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PNB

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I FOUND AN 800 YEAR OLD MAN
« on: September 09, 2006, 12:31:00 am »
He was born in 357 and died in 1050... uh massive buggity. Humans don't live for hundreds of years, we art fragilie to da max.
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Re: I FOUND AN 800 YEAR OLD MAN
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2006, 12:40:00 am »
Maybe he was a wizard like Gandalf?  :D
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Re: I FOUND AN 800 YEAR OLD MAN
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2006, 12:57:00 am »
He was a swordsman, a sucky swordsman, he died after one hit from a bowkobold, hitting him with the bow itself.
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Re: I FOUND AN 800 YEAR OLD MAN
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2006, 01:04:00 am »
If he was a Dwarf I'd say no biggy, but a Human!? He must eat a hell of a lot o veggies!
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Re: I FOUND AN 800 YEAR OLD MAN
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2006, 02:07:00 am »
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Originally posted by PNB:
<STRONG>He was a swordsman, a sucky swordsman, he died after one hit from a bowkobold, hitting him with the bow itself.</STRONG>
Gee, that must've sucked.  800 years of life only to get clubbed to death by a kobold with a single swing?
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Re: I FOUND AN 800 YEAR OLD MAN
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2006, 03:32:00 am »
Everyone's luck runs out sometime.
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Re: I FOUND AN 800 YEAR OLD MAN
« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2006, 03:44:00 am »
Are you sure he wasn't a skeleton? Or zombie.

Wait, if a kobold killed him, that doesn't sound likely.

Weird.

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Re: I FOUND AN 800 YEAR OLD MAN
« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2006, 11:58:00 am »
Yeah, I've noticed in my Legends page that there are quite a few creatures with incredibly long lifespans.
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Re: I FOUND AN 800 YEAR OLD MAN
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2006, 04:49:00 pm »
Until I get through the life cycle arc that actually does deaths and births during history, it'll be like this.  It tries to adjust the birth dates, but sometimes it doesn't seem to work, but that's all a hack anyway.  However, births and deaths will create way more than 10000 hist figs, so it'll have to cull the dead ones based on important or something, and the minor events (like death) associated to them.  It's a bit messy, so I'm not handling it for a while.
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Re: I FOUND AN 800 YEAR OLD MAN
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2006, 11:14:00 am »
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Originally posted by Mechanoid:
<STRONG>Maybe he was a wizard like Gandalf?   :D</STRONG>

It's important to understand that Gandalf was not actually human. I don't have my copy of the Simirilliririlion here with me, but I think he was a Maiar.

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Re: I FOUND AN 800 YEAR OLD MAN
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2006, 12:54:00 am »
1st : I second that I believe Gandalf was a Maia.

2nd: "Simirilliririlion"? Sweet Jebus! Did you just give up on the spelling? I can't spell it either without the book handy, but I can't even *pronounce* that!  :p

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