Hair bauble

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Hair baubles, also known as hair beads, are worn in a one's hair and are not seen in the wearer's LOOK description. Once worn, characters can play with their hair. Baubles have four different tiers of scripts. The tier of a bauble can be determined using ANALYZE.

Baubles premiered at the Ebon Gate Festival in 2011 and have been distributed off the shelf several times since. Off the shelf baubles can be unlocked once to Tier 2 by Xerria on Mist Harbor. Fully unlocked baubles have feature altering abilities.

Tier 1

This tier provides access to the verbs PULL, PUSH, REMOVE, TICKLE, and WEAR

Analyze

You analyze your white pearl beads and sense that the item is largely free from merchant alteration restrictions, but the creator has stated that "The item has restrictions on changing the noun."

The creator has also provided the following information:
You carefully look over the white pearl beads and inspect its finer details.  You realize that it will always need to be a bauble or bead, but can probably be constructed of any hard material.  Fabric doesn't seem like the logical material to use on this at all.  If you were to play with the white pearl beads, then you'd find that you can analyze, pull, push, tickle, remove, and wear it.  It is a tier 1 bauble.

You get no sense of whether or not the beads may be further lightened.

Usage

Verb Style First Third
PULL Several strands of your midnight-hued hair slip into your face, causing your vision to be slightly obscured. Several strands of XXX's midnight-hued hair slip into her face and across her eyes.
PULL with hair altering item Several strands of your midnight-hued hair slip free from its bindings and falls into your face, causing your vision to be slightly obscured. Several strands of XXX's midnight-hued hair slip free from its bindings and falls into her face and across her eyes.
PULL with T4 hair style Several strands of your midnight-hued hair slip free from your braid and falls into your face, causing your vision to be slightly obscured. Several strands of XXX's midnight-hued hair slip free from her braid and falls into her face and across her eyes.
PUSH You gently brush your midnight-hued hair away from your eyes and, with a deft twist of your wrist, tuck it behind one ear. XXX gently brushes her midnight-hued hair away from her eyes and, with a deft twist of her wrist, tucks it behind one ear.
PUSH with hair altering item You gently brush your midnight-hued hair away from your eyes and, with a deft twist of your wrist, tuck it back into its bindings. XXX gently brushes her midnight-hued hair away from her eyes and, with a deft twist of her wrist, tucks it back into its bindings.
PUSH with T4 hairstyle You gently brush your midnight-hued hair away from your eyes and, with a deft twist of your wrist, tuck it back into your braid. XXX gently brushes her midnight-hued hair away from her eyes and, with a deft twist of her wrist, tucks it back into her braid.
REMOVE Fishing around through the hair at the base of your neck, you gingerly remove the beads that you have hidden amid your midnight-hued tresses. Drawing a midnight-hued strand of hair away from her head, XXX gently clips the beads at the base of her neck and then hides it amid the rest of her hair.
REMOVE with T4 hair style You search around for the beads that you have hidden at the base of your neck, but the style that your hair is in makes it impossible to find. Maybe if you wore your hair naturally you'd be able to find it. N/A
TICKLE You run your fingers through your hair, ensuring that you have no knots in the waist-length tresses. XXX finger-combs her waist-length hair.
TICKLE with hair altering item You gingerly run your fingers over your waist-length hair, ensuring yourself that not a single strand has fallen out of place. XXX gingerly runs her finger over her waist-length hair, a satisfied look upon her face when she is done.
WEAR Drawing a midnight-hued strand of hair away from your head, you gently clip the beads at the base of your neckline and then hide it amid the rest of your hair. Drawing a midnight-hued strand of hair away from her head, XXX gently clips the beads at the base of her neck and then hides it amid the rest of her hair.
WEAR with hair altering item Drawing a midnight-hued strand of hair away from your head, you gently clip the beads at the base of your neckline and then hide it amid the rest of your hair. Drawing a midnight-hued strand of hair away from her head, XXX gently clips the beads at the base of her neck and then hides it amid the rest of her hair.

Tier 2

The verbs CLENCH, NOD, SHAKE, and TOSS are unlocked at this tier.

Usage

Verb Style First Third
CLENCH You draw your waist-length hair over your shoulder and begin to run your hand up and down the length with nervous agitation. XXX draws her waist-length hair over her shoulder and begins to run her hand up and down the length with nervous agitation.
CLENCH with hair altering item You carefully tuck several stray strands of your waist-length hair back into their proper place within your current hair style. XXX carefully tucks several stray stands of her waist-length hair back into their proper place within her current hair style.
NOD You enthusiastically nod your agreement, causing your hair to flutter around your face in a midnight-hued halo. XXX enthusiastically nods her agreement, causing her hair to flutter around her face in a midnight-hued halo.
NOD with hair altering item You enthusiastically nod your agreement, causing several strands of midnight-hued hair to fall around your face. XXX enthusiastically nods her agreement, causing several strands of midnight-hued hair to fall around her face.
SHAKE You violently shake your head in the negative, causing several strands of waist-length hair to fall free and trail in tiny wisps about your face. XXX violently shakes her head in the negative, causing several strands of waist-length hair to fall free and trail around her face in tiny wisps.
SHAKE with hair altering item You violently shake your head in the negative, causing several strands of waist-length hair to fall free from its bindings. XXX violently shakes her head in the negative, causing several strands of waist-length hair to fall free from its bindings.
SHAKE with T4 hairstyle You violently shake your head in the negative, causing several strands of waist-length hair to fall free from your braid. XXX violently shakes her head in the negative, causing several strands of waist-length hair to fall free from her braid.
TOSS You give your head a gentle toss, causing your waist-length hair to lift up and away from your eyes. XXX gives her head a gentle toss, causing her waist-length hair to lift up and away from her eyes.
TOSS with hair altering item You give your head a gentle toss, causing the wisps that have fallen free of its bindings to lift away from your eyes. XXX gives her head a gentle toss, causing the wisps that surround her face to flutter away from her eyes.
TOSS with T4 hairstyle You give your head a gentle toss, causing the wisps that have fallen free of your braid to lift away from your eyes. XXX gives her head a gentle toss, causing the wisps that surround her face to flutter away from her eyes.

Tier 3

Tier 3 unlocks the verbs EXHALE, FLIP, TOUCH, and TURN.

Usage

Verb Style First Third
EXHALE Screwing your eyes upward, you glare at your offending hair and sigh. You close your right eye, jut your chin out, and blow upward across your face, causing your hair to flutter in the air for several seconds before falling back down and away from your eyes. Screwing her eyes upward, XXX glares at her offending hair and sighs. She closes her right eye, juts her chin out at an angle, and blows upward across her face, which causes XXX's hair to flutter in the air for several seconds before falling back down and away from her eyes.
FLIP You run the back of your hand along your neckline and dramatically flip midnight-hued hair off of your shoulders. XXX runs the back of her hand along her neckline and dramatically flips midnight-hued hair off of her shoulders.
FLIP with hair altering item You run the back of your hand along your neckline and dramatically flip several wisps of hair off of your shoulders. XXX runs the back of her hand along her neckline and dramatically flips several wisps of hair off of her shoulders.
FLIP with T4 hairstyle You run the back of your hand along your neckline and dramatically flip the end of your braid off of your shoulders. XXX runs the back of her hand along her neckline and dramatically flips the end of her braid off of her shoulders.
TOUCH You gingerly place your hands on the top of your head and check to make sure that every strand of your waist-length hair is in place. XXX gingerly pats her hand along the top of her head and gently smooths her waist-length hair into place.
TURN Effecting a coquettish expression, you draw a strand of hair over your shoulder and twirl it lazily around your finger. Effecting a coquettish expression, XXX draws a strand of hair over her shoulder and twirls it lazily around her finger.
TURN with hair altering item Your hair seems to be a bit too secure in its hairstyle to do something like that. N/A

Tier 4

The final unlocks allows for a pony tail via the WRAP verb and a braid via the WEAVE verb, as well as ATTEND and UNWRAP.

Usage

Verb First Third
ATTEND (braid) You slip your fingers between the tight weave of your braid and slowly unravel it. XXX slips her fingers between the tight weave of her braid and slowly unravels it.
UNWRAP (pony tail) You undo the simple tie binding your waist-length hair and shake your head, which causes your now-loose tresses to fall around your face. XXX unties the simple binding on her waist-length hair and shakes her head, which causes the now-loose tresses to fall around her face.
WRAP Starting at the temple, you run your hands along your head and gather all of your waist-length hair into one hand. You carefully check to make sure you have all the strands, and then tie it into a simple pony tail. Starting at the temple, XXX runs her hands along the top of her head and gathers all of her waist-length hair into one hand. Carefully checking to make sure that she has all the strands, XXX deftly ties her hair into a simple pony tail.
Feature Altering: She has waist-length, tousled midnight-hued hair drawn back into a simple ponytail that is held in place by a blue-green opal band.
WEAVE You nimbly weave your waist-length hair into a slender braid. XXX nimbly weaves her waist-length hair into a slender braid.
Feature altering: She has waist-length, tousled midnight-hued hair woven into a wrist-thick herringbone braid that is bound with a blue-green opal band.
Hair bauble Information
Type Fluff
Feature altering
Item Classification Accessory
Item(s) Applied to
Alterable Yes
Light/Deep
Feature(s) Altered Hair
Original Release Venue Feywrot Mire
Original Release Year 2011
Tiered Yes
Number of Tiers 4
How to Unlock Merchant
Restrictions Must remain bead or bauble
Must remain a hard material
Item Verbs
ATTEND CLENCH EXHALE FLIP
NOD PULL PUSH REMOVE
SHAKE TICKLE TOSS TOUCH
TURN UNWRAP WEAR WEAVE