Announce post #3155: January 2021

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1/1/2021 at 0:04
Tiur, the Gnosis
Everyone
January 2021

It's January, my favorite month, so my favorite promo!

Normal giftbags come 1 for every 25 credits purchased during the month of January.
There will also be a giftbag in the Milestone wares. (As always, if you can't see it or it shows as bought, give me day or two to fix)

The first 100 credits comes with an extra giftbag for every 10 credits! That means buying 100 credits gets you 14 giftbags straight off the bat!


Minipets are mixed rereleases... for now.

And the monochrome giftbag persists! You may trade 5 giftbags in with EXCHANGE to get a monochrome giftbag. This bag is like the normal one... except that, when opened, everyone in the room with you opens one too! So, make sure you're in the room with more than 5 people and it's instantly awesome.

We'll also be adding a new item, the Ilmenite Puzzlebox. This little thing is going to help us balance things towards the middle, without damaging the value of loot boxes! Hurray for more fairness!

Ilmenite Puzzle Box
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SOLVE <box> FOR <credits|ironcoins|lessons|random>
When solved, you may choose to have it become 10 credits, 5 ironcoins, 75 lessons, or a random prize.
The random prize is one of the other prizes, +20%, or -20%. So it will be either 8/10/12 credits, 4/5/6 IC, or 60/75/90 lessons.
Puzzleboxes are able to be given away, sold in shops, and do not decay.

GIFTBAG EXCHANGE <color>
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Each color has a theme you might be able to guess. Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Orange, Violet, and Gold. Nearly everything in each colored giftbag drops from the normal giftbag, but at a lower rate (because there's more to choose from!)

NOTE: Gold is special, and requires 5 unopened giftbags to make 1.
NOTE: Monochrome is special, and required 5 unopened giftbags to make 1.

Normal Giftbag
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A variety of artifacts ranging in value from 50 to 500
Gold
Relics - sharkteeth, dissonance, cattongue, flair_clumsy
Minipets - All pets in other bags except shadow
Sapience Talisman pieces
Always an iron coin or org buff
Vox - Enveloping
NEW ITEM - Ilmenite Puzzlebox

Monochrome Giftbag
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Just like normal, PLUS
Minipet - a bright-eyed sylskin (plant)
Minipet - a shadowbound butterfly (shadow)


Red Giftbag
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All minipet rolls result in - a snow petrel(avian)
Mint chocolate exchanged for white
Enemy_Expand, Ally_Expand, Hunters_Boon Level 2, Darkness
Compendium pages exchanged for warpaint
Vox - amplifying

Blue Giftbag
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All minipet rolls result in - a snowy, big-eared rabbit (mammal)
All the chocolates are mint!
Hunting Boon tokens
More Compendium Pages
More Style Scrolls
Lower odds for big artifacts
vox - enriching


Yellow Giftbag
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All minipet rolls result in - a venomous lizard (reptile)
Stockroom_expand Level 3, extra_shelves level 1, tipjar
More Style Scrolls
vox - simplistic

Green Giftbag
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All minipet rolls result in - an ethereal butterfly (spirit)
fast_shrines
vox - bewitching


Violet Giftbag
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All minipet rolls result in - a foul creature of stitched parts (undead)
Skullmask more likely
(Look for more on the refresh!)
vox - arcane


Orange Giftbag
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All minipet rolls result in - a large spider cricket (insect)
Mint chocolate exchanged for fudge. Mmmm, fudge.
Salt, Toolboost Level 3, Listen_Painting, All sorts of tradeskill_boon
vox - convective


Gold Giftbag
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No junk. Minimum value is higher than 5 giftbags separately, and all things that are more boring
have been removed.
Also has Divine Phylactery pieces and EXTREMELY RARELY, salvage

-T

PS The prizes have not shifted much from last time. We'll refresh and get them all mixed up, but I usually have a few requests to give shots at some older stuff before adding in the others. Also I really really wanted to highlight the puzzle box.

PPS I wish the puzzle box were actually a puzzle, but generally, people see barriers between direct dollars spent and the results to be a Bad Thing. Maybe someday someone will prog Sudoku on them and I'll make it give +20% if you solve it.

Penned by my hand on Kinsday, the 10th of Lleian, in the year 492 MA.

Gavramel

Puzzle box sounds nifty.
Good way to load up a few iron coins

Tiur

The hope is that it'll help pin the value of the currencies, and also be a good middle value prize. I really hate when I put in one big prize and tons of little ones, feels swingy.