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Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:22 am**

Talwin Hawkins: Aetos Ektasi

Talwin wins a custom item of his choice. This item is personalized for one of his characters, and has no more than +2 in one area. CoPaP restrictions apply.

Congrats to you. It was s good contest, thank you for all that participated.

-Tristan

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:21 am**

YEY ME!

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:34 am**

Congrats! If only I had rememberd to submit "KieronWorld", I am sure I would have won

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:36 am**

Kieron wrote:Congrats! If only I had rememberd to submit "KieronWorld", I am sure I would have won

Well, you could always start your own server.....

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:38 am**

*starts imagining that multiplane, +2 vorpal sword

ITS +2 DAMNIT!

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:16 am**

Vorpal is on the CoPaP banned list

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Congrats, Tal.

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:06 pm**

*looks at the post snickering a bit*

Vorpal.. Even in my PnP game, for over 15 years of continous playing with the same group. None of my charatcers have ever seen a vorpal.

Good try...

-Tristan

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:12 pm**

would it be even funnier if i actually said i dont know what vorpal means.

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:49 pm**

Well, originally, it comes from a poem

http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabb ... wocky.html

But in the old AD&D, it got translated to a sword that on a crit hit would decapitate your enemy in one shot.

Since v3 started, they have toned it down a bit, mostly because the weapon was so disgustingly violent that it was never seen in any game. It just would ruin campaigns.

I am not sure if it still exists in 3.5 as a weaker weapon, or if they just dropped it completely.

In the old Legends and Lore books, King Arthur is represented as having a +5 vorpal (excalibur) and a magical scabbard that heals him.

funny I remember that little note from the books after like .... 15 years.

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:53 pm**

vorpal is stil in 3.5 but having it in a sword You must have done something very very great to achieve this to your equipement

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:56 pm**

so basically its a dev critting sword. SWEET!

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:57 pm**

was a nice sword in Baldurs Gate II

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:21 pm**

Talwin Hawkins wrote:so basically its a dev critting sword. SWEET!

I though there was no save against it

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:22 pm**

its a save or death one

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:23 pm**

Want a spoiler an what aetos Ektasi means in Greek?

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:31 pm**

it means Eagles Reach, though for translation purposes i believe its Ektasi tou Aetou.

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:17 pm**

Swsta! so it would be "Correct" Aetou Ektasi(s) (Two word version in older greek, since the genitive is used as an adjective! . If you are not greek then my congrats! It would be more aprpriate translation Eagles span or range aktually

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:20 pm**

congrats for this anyway talwin

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:31 pm**

ah... isn't vorpal save vs death, and you'd probably only be able to get a DC 14 on that if its +2 or less.

Hell a +2 enhancement is worth about 7k on a bastard sword, Vorpal DC-14 is 50k

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:23 pm**

Yeah Talwin had a great suggestion and with the background of the Prime it fit, that is why I voted for it. But for the record out of the staff that voted, it was an unanamous decision. (I know, I cant spell.

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Heck, I think when Arborea finailizes our Paperwork as an incorporated, not for profit business, we may use the name for that as well.

Aetos Ektasi, LLC INC Running the Arborea Server. I like that.

-Tristan

Posted: **Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:51 pm**

SHIT! COPYRIGHT DAMNIT COOOPPPYYRRIIIGHHHTTT!

Posted: **Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:53 am**

Go Go Go! Make them pay you royalties

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