1. Betrayal in Antara.
2. Betrayal at Krondor.
3. Aran, the main hero, saves William, the second character, from some beast (Wikipedia states it is a griffin, but I somehow recall it being a harpy. Strange) with an uncontrolled magical attack.

I hope this one is not very obscure.

Quite simple:
1. How is this cutie called?
2. How does it defend itself?
3. What game is it from?

Well, I didn't play Ultima much too, to be honest. Only VIII and IX some years back and VII on Exult a half a year back or so.

Now give me some time to find a suitable question and picture.

Autobot. Because even without watching the series/movie, I know it entitles me to say "Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost!" and "Autobots, transform!".

Still struggling to get my card, playing/testing TR for the time being. There seems to be a small RP community building up, so I may bring some more guests... not that I've had much luck with that before.

For one, an award for cleaning the whole screen once. It can be made harder by requiring a minumum of n colors in play prior to the cleaning.
Another, similar one: cleaning the screen completely after it was almost filled (Up to 90%?).
Or an award for removing several sets of blocks with only a minimal delay. No more than 200 millisecs between two sets.

Off to test the new version.

Added: the blur and particles are pretty nice, if somewhat extreme. One minor thing: sometimes new blocks fall down onto blocks of the same color and remove them. It's not exactly a bad thing, but it certainly can thwart long combo setups. And it looks weird if it happens with starting blocks.

What about a puzzle mode, where you have a set "map" and have to arrange the blocks so that they all are removed? Or all of a certain colour are removed. Or some special blocks (Like "penalty" blocks I mentioned in an earlier post). Or something else like that. From your earlier description, mission mode's different.

No, it was called a piping maintenance tool or something like that. But it was a huge wrench essentially.

No, more like two separate playfields. When a player removes some blocks from his field, some "penalty" blocks fall to his enemy's field. If he makes a successful chain, even more blocks drop. "Penalty" blocks can only be removed when a normal block is removed next to them or after they stay for over 5 seconds.
Something like that's more or less standard practice with such games. Gotta get original now, it's pretty used.

For one playing field, I imagine something like this. There are blocks assigned to each of the players. The point is to remove your opponent's blocks by removing normal blocks next to them, while keeping yours safe. Freedom must be somehow limited here, for example with a turn-based mode or only being able to move blocks adjacent to your ones, or a recharging energy bar (You can only make so much moves until you have to wait and recharge). In any case, you can't move opponent's blocks.

Now that I think of it, there it actually a lot of possibilities. I'm somewhat sure many of them aren't playable or fun, but still worth a try.

How about difficulty tied to the number of blocks removed? That way chains are definitely the better way to keep the game going longer.

>>Picture the sort of Pilot who would stay constantly hooked into the Pod and never emerge. Said Pilot feels more like a ship than a human being, interacts purely over the comms channels, and treats the crew as a disposable part of the ship's infrastructure, only existing to them as a disembodied voice giving orders.
In short, Va'ra.