Rock Tumbler

Rock Tumbler Information
Category	Fluff
Class	Miscellaneous
Tiers	2
How to Unlock	Certificate
Customizable	✓
Safety Feature	Stay Put
Item Restrictions	✓

Verbs Used
FLIP GAZE NUDGE PLACE PONDER PUT SPIN TURN WHISPER

The Rock Tumbler is a fluff script that applies to miscellaneous items. The following facets are able to be customized by a merchant: shape. Items with this script can be PUT on the ground for a limited duration, during which other players and the janitor cannot pick them up. Tumbles gemstones back into uncut gemstones. Unlocks allow changing a gemstone's noun to a shape or pattern, or removing its article.

Analyze

This is a Rock Tumbler.  It will take a gemstone and tumble it into an uncut gemstone, which then could be decorated by a gemcutter or lapidary box.
This tumbler has the shape unlock.  This allows you to take a gemstone and change either the article or noun.
-FLIP the tumbler to toggle between categories.
-GAZE to see the available noun selections.
-SPIN the tumbler to toggle between the style options.
Your rock tumbler has the Patterns unlock.  This gives you greater control over your shape choice.
-PONDER to cycle through the available unlocked design styles.
-WHISPER to select one of the unlocked design styles.  Syntax is WHISPER MY rock tumbler {design}.
-TURN the tumbler to process identical gemstones into a blue topaz heart.
The tumbler has 3 custom shape slots.  Shapes must be one word, lowercase, make sense for any gemstone, and contain 15 characters or fewer.

This item has Stay-Put qualities.  If you PLACE it, it will be moved to the ground in your current room and stay there, unable to be picked up by others or taken by the janitor, for 4 hours.  You may NUDGE it at a valid container to place the tumbler on top of the container until you NUDGE it out of its place again.  After the duration expires, the item is fair game for others and for the janitor.  Alternately, the item may be PLACEd by the owner of a private property within the grounds of the property or by the owner of a stall or loft in and will stay there until PLACEd or NUDGEd again.

Usage Information

Off-the Shelf

Off the shelf, the tumbler will only tumble gemstones back into uncut gemstones. All gemstones inside the tumbler must be identical, and every gemstone inside is tumbled at once. TURN must be repeated within 30 seconds to confirm.

Verb	Setting	First	Third
PUT	Not a gemstone	You can only put gemstones into the tumbler.	-
TURN	Confirmation	You are about to tumble the blue topaz inside the rock tumbler into an uncut topaz. If that is correct, please repeat the command.	-
TURN	Repeated	You turn the crank on a rock tumbler, causing the topaz inside the tumbler to crash against the hard surface over and over again. Eventually, the topaz erodes into an uncut topaz. Roundtime: 12 sec.	-
TURN	Empty	There is nothing in there.	-

Shape Unlock

The shape unlock allows FLIP to cycle the tumbler between four settings: changing the gemstone's noun, removing its article while changing its noun, removing only its article, or creating uncut gemstones. GAZE lists the 44 available nouns, plus any custom shapes, and SPIN selects one.

Verb	Setting	First	Third
FLIP	Noun	You change the setting on the rock tumbler to change the noun of a tumbled gemstone. SPIN the tumbler to select the noun. The current setting is a blue topaz heart.	-
FLIP	Article and noun	You change the setting on the rock tumbler to partially tumble a gemstone, removing only the article while also changing the noun of a tumbled gemstone. SPIN the tumbler to select the noun. The current setting is a blue topaz heart.	-
FLIP	Article	You change the setting on the rock tumbler to partially tumble a gemstone, removing only the article of a tumbled gemstone. The current setting is a blue topaz.	-
FLIP	Uncut	You change the setting on the rock tumbler to create uncut gemstones. The current setting is an uncut topaz.	-
SPIN	With gemstone	You prepare to make a blue topaz heart.	-
SPIN	Empty	You prepare to make a gemstone heart.	-
TURN	Noun	You turn the crank on a rock tumbler, causing the topaz inside the tumbler to crash against the hard surface over and over again. Eventually, the topaz erodes into a blue topaz heart. Roundtime: 14 sec.	-

GAZE

Available noun selections:
  [1] baguette       [2] bar            [3] bead           [4] blossom
  [5] branch         [6] briolette      [7] button         [8] cabochon
  [9] chip           [10] chunk         [11] cluster       [12] crescent
  [13] cube          [14] disc          [15] disk          [16] droplet
  [17] flake         [18] fragment      [19] globe         [20] heart (*)
  [21] leaf          [22] nodule        [23] orb           [24] oval
  [25] pebble        [26] petal         [27] pyramid       [28] rondelle
  [29] rosette       [30] round         [31] shard         [32] slice
  [33] sliver        [34] snowflake     [35] sphere        [36] spindle
  [37] spiral        [38] square        [39] star          [40] starburst
  [41] teardrop      [42] tile          [43] triangle      [44] wedge

Additional Unlocks

Patterns

Requires the shape unlock. PONDER cycles through 13 design categories, and WHISPER MY TUMBLER {pattern} uses a one-word pattern of 15 characters or less as the tumbled gemstone's noun. The tumbler must be held, at your feet, or PLACEd.

Verb	Setting	First	Third
PONDER	-	You ponder over which design in the "{category}" category to choose: {designs}, or none.	-
WHISPER	Pattern	You decide to use {pattern} as your tumbled gemstone noun.	-
WHISPER	none	You decide to not use a pattern.	-

Custom Shape Slots

Requires the shape unlock. Each certificate adds three custom shape slots, up to a maximum of nine. A merchant fills the slots, and custom shapes appear after the standard 44 in GAZE.

Stay-Put

Allows the tumbler to be PLACEd and NUDGEd. See Stay Put.

Additional Information

Restrictions

• Only gemstones can be tumbled, and all gemstones in the tumbler must be identical.
• Rift gemstones with special properties (oblivion quartz, urglaes fangs, doomstones, Eye-of-Koar emeralds, shadowglass orbs, midnight blue riftstones), REAL gemstones, and irregular grey pebbles cannot be tumbled.
• Gemstone nouns must be one word of 15 characters or less (lapis lazuli is an exception).
• Off the shelf, gemstones with the following nouns cannot be tumbled to uncut: ambergris, avian, bead, berry, chrysalis, crescent, critter, core, crucifer, disc, dust, fang, half-shell, insect, nugget, orb, pearl, pebble, rosette, sandsilver, shard, shell, spiral, sponge, spur, star, teardrop, thorn, toadstool, tooth, tradebar, tusk, wheel.
• SPIN will not use a noun already in the gemstone's description (e.g. a blue topaz heart cannot be made from a topaz heart).
• The tumbler cannot be deepened.