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Announcement: Pennant Chase New Features Update

2024-02-10T18:48:47Z

GS4-MODRIAN: Created page with "{{Announcement |category=General |subject=Announcement: Pennant Chase New Features Update |author=GS4-MODRIAN |date=2024-02-10 }} As Pennant Chase nears its thirtieth anniversary, the old game is getting an unexpected update, with two new features: Points for disarming pennant traps and points for collecting gems...and a candy shop.... '''''three''''' new features: Points for traps, gems, and a candy shop...and new prizes.... '''''four''''' new features! Thank..."

{{Announcement
|category=General
|subject=Announcement: Pennant Chase New Features Update
|author=GS4-MODRIAN
|date=2024-02-10
}}
As Pennant Chase nears its thirtieth anniversary, the old game is getting an unexpected update, with two new features: Points for disarming pennant traps and points for collecting gems...and a candy shop.... '''''three''''' new features: Points for traps, gems, and a candy shop...and new prizes.... '''''four''''' new features! 
 
Thanks to Gamemaster Vanah -- tireless GM and Pennant Chase fan -- for tackling the code QC, and to the dedicated PC players with an almost fanatical devotion to the game.
===tldr===
Pennant Chase gets updated with three new ways to score points and three new prizes.

Pennant Chase

2024-01-15T01:35:56Z

GS4-MODRIAN: /* Gems */

'''Pennant Chase (PC)''' is a [[GameMaster]]-run game held once a month. For dates and times see the [http://forums.play.net/calendar?game=gemstone calendar]. Much of this article is copied from the in game instructions.
==Calendar Blurb==
<div {{prettydiv}}>
Pennant Chase is a game that requires quick feet, fast action, laughs and experience! Yes, experience -- you can learn while you burn off that big roasted rolton lunch chasing down elusive pennants or your peers! It's fun! It's fast! It's (almost) free! Win silvers and prizes too! Pennant Chase! PC tents are located in each of the major areas of [[Elanthia]]. Type PENNANT in the game to find the tent nearest you. PC tents are only open when PC is running, or about to start running.
</div>
==Cost==
PC costs 100 [[Silver coin|silvers]] per game, all you have to do is have the coins on you, and when you GET BATON once the game is started your silvers are automaticaly taken from your pocket and you're transported to the arena.

==Arenas==
There are 21 arenas, from actual places in the game(or rather, alternate instances of them) to fantastical places that exist only for PC. Arenas often have doors, stairs, or other obstacles you can pass through to get from room to room, as well as normal directions. Sometimes you have to JUMP or CLIMB in a direction to travel from room to room. Some arenas even move while you're in them, or send you tumbling down a hill or into the water. There's even an arena with but 1 room!
#Western Abandoned Wehnimer's
#Hedge Maze Garden
#Great Wheel
#Hall of Mirrors
#Shooting Barrel
#Dahcre Tower Basement
#Haunted Cellar
#Orcless Mine Road
#Wehnimer's Wilds
#Archipelago
#Sky High
#Coastal Cliffs
#Dahcre Tower Midsection
#Dahcre Tower Crest and Core
#Lighthouse Island
#Shipwreck
#Sea Tower Lower Levels
#Sea Tower Upper Levels
#Eastern Abandoned Wehnimer's
#Hillbullies
#Long Haul

==Single or team play==
There are both free for all and team games. Free for all is every person for themselves, at the end the top three scoring players get experience, fame, and extra silver. In team games, everyone on the winning team gets the extra experience, fame, and silver. Team rounds can have two or more teams.

==Basic play==
Once the GameMaster in charge announces the game, you GET BATON and assuming you have the silvers you are instantly transported to the arena. You then have to POINT BATON AT (COLOR, at least the first two letters of the color) PENNANT to capture pennants, and WAVE BATON AT (PLAYER) to attempt to bubble another player. Pennants and players can and do move, so don't stay in one spot! If you are bubbled you will have to wait 15 seconds or so before you can move again, and will be temporarily off limits from being bubbled again until you bubble someone else, or pick up a pennant. If someone is carrying a pennant and they are bubbled, one of their pennants is released. Released pennants will randomly drop throughout the arena as a new color to be picked up again.

===Scoring===
You score points for bubbling people, picking up pennants, having pennants held at the end of a round, and lose points for being bubbled.

==Rewards==
You get experience, silver, and prizes based on how many points you got, and whether you were in the top three or on the winning team. At the end of the round you must DROP BATON, if you did not find the exit tent, and GET (YOUR NAME) SACK. Once you open the sack, your coins are automatically taken out, and any other prizes will be inside. The more flags you hold at the end of the round, along with other factors, increase the number of items you can get.

When it is Free For all play, the top three places reward the following
*1st place gets 1000 exp, 1000 silver, 300 fame extra
*2nd place gets 500 exp, 500 silver, and 150 fame extra
*3rd place gets 250 exp, 250 silver, and 75 fame extra

Team play

If you're on the winning team you get 250 exp, 250 silver, and 0 fame extra.

==Prizes==

===Gems===
During each round of Pennant Chase, gems will periodically spawn in random rooms. These gems can be freely picked up by any player and later sold at a gem shop for silver. Due to the unique colors of Pennant Chase gems, they might be desirable for other gem related activity such as being inlaid in a [[Sheath making|Warrior Sheath]]. The description of each gem that spawns is randomly generated using one value from each column of the following table:

{|class="wikitable sortable" {{prettytable}}
|-
!Gem Article
!Gem Color
!Gem Type
|-
|a chunk of
|apple red
|coral
|-
|a faceted
|banana yellow
|diamond
|-
|a fist-sized
|blue-tinged
|dreamstone
|-
|a nugget of
|bright blue
|glimaerstone
|-
|a piece of
|candy pink
|jade
|-
|a polished
|dark violet
|quartz
|-
|a sliver of
|flamingo pink
|roestone
|-
|a smooth
|forest green
|sapphire
|-
|a thumb-sized
|green-tinged
|sphene
|-
|
|mint green
|spinel
|-
|
|ocean blue
|topaz
|-
|
|orange-tinged
|tourmaline
|-
|
|pale blue
|zircon
|-
|
|pale green
|
|-
|
|pale violet
|
|-
|
|pale orange
|
|-
|
|pale red
|
|-
|
|pale violet
|
|-
|
|pale yellow
|
|-
|
|perfectly clear
|
|-
|
|pink-tinged
|
|-
|
|red-tinged
|
|-
|
|rose pink
|
|-
|
|sky blue
|
|-
|
|sunny yellow
|
|-
|
|sunset orange
|
|-
|
|vibrant orange
|
|-
|
|violet-tinged
|
|-
|
|yellow-tinged
|
|}

Unlike gems found in the treasure system, Pennant Chase gems have a flat sell value based on the gem type. The size and color of the gem have no effect on the price but [[Trading]] bonuses will modify the price as normal.

{|class="wikitable sortable" {{prettytable}}
|-
!Gem Type
!Sell Value
|-
|coral
|250
|-
|diamond
|6000
|-
|dreamstone
|500
|-
|glimaerstone
|2500
|-
|jade
|500
|-
|quartz
|200
|-
|roestone
|200
|-
|sapphire
|1500
|-
|sphene
|600
|-
|spinel
|100
|-
|topaz
|500
|-
|tourmaline
|100
|-
|zircon
|100
|}

===Sack items===
The items in your sack range from junk (polished earrings etc), gems (cheap gems as well as nice gems), wands, herbs, clothing, to rarer PC only items.

===PC only items===
{| {{prettytable}}
|-
!Item Name
!Item Type
!Special properties
|-
|a (color) Pennant Chase ring
|magic item
|[[gold ring]]
|-
|a (color) Pennant Chase satchel
|container
|
|-
|a pair of (color) suede halfboots
|clothing
|
|-
|a fake tin constable badge
|fluff
|
|-
|a glittering white [[falchion]]
|weapon
|0x [[Lightning critical table|lightning]] [[flare]]s
|-
|a pair of baton-patterned trousers
|clothing
|
|-
|a pair of shiny green bracers
|clothing
|
|-
|a splotchy multi-colored skullcap
|clothing
|
|-
|a tiny rainbow-beaded bag
|container
|container very small amount holds one item, weighs less than 2 pounds
|-
|a willowy Pennant Chase player charm
|fluff
|This player charm is a charm bracelet charm. This particular charm is an animated charm. This animated charm is of the type: Pennant Chase B.
|-
|a blue streaked greatsword
|weapon
|0x, acid flares, cannot be enchanted
|-
|a silver pennant bracelet
|magic item
|Blank imbed. Holds an average amount of mana. wrist worn, wave activate, persists
|-
|a silvery pennant-crested helm
|armor
|no special qualities
|-
|a bundle of (color) arrows
|weapon
|Normal arrows. Each arrows is "a wooden arrow" due to a bug. Bundle is not updated to the new Fletching system. You must GET the bundle twice from the rewards sack.
|-
|a pink potion
|magic item
|5 sips of [[Sneaking|(617) Sneaking]]
|-
|a putrid green glass potion
|magic item
|5 sips of [[Resist Elements|(602) Resist Elements]]
|-
|a silvery potion
|magic item
|5 sips of [[Invisibility|(916) Invisibility]]
|-
|a pink-tinged crystal potion
|magic item
|5 sips of [[UnPoison|(114) UnPoison]]
|-
|a multi-hued potion
|magic item
|1 sips of [[Call Familiar|(920) Call Familiar]]
|-
|a tiny (color) crystal flask
|magic item
|
|-
|a brass Pennant Chase coin
|toy
|
|-
|a (color) Pennant Chase knapsack
|container
|holds a significant amount, back-worn, weights 9 pounds, unsure if it can be further lightened or deepened.
|-
|a nimble Pennant Chase player charm
|fluff
|
|-
|a (description) (color) toy (creature)
|fluff
|Examples of found toys: a pale white toy crab a tiny red toy kobold a tall white toy crystal golem a plush red toy troll
|-
|a small red painted tanik box
|fluff
|[[dachre box]], not unlocked
|-
|a crystal crescent moon pendant
|
|
|-
|a red streaked greatsword
|weapon
|
|-
|a shiny (color) glaes bracelet
|
|
|-
|a (color) flecked dagger
|weapon
|
|-
|an embroidered Pennant Chase handkerchief
|fluff
|
|-
|a pair of baton-patterned trousers
|clothing
|
|-
|a silver pennant-charm anklet
|clothing
|
|-
|a pair of (color) glaes dice
|toy
|
|-
|a glittering blue falchion
|weapon
|
|-
|a golden charm bracelet
|fluff
|
|-
|a blue crystal comb
|fluff
|
|-
|a pair of silver pennant earrings
|clothing
|
|-
|a Pennant Chase baton pin
|clothing
|
|-
|a silver pennant bracelet
|clothing
|
|-
|a pair of shiny white thighguards
|clothing
|
|}

[[category:Games]][[Category: Events]]

Grand Auction of 5123/April List

2023-04-23T01:47:48Z

GS4-MODRIAN:

{{Template:Auction_nagivation}}

* April 22, 7pm EST

==Automated Auction:==

{|width="90%" class="wikitable sortable" {{prettytable}}
!style="width: 20%;"| '''ITEM NAME'''
!style="width: 50%;"| '''DESCRIPTION'''
!style="width: 10%;"|'''SOLD FOR'''
|-
|a small snakeskin sack || Weapon: Two [[Parasite_weapon|Parasitic]] short swords || 85,000,000
|-
|[[Some_flame-hued_eahnor_haubergeon|some flame-hued eahnor haubergeon]] || Armor: [[Elven_Armor|Elven Armor]] Tier 4 || 180,000,000
|-
|[[A_giant_boot|a giant boot]] || Teleportation: [Kobold Village, Wehnimer's Landing] || 300,000,000
|-
|[[Busker_Instrument_Case|a lacquered ebony instrument case]] || Container: Busker's case - allow the user to collect silvers || -
|-
|a leaf-bladed enruned golvern katar || Weapon: [[Blink_weapon|Blink]] Katar ||
|-
|an eonake-edged indigo ghezyte katana etched with scintillating chromatic runes|| Weapon: +25, fully sanctified, ghezyte, rotating flares (heat, cold, vacuum)||
|-
|an icy blue gown-shaped card || Fluff: Custom [[Icy_gown|Icy Gown]] || 330,000,000
|-
|a silver-spined dextral conch shell cross-bound by leather cords || Fluff: Pre-made full appearance Illusion - Triton-themed?|| -
|-
|a seafoam green property voucher || Property: || -
|-
|a delicate faenor ring cradling a perfect sphere of emerald vaelfyren || Enhancive: +3 Spirit Recovery, +2 Max Spirit || 245,000,000
|-
|an ornamental faewood amulet || [[Amulet of the Arkati]] - Greater || 360,000,000
|-
|a cracked faewood amulet || [[Amulet of the Arkati]] - Lesser || -
|-
|an enruned black ora scarab || Enhancive: [[Regen Bug]] (Lornon)|| 460,000,000
|-
|an enruned eahnor scarab || Enhancive: [[Regen Bug]] (Tilaok)|| 500,000,000
|-
|a copper-geared nail press || Fluff: [[Nail_press|Nail Press]] || 130,000,000
|-
|[[an odd-looking plant]] || [[An_odd-looking_plant|Odd Looking Plant]] || -
|-
|some brass and sterling silver goggles || - || -
|-
|an inscribed heavy granite contraption ringed with basalt || Teleportation: || -
|-
|a pair of ebon leather gloves with mattle kelyn knuckles || Weapon: MK [[Ki Focus]] and [[Knockout flare]]s? || -
|-
|some shadowy black shadarl armor banded with kelyn || Armor: [[Shadarl]] Martial Knowledge 5: [[Burst of Swiftness]] || -
|-
|a golvern targe displaying concentric rings of crimson and navy || Shield: [[Great_Auction_of_2016/teasers#Captain_Elanthia_Shield%7CCaptain|Captain America]] buckler || -
|-
|[[A_suit_of_jagged-edged_black_alloy_armor|a suit of jagged-edged black alloy armor]] || Armor: || -
|-
|a pearlescent web-worked bracer || [[Spider Bracer]] || 340,000,000
|-
|a cylindrical wyrmscale herb kit || Fully Unlocked [[Survivalist's Kit]] || -
|-
|a spiraling vor'taz horn chisel || Gem Chisel || -
|-
|a caramel brushed suede cloak || Enhancive: +10 to Strength Base + Pinch to change noun || -
|-
|a pale ice blue linen mantle || Container: || -
|-
|a dusky gray silk jacket secured with a cluster of jewels || Container: || -
|-
|a hooded rose brocade cassock lined with pale silk || Container: This cassock enhances Logic Base by 10 and has the ability to morph its noun (PINCH). || -
|-
|an ornate blood red jewel || Alchemy-related || -
|-
|a polished silver weapons case with scrollworked onyx accents || Container: Greater [[Somnis]] [[Unarmed Combat System|UCS]] set || -
|-
|a rune-carved black vaalin medallion || Teleportation: 12-setting || 385,000,000
|-
|a hollow soulstone wand || [[Hollow_soulstone_wand|Soulstone Wand]] || -
|-
|an enormous eonake gauntlet || [[Eonake_Gauntlet|Eonake Gauntlet]] || -
|-
|an Eye-of-Koar talisman || Combat: [[Supercharger]] || 385,000,000
|-
|a swirled deep cobalt and violet duskjewel brooch || Combat: +17 DB item || 400,000,000
|-
|a fragile shimmering egg || Delayed: Custom [[Lovable Lizard]]? || 81,000,000
|-
|an intricate aranthium mesh wand harness inscribed with astral runes || Combat: [[Wandolier]] || -
|-
|a sigil-carved glowbark runestaff || Weapon: kroderine soul enhancive sigil staff? Same description as the one found in the legendary feeder. || -
|-
|a sinuous runestaff of white-veined spiraling glowbark || Weapon: Dispel flare [[nerve staff]] with spell aiming enhancive and MK [[Cunning Defense]]? || 160,000,000
|-
|a ripped talisman picture || Custom [[Familiar]] w/ SK [[920]] || -
|-
|an articulated eonake appendage || Fully Unlocked [[Eonak_Arm|Eonak Arm]] || -
|-
|some pale green sea urchin shell brigandine with amaranthine stippling || Armor: [[Shell_armor|Shell Armor]] || 120,000,000
|-
|an ancient leather grimoire || Teleporation: Unique book || 525,000,000
|-
|a crimson watered silk cloak stitched with angular runic shapes || Container: [[Dramatic Drapery]]? || -
|-
|some ensigiled leather hunts || Armor: [[Mana-Infused_Armor|Mana-infused Armor]] || -
|-
|some ensigiled cuirbouilli leathers || Armor: [[Mana-Infused_Armor|Mana-infused Armor]] || -
|-
|some ensigiled augmeneted chain || Armor: [[Mana-Infused_Armor|Mana-infused Armor]] || -
|-
|some ensigiled half plate || Armor: [[Mana-Infused_Armor|Mana-infused Armor]] || -
|-
|an effervescent white elixir || Boost Potion: +2000 Sanctify || -
|-
|an effervescent absinthe green tincture || Boost Potion: +2000 Enchanting || 50,000,000
|-
|a pearlescent purple philter || Boost Potion: +2000 Ensorcell || -
|-
|[[An_ancient_silver-rimmed_mirror|an ancient silver-rimmed mirror]] || Dorian Gray Mirror || -
|-
|[[A_seven-gemmed_silver_ring|a seven-gemmed silver ring]] || Combat: Element Eater || 176,000,000
|-
|a water-filled jelly opal egg encapsulating multicolored inclusions || - || -
|-
|a faceted scarlet despanal ball glimmering with spidery gold veins || OSA: Port Sphere || 41,000,000
|-
|a columnar cholla wood fetish impaled by a slender fulgurite shard || Familiar talisman - T4 Custom Enhancive, unique ambients || 300,000,000
|-
|a stylized rosewood feather wound with ivory suede cords || Familiar talisman - T4 Custom Enhancive, unique ambients || 105,000,000
|-
|a silver-strung helix of entwined fel and grey spruce || Familiar talisman - T4 Custom Enhancive, unique ambients || -
|-
|a leather-bound book || - || -
|-
|an ancient yellowed tome || 1x/day [[1750]] + Scripted || -
|-
|a wreath-etched ebon property voucher || Property: Nereid's Cradle [[Nereid%27s_Cradle_Bungalow|Bungalow]] || 115,000,000
|-
|a fish-etched green property voucher || Property: Nereid's Cradle [[Nereid%27s_Cradle_Bungalow|Bungalow]] || -
|-
|a coconut mask-etched orange property voucher || Property: Nereid's Cradle [[Nereid%27s_Cradle_Bungalow|Bungalow]] || 110,250,000
|-
|a turtle-embossed canary yellow property voucher || Property: Nereid's Cradle [[Nereid%27s_Cradle_Bungalow|Bungalow]] || 110,250,000
|-
|a moon-embossed dark purple property voucher || Property: Nereid's Cradle [[Nereid%27s_Cradle_Bungalow|Bungalow]] || 110,000,000
|-
|a feather-embossed sky blue property voucher || Property: Nereid's Cradle [[Nereid%27s_Cradle_Bungalow|Bungalow]] || -
|-
|a polished lasimor case inlaid with dark green vaelfyren vines || Container: Briar Weapon and Accessory Set? || -
|-
|a tomb of secrets * || Book: || -
|-
|a tightly woven leather harness || Gnomish Recon Corps Harness 2/100 front-worn T4 pirate harness-equivalent Allows 2s flight (height-matching) with 5s cooldown NOT an unlock for pirate harnesses, just parallel fluff || -
|-
|a temporal warsword || Weapon: One Hundred Seconds Enchant from +1 to +100 and flares determined by timestamp when CLENCHED || -
|-
|a glove * || Coin Toss - pulled from auction || -
|-
|a pie box * || Fluff: Pie Box 1x/hour remote pie-to-the-face Generates pies or allows pre-loading || -
|-
|a sugar-dusted stained recipe card || Fluff: Custom Sweet Treat || 9,000,000
|-
|a sugar-dusted stained recipe card || Fluff: Custom Sweet Treat || 29,500,000
|-
|a bracelet? * || Auction quality [[Dreamfire Panel Bracelet]] || -
|-
|an enruned leather-bound book || Enhancive: +40 MIU Bonus || 32,000,000
|-
|some toughened monster flesh || [[MonstrFlesh]] +5 Crit Padding || 250,000,000
|-
|some calloused monster flesh || [[MonstrFlesh]] +5 Damage Padding || 230,000,000
|-
|some fibrous monster flesh || [[MonstrFlesh]] +5 Thrown Weapons Bonus || 250,000,000
|}

[[Category:Grand_Auction_of_5123]]
[[Category:Auction_Lists]]

Busker's Instrument Case

2023-04-23T00:16:10Z

GS4-MODRIAN: Created page with " A busker's instrument case allows the owner to receive donations. Players (and the rare townsperson, when in town) can drop coins into the case when it is open and on the g..."

A busker's instrument case allows the owner to receive donations. Players (and the rare townsperson, when in town) can drop coins into the case when it is open and on the ground.
The case can contain one thing at a time: a musical instrument or a pile of coins.

Only the owner can put an instrument in or get one out of it, but anyone can put coins in and get coins out.

It's theft when anyone but the owner takes coins from the case, and that can cause the Bard guild (regardless of the owner's profession) to take action against the offender, which can be a harmless reminder or something more painful.

Though the item is most appealing to bards, anyone can use these cases.

Performing in a public setting has its advantages and drawbacks. There's the approbation and the rare donation by a townsperson, then there's the local pickpockets who see the case as ripe for plunder, and of course, there are the hecklers. Playing an instrument increases one's appeal to the public. Adding vocals to the music enhances one's appeal, as does reciting stories or anecdotes or poems, etc. Hecklers will be less inclined when they are provided a fuller performance.

At tier 2, the owner can WATCH the case to reduce the chance of thievery. The trade-off is a reduction in the chances of townsfolk donations or approbation, and an increased chance of heckling from townsfolk (as the performer is not wholly focused on the performance). Having a strong Influence can help in this regard, as can the effect of the Song of Luck spellsong. Getting soused can also help . . . or it can make matters worse.

Another benefit of tier 2 is that the case can be worn.

Fluff verbs are NOD and PLUCK at tier 1. HUG, PUSH, and TOUCH are added at tier 2, and KICK and RAISE are added at tier 2.

A case has a sign attached to it. The owner can choose the text of the sign from a pre-made list of messages, or, at tier 2, the owner's custom text.

The WHISPER verb is used to set the text of the sign.
WHISPER case [l]ist will display a list of pre-made messages
WHISPER case [b]lank will blank out the sign, which will default to "Property of [owner's name]"
WHISPER case [text of sign message]

Ownership can be transferred using:
TRANSFER case to {player name}

The case supports a base, long, and show alteration, but it is up to the merchant if they are comfortable working on it. Unlocking is a limited service.

Tier 1 - OTS
* standard sign
* two fluff verb traps: NOD, PLUCK

Tier 2 - AUCTION QUALITY
* player-customizable sign
* case is wearable
* increased chance of Bard guild intervention
* seven fluff verb traps: NOD, PLUCK, HUG, KICK, PUSH, RAISE, TOUCH