Auction Speculation

Antonius

The custom enter/exit messages were in the last round of auctions, still visible on AUCTIONS:

4  WON    3000000/3000 Gold: Custom enter/exit messag Fendo              0
25  WON    3500500/3500 Gold: Custom enter/exit messag Tael               0
26  WON    3500500/3500 Gold: Custom enter/exit messag Silvarien          0

I think I've seen Silvarien's, but don't remember what it is. I haven't seen the other two though.

Daslin

Silvarien has the other. I know I've got the lines somewhere. They're both neat in their own ways.

EDIT: Oh wait. there's a third. Tael got the third, never seen that one.

Iocun

Fendo, Tael, and Silvarien got one in the last auction.

EDIT: Looks like I'm late to the party.

Sidonia

Tael's is something about baleful susurrations

Eld

Baleful susurrations steal through the air as Tael enters from the south.
Indecipherable whispers rustle about Tael, fading as he departs to the up.

Silvarien arrives from the southeast, his eyes aglow with the promise of stories untold.
Swept away by ethereal visions, Silvarien leaves to the southwest.

Darkened skin drinking in the nearby light, Fendo slinks in from the southeast.

I don't seem to have Fendo's exit.

Echald

It's okay as long as it stays tasteful and reasonable, like this:

　

A choir of a thousand of glowing angels suddendly appears, chanting, "Bunkus! Nonsuch! Gibberos! Gobbledegoos!" as Bob enters from the north, his eyes aglow with an accurate representation of the universe along with a million butterflies and two ghostly ducks.

　

A thousand angels explodes into a million rainbows, the earth is torn asunders, the heavens weeps, the birds cries, a monk chokes himself to death, all the maidens of the realm swoons and the Gods assumes a fetal position as Bob leisurely walks to the west

Nellaundra

Silvarien psychically projects stories into your head, Fendo slinks/fades into the shadows, dunno what the last one is.

Tarkanian

Auction 10: A celestial quiver, providing stasis for up to 50 meteor arrows.

Were meteor arrows updated to be stored in artie quivers, or is the above a prelude of such an update?

Delphinus

Storing meteor arrows is the main draw. So, neither.

Hayte

Blujixapug said:

A golden scarab. You can use it on a player's corpse to mummify them, and then order the mummy to shamble around and your bidding.

Auction 15: A thurible of Soulbleed, allowing the reanimation of a player corpse as a minion.
Close enough

Batang

I'm going to win 15 and 12

Blujixapug

Hayte said:

Blujixapug said:

A golden scarab. You can use it on a player's corpse to mummify them, and then order the mummy to shamble around and your bidding.

Auction 15: A thurible of Soulbleed, allowing the reanimation of a player corpse as a minion.
Close enough

Neat. I await my free one as originator of the idea. Copyright and patent pending©®™.

Sidonia

Targossas-aligned (ex?) Druid walking around with undead pets.


Yeah.. no.

Shirszae

Hayte said:

Blujixapug said:

A golden scarab. You can use it on a player's corpse to mummify them, and then order the mummy to shamble around and your bidding.

Auction 15: A thurible of Soulbleed, allowing the reanimation of a player corpse as a minion.

Reminds of Aetolia, where you can raise many kind of undead from player corpses... 

Batang

Sidonia said:

Targossas-aligned (ex?) Druid walking around with undead pets.


Yeah.. no.

Wonder if the undead assumes class skills.  If I raise a knight, will he DSL?  or monk combo?  Druid maul and so on.

Batang

well I'm gonna win it

I doubt anyone is gonna pay 6k for it!

Batang

 

Sidonia said:

Targossas-aligned (ex?) Druid walking around with undead pets.


Yeah.. no.

And since you are such a smartass, maybe I'm buying it to keep it out of the wrong hands....I don't have to use it ya know.  I can always let the bloodsworn hang on to it for safekeeping

Sidonia

Disagreed because I am morally opposed to triple posts.

Sarapis

Hayte said:

Blujixapug said:

A golden scarab. You can use it on a player's corpse to mummify them, and then order the mummy to shamble around and your bidding.

Auction 15: A thurible of Soulbleed, allowing the reanimation of a player corpse as a minion.
Close enough

Yep. I've long fantasized about a whole class that reanimates dead corpses and pieces them together.....but Blujixapug's idea was a fun shortcut for the auction, if largely a cosmetic one, since the corpses aren't going to be giant combat advantages or anything.

Sarapis

Batang said:

Sidonia said:

Targossas-aligned (ex?) Druid walking around with undead pets.


Yeah.. no.

Wonder if the undead assumes class skills.  If I raise a knight, will he DSL?  or monk combo?  Druid maul and so on.

No. It's more about getting to walk around with the corpse of <whoever> following you. Don't bid on it for combat advantage.

Batang

Sarapis said:

Batang said:

Sidonia said:

Targossas-aligned (ex?) Druid walking around with undead pets.


Yeah.. no.

Wonder if the undead assumes class skills.  If I raise a knight, will he DSL?  or monk combo?  Druid maul and so on.

No. It's more about getting to walk around with the corpse of <whoever> following you. Don't bid on it for combat advantage.

@Sarapis
Bit to late to tell me not to bid on it.  Either way, I see some potentially fantastic RP avenues with this artifact.

 

However I am rather disappointed that it will do me no good combat wise.

Nim

@Sarapis: I'm too poor to bid on auctions, but I think that it'd be pretty cool flavor if the corpses could use attacks tied to their abilities when they were alive (eg. bashing attacks, maybe, drawn straight from their class flavor text), and I agree very thoroughly that the artefact ought to be a flavor-only, no-combat-advantage thing.

(please add a legit necromancer class like that I've wanted to play something like that for years )

Peak

scroll of wisdom

allows you to keep all lessons invested in a skill if you quit the class.

ex: You quit tri-trans runewarden and become a shaman. You still have runelore transcended.

It could potentially allow someone to trans all skills and just switch back and forth between classes without having to re-learn.

Sarapis

Batang said:

Sarapis said:

Batang said:

Sidonia said:

Targossas-aligned (ex?) Druid walking around with undead pets.


Yeah.. no.

Wonder if the undead assumes class skills.  If I raise a knight, will he DSL?  or monk combo?  Druid maul and so on.

No. It's more about getting to walk around with the corpse of <whoever> following you. Don't bid on it for combat advantage.

@Sarapis
Bit to late to tell me not to bid on it.  Either way, I see some potentially fantastic RP avenues with this artifact.

 

However I am rather disappointed that it will do me no good combat wise.

It'll do the winner a bit of good combat-wise, but it is really not intended to be bought for its combat value. Think of that as gravy rather than the meat.

Sarapis

Nim said:

@Sarapis: I'm too poor to bid on auctions, but I think that it'd be pretty cool flavor if the corpses could use attacks tied to their abilities when they were alive (eg. bashing attacks, maybe, drawn straight from their class flavor text), and I agree very thoroughly that the artefact ought to be a flavor-only, no-combat-advantage thing.

Yeah, that'd be cool, but keep in mind we're talking about a single artefact sold to a single person.

Iocun

Hrm, I'm wondering about the quiver... first, does "stasis" mean the meteors will decay as in a bag of stasis, or will they not decay at all? Second, does it allow you to shoot meteors without first getting them out?

Only 50 meteors seems like a rather low limit, but ah well.

I'm quite disappointed about the Fluency Necklace, to be honest. There are many language-related auctions that could have happened, and they went for one that simply bypasses the language system and feels like a waste to anyone who already invested in learning languages.

Krypton

Iocun said:

Hrm, I'm wondering about the quiver... first, does "stasis" mean the meteors will decay as in a bag of stasis, or will they not decay at all?

AUCTION INFO 10 said:

As an added bonus, they'll be held in a state of stasis, free from the ravages of time and decay.

They will not decay at all.

Iocun

Yeah, I read that. Just wanted to ask to be totally sure, since "stasis" usually just means "slower decay" in Achaea.

Arditi

Does the quiver hold regular arrows in addition to the meteors, or no?

Sylvance

@Tecton - how long does the corpse-flunky last?