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Re: List Typo · on 10/2/2007 2:02:10 PM

>3x ground arctic moss from arctic moses
>Should be mosses I think...

~Miss Missoni

Lo! Arctic Moses did come down from the Top Of The World bearing two stone tablets.

Upon one were inscribed five alchemic recipes with which to use to better one's self, will, and character.

Upon the second were inscribed five imperatives dictating the true and proper practice of worshi- alchemy!

Thou shalt not make wrongful use out of the name of Alchemy!
Thou shalt not murder for alchemic recipes!
Thou shalt not steal alchemic recipes!
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's recipes!
Thou shalt not bear false witness to the existence of alchemical recipes!

~Eugenides, The Legend

Re: About ticketed events... · on 10/4/2007 5:03:50 PM

I didn't mean to get back into this argument. But unless there's a limit on multi-ticket purchases, I'd prefer to see unlimited events. I want every player to participate that wishes to.

~Becca

Re: About ticketed events... · on 10/4/2007 7:19:40 PM

lets save everyone some time

person 1: it's not fair, 1 player takes up all the services!

person 2: but they paid more for it

person 3: but it's still bad for the game, as it hurts many other players

person 4: but you can't do anything about it

person 1: yes you can

person 4: nuh uh

emeradan: can we keep the discussion civil

xanus: (post removed)

Moving on.

--Xanus, tadaaaaa

Re: About ticketed events... · on 10/5/2007 4:56:55 PM

>Moving on.

>--Xanus, tadaaaaa

LOL Could you please summarize all topics? I think the patterns are similar.

Collette

Re: Climb/Swim · on 10/12/2007 9:26:09 AM

In fact, .5x isn't even enough for RR.

It takes 15 ranks to climb the path up to hisskra.

Hisskra are what, 27, 28?

Usually by the time I can climb up there, I don't care to.

I, the player, am TERRIFIED of eagles, griffins, and anything else that can pick me up, so I try to avoid them. And roa'ters. They terrify me so much that none of my girls can hunt them. Alisaire also terrifies me in such a way that I could never even stay in the same room she was in. But she's off-topic, I've never had to climb Alisaire.

~Becca

Re: Climb/Swim · on 10/12/2007 10:15:02 AM

>>Alisaire also terrifies me in such a way that I could never even stay in the same room she was in. But she's off-topic, I've never had to climb Alisaire.

I wonder if Alisaire would care to share how many ranks it would take. I think I would find that thread decidedly more interesting.

I'm really just shocked no one responded to that line. Hello.

~ Bill, Coyote
Editing out a bunch more questionable comments.

Re: Climb/Swim · on 10/12/2007 1:30:32 PM

I think you'd need to be a pretty good climber to climb Alisaire, seeing as she probably wouldn't want you to to do so.

-Andy, Divid's

Re: Alchemists Guide for Dummies? · on 10/13/2007 3:28:43 PM

So how're those sweeping reps coming Rheis :) hehe, is The Witch too high to push a broom around?

BRANDTS

Re: Alchemists Guide for Dummies? · on 10/13/2007 4:53:59 PM

She does not sweep.

If someone sees her doing something that looks like sweeping, they are mistaken and will die.

End of post. ;)

RheisIa's Witch

Re: Alchemists Guide for Dummies? · on 10/13/2007 4:56:21 PM

So, what you're saying is that for maximum profit, I need to magically capture and render a recording of her sweeping the guild and sell the resulting "motion picture"?

I see, I see...hmm....

-- Naos

Re: Alchemists Guide for Dummies? · on 10/13/2007 7:16:01 PM

>tap orb

You tap a dark shifting orb that is in your hand.

>peer shifting orb

looking closely into the orb you see a shifting image of the witch Rheisia sweeping a pile of dust into her pan.

That'll be this years hot seller at EG.

BRANDTS

Re: Which GM is taking on the home coding project again? · on 10/20/2007 1:20:49 PM

>>>I'm hoping for a significantly shorter development period for this project.

~Naos

Naos, if you're considering just copying and pasting Alchemy code for the home update then let me just say that I don't want to spend time each day sweeping the dust from my home's floor or cleaning my many crucibles. So help me if your home update makes me distill my own water!

Bacl

Monk Folder - spell ideas A Few Ideas · on 9/6/2007 5:18:16 AM

Feign Death - If the monk is stunned or otherwise immobilized in combat, she may slow her respiration and heartbeat to perfectly feign death, such that her enemies immediately cease all attempts to attack the monk, perhaps wandering off or picking a new target. In addition, any bleeding, poison, or disease effects the monk may have been suffering from will cease for the duration of the feigned death. Note, the monk is completely unable to take any action while in this state. She may, however, end the effect at will.

More to come.

~ Heathyr

Re: A Few Ideas · on 9/6/2007 6:20:22 PM

Feign Death ..... - Heathyr

Interesting idea, but the first thing that popped into my head were those critters that mutilate your body when dead.

Big ugly orc swings at your head
You are stunned

>Feign Death
You slump to the floor pretending to be dead

A big ugly orc lets out a victory roar.

You think to your self, "Great i fooled the stupid orc...hey wait why is he walking over to me...."

A big ugly orc places one foot on your chest and grasps your head by either ear and pulls.

You think to yourself, "Crap."

It appears you have died my friend....

STORMTOV

Re: Enhanced Nodes and Experience Absorption Changes · on 11/30/2007 12:02:09 PM

>>>Are people actually COMPLAINING about getting more exp?

I've seen people complain that the game is all in text.

People will complain about anything.

I'm sure someone has already hit reply to my post and is currently writting an angry complaint about how they feel it is unfair for me to say people complain about everything.

Then they'll close by saying they pay good money for this game...

Bacl

Re: Enhanced Nodes and Experience Absorption Changes · on 11/30/2007 12:32:16 PM

>I've seen people complain that the game is all in text.

Is that fair of you to disparage another's valid complaint? It makes me sooooo angry when people flippantly disregard well-reasoned commentary simply because they have never encountered the same problem. We all come to the table with different perceptions and viewpoints. Does that make mine any less valid? I suffer from clincally diagnosed logophobia. This affliction has subjected me to feelings of low self-esteem, shame and pain throughout my life. Part of the process of treatment involves being repeatedly exposed to the root of the fear (i.e. text). As such, Gemstone has been therapeutic, but to this day, I still experience bouts of shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea, and overall feelings of dread (especially when in the presence of halfling/gnome-speak or when dealing with NPC merchants, particularly those using morphing lists). To belittle my condition is just cruel. I have just as much right to enjoy this game as any other player. If asking for the text to be replaced with Battlezone-era vector graphics, pineapple power-ups and live-video feed of french mimes enacting the horrible evisceration death of a kobold is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

I pay good money for this game.

~Jay

Invar · on 1/5/2008 2:27:01 PM

It's a real metal. I thought it was funny seeing it at work when I was analyzing pricing.

- Ramladu

Re: Invar · on 1/5/2008 3:35:50 PM

Once I overheard someone complaining that their invar kept deforming (in some weird contraption in the lab) and I made a comment that they needed to get better dwarves.

They didn't get it :(

REAUX

Elanthia does not need fashion police, it needs a friggin S.W.A.T. team.

~ Drunken Durfin

STORMTOV

Re: Natures resistance · on 11/25/2008 11:59:40 AM 4539

Sorry for the surge of posts but i thought this was funny(yay typos!)

>630 my leat Voodoo '630 my leat' to 'PREPARE 630', 'CAST AT my leat'.

You make a simple motion, quietly invoking the Animal Companion spell...
Your spell is ready.

> You gesture at a sorcerer crested elven leathers.
Somehow you realize a companion would never fit inside that.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

DURFIN

Re: Manual or Handbook · on 11/20/2008 3:59:21 PM 629

>But regardless, do rest assured, there's no super trove of GM maps being denied usage to the public! We do have a book concerning the secrets of life, but you have to go to HQ in St. Louis and challenge a hamster to combat to gain access to it. ~ GM Scribes

I have this awesome mental picture of you with your feet up on the desk, flippin through a binder of laminated maps while you typed that response like some government official submitting a press release about Roswell.

As for the hamster, what is the catch?

Will someone please save these posts so that when I am on trial in St. Louis for "incidents related to said individual running through Simutronic's offices demanding that he be allowed to smite a small domesticated rodent" so that I can get a lesser sentence?

~ Drunken Durfin

GS4-SCRIBES

Re: Manual or Handbook · on 11/20/2008 4:04:50 PM 631

You got me. Each GM is actually issued one of those giant LCDs you saw on election night, where we can zoom in and out by using our fingers. It's pretty nifty, but sucks when you're eating cheetos.

GM Scribes

GS4-ITZEL

Re: Manual or Handbook · on 11/20/2008 4:07:51 PM 632

It's pretty nifty, but sucks when you're eating cheetos.

Um, Scribes, did you not get the memo? We have a new Policy in place to address the Cheetos problem. It involves making a Host stand very, very still with their fingers splayed, while we move their arms around with our dirty orange fingers.

The hamster suggested it.

Itzel

MOONGIRL

Re: For the next event... · on 11/10/2008 11:58:35 PM 3379

>Very interesting, so it isn't the Artisan Faire of the past, but something different? You have my curiosity peeked!

- Velvette

It's the Partisan Faire, where you get to take sides!

Clothing vs. Weapons

GO!

(MG)

DURFIN

GS Math and the Devil · on 11/16/2008 11:07:33 AM 4154

You swing a perfect mithril mattock at a triton radical!
AS: +666 vs DS: +423 with AvD: +41 + d100 roll: +1 = +285
... and hit for 123 points of damage!
Brain driven into neck by mammoth downswing!

Apparently the Number of the Beast AS kills on a roll of 1.

~ Drunken Durfin

GARFIELD123

Re: Huh? · on 11/3/2008 3:43:47 PM 332

I had a little empath that got held hostage in the cul-de-sac by a rogue travel guide at one point. Evidently he had some mood swing problems, it went something like:

A travel guide snorts at a Wehnimer's runner.

> A travel guide smiles at a Wehnimer's runner.

> A travel guide squints at a Wehnimer's runner.

> A travel guide smiles at a Wehnimer's runner.

> A travel guide scowls at a Wehnimer's runner.

> A travel guide smiles at a Wehnimer's runner.

FOXPHIRE

Re: Huh? · on 11/4/2008 2:40:26 AM 333

shhhhh, they were haveing a whispered conversation.

FOXPHIRE

Re: New Clothing System · on 11/4/2008 2:37:22 AM 1505

>He is wearing a silvery ora target shield slung over his shoulder, a large sack, a gold ring, a rune-etched ruby bracelet, some silvery silk stockings, a wispy cobalt chiffon skirt with a soft cream underskirt, a delicate imflass barrette, a pewter grey sharkskin bodice with a plunging basque waist, a crystal amulet, a bristly boarhide pack and some light fur-edged leathers.

the boar hide pack makes that outfit

PEA Re: What's Useful? · on 10/27/2008 3:16:51 PM 2000

Pristine nymph hairs? What about regular ones? Are there regular ones? I haven't hunted sea nymphs since '97 when my level 3 cleric thought they were the best thing ever because he found 11,000 raw coin in a sea nymph box once.

Guess they're seeing a resurgence in popularity. I like imagining the billions of little alts running back and forth on that tiny coast cliff path like ants, with the horrible spawn rate, getting in fights over chases and inevitably bringing in their pure "Big Brothers" to beat each other up over a disputed pristine hair drop.

Tell me its all in my head!

-Tibby, with his mortal fear of coastal cliffs

PEA

Re: What's Useful? · on 10/27/2008 4:21:07 PM 2002

>So, it is not in your head. - Yon Witch

Well don't be surprised then if you see a "Dibby" running around out there in the next few months :(

-Tibby, with his single, basic subscription account, and an even more "basic" bank account

WOOTENR

The hazards of ingredient hunting · on 11/1/2008 5:03:32 AM 7959

You're hunting fire guardians for essence of fire, and bring your pet cat.

You open the boxes as you go and throw them in the lava

You do this until 6am and mistake your cat for your coffer..

You toss the charcoal cat into the lava. It makes a loud hissing sound and almost immediately disappears.

Wiz

SILVERPHOENIX21

Re: Resurrecting Creatures · on 9/17/2008 9:13:50 AM 8023

Okay...that seems weird. Are critters considered to be grouped if they won't attack each other? Or is there something more to it?

~ Lumi

PEA

Re: Resurrecting Creatures · on 10/28/2008 10:45:05 AM 8024

No Lumi, you can tell they're grouped when one of them gently takes hold of the other's hand, or if one gets mad because the other leaves while its still in RT.

-Tibby, critter behavioral expert

ISMANO

Dispel flares · on 11/2/2008 12:56:57 AM 16388

Belnia swings a closed fist at you!
AS: +83 vs DS: -64 with AvD: -5 + d100 roll: +65 = +207
... and hits for 3 points of damage!
Thumped your chest.
** Your vultite breastplate glows brightly for a moment, consuming the magical energies around both you and Belnia! **
Belnia becomes solid again.
The elemental aura around
Belnia wavers.
Spell Mantle of Faith (1601) ended. [-10DS, -10STD]
The dully illuminated mantle protecting you begins to falter, then completely fades away.
The elemental aura around you wavers.

Is this working as intended?

If so, can someone smarter than I (other than Eugenides) come up with a good reason to wear this out hunting?

-farmer

FRANKJ8

Re: Dispel flares · on 11/2/2008 1:22:51 AM 16391

>If so, can someone smarter than I (other than Eugenides) come up with a good reason to wear this out hunting?

1.If you are of the opinion that wearing spells is for pansies and therefore don't wear benificial spells.

2.You have more mana then you know what to do with on a hunt and figure forced recasting of protections in the middle of a hunt sounds like a solution.

3.You think spell stripping areas are so fun you wanted to carry your own personal one with you no matter where you go.

4.You're a physical semi or a square that relies on skills for DS rather then spells and are hunting pure based creatures.

5.You are a Zelian.

6.There are no good reasons; you should pay me to take it off your hands.

TURKEYBONE

Re: ShadowDeath & Digging · on 10/18/2008 12:05:17 AM 15332

Can someone explain this whole digging game to me?

ARIADANZ

Re: ShadowDeath & Digging · on 10/18/2008 12:09:40 AM 15333

Its the equivilent in Elanthia to crack cocaine.

You try it once, you think no big deal. Next thing you know its 3am and you have to get up for work at 5am. You haven't showered in 3 days, you smell of stale take-out food and you've got coffee stains (or red bull) all over your clothes. You find that you've drained all your bank accounts and sold everything you own for a fraction of its value. You may have even sold children or spouses, or yourself, or threatened people for money or perhaps (gasp) stolen from friends and family.

But all that disappears when you scrounge up enough money for "just one more shovel" and then suddenly, in that moment before you dig the shovel into the dirt the world is perfect, there's endless hope - this time, everything will be wonderful. You will experience perfect bliss and know all, everyone around you is a loser who doesn't understand like you do. Your shovel will then break and you'll be left with cold dirt in your hands and nothing else.

You will repeat the process.

SHADOWTHEFT

Re: Ebon Gate -- Who is excited?!?! · on 10/10/2008 2:07:57 AM 14996

>Also curious on the metallic gowns since that seems to be the only actual new thing in the mix?

Metallic gowns are new'ish. They're like Nalea gowns, only, they aren't. They're metallic gowns, with so many OMG gown actions that you'll say, "OMG! There's so many gown actions!"

~Eugenides, The Legend

ROBERTSM8

New Recipe (as far as I can tell) · on 10/2/2008 2:48:01 PM 1946

Rank 44 in Trinkets:

Holy Water

LRENZO2

Re: New Recipe (as far as I can tell) · on 10/2/2008 3:32:44 PM 1950

Can I throw it on cloaked demons and yell "the power of (insert deity) compels you"??

NAFTOLIZ
Reallia

Slab generator · on 10/4/2008 6:28:14 PM 14871

Can someone explain how this thing works? How much does it cost per pop, what are the chances on the different slabs, how often can one use it, etc.?

EULER

Re: Slab generator · on 10/4/2008 7:03:48 PM 14872

IIRC you buy a lump of ore for 10k. You put in a smelter of some sort. your slab comes out a few moments later. You sweat while it happens - hoping for glovern. You get iron instead. You throw the iron in the barrel. Then drop another 10k for another lump of ore. You repeat this process until you are out of silver or the gate ends. You spend the next 51 weeks hating Varluv.

GS4-VARULV

Re: Slab generator · on 10/5/2008 7:42:54 AM 14880

> yeah, now that you mention it...17k sounds about right. But I got the important aspects correct. The end result is a deep and lasting hatred for Varluv

Aww, this warms my cold, dead heart. Out of love for you all, the prices are up to 25k this year. But there's eahnor in there.

I'm just sayin'.

~Varulv