Hey y'all. As some of you might have noticed, I have - slowly, much more slowly than I'd like - been making incremental additions to The Ancient Files.

While not fully up-to-date yet, I've tackled two of the major hurdles - Shadows of Asia and System Failure. Hopefully, with the upcoming semester break and staying on top of the freelancer stuff, I'll finish updating the main site and get back to fixing a couple of my orphaned pages - like Atom Magic, Echoes of the Crash, and Metagenetics.

That said, if there's anything y'all'd like to see...speak up.

ahh hell..

i wanna see davier's saucy brown nips

:crazy:

sorry, i just cant help myself

@whap at Aku.

Sorry, I can't help myself either.

AH, I like what I see and right off the top of my head can't think of anything.

So you're the one who puts these up! I've found pages from your site on Google, but never thought to trace them back to their source.

You, sir, are a god among mortals.

No... he's just a million monkeys among mortals.

He is a million monkey-gods.

... a million monkey-gods... hey that means he has a million of those awesome staves, maybe he can lend a few out...

No.

BLACK HAMMER!!!!!! BLACK HAMMER!!!!!!!!!! BLACK HAMMER!!!!!!!!!!!

I was really hoping that if you had time a more Horror-centric distilled version could be made. And possibly including a bit more rampant speculation on their modern activities or aims.

Arrgh! Metagenetics!!! I found that page, once upon a time, and now I can't remember where. ARRRGGHHH!!!

Could you please put the address for that link somewhere? Here? Or PM me? Thanks for keeping my favorite SR site updated. Hopefully, in the future, you won't let college or other commitments (besides Freelancing) get in your way.

The Ancient Files are classic, as long as they can be found on the internet it doesn't matter if they never get updated again, they still won't be "dead". Not to say we don't appreciate you keeping up to date, AH.

Hey AH, tell me, what do you think of the odds of a connection between Ristul and FAB3?

Minimal. FAB III Delta would eat Ristul.

I don't know about that—FAB III causes mana warps, after all.

~J

No, FAB III causes Voids. Tactical nuclear weapons set off within massive magical wards while approximately a thousand new insect spirits are being invested cause mana warps.

Draining the magical energy. It would eat Ristul, or at least lower the ambient mana level to a point where Ristul couldn't be manifest.

What, Ristul doesn't have the Sterilize spell? Isn't FAB III dual natured? Doesn't that mean it would take damage from the area it warps?

1) No idea. Maybe.
2) Yes.
3) One would assume that the FAB III, after depleting the area, would then vacate immediately. Or like humans, it might just overhunt it's area and starve to death.

Ristul has a Spellcasting step of 18 but cannot cast any spells, according to the stats in Horrors.

Of course, it would be difficult for FABIII to actually harm Ristul since it has a Wound Threshold of NA, an Unconsciousness Rating of NA, and a Death Rating of NA.

So the conclusion is that Ristul as a menu item is also NA?

Ristul is the sentient magical pollution of the world, more or less.

Wether or not Ristul is Sentient is debatable. Parts of Ristul are sentient, certainly. Ristular retain whatever sentience they had before accepting its corruption and Nightwists can be sentient. The Mad Passions are arguably parts of Ristul and they certainly retained their sentience. But, as a whole, there is little evidence that Ristul opperates on anything but a combination of base instinct and the initiative of its diverse parts.

Furthermore, the many parts of Ristul sometimes act in opposition to each other rather than as part of a grand plan. This is most evident in the Mad Passions who work against Ristul even while being consumed by it.

I'd hardly qualify the Mad Passions as being part of Ristul. The Horror may well have been a prime factor in their corruption, but the tale of their "consumption" was supposition in Horrors.