Woo Auction!

Xarian

ANNOUNCE NEWS #2088

Date: 1/20/2013 at 12:31

From: Razmael, the Synthesist

To  : Everyone

Subj: Artifact auction wares

Here's the list of items that will be sold in the artifact auction! The

items will be listed on the AUCTION WARES command soon. You can refer to

HELP AUCTIONS for information on how the auction process works.

Remember, bidding on a gold auction artifact will instantly take the

gold from your inventory. Should you get outbid, the gold will

eventually be mailed back to you. Bidding on a credit auction will not

take the credits from you, and you can bid more credits than you

actually have. Should you win the auction, you will have a week in which

to procure the credits, otherwise your character will be shrubbed until

you can pay for the artifact.

Any bids placed are final! You cannot undo a bid, and you will be held

to the sale should you win.

*NOTE* Like the last auction, artifacts obtained via auction CANNOT be

traded in, nor can they have their powers transferred to another item.

This applies to both credit-bought artifacts, and gold-bought artifacts.

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| RETURNING CREDIT AUCTION ARTIFACTS |

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A merchant's logbook

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The logbook allows you to switch between Mercantile skills once per

hour. When you use the logbook to switch your Mercantile skill, it will

remain at the same skill rank as your previous Mercantile skill, meaning

you will only ever need to invest lessons in one Mercantile skill.

A Hexagonal Lodestone

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This lodestone will attempt to automatically pick up any mobs you kill,

and the items they drop, including gold. It will also occasionally

attempt to pick up items on the ground if they can be taken.

A ring of elemental mastery

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A ring that contains all the elemental resistance enchantments upon it,

as well as the icewall, firewall and firelash enchantments. These

enchantments will never fade.

The Elindes Talisman

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This talisman has 6 petals upon it which may be plucked at any time, and

each petal, when consumed, will restore the health, mana, blood,

endurance, and willpower of the owner. If consumed by anyone else, the

petals will restore only the endurance and willpower of that person. The

petals regrow at a rate of one per month.

An Orb of Nullification

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This orb will prevent any actions against you which attempt to directly

force you to perform unintended acts.

A Bottomless Vial

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This vial may be filled with any elixir or serum, and will never run

out.

Izu-Ari's Dice

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Once per Aetolian month, the owner may roll Izu-Ari's dice and receive a

bonus of +1 to one or two of his or her stats, and/or a health or mana

bonus of 5%.

A Bangle of Returning

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The Bangle of Returning will allow you to mark a room and return to it

at will from anywhere on the same continent. The movement is not

instantaneous and is subject to recent-aggression checks that prevent it

from being used after recent combat.

Fermian's flagon

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This flagon holds an unlimited amount of alcohol, the choice of which

will be given to the owner.

A Funereal Masque

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The wearer of this masque will have their name hidden on deathsight when

they slay another.

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| NEW CREDIT AUCTION ARTIFACTS |

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A glimmering paintbrush

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Allows one to scribe a floating message in a room, which will show up in

the room's description, upon movement/ql/look. You can create up to

three of them per howling, but only one per room. The messages will

linger in the room until the howling, after which they will disappear.

You can specify a colour for the words to appear in by preceding the

message with a number corresponding to that colour as per CONFIG COLOR.

Usage: PAINT WORDS 13 Aetolia rocks

Example output:

North of Trees. (road)

It is raining heavily, pregnant drops of water pouring down onto you.

Hanging in the air are the following words, "Aetolia rocks."

You see exits leading north, southeast, south, and southwest.

An urn of lava

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Pouring this urn out will create a lava effect in the room. The urn only

contains enough lava to affect one room, but you can scoop the lava back

up with the urn to move it. Lava will dissipate and return to the urn

naturally after an hour's time.

An ironwall ring

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This ring works similar to a ring enchanted with icewall. However, the

wall of iron it creates is indestructible. The wall crumbles away after

ten minutes, and the ring can only create one wall every 30 minutes.

A climber's icepick

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Allows for the destruction of icewalls. Takes two seconds of

unmodifiable balance.

A barrel of inviolability

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Nothing more than your average barrel lacking a top and bottom, this

barrel stood for many years in Qeddwyn's workshop. During Qeddwyn's many

years of work, the barrel managed to inadvertently acquire powers of its

own, due to the long, close proximity exposure to other artifacts.

Anybody wearing the barrel will find themselves unable to be attacked

via blackwind choke, or abducted by Syssin.

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| GOLD AUCTION ARTIFACTS |

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A Juggernaut's Belt

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No ordinary belt, wearing this will increase all your stats by 1, while

also increasing your health and mana by 5%. This item is worth a

combined total of 2725 credits.

A pair of wings of the Atavians

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Takes you to the clouds, and beyond! This item is worth 2000 credits.

Winner can choose to exchange for an amulet of the underrealms instead.

A gem of adaptation

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Contains both the adaptation and polymath powers, allowing you to change

your class once an hour, and also letting you change your statpack when

you do so! Worth a combined total of 1500 credits.

A Pet Token

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This token entitles the owner to one pet, as per HELP PETS, and includes

the full package normally valued at 900 Credits.

A House Deed

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This deed entitles the owner to a house of their own in any location,

with 10 total rooms. The house may be added to as normal thereafter.

A lupine darkbow of the Hunt

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A level 3 version of the artifact bow, worth 1400 credits.

Celestine bracers of devastation

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Increases your chance of scoring critical hits upon a mob. Worth 1200

credits.

 

Penned by my hand on the 11th of Lanosian, in the year 381 MA.

Xavin

Dat logbook.

Haven

I want them all!

Eleanor

Oh man, I can't wait for Daskalos to get the paintbrush! Won't that be just the best thing in the universe?

Daskalos

<.< ITS GOING TO BE FUN 

Haydyn

With one of the old auctions that had a House Deed, didn't they allow for the 10 rooms to be added on to an already existing house? Just curious.

Lin

I think if you already had a place, you got 5 new rooms instead. Don't quote me on that.

Razmael

The ten rooms can be added onto an existing house, yes.

Calipso

Orb of nullification OP.
)


Looks like great items though

Kiyotan

Who got what?

Daskalos

Dice and Barrel.

Daskalos

I was bidding on Logbook and Urn, too, but when Dice shot up I had to consolidate.

Xavin

I got the lodestone but it doesn't seem to be functioning quite yet

Haydyn

Daskalos said:

Dice and Barrel.

Will you be flaunting that barrel like so: 

Because that's what popped in my head when I first read what all was up for the auction. And I've been saving it this whole time.

EDIT: I just saw the picture you sent to Raz on Q&MQ. -_-

Daskalos

Thank god for hide_artifacts.

Kiyotan

61705   An ironwall ring                        Being held by Kiyotan

182615  A ring of Elemental Mastery             Being held by Kiyotan

187575  A Bangle of Returning                   Being held by Kiyotan

186432  A bottomless vial                       Being held by Kiyotan

Haven

I hope you're poor now! >:[

Haern

Daskalos said:

Thank god for hide_artifacts.

Thank god for exceptions. Wear it in pride!

Belakai

The barrel was my idea *teehee* - and I was imagining Haydyn's picture exactly!  I'm sure you can pull off the look, Daskalos!

Kiyotan

Haven said:

I hope you're poor now! >:[

If wishes were fishes

Xavin

I suspect he's at a point where he pretty much has everything he wants, so any accumulated credits just sit there.

Daskalos

^^ I know that feeling.

Kiyotan

P much.

Erzsebet

I ended up with the Flagon. Shiny shiny. Now I just need to decide what I want in it.

Illikaal

Daskalos said:

^^ I know that feeling.

Thirded. Except I'm not sitting on any more than 52 credits ;_;