ANNOUNCE NEWS #1605
Date: 7/16/2010 at 22:49
From: Estarra, the Eternal
To : Everyone
Subj: Auction Extravaganza!

We've released 51 incredible auctions of unique and fascinating items
(most ideas from you!). The auctions will run for approximately one
week. See HELP AUCTION for information on bidding.

Keep in eye out this weekend, as we will be releasing a few previous
auction artifacts as normal artifacts (or dingbat items). Stay tuned!

Penned by My hand on the 16th of Shanthin, in the year 269 CE.


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Id Status Max/Min Title Winner Days Left
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1 OPEN ---/1 Gnomish Quickbelt --- 200
2 OPEN ---/1 Gnomish Quickbelt --- 200
3 OPEN ---/1 Gnomish Quickbelt --- 200
4 OPEN ---/1 Golden Planimeter --- 200
5 OPEN ---/1 Golden Planimeter --- 200
6 OPEN ---/1 Golden Planimeter --- 200
7 OPEN ---/1 Mechanical Chromapen --- 200
8 OPEN ---/1 Mechanical Chromapen --- 200
9 OPEN ---/1 Mechanical Chromapen --- 200
10 OPEN ---/1 Miniature Stable --- 200
11 OPEN ---/1 Miniature Stable --- 200
12 OPEN ---/1 Miniature Stable --- 200
13 OPEN ---/1 Temporal Freezer --- 200
14 OPEN ---/1 Temporal Freezer --- 200
15 OPEN ---/1 Temporal Freezer --- 200
16 OPEN ---/1 Smokers Pouch --- 200
17 OPEN ---/1 Smokers Pouch --- 200
18 OPEN ---/1 Smokers Pouch --- 200
19 OPEN ---/1 Cloak Of Thorns --- 200
20 OPEN ---/1 Cloak Of Thorns --- 200
21 OPEN ---/1 Cloak Of Thorns --- 200
22 OPEN ---/1 Protean Spider --- 200
23 OPEN ---/1 Protean Spider --- 200
24 OPEN ---/1 Protean Spider --- 200
25 OPEN ---/1 Silver Compass --- 200
26 OPEN ---/1 Silver Compass --- 200
27 OPEN ---/1 Silver Compass --- 200
28 OPEN ---/1 Doctoral Cord --- 200
29 OPEN ---/1 Doctoral Cord --- 200
30 OPEN ---/1 Doctoral Cord --- 200
31 OPEN ---/1 Aether Eyepatch --- 200
32 OPEN ---/1 Aether Eyepatch --- 200
33 OPEN ---/1 Aether Eyepatch --- 200
34 OPEN ---/1 Clangoru Charm --- 200
35 OPEN ---/1 Clangoru Charm --- 200
36 OPEN ---/1 Clangoru Charm --- 200
37 OPEN ---/1 Commandant's Knot --- 200
38 OPEN ---/1 Commandant's Knot --- 200
39 OPEN ---/1 Commandant's Knot --- 200
40 OPEN ---/1 Commandant's Medal --- 200
41 OPEN ---/1 Commandant's Medal --- 200
42 OPEN ---/1 Commandant's Medal --- 200
43 OPEN ---/1 Commandant's Sash --- 200
44 OPEN ---/1 Commandant's Sash --- 200
45 OPEN ---/1 Commandant's Sash --- 200
46 OPEN ---/1 Fesix Bandolier --- 200
47 OPEN ---/1 Fesix Bandolier --- 200
48 OPEN ---/1 Fesix Bandolier --- 200
49 OPEN ---/1 Endowment Of The Arts --- 200
50 OPEN ---/1 Endowment Of The Arts --- 200
51 OPEN ---/1 Endowment Of The Arts --- 200
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** Summary for Auction #1 **********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Gnomish Quickbelt
Prize:
Gnomish Quickbelt
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
This amazing diamonut allows for quickly locking and
unlocking the module to which it is attached.
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** Summary for Auction #4 **********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Golden Planimeter
Prize:
Golden Planimeter
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
The planimeter grants one the Attunement skill (same as in
the Environment skillset). If you have already have Attunement,
it allows one to attune to two environments.
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** Summary for Auction #7 **********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Mechanical Chromapen
Prize:
Mechanical Chromapen
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
This amazing and fun item allows you to use illusory script
in any environment!
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** Summary for Auction #10 *********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Miniature Stable
Prize:
Miniature Stable
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
Be the first to have your own personal stable in your
manse!
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** Summary for Auction #13 *********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Temporal Freezer
Prize:
Temporal Freezer
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
This chest will freeze up to 100 items as though they were
in a stockroom. (Note that items that decay in stockrooms will
decay in this chest.)
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** Summary for Auction #16 *********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Smokers Pouch
Prize:
Smokers Pouch
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
Once every Lusternian month, this pouch will fill up with
30 smokeable herbs!
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** Summary for Auction #19 *********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Cloak Of Thorns
Prize:
Cloak Of Thorns
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
Whoever get close enough to physically attack you, will run
into your thorns and bleed.
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** Summary for Auction #22 *********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Protean Spider
Prize:
Protean Spider
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
This amazing spider will fill a vial with random poison
once every Lustenrian month.
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** Summary for Auction #25 *********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Silver Compass
Prize:
Silver Compass
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
This magical compass will allow traveling to milestones as
though you are a bard. If you are a bard with the MajorSixth
talent, it allows for making 2 personal milestones instead of
one.
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** Summary for Auction #28 *********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Doctoral Cord
Prize:
Doctoral Cord
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
The Doctoral Cord of Universal Talents allows for free
skillflexing.
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** Summary for Auction #31 *********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Aether Eyepatch
Prize:
Aether Eyepatch
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
The Eyepatch of the Aethers is a treasured artifact fabled
amongst the gnomish privateers. It eliminates the loss of
aethercraft proficiency.
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** Summary for Auction #34 *********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Clangoru Charm
Prize:
Clangoru Charm
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
The Charm of the Clangoru decreases the effect of alcohol
upon the system.
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** Summary for Auction #37 *********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Commandant's Knot
Prize:
Commandant's Knot
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
A squad led by the one wearing the Commandant's
Shoulderknot will generate 5% extra gold when divided.
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** Summary for Auction #40 *********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Commandant's Medal
Prize:
Commandant's Medal
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
A squad led by the one wearing the Commandant's Medal will
generate extra power for their city or commune.
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** Summary for Auction #43 *********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Commandant's Sash
Prize:
Commandant's Sash
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
A squad led by the one wearing the Commandant's Sash will
generate 5% extra experience among the squad.
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** Summary for Auction #46 *********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Fesix Bandolier
Prize:
Fesix Bandolier
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
The fesix bandolier will hold up to 99 vials and allow
sipping directly from the bandolier (rather than cluttering up
your inventory).
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** Summary for Auction #49 *********************************************
Title: (Days until closing: 200)
Endowment Of The Arts
Prize:
Endowment Of The Arts
Current bid:
1 credits.
Description:
If you are lucky enough to be blessed by an Endowment of
the Arts, you will permanently have an extra tradeskill slot.
Note that once this item is used, it disappears and thus cannot
be traded in.
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Does the Silver Compass require power to travel to the Milestones?

My main question is in regards to the Aether Eyepatch... Will this, in essence, allow you to get 100% in all profs? Or will you still be limited to 200% total but won't change while wearing the eyepatch?

Commandant's Sash would be nice if you bash with a mentor (10% boost for both of you). Doctoral Cord is also spiffy.

Well, to be positive for once, I really like the group bonus stuff. That's a nice touch on things.

The milestone thing is nice, and the bandolier would be appealing to be if I didn't go well over 100 sometimes anyway, with poison vials. The freezer is neat too.

I'm concerned with the bonus trade skill, regarding the trans skill combat bonuses. We've run into problems in the past with this sort of thing, and generally, the fewer people running around with trans poisons and coal runed fullplate, the better off we probably are.

The thorn cloak thing is just one more thing for knights to deal with. Throw it on the pile! And hey, since bleeding synergizes with some archetypes- lets have cloaks that give reactive insanity, and one for time warp, too!

Inquiring minds want to know!

Don't forget burn levels and blackout!

Oh wait....

Also, one could argue the cost of learning lessons again is negligible in comparison to the pricetag on Doctoral Cord. Unless you skillflex a -lot-. We'll see how expensive it gets.

This is way too awesome.

Free skillflex, eyepatches and vial holders!

but regarding the skillflex, is this a one time use or unlimited use?

I do have a feeling that the Planimeter and Cord will sell for far more than they're worth. And extra tradeskill will be priced up there with Torus and such.

I suspect it will be more for the convenience than anything. But who knows. I mean, we can look at Viynain and see someone who probably will skillflex a lot.

There's been a lot of questions coming in regarding the thorn cloak/stable, and I don't know the answers yet, but I've e-mailed Estarra so when she gets back from the movies she can address them.

For an auction artifact, I'd assume permanent free skillflex. Otherwise it wouldn't sell for much...

The free skillflexing is a permanent artifact (so you never again would pay the lesson cost to do so (15?)).

50 lessons, I believe. So about 9 credits.

My main question is if it also cuts the delay down, or if you're still only limited to one skillflex per IC month (or whatever it is).

50 or 25 for specialisations.

That's 8.33 or 4.17 credits each time. One way of looking at it.

50, isn't it?

Also, is there a power cost on the Silver Compass?

I don't know (I want to presume not, but it's not my call).

And 50 lessons to flex? You learn something new every day.

True, these are cream of the crop artifacts anyways. Most people won't ever get to touch/afford them.

Great. I really do hope some of them become available as regular additions, though. I'm especially interested in the bandolier, cloak, and silver compass(providing it's worth it in comparison to just buying a cubix).

but is the skillflex artifact limited like once a weave or something?

If not it would be worth a hell of a lot more then the tradeskill one! (well unless you are a city/commune TM)