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If it doesn't fit anywhere else, it belongs here. Also, come here if you just need to get hammered.
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A bailey is an enclosed courtyard overlooked by the motte and typically surrounded by a wooden fence called a palisade. It was usually used as a living area by servants of the castle's lord. Also located inside the bailey would be a blacksmith, a miller, and most of the craftsmen typically required during the medieval period. A castle could have more than one bailey, sometimes an inner and an outer, such as at Warkworth Castle, where expansion of the castle led to enclosure of a new bailey with a wall. Alternatively, the multiple baileys could flank the motte, such as at Windsor Castle. The bailey was often directly connected to the ditch surrounding the motte. The bailey was often enclosed inside another wooden palisade and surrounding ditch to add an extra layer of protection. It was connected to the motte by a timber drawbridge, which could be separated from the bailey as a last defence mechanism. There was in many cases another drawbridge at the entrance into the bailey that could similarly be raised for protection. The bailey would typically contain a hall, stables for the horses and cattle, a chapel, and huts for the nobleman's people. There were often shops inside the bailey for local merchants.
Motte and bailey castles later evolved into Norman castles (also called the keep castle) that evolved later into even better Concentric castles.
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minmay wrote:I actually complained about this before. Just wanted to hear other peoples' experiences with baileys.
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mageykun wrote:I ran into bailey_polearm_5 today, the one that's basically 3 large rooms with hordes of orcs behind each door. Normally, when I've seen this bailey, I've been forced to retreat: mele characters can't hack that many orcs- especially with reaching, and mages don't have anywhere near enough juice to clear it yet, nor is there a safe place to heal.
Today though, I had a brand new randart penetrating crossbow from Trog, a pile of bolts, and a brother in arms to keep the orcs busy while I machine gunned them down.
Overall, I like the baileys. They're fair- you can tell right off the bat if they're too tough, and give you a chance to retreat. Sewers though, you can get halfway in before running into a frog or jelly you're too weak to kill, and too far from the exit to escape.
Worst thing I've had happen in a bailey: drank the eight plus stat potions, and then had the next potion turn out to cure mutation. Now I wait until I've test ID-ed the other potions before downing the all the boosters.
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mageykun wrote:I ran into bailey_polearm_5 today, the one that's basically 3 large rooms with hordes of orcs behind each door. Normally, when I've seen this bailey, I've been forced to retreat: mele characters can't hack that many orcs- especially with reaching, and mages don't have anywhere near enough juice to clear it yet, nor is there a safe place to heal.
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galehar wrote:I've always wondered... How do you find out the names of vaults and portal vaults in a normal game?
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szanth wrote:I actually try to just identify each type of potion as I find the scrolls for it. Seems to work out okay; sometimes you have to go for a while without wearing an amulet to make sure you aren't wearing Inaccuracy, but aside from that it does pretty well.
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Jenx wrote:Ran into one with a moat and got turned into a porcupine from all the damn crossboworcs stationed around the place. (and of course i couldn't just go in and take them out, since the water where they were was deep). It was a good character too.
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Jenx wrote:Ran into one with a moat and got turned into a porcupine from all the damn crossboworcs stationed around the place. (and of course i couldn't just go in and take them out, since the water where they were was deep). It was a good character too.
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asdu wrote:Oh, and speaking of portals and loot therein: I just got into a wizlab (from Vaults:2) with a bunch of golems.
One of them was a freaking electric golem
I had no rElec but with a ton of luck I survived by the skin of my teeth.
The loot? ScrollsThe best were 2 enchant weapon III
Basically all I got out of it was the XP from the electric golem and a big scare.
Worst. Portal. Ever. (no offense to whoever made it, but considering it's basically a suicide mission unless you happen to have rElec, its loot could use a little more bling)
danr wrote:Thanks.
Still wondering what the word means, so checking Wikipedia:
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey:
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