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Goatfest 2024 Schedule

Copied from previous year to preserve descriptions while we work out the schedule.

All times Eastern

Imaerasta 13, Day of the Huntress (Friday, September 13)
Time	Location	Event	Description
10:00 PM	Beacon Hall Courtyard (lich #11010)	Goat Stories and opening of Goat Fest!/KAYSE	Come hear the history of Goat Fest. Join us for the formal opening of Goatfest 5123 starting at the Beacon Hall Courtyard.
11:05 PM	River's Rest, Commons Circle (lich #10852)	Ensorcell Raffle	Tibs will provide 200k energy to be any combo you wish with a 595 bonus (and can handle items of up to 445 difficulty)
11:15 PM	Beacon Hall Courtyard (lich #11010)	Dock Diving/KALDONIS	Come enjoy the traditional BHA game of Dock Diving. Gather at Beacon Hall, Courtyard (lich rm. 11010) before the daredevils move to The Warren, River Dock (lich rm. 17664) to play! WARNING: death and injury may result, especially if you're bad at Swimming.
11:45 PM	River's Rest, Commons Circle (lich #10852)	Grit Raffle/75k	200,000 worth of grit for use on Blunt Weapons and Brawling, or armor. Up to a difficulty of 500 for Armor and 500 for Blunt Weapons and Brawling Weapons.

Imaerasta 14, Feast Day (Saturday, September 14)
Time	Location	Event	Description
8:00 PM	Adventure Guild in River’s Rest (lich #16023)	Goat MILK?/ORSSUS	How good is your aim? Can you fill your bucket the fastest? Since the goats weren’t too willing to cooperate, we’re using a dartboard instead. NOTE: For each round, every player throws three darts. The darts are added together for a score, counting doubles and triples is optional and will be decided beforehand. The highest score in each round is given a letter from the word MILK. The letters are given in order. The first person to fill their “bucket” with "MILK" wins.
10:00 PM	Beacon Hall Courtyard (lich #11010)	Gem of Fate/ASTRU	Dodge the most of these shocking gems and the remainder of the sparkly rocks can be yours! Players should gather in the Courtyard, while spectators, as well as losers, may safely observe the maiming of their comrades from the Gazebo.
10:45 PM	River's Rest, Commons Circle (lich #10859)	Basketfier	Custom Tier 4 basketfier: a latticework bamboo basket/a cross-legged table with bamboo paneling/a fern-washed linen cloth foiled with gilt. Few Goat Fest sweet treats inside!
11:00 PM	Beacon Hall Courtyard (lich #11010)	NEED EVENT/KAYSE	(lich #11010).
11:45 PM	River's Rest, Commons Circle (lich #10859)	Spring Gardening Package	a cylindrical vasculum of vellum-lacquered faenor, Muddy Illusion gloves, a goat-shaped white rose topiary, and a pair of aged bronze pruning shears

Imaerasta 15, Restday (Sunday, September 15)
Time	Location	Event	Description
12:00 PM	Treehouse in the Commons (lich #10865)	Goat Fest Brunch/ASTRU	Come join us for the traditional Restday Fast breaking with a goat themed spread!
9:00 PM	Dilapidated Pier (lich #27604)	Annual Goat Fest Fishing Contest	Bring your own fishing gear or use some of ours. Join us at the Floating Dock on the Tempest River for fishing along with snacks and drinks. Whoever catches the biggest fish within an hour wins!
10:15 PM	River's Rest, Commons Circle (lich #10862)	Sanctification Tier 3	Tikba will provide 100,000 devotion worth of sanctification with a 392 bonus (able to handle items of up to 272 difficulty).
10:30 PM	Beacon Hall Courtyard (lich #11010)	Goat Fashion Show/KALDONIS	Is your goat all dressed up with no place to go…at? Bring your fanciest goat to gloat! There’s no better place for your goat to be a show boat. (OOC Note: Entries should be made using roleplaying verbs such as ACTION etc.).
11:45 PM	River's Rest, Commons Circle (lich #10862)	Survival Kit	A brushed nubuck satchel traced in red squirrel fur (shoulders and back). Capacity: 5/5 (150 charges maximum per herb), Liquid Storage unlock: yes, Extractor unlock (requires Liquid Storage): yes, Potency unlock (requires Liquid Storage): yes

Ranger Spells with Lore updates

I totally cannot follow how to edit the main lore page, but here is my summary of most of the changes. A change not included in the table is that 601 and the old 611 (Natural Colours and Mass Colours) have been merged into 601. Note that the AS boosts and debuffs are generally supposed to be +1, but the table would not accommodate the plus symbol.

Spell #	Spell Name	Benefits	Blessing	Summoning
603	Wild Entropy
		11 Nature's resistence debuff (total = base 10 + 1 per seed 1)		1
		12		3
		13		6
		14		10
		15		15
		16		21
		17		28
		18		36
		19		45
		20		55
		21		66
		22		78
		23		91
		24		105
604	Nature's Bounty
		EVOKE 1x hour to replenish herbs in room	30
		Skinning and foraging bonuses same as before?
605	Barkskin
		COMMUNE (cast while incapacitated)	15
		EVOKE (cast for entire group)	50
		51% chance to endure (total = base 50% + (ranks/2)%)	2
		55%	10
		60%	20
		65%	30
		70%	40
		75%	50
		80%	60
		85%	70
		90%	80
		95%	90
		100%	100
608	Camouflage
		Applies to Animal Companion SMRv2 + 30	20
610	Tangleweed
		Strength drain from target goes to ranger (+AS equal to debuff, spiritual CS 60% debuff)	10
		Poison possibilities same as before?
611	Moonbeam
		1 Additional immobilization cycle from bolt	30
		2 Additional cycles	60
		3 Additional cycles	90
		4 Additional cycles	120
		DF increase 0.001 per rank		1-50
		DF increase 0.001 per 2 rank		51-100
		DF increase 0.001 per 4 rank		101-200
612	Breeze
		Same creature hindrance with summoning
		1 second RT reduction for ranged with flare (min 3 seconds)	12
		2 second RT reduction for ranged with flare (min 3 seconds)	24
614	Imbue
		Can create self-cast 603 items	5
		Double MIU benefits with self-created items	40
		Capacity increase with summoning ranks unchanged
625	Nature's Touch
		11 AS flare boost (total = base +10 + 1 per seed 1)	1
		12	3
		13	6
		14	10
		15	15
		16	21
		17	28
		18	36
		19	45
		20	55
		21	66
		22	78
		23	91
		24	105

Animal Companion

The Animal Companion spell allows a ranger to summon and befriend an animal as a permanent companion. The ranger can tell their companion to do a number of actions including attacking creatures or defending the ranger, although the companion will respond faster if it has a good relationship with the ranger and slower if not. A ranger can gauge the quality of the relationship by gazing at the animal companion and the relationship is established or improved by feeding, petting, casting helpful spells at or otherwise interacting with the animal companion in a positive fashion.

When a companion has been selected and befriended, it should be told to leave before the ranger retires from a hard day of adventuring or upon gaining a level and can be summoned again by preparing and casting 630 again, then telling the companion to return. Failure to tell a companion to leave before retiring from adventuring means the companion will forget new things (including improvements to the relationship and gear added to the companion) and failing to tell an animal companion to leave after achieving a new level means that the animal will not level with the ranger.

In addition, once a ranger learns this spell, using sense while outdoors will include a list of potential animal companions in the area.

>sense
You scan your surroundings, considering the various flora and fauna found here (and noting those which are absent). The indications of the temperate climate and the deciduous forest are clearly evident. You quickly note the signs of a black-tipped forest tiger, a white-footed woodland jackal and a black-nosed mottled ferret having recently been in the area. Circling overhead is a fan-tailed branch peregrine. You also see a steep path.

There will always be one of each type of animal companion (canine, feline, avian, rodent) in every outdoor room, but the exact animal noun (e.g. tiger, puma, ocelot) will depend on the location, with some animals being exclusive to certain cities and its descriptor (e.g. black-footed, amber-eyed) will depend on the terrain type in a particular room.

Summoning a Companion

Summoning a new companion is relatively straightforward. First, one finds the desired companion using sense, then one prepares 630 and summons the desired animal. Failure to specify a particular animal will summon a random animal in the room.

Example:

>sense
You scan your surroundings, considering the various flora and fauna found here (and noting those which are absent). The indications of the temperate climate and the plain dirt environment are clearly evident. You quickly note the signs of a black-tipped orange tiger, a white-footed drab jackal and a black-nosed mire ferret having recently been in the area. Circling overhead is a fan-tailed dusky peregrine. You don't see any other paths leading away from the area.
>prep 630
>summon tiger
You open your senses wide and allow the desires and feelings of the areas denizens fill your mind. At the very edge of your perceptions, you feel a bright glow of curiousity tinged with wariness. Concentrating, you focus your desire of friendship and camaraderie towards that bright spot. At first the wariness holds but it is soon followed by a sharp peak in curiosity as if a decision had been made.
A black-tipped orange tiger prowls majestically forward!

Companion Mechanics

All four companion types are capable of attacking creatures (or players) and they do either slash (feline, avian) or puncture (canine, rodent) damage. In addition, they each have different special attacks. Animal companions will attack when told to do so and will also attack automatically when the ranger is stunned or killed.

Include examples

Bard

To be added...

Statistics

New players should definitely refer to the statistics section in the New Players' Guide for a very broad overview of all the statistics available to them as well as general advice for setting their statistics. The primary statistics for rangers are dexterity and intuition while the mana statistic for rangers is wisdom. This means that when setting statistics, rangers will receive a free +10 points to each of dexterity and intuition and these statistics will have twice the effect on the number of training points a ranger can receive at each level compared to the other statistics. The ranger's wisdom bonus will affect how many mana points the ranger has.

When deciding how to set your statistics, it is important to consider a few different factors and to some extent, it comes down to setting statistics for growth versus setting them for maximum training points and overall enjoyment at early levels (e.g. it will be more fun to hunt with better statistics at early levels) or, perhaps more commonly, somewhere in between. How you set your statistics for growth or maximum training points depends mostly on profession, but race is also a factor.

The most important factors for setting statistics to enjoy play at early levels are the character's race and target hunting style. For example, Strength, is very important for both those who hunt with both ranged and melee weapons. It benefits those who use ranged weapons by reducing the roundtime (RT) associated with firing of a bow and melee weapon users by adding to their total attack strength (AS). Dexterity helps with ambushing, increases ranged AS and, together with agility, decreases RT for melee weapons users.

Other statistics which can be important to set high early on include discipline and logic which together help determine the size of one's experience pool and the latter also determines the rate of experience absorption. Additionally, Aura determines a character's total spirit points, which can be important for rangers who choose Council of Light as their society.

Setting statistics strictly for growth or strictly training points and early-level enjoyment each have their drawbacks. However, since it is possible to reset statistics up to five times during the first 30 days, new rangers have the opportunity to try different ways of setting their statistics before settling on more permanent settings (though they should be sure to remember when their first 30 days are up).

Skills

The goal of this section is to go through what I believe to be the most general possible ranger training guide.

Core skills

These are the very basic skills that every ranger should train at each level. Due to the versatility of the ranger profession, this list is quite short because much of a ranger's training will depend on their particular hunting style and weapon choice.

Here, Cost refers to the training point (TP) cost expressed as (PTP/MTP) for a full single train at each level. A second training at each level costs double the TPs of the first one (so double training a skill will cost three times the listed value). Note that since level zero exists, it is possible to train at one's level plus two for the single training costs. This is referred to as being fully single trained. The skills listed here should be fully single or double trained unless indicated.

Absolute Core Skills for all Rangers

#	Cost	Skill	Reasoning
1x	4/0	Physical Fitness	Necessary for full hitpoints, good as a cheap defense for maneuvers and for redux.
2x		Weapon Skill	Whatever the weapon choice, the training should be maxed out.
1x	0/17	Spell Research	Learning new spells, improving the effectiveness and duration of others.
1x	0/5	Harness Power	Should be exactly at the character's level (not fully 1x) for 3 mana at each level.
Total	4/22

Weapon Skill

The total cost of this training does not include weapon training since it is meant to be very generalized. Weapon training costs for a single weapon can vary from 9/3 for edged and ranged to 21/6 for polearms (if there are actually any rangers who hunt with polearms).

Depending on weapon choice and hunting style, a ranger will want to train in different skills each level as well. For example, an edged weapons user may wish to single train in Shield Use for an additional (5/0) training points. Meanwhile, archers will typically want to double train in perception (0/6) and either single or double train in ambush (3/3 or 9/9) as well as double training in stalking and hiding (6/3) if they plan on sniping.

Spell Research

Although spell research can be fully singled, it is not possible to use a spell with a spell number higher than one's level. Fortunately, rangers have access to two spell circles, so they can pick up the first rank or two in the Minor Spiritual spell circle while still learning a new Ranger Base spell each level. Since this provides the ranger with an additional buff spell, it is often a good idea to do this, though not strictly necessary since many other professions know this spell and others may offer assistance.

A common way to train in spells is to obtain one rank in minor spirituals, and study in the ranger base each level up to level 40, learning Wall of Thorns. At this point, rangers will often focus on the minor spiritual spell circle at least until they learn Lesser Shroud before switching back to the ranger base for Assume Aspect. However, some rangers continue in the minor spirituals until they learn Spirit Guide, especially if they are interested in rescuing and are not a member of the Order of Voln before resuming study of the ranger base spells while others may skip the rest of the minor spiritual spells entirely until they have finished leveling.

Some rangers also stop training in spell research after learning all the spells they wish to learn, but many continue to study ranger base spells due to the additional benefits to ranger spells achieved in this manner. Rangers who choose to fully single train in spell research at each level typically end up learning 40 ranks in minor spirituals and 62 in ranger base (possibly 30/72 or 20/82, depending which minor spiritual spell they decide will be their last). Note that spell training should be done by all rangers at every level until they have at least 60 total ranks of spell research.

Defensive Core Skills

The following is a list of skills which provide the ranger with more defensive capabilities. While it is possible to train all of these skills every level, most rangers will not. However, all rangers should single train in at two of or more of these skills, selecting those which best compliment their hunting style.

Defensive Core Skills for Rangers

#	Cost	Skill	Reasoning
1x	7/5	Dodging	Dodging helps you avoid incoming attacks entirely.
1x	6/4	Combat Maneuvers	Adds attack, defense or other special abilities.
1x	5/0	Shield Use	For rangers who use a one handed weapon and are looking for something else to do with their other hand.
1x-2x	0/2-0/6	Perception	It's cheap, provides maneuver defense, helps foraging, helps spot bandit traps.

Dodging

While dodge is listed here and many rangers train in this skill, others find the relatively high TP requirements a bit high, especially at low levels (and especially ranged snipers). However, since mobility provides rangers with 20 ranks of dodge (plus an additional rank for each subsequent ranger spell learned), rangers can be effectively more than single trained in dodge after level 18 without ever actually training in dodging as long as they continue to train in the ranger base. Thus, it is often advised to save the TPs for other skills, though dodging is certainly not a bad defensive skill to select.

Combat Maneuvers

Training in combat maneuvers is another good option for a ranger looking to increase their defenses. There are combat maneuvers that directly add to defensive strength (DS), target defense (TD) or general maneuver defenses (Combat Movement, Combat Focus and Cunning Defense, respectively) and training in a particular offensive combat maneuver also provides defense against that maneuver when it's used by an attacker.

Depending on a ranger's chosen hunting style, combat maneuvers can be beneficial in other ways too. Melee weapons users (e.g. edged, two handed) may want to fully single train in this skill from the outset because every two ranks in this skill will add one to their attack strength (+1 AS). Ranged weapons users may choose to avoid studying combat maneuvers until later in their career since they miss out on this bonus, although they can benefit from the abilities unlocked by specific combat maneuvers as well as obtaining additional defense against combat maneuvers. However, ranged weapons users should be aware that although the combat maneuver Multi-Fire sounds cool, it is not really as fun as it sounds (seriously, do not bother with this skill).

Shield Use

This is definitely a relatively cheap skill for a single-handed edged weapons user to pick up. It is an essential part of the training for a sword and board type ranger.

Perception

This is the one skill listed in this section that absolutely everyone should train for at least ten or twenty ranks (not just rangers). This is also a skill that perhaps all rangers choose to single train in at least due to its relative low cost and myriad benefits. Perception is the only way to counteract attacks from hiding and it is very useful when it comes to spotting traps laid down by bandits in addition to providing benefits for foraging tasks and simply being able to observe more of the world.

Threshold Skills

These are skills you can train and then forget about. Once again, the costs listed here are the costs to train each skill once.

#	Cost	Skill	Reasoning
30+	5/0	Armor Use	30 to use brigandine with minimal spell and maneuver hindrance. To save TPs along the way, train as many ranks as necessary to use the armor you have before moving up to the next class.
10-35	2/0	Climbing	For low- to mid-level hunting grounds, somewhere around 10-15 should be enough. You can add more ranks as necessary.
5-20	2/0	Swimming	For low to mid-level hunting grounds, somewhere around 5-10 should be enough. You can add more ranks as necessary.
25	0/5	Spirit Mana Control	24 ranks for perfect sharing and an additional one for double incanting ability.

While most of these skills are immediately useful, many rangers avoid studying more than about 10 ranks spiritual mana control until they are very high level. If you have a hunting partner who uses spiritual magic, you may find it more useful to train in this skill earlier on in your career.

Additional Training

Finally, here are some additional skills you should train when you can spare the training points after your core training is complete. Don't worry if you cannot afford to train all of these skills early on and do not sacrifice your core training to add these skills to your repertoire.

#	Cost	Skill	Reasoning
5	10/4	Multi-Opponent Combat	Enables mstrike for melee attacks on two opponents at once.
	0/5	Magic Item Use	This skill increases the odds of successfully activating a magic item as well as increasing the duration of the spells contained in these items. It can be especially useful for rangers, who have the ability to create magical items.
	0/10	Spiritual Lore, Blessings	Increases the benefits and abilities for spells.
	0/10	Spiritual Lore, Summoning	ibid
1-2x	1/1	Survival	It's cheap, helps skinning, helps foraging, helps move around in tricky places.
1-2x	2/1	First Aid	It's cheap, helps skinning, decreases roundtime for eating herbs, better wound tending.

Lore Training

Rangers will typically avoid studying lores very early on in their careers as they are often too busy using their TPs on threshold skills. Due to the many benefits of lores on a number of spells, most rangers end up training in some lores at some point in their careers and some rangers choose to single train in lores eventually. However, since rangers are limited to single training in Spiritual Lores, each ranger must choose how they balance their lores since these each offer different benefits to different spells, which are outlined in great detail in the lore chart.

More generally, a ranger who hunts in a more magical style may choose to learn more summoning lore to increase the effectiveness of their vine, spike thorn and nature's fury attacks (in addition to others) as well as for creating better imbued items. A ranger who hunts in a more physical style may prefer to learn more blessing lore since this will increase the defensive benefits of natural colours, resist elements, self control and their ability to give their armor better resistance to nature. Eventually, all rangers typically train up to some threshold in each to achieve some sort of balance.

First Aid and Survival

Both of these skills are quite cheap and therefore easy to fit into a ranger's training. Training at least 0.5x in a combination of both first aid and survival is also necessary to unlock skinning tasks through the Adventurer's Guild. Since rangers are generally pretty good at skinning (especially with the skinning spell running), this is an easy way to gain experience and Adventurer's Guild points, so achieving this level of training is highly recommended.

In addition, gaining some ranks in first aid is particularly beneficial for reducing the round time on herbal remedies, so getting some ranks of this is generally a good idea if your character lives in a small town with few empaths or if they often hunt when nobody else is around.

Finally, survival training decreases a character's odds of being poisoned while skinning certain creatures, slipping in icy areas, getting stuck in marshy areas and incurring weather-related damage from extreme conditions.

Old Core Skill table

#	Cost	Skill	Reasoning
1x	4/0	Physical Fitness	Necessary for full hitpoints, good as a cheap defense for maneuvers and for redux.
2x		Weapon Skill	Whatever the weapon choice, the training should be maxed out.
1x	7/5	Dodge	Dodge helps you avoid incoming attacks entirely.
1x	0/17	Spell Research	Learning new spells, improving the effectiveness and duration of others.
1x	0/5	Harness Power	Should be exactly at the character's level (not fully 1x) for 3 mana at each level.
1x	0/2	Perception	It's cheap, provides maneuver defense, helps rangers be even more amazing at foraging.
Total	9/29

Zul Logoth Deeds

(Spoilers!)

Visit Brother Barnstel, the herbalist (lich room #9505). Ask him about deeds and he will give you a password ("ygrutha sans'ra"). Then go arch, go hall and say the password. The small door in the room will open and you will enter it automatically.

You will be in a room with a series of murals and candles, which you have to light (somehow) and put your offering in the bowl. The candles you light depend on your race and profession. These can be determined by examining the murals in the room, but they're also provided in the table below.

Candle descriptions

Profession	Colour	Race	Shape
Bard	yellow	Aelotoi	winged
Cleric	orange	Burghal Gnome	petite
Empath	purple	Dark Elf	thin medium
Paladin	grey	Dwarf	short thick
Ranger	green	Elf	medium
Rogue	black	Erithian	delicate tall
Sorcerer	blue	Forest Gnome	small slender
Warrior	brown	Giantman	stocky tall
Wizard	red	Half-Elf	slender tall
		Half-Krolvin	sturdy tall
		Halfling	round short
		Human	tall
		Sylvan	slim medium

Cobbling Progression Notes

For the first 49 ranks of cobbling, one makes shoes. In order to progress to the 50th rank, one must be able to present the foreman with a pair of good quality shoes (shoes with adjectives such as ordinary, mediocre, average, commonplace, common etc).

From ranks 50 to 99, novice cobblers are set to making boots. In order to progress to the 100th rank, one must be able to present the foreman with a pair of fine quality shoes (boots with adjectives such as good, respectable, acceptable etc).

To present footwear to the foreman, one must ask the foreman about their rank.

Unlike some other artisan skills (such as fletching), one can gain more than one rank from completing a a single piece. It is possible to learn from two joinings: the first is when one joins the sole to the upper and the second is when one completes the final joining for the piece.