Duskruin/saved posts February 2024
General Information
Discord Message Link: General Information
Author: GM Thandiwe
Date: 11/15/2023
2023 Duskruin Dates
- February 16th - March 10th - Duskruin Arena
- August 16th - September 8th - Duskruin Arena
Announcement 1 - February 2024 - Duskruin Information
Discord Message Link: February 2024 - Duskruin Information
Author: GM Thandiwe
Date: 2/2/2024
Duskruin is just around the corner and the excitement is already echoing through the lands as adventurers try to glean a hint of what changes have taken place in Bloodriven Village. If you’d like to take part in the fun and excitement, then join us on the Official Discord Server and jump into our SIMUCOIN EVENTS and QUESTS > Duskruin Channel.
Is Discord too noisy and crowded for you? Then fear not! Everything will be shared on our Duskruin Wiki Page under SAVED POSTS.
Some speculation is already taking place, as adventurers wonder what tie-in Duskruin will offer to the global theme, Year of the Clockwerke Devices. Join the fun and wild guessing tonight at 9pm EDT when the channel opens!
Additional Information:
- 2/2/2024 - Duskruin Discord Channel opens at 9pm
- Information Duskruin Post for this run can be found here: Discord Forum Post for Duskruin
Announcement 2 - February 2024 - Duskruin Shop List
Discord Message Link: February 2024 - Shop List
Author: GM Thandiwe
Date: 2/2/2024
Please remember that the categories have the following meanings:
Reopen - This means that the shop is being reopened with no changes in designs or inventory
Refresh - This means that the shop is being opened with either new offering, changes in designs, or additions
Closed This Run - This means the shop was announced last run (in August) as having its last run and the offerings are no longer available in Bloodriven Village
Last Run - This means the shop is in its final run and that the offerings will not be available in August.
| Reopening w.o Inventory Changes | Refreshed | New | Closed This Run | Final Run Shops |
| Alchemical Attractions | All You Knead | Amalgamations | Gilded Gladiator | Art of Lore, The |
| Art of Lore, The | Be Warez | Balance and Frenzy | Best Tressed, The | |
| At The Ready | Blood Red Rose, The | Clockwerke Solutions | Blades of Glory | |
| Be Still My Hops | Just for Kicks | Daily Grind, The (delayed opening) | Eonak Arms | |
| Best Foot Forward | Daily Grind, The, Accents (delayed opening) | Shadowed Light | ||
| Best Tressed, The | In the Shadow of the Sparrow | Tiles of Chance | ||
| Beyond Barriers | Right to Flare Arms | |||
| Blades of Glory | Skayl Mix | |||
| Bloodbenders | ||||
| Bloodriven Bowery | ||||
| Bloody Lotus, The | ||||
| Bolt From The Blue | ||||
| Broken Coin, the | ||||
| Bundle Up | ||||
| Burning Twilight | ||||
| Certifiable | ||||
| Currents and Safeguards | ||||
| Curved Cuts | ||||
| Deep Within Darkness | ||||
| Diskovery | ||||
| Dunh's Lab | ||||
| Eonak Arms | ||||
| Essencetials | ||||
| Fairy Ring, The | ||||
| Fatal Afflares | ||||
| Fireside Supplies | ||||
| First Rule, The | ||||
| Gamac's Goods | ||||
| Good In-Tent-ions | ||||
| Heady Spirits | ||||
| Herbal Huntsman, The | ||||
| Hide and Fur Depot, The | ||||
| I See You | ||||
| Icy Disposition | ||||
| Knifery, The | ||||
| Knit One, Punch Two | ||||
| Librarium, The (Study, Sanctuary, Laboratory) | ||||
| Make Your Mark | ||||
| Mar and Scar, the | ||||
| Mind Your Manas | ||||
| Modern Morph, The | ||||
| Mystic Phrases | ||||
| Ode To Resistance | ||||
| On The Other Hand | ||||
| Paranormal Pages | ||||
| Pirate Looks at Four Teas, A | ||||
| Preening Plover, The | ||||
| Rock Solid | ||||
| Scoria and Dross | ||||
| Secretive Sips | ||||
| Shadowed Light | ||||
| Shield Thyself | ||||
| Sigil Shop | ||||
| Sparrow's Dance | ||||
| Spellbound | ||||
| Sprite Club | ||||
| Stay Awhile and Glisten | ||||
| Temple of Tentacles | ||||
| Tiles of Chance | ||||
| Tome Raiders | ||||
| Trapper's Shack | ||||
| Twinkling Twilight | ||||
| Twist of Briars, A | ||||
| Untamed Spirit | ||||
| Vaalin Rose, The | ||||
| Volatile Storage | ||||
| Wild Instinct | ||||
| Yarrrpee Shoppe, The |
Discord Message Link: In the Shadows of the Sparrow (shop)
Author: GM Thandiwe
Date: 2/3/2024
Located down an alley and secreted away, a young merchant sells fans modeled after the famed fighting fans of the Sparrows of the Night Queen. She will not speak to those that come seeking her out, instead just watching from the shadows of her shop as customers come and go.
While her fans are simple and elegant, they are not weapons, however, they do still allow for the chained dance of the Sparrow.
The cost of a base fan is 2,500 bloodscrip, with each unlock costing 1,000 bloodscrip.
Discord Message Link: Skayl Mix (shop)
Author: GM Naiken
Date: 2/3/2024
Armaments made of a new metal known as obskruul are being imported to Bloodriven Village from Teras and sold in Skayl Mix.
- Forum: Obskruul Discussion
- Lore: Mellar's Metal
- Wiki: Obskruul
Discord Message Link: Fancy Stance (certificate)
Author: GM Valyrka
Date: 2/3/2024
A certificate will be available for purchase this Duskruin that adds fancy stance messaging to your weapon.
This fluff messaging does not take up a script spot.
Examples:
stance off
Gripping your steel falchion, you take an aggressive step forward.
stance advance
Leaning forward, you position your steel falchion at your knees and ready yourself for battle.
stance forward
You pull your steel falchion across your body, preparing to fight.
stance neutral
Lightly gripping your steel falchion, you shift your balance from foot to foot.
stance guarded
Bringing your steel falchion across your chest, you glance about with a watchful eye.
stance defense
Stepping backwards, you pull your steel falchion close, protecting yourself from attack.
Thank you to GM Ethereal for helping code and APM Estild for his help in getting a new script slot added to make this happen.
With the release of this certificate comes a new field on items called Fluff Script, which will allow you to add fluff scripts that won't interfere with your mechanical scripts.
The way it works is as follows:
- The primary script always takes precedence.
- Multiple fluff scripts can be stacked into the fluff script field, but the order of importance is noted by the order of addition.
Example: Primary Script has verbs RUB, EXHALE, PULL, 1st fluff script has RUB, PUSH, PONDER, 2nd fluff script has PONDER, GAZE, GLANCE
- Rub, exhale, and pull will always default to the primary script.
- Push and ponder will always default to the 1st fluff script.
- Gaze and glance will default to the 2nd fluff script.
- And so on as it goes.
Discord Message Link: Crafter’s Tome Update
Author: GM Ethereal
Date: 2/6/2024
Three updates to Crafter’s Tomes/Monocles will be going live when Duskruin opens on the 16th:
- Crafter’s Tomes and Monocles will be updated to support the new Bard service. They’ll provide appropriate stat and skills boosts when used in conjunction with the service. Affinity will not be reset during this update, so the item should be usable immediately.
- Warrior’s will no longer see a difficulty assessment message when applying the grit service.
- A new certificate will be available from Tome Raiders: a black voucher. This voucher will unlock to assess your service bonus when PONDER’ing your tome or monocle. It’ll provide both an IC range as well as the numerical value.
Example:
- >ponder tome
- Your crafter's tome pulses with a crimson light, suffusing you with necromantic knowledge.
- You open your crafter's tome and scan through the pages, studying the text and diagrams contained within. After a few moments, you feel a presence briefly touch your mind, as if searching it. The feeling fades as you close your tome once again.
- You sense that your ability to ensorcell is proficient.
- [Your skill bonus given your current condition and environment is 488.]
Discord Message Link: Teaser for the Cobblers!
Author: GM Elidi
Date: 2/6/2024
Stop by Just For Kicks for the refreshed inventory and pick up a new Cobbling Settings Maker Box. Load 4 gems into the contraption, turn the knob and dials to cycle through the available settings and create some settings you can incorporate into your shoes as beads, buttons, studs, or insets. The box has room for 10 custom settings and yes, you can charge it yourself with some spare gems (or ask Lady Airisu).
G>l my box
Looking closely at the settings on the side of your ebonwood box, you notice a dial set to "gold-set" and a knob set to "moon."
G>push my box
To make your cobbling settings [some gold-set pallid sapphire moons], your gems will be destroyed. Are you sure you want to do this?
Discord Message Link: Clockwerke Soluations
Author: GM Thandiwe
Date: 2/13/2024
You analyze your round bronze pocketwatch and sense that the creator has provided the following information:
Created in 5124 at the precise stroke of midnight on Lormesta the 1st, a filligreed round bronze pocketwatch is a timepiece in honor of the "Year of the Clockwerke Devices."
The pocketwatch is currently tier 1 of 3 and can only be unlocked via an unlock certificate at Duskruin.
It has access to the following verbs:
CLOSE, GAZE (provides time), LOOK, OPEN, REMOVE, and WEAR.
It has the following available customizations:
Chain Article: herringbone
Chain Material: copper
Lid Design: an embellished filigree whorl
Shape of pocketwatch: round
Interior Lid Item (base): a scrap of parchment
Interior Lid Item (description): Scrawled across the thin slip of paper is a wish for a happy new year.
Timepiece Glass Color: clear
Timepiece Charm: golden bell
Timepiece Base: a filigreed round bronze pocketwatch
When worn, the pocketwatch will transform in the follow ways:
With a bodice/corset: a stay-pinned braided herringbone chain discreetly tucked into a (bodice/corset) pocket
With a vest: a button-latched looping herringbone chain attached to a pocket-tucked timepiece
If no vest or bodice/corset are worn, then it becomes a neckworn item: a copper-strung clockwork locket
In Locket & Pocketwatch form, the timepiece may have a long description.
> look
> The round pocketwatch has been crafted from bronze, its surface graced with an embellished filigree whorl. Set within the panes of clear glass are tiny clockwork hands, the appendages affixed with gears and cogs set in thin layers beneath a disc of lacquered vellum. A herringbone copper chain allows the timepiece to be attached to the wearer, leaving a diminutive golden bell to drape against the bow and crown.
> gaze my pocket
Toggling the closure spring with your thumb, you open your round bronze pocketwatch and gaze at the timepiece, noting that it is 9:40 AM by the elven time standard. You close the pocketwatch with a quiet *CLICK*.
Noun can be watch (as long as the adj. if pocket directly before it) or pocketwatch.
For more details, visit: Clockwerke Solutions Pocketwatch
Discord Discussion: Forum Discussion
Discord Message Link: Balance & Frenzy
Author: GM Retser
Date: 2/13/2024
Hello everyone!
This Duskruin (redacted) will be releasing a new weapon line known as Balance and Frenzy. The weapons themselves start 4X and are available to all but UCS. The weapons can be shifted between an offensive or defensive flare and set of abilities. Numbers are mostly finalized
The first is the standard flares. The standard flares from the weapon are script level. Each flare will add 1 counter to the weapon. Upon reaching 20 counters the double flares will stop occurring until you TURN the weapon (swap) to the other side.
Current Pricing (Pending)
Base Weapon: 2500
Tier 2 Unlock 10000
Tier 3 Unlock 50000
FRENZY FLARES
Provides a boost in offense for the current attack.
Tier 1: 4 AS 2CS
Tier 2 8 AS 4CS
Tier 3 15 AS 9CS
BALANCE FLARES
Provides a boost in defense for 5 seconds (non-stacking) with an internal cooldown of 15 seconds.
Tier 1: 4 DS 2TD
Tier 2 8 DS 4TD
Tier 3 15 DS 9TD
Double Flares
Tier 1 (OTS)
The flares have a chance scaling with the tier of the weapon to DOUBLE the strength of the flare.
Cost: 5 stamina or 5 Mana taking the higher of the two.
Tier 1: Chance to double strength 5%
Tier 2: Chance to double strength 10%
Tier 3: Chance to double strength 15%
Double Frenzy
Chance on standard flare to double the AS and CS.
Tier 1: 8 AS 4 CS
Tier 2 16 AS 9 CS
Tier 3 30 AS 18 CS
Double Balance
Chance on standard flare to double the DS and TD.
Tier 1: 8 DS 4 TD
Tier 2 16 DS 9 TD
Tier 3 30 DS 18 TD
Balance & Frenzy
For 60 seconds you will receive the bonus of BALANCE and FRENZY on flare.
Cost: 20 Stamina OR 20 Mana taking the higher of the two.
Cooldown: 5 Minutes
Tier 2
Fracture
Cooldown: 15 Minutes
Cost: 20 Stamina OR 20 Mana taking the higher of the two.
Tier 3
Frenzied Fracture
Fractures a piece of the weapon for 60 seconds to sacrifice DS/TD to gain AS/CS
Tier 1: -8 DS / -4 TD and + 8 AS / + 4 CS
Tier 2: -16 DS / -9 TD and + 12 AS / + 7 CS
Tier 3: -25 DS /-15 TD and + 16 AS / + 9 CS
Balance Fracture
Fractures a piece of the weapon for 120 seconds to sacrifice AS/CS to gain DS/TD
Tier 1: -8 AS / -4 CS and + 16 DS / + 9 TD
Tier 2: -16 AS / -9 CS and + 24 DS / + 14 TD
Tier 3: -25 AS /-15 CS and + 36 DS / + 21 TD
Invigorate (Frenzied OR Balanced)
Cooldown: 10 Minutes
This effect cannot be stacked. This effect can only be present on a player once every 10 minutes. The weapon must be held in the hand for the effect to continue.
Tier 2
Frenzied Invigorate
Restores 5 Health, 2 stamina, and 1 mana every 5 seconds for 60 seconds. (Will not overfill) 60 Health, 24 Stamina, 12 Mana total.
Balanced Invigorate
Restores 1 Health, 4 stamina, and 2 mana every 5 seconds for 60 seconds. (Will not overfill) 12 Health, 48 Stamina, and 24 Mana total.
Alignment
Allows the weapon to change between balanced and frenzied form. The weapon must cycle to the next before cycling back.
Cooldown: 2 minutes
Tier 1 (OTS)
Alignment, Frenzy
Channels the weapon to be in a frenzy mode. This will remove all balanced abilities.
For the next attack (within 15 seconds) you will receive a guaranteed flare at increased strength.
Tier 1: 8 AS 4 CS
Tier 2 16 AS 9 CS
Tier 3 30 AS 18 CS
Alignment, Balance
Channels the weapon to be in a balanced mode. This will remove all frenzy abilities.
Enables a barrier for 15 seconds providing a bonus based on the tier.
Tier 1: 8 DS 4 TD
Tier 2 16 DS 9 TD
Tier 3 30 DS 18 TD
Discord Message Link: The Daily Grind
Author: GM Avaluka
Date: 2/13/2024
Meat Grinders are a new food crafting item debuting in "The Daily Grind".
What does it create?
- Raw, cookable sausages filled with up to two (2) filler ingredients and flavored with up to two (2) added flavors.
- Raw sausages can be impaled on the end of any "stick" you may have lying around and cooked over a fire source (or you can CAST fire spells at them). If you like them crispy, you can cook them up to 3 times total.
What do you need to create the sausages?
- Iron or silver wands (or lightning-based spells.
- Salt (either regular salt, sea salt, garlic salt, celery salt, etc.)
- Intestines.
- A piece of raw meat.
- (Optional) A second piece of different raw meat, an organ (heart, liver, or kidney), grain, wine, blood, vegetable, or mushroom.
- (Optional) Up to two (2) flavor ingredients to infuse into the filling (these are items exactly like the alcohol still - Foraged Items, food, cooking/brewing additives, etc.)
- The combination of the base ingredient (meat) and the optional 2nd filler ingredient will change the taste messaging you end up with, as some meats are more gamy or greasy and obviously a blood sausage tastes different than one infused with wine.
What sort of things can I do to change the sausage's looks?
- OTS grinders can adjust the article (the first 15 of the 15/15/15).
- An unlock certificate can be purchased to allow changing the adjective, as well as a separate certificate to allow adding a long description to the sausage.
- All articles, adjectives, and long description options are based on what ingredients you have put into the grinder (no customs at this time).
What other things can be unlocked?
- You can unlock the ability to make ropes of sausage links (an item that will create a "rope" that will let you TWIST off individual 3-bite sausage links).
- You can unlock the "Spicy" or "Rancid" after-effect, which are messages that appear after you EAT the sausage.
Discord Message Link: The Blood Red Rose
Author: GM Thandiwe
Date: 2/14/2024
This shop houses Iasha Weapons. All new weapon bases have been built for this shop.
There are also two new unlock certificates available.
The coveted tier 3 unlock (providing +3 Wisdom Stat bonus and 1x/day teleportation to the player's deity's nearest temple/shrine (where applicable) via the ATTEND verb is now available. This tier is limited to Paladins/Clerics.
However, if you get the GREATER All-Profession upgrade (also on sale) it will work for anyone.
Discord Message Link: Private Property Clock
Author: GM Tivvy
Date: 2/15/2024
Sometime during the event, I'll be putting out a cart with a contract to place a standing clock in your private property. This will not work in premium homes, tents, or any other location except in a private property you are the owner of. The clock will chime on the hour and it will be audible throughout your property. Once the clock is placed you can TURN the clock to toggle it on and off. There are also a few fluff verbs you can use to interact with the clock once placed, CLEAN, LISTEN, LOOK, OPEN, PINCH, STARE and UNLATCH.
The clock is a script first coded by GM Kynlee. I've made some updates to add more ring flavors and a few other small improvements under the hood. You will be able to take the contract to any willing GALD merchant and have its appearance customized. The noun must remain clock, but it cannot be a grandfather clock. It will support long descriptions but not shows. Once placed, you cannot change any of the custom settings, so be sure you have it how you want it before raising your contract!
You analyze your clock contract and sense that the creator has provided the following information:
This clock contract is used to place a standing floor clock in a private property that you own.
TURN the contract to choose between one of six different hourly ring messages.
Current ring setting: Striker
The appearance of the clock may be altered by any willing merchant with a long description but show descriptions are not allowed. The noun will always remain "clock".
Current article setting: a timeworn
Current adjective setting: mahogany
Current long description setting: a timeworn mahogany clock with a nacre-inlaid face
Current clock hands metal setting: faenor
You should RAISE your contract while standing in the room where you want to install a standing floor clock.
>turn my contract
Your clock ring is now set to: Clockwork Bird
>turn my contract
Your clock ring is now set to: Dirge
>turn my contract
Your clock ring is now set to: Banshee
>turn my contract
Your clock ring is now set to: Guillotine
>turn my contract
Your clock ring is now set to: Striker
>turn my contract
Your clock ring is now set to: Gong
>turn my contract
Your clock ring is now set to: Chimes
Discord Message Link: Right to Flare Arms
Author: GM Naiken
Date: 2/15/2024
Gloves in The Right to Flare Arms are non-UCS and come without any flares/addons.
You can unlock and store as many of the available flares as you want. There are no tiers, but the following addons are available:
-Unlinked-
- Both hands can be set to a flare simultaneously and independently.
-Pound-
- Activates an SMR flare against up to five random creatures for 15 stamina and a 10min cooldown. If Unlinked is unlocked, both hands can flare for 25 stamina.
-Ambients-
- Bestow Lesser Moods ambients to an unflaring held weapon. If Unlinked is unlocked, it'll choose randomly between two weapons as applicable.
-Greater Flares-
- Chance to trigger the flaring portion of Greater Elemental Flares for supported flares (Fire, Cold, Lightning, Impact, Vacuum, Steam).
-Pockets-
- Add closeable pockets that hold a very small amount with space for two items.
Discord Message Link: Amalgamations
Author: GM Marstreforn
Date: 2/16/2024
Something new...
>analyze my shield
- You analyze your black alloy shield and sense that the creator has provided the following information:
- * Twisted Shield - Acid Edition *
- Available Actions
- * CLENCH
- * RAISE
- * TILT
- * GET | DROP
- * WEAR | REMOVE
- ** TURN - held effect - [ON]
Special messaging when changing stances if STANCE VERBOSE is toggled.
- Merchants that are skilled with this type of shield may also customize the following:
- * Bouche: "an angular notch"
- * Grooves: "labyrinthine"
- * Fumes: "virescent"
- * Enarmes: "rigid leather brace"
- ** Lever: "a twisted metal lever"
- ** Flares: "a twisted, prismatic spray of acid"
- Combat Unlocks:
- ** Twisted Interdiction Flares (reactive: acid): UNLOCKED!
- *** Twisted Assault Flares (offensive: acid): UNLOCKED!
- Added below hands: Virescent fumes twist and churn over the labyrinthine grooves on his black alloy shield.
[Must be held, and is toggled on/off with TURN]
You might be able to have a talented merchant lighten the black alloy shield for you.```
- OTS-T1: 2,500 bloodscrip
- T2 (reactive: acid): 20,000 bloodscrip
- T3 (offensive: acid): 40,000 bloodscrip - these are double flares like GEF
Discord Message Link: Gladiator
Author: GM Wyrom
Date: 2/16/2024
GLADIATOR NPC (BOOKLET EXCHANGE)
The booklet exchange NPC will have a 10 minute timer instead of the 30 minute timer. You run the risk of losing a lot of experience if you die, so use this frequently at your own peril. The NPC also has some better debugging if you use the wrong item.
EASTER EGGS
There are still some hidden easter eggs in the arena.