An entertainingly silly MMORPG

[Happy Monkey]

I wonder if he'll still be doing it when I get home tonight... (crosses fingers)

[vsp]

Ronin is now only 800 turns long. THAT's going to save me some operating expenses.

[cowhead]

HELP! I suppose I ought to just ask this back at the clan.. and I have a bunch of stuff to drop off into the stash.. BUT! how in the f*cking hell does one get to the hole in the sky?!?!?!?! I have the furry fur, the giant needle and the awful poetry.. as well as the disturbing fanfic and every other damn thing you can get from the giants! do I need to use the procrastination potion? the fanfic?!?! ARRRRGH!

[Happy Monkey]

You need to turn the wheel until the Procrastination Giant is guarding the back door, and then use the castle map.

[Bullitt]

This kind of reminds me of text-based game i used to play online called Kings of Chaos. It used to be real simple and way fun, then when the second Age started, it kind of went to shit. Overly complicated, etc. took all the fun out of being one of the small guys and bleeding out the giant armies one attack at a time.

[perth]

I'm at the Sorceress' pets now with my hardcore oxygenarian Disco Bandit. It's been a long damn slog, but I'm getting close. I'll hopefully complete my first HC Oxy ascension by Saturday.

I will NOT do HC Oxy again until I've got some useful skills under my belt. It just takes too damn long.

[Happy Monkey]

Are you only doing hardcore?

[perth]

One character is hardcore only. I enjoy it, but the game can be frustrating at times.

[cowhead]

thanks.. yeah frustrating would be one word for it...

[perth]

Olofik the Hardcore Oxygenarian is now on a higher plane of existence.

I'm debating Disco Face Stab vs. Mad Looting. Since I'm going Pastamancer Hardcore Teetotaler this next round, I think it'll be Mad Looting.

Took me ~2800 adventures, but I spent a lot of time goofing off in the Gnomish Gnomads Camp to get the clockwork gear and familiars.

To celebrate, my alt, Nataya, has 9 Ghost Pickle on a Stick familiars. That character is in Ronin right now so I can't send them out just yet, but send me a kmail to that alt and I'll pass them out until they're gone. Please only ask for 1 for your main character.

EDIT:
I choose Mad Looting. Check out the pants I got as a reward:

Plexiglass pants
Type: pants
Power: 180
Moxie Required: 75
Cannot be traded.
Cannot be discarded

Enchantment:
Combat Initiative +25%
+20% Item Drops from Monsters
Moxie +30%

They probably won't do me any good, with such a high requirement in a secondary stat, but they're cool.

[vsp]

VERY nice. I will never have the patience to go through hardcore, so I'll remain envious of those pants.

The drawback, as you noted, is that they won't be usable until the endgame if you're Ascending as quickly as you can, but that 30% Moxie boost is _huge_.

[perth]

If you have an alt to do it, it's definitely worth it to just do one HC Oxy run. It got plenty frustrating at times, especially thanks to the RNG, but all in all, it was a lot of fun.

[Happy Monkey]

The +20% Item Drops will be useful in the endgame as well, when collecting red pixels/plot holes/etc for the next softcore run. Or to just farm clockwork parts or stars/lines for cash.

I just started a hardcore pastamancer run, to pick up a solitaire.

[vsp]

How Ascended players can make even more disgusting amounts of meat in a few easy steps:

1) Choose a Muscle sign to get access to Inside Degrassi Knoll.
2) Spend the 5,000 meat to get a plot at the Mushroom Fields as soon as you can. Seems like a lot in the early going, but trust me, it's worth it to get the ball rolling early.
3) Spend 800 meat to plant 16 Knoll Mushroom spores in the field.
4) Wait until rollover, when your Knoll Mushrooms will have grown. Pick them and spend another 800 meat to plant the next day's batch.

You now have 16 Knoll Mushrooms. Current going rate in the Mall for these is around 2500-2600 meat, so that's 40000 meat per day for an investment of 5000 meat up front and 800 meat daily.

OR you can take it a step further:
5) Buy 16 Secret Blends of Herbs and Spices (typical price: 1100 each).
6) Buy 16 Knob Sausages (typical price: 225 each).
7) Cook the Blends and Mushrooms, then the resulting Stir-Fry with the Sausages to make 16 Knob Sausage Stir-Fries.
8) Sell THOSE at 6000 apiece. Investment: 5000 up front and (16 * (50 + 1100 + 225)) = 22000 per day, Return: 96000 per day, using up 32 charges of a 14K Chef-in-the-Box.
9) ...
10) PROFIT!

[cowhead]

where do the underpants come in? no really thanks for the tip. if you ever hear from jhonny_malakis.. let him in he's a really shrewd businessman on this game.. he single handle handedly (with stuff mining from myself) dropped the market for chef/bartender in a box...he's good... and a damn nice person (in the hating people in generall crowd.. and which of us are not?)