Unknown2006-10-26 17:43:23
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ANNOUNCE NEWS #666
Date: 10/26/2006 at 17:27
From: Estarra, the Eternal
To : Everyone
Subj: New Artifact for Sale
We've put pyramid puzzles for sale!
Paradox Puzzle: 500 credits
- Use the PYRAMID command to operate.
- Can be set to memorize up to 4 locations.
- Allows operator to teleport to these 4 locations.
- Locations unset every Lusternian month.
Penned by My hand on the 20th of Avechary, in the year 160 CE.
PS: To anyone who buys one, I'd love to know how the 'teleport' works (ie like teleport nexus or instant) and if you can have locations on any plane and reach them from any plane.
Soll2006-10-26 17:46:09
I believe it's any Plane, but you can't teleport across them.
Nementh2006-10-26 17:49:17
Estarra and Pyramids... I am suddenly very very very afraid...
Sylphas2006-10-26 17:59:08
So I'm paying 500 credits for a flashy pack of Hermit cards?
For 800, I can have 11 locations I can get to instantly that I don't have to get to first. The only benefit these puzzles have over a Prism is that they can reach Cosmic and Astral and some other harder to reach places, but only if you run there first.
If the teleport isn't instant, I wouldn't pay more than 100 cr for it. I mean, MajorSixth is a novice skill, and goes to more locations. You can't pick them, but you also don't have to go there first.
What exactly is the point of this?
For 800, I can have 11 locations I can get to instantly that I don't have to get to first. The only benefit these puzzles have over a Prism is that they can reach Cosmic and Astral and some other harder to reach places, but only if you run there first.
If the teleport isn't instant, I wouldn't pay more than 100 cr for it. I mean, MajorSixth is a novice skill, and goes to more locations. You can't pick them, but you also don't have to go there first.
What exactly is the point of this?
Diamondais2006-10-26 18:00:53
Why not ask Harpuia all of this?
Sylphas2006-10-26 18:05:14
I came off bitchy, I'm sorry. I think they're cool, just hideously overpriced unless I'm missing something important.
Daganev2006-10-26 18:10:31
keepin' it rare, keepin it Rare!
:headbang:
I also imagine, it was hard to code.
:headbang:
I also imagine, it was hard to code.
Noola2006-10-26 18:14:33
666th announce huh?
I bet if you use Pyramid Puzzles too often, then Kethruru pops out! Pyramid Puzzles = THE BEAST!
I bet if you use Pyramid Puzzles too often, then Kethruru pops out! Pyramid Puzzles = THE BEAST!
Shorlen2006-10-26 18:15:29
It isn't even close to being worth the cost, but it's an interesting artifact. I'd pay MAYBE 50cr, or 100cr for it. Here are some details:
- You can only memorize four locations a month.
- On the 1st of every month, the puzzle resets, and you have to memorize locations again.
- Teleporting to a memorized location is about as fast as teleport nexus, or so it seemed when I used it.
- Acting in any way canceled it, just like a teleport.
- There is no way to unmemorize a location until the 1st of the next month.
- It teleports you same plane only.
- It is stopped by monoliths.
- You can only memorize four locations a month.
- On the 1st of every month, the puzzle resets, and you have to memorize locations again.
- Teleporting to a memorized location is about as fast as teleport nexus, or so it seemed when I used it.
- Acting in any way canceled it, just like a teleport.
- There is no way to unmemorize a location until the 1st of the next month.
- It teleports you same plane only.
- It is stopped by monoliths.
Kaervas2006-10-26 18:18:13
#2442 Estarra: 10/26 17:42 "It is not instant but more like teleport (though shorter)"
Daganev2006-10-26 18:18:45
QUOTE(Shorlen @ Oct 26 2006, 11:15 AM) 346958
It isn't even close to being worth the cost, but it's an interesting artifact. I'd pay MAYBE 50cr, or 100cr for it. Here are some details:
- You can only memorize four locations a month.
- On the 1st of every month, the puzzle resets, and you have to memorize locations again.
- Teleporting to a memorized location is about as fast as teleport nexus, or so it seemed when I used it.
- Acting in any way canceled it, just like a teleport.
- There is no way to unmemorize a location until the 1st of the next month.
- It teleports you same plane only.
- It is stopped by monoliths.
Does it work across astral spheres? If so , thats something I always wnated to have, so I didn't get locked out of going back home.
Shorlen2006-10-26 18:23:28
QUOTE(daganev @ Oct 26 2006, 02:18 PM) 346964
Does it work across astral spheres? If so , thats something I always wnated to have, so I didn't get locked out of going back home.
Of course, but so do spores. Why not have a wiccan make you a circle? It has more uses and is instant.
Laysus2006-10-26 18:27:57
I personally don't see that as being worth it.
Sylphas2006-10-26 18:35:02
So you get 4 hermit cards. You can use them around people, but it's 15 seconds slower to balance that out?
I'd pay 50cr, and love it. 500cr is just ludicrous.
I'd pay 50cr, and love it. 500cr is just ludicrous.
Felandi2006-10-26 19:10:28
It is an evil plot to make us waste expensive credits, obviously.
Daganev2006-10-26 19:33:53
QUOTE(Shorlen @ Oct 26 2006, 11:23 AM) 346967
Of course, but so do spores. Why not have a wiccan make you a circle? It has more uses and is instant.
because relying on other people sucks
Unknown2006-10-26 19:35:51
QUOTE(shadow @ Oct 26 2006, 01:43 PM) 346939
PS: To anyone who buys one, I'd love to know how the 'teleport' works (ie like teleport nexus or instant) and if you can have locations on any plane and reach them from any plane.
It's the equivilant of having 4 hermits that you get to reset every month if you wish to.
Ildaudid2006-10-26 19:40:04
It is so not worth that price... 50-150 max. They should sell things like that invisibilty shroud, that there is worth using. or fairy wings... They would at least be worth 300-400cr probably still not worth 500cr.
I'm sorry but unless you are some type of artifact collector and loaded so you can blow money on not so useful artifacts I wouldn't add it to my list for that price....
And I was hoping to get one of those to bebop back and forth between skarch desert, earth and nil... so I could actually make snake traps... since the time a snake stays in your net and the amount of snakes you can keep in the net are so insanely low... it would have helped there.. may as well get a cubix or a prism and get there instantly now....
I'm sorry but unless you are some type of artifact collector and loaded so you can blow money on not so useful artifacts I wouldn't add it to my list for that price....
And I was hoping to get one of those to bebop back and forth between skarch desert, earth and nil... so I could actually make snake traps... since the time a snake stays in your net and the amount of snakes you can keep in the net are so insanely low... it would have helped there.. may as well get a cubix or a prism and get there instantly now....
Daganev2006-10-26 19:40:21
If you wish to, or if you are forced to?
Unknown2006-10-26 19:44:12
QUOTE(Shorlen @ Oct 26 2006, 02:15 PM) 346958
- Teleporting to a memorized location is about as fast as teleport nexus, or so it seemed when I used it.
QUOTE(Kaervas @ Oct 26 2006, 02:18 PM) 346963
#2442 Estarra: 10/26 17:42 "It is not instant but more like teleport (though shorter)"
I think it's a great way to hop into places that are hard to get into, or that you're just to lazy to get back to.
I don't know what majorsixth does, so I couldn't comment on that.
QUOTE(Sylphas @ Oct 26 2006, 02:35 PM) 346971
So you get 4 hermit cards. You can use them around people, but it's 15 seconds slower to balance that out?