Groth's Defeat

[hissrad]

I know it's not a big deal but it would've been cool to get Groth's sword after Vraes killed him. I mean it'd be ironic to use the sword of the baron's Orcin mercenary on the baron himself:P

[bobsoup]

I've always wondered... specifically in the red keep encounter with Groth where it shows Vraes defeating him (actually it was Selen for me)... what would happen if there actually were units already in the spaces it moves Vraes and Groth too before Groth gets pushed off the building.

Is it coded to move people out the way if they're already in.that space?

In the future I may try placing someone there to see what happens.

Speaking of Groth... Vraes says in the escape from red keep that Vraes would decimate them. That's really not that scary. Decimate (literally) means to remove one tenth (yes I know common usage is different). I've had enemies do way more damage to me than that. Groth is really just a big lovable softy.

[anrdaemon]

Mar 27, 2015 3:16:56 GMT -5 hissrad said:

I know it's not a big deal but it would've been cool to get Groth's sword after Vraes killed him. I mean it'd be ironic to use the sword of the baron's Orcin mercenary on the baron himself:P

He fell down with the sword. You no get it.
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[fallen]

Mar 27, 2015 6:45:37 GMT -5 bobsoup said:

Speaking of Groth... Vraes says in the escape from red keep that Vraes would decimate them. That's really not that scary. Decimate (literally) means to remove one tenth (yes I know common usage is different). I've had enemies do way more damage to me than that. Groth is really just a big lovable softy.

The current definition of decimate is "kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of." Dictionaries often mention the original definition of removing 1/10th.

[bobsoup]

Yeah. If you have any old dictionaries from the 90s or even 5 or 10 years ago, it would most likely list the original definition first. (Many current dictionaries still do).

A generation of people using a word a particular way and it takes on that meaning for most people.

The English language is full of words that mean the complete opposite of what they once meant. Awful, for example, once meant what awesome means now. (Something that fills you with awe). Still does if you look at the literal composition... Awe Full.

[fallen]

bobsoup - always interesting to write dialog for fantasy worlds. The characters are all speaking Lower Kallassian, and the Roman army and the Latin from which decimation derives does not exist. Just have to find a balance that works for interesting dialog and conversation.

[bobsoup]

Lol... that works!

Dialog is very good in.game. colourful and provides back story without being overbearing like some games are. It is very well balanced.

I wasn't meaning to criticise that one comment. I was just being my usual silly tongue-in-cheek self.

[fallen]

bobsoup - same here

[CdrPlatypus]

That definition is still used in pharmacy compounding. Brought back a funny memory from my pharmacology lab class. "You want me to decimate the ingredient?! wat?"

[bobsoup]

Mar 27, 2015 14:36:35 GMT -5 CdrPlatypus said:

That definition is still used in pharmacy compounding. Brought back a funny memory from my pharmacology lab class. "You want me to decimate the ingredient?! wat?"

Yes, I encountered decimate back in uni science labs at least once.

In a scientific setting it will mean to remove a tenth. Probably not a good word to use in a text book considering the confusion and way the words meaning has changed over the last 15 years as it enters more into people's vocab.

15 years ago you almost never heard the word but if you did it meant remove a tenth. Nowadays you hear it fairly frequently. Even heard it on BBC world service fairly recently talking about rebels striking with "decimating force".

I'm 99.9% sure the journalist didn't mean they removed 1 tenth of the population...