attack that innkeeper. What does it matter that he was the innkeeper?
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  Aloiphoi, redux
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  @buzzzzy_bot, on 17 September 2014 - 03:32 AM, said in Aloiphoi, redux: Given mages' vague description of the Aloiphoi, I kind of doubt now that gandreas intended anyone to find substantial content in them. Any clue what the letters mean? I'm inclined to agree about the lack of substantial content. I think they are intended just to give cultural background and add depth to the game. I suspect that the lettering is most likely some sort of ordering system.
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  A Decade Ago in a Galaxy Not Far Away At All...
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  I take it this means you're defining "quasi-active" as posts once a year, Wizard :p ?
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  Question on the Blazing Trails TS Timeline
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  Well, I suppose I could borrow Wizard's account and post from it, but I don't think that would count as three people posting...
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  Summer Chron Challenge
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  Well, I was being optimistic and thinking this year.
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  Grapper or Bellerophon
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  Well, Grapper's free to return and give his own take at any time.
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  Career and Family Life of Mages
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  As far as I know, the game does not indicate that there is a specific prohibition against mages marrying. That said, there are no known married mages, and the requirements of the job seem to suggest that it would be difficult for a mage to have a family. It is also worth noting that most people in Cythera are still wary of the mages, trusting them because Alaric wishes them to. It is possible that marriage is permitted but is almost unheard of. My guess is that the isolation would include families, although there seems to be no prohibition against visiting a freemage or a freemage passing through a town. Timon actively joins your group which would seem to violate the requirements, but Lindus might have granted him leeway given the circumstances. Given the relatively low number of judges, it is possible that every mage has to fill the position at some point or other but that it can be deferred until after one has served as a freemage. Alternatively, there may be more judges than seen in the game or, as you suggested, mages might meet this requirement through some period of a civic service.
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  May Chron Challenge
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  Thirty-eight entries that followed the rules to 453's chron challenge: I'm pretty certain that everyone ignores the rules on mine :p .