Nakir nods at you, obviously agreeing with your views.
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Nakir tosses three of his silk ladybugs into the air and starts juggling them. He gets a good rhythm going, sending the silk ladybugs flying high into the air in a nice even pattern, until the end when he deftly catches each one and stops.
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As Tanalae recites an arcane phrase, her wounds are miraculously healed.
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Tanalae approaches you and touches you.
Your neck tingles for a moment, then suddenly feels a bit better. Tanalae looks a bit pale.
[27 Lirums are taken from you.]
Roundtime: 2 seconds.
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Nakir tosses three of his silk ladybugs into the air and starts juggling them. He is able to get them going, and keeps them flying for a short time, even managing to catch them all at the end, with a bit of panicked grabbing.
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Nakir regards you carefully, searching for some pattern in your movements.
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Nakir nods.
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Nakir says, "Fair 'nuff."
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Nakir tosses three of his silk ladybugs into the air and starts juggling them. He gets a good rhythm going, sending the silk ladybugs flying high into the air in a nice even pattern, until the end when he deftly catches each one and stops.
>'what?
You ask, "what?"
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As Tanalae recites an arcane phrase, her wounds are miraculously healed.
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Tanalae approaches you and touches you.
Your left leg tingles for a moment, then suddenly feels a bit better. Tanalae looks a bit pale.
[24 Lirums are taken from you.]
Roundtime: 2 seconds.
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Nakir tosses four of his silk ladybugs into the air and starts to juggle them, getting a good crossover pattern going for a while. He almost slips at the end, but manages to catch them all without quite dropping any.
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Nakir says, "That yera barb."
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Nakir says, "So many them others try 'n copy barbs."
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Nakir says, "Was just check'n"

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Wasn't sure where the best place to post this...


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unfortunately true.


<<Because it's a gigantic can of worms. Eldritch, necrotic, squamous worms, writhing in a vile stew of coagulating ichor, crushed from the living gullets of a thousand infant puppies, ululating in wordless terror. - Lorz>>

<<Speaking as a Thief: Lame.

Speaking as a Barb: ...still lame. Give 'em a chance!>>

Yeah, I posted it and I am a Barb, only Prof I ever played. But when I seen the "Just Checkin" it made we want to stab em because to me it almost feels like mech abuse. Although probably not....


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I love that we can do that. As a man.

Let's please not start this stupid discussion for the 15,000th time. Let Gonif argue amongst herselves in the thief folders.

~Player behind Korutu Rippentropp

The Thief point of view is actually right this time... I-win-button things like this (no checks of any kind) aren't very cool, especially for those Thieves who are careful not to get outted.

Now, while I don't really see how the whole "absense of inner fire" messaging fits (we can't see our own inner fire except by meditation on fire or chakrel, after all) I also unfortunately don't see it going away.

The best solution I can think up is for Thieves to get some sort of item that they can have on their person that makes it look like they have IF, similar to the proposed items to fool that magic perception thing that (it think) moonies do.

It's not like you NEED to out Thieves anyway. It doesn't somehow change their skills, abilities, or how easily they can steal from you if you know their guild.

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I had a good idea for a signature... but I forgot what it was...

<<I'm not sure how often the original poster read the boards, but this topic has been covered a whole bunch of times already. There's really no need to start raging over this again, unless it looks perfectly fine for us to head over to the Thief boards and nag about a lot of their stuff as well.>>

I read selective folders, I have to actually eat and do work sometimes. I will just throw my vote in that its a lame way to out a thief and be done with it, GMs will make thier decision to change or not, not really my problem just MHO. Also, I do not care that it has been brought up before, I don't know why people always bring that point up unless the person is known to already know and just spamming folders. So no I don't care that its been brought up before, big deal. You need to evaluate your definition of "raging" as that made no sense. Also you might want to re-read, don't skim, my previous post...I am not a thief, never played one in the last 10 years so probably never will and I don't read the thief boards so you can go "nag" over there all you want.

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>>It is easier by far to bring up a topic again and again as you have need, than to try and "search" these forums for that particular topic when you want to know more about it. There is virtually NO WAY to search for something other than to read the last 10,000 posts in a folder over the last 7 years.


iv always wanted a search function for the forums

>>Yeah, I posted it and I am a Barb, only Prof I ever played. But when I seen the "Just Checkin" it made we want to stab em because to me it almost feels like mech abuse. Although probably not....

Mech abuse? Um yeah, no.

>>I-win-button things like this (no checks of any kind) aren't very cool, especially for those Thieves who are careful not to get outted.

Good god tell me you're not being serious. Using terms like an "I-Win-Button" for observing if people are dancing? Tell me this is all some hilarious joke that I just don't get. Someone?

Thieves aren't supposed to be immune from being detected for who they are.

>>It's not like you NEED to out Thieves anyway. It doesn't somehow change their skills, abilities, or how easily they can steal from you if you know their guild.

Yes, yes I do. I want to know every single thief who could potentially steal coins from me. I NEED to know. I don't care if you don't need to know, I do. Knowing that they are a thief DOES change things like how I'll interact with them or whether or not I'll protect my coins or carry a loaded weapon or dance eagle all the time.

Can we please cut this crap and stop feeding off the tears of thieves? I don't care if they can't pretend they are a thief forever. Whoopdie-freaking-dooo.

- Galren

>>The Rippentropps are a mysterious collective of well-known individuals whose primary charge is to initiate the advancing task of not stopping.

<<Can we please cut this crap and stop feeding off the tears of thieves? I don't care if they can't pretend they are a thief forever. Whoopdie-freaking-dooo.>>

True its not really a big deal usually, its just kind of pointless even trying to hide identity as a thief when people can just "check" to find out for themselves.

<<Good god tell me you're not being serious. Using terms like an "I-Win-Button" for observing if people are dancing?>>

You mistated what anyone was referring to. People are talking about using the ability that was intended to observe if someone is dancing to check if someone is a thief. They don't care if the person is dancing are not. I agree the "I-Win-Button" term sounds odd for this situation as your don't win anything as there isn't any check involved.

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Alright, I definately get your point.....which is, its just pointless altogether. So nitpicking this one little thing is again pointless. I don't go around looking for ways to check thieves so I am really naive how many there really are. (I knew there was a way with the handshake)

On a side note: I preferred life in DR before shop stealing came out....(stealing trainability aside)....I liked walking around more "on guard" or having to RP a fight or stealing situation. Just hasn't happened to me in years.

I never played WOW, do they have player stealing?


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>>IF is internal. Like Khri. I'm not even sure other barbs can actually see each other's IF, just that they are in the know and are aware of the signs pointing to its use.

IF is nothing like Khri. You're a Ranger, so let me clarify.

We don't SEE the other person's IF. Not being a Barbarian, there's no way you could know this, of course. When you DESCRIBE another Barbarian, you are able to SEE the DANCE he/she is performing. It's natural for Barbarians to check out another Barbarian (real or fake) to observe what dance they're performing. If the fake-Barb gets caught doing this, it's his own fault for lack of planning.

If ANYthing, you could RP it as Barbarians having a 6th sense which means they are able to SENSE, not SEE, the presence of Inner Fire in others, even though this is isn't remotely close to what DESCRIBE actually does.

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Your mind hears Eladrin thinking, "i saw tikoro make out with a goblin once"

Your mind hears Tikoro thinking, "{faintly}" "Yeah, your mum is pretty ugly."

<<Life is too short to...read the last 10,000 posts in a folder >>

Ackfer - Halfling in a Can, No Fillers Here!

it is however, a product of the title system though. Before Skill-based titles came out, if a thief had a barbarian title up, all the person "checking" would see when they would "describe" is that JoeBob "is not under the influence of a dance right now". Exactly the same as any barbarian that wasn't dancing. All we are asking is that the new titles to do the same. Thats basically why we wear barbarian titles for, anyway.


::dances like a dragon::


<<Because it's a gigantic can of worms. Eldritch, necrotic, squamous worms, writhing in a vile stew of coagulating ichor, crushed from the living gullets of a thousand infant puppies, ululating in wordless terror. - Lorz>>

nope, describe has been around for quite a while.


<<Because it's a gigantic can of worms. Eldritch, necrotic, squamous worms, writhing in a vile stew of coagulating ichor, crushed from the living gullets of a thousand infant puppies, ululating in wordless terror. - Lorz>>

by the way, this is from archived gm announcements,barbarian:

DESCRIBE ? on 2/28/2000 9:37:58 PM 103

By popular request, Barbarians now have the ability to DESCRIBE other Barbarians. This will allow a Barbarian to determine what Dance, if any, another Barbarian is currently performing. To successfully DESCRIBE another Barbarian, you must either know the Dance yourself, or be of a sufficient circle. Enjoy!

-Ariath


So I was definately correct in saying it came out before Skill-based-titles.





<<Because it's a gigantic can of worms. Eldritch, necrotic, squamous worms, writhing in a vile stew of coagulating ichor, crushed from the living gullets of a thousand infant puppies, ululating in wordless terror. - Lorz>>

>>Unfortunately we don't have a chicken dance but I hear you can do a mean impersonation of a dead 100+ moon mage :P

I don't think he fakes it.

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Your mind hears Eladrin thinking, "i saw tikoro make out with a goblin once"

Your mind hears Tikoro thinking, "{faintly}" "Yeah, your mum is pretty ugly."

:bang bang: Let's keep the discussion to complaints about barbarians and not about each other. Thanks.


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