May Auctions

It’s time for our auction! Shortly after this post, a round of auctions will be going live! There are 9 credit auctions, 5 iron coin auctions, and 5 gold auctions.

Some notes:
– The auctions will run for 10 real days.
– Any artifacts bought through auctions (including gold items) cannot be traded in or have their powers transferred.
– Credit and iron coin auctions do not require you to have the credits/iron coins on hand to bid.
– Gold auctions do require you to have the gold on hand to bid.
– We allow a week to gather the winning bid amount when auctions end. Failure to meet the bid amount after this time will result in the loss of your character until the cost is settled.
– Bound credits and bound iron coins CAN be used to pay for auctions.
– HELP AUCTIONS and HELP AUCTIONHOUSE both have additional details.

– Bids are final, and we will generally not reverse mistakes. If something needs to be clarified about an item, you are welcome to ask me for more details before bidding. Please be absolutely sure before placing a bid.

We are trialing something different for this auction: You can count your lessons towards credit auctions at a ratio of 6:1 (i.e. 6 lessons = 1 credit). To make this easier to calculate, I’ve added a new AUCTION CREDITS command that tells you how many ‘credits’ you have available to bid on an auction combining your available credits and lessons. Note that this DOES NOT include escrow like some other games, only your tangibly available credits/lessons. Also do note you can still bid beyond the number AUCTION CREDITS says – see the rules above.

Without further ado, here are the listings that are going live. Once they’re up, you will see information on the lots using AUCTION INFO .

CREDITS AUCTIONS
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(NEW!) A humanoid follower
* Relaxing our normal rules on pets, this will allow you to have one that is a Sapience-only humanoid race.
* Pet is used here to describe the mechanical function and not the aesthetic/theme. (HELP PETS)
* Subject to approval, but some things we’ll be immediately saying no to are anything enslaved, or anything intrinsically antagonistic to another organization (e.g. some sort of coerced duamvi if you’re in Bloodloch). Please ask us before bidding if you’re unsure your request would be accepted!
* Similar to the spiked collar artifact, this humanoid pet also comes with the intrinsic ability to attack players.
* This will be weak damage and largely for flavour – think the equivalent of a newbie area NPC.
* It also won’t attack in restricted-skill spaces.
* You can customise the attacks – up to 5 (they only do damage).
* As a special feature of the humanoid pet, it will enrage on your death, boosting its level to match roughly a level 50 area and attacking your killer if it wasn’t already. (PVP only)
* The humanoid pet cannot be made invincible, but it will have a fast (5 minutes) respawn if killed.

(NEW!) A Dragon tattoo
* The most luxury of all tattoos, this new supertattoo has the effects of boar, moon and moss rolled into a single tattoo. It is an artifact tattoo and will never fade.

Dragonscale armour
* This armour will never decay and can be worn by any class.
* Its stats will adjust automatically based on the class wearing it.
* It comes with 10 armour resistance in the element of the owner’s choice (chosen at the point of purchase).
* Its stats start at 14/14 for leather and increase by 10 for each armour class (so 64/64 for fieldplate).
* Bonus elemental resist is always a value of 10. You can wear the armour as a non-armour class, but the stats will be 0/0 except for that bonus elemental resist.

A beastmaster’s whip
* Syntax: CRACK WHIP
* Summon up to 5 of your minipets and mounts to stampede through the room dealing periodic AoE damage. More minipets/mounts lead to longer effect duration.
* Will use up to 100 of your minipets and mounts in waves of 5 each (so maximum 20 waves).

Power orb: super_polymath
* While this power is in your inventory, reduces your class change cooldown to 10 minutes.
* Aggression restrictions still apply.

Hunter’s Quintessence
* This artifact acts as a level three hunting artifact for all classes at once, including level 200s.

Boots of Divine Celerity
* On top of having the normal +1 move speed that regular boots of celerity have, this artifact also allows you to use the GRACE command even without a blessing upon you. Only works for the owner.

A box of winter’s embrace
* OPEN this box to release a destroyable snowball in the room with you for a balance cost.
* Five seconds later, the snowball will roll away in a random unblocked direction for up to ten rooms, carrying any unprotected player (except yourself) from its starting room with it and depositing them in the final location.
* Destroying the snowball will prevent this from happening if done soon enough.
* Usage of this artifact has a two hour cooldown.
* Note: Those bound by the Ivoln statue pillar chains cannot be moved by this either.

A set of tattoo stamps
* The holder of this artifact will find that any tattoo they ink upon themselves or another person will be instantly finished.

IRON COIN AUCTIONS
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(NEW!) a wayside book-hutch
* This is your own personal portable library.
* You can PLACE HUTCH to turn the room you’re in into a library, with all the standard features of a library and you as the librarian so you can add/remove books. RETRIEVE HUTCH to pick it back up.
* Does not come with any upkeep fees.
* Some locations will not work for placing the hutch – notably shops or other libraries.

Custom cloak of obscurity
* The winner of this auction will be able to choose their appearance when using it to disguise themselves like the standard cloaks of obscurity.
* This is a one-time choice on auction win.
* The appearance is subject to approval from the admin team and must be lore friendly and appropriate to the setting of Aetolia.

Minipet claim token
* Redeem this token and claim any minipet that has previously been available via promotions.

The Intaglio of Artos
* Allows you to set a custom enter and exit message.
* Subject to approval, and can only be changed rarely.

A pack of the void
* This very special pack can hold an infinite number of items inside.
* These cannot have the linked_container power added to them.

GOLD AUCTIONS
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An archer’s bundle
* The winner of this auction will receive a level 1 artifact bow of the Hunt, with the aiming power included, an artifact quiver, and a serration rune.

A class unlock token
* Fully unlocks a chosen class of your choosing.
* You’ll get the class at tri-trans, and the class slot required for it if needed.
* Classes are still locked to tethers, so unlocking an opposite tether class won’t allow you to play it on your tether.
* No, you can’t use it to obtain a level 200 class…

A relic piece token
* Redeem this token for any relic piece.
* Artifact moulds or any relic that has a single piece to it are not included as options.
* Cannot be used for retired relics.

Skull token bundle
* The winner of this auction will receive 10 skull tokens to use at the Wheel of Fates.

A slightly-used Top Rock’s barrel of incendiary delight
* Created by the mythical Kobolds of Top Rock, this barrel packs a punch!
* Unfortunately, being Kobolds, they forgot to put in a fuse so it cannot explode on its own.
* PLACE this item in the room. The next Bombcrafting explosive to go off will trigger it, dealing room-wide damage. Base damage is roughly equal to the old Holocaust skill.
* The barrel can be attacked and destroyed after it is placed to prevent this. It has 2000 health.
* Damage type is half fire/half blunt, and damage source is knowledge (wisdom).
* The item will reset back to its owner 30 minutes after use (effectively a cooldown).

Penned by my hand on Falsday, the 8th of Severin, in the year 19 AC.