ANNOUNCE NEWS #1867
Date: 10/10/2011 at 3:59
From: Estarra the Eternal
To : Everyone
Subj: New Dingbat Items Released!

Our latest and greatest dingbat artifacts have been released! Also, a
mysterious figure is rumoured to be able to be found aboard the
Starhopper! The dolls that Jeremiah have been selling are all retired
and new dolls added. As well as that, you can find the following new
dingbat artifacts:

o Heart Pendant (100 dingbats)
- Sold by Jeremiah Gryphta
- See a message when your spouse logs into the realms.

o Pathfinding Boots (300 dingbats)
- Sold by Jeremiah Gryphta
- Allows use of mystic pathways used by ecologists and hunters when worn

o Snoefaasia Skates (150 dingbats)
- Sold by Jeremiah Gryphta
- When worn, reduces the chance of slipping in icey rooms

o Wind Flute (150 dingbats)
- Sold by Jeremiah Gryphta
- Eliminates the effects of strong winds, such as lost of speech and
being blown out of trees, in a room for a period of time.
- Usable three times per game day.
- Clears wind in room for one hour.

o Watering Can (100 dingbats)
- Sold by Pinky Puddlegum
- Lets you WATER PLANTS to enhance their growth (stacks with nature
grow)

o Dowsing Rod (75 dingbats)
- Sold by Pinky Puddlegum
- ACTIVATE the dowsing rod to turn a manse room to a freshwater room.
- Can only be used once.

o Cactus Mini (75 dingbats)
- Sold by Pinky Puddlegum
- ACTIVATE the cactus to turn a manse room to a desert room.
- Can only be used once.

o Beach Ball (75 dingbats)
- Sold by Pinky Puddlegum
- ACTIVATE the beach ball to turn a manse room to a beach room.
- Can only be used once.

o Beast Toys (50 dingbats)
- Sold by Pinky Puddlegum
- POINT AT to set it to your beast.
- DROP in room with beast who will play with it.
- Different types of toys:
- Bouncy ball
- Bleached white bone
- Squeaky hamster toy

o Mechanical Spurs (200 dingbats)
- Sold by Pinky Puddlegum
- MOUNT (half balance), VAULT (no balance) halves the
time it takes to mount a beast. If you have vault, vaulting costs no
balance.
- Must be worn to be used.

o Flux Capacitor (200 dingbats)
- Sold by Professor Gargle von Fixit
- Speeds up the rate at which linking node/nexus gets you power.

o Gnomish Alarmclock (125 dingbats)
- Sold by Professor Gargle von Fixit
- Increases the rate you recover from tiredness by sleeping.

o Gnomish Telescope (100 dingbats)
- Sold by Professor Gargle von Fixit
- SQUINT that lets you see around corners.

o Gnomish Jetpack (125 dingbats)
- Sold by Professor Gargle von Fixit
- Use JETPACK to fly into the sky for 15 minutes.
- Usable once per day.

o Boomerang (75 dingbats)
- Sold by Gnafia
- THROW BOOMERANG AT . Allows you to THROW BOOMERANG to
retrieve an item from an adjacent room in non-enemy territory. Long,
long balance time

o Scythe (500 dingbats)
- Sold by Gnafia
- Allows you to BEHEAD CORPSE similar to the tracking skill.
- Need not be wielded to use.

o Zeppelin (100 dingbats)
- Sold by Gnafia
- Delivers items like pet delivery.
- Give item to zeppelin and say DELIVER TO
- Target must be in the realm for delivery to work.
- May have unforeseen side effects.

o Race Hats (50 db)
- Sold by Gnafia
- Gives the illusion of being another race when worn:
- Human (fawn)
- Dwarf (rust-orange)
- Elfen (viridian)
- Dracnari (burnt crimson)
- Faeling (silver)
- Furrikin (goldenrod)
- Krokani (navy)
- Aslaran (tangerine)
- Loboshigaru (dark brown)
- Mugwump (cerulean)
- Merian (seafoam)
- Orclach (dark grey)
- Igasho (white)
- Tae'dae (russet brown)
- Taurian (auburn)
- Trill (cream)
- Viscanti (violet)
- Lucidian (diamond-studded)
- Kephera (golden)
- Illithoid (amber)

Penned by My hand on the 22nd of Juliary, in the year 307 CE.




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o Dowsing Rod (75 dingbats)
- Sold by Pinky Puddlegum
- ACTIVATE the dowsing rod to turn a manse room to a freshwater room.
- Can only be used once.

can someone explain? freshwater how? if you put one and one underneath it, does it mean it's something of a lake?

and the skates? where are they useful?

edit: and question about the race hats. 50 db for one race, i'm guessing it's like the changeself ability in illusions. But seeing how it's 50 db for one race (out of the many), are there additional uses for the hat, as in can you do the race's emotes while wearing the hat, or speak that race's language if possible?

edit2: can the heart pendant say also when your spouse leaves the realms as well?

It just terrains the room, for aesthetic purposes. It should make it a SWIM room though.

Skates are useful if someone uses the elementalism thing to freeze the ground. Or the wand (asmodea's)

Why am I tempted to get a furrikin hat, when I have a gem and changeself? All it would do is save me having to cast changeself. And if I guildhop again, I guess.

Inception.

The hat seems really nifty - you can pretty much divorce RP and mechanical stats/balance when choosing a race now.

For example, Raeri could switch to elfen for the stats but still pretend to be a tae'dae and keep his fatbear RP.

At least one of these is heavily underpriced

EDIT for solanis: You mean I can become a kephera and wear the illusion of illithoid!? gaspeth

NO ONE WILL KNOW

They would all know when I was only taking like 8 damage a hit <.<

(EDIT: Yay 30% racial physical damage reduction. So that helps in bashing and with other monks.. because it isn't like warriors do any damage )

The hats are a great idea, and free the RP-conscious from being tied combat-wise to a race. It's great.

How do the hats work in terms of the racial emotes? Do you get access to those of your true race, your hat race, or both? Definitely getting a trill hat. *preen?*
Edit: To answer my own question, no, it does not give you access to the racial emotes of your adopted race. Could it? Pretty please?

What are the zeppelin side effects?

I'm disappointed that the pathfinding boots are there, but not a catacombs artifact. And where is that beastmaster whistle?

This. Oh god this - really considering it. Then again, I realised I'd probably feel very squishy, and mayyybe the new imbalance report would fix tae'dae...? Still. Seems like a nifty hat. (And no, totally not fat >____>)

Oh god so many of my ideas went in, all that's missing is that whistle. One day, my precious.

WooHoo! Three items made it to DB.

So, Race Hat = Stat Packs.

Also be aware that while the hat may be used to divorce RP and stats, if you plan on fighting, you'll want either a helm for warriors or a hood up on robes, so you'll have to take the hat off, ruining the illusion.

It's like the strawhat, it doesn't count as a "hat". You also can't doff it. (Meaning you can wear it over helm/hood)

Solanis:
NO ONE WILL KNOW

PSI SUB READAURA MALARIOUS
def spam
He is under a changeself illusion to appear Illithoid.Or something similar. The hat might not show up in DEF, though.

Everiine:

So, Race Hat = Stat Packs.

Statpacks don't cost Tokens of the Creator/Iron Coins to use in their respective games. :( Also, the hats probably don't give you the racial emotes (no big deal, just EMOTE them out yourself) and I would think they exclude you from the RWHO of the race you're appearing to be. EDIT: And the hat probably won't give you the racial language either, so that will give you away unless you're a bookbinder.

I think the hat would work best combined with the Marauder Mask, so combine those two and you can better disguise yourself.

Here's a list of all the new dolls, for those of you who are curious. Still 15 dingbats each.


doll88092: a plush doll of the Most Venerable Shimotabi Xiim
doll83838: a plush doll of the Diamond Generator
doll160171: a plush doll of Emperor Ladantine VII
doll238661: a plush doll of Princess Marilynth
doll240886: a plush doll of Miakoda, Maiden of the Moon
rowena243160: a plush doll of Rowena Nightshade

Rowena doll is a snarky bitch. I it.

Where to find Gnafia?