#[Duskruin] Animalistic Totems

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dense pecan
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yes

meager crown
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aka: I have two spirit things, one with black bats, the other with green sprites. I want black sprites.

dense pecan
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Fyg - actually it's a bit more nuanced than that. IF the animalistic item has a spirit color, that gets saved, but if you then point that same slot at another animalistic item that has another color saved, the color will be overwritten. If the custom color was NOT saved however, the previous color stays

round lion
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You can have it altered and have 'a smooth' as the base article. Note that before you get your totem altered you will need to have it at its base material and accent/article, so it would have to be CLEANed on both sides. (This does not apply to when you get the decoration designs changed, though.)

lucid dock
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I will have it altered, carefully, choosing wisely, and have it altered good.

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It is at least passable now, after a faewood runestick and a mithril ore:

a mithril and faewood fetish dangling a smooth emerald parrot feather

But I need better feathers! And a merchant to totemize it.

meager crown
dense pecan
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given your example, it looks like maybe your bats have a custom color but your sprite does not? If so, point it at the bat first, then point it at the sprite one. You should end up with black sprites I believe. If instead the sprite one has a custom color, that won't work (the color would be over-written)

meager crown
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No, both have custom colors. darn it.

boreal basalt
dense pecan
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that might work too

boreal basalt
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There are pixies in the Red Forest. I'm sure there's a sprite in the world somewhere.
EDIT: Silly me, there are sprites together with the pixies in there.

dense pecan
meager crown
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Just an example. I appreciate the help.

rich girder
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Extending a fur-trimmed fel totem strung on a leather cord in front of you, you point it at a vultite Niima's-embrace engulfed around the hilt by nacre kraken tentacles. A diffuse cloud of lagoon blue sparks scurries out of it and surrounds the Niima's-embrace briefly. In a rush of sparkling light, the motes draw back into the fel totem, momentarily taking the shape of a tiny kraken before vanishing.
The kraken is tiny. Hehe

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I cannot wait to see this thing in action! Release the kraken!

lucid dock
high orchid
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Feathers can be found in a lot of the fletching shops...or by following around familiars

wary helm
rich girder
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Flickering motes of lagoon blue light briefly coalesce into the transparent form of a bulbous kraken, the ghostly figure moving to follow you as you stride out.
Ripples of lagoon blue light coalesce beneath your feet, merging into a writhing tangle of kraken tentacles that follow you as you stride north.
A cacophony of kraken gurgles surrounds you as you stride south.

dense pecan
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I found mine from The Write Stuff (the shop that sold the nibs) back on Caligos. It helps to be a packrat

lucid dock
dense pecan
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chuckles at "kraken gurgles..."

rich girder
round lion
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It was one of those "god I don't know what noise a kraken makes" type things!

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But more cephalopods in general.

rich girder
boreal basalt
lucid dock
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The kraken can do whatever it wants

broken hill
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I'd settle for a bait bucket filled with dead octopi to toss at people like at a hockey game.

lucid dock
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Of all the places to chum, it seems a hockey game would be the least likely to need it.

tender copper
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so if I buy a totem, weapon, headpiece and armor.....I need to find a merchant to change the type of corvid for each item? so I need 4 visits with a merchant? sorry if the wrong place to ask

paper nymph
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We should start a thread on the discord for options for points and peoples options. Would be a cool community builder.

Could start your own gang/guild “the silky caterpillars”

tender copper
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Oh, and I love the totem movement messaging. ❤️

paper nymph
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I do have a question and I’m sure it’s been answered here, but I wanna make sure before I start adding and taking stuff off. I’m trying to add a gem, but it just gives the noun of encrusted started, etc.. If I meet with the merchant, they’ll actually be able to change the totem with whatever I have added to the totem., correct? Also trying to figure out what where I can get fodder for the material

rich girder
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Ok I am confused... Mine currently looks like this after adding koa and the shell:
You are holding a fur-trimmed koa totem set with a swirled spiny nautilus shell in your right hand.

Is there a way to change "fur-trimmed"? Or do I have to wait to get it altered?

paper nymph
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I’m glad that we have contacts for everybody talking about the value of skins otherwise this would be a very creepy thread

rich girder
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The semitransparent image of a bulbous kraken flickers into life before away in a burst of lagoon blue motes.
This messaging is a bit wonky.

boreal basalt
paper nymph
rich girder
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You are holding a pewter-topped koa totem set with a swirled spiny nautilus shell in your right hand.

paper nymph
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I just had an idea and I was wanting to hopefully plan to see to see if this could ever be a thing. I know it takes @round lion a lot of work with all designing implementing, updating, upkeep and maintenance. For which I think it’s the 1 thing in GS everyone can agree on we appreciate and love its introduction.

I was curious if there could be a raffle or something similar to win a “session” with Wilkes. For them to design and flesh out your multiple pieces of animal gear.

I for one would be first in the Hess shop if that was an option. Or it would have all my premium points…….

Just thought I would put it out seeing all the excitement around the totems.

round lion
lucid dock
# tender copper so if I buy a totem, weapon, headpiece and armor.....I need to find a merchant t...

The totem will use any other animalistic item to impress the animal name and other customizations.

Your headpiece, weapon,and armor will need to see Mister Wilkes, maybe another merchant, I am not sure who else can help this year, to dial in the correct animal you want if it is not the default one.

Does that answer your question?

But you can still use them in the meanwhile. The affinity will not wear off when the animal is changed.

Mister Wilkes comes every month or two, pretty regularly through the year.

Pick up your animal type certificate here at Duskruin, though. If you want a falcon, but your gear is a lion ... you are out of luck, even when Mister Wilkes is there.

pine helm
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I’m guessing there will be an eloot skinning integration in no time.

pine helm
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I'm sorry, but can someone help me understand why this isn't working? ```>raise my paper
This white paper will not work on your fel totem, as your fel totem is not T1 in Bestial Power.

read my paper

In the Common language, it reads:
This will unlock Bestial Power on an Animalistic Totem from T1 (OTS) to T2.```

mystic cedar
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Did you choose the type? Padding, etc?

pine helm
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No. Oh. I see. This is confusing. It's not actually OTS when you buy it. You have to buy a scroll, then apply the scroll to the totem, to make it OTS. ```Your scroll is used to unlock the potential of things held in your other hand.

This will unlock Bestial Power on an Animalistic Totem to T1 (OTS) and lock in the Animalistic Endurance (+2 Crit Padding per Tier) ability.
To change which ability this will lock in, please TURN the scroll.
WARNING: The ability will be locked in permanently once you choose to use this scroll, so be sure you are comfortable with your choice.

You need only RAISE your scroll while holding a compatible piece of equipment in your other hand.``` But the scroll costs, 10k BS, so it's not really OTS.

mystic cedar
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Right

golden turret
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I think it is referencing the ability itself being of the OTS/basline potency, vs the item as a whole?

mystic cedar
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It is, I think he's just pointing out it could be more clearly advertised.

boreal basalt
sacred lance
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3 arena runs. 500>350 charges. O_O

vernal forum
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pocket change for you

brave parcel
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upkeep is a bit challenging. maybe i just don't hunt enough stuff that have skins. but i always end up using more charges than i get back from normal hunting

sacred lance
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Just letting people know, unless you have a silver trust fund this thing isn't ideal for most in terms of mechanical use.

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Doubt you'll find a cheaper and more customizable movement style change though. Top tier taking Devy's spirit where ever I go.

brave parcel
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having up to 3x5 different movement styles is pretty neat

vernal forum
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you have instant, RT-free control on when these flares turn on/off, I would suggest treating them more strategically, as treating them like an always on flare will certainly start adding up

floral tide
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Exactly. The only thing keeping me back is deciding between the different Bestial Power options

tender copper
sour yarrow
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Multiple. One item per visit

normal swan
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Ooh! Unicorn kittens and unicorns are allowed now? Because of the Rumor Woods offerings? 😮 The Wiki enry on Animalistic Spirit doesn't list those explicitly in the approved lists. Snazzy 😺

broken hill
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Since the functional aspect must be viewed as emergency situation only, it probably tilts toward the defensive boosts...sort of like using wall of force for rescues back when such were more fashionable than eating a depart.

lapis glen
mystic cedar
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Is it only on living creatures? Like would a ghost wolf work?

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Ooo it does work.

mystic cedar
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Is this an undead thing, or creature specific?
The balsawood idol pinned to your chest starts to twitch with a phantom heartbeat for several seconds before falling silent.

round lion
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Also - please let me know if you POINT at a creature or familiar or animal companion and it makes the wrong noise (like how the cat was roaring initially).

round lion
vernal forum
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should these work with the valravns in HW? I tried and got a "not enough spirit" message or the like

round lion
vernal forum
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spooky birb group

round lion
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If you know someone with a valravn in their Animalistic Spirit gear, you can grab one that way. Otherwise ...

mystic cedar
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How is the color changed again? I'm sure it was mentioned.

lapis glen
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You can take it from an animalistic spirit gear (weapon/armor/headdress) or GALD.

mystic cedar
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Get the color+animal of something from gear, and then point it at a creature after?

dense pecan
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If you have a pal who has an animalistic spirit item with a custom spirit color, they can point at that item, which sets the color, then you point it at a creature later and the color will stay there

lapis glen
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Yup. point at someone’s gear (it will capture color and spirit) then point at what you want to overwrite the spirit

vernal forum
mystic cedar
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Ah, tried pointing at armor in the shop, that didn't work. Guess you can only point a creatures if you're not holding it. Would that be possible to make work?

dense pecan
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Not sure I understood a word you just said. Hold Animalistic thing in hand, point your idol at thing. (if you're in the shop, POINT IDOL is probably going to parse to the idol for sale vs. what you are holding/wearing)

mystic cedar
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The armor is on a table, in the shop. I think it was pretty clear. Idol for sale is in a different shop.

sour yarrow
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You have to be able to hold the animal spirit armament to copy it. Stealing from the shop is bad! (fully aware that the entire concept of the mechanism is, in fact, stealing 😆 )

dense pecan
mystic cedar
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I'm not going to waste the space in this forum with explaining things like that to you.

arctic scarab
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Gotta get a cheap color change! 🙁

vocal steeple
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Using alchemy dyes might be a nice feature creep / creature feep

dense pecan
vocal steeple
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Great minds and all that jazz!

lapis glen
dense pecan
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Even if it did have other colors, there's an ownership check on POINT for animalistic gear and if the player doesn't own the item, it won't copy either.

lapis glen
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I thought the ownership check was only on companions and familiars; ie someone could pass their gear to the totem owner to point at vs the other way.
I mean same outcome either way…

mystic cedar
dense pecan
lapis glen
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Either way; the ability to change things up without Wilkes is a great feature with these.

More ways to tweak the colors like the dye system mentioned would also be rad (and has some prior similar use with the Dreamfire system and Beetle mounts)

rough flax
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can you use an idol with a spirit in it to copy to another idol? point idol at my other idol?
Idolception

junior tree
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What totem type are casters getting? Crit weighting on CS spells?

rough flax
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crit weighting is only for physical attacks, which is melee + arrows/bolts

sour yarrow
dawn parrot
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Im extremly upset that my totem will not work with speedy or the canary located in zul logoth

rich girder
lapis glen
dawn parrot
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needs to work on roa'ter wormlings too

pulsar portal
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Feral Ferocity

boreal basalt
round lion
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OK. On my list to check into tonight: valravns (the creature), canary, and snail? Though I'm unsure if I can do snail, as that sounds like it'd need some special messaging since they have no legs/appendages.

high orchid
broken hill
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I forsee an army of totem wavers descending on gargoyle merchants and rare invasion beasts

quaint moon
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crud upgraded and THEN noticed the need to choose a Setting, need to assist to fix this i assume?

boreal basalt
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I think it may have been answered and I just missed it, but are mounts intended to be capturable?

mystic cedar
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About to go test a phoenix.

boreal basalt
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I think I answered part of my own question.```Extending a smooth balsawood idol fringed with several raven feathers in front of you, you point it at a yuglet silver-sheened cavelta rolton. A diffuse cloud of onyx sparks scurries out of it and surrounds the rolton briefly. In a rush of sparkling light, the motes draw back into the balsawood idol, momentarily taking the shape of a tiny rolton before vanishing.

A silver-horned tenebrous black unicorn doesn't appear like it'd have enough essence that the balsawood idol can capture.```Perhaps the unicorn is the problem and it doesn't know what category to put it in?

round lion
quaint moon
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assisted thanks

lucid dock
# tender copper Does he fix them all at once or dies it require multiple visits?

Do you mean does Mister Wilkes adjust several properties at once on the same item when you are chosen ... or does he work on multiple items during your turn?

He'll only work on one item when it is your turn. But here is the list of instructions from a previous event:

For those selected for service, customers can choose ONE (1) of the following:
* Full Alteration of their Animalistic Spirit item, along with optional change of their spirit's color and ONE (1) other minor change to their spirit's other attributes (IE, animal noun but nothing else).
OR
* Full alteration of the spirit within their Animalistic Spirit item (includes: noun, noise, group noun, descriptor, color).

NOTE: Wilkes CANNOT change the overall group of your Animalistic Spirit - a certificate must be bought to change the group at Duskruin.

The cost for service will be 100,000 silvers.

Please come prepared with backup choices for any spirit alterations, especially for group nouns.```
paper nymph
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OK

mystic cedar
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Flickering motes of shadowy black light briefly coalesce into the transparent form of a blazing red phoenix, the ghostly figure moving to follow you as you stride south.

That's pretty rad.

lucid dock
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I do not think I see the totem's ambients. Someone said something last night and ... I swear I could not find where it happened on my screen.

Is it just me?

mystic cedar
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I'm seeing them quite a lot. Angry animal sounds, heartbeat, a caw or howl, etc. Not sure why they are so angry... have we... imprisoned these essences??

dense pecan
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I think PROD toggles them (this is from memory...)

Edit: Heh and yeah I was wondering the same thing about the demeanor... I was like "Why is my friend in this idol so angry all the time?"

lucid dock
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Prod says it was on. I will keep a better eye on it. Firebird is now highlighted.

dense pecan
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Luxie you can also get some flashes of color coming from the item, and also your eyesight can go <color> for a message as well.

mystic cedar
brave parcel
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if you're still taking requests Avaluka, can we get a certificate that unlocks a 2nd flare benefit, so we can switch between the two on the same totem instead of having to switch between two totems?

wispy sorrel
lucid dock
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Companions report my totem's ambients ... but I do not see the ambients.

Is this intended?

sour yarrow
lucid dock
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I don't have windows. This is a Mac.

Edit:
And I checked my settings:

NoAmbientMsg OFF

lapis glen
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Re- Speedy the Snail should he ever get added. Grabbed some movement ambients for inspiration one day...

An overgrown snail crawls around, leaving a slime trail in its wake.
An overgrown snail crawls away, leaving a trail of sticky, clear slime in its wake.```
dense pecan
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Heh I can imagine the audio though...
There is an angry inaudible sound coming from your idol...

lapis glen
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An angry squelch

wary helm
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Splorch

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Checkname Splorch

dense pecan
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Ship it!

lapis glen
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Splorch is superior.

lucid dock
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Not sure if my totem needs bugging, or what at this point, but they deffo see it/hear it, and I see nothing on my screen

dense pecan
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I don't know for sure but that doesn't seem like a problem with the item

lucid dock
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You think Miss Avaluka was just watching out for my screen scroll? 🙂

sour yarrow
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Do you have other ambients on your character that do work as expected?

lucid dock
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Yup, my potato embarrasses me regularly, my imbued shroud does his ghost thing.

wary helm
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Who is they in your sentence

lucid dock
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Miss Vanah, "they" are the two characters sitting here with me. Aetheri and Seazarius.

wary helm
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This character doesn't have the noambientmsg toggled on for sure

lucid dock
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Me? Not at all, I double checked.

mystic cedar
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maybe give it to someone and then take it back, as a potential reset to your character with the item?

wary helm
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Is your ambient window open

lucid dock
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No windows, this is a mac

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The other things show up normally on my screen.

wary helm
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Do the other characters see the ambients that don't have the player's name in them

lucid dock
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The two that he saw since I started asking for a watch on this both had my name in them.

wary helm
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Do you have any words squelched

mystic cedar
lucid dock
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Well, THIS Mac application has no ambient window. Nor Squelches.

I use Profanity.

wary helm
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If you log in on the web fe can you see them

mystic cedar
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Ah, wonder if anyone else uses it with the same problem.

lucid dock
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haha, Miss Vanah, I will take my life into my hands whle I rest here and go see.

I do not even know if it works.

mystic cedar
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The web one even works on my mobile when I just want to get the login reward. Guessing it should work (chrome mobile app FWIW).

wary helm
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"works"

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I don't see anything in the code that would be universal.

lucid dock
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haha, the web client CORRECTS "ooc" for a whisper into doc.

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OK, resting after the arena and watching the web client. And she just ambiented!

Holy cow, I wonder why it is not seen in myFE.

Thanks Miss Vanah.

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Unplayable ... but the totem ambiented!

No idea why other ambient things show up.

wary helm
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I wonder what profanity looks like on our end

lucid dock
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It should look like SF.

dense pecan
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well now I am starting to wonder if ALL other ambient things show up for you. If a standard "message this player with a message" fires, then I could see that showing up, but if it's something like "message this player with some additional info that if they were running a certain FE the message would go to an ambient window" fires, and Profanity doesn't understand that, I can see why it would be squelched.

wary helm
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Then I think it's sending it to your non existent ambients window

lucid dock
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Why don't other things go there then, I wonder? What is the actual name of the window? Caps count.

dense pecan
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if the game thinks you're running an FE that understands the Wrayth codes, then we'd have an additional layer of trouble

wary helm
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We don't always use the noambientmsg stuff on first player views, but it's used here

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Some items presume if you're using it you want to see it and don't let you opt out

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You probably don't see a lot of other people's ambients

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Can you see someone else's totem ambients?

lucid dock
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Well, these guys don't have a totem!

dense pecan
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Those shroud (Quilics thing....) messages come to mind. I think they used ambient flags

wary helm
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Go buy them one (jk)

lucid dock
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Pretty sure I see more shroud messages than mine. Pretty sure.

dense pecan
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ok. I don't know what all uses it vs. not

wary helm
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Erek go lumber near her

dense pecan
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I need to log in 🤪

lucid dock
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Window name, please?

Ambient, Ambients, ambient, ambients

wary helm
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Ambients

dense pecan
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Where art thou, Luxelle? (Imma totally ARRRPEEE)

wary helm
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ambients

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I don't know I hate windows

lucid dock
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Stands, 23796

wary helm
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Can you see the xml stream

lucid dock
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There is some way to, I forget what it takes Miss Vanah.

I see familiars do stuff, companions do stuff.

dense pecan
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how about puppy stuff?

lucid dock
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Puppies for sure!

dense pecan
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ok I have raidanlu, puppy, dragonfly, puma, will-o-wisp, and random animalistic totem messages firing

brave parcel
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where does one get a will-o-wisp?

dense pecan
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Vanah, looks like she's not seeing dragonfly pet messages either... so it's probably something ambientflag related (or rather, game thinking she's got it off or something)

round lion
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I have no idea what would be causing ambients not to fire ... they're using the same sort of ambient code as puppies and such. I'm seeing them on my test character.

lucid dock
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Let me set my main window to include ambients in the setup and see if that helps.

I see some, but not all, I guess?

dense pecan
lucid dock
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The FE assignment may have done the trick!

So now when I get overwhelmed by GS ambients .... I can turn off SOME of them by taking it back out!

Hah!

Thanks everyone!

dense pecan
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I am going to take my herd back to my house now 😄

lucid dock
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I may be set for The Whole GemStone Experience now ....!! Waiting for my totem to tote!

dense pecan
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inb4 Luxie says "All these ambients are too many!"

lucid dock
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And I saw her!! Transparent image, flicking, soaring away and EVERYTHING!

dense pecan
lucid dock
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Now I need to find someone's unicorn and capture it in a setting!

broken hill
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Do all ambients fire on the same moment using the clock? I hope not as that will crash the invoker or the Dreavenator, ot the HofA in Reim.

lucid dock
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Just in case one of the 10 people who have to use Profanity need to know the fix:

setup file, layouts:
Find your window class, where the screen location numbers are defined, be sure to include it in the value property of the definition:

value='main,ambients'

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(It comes by default set to only main)

floral tide
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just added some more spirits to my collection. When I TURN it, the spirit from my ranger's familiar messages "as the purr of a hound rings through the air"; when I TURN it again, the spirit from my shield messages "as the howl of a hound rings through the air". Should I bug?

boreal basalt
lucid dock
round lion
floral tide
round lion
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Ah. I see what happened.

floral tide
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dont hurt my hound!

round lion
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I think I just need to adjust how it looks at creatures so it doesn't get as many false positives.

rich girder
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Sparks of misty green light coalesce beneath your feet, merging into a sinuous rattlesnake-like path that follows you as you stride south.

Flickering motes of misty green light briefly coalesce into the transparent form of a diamond-backed rattlesnake, the ghostly figure moving to follow you as you stride north.```
Grabbed that for my Tehir til i can get Wilkes to put a scorpion in her arbalest.  #thankspettingzoo
rich obsidian
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Is there a trick to finding materials for the totems? I've tried several different items, but they either don't seem like a good thing to add, or they're too fancy.

pine helm
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I don't know if this is a bug, per se, but the asterixis on the flare messaging seems off: **** Spiraling threads of misty green light extend from a fur-trimmed fel totem strung on a leather cord with a challenging elf-owl's shriek, the motes encasing your arm in incandescence as a rush of power sinks into you to strengthen your attack. It's only on the front end (with four, not two), and no asterixis' on the end.

rough flax
rich girder
round lion
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Some more Animalistic Totem fixes:

  • The totems should be less likely to make an inaccurate category hit on creatures when you POINT at one. If you have a spiritual essence that is making the wrong noise (such as a purring hound), please re-POINT the totem at the creature and it should be corrected.
  • Canary, unicorn, and valravn have been fixed as being able to have spiritual essences.
  • Cephalopods and sharks now have a proper movement verb for display in certain Movement Styles if you have this type of creature set as the active spiritual essence.
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Funny thing about the unicorn bug .... I was a little bit /too/ efficient in trying to prevent the unicorn kittens from being Equines and that was what was causing that.

wary helm
wary helm
rich obsidian
pine helm
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Also, it looks like the flares are triggering on 110: ```>incant 110
Cupping your hand before your lips, you issue a whistle that is reminiscent of a lark's trill and call upon the forces of nature to aid you. The scent of loam, that lush fragrance that is the promise of rain, rises on the air as you cast Unbalance.
Your spell is ready.
You gesture at a triton fanatic.
**** Spiraling threads of misty green light extend from a fur-trimmed fel totem strung on a leather cord with a challenging elf-owl's shriek, the motes encasing your arm in incandescence as a rush of power sinks into you to strengthen your attack.
Bands of spectral mist ripple and surge beneath a triton fanatic!
[SMR result: 147 (Open d100: 77)]
... 15 points of damage!
Upward thrust lifts the triton fanatic several inches off the ground.
It is knocked to the ground!
Soot brown specks of leaf mold trail in the wake of a triton fanatic's movements, distorted by a murky haze.
The vitality of nature bestows you with a burst of strength!
Cast Roundtime 2 Seconds.

round lion
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I'm going to have to dive into that tomorrow. I'm unsure why it's doing that currently.

brave parcel
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I'd still like to unlock a 2nd flare type. set it to crit def for normal hunting, change it to AS/CS for harder stuff

zinc jacinth
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Or even the ability to change the path on a timer. It is amazing but so very ravenous on offensive. I wish I could change mine to defensive.

pine helm
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I knew the crit padding was the better mechanical move, and yet I still tricked myself into the AS upgrade because… this is Flarestone, and I’m a sucker for that scroll.

But, now having put it to some good use, I agree the cost to use is still a bit too high (even at the very decent Bloodscrip value of the purchase).

Avaluka, would you consider a 10k unlock to allow us to unlock a second flare type?

pure timber
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Do I understand correctly that the Padding per Bestial Power is using 10 charges only with a successful hit?

pale anchor
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padding stacks with armor or stacks first and then still randomized?

pine helm
pale anchor
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is there any RT for turning Shifting Strike on/off?

vernal forum
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I believe no RT to turn the flares on or off

round lion
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Just a note that I think the Unbalance/110 triggering may be because 110 used to be a CS spell but isn't anymore; will see how fast it can be fixed, but just be wary about that spell with the totems for the time being until the bug is announced as fixed.

sour yarrow
polar cosmos
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Anyone try the totem on the HW wyrm yet ?

boreal basalt
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Are gems sold specifically as alter fodder supposed to work as decorations?The celestial pearl does not seem like a suitable item to decorate the ko'nag idol.

stray monolith
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I tried alot of things what does it think is a suitable item to "add" that's made of wood/metal/bone?

lapis glen
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Most of my gems I've tried only worked in the accent slot and resulted in "gem-studded, dusted, etc"; one worked in the material slot (a piece of obsidian) but it grabbed the wrong part of the 15 and it read really wonky. "a raven's wing ob fetish"

(The wonkiness was pre any fix that went in, haven't tried with another piece since then)

stray monolith
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I managed to "push" in a gem.
"a fur-trimmed fel totem set with a haloed Reim ruby"

broken hill
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The merchant will just bring rare and exotic items and display them for anyone to point at...in backroom for a fee.

dense pecan
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for accents (the "article" in art,adj,noun 15,15,15) you just have to remember that the script adds some descriptors like -studded, -trimmed, -topped (depending on what it is), and that counts against the 15 characters, so anything that is going to push that beyond the limit is going to come out as "metal-topped" or "gem-studded", etc., regardless of the actual material name

stray monolith
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But "Adding" wasn't letting use any items so far wasn't sure if it needed actual wood/bone/metal item or if any item with the the type of metal/bone/wood would work.

arctic scarab
boreal basalt
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I was trying to PUSH that celestial pearl in. Most actual gems work for that, but the pearl did not.

dense pecan
boreal basalt
arctic scarab
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I used a gold lockpick and two of the descriptions say gold and two say metal

dense pecan
boreal basalt
dense pecan
vocal steeple
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The celestial pearl is not actually set up as a gem, it's just rare alter fodder. It won't work in these or other items that allow the use of gems (PUSH/PULL) like Veolas, Joolas, Deck the Halls. You would have to use that pearl to alter an actual gem with a merchant.

lapis glen
dense pecan
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I think the only other way Avaluka could do it would be to have the item always regenerate a LONG based on the materials you put into it, similar to how Xynwen did the butterfly cloaks, vs. actually trying to edit the article or adj of the base item. It would require some additional storage on the item though. So if it's something like, "a/an,<material>,noun" only, then she derives a long out of all the stuff you're trying to add to it, that may work (lots more coding though).

boreal basalt
pure timber
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Still wondering if the Padding per Bestial Power is using 10 charges only with a successful hit?

floral tide
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what are you switching to?

dense pecan
pure timber
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I am asking before I decide what path to take.

floral tide
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If someone dropped a totem in the arena waiting area, please DM me.

junior tree
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Someone's script littering those Ur Barath totems..... KARMA 🧌

floral tide
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oof

round lion
polar cosmos
round lion
vernal forum
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I feel like there is always randomization, nothing ever gets added after

quaint moon
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Is movement related to my animalistic totem something I’d see third person when entering a room?

late prairie
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Is this shop on the test server? I can't seem to locate it there.

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Totemic Spirits, Shrine
a rough stone shrine carved with stylized animals, [Map Room 18], Room# 8214518, Lich# L26874, go rough shrine

round lion
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Oh. I probably forgot to drop the portal in Test. I can do that tonight.

round lion
quaint moon
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Ahh ok. My “dhu kitten” movement doesn’t show anything or make a sound ‘I chose sounds’.

wary helm
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You may need to make sure you have your movement style clear

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If your sneaking or something

quaint moon
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Ahh I will check that out. As a wizard I rarely sneak. But it could be something

round lion
arctic scarab
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sneaking movement worst movement. It seems to break random things. I got stuck in cavernhold due to it.

pine helm
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Avaluka, is there any chance of an unlock this run to allow us to switch extra flare types?

Could make it that switching types clears all charges, if switching mid combat is the issue.

brave parcel
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clearing all charges seems pretty extreme. maybe just a lenghty roundtime so we don't do it in combat...

round lion
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I can't imagine it'd be released this run if approved, as it'd take some extra amount of coding to add that functionality in.

pine helm
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Thank you for letting me know. It’s really appreciated!

broken hill
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If this item had been designed by the sorcerer guru, there would be a random chance of summoning an irate vathor to attack the wearer when flaring...

zinc jacinth
# round lion I can't imagine it'd be released this run if approved, as it'd take some extra a...

Thank you for passing along our feedback on this issue.

It is a relatively expensive regret to have after being able to fully verify the viability a given path. The only other recourse would be to resell the item at a discount. As it stands I’m just using it for the awesome fluff you imbued it with.

If it isn’t on a timer to do freely like changing the Paladin Standard’s deity I would hope it isn’t as comparatively expensive to switch as Ithzir.

lucid dock
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Today's Really Fun Suggestion for Awesomely Better Totem Options!

You notice an exploding skyfire illusion of a vivid viridian and copper moonflower

wave totem at illusion

Your totem now gets a long description from the illusion!

a mithril and faewood fetish suspending a vivid viridian and copper moonflower

Or something more illusory and spirity in nature! Cook something up with Miss Meraki for them! Maybe the panel itself is a 'safer' add target, since the basic side is ALWAYS gated with 15/15/15.

Illumed with would make a great connector phrase, too.

random heart
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I would like to request that basilisks and cockatrices be able to be turned into totem pokemon.

narrow pawn
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My custom familiar isn't working with the fetish, what should I do here? A hulking craggy rock toad doesn't appear like it'd have enough essence that the suede fetish can capture.

round lion
random heart
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I tried a cockatrice earlier and it didn't work!

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I would also like to request shrikes. My grumpy AC was unable to be pokemoned, alas. Though that's probably for the best in retrospect.

round lion
random heart
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It was a standard one by the Landing.

round lion
random heart
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Oh! One more request, since I just confirmed it did not work. The qyn'arj from OTF would be amazing adds! They'd be snake base, just like the winged vipers.

round lion
random heart
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Nice, thank you for checking into them!

Some of us clearly have very particular needs.

uncut plinth
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Are we limited to 2 boosts for this run re: totems. I tried to boost again for edged weapons and got this message from the traveler: '
The half-elf traveler says, "You'll need to have your locus in hand before I can help you with that."

round lion
uncut plinth
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oh rats. My bad.

round lion
random heart
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Woohoo!! Thank you!!!

uncut plinth
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Realized I was holding a totem rather than the locus. Seems I need more sleep.

lapis glen
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On the supple suede ones after adding an article material and cleaning the article, supple was replaced by wood-framed. Is that intended?

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(wood was not added to it)

round lion
lucid dock
lapis glen
lucid dock
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I think something like that happened to me during the FIVE bouts with woods and metals I tried, too.

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Maybe she needs to sell some adjectives for that accent/article slot!

boreal basalt
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Looks like there's a typo for crocodile arrivals in the Animal Sounds movement style: "ground" should be "growl". I submitted a bugitem for it.XXX strides north amidst a cacophony of crocodile growls. s> The distant sound of a crocodile's ground heralds the arrival of XXX.

lapis glen
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*** A ferocious rasping hiss rips free from a bone-inlaid kobold scalp fetish beaded with chips of bone as a rippling wave of nebulous black light flows from it and over your exposed skin, imbuing a sudden rush of power from the massive a massive cockroach that lets you endure some of the blow.

Seems like there might be a little word weirdness in the Crit Padding flare. (Bugged it, but also wanted to share the messaging warts and all for how great it is)

quaint moon
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dern cant POINT a totem at my Dhu cat, shade-lizzy, elemental, sewer rat, Snek, fishy, squirrel, heghog, book-buddy, crickets, wandering tattoo, will-o-wisp, bolus, dollhouse doll, dead mouse (tho that makes sense) or my Thaumaturge Tome... man whats this world coming to?

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can any of you folks POINT it at your spirit servants, 707 eyes, singing items, 630 companions, were-puppies, or phoenix's?

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opps or re-animated followers... that would be neat.

foggy mauve
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I'm finding these totems very expensive to maintain. I've been using war griffin talons to maintain and in order to keep up the benefits it requires all of my skins. Anyone else finding similar results?

lapis glen
foggy mauve
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+AS

lapis glen
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Yeah, that one sounded like it would be pretty expensive for upkeep as it’s going to flare even when you miss.

mystic cedar
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Is bestial block also only on a hit like the padding is?

sacred lance
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I can get roughly 5-6 bounties per full charge. I do a -single- hive run to fill it.

lapis glen
polar cosmos
lapis glen
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Then yes, it' preresolution as it applies a DS/TD boost so the flare fires before the hit and you can still get whacked. Gonna burn thru those charges with a quickness with that model IMO.

quaint moon
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I don’t think it’s meant to be running 24/7. If you’re going into a situation where you might need an extra boost, turn it on.

vernal forum
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sounds like Imma start sellin hive bundles soon 😎

opal wave
#

Did someone already ask about the offensive or defensive flare rates for this? (I reread the pins, thanks for that, but the "standard flare rate" is 1:5 for melee and 1:7 for rune staff and I wasn't sure which I'd get with a runestaff and CS flares)

mystic cedar
boreal basalt
broken hill
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Pointing used to be considered rude

zinc jacinth
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Having a hell of a time trying to find stuff that the idol is able to receive as a material.

You analyze the heavy wyrwood bracelet and sense that the item has certain alteration restrictions. It would need to be supplied to be used in an alteration and may only be used as an accent.

It looks like this item has been mainly crafted out of wyrwood

The heavy wyrwood bracelet doesn't seem like it'd be a good thing to add to the suede fetish.

boreal basalt
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I was working through that for the accent too Zazulu, and I ended up using things I specifically bought and hoarded as alteration fodder.

lapis glen
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Keep in mind, the accent material can be only 4-5 characters max (and still show as that material) because it has to preclude -dusted, -inlaid, -topped, etc. otherwise it’ll default to metal, gem, or wood prior to the hyphen in most cases.

The material of the totem itself can accept a bit more and show as said material.

zinc jacinth
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Yeah, I'm shooting for the base material atm.

quaint moon
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Anyone know if there is a readily available way to change the Spiritual Essence Color on your Totem?

zinc jacinth
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Finding someone that has a color on their animalistic item that you would prefer and have them point your idol at it is the quickest solution. You can then point it at a non-animalistic item to retain the color but change the depicted spirit itself.

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At least that is what others have suggested. I'm still gaining affinity on mine.

lapis glen
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Yep that’s the ticket.

vernal forum
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Avaluka, as an avid animal spirit used and totem purchaser, Im gonna ask a very specific question which hopefully you (or someone who knows) can answer, but feel free to ignore since it's a little off topic. I have an animal THW and armor, and I am considering getting animal spirit added to the UAC set I also wear and use (given the new pricing). So my question is, if the animal armor calls a weapon flare, would it come from the THW or the UAC or perhaps some %chance of either? And are there any other odd interactions that would make doing this a Bad Idea?

broken hill
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Probably don't want dog and cat spirits at same time

quaint moon
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well if anyone wants a misty green color let me know. I am looking for a different color. i just have to see whats available

rich girder
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I have lagoon blue on my kraken sword if anyone needs lagoon blue.

lapis glen
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Dirty yellow, and nebulous black checking in.

quaint moon
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Trall lucked out with dirty anything

lapis glen
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It was just yellow. But like most things I touch…

polar cosmos
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If anyone has the silver OTS color and willing to help, let me know

wispy sorrel
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still fingers crossed-ing for warfly as a noun that wilkes can eventually change my flying insect into! Or at least an answer one way or the other. Reminder that warfly has passed QC a number of times now.

broken hill
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Is that what killed the little old lady who swallowed it?

wispy sorrel
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Now they say “maybe she’ll cry” because it’s more pc!

boreal basalt
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Any chance we can add the shadowy dragon as a capturable critter?```[Icemule Trail, Snowy Forest - 2498] (u4044218)
You find yourself just southwest of the town of Icemule Trace where the trail continues through the dark forest. A lumbering cart, filled with wood needed by the townspeople to heat their buildings, is being pulled northeast toward town. You also see a shadowy dragon and a rabid squirrel.
Obvious paths: northeast, southwest

look dragon
The shadowy dragon appears at once both indistinct and yet very solid, there is undoubtedly power in its inky black eyes. Wisps of light occasionally seem to shine through its scales momentarily only to be quickly swallowed in shadow. Its massive wings appear to keep it aloft with hardly any movement.

point my fetish at dragon
You really should point the suede fetish at something.```

pure timber
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Ki-lin doesn't have enough essence.... aww

neat mountain
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The angry hiss of a honey badger suddenly erupts from thin air.

First time I saw this message my my totem! haha it's great

mystic cedar
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Why they all be angry, tho.

neat mountain
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honey badger! that's why!

mystic cedar
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Would be neat if it was based on demeanor!

round lion
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That's an interesting suggestion abotu the demeanor. Hm.

neat mountain
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The jovial hiss of a honey badger suddenly erupts from thin air.

mystic cedar
smoky pagoda
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Would it be possible to add a toggle to turn this totem on and off so we don’t use charges if we don’t want to?

lapis glen
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It has one- RUB

* Bestial Power [Unlocked - T1 of 5,] Animalistic Endurance.] (Flares: ON, RUB to toggle)

vernal forum
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For folks who think this is costly (which is anyone not hunting the hive really 😅) id definitely suggest working this into your macros to use the offensive flares more strategically, as there is no RT or cooldown

smoky pagoda
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Well im a big dummy!

hexed meteor
# smoky pagoda Well im a big dummy!

Don't feel bad. I haven't bought mine yet so I haven't seen the full ANALYZE... but the double-edged sword of the beautifully detailed Avaluka Analyze is that it can be easy to glance over that one bit of info you're looking for.

(Avaluka, please don't ever change your ANALYZEs because the amount of detail is one of my favorite things about everything you create ❤️ )

worthy meadow
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Trying to figure out how many spirit slots I need on this. I know it's at least two since I can get Animalistic Spirits, but which of the following does it also work on:

  • Bugs? (from Bugs on Parade jars)
  • Phoenixes?
  • Werepuppies?
  • Foxes? (from Rumor Woods)
rough flax
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5, just get all 5

boreal basalt
uncut plinth
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Owly essence would be great. <g>

sour yarrow
lapis glen
round lion
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Yeah, there will likely be some future update to make puppies, kittens, lambs, etc., work .... I am just bogged down with other coding projects and it'd take more than just adding a single line change somewhere to add those. Heh. But it's definitely a plan.

zinc jacinth
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Your efforts are appreciated. Take all the time you need.

round lion
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Teach me to release something so popular this close to Ebon Gate. 😉 (I'm joking!)

rough flax
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I'd buy a animal spirit contraption like the bottle contraption.

mystic cedar
pine helm
dense pecan
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oh they also work on Mounts, Leafi

uncut plinth
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I have not paid much attention to the idea of capturing a spirit essence re: tokens. So what is the purpose of doing so?

rough flax
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its what powers all the fluff - changes movement messaging, ambients, etc if you unlocked that stuff.

uncut plinth
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ahhh...fluff..thanks

uncut plinth
# 
The semitransparent image of a pale-faced coppery barn owl flickers into life before stalking away in a burst of misty green motes.```
lapis glen
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Random thought, if you've unlocked 3+ slots, the ability to turn TO the intended spirit vs turning thru them all to get to the same spot.
ie turn to 5, turn to 2, etc.

uncut plinth
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thx

floral tide
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Against my better judgment, I think I’m getting +AS here. Anyone able to talk me into crit/padding?

brave parcel
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unless you hunt in one of those rare areas where you get a ton of high-value skins or supplement some other way, you won't be able to sustain the offensive flares, and you'll perpetually be near 0 charges

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in which case you'll have to save the flares for rare occasions (which more often than not means it never gets used)

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(and even if you do manage to sustain the upkeep somehow, it's a huge silver-sink and you'll likely notice a significant dip in your silver income)

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The hope is that at some point Avaluka will introduce a cert to let us have two flares that we can swap between, so we could do crit padding for normal hunting and then swap to AS/CS on rare occasions.

floral tide
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Padding it is then

jagged turtle
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Question on these in related to loot cap? Do skins you create go against lootcap at time of creation or when you sell, depending on which, this is a hurting your silver generation 2x if it's at time of skin creation as you never see the silvers and it penalizes your overall lootcap silver total. Has this been discussed yet?

uncut plinth
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Does the totem allow the ambience scripts if turned off for charges?

lapis glen
uncut plinth
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movement style?

lapis glen
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Yep, that works independently of the flares and ambients. (Although ranger sneak overrides it if you don’t clear movement style), and has COVER as the toggle for that one on/off.

uncut plinth
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got it, thx

vernal forum
lucid dock
steady fable
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With the totems are you restricted to one unlock tree once unlocked?

rough flax
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That is correct, you pick your option with the cert by TURNing it. There is no way to undo it or change the flare currently and nothing announced or planned to change that.

pure timber
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A raccoon companion animal doesn't have enough essence? ❓

vocal rover
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Is it someone else's? If so, give them the totem to capture it

pure timber
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Yes, someone else's but I gave him the idol to point at his raccoon.

round lion
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I may also have to teach the totem what a raccoon is if it forgot. Let me check.

vocal rover
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Cross between a bear and a rat. Human hands. Bandit mask

round lion
pure timber
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Thank you!

pale anchor
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has anyone tested yet if the loot capped skins that are worth 11 silvers only count as 11 silvers or their original price of 1200

mystic cedar
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Does +2 crit padding refer to +2 CER?

pine helm
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Yes.

pale anchor
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so I tested and for anyone else wondering, lootcap does affect these, a dreadsteed skull gives you just 1 charge

pale anchor
pale anchor
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so the crit padding totem doesn't appear to work for CS/TD or SMR resolutions......... so hmm

pale anchor
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can't submit a refund request due to a pending assist but would like to trade it in for a CS one

mystic cedar
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Is there any avenue to changing just the color of animal spirit items? I was fortunate that the default animal for a group is the one I wanted and everything else is fine except the color.

Does Wilkes do something like a limited number of full alterations as well as some sounds for only a single property to fit in those is is that find need a full alteration?

rough flax
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any GALD merchant can change just the color if they are comfortable with it

split halo
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will Shifting Strike also help with SMR attacks?

sour yarrow
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Nope

split halo
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will it help with UAF?

sour yarrow
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Yes, all AS boosters do

split halo
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ty

tender copper
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do you have to unlock regular Animalistic Avatar feature before unlocking the Multi-Opponent version of the Animalistic Avatar feature on an Animalistic Spirit headdress? sorry I know it's not totem related

round lion
split halo
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The veniom ore doesn't seem like it'd be a good thing to add to the balsawood idol.```
barren plume
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u need like slabs

split halo
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really? I thought it was a little pin worn thing

barren plume
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it could be a baby slab

sour yarrow
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The ores aren't permitted for alterations, which might be a contributing factor here

dim root
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are the beastial AS bonus on the same table as OB from like zelnorn etc? so a +50 cap

pale anchor
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separate activate and deactivate verbs would be helpful

split halo
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are there any forms of metal other than "chunk" or "slab" that works on the idols?

thorny sage
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Someone said slabs. Haven’t tried. You can buy them at a forge

split halo
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ya, they work too, forgot to mention that

dawn parrot
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i used a veil iron slab but i cut one pound off at the slab cutter and used the small bit

trail bolt
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Just wanted to give feedback and say this item is absolutely incredible. The customization being built in is amazing.

My only complaint is if we could pay a surcharge for additional power certificates. I’m already getting cold feet about selecting AS boost, even though I haven’t actually used it yet. It would be nice to cycle through the options.

Overall, great item at a great price.

sacred lance
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Don't buy AS boost. I already had to buy a 2nd.

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Crit padding bonus/TD are probably the best options. Crit weighting comes in 2nd as its only on successful hits and AS is just a don't buy

broken hill
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Maybe there will be an updated "ring the bell" mallet game at ebon using AS...it might be useful then to win the prize.

split halo
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I choose the CS boost, but I am able to sustain it without issue
melee classes, and even some magic classes, may have difficulty sustaining it
empths with 2x survival and 3x FA will get higher quality skins producing more charges
pretty sure everyone will have to feed it during a hunt, 16 charges dosent last long

lapis glen
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Crit padding one paired with the essence belt 😘

sour yarrow
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They only cost 5 per flare now for offensive ones, so 100 procs out of the 500 charges

split halo
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oh did that change?
coulda swore it was like 30 charges for a proc on as/cs

sour yarrow
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Yes. Looks like that wasn't pinned:
#1273047093509886105 message

split halo
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ok cool, ty

pale anchor
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if only this totem could go through your inventory and eat all the skins, feeding them one by one gets a bit tedious even with a script

pine helm
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Or, if it could be set as a skin stow container, where it works like herb kit, bundles those not used to charge

split halo
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how exactly do you feed it?
just grab the skin and then what

pine helm
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Even if it could just be default stow skin container, and overflow could go somewhere else, that would be very helpful.

Put skin in totem, Gob.

split halo
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maybe eloot just needs to put skin in totem instead of container

pine helm
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Yeah, I mentioned that in #scripting but don’t think it got much traction.

brave parcel
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^ plus a check to make sure you don't have a bounty for that skin

split halo
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I see there already is a box for skin container in eloot
wonder if you can just put "totem" in there, or w/e noun you have
is the totem an actual container?

brave parcel
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eloot currently uses your stow settings to determine the skin container, and since totem isn't a container, that doesn't work

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tysong made a quick and dirty script for a post-hunt routine that works: exit if Bounty.type =~ /skin/ result = dothistimeout('look idol', 3, /You sense there are (?<charges>\d+) charges of power/) if result =~ /You sense there are (?<charges>\d+) charges of power/ exit if Regexp.last_match[:charges].to_i == 500 Script.run("foreach", "skin in my backpack; move to idol") fput "stow all" else echo "unknown response! check the response and adjust accordingly!" end you'll have to customize it for your containers though

split halo
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might just have to edit eloot itself to deal with skins differently
so it can be done while hunting

sour yarrow
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Don't do that. Then you'll never get updates (or trash your changes every time you do)

split halo
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my eloot already looks like swiss cheese

pale anchor
tulip rose
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You just gotta pocket add it and it would probably work.

zinc jacinth
trail bolt
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It looks like the recharge cost was already reviewed before it launched, so I’m curious if it would be looked at again potentially. I agree too, being able to make it a skin container would be a nice QoL upgrade.

I had a similar issue with my mechanical quiver where feeding it gems and attuning it became cumbersome

brave parcel
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Can't hunt my ranger without my compartmentalized quiver. It fixes all the pain points of the new ammo system. Agree the gem maintenance is kind cumbersome, but I don't think it eats up nearly as much silver as the totem since you're getting like 60ish charges out of a single gem.

Would be nice if it would allow you to add additional gems to stack charges though so I don't have to keep as many spare gems on me.

pale anchor
random heart
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now you know what it's like shopping for women's clothes

lapis glen
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I’d guess because it already has a put skin in (item) coded into it that pockets wouldn’t be allowed to start with. It does take bundles though so with the right skins 1-2 bundles and you’re ready to roll with your hungry hungry hippo spirit vs feeding one by one.

split halo
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is this a bug?

You focus your thoughts while chanting the mystical phrase for Heal...
Your spell is ready.
You concentrate.
    **** Spiraling threads of misty green light extend from a smooth balsawood idol fringed with several raven feathers with a challenging raven's caw, the motes encasing your arm in incandescence as a rush of power sinks into you to strengthen your attack.
You feel a little better.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
(Forcing stance down to guarded)```
round lion
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Yes. It's being looked into. I may have to see if I can put in something that'll workaround that problem but I may not be able to until Wednesday.

split halo
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Does it also trigger when spelling ones self up?

round lion
round lion
split halo
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thank you

pine helm
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Avaluka, I think the crit padding flares are still triggering when 605 barkskin prevents an attack. Maybe that’s intended through order of operations, but figured I’d point it out if no one else has.

round lion
pine helm
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I’ll try and grab log.

lapis glen
# 
    *** A ferocious rasping hiss rips free from a bone-inlaid kobold scalp fetish beaded with chips of bone as a rippling wave of nebulous black light flows from it and over your exposed skin, imbuing a sudden rush of power from the massive a massive cockroach that lets you endure some of the blow.
The layer of bark on you hardens and absorbs the attack!  The bark crackles, but maintains its form.
The air around you pulses with a brilliant light as ribbons of light blue energy lash forward, striking a sleek black kiramon stalker!
   ... 15 points of damage!
   Visible wisps of electricity shoot up right arm.  Youch!
   The kiramon stalker is stunned!

 ** Cords of plasma-veined grey mist seep from your carapace armor and entangle the kiramon stalker, causing it to tremble violently! **

The knobby layer of bark on an ancient cinereous vulture creaks and twists briefly before disintegrating.```
brave parcel
pine helm
#

One more: ```A brackish green arrow flies out of the shadows toward you!
*** A ferocious gnar rips free from a fur-trimmed fel totem strung on a leather cord as a rippling wave of night black light flows from it and over your exposed skin, imbuing a sudden rush of power from the grizzled a grizzled direbear that lets you endure some of the blow.
The layer of bark on you hardens and absorbs the attack! The bark crackles, but maintains its form.
The air around you pulses with a brilliant light as ribbons of pale orange energy lash forward, striking a triton warden!
... 20 points of damage!
Nasty burns to chest make you wish you never heard of heartburn.
The triton warden is stunned!

** Your x'aganjira ruhan releases a distorted black shadow at the triton warden! **
The triton warden freezes in utter terror!
A dried seaweed-wrapped longbow slips from the triton warden's grasp.```

floral tide
#

has there been any talk of enabling multiple upgrade paths (and switching between them) for this?

fathom acorn
#

Can these work on any demons?

fathom acorn
# 
Flickering motes of misty green light briefly coalesce into the transparent form of an undertaker bat, the ghostly figure moving to follow you as you stride east.

me likey - shame we don't have more bats 🙂

#

ooh even better

Motes of misty green light coalesce beneath your feet, merging into a fluttering cloud of bat wings that follow you as you stride down an iron gate.
vocal rover
#

Spooky

trail bolt
#

Veteran Kaelyr strides west amidst a cacophony of wolf howls.

The distant sound of a wolf's **floor** heralds the arrival of Veteran Kaelyr.

wary helm
#

The ground/floor thing has been reported, please sit tight and imagine something fun in the meantime

lapis glen
trail bolt
#

But... my imagination is no good. Now I just see floors everywhere

wary helm
#

But WOLF floors

#

That's as good as we'll get

fathom acorn
#

A cacophony of monkey gangly surrounds you as you stride south.

What's a gangly? 😛 Do I just let you know here or bug idol/monkey ig?

#

I'm guessing they should be screeches from the setting info.
Misty green motes swirl over the idol's surface as the screech of a monkey rings through the air.

barren plume
#

what does the monkey movements look like from third person?

opal wave
fathom acorn
barren plume
#

k

arctic scarab
# 

Motes of cobalt blue light coalesce beneath your feet, merging into a fluttering cloud of mosquito wings that follow you as you stride south.

A cacophony of mosquito buzzes surrounds you as you stride west.``` gotta collect all the insects!
rich girder
arctic scarab
#

It'd be cool if we could copy colors from one slot to another. Having to get it altered 5 times feels like a waste of an alteration spot. Would also be nice to have an alteration guide whenever it gets a wiki page.

lapis glen
brave parcel
#

We need a 10-BS spirit color-change cert 🙏

pure timber
#

Someone mentioned that one could capture a phoenix's essence. Just want to be sure that it's possible. Can anyone confirm?

sour yarrow
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Phoenix is one of the OTS options from some year and on the approved mythical creature list, so I'd reckon its extremely likely

fathom acorn
#

color change via GALD or this (if it still works)
#1273047093509886105 message

pure timber
#

Thank you Kaetel and Desorceri for your replies.

brave parcel
arctic scarab
#

The padding has a *chance * to flare on being hit, correct? It is not being applied on every hit?

lapis glen
pine helm
#

My understand is that when it flares, it applies 10 CER crit prior to randomization and resolution. It does not flare every hit, but when it flares it applies.

brave parcel
#

wasn't there an issue where it doesn't apply to SMR and spell hits?

pine helm
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Not that I am aware of.

sacred lance
#

Word to the wise, 500 charges of padding flares won't save you for long from the Wyrm.

tender copper
#

somehow I lost my default spirt in my idol and it's empty. how do I fix it? I have to add stuff to it and start over? I'm not sure what I did for it to leave...

#

I have three slots unlocked. I did try to wave it at something but it didn't work because I need to feed it or whatever.

lapis glen
#

Did you TURN it?

tender copper
#

I might have when I noticed there were no more footprints

arctic scarab
#

Asking for a friend.

lapis glen
tender copper
sacred lance
#

@arctic scarab I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess...You're a bard aren't you? LOL

boreal basalt
round lion
#

If there are phoenix creatures to kill it should capture them fine. I know there are at least firebirds as creatures.

pure timber
round lion
#

But I do think there are firebirds that are creatures you can hunt in Teras. I forget if there is an actual creature with the noun of "phoenix" there, but there oculd be.

copper glade
#

Would there be any opportunity to utilize the full creature name in more messaging? I captured a blood eagle spirit, but 2/3 of the messaging just says eagle. Sorry if my question isn't specific enough.

mystic cedar
floral tide
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Do Yetis count as creatures?

random heart
#

The F'Eyrie has both phoenixes and firebirds.

pine helm
#

Anyone have a capybara companion so I can borrow its essence?

#

Way outside and feature-creepy, but it would be neat to be able to use the totem to capture the essence of possible animal companions in a room, that have not been summoned.

random heart
#

Interesting side bit about 630: if a ranger hasn't yet befriended an AC, they can basically keep casting 630 to temporarily summon (for about 5 minutes) any one of the ACs in a given room. I wonder if the totem would still work with the temporarily summoned one for a ranger who is somehow still in that boat?

uncut plinth
#

The angry roar of an owl suddenly erupts from thin air.

copper glade
brave parcel
#

when does twilight hall give out freebies every year? i need more owl fluff!

round lion
uncut plinth
#

ok

#

as soon as the ambient script shows...but it is Owly: pale-faced barn owl as I recall

round lion
#

Odd. I'll have to look into it tonight.

uncut plinth
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oh...found it..settings: Current Spiritual Essence: a pale-faced coppery barn owl [Color: misty green]

uncut plinth
round lion
#

Oooh. I think I know what happened. Yeah. I can fix it in a few hours. You'll have to re-POINT at owly after it's fixed, though, to fix the spirit essence up a bit so it's no longer confused.

#

Either that or I'd have to find you and fix it manually on the totem.

uncut plinth
#

Will speak with Raelee later tonight and have her point the totem at Owly. thx

lucid dock
#

I believe, in my heart, that Owly can roar.

foggy mauve
mystic cedar
foggy mauve
#

Haven't settled on my color yet. If possible I'll likely customize that part

round lion
brave parcel
#

still hoping for a cheap color change cert!

floral tide
#

and a medium-price boost switch cert

copper glade
mystic cedar
copper glade
hexed meteor
#

pretty sure it can be a headdress

copper glade
#

Thank you! This is such a neat system

uncut plinth
lapis glen
#

Yep it can totally be a headdress

paper nymph
#

So I am just cruious is there a genera consensus on the types of flares that would be most benefical for a ambushing rogue who is wearing full leathers? I have crit managed thinking between the TD and the Crit padding. Not sure which I need to double down on

pine helm
#

The current answer, I think, is crit padding regardless of class, race, or style.

paper nymph
#

Also, I'm trying to navigate the thread, but there a lot. Can anyone explain why I'm having issues adding metals to the totem? Holding in my right hand hold weapon/armor in left. Then ADD TOTEM. It's telling me it doesn't want to play. I can add gems and feathers ,gems and runestaffs for wood. Just not metals

zinc jacinth
paper nymph
boreal basalt
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A friend has a tigress for an animal companion, and his totem won't capture it. I'm guessing that particular noun hasn't been added yet?

round lion
#

Yeah. I'd have to add Tigress, I believe. Tiger is there for sure.

round lion
copper glade
#

I pointed my totem at my jackrabbit custom familiar and It said the spirit wasn't strong enough. Ive since noticed jackrabbit is available for other animal spirit script items. Is this something that just needs an update, or is it incompatible because custom familiar?

shadow lily
broken hill
#

If you point the totem 100 times at Helga, does it unlock any Easter egg?

round lion
copper glade
shadow lily
wary helm
#

Rare

copper glade
floral tide
#

Some of the arena mobs don’t work: burgbee, tsark, vorstav(sp?). Granted, I also don’t know if it should work for those. Also, another request to add yetis.

lapis glen
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Can you shank the regular yetis to make meat?
If not, they'll count as a humanoid/bipedal creature and not an animal creature.

floral tide
#

Let’s also allow that please

hexed meteor
#

If anyone is trying to find a nice color for their totem spirit, I have the following in my animalistic gear that I'm more than happy to let people use (if you don't want the animal, you'll have to go find the one you do want after getting the color):

  • a brown-flecked cinnamon bobcat
  • a deep emerald stallion
fathom acorn
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The lor runestaff doesn't seem like it'd be a good thing to add to the balsawood idol.
add is the verb right?

lapis glen
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Yep. Maybe find someone with a wood chipper and see if the block from it works (I seem to recall that being the process for at least one person)

round lion
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Yeah. It likely is just a little too heavy/big. If you use a wood chopper box to turn it into a Forging Block it should work.

fathom acorn
#

it's only 3lbs... is it because it's well-balanced?

round lion
#

Mmm. Odd that it's not working then.

fathom acorn
#

Is it trying to capture the well-balanced too? Maybe it's causing it to be too long?

You tap a smooth balsawood idol set with an inky-cored vivid carmine bloodjewel that you are wearing.
fathom acorn
#

The witchwood toothpick doesn't seem like it'd be a good thing to add to the balsawood idol.

wary helm
#

It's scripted

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It's the same checks that the charm traption goes through...which is also not on the wiki. Crafters! What them rules

fathom acorn
#

Okay I got the lor runestaff turned to a lor block (from 3lbs to 11lbs lol) but it the idol accepted it. 🙂

static moat
stray monolith
#

Ugg it's so hard to add skin charges while hunting for skins your losing charges as your gaining them unless you turn them off but whats the fun of that?

broken hill
#

PETA would be unsympathetic to your plight

stray monolith
#

I think it's great I'll be skinning for a reason again. just hope it is more of a more worth skinning to use vs getting irrited that Im having to turn off the totem , skin 200 critters, turn on the totem, get 20 flairs and out of totem go back and skin 200 critters.

#

that's gonna end up using that totem and fluffy bear following me around more than just actual buff use and I'd suggest not wasting the 30k bs on upgrading it for stats bonus.

paper nymph
sour yarrow
stray monolith
#

One arena run start with 500 charges ended with 450- number of times activated 5.
Messaging:

A shaggy tusked ursian tries to bite you!
You evade the attack by inches!```
sour yarrow
#

Right, defensive ones are 10 each. That makes sense

opal wave
#

'So I was informed ki-lin wouldn't work with my totem...but i thought it may be funny to check the other local creatures...and...

Extending a smooth platinum idol adorned with a golden hinterboar mane in front of you, you point it at a Sheruvian monk.  A diffuse cloud of misty green sparks scurries out of it and surrounds the monk briefly.  In a rush of sparkling light, the motes draw back into the platinum idol, momentarily taking the shape of a tiny monk before vanishing.```

```>e
Flickering motes of misty green light briefly coalesce into the transparent form of a Sheruvian monk, the ghostly figure moving to follow you as you stride east.

>w
Sparks of misty green light coalesce beneath your feet, merging into a trail of paw-shaped prints that follow you as you stride west.

>e
A cacophony of monk gangly surrounds you as you stride east.```

Spirit beast ki-lin is a no go
```point my idol at ki-lin
You really should point the platinum idol at something.
>glance ki-lin
You glance at an incorporeal white ki-lin.```
wary helm
#

I'm sorry but lol

lapis glen
#

It's worm/wormswood & stick/stickpin all over again! Quick see if you can shank the monk!

rough flax
#

oh thats the kind of edge-case I crave
Oh man thats a great capture using the full critter name. I'll buy that idol off you if you didn't over write it already.
Thats got good ||council of light|| implications

opal wave
arctic scarab
#

Quick, someone point it at the Poobah!

rough flax
#

Rolfard raspily says, "Pass me an idol
you say "throw me the whip"

I feel that didn't get enough laughs in person

opal wave
rough flax
#

this whole thing has really made my morning =3

lapis glen
#

The mental image of Rolfard and Ordim running from a giant boulder has made mine.

round lion
#

It's like the things tasting of passion when you put in passion fruit in the stills, etc.

frozen plaza
#

It didn't work

round lion
rough flax
#

With a staccato rhythm, you tap the surface of a ghostwood and widowwood idol adorned with a yellowed molar tooth from where it is pinned on your chest, causing the annoyed screech of a monk to rise into the air.
Speaking to your widowwood idol, you say, "RIP monk."
Extending a ghostwood and widowwood idol adorned with a yellowed molar tooth in front of you, you point it at a sponget ginger stoutfoot rolton wearing a vathor costume. A diffuse cloud of misty green sparks scurries out of it and surrounds the rolton briefly. In a rush of sparkling light, the motes draw back into the widowwood idol, momentarily taking the shape of a tiny rolton before vanishing.

frozen plaza
#

So I was informed ki-lin wouldn't work with my totem...but i thought it may be funny to check the other local creatures...and...

Spirit beast ki-lin is a no go

round lion
wary helm
#

My life is ruined

#

Taco fixed thanks

pure timber
frozen plaza
#

I didn't realize it was the monk that was not allowed, I thought it was the ki-lin

pure timber
mystic cedar
pure timber
#

Perfect, thank you.

dim root
lucid dock
dim root
lucid dock
#

It's an approved animal name for any of the Animalistic Gear!

boreal basalt
#

Avaluka is a genius. Props go to Ordim for originally making me aware of this possibility.The semitransparent image of a silver-horned tenebrous black unicorn wearing a war rat costume flickers into life before trotting away in a burst of misty green motes.

wispy sorrel
#

all we need now is warfly

boreal basalt
wispy sorrel
#

insulting!

boreal basalt
#

What, that I'm suggesting you might be able to wear a mount costume?

wispy sorrel
#

GP is pretty big.

fathom acorn
#

A wish just popped in my head... can we have a material called billy? heh

A waterfall of misty green light briefly cascades from your lor idol.
vocal steeple
#

So you can dance with yourself? 🎶

boreal basalt
#

We can already dance with ourselves, but this would give that context.

lapis glen
#

We've had Jimmy Buffett and boy band references already, so why not?

pale anchor
# 
Pieces of a flame-scarred dreadsteed skull, a giant toe, and a rolton pelt dangle from the fel totem in some semblance of a decoration.
You sense there are 243 charges of power left in the fel totem.```
Never noticed the skins going into decoration, is this automatic based on stuff you use to charge it or you control this somehow?
pine helm
#

Brute, you regularly killing roltons?

pale anchor
#

yes, I have a personal vendetta against them

#

some probably got collateral damaged and skinned while doing bandits, not even sure how they got in there

#

yeah doesn't seem like any verbs change that description

boreal basalt
#

Mine has completely different skins as decorations, and specifically the ones I farmed for charges. Also, I watched the LOOK description change as I added them. I think it's safe to say that we don't control it other than choosing which skins to power the totem with.

pale anchor
#

appears to randomly change when you feed it, just added more skins to it, the second item in the description changed

lucid dock
#

Can we use a dye to change the color in one slot in our totem?

lucid dock
#

Or can we use the totem with a bug?

lapis glen
lucid dock
#

scoff

lapis glen
#

No, it doesn't scoff, it hisses like a proper cockroach.

lucid dock
#

I really am just looking for some option to get one of these slots royal blue, for the Penguin Princess.

Thank you ever so kindy Mister Trallihn, you are ever so thoughtful. Yes, we will go with that.

rough flax
#

bugs on parade bugs do not work, but its something that might be added in the future.
I think the gem version works as an adornment etc?

brave parcel
#

The angry shriek of a phoenix suddenly erupts from thin air. why is my phoenix so angry?

random heart
#

because you stole his soul

dusk prawn
#

Hello, has anyone infused their totem with a sewer rat? I would like to request the addition of chinchilla as an allowable noun. Thank you very much.

rich girder
#

I know the animalistic totems have taken up a lot of time (and they are definitely awesome...i bought two), but will we see Wilkes make some appearances after DR? I have an arbalest I purchased last DR that i have not been able to get work done on.

pine helm
#

Good morning -- I just added animal spirit script to my armor -- and I am wondering if it is somehow not playing nice with the totem. While I've seen the animal spirit armor reactive flares, it appears the totem flares are no longer triggering (crit, defensive flares on totem).

#

I just checked -- no flares in 50+ hits (423 charges left, flares on).

pure timber
dusk prawn
static moat
pine helm
round lion
#

Yeah - if there is no spirit in the slot the flares won't work either.

pine helm
#

I suspect this is the issue. Thank you!

round lion
#

And apologies on the Wilkes thing. I've been swamped between how popular the totems are (a surprise but a happy one!) and grinding into gear for Ebon Gate. I'm still hoping I can make some time to bring him out during Duskruin.

vernal forum
#

@sand ore ^

sand ore
#

that would be greatly appreciated as I'm so very much not into mice

mystic cedar
#

Would it be possible to provide an option to make animal items take the properties of a totem? Basically the reverse of what it is now. That way you can at least customize the color and creature of animal items wherever but the rest of the special parameters of an item still needs to be altered by a merchant.

#

It seems like Wilkes is a rarity, causing a pretty big barrier to at least enjoying the minimum customization of an item.

#

I know that you also said more GMs will be trained but at least some minimal self service here would be a huge QoL improvement.

rich girder
#

I'm just curious if there would be a way for Avaluka to code an option into the spirit change certificate a way to cycle through the available "spirit type" and select one. What I mean is, i bought a spirit change for my arbalest so I could eventually get a scorpion (that's the big change I'm waiting on Wilkes for...scorpion and color) but it only lets you set it to I believe some kind of spider when you get the certificate. There's a default on those. If we could cycle through and pick the one in there that we wanted and maybe a way to add dye to get colors, then Wilkes could focus on the other customizations. Not that I wanna pay for a whole other certificate again but it's just an idea and one i have no idea if it would even be feasible.

mystic cedar
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Then imagine having more than one item. You can't match anything until you have seen multiple merchants which are already extremely rare.

This is a compliment to the popularity of the items but really I would hope for those basics.

rich girder
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And again without knowing the coding... even an unlock for the unlock. First unlock let's you reset the category, second let's you choose the specific creature in that category and then a dye unlock.

mystic cedar
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Sure, if you want to go that route of charging even more but it would at least be an option.

#

Or update the unlock to allow the more specific choice like you said. I would very much include color in that.

high orchid
#

Wilkes isn't that rare normally and I when there isn't some cool new things like helms or totems the line is pretty reasonable......I am not sure if you can PP alter a beast type/color that would be nice

rich girder
high orchid
#

Darn

rich girder
#

I'd have 100% spent my points on it to get this arbalest done if it had been available but i get why it wasnt.

#

The only solution here is to clone Avaluka a few times. LOL!

round lion
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The problem being is that it'd be a lot of work to code in defaults for all the different nouns, as not all the nouns work with the default noises, etc.

wary helm
#

Avaluka is a treasure

rich girder
#

Would it be possible to make it so we could see them as alterable via PP in the near future for maybe 300points for general alteration/spirit color/animal change since I know you have plans to train some other GM's?

round lion
#

I can definitely look into that!

rich girder
round lion
#

Especially since my time is definitely a lot scarcer lately and going to more coding than anything.

high orchid
#

I agree with Dendum having a PP option would take some stress off of Wilkes train. Because some people need their twinkling mauve llama and they need it now.

sand ore
#

It's a big reason we bought the animalistic items...and moreso the reason we bought the extra cert to set the animal type expecting we would have a reasonable option to set it...with that whole list and all that goes with it.

#

llamas being the top choice.

rich girder
sand ore
#

depends on my alt 😄

mystic cedar
#

Side question, can spirit descriptors be only one word?

icy mantle
fathom acorn
#

ooh I need a sea otter please 🙂

icy mantle
# fathom acorn ooh I need a sea otter please 🙂 
Sweeping one arm out in a tight arc, you gesture forcefully at a battle-marred ice giant champion with a sinuous twisting motion, tilting your bastard sword in time with the movement.  Rippling waves of seafoam green energy flow over the surface of your golvern warhelm, pooling in your eyes and blurring your features with those of a brawny sea otter.
Cocking your head to one side, you bare your suddenly sharp teeth with a menacing bark, a layer of seafoam green light settling over your skin in the form of sleek ethereal fur.```
sand ore
#

I’m stuck with the default mice till we get alters up and going. It’s so embarrassing I may locker the staff and use my nerve staff till it’s resolved. Can’t use it till it spams noble squirrels 🐿️

icy mantle
#

Does anyone know if the headdresses can be pointed at the totems to take a spirit from a totem into the helm?

lapis glen
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Yep; for helm to totem… for adding to the helm you need to use the slips

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Or take it from gear

icy mantle
#

I was curious since they both pretty much acquire spirits the same way, but it would make sense since the headdress and weapons probably aren't designed to take mounts/familiars/etc and auto generate response messages on the items based on that.

lapis glen
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They don’t totem to totem either.

icy mantle
#

I was thinking about spirits seeming to have a tradeable quality. Which technically you can do from weapon/armor to helm to totem. Just not in reverse.

rich girder
icy mantle
lapis glen
#

Crickets reproduce in the boxes!

rich girder
lapis glen
mystic cedar
icy mantle
lucid dock
#

Animal Request for the list of approved spirits, please: Nightingale.

meager crown
#

I just have to say, I snort-laughed when I saw the movement for the otters.

fathom acorn
#

galumphing!

fathom acorn
#

these don't take DR gems do they?

fathom acorn
#

Can these be used with wandering tattoos please?

sand ore
#

not exactly a totem but I have a fully unlocked attuned animal staff and a fully attuned animal hat....using the staff with flare gloves for several days now I see EITHER the staff flare OR the gloves flare but never both at the same time...lots and lots of fighting...anyone else got his combo able to test it?

mystic cedar
#

Did you just say animal hat

vernal forum
#

I mean they just have to line up to hit at the same time, but if both are flaring, whats the issue?

sand ore
#

well in theory the gloves (vacuum( would be flaring from Slot B. The animal grapple flare is a script from Slot D....they should be capable of flaring both on a single hit. It wouldn't happen often but you would (and I do with other weapon setups) see them both flare on a single hit. In this case I am not after hundreds of hits.

sand ore
# mystic cedar Did you just say animal hat

yes animal hats (they synergyze with the animalisttic spriit weapons and cut the attune time in half). Mine is a tricorn hat with a bird feather (for now till I alter it).

lapis glen
mystic cedar
#

😄 Yea I know about headdresses. It sounded hilarious being referenced to as just a hat but I guess it literally is!

sand ore
#

I also refer to my staff as a stick and whiskey as Life 😄

lucid dock
# fathom acorn these don't take DR gems do they?

Yes, in that they are like Joolas, a gem will add to the long description according to whatever the setting is set to.

A Gem does not go on it like wood or metal to the actual material of the totem.

#

I'm still ready to lobby for us being able to add our own dye for the coloration field, and not take up poor Mister Wilkes' time if all we need is a color.

The totem CAN get a color on a slot from a merchant, right?

lucid dock
#

Miss Avaluka - the totems with the DS/TD on them, does a charge get used any time an opponent strikes/casts at you, or only the times they do not miss?

I'm still struggling with the concept of the gigantic upkeep on these to keep them charged.

floral tide
#

i would assume the former, because the DS/TD calculation is what decides if there's a hit or miss

stoic plover
lucid dock
#

😦 I am going to chalk this up to an expensive learning lesson and just use my totem for fluffiness.

boreal basalt
lucid dock
#

Good idea. Mister Trallihn suggested that, too.

I wish Mister Wyrom's return policy for brand new things was 2 weeks, instead of 24 hours, though. 😦

vernal forum
#

the flares can be turned on and off at will with no cooldown or RT, Id suggest using them more sparingly than an "always on" approach

lucid dock
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I've kept that off since I found out how expensive it was going to be to keep charged.

brave parcel
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I ended up doing the same thing with the thamaturge tome too. Never find enough scrolls to keep it charged, and then it just gets in the way when it runs out of charges. Eventually just gave up

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of all the hunting accessories that eat loot, i think only the compartmentalized quiver doesn't result in a net negative (gems). totems and thaumaturge tomes definitely eat more skins/scrolls than you get. even sprite weapons will consume more t/s/n-ayanad crystals than you get through ordinary hunting. i think the essence belts take more essence than you normally find too. i imagine it's the same for that item that eats junk though i haven't used that firsthand

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it's almost as if the GMs are all conspiring to try to drain our hard-earned silver. we should revolt and resist the establishment. turn off all loot-eating items and hoard silvers!

ripe lotus
#

ok i was skeptical at first but i love this movement thing

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Flickering motes of blue-black light briefly coalesce into the transparent form of a stalking panther, the ghostly figure moving to follow you and your group as you stride east.

sudden drift
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My totem won't FLIP anymore and I can't figure out why. It was "a fire opal-set pink coral totem set with a carved blue sea glass teardrop" and I cleaned the material and added vaalin to make it "a fire opal-set vaalin totem set with a carved blue sea glass teardrop". I cleaned the fire opal to put in a new gem and after that it wasn't flippable, it just says "adorning the vaalin totem until you are sure it will look like "a gem-inlaid vaalin totem" now." over and over.

I tried a few different gems, and metals for the accent. Completely cleaned it and tried changing the base material to other metal, gem and wood with different accents... nothing flips. Did adding vaalin break my totem?

round lion
sudden drift
# round lion It may be you are trying to adorn with a material that's too long to properly fi...

I found another fire opal so I stuck that on the totem. It went back to "a fire opal-set vaalin totem" but it won't flip to the generic descriptions like gem-inlaid. Tried a diamond as well, "a diamond-set vaalin totem" that won't flip to generics.

Using steel to make "a steel and vaalin totem" and ora for "an ora and vaalin totem" won't let it flip either. I'm not sure what else to try to make it less characters.

river minnow
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Anyone have messaging for each of the 4 types of totems when they flare in combat?

round lion
pine helm
#

Holy smokes. I am absolutely loving the crit padding totem.

neat mountain
#

so for changing the appearance on my animal totem I have to find feeder fodder to push into it and whatnot, right?

fathom acorn
#

1st PIN

Small weapons/runestaves work. Forging blocks. Alteration fodder items. Gems that are less than 15 characters in length. Certain skins/bones/antlers/horns.
neat mountain
fathom acorn
#

maybe honey amber or honey beryl

dreamy zealot
pine helm
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Not trouble, no. But I do think flare cost could be adjusted again. Take defensive flares to 5 changes, and offensive to 2.

mystic cedar
#

What's the command again to feed it pelts? I didn't see it in the analyze.

lapis glen
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Put <skins> in <item>

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Last line just before the current setting in analyze-
DROP/PUT (feed skins)

frozen plaza
pine helm
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This is pretty standard: Shrieking rage from dozens of phantasmal throats, a roiling crimson angargeist sprouts dripping claws that slash at you! *** A ferocious gnar rips free from a fur-trimmed faenor totem strung on a leather cord as a rippling wave of night black light flows from it and over your exposed skin, imbuing a sudden rush of power from the grizzled a grizzled direbear that lets you endure some of the blow. AS: +568 vs DS: +444 with AvD: +25 + d100 roll: +31 = +180 ... and hits for 6 points of damage! Quick slash to your upper left arm! Just a nick. I'll post when I get a life saving flare.

frozen plaza
#

Does the padding only activate for AS/DS hits or does it work for SMR attacks?

barren plume
#

melee only pretty much

frozen plaza
#

Oh, that's less useful.

sudden drift
pine helm
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Yes. spirit is a grizzled direbear. the other grizzled, i think, is from the totem messaging.

round lion
#

Yeah. THere are some outstanding messaging bugs there that I have to go through. I've been swamped this week.

river minnow
#

Anyone have the messaging for crit weighting?

lapis glen
# river minnow Anyone have the messaging for crit weighting?

**** A riotous explosion of niveous motes bursts from a gem-studded fel totem strung on a leather cord with an echoing snarl, XXX's face briefly obscured by the semitransparent visage of an immense obsidian sai'ri monster as her attack seems to gain strength.

river minnow
#

Tyvm

boreal basalt
#

I have also been swamped lately, but I think my version of swamp is probably preferable to Avaluka's. Sorry Avaluka.

s>look XXX
Standing upright on his haunches and utilizing his wide, ridged tail for balance, XXX towers above those nearby.  Thick leathery skin darkens along the shoulders, back, and head, as the ridges that descend to the tale transform into large bony, plate-shaped scales.  His face culminates in a long snout edged in tanned hues and sporting long, pointed teeth, while pointed green eyes rest within a pronounced eyebrow ridge of hard-plated scales.  Resting against the smoother contours of his stomach, his webbed fingers end in dark talons.
s>
Wrapping his hand around the widowwood totem pinned to his chest, XXX bows his head forward in prayer.  Misty green light seeps through his fingers in a dazzling spiral along with the fading sound of a crocodile's growl.```
sand ore
#

Avaluka just needs to make a 5k bs cert that can be used for a scheduled animalistic alter...then we'd all cough it up and there would be a whole new revenue stream 😄

boreal basalt
#

Let's clone her a few times first so we don't make her explode. 😁

sand ore
#

She needs minions...Minions solve so many issues.

dusty hamlet
#

Maybe we can find Calvin's Duplicator?

rich girder
zinc jacinth
rich girder
sand ore
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I'll be hopeful but also would love some updates as things progress. I'm too old to live on hope alone (or to do 10 year projects).

rich girder
#

I've shelved my arbalest for now and didnt bother upgrading it further this DR since my alt isnt using it until i can get the spirit changed to the one I want via Wilkes (or another trained merchant).

pine helm
pine helm
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#avalukaismyspiritanimal

foggy mauve
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I know it's not quite a question about totems, but for an animalistic spirit weapon/armor, how do I change the spirit animal while staying within the same animal type group - is that only done with an alteration?

pine helm
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Yes — from a special merchant or two. Keep your eyes open for a Wilkes announcement.

sand ore
round lion
#

I expect some announcements about that will come today.

sand ore
#

We will tell them to pay you more!

round lion
#

Weaponmaster Wilkes will be visiting the shop Totemic Spirits at Duskruin to work on spirits in Animalistic Spirit items or spiritual essences in Animalistic Totems. He will be arriving at 10:30 AM Eastern on Sunday, September 8th. Please read the calendar entry for more details.

rich girder
round lion
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Weaponmaster Wilkes will be arriving at the Dining Hall of Helga's Tavern in Wehnimer's Landing to work on spirits in Animalistic Spirit items or spiritual essences in Animalistic Totems. He will be arriving on Saturday, September 14th at 6:00 PM Eastern. Please see the calendar entry for more details. If you need to change the overall type of your Animalistic Spirit item, please be sure you have a Spirit Change slip/note/certificate for your item from Duskruin before the event closes, as Wilkes cannot change the overall type of spirits in Animalistic Spirit items!

rich girder
round lion
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I am hoping I can rip through quite a bit of them by only doing the spirits and not the actual items; most of what slows me down are the headdresses, NGL. Haha.

rich girder
round lion
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And the headdress parts that are slow are the things I won't be working on in these sessions, so should be very zippy!

mystic cedar
vernal forum
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my experience in the past was that the spirit gets everything except the group (which needs the slip)

round lion
mystic cedar
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I'm just referring to the items, like armor.

rich girder
mystic cedar
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Animal items, not totems but the descriptor and color of the spirits.

round lion
icy mantle
sand ore
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Three possible fields so if we change color, subtype and descriptor that’s a 300 charge max for an item or am I missing some fields?

#

Also if we give a tip do you get to keep it or do you have to take it in the back and share it with the bus boys?

floral tide
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Is the color change for a single spirit setting, or for all five?

rugged nymph
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i have a headdress, and i added a second imprint slot hoping to get that animal altered as well, but i can't TURN the headdress to the empty imprint spot to change the animal type in that spot with the spirit change paper. would i give Wilkes the paper and the headdress to get another animal put in, or am i missing something else i need to do to make that happen?

high orchid
vocal steeple
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That's my understanding too. From the analyze:
The spirit within the hood must be attuned to you, as well as the spirit of the other piece of Animalistic Spirit gear you are trying to imprint.

rugged nymph
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hmm but the original comes from the headdress itself. can the headdress copy the idol if i put the new one in the idol? i don't have a full set of animal stuff, so i hope so!

vocal steeple
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The original comes from the headdress, the imprint can be taken from your attuned armor, weapon or shield. I don't think it will work with the totem ... yet. Perhaps that's something Avaluka might consider for the future though!

sudden drift
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When I point my totem at my ranger companion (Castoroides) it says it wouldn't have enough essence to capture, does that mean it can't be captured or something else?

boreal basalt
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You probably have an unusual noun that perhaps came from a companion grooming. I believe Avaluka said she's working on those as the cases appear.

pure timber
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I am hoping to change the color with my totem. I have changed an essence using another animalistic spirit. And one via a merchant. It's my understanding that the color can't be changed as glittering (color) or sparkling or twinkling (color) @round lion can you offer some suggestions that are allowed?

round lion
round lion
pure timber
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Something like graduated color would work?

#

And thank you for the quick reply

high orchid
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Llama are naturally scintillating

sand ore
sudden drift
round lion
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Oh. A giant extinct beaver. Nice. Haha. Yeah. I don't have that noun yet. I'll put it on the to-do list as soemthing that needs to go into a category. I assume rodent will have to be it.

#

I'm proud of myself I knew it was probably something to do with a beaver before I had to Google it just based on the name.

sudden drift
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lol. It's definitely not a word you see every day. Thanks!

pine helm
#

For Wilkes' totem work tomorrow, will Wilkes add a spiritual essence we want, assuming it exists in the game? Like, can I get a capybara? Or a Thielfira?

# 
 * For an extra fee, Wilkes can change the noun of a captured spiritual essence within an Animalistic Totem, though the noun must be within the bounds of the Animalistic Spirit rules for that group (IE: the noun has to be approved for that group). This is much trickier, as Wilkes essentially will have to overwrite the spiritual essence with a similar captured Animalistic Spirit he has access to.```
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Do I just need to make sure I get an animal essence that is the same type of the animal I'd like it to be?

lucid dock
#

I'd love to request colors for Totems from extra sources than poor overworked Mister Wilkes!

Gems
Dyes
Stuffs

round lion
pine helm
pine helm
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@frozen plaza -- see -- this would have been even worse. A spectral cold wyrm's eyes whirl with glints of furious amber and sullen crimson! Diving down from above, a spectral cold wyrm rakes at you with her scythe-like talons! *** A ferocious gravelly growl rips free from a fur-trimmed faenor totem strung on a leather cord as a rippling wave of marbled grey light flows from it and over your exposed skin, imbuing a sudden rush of power from the imposing an imposing grizzly bear that lets you endure some of the blow. AS: +932 vs DS: +345 with AvD: +23 + d100 roll: +48 = +658 ... and hits for 99 points of damage! Gruesome slash opens your forehead! Grey matter spills forth!

boreal basalt
#

At least it didn't hurt?

copper glade
#

Question on the animal totems, does each added spirit side have its own color setting, or is it a single color setting per totem?

round lion
copper glade
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Ooo! Thank you! These things are so neat :>

pine helm
#

Has anyone created a forum thread for trading imprints/colors?

sand ore
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why is misty appended to my animal color? I am asking only because it kinda disrupts the flow of the name...are ALL of the animalistic spirits getting misty appended to the color? Just checking.

sour yarrow
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“Misty green” the default color for most animal spirit items

sand ore
#

is there a way to get rid of the misty part? I just wanted the color

sour yarrow
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Any color changes would remove it (unless you ask for misty again 🤣)

sand ore
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I mean I get that they are spirits..but misty is kinda meh...I didn't ask for misty but it got slapped on there anyway and I wasn't wanting it.

meager crown
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I like the misty, but changed the color.

#

Avaluka, can I request that you add "starfly" and "lavafly" to the list of insects allowed?

sand ore
#

okay sounds like the extra is not required and the color can be fixed by any merchant. Wish I'd caught it in the middle of the alter but...my bad for not reading careful enough. I'll fix it later at some gald event.

random heart
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Big thanks to Wilkes (and apprentice Hurdragof) for coming out today! Especially glad to see another GM gearing up to work on AS gear in general.

sand ore
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100% so many people are happy for today and next week's events. Great items and now that we can customize them there is much rejoicing!

dusk prawn
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Hi there! I was told that the totems would capture the animal spirit in armor/other items, but mine doesn't seem to be working. Does the spirit in my armor need to be fully tamed for it to work? I am at tier 11/12

point my fetish at my bodysuit

A scrap leather bodysuit coated in tufts of purple fur doesn't appear like it'd have enough essence that the suede fetish can capture.

random heart
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It's probably that the noun isn't added to the totem list, what's the animal in it?

dusk prawn
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Chinchilla. I thought the same but was told that shouldn't be an issue. But maybe it is!

feral rock
# 
>add my idol
The glowbark arrow doesn't seem like it'd be a good thing to add to the balsawood idol.```
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what glowbark things can work with this?

pure timber
#

For the woods, it seems to need a block.

sand ore
frail flint
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To change the material, can weapons be used?

feral rock
#

how do you add the skins for charging?

random heart
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I'm pretty sure that it says how in the item's analyze.

frail flint
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Put the skin in the totem.

frail flint
# feral rock how do you add the skins for charging?

You will find that you can use the following verbs: POINT (attune to a creature), ADD (add a material), PUSH (add a decoration), PULL (remove a current decoration), CLEAN (set material back to default), PROD (toggle ambient messages), TWIST (change between material and accent), FLIP (change accent design once accent is ADDed), TURN (change spiritual essence selected), SPIN (change movement style), COVER (toggle off movement style), FOLD (change wear location), PRAY, WAVE (targeted/untargeted), TOUCH, POKE, DROP/PUT (feed skins), RUB (toggle flares on/off).

feral rock
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Okay, I thought add conflicted with the decoration part and didn't see the drop/put

round lion
dusk prawn
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I think this is the highlight of my DR now.

fathom acorn
#

snorfles is pretty cute

steady fable
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Does the totem work with the additive effect of armament stacking when gaining affinity towards new weapons and armor like headdresses?

vernal forum
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I belive the totem has no connection to the animalistic spirit items, besides stylistic

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(but sign me up for a new T6 for animal weapon that occasionally charges your offensive totem, or T6 for animal armor that occasionally charges your defensive totem 💰 )

steady fable
#

Thanks for the information.

boreal basalt
sand ore
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you can get an item altered to have a name...I gotta get the right name for my animal spirit now...

frail flint
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I was playing around with a totem on my wizard, I never got it to flare off of bolt / ball / warding spells. Am I missing something?

fathom acorn
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did you put skins in it?

frail flint
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I did.

sour yarrow
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You turned it on with RUB?

frail flint
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Yup.

sour yarrow
#

Which flavor did you get? Acuity?

frail flint
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+AS / +CS.

sour yarrow
# 
    **** Spiraling threads of virescent light extend from a widowwood and green jade totem adorned with a petrified tiger tooth with a challenging hawk's screech, the motes encasing your arm in incandescence as a rush of power sinks into you to strengthen your attack.
You hurl a massive and crumbling hunk of earth at an immense gold-bristled hinterboar!
  AS: +470 vs DS: +343 with AvD: +36 + d100 roll: +37 = +200
   ... and hit for 86 points of damage!
   Hard strike to left leg breaking tendons and bone!
An earthy, sweet aroma wafts from an immense gold-bristled hinterboar in a murky haze.
The vitality of nature bestows you with a burst of strength!
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

You gesture at an immense gold-bristled hinterboar.
    **** Spiraling threads of virescent light extend from a widowwood and green jade totem adorned with a petrified tiger tooth with a challenging hawk's screech, the motes encasing your arm in incandescence as a rush of power sinks into you to strengthen your attack.
A sudden burst of bright light emanates from your hand toward an immense gold-bristled hinterboar!
  CS: +514 - TD: +360 + CvA: +25 + d100: +9 == +188
  Warding failed!
Blazing light, hot and blistering, coalesces around an immense gold-bristled hinterboar for 50 points of damage!
   ... 20 points of damage!
   Horrid burns seal left eye.  Consider an eyepatch.
An immense gold-bristled hinterboar reels and stumbles under the intense flare!
You blinded an immense gold-bristled hinterboar!
frail flint
# 
You sense there are 226 charges of power left in the rhimar totem.```
Belled to fried in OTF, not a single flare. He is using a OTS Sigil Staff, could that be interfering?
sour yarrow
#

Shouldn't be 🤔

frail flint
#

It just dawned on me: I MIGHT have been dumb enough to not turn the cert to unlock it. Time to dig through the logs.

lapis glen
#

Endurance is the crit padding one

frail flint
#

Yup, I'm dumb. That was a sizable waste of bloodscrip.

#

So... anyone wanna buy a fully unlocked crit padding totem? 😄

fathom acorn
#

This we can these worms in Kraken's Fall, Hornwort Cavern added, please?

A luminous worm doesn't appear like it'd have enough essence that the witchwood idol can capture.
pine helm
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I'm sorry, I'm sure this has been asked, but can you transfer a spiritual essence from one totem to another?

round lion
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Not at the moment, no.

fathom acorn
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Are worms even possible to be added? I guess they don't all make sounds. At least not the small ones.

wary helm
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They grunt

rich girder
fathom acorn
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I need a glow worm to make me feel safe while in dark scary caves ok? Gawwwsh!

vernal forum
zinc jacinth
vernal forum
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yes - I might be interested in buying it, @frail flint send me a DM if you are looking to sell perhaps

subtle plover
#

I have an animal companion that was groomed long ago, it's a snow white ferret. It also is giving the "A snow white ferret doesn't appear like it'd have enough essence that the suede fetish can capture." message when I try to add it's essence to the fetish (which I love, btw).

frail flint
boreal basalt
fathom acorn
boreal basalt
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There's so many good choices out there.

mystic cedar
#

If I have a blazing red phoenix on my totem taken from a creature, and I have a phoenix in my armor, what will the totem change to if I take it from the armor?

will it lose the additional a blazing red and just remain a phoenix?

fathom acorn
#

yup

mystic cedar
#

Is a custom sound taken from armor as well or is that a generic global sound for a given animal noun?

lapis glen
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Custom sounds transfer along with the color

mystic cedar
#

So if I have only Phoenix as the noun, how would I accomplish the same thing taking it from armor? Would the noun be 'a blazing red Phoenix'? But then how would the descriptor work?

Is the only way to get more than just the basic single noun by aiming at a creature from the system?

fathom acorn
#

pointing at custom spirit animals changes the color/sound/type (adj , noun)
pointing at a mundane animal changes the sound/type (adj, noun)

lapis glen
#

The mundane animal also changes to the default sound

fathom acorn
mystic cedar
fathom acorn
mystic cedar
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Like 'a blazing red' I don't think I can do even though I have a descriptor and such on armor. Because it just takes the noun?

fathom acorn
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you have "a blazing red phoenix" in your armor? I thought you were talking about the one on Teras

mystic cedar
mystic cedar
fathom acorn
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ahh maybe... yeah I don't know. The only custom one I pointed at was "a brawny sea otter" so it took it all

fathom acorn
mystic cedar
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All the describing adjectives are there but it doesn't use them. It gets weird because I can have a blazing red phoenix of black motes for example.

fathom acorn
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spirit animals > totem animals. think of totems like bug/aquatic life doodads - they just capture a facsimile. They don't transfer back you just have to rewrite them.

mystic cedar
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So for example, could I make a blazing yellow phoenix

sour yarrow
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Yes

fathom acorn
#

only if you had one to point the totem at - otherwise get a merchant

sour yarrow
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The default color is misty green for most, you can customize most compound colors within - unsure of character limit

mystic cedar
#

But that makes a blazing red phoenix of yellow motes

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Just seems it would make sense and prevent those peculiar combinations if it would grab "a blazing phoenix" (dropping the red) from the creature and "red motes" from the armor.

fathom acorn
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it's confusing when you talk about your armor in here.... this is for totems
whatever color your armor gives to the totem (1 of up to 5 slots) will remain regardless of what else you point your totem at

#

if you like the color your armor gives your totem you can set it on all slots, then change the animal afterward and the armor's given color won't change on the totem

mystic cedar
#

so you understand that I'm talking about the totems right?

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But since you can customize the armor, I'm trying to determine if there's a way that those armor customizations could be applied on the the totem movement noun, not just the motes.

lapis glen
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Totem currently captures everything from the armor, so your best bet would be to customize the armor the way you want the totem to play out (color; sound, etc)

mystic cedar
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Ok I should have tested this. When Desorceri said it removes everything, I thought that meant that it does not apply the descriptor - which it does. Sorry if that got confusing.

fathom acorn
#

is that what I said??

mystic cedar
#

Thought so. #1273047093509886105 message

fathom acorn
#

Yeah it's just rewriting/replacing the whole animal. That's a descriptor to the animal not the color of the essence.

#

example: Flickering motes of lagoon blue (custom color from spirit animal armor) light briefly coalesce into the transparent form of a bulbous (descriptor) kraken, the ghostly figure moving to follow you as you stride down an iron gate.

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So whatever color you get from your armor will remain if you point the totem at "a blazing red phoenix" in Teras.
mundane animals don't change the essence color, only spirit animals and merchants do

opal wave
#

Bought one of these because any CS for a sorcerer felt like a must have. Waiting for the cheat sheet to come out (maybe I missed it)

pine helm
#

How can we help?

pulsar portal
#

@round lion Some text missing in the totem activation here, "A ferocious ??? rips free...". Also not sure if the totem is interacting correctly with my greater Lathonian armor(@potent holly). With the armor activating, the critter technically never hit me.

    *** A ferocious  rips free from a fur-trimmed fel totem strung on a leather cord as a rippling wave of misty green light flows from it and over your exposed skin, imbuing a sudden rush of power from the cloud a crop-tailed cloud porcupine that lets you endure some of the blow.

 ** As the csetairi strikes you, your lamellar armor suddenly begins to glow with a polychromatic light! **
[SMR result: 213 (Open d100: 79, Bonus: 25)]
A small point of polychromatic light forms in midair near a csetairi before expanding to surround her, disrupting her attack!  A csetairi's form begins to quickly dissolve into twinkling motes of energy...
The air around you pulses with a brilliant light as ribbons of light blue energy lash forward, striking a csetairi!
   ... 20 points of damage!
   Heavy shock to left arm numbs elbow.
   The csetairi is stunned!```
round lion
#

Please BUGITEM it if you haven't - I'll have to tackle it later once I have a spare moment. I'm still swamped with EG prep.

sand ore
#

Still have yet to find an instance where my staff flare and my glove flare happen on the same cast. I have highlighted logged and tracked for a long time now. Hmmm. But it’s like trying to prove a negative when everyone just chalks it up to rng and we don’t have a clear way to test/prove it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

mystic cedar
#

When does the band attribute of animal armor get displayed? What action?

mystic cedar
#

Flickering motes of scarlet-veined obsidian light briefly coalesce into the transparent form of a hollow-eyed phoenix, the ghostly figure moving to follow you as you stride west.
Psyched.

fathom acorn
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ooh nice color

boreal basalt
#

Bumping the "tigress" noun support request for a friend. I totally get that you're busy with EG stuff Avaluka, just don't want the request to get buried in the thread and forgotten.

round lion
#

Thank you for the constant reminders! I definitely will need them. I'm hoping my EG mania will be done soon so I can do a flurry of backlogged updates/bug fixes on the totems. I think 'ferret' was not working, as well?

random heart
#

Repeating an earlier request for both shrike to be added (as an avian) and basilisk to be added (probably as a reptile) for messaging. Should we be putting these somewhere else, or is this thread a good a spot as any?

fathom acorn
#

Anyone have any red & black color they'd share? 🙏🏽

boreal basalt
boreal basalt
#

Is adding support for the shadowy dragon a possibility, or is that intended to be a no? It doesn't give the normal messaging for when a critter doesn't work with the totem.

You are hardly aware ... with no conscious thought.  You also see a shadowy dragon.
Obvious paths: northeast, southwest

>point my idol at shadowy dragon
You really should point the balsawood idol at something.```
waxen onyx
fathom acorn
#

not enough reach 😭

neat mountain
#

It seems the lantern overrides the totem

stray monolith
#

yep I noticed that, specifing movement method does too

neat mountain
#

so.. no lantern for this guy

stray monolith
#

ya 😭 no skipping or dragging of items

wary helm
#

It's gonna be whatever the system finds in your inventory first

stray monolith
#

oh so I can just sort every other room and on the third skip so I get to use all three?? WEE

neat mountain
#

I prefer my honey badger to the lantern.. INTO THE WELL WITH YOU, DEVIL LIGHT!

round lion
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Yeah. Sort the totem up to have it before the lantern somehow? I don't know. Also you can BREAK the lanterns for an orb, so don't drop it in the well.

neat mountain
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oh I wasn't actually going to throw it in the well it was a joke, but I didn't know about the orb

round lion
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I spent the last couple hours going through the backlog of Animalistic Totem bugs. Apologies again for the delay in getting these cleared up while I was deep in Ebon Gate prep!

Generally various lingering minor messaging issues and animal nouns not being accepted have been fixed. If you were having problems with getting a spiritual essence to be captured, please try again.

Note: If you notice anything still not working, especially in regards to custom familiar nouns or Animal Companions not being captured as spiritual essences, either post in the Animalistic Totem forum or BUGITEM your totem with the noun that is not working. I should be able to review these a lot faster now.

pine helm
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Avaluka, thanks for looking at bugs — haven’t had a chance to check yet, but were you able to fix the totem flares (crit padding) triggering when barkskin also triggered to prevent an attack? Or is that a dev side issue? Or, is it likely going to continue to work that way? Thank you again!

round lion
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That's pretty much all it oes - it adds it prior to the damage. Maybe Barkskin needs the adjustment? I can't tell.

pine helm
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    *** A ferocious caw rips free from a fur-trimmed faenor totem decorated with a small rose as a rippling wave of rose-hued light flows from it and over your exposed skin, imbuing a sudden rush of power from the rose-ringed a rose-ringed raven that lets you endure some of the blow.
The layer of bark on you hardens and absorbs the attack!  The bark crackles, but maintains its form.```
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I will bug it when I can log in — thank you.

pale anchor
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Can the totem be adjusted to use pre-loot-cap value of skins for charging? Can't do much charging with post-cap skins worth 10 silvers.

stray monolith
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either that or make the manes from MoonsEdge worth quite a bit more! and make the golems skinnable we want their bones.

high orchid
pine helm
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Maybe a minimum charge of 10 charges per skin maybe, and more for higher value skins?

high orchid
pine helm
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Get spine, put spine in totem, arrow up twice, enter, arrow up twice, enter. Repeat 72 times, totem full.

floral tide
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;multi

lapis glen
pine helm
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Not enough inventory space for a bundling satchel. But I did just make a request in the flourish forum to convert bundling script to a flourish, so it could be added to things like cloaks. That would be super helpful for the totem.

dusty hamlet
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I'd love the alchemy container script to be made into a flourish.

sour yarrow
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I don't think we have any precedent for functional flourishes on non-armaments, do we? Thus far, they've only been fluff flourishes

wary helm
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It's pretty new, I wouldn't necessarily worry about precedent yet

sour yarrow
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Sure, just wasn't clear to me whether or not flourish was going to be used as a way to "combine" functional scripts (like bundlers + discrete, as an example). I'm all for it, if that's the case - I'm desperately low on available container slots 😆

wary helm
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Probably have to be priced accordingly

thorny sage
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Auto bundling is like a 5k bs script though. Would be a nice flourish add to my climatewear cloak or such

waxen onyx
pine helm
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Nice! Do it.

waxen onyx
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Okay. I’ll post it later and tell you when and what it’s called

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I’ll look if I can update eloot or not too.

waxen onyx
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Okay. I posted it. Uses the lootsack var which you’ve likely used for other things. I just put it up in a hurry and it needs a description and stuff which I’ll update tonight (I’m in Asia, so it’s my daytime)

loadidol.lic

Author is me, of course.

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Please give me whatever feedback and suggestions you have. I wrote some other stuff for an easy way to add settings GUIs and things.

I think the worst outcome in running the script is you just sell all your skins or load too many into the idol.

crude meteor
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pigs don't work. unless it is something about a spectral teacup pig that specifically doesn't work because it is too undead.

waxen onyx
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Wait. I just realized we can do all these different things we see?! Ahh!! I’m underutilizing my totem in a big way!!

rough flax
round lion
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I will make a note to add "pig

quaint moon
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Need to add more spirit slots. Five is not enough.

stray monolith
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did you add Pig yet?

round lion
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Not yet. It's on my list.

stray monolith
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I wanna take that piggy home with me!

copper glade
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thank you for making it so my custom jackrabbit familiar works with the talisman 🐇

round lion
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"Pig" has been added as an approved noun to Animalistic Totems. Enjoy your teacup pig spiritual essences.

broken hill
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Fine swine wish he were mine...

rough flax
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thats a good one! thanks

opal wave
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please consider ki-lin addition, thank you! 🙂

vocal steeple
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The distant sound of a pig's snort heralds the arrival of Witch's Little Helper Ordim.
Funniest thing I've seen all day 😄

azure briar
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Requests:

Please allow raidanlu in the lizard category (to go with the erithi name for teadragon and the other allowable noun for the pets)

Allow us to use our totems on pets that match the noun groups allowed (teadragon, puppy, kitten, etc)

Sell a noun slip at DR!

Also ❤️ these.

tender copper
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Please add Kish’enda as an approved feline.

azure briar
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Is there any kind of chart or idea of how many hits/kills it might take to increase affinity for the weapons?

frozen plaza
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Like 12000

I think its 1000 per rank

azure briar
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For 1 rank or all 12?

frozen plaza
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Avaluka — 8/19/2021 9:37 AM
Yeah, it is roughly 1000 messages per level of affinity. If you have headdress and armor, it should only be 500 messages per level of affinity for both of them.
azure briar
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Welp, 1000 it is. Thanks