[Alvadas OOC Thread] Hallucinations Sold Separately

by **Kuvarakh** on November 26th, 2012, 5:05 am

I would love to wax philosophical with you, but it appears I am moving to Riverfall in a season or two. I would hate to bolster your spirits with the encouraging development of providing you an enlightened mind with whom to exchange analytical dissections of conceptually speculative theories, only to pull the transcendental rug from beneath you, leaving you to plummet into the benumbingly pedestrian abyss of formulaic cerebral redundancy.

by **Fallacy** on November 26th, 2012, 7:32 pm

Hello people and please be nice and welcome Jiliste to Alvadas. She has been a long time player, just returning, so we have to make her feel welcome. Maybe you guys can have a little get together. I wish some older people where here so they could throw her an IC party...

Anyways, welcome, welcome Jilitse!

Siona, if you have any questions or concerns PM me. I can help alleviate those doubts, though the best thing to do is just jump into threading!

The Season Change is upon us. At the first of the next month Winter Season will be official. This means that all STC threads needs to be finished, all Job threads should be finished ASAP and turned in for all sorts of rewards. If you are doing the thread challenges please include the ones you did when you ask for your seasonal wages and XP. Everything can be asked for in this thread.

If you are new and do not have a job, please post in the Sanity Center which you can find a link to on the linkmap. If you have any questions about Alvadas or about the game itself please dont hesitate to PM me, the DS. I am more than happy to answer any and all questions concerning game mechanics, Alvadas, Ionu, anything you can throw at me I can get an answer to. That I promise you.

A couple more things. As Jilitse mentioned I will be running next seasons Seasonal Quest. As she said too, it will be awesome, or at least... I hope you guys have as much fun playing in it as I do designing it haha. You should stop giving me ideas Jili, you will regret it haha (or maybe you wont).

As for the second thing, I had a brain fart and I cant remember exactly what I was going to say O.o. It will come to me eventually though.

by **Fallacy** on December 1st, 2012, 8:24 am

The season change is upon us. Please all players deduct your living expenses. If you just joined the game a couple of weeks ago you are excused from paying this seasons expenses on the condition that you PM me

If you have any questions please PM me or post here.

Also, if you like snow I dont think you are for much longer. The Seasonal quest is going to ruin winter for you

by **Kassius Selacs** on December 1st, 2012, 4:01 pm

What if you already hate snow?

by **Fallacy** on December 1st, 2012, 5:36 pm

I didnt actually think some people actually already hate snow O.o Well, this is Alvadas after all. I guess you are not going to like it even more if you choose to participate?

by **Fallacy** on December 2nd, 2012, 7:57 am

The Seasonal Calendar has been put up. Any questions about Ionus Stars please post here and Ill answer them

I thought they would be a fun way for all of us to get into arts and crafts this season and really be unique. Anything you craft ICly from these stars you will be able to keep or dance with or whatever you guys do with it.

Reference Picture for how big harvested Ionus Stars are :

If you want seasonal goals please tell me. It just seems like no one does them, though if there is enough of an outcry Ill post some up for you guys.

by **Kassius Selacs** on December 2nd, 2012, 9:59 pm

Question about Ionu's Stars

1. Do they only shrink once you decide what to do with them, or the moment they come of the branch? If the former, could you change a whole lot of them at once if you've harvested them and put them together, like just think "I want all of these to be like spools of thread" and have them all change? If the later, are they stuck with whatever random properties you were thinking of at the time, or just stuck as glowing beads?

2. What's the approximate shape and size range for these things?

3. To harvest them do you just like pick them from the trees?

4. Does the glow last if you leave Alvadas?

5. The beads themselves are the things that can be crushed or unwound or what have you, right?

by **Fallacy** on December 2nd, 2012, 10:25 pm

Excellent questions!

1. Do they only shrink once you decide what to do with them, or the moment they come of the branch? If the former, could you change a whole lot of them at once if you've harvested them and put them together, like just think "I want all of these to be like spools of thread" and have them all change? If the later, are they stuck with whatever random properties you were thinking of at the time, or just stuck as glowing beads?

The Stars shrink into the bead-like thing once they are 'harvested'. To havest one the PC must catch or otherwise grasp the Star with the purpose of taking it. The stars wont transform if they are just randomly bumped into or touched without the express purpose.

The stars keep whatever random property they are purposed with and they can be purposed in mass. Keep in mind that once purposed the stars will take on the properties of the raw substance used in the creation of what the player wants and cannot be changed back. So one would have to spin the stars into thread, the stars dont just fall into thread, or if one wanted to craft a statue out of them, the stars will take on a clay like substance to form or mold, or just stay rock hard. It really depends on what or how you want to use the stars, but they will provide, again, the raw material used to create whatever you want to make.

That being said, you will not be earning any kind of XP regarding crafting Ionus Stars. Instead you will get normal crafting XP, such as blacksmithing or carving, ect.

2. What's the approximate shape and size range for these things?

The stars themselves can be any impossible size or shape imaginable. Though no matter the size of the star itself it still falls into the same bead-like size of all the other stars harvested.

3. To harvest them do you just like pick them from the trees?

You can do that, or you can go star hunting, chasing them around the city. Keep in mind that the stars usually dont hold still when someone wants to harvest them.

4. Does the glow last if you leave Alvadas?

The glow lasts even when you leave Alvadas. Products of Ionus Stars, however, are rare outside Alvadas and can be sold for quite the price, especially if the buyer likes the color and glow of the object.

5. The beads themselves are the things that can be crushed or unwound or what have you, right?

Yep, the beads themselves which comes from harvesting the stars.

by **Kassius Selacs** on December 2nd, 2012, 11:44 pm

Awesome

Three more questions

6. Is is possible to keep unpurposed beads for any length of time

7. If the raw substance of whatever we want can be used without further processing, can the beads be used just like that?

8. How specifically can the purposer define the parameters of the beads purposed form? I assume that it has to be within the bounds of reality, and that Ionus stars materials are not structurally superior to normal materials, but for, say, thread, could you specify the approximate thickness of the fibers, again, within the bounds of plausibility?

by **Sinoa** on December 3rd, 2012, 2:43 am

I have a question, if my character has no crafting abilities can i still make an extremely amateur poorly put together thing that not even a mother would pretend to love. If my character put a lot of effort into their piece of epic horribleness would they get xp still even though they clearly suck at life?

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