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Category: Quests, Sagas and Events Topic: Storms of Fortune: Secrets of the Wavedancer Message number: (Unknown) Author: (GS4-GYRES Date: 2/16/2006 12:38:12 PM Subject: Of flowers and the weaving thereof.
Alright, for the few and the proud, you asked for it.
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Process:
Have a weavable in each hand and WEAVE my <item> with my <item>. If you're just starting with a flower or ribbon or whatnot in each hand, this will form 'a chain of <item> [and <item>, if they're different]'.
>weave my daisy with my rose
You weave a yellow daisy together with a purple rose.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
>You glance down to see a woven chain of yellow daisies and purple roses in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.
Once you have a chain started, you can TURN it to cycle between the types of things you can create from the flowers - the types are garland (neckworn), circlet (headworn), belt (waistworn), bracelet (wristworn) and anklet (ankleworn).
>You turn the woven chain over in your hands, pondering how best to pull it into a garland.
>You turn the woven chain over in your hands, pondering how best to pull it into a circlet.
>You turn the woven chain over in your hands, pondering how best to pull it into a bracelet.
>You turn the woven chain over in your hands, pondering how best to pull it into an anklet.
>You turn the woven chain over in your hands, pondering how best to pull it into a belt.
You can LOOK at the chain to see what's in it, including the number of the items total and a rough estimate of how many of each item is in the chain. You can have nine different items in a chain, and a grand total of fifty before a chain would be too unwieldy to use. The number of items in your chain affects the long description of the finished item.
>The woven chain has 2 things woven into it, among which you see one yellow daisy and one purple rose.
Once you've decided what you want to make via TURN and woven as many flowers or ribbons or whatever into the chain as you want, you can PULL the chain to create an item. Each finished object type has its own minimums, maximums, and description thresholds. If you don't have enough flowers in a chain to make a given finished object, you'll get a message to that effect.
>You consider the length of the woven chain and figure you need to weave several more objects into it before you could pull it into a belt.
>You consider the length of the woven chain and figure you need to weave one more object into it before you could pull it into a bracelet.
If you have too many items to create a finished object, you'll also get a message to that effect.
>The woven chain has 20 things woven into it, among which you see many yellow daisies and several purple roses.
>You consider the bulk of the woven chain and determine it would be too cumbersome to pull into a bracelet.
If you PULL the chain and you have enough and not too many flowers to make something, the finished item will be created.
>You gather the ends of the chain and carefully weave them together to form a densely woven circlet of yellow daisies and purple roses.
Roundtime: 5 sec.
Keep in mind that right now, if you PULL, there's NO user error checking to make sure you really really want to turn a chain into a finished piece. (It's been suggested, and I'm looking into it.)
Minimums for woven objects are thus: 3 minimum for anklet/bracelet, 6 minimum for circlet, 9 minimum for belt, 12 minimum for garland.
Maximums and thresholds for the different long descriptors I'll leave as an exercise for the flower-obsessed. I'm laying a lot of cards on the table, I might as well leave a few for you to discover on your own.
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Alterability:
Individual weavable objects, like flowers, ribbons, and the like, can be altered by anyone who chooses to, but they have some small restrictions. Nouns that are both singular and plural won't fly because of the way the script pluralizes, as those who asked me for hibiscus, jasmine, and heather this past week quickly found out. A quick kludge for this is to, for example, ask for a hibiscus blossom instead, which works fine.
Weaveable objects are 15/15/15 base descriptions. Longs, while they won't break anything on a single item, will be UTTERLY AND COMPLETELY LOST if a given item is woven. There's really no point in trying to put a long description (or a show, for that matter) on a flower you're going to weave. And if you're not going to weave it, there are several other extremely nifty flower scripts out there written by other people that are much more suited for standalone keepsakes. The sole purpose of a weaveable is to be woven, not to sit there and look pretty by itself.
On the same vein, those of you caught up in a weaving frenzy may have noticed that only the adjective and the noun are showing up in your woven chains and finished items. This is intended, and keeps long descriptions and the listing of flowers in the look of each item from getting tacky and unwieldy. Keep it in mind when you're choosing a flower to weave, or a ribbon to have altered... if "a red-streaked white stargazer lily" is your signature flower down to the last crimson stripe, you'll probably be a little shocked and disappointed when you weave an intricately woven circlet of... white stargazer lilies. Which, while pretty, sure aren't what you were going for.
Woven chains can't be altered in any way, shape or form. Only components and finished woven items.
Finished woven items can have both a long and a show description. You'll still see the number and type of flower woven into the item when you look at it, after the custom description if there is one, like so:
>You glance down to see a thorny crown of lush silver-edged purple roses in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.
>look at my crown
A half-dozen large purple roses have been twined about each other in a thorny circle to form a barbed yet beautiful crown. Their deep green stems are braided together in an intricate spiral, and their blackened thorns jut out at all angles, ready to trap the unwary handler. The blooms themselves are broad and full, and each deep violet petal is rimmed in a contrasting silvery-white. The purple rose crown has 6 things woven into it, among which you see several purple roses.
So those of you who are lamenting your sparsely woven thingamagig of awesome doohickeys needn't feel you've wasted your awesome doohickeys... you can alter it and get it fixed up to be the doohickey-laden thingamajig trailing long doodads of amazingness you've always wanted.
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I'm more than happy to take suggestions for these for future tweaking and development, but aside from bug fixes right now (and the garlands 'of flowers' should be fixed soon), I make no promises in the short term. My code nin has his own projects, and as much as I love to monopolize his time with my vegetable gadgetry, these are a personal project and don't take precedence over all the awesome stuff we're gearing up to release this year.
Happy weaving!
Gyres