I was going to wait until Veldt (my manse) was farther along to ask for this, but... why wait?

Let me buy a miniature of a denizen I can put into my manse. Then let me edit its appearance and maybe one or two other characteristics. Then let me drop it in my manse and have it run around.

Any manse denizen will be a fairly low level, non-aggressive, and worth very little experience (or none, if that's programmatically possible). Also little or no essence on shrines, and have no coins, and not bear any poisons, and... well, you get the idea, nothing of value when you kill them. So no one could use this to make their manse into a private bashing grounds.

The idea is just to make them part of the scenery, a moving part. My manse shows the idea: it's a savannah, meant to be a home for great hunting cats and therefore for aslaran; and it really needs a few gazelles, maybe a zebra. I'm sure plenty of other people's manses could benefit from a housecat, demonic glowing rat-cockroaches, songbirds, amorphous globs of light, or whatever.

If we forumdwellers put our heads together we can figure out the exploits and then how to prevent them.

Sounds like a nice little money-maker for the invested parties, to me (I mean that in a good way). Go for it!

While as a manse owner I would love this... how exactly will it be different from a pet?

Because it won't follow you around, do your bidding, and mysteriously climb into the mystical space known only as your "inventory"

More importantly, it'd be cheaper.

I'm sure no one would spend 500 credits per zebra

That would just be scary

Edit: Tags are evil

Shesh, tell the general public.

I was working on this, never you mind. I think the requirement should be 18 rooms, and you get three mobiles.

The general word I've gotten so far is that They're fairly busy with other things. Wait, perhaps it will pay off. *shrug* I've burdened Them enough with this idea actually, so, I'm going to sit back until They have some free time.

Wait, Veldt?

***WARNING***OOC***WARNING***

The Veldt is the plains from Final Fantasy 6 (3) where you meet Gau. It has all the creatures you've battled so far in the game, and is useful to steal thier skills. It is a savannah-like area.

400K gold for a denizen miniature. You can IMPRINT with a look description, an IH description, a one-word identifier, a long description, and an entry and an exit message. No custom reactions, etc.

They will be loyal to the manse, not you. At your fulcrux, you can MANSE DENIZENS to see a list of the denizens you have. Denizen commands are: MANSE DENIZEN MOVE TO (moves the denizen to the specified room and makes them stand still), MANSE DENIZEN PATROL (denizen will wander around the manse, though will not open closed doors), MANSE DENIZEN DISMISS (permanently removes denizen, will refund 1/2 of its original cost).

That's what I thought as soon as I saw 'Veldt'... I'm playing FF3 now Amazing what you find in dusty storage boxes.

Though it also means 'Any of the open grazing areas of southern Africa', according to dictionary.com

400k gold? WOw.. I don't think any manse artifact should cost more than the manse itself.


Like I wouldn't pay 400k for a dog to put in my house that wouldn't even be nice enough to lick my hand.

Yes. Implement this. Please. Please.


Thanks in advance,

Hazar, the Manse Addict

Don't get your hopes up too soon. But you never know what the future may bring.

You think that's bad, I hear that on Tatooine, there's an area called "Desert". Clearly, George Lucas was inspired by the Skarch.



It's funny, at first I was going to name it Savannah, then I thought, "no, people will tell me it's an OOC reference to a tropical city in Georgia". Some days you can't win for losing.

Can't wait for someone to put "Taiga" and then get told it's either a Magic card or a Tibetan yeti thing.

(Bonus points for anyone who knows enough geography trivia to point out the self-referential irony in my last post, by the way.)

You can never win for losing. If you do, they you win,a nd are not losing. If you don't, then you lose, and there for win because you are loosing.
Paradoxial.

Veldt is just a great word. Would be a great name of the next area, assuming it had any savannah type geography. *wraps on the developers window and tags a piece of paper on the window with the word on it*

Savannah... tropical? In Georgia?

It's a city in Georgia.

I was responding to his Irony. Its also a country in the steppes of Asia.

Azerjerbian is worth more, and Armenia is cooler. Skip Georgia, the only thing it had going for it was its history (Read:Queen Tamar, and she was a psycho bitch ruler from the sources Ive read).