Collector vissi

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The Collector vissi is a primal vissi that is part of the vissi system. It must be placed inside an arcarium to function. As a dualistic vissi, it has two different effects, depending on what type of arcarium it is placed inside.

Once restricted to Nyessemian nobility, this forbidden vissi allows you to rip the very essence from your foe and seal it into a grinsawl. Collect them as trophies of past victories, or compete with rival collectors to see who can build the most impressive deck. Guard these prizes well, for if you gain our Lady's trust, she may deign to unlock their deeper secrets in the future. After acquired via this vissi, grinsawl can also be stored inside a grinsawl tome.

Aversaris arcarium effect: Requires an empty hand. Vissi creates a link between you and a target hostile creature, attempting to rip a part of its essence and trap it in a grinsawl (card). If successful, a physical card will be created in your hand. If the initial attempt is unsuccessful, another attempt will be made every five seconds until you either succeed or 30 seconds expires, at which point the link breaks. Most physical actions will also break the link. Upon successful capture or the expiration of the link, a Soul Lash SMR attack will be performed.

Tiering the vissi up will result in quicker captures of same and lower-aged creatures, or higher chances of successfully capturing creatures higher than your level. This ability can be targeted via {VERB} MY {ARCARIUM} AT {TARGET}.

Vangaris arcarium effect: If you hold an unfoiled grinsawl in your hand, the vissi will create a link between the grinsawl and an identical creature. Upon successful capture, the essence of the identical creature type will be transferred to your held grinsawl, sealing it with bronze, silver, or gold. (i.e., if you trapped a kobold in a grinsawl, you can make a foil attempt by linking to another kobold.) Capture mechanics are exactly the same as the aversaris orb, including the Soul Lash SMR attack. Grinsawl may only be foiled once. This ability can be targeted via {VERB} MY {ARCARIUM} AT {TARGET}.

This vissi is available as a possible prize for a successful run of the Menagerie Madness mini-game. They are also sold for aevit. See the full upgrade costs below.

Tier 1

Aversaris arcarium effect: Requires an empty hand. Vissi creates a link between you and a target hostile creature, attempting to rip a part of its essence and trap it in a grinsawl (card). If successful, a physical card will be created in your hand. If the initial attempt is unsuccessful, another attempt will be made every five seconds until you either succeed or 30 seconds expires, at which point the link breaks. Most physical actions will also break the link. Upon successful capture or the expiration of the link, a Soul Lash SMR attack will be performed.

Limitations:
  • You cannot form a link with a creature more than 10 levels above you. This prohibition is waived upon reaching level 100; by that point you are powerful enough that level limits need not be placed on you.
  • You cannot attempt to capture the essence of non-hostiles.
  • You cannot attempt to capture the essence of fellow Elanthian adventurers.
There are factors that can work in your favor, or detriment, when attempting a capture:
  • You will accrue a penalty to your attempt for every level a creature is above your own.
  • You will receive a bonus to your attempt for each tier beyond the first for your Collector vissi.
  • You will receive a rapidly escalating bonus for each 5-second attempt beyond the first until the link breaks at 30 seconds.
A tier 1 Collector vissi will capture any creature of the same level or lower as you within 15 seconds. As long as the link persists, you cannot fail.
A tier 1 Collector vissi will result in about a 50% chance of failure if linking to a creature 10 levels above you (the maximum level difference and highest penalty modifier) at the full 30 seconds mark.

Vangaris arcarium effect: If you hold an unfoiled grinsawl in your hand, the vissi will create a link between the grinsawl and an identical creature. Upon successful capture, the essence of the identical creature type will be transferred to your held grinsawl, sealing it with bronze, silver, or gold. (i.e., if you trapped a kobold in a grinsawl, you can make a foil attempt by linking to another kobold.) Capture mechanics are exactly the same as the aversaris orb, including the Soul Lash SMR attack.

85% chance of bronze foil, 10% chance of silver foil, 5% chance of gold foil. Grinsawl may only be foiled once.

Analyze

You analyze the Collector vissi and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

The Collector vissi can be added to a vissi artifact in order to augment the artifact with custom abilities.  Each vissi artifact may hold up to 5 different types of vissi, and each vissi may be upgradable by adding additional vissi of the same type to the artifact.

The Collector vissi is named Collector and it is a Primal vissi.

This vissi notes the following ability information:

Capture and collect the essence of your favorite creatures from Elanthia and beyond.  The ability (or abilities) have cooldowns.  They have a 600 second cooldown.  

The vissi may have abilities you can activate by using certain verbs (RUB, TAP, PUSH, PULL, or POKE) on the vissi artifact you add them to.  In order to set the activator, use ATTEND on the vissi.  The vissi might not have an ability you may activate, in which case ATTEND will indicate that.

Sometimes, a vissi may have multiple abilities you can activate with the activator verbs.  You can TILT the vissi to switch between them.  Tilt will not respond if the vissi has only a single ability (or no abilities at all).  You may only have one ability active at a time.

In addition, the vissi may have abilities with customizable messaging options.  You can TURN the vissi to customize each set of options.  Once on a set of options, you can TWIST the vissi to cycle through the available customizations.

Finally, some vissi may contain ambient messaging, which you can toggle on or off with COVER.

It is currently tier 1.  The maximum tier is 5.  It is empowered by 1 thread.

Usage

Verb Arcarium First Third
ATTEND {VISSI} WITH {VERB} Both This section has not been added yet; please add to it now! This section has not been added yet; please add to it now!
Set the activator verb.
POKE / PULL / PUSH / RUB / TAP {ARCARIUM} Aversaris This section has not been added yet; please add to it now! This section has not been added yet; please add to it now!
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Tier 2

Aversaris arcarium effect: Tiering the vissi up will result in quicker captures of same and lower-aged creatures, or higher chances of successfully capturing creatures higher than your level.

Vangaris arcarium effect: 70% chance of bronze foil, 20% chance of silver foil, 10% chance of gold foil. Grinsawl may only be foiled once.

Requires 9 duplicates to upgrade from Tier 1 to Tier 2.

Tier 3

Aversaris arcarium effect: Tiering the vissi up will result in quicker captures of same and lower-aged creatures, or higher chances of successfully capturing creatures higher than your level.

Vangaris arcarium effect: 50% chance of bronze foil, 35% chance of silver foil, 15% chance of gold foil. Grinsawl may only be foiled once.

Requires 54 duplicates to upgrade from Tier 2 to Tier 3.

Tier 4

Aversaris arcarium effect: Tiering the vissi up will result in quicker captures of same and lower-aged creatures, or higher chances of successfully capturing creatures higher than your level.

Vangaris arcarium effect: 30% chance of bronze foil, 45% chance of silver foil, 25% chance of gold foil. Grinsawl may only be foiled once.

Requires 386 duplicates to upgrade from Tier 3 to Tier 4.

Tier 5

Aversaris arcarium effect: Tiering the vissi up will result in quicker captures of same and lower-aged creatures, or higher chances of successfully capturing creatures higher than your level.

Vangaris arcarium effect: 10% chance of bronze foil, 50% chance of silver foil, 40% chance of gold foil. Grinsawl may only be foiled once.

Requires 800 duplicates to upgrade from Tier 4 to Tier 5.

Additional Information

Upgrade Costs

Tier 1: 1 copy (Base item)
Tier 2: 10 copies (+9 duplicates)
Tier 3: 64 copies (+54 duplicates)
Tier 4: 450 copies (+386 duplicates)
Tier 5: 1,250 copies (+800 duplicates)

See Also

Collector vissi Information
Type Mechanical
Item Classification Miscellaneous
Item(s) Applied to Vissi
Alterable
Light/Deep
Original Release Venue The Inquisitor
Original Release Year 2026
Tiered Yes
Number of Tiers 5
How to Unlock Vissi
Corresponding Item Scripts Arcarium
Grinsawl
Item Verbs
ATTEND POKE PULL PUSH
RUB TAP