tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post7010988485518103442..comments2024-03-29T05:52:53.051+11:00Comments on The Adventurers Guild: Timequest - Dates and Messages (Baghdad and Peking)The Tricksterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01419316208187255801noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-45179938013043348552015-08-22T05:50:29.564+10:002015-08-22T05:50:29.564+10:00Sadly, no, there's never a return to coordinat...Sadly, no, there's never a return to coordinates initially marked as unavailable.Reikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07326356159794723662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-71990567655161439852015-08-05T04:26:35.183+10:002015-08-05T04:26:35.183+10:00I guess that makes sense, though it seems weird th...I guess that makes sense, though it seems weird that there would be so few locations missing from the nice grid (and concentrated in Mexico and across 1940, hmm). I guess making those locations unavailable for now leaves them with the narrative option to have a dramatic chase of Vettenmyer across new spacetime coordinates for the endgame, let's see whether they do that!Fryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07805219432946673379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-71857668845333266282015-08-04T14:58:15.038+10:002015-08-04T14:58:15.038+10:00In ancient and medieval China, yeah. It's cust...In ancient and medieval China, yeah. It's customary to cut off their dingies when they're little boys. The Imperial Offices have a deep paranoia of anybody old enough to have a mind of their own to want enter the palace by hacking off their own gonads. Especially if the regime is being shadow-puppeted by existing eunuchs and their posse.Kenny McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553499727945099493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-82897030808527984592015-08-04T07:37:15.427+10:002015-08-04T07:37:15.427+10:00Yeah, this. If Vettenmyer didn't interfere in ...Yeah, this. If Vettenmyer didn't interfere in the location, then I don't need to visit it. Although there might be one exception, which would be a spoiler to discuss before the endgame. Plus there are a couple of locations Vettenmyer seems to have visited solely to enable me to acquire items I need in other locations.Reikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07326356159794723662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-14676959553251075802015-08-04T01:27:27.314+10:002015-08-04T01:27:27.314+10:00The in-game explanation was that the time machine ...The in-game explanation was that the time machine was programmed to go only to places Vettenmeyer had visited.Ilmari Jauhiainenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01655841880034965950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-78956191114893382692015-08-04T01:24:16.255+10:002015-08-04T01:24:16.255+10:001) I think it depends on when the eunuch has been ...1) I think it depends on when the eunuch has been castrated. If it has been done after puberty, they might still have beard.<br /><br />2) Yea, England and Russia were pretty much the most impregnable places in the Europe, at the time of continental warfare. Napoleon did have that "great" idea of using balloons to invade England (and to dig a tunnel below English Canal), but his generals noted that the wind would just ruin it. Still, they made a nice drawing of it:<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s_planned_invasion_of_the_United_Kingdom#/media/File:Invasion1805.jpgIlmari Jauhiainenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01655841880034965950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-33067612090266076532015-08-04T01:20:36.074+10:002015-08-04T01:20:36.074+10:00Did you already explain why some of the date+locat...Did you already explain why some of the date+location combinations are unavailable? Fryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07805219432946673379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-67681516330396524752015-08-03T10:25:49.945+10:002015-08-03T10:25:49.945+10:00Yes... time to whip the developers again.
1) Eunuc...Yes... time to whip the developers again.<br />1) Eunuchs are unable to grow any facial hair due to a lack of... uh... facial hair producing hormones. Aside from the horribly out-of-place costume, what's with the mustache on the guard?<br />2) Napoleon didn't invade England because: Navy. There's a reason why there are so many British colonies and the French only had a small handful. Their maritime armed forces just couldn't compete with an island country's experience in naval warfare. So, Napoleon invading Egypt instead of England? That's a whole new level of stupidity akin to invading Russia during winter. Wait, he did that? Okay, point valid then.Kenny McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01553499727945099493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-73933721415085926692015-08-02T06:25:52.588+10:002015-08-02T06:25:52.588+10:00"How would a poor boy grow up to be Vizier?&q..."How would a poor boy grow up to be Vizier?"<br /><br />I am not sure which power controlled Baghdad at the time, but raising a poor boy to be your minister does have its advantages - the person is most likely much more dedicated to you than to any powerful family or other faction.Ilmari Jauhiainenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01655841880034965950noreply@blogger.com