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I realize that the vast majority of things that are pilfered need to go "poof" if they are dropped, to avoid litter, etc, etc.
However, can there be a way of "tagging" an item not to poof on you without waiting an extraordinary amount of time if the item, in order to be used as intended, has to be dropped for a second?
The specific instance is cigars. Now, if an olvi is to smoke the cigar, you have to drop it in order to light it <unless you have one of those fancy quest-prize lighters, which my olvi, being a young character, doesn't have at this point in time. In order to light it you have to drop it, then get out your blade and flint, and light it.
Well, the cigar went Poof as soon as it was dropped. What's an olvi to do?
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There's supposed to be a "underfoot" slot sooner or later, but I'm surprised something would poof in an empty room that quickly. In my experience, there was a lot of time between being told "hey this room is going to be cleaned up" and it actually happening, and a room would never just randomly wipe itself with people in it and one thing dropped.
>There's supposed to be a "underfoot" slot sooner or later, but I'm surprised something would poof in an empty room that quickly.
Gonifs problem, restated: she stole a cigar, and dropped it to light it.
Non-container items flagged as recently stolen will auto-poof (with some spiffy messaging about hiding it) when dropped, because people would just steal;steal;drop;drop and clutter up a place with junk.
She wants to know how to circumvent this problem, without waiting out the timer. I would suggest trying to bite the cigar, and see if modifying it from its original state prevents the auto-poof.
Let's save us all some time: I'm a troll who rarely has anything helpful. There.
Gonifs problem, restated: she stole a cigar, and dropped it to light it.
Non-container items flagged as recently stolen will auto-poof (with some spiffy messaging about hiding it) when dropped, because people would just steal;steal;drop;drop and clutter up a place with junk.
She wants to know how to circumvent this problem, without waiting out the timer. I would suggest trying to bite the cigar, and see if modifying it from its original state prevents the auto-poof.
Let's save us all some time: I'm a troll who rarely has anything helpful. There.
I've never tried it, but is it possible to light the cigar with a burning branch or something that's already on fire? If that doesn't work you could try to find a warmage and ask them to light it with the fire cantrip.
< You throw a massive lumium shard at a beisswurm. A beisswurm attempts to evade. The shard lands a harmless blow to the beisswurm's abdomen.
< You throw a massive lumium shard at a beisswurm. A beisswurm attempts to evade. The shard lands a harmless blow to the beisswurm's abdomen.
>>Surprised lighting mechanics can't work with a worn knife. Arguably you'd be holding the cigar in your mouth when you light it so "flint+cigar+(worn knife)" should work just fine.
Right. there should be a mouth slot. (all jokes aside there should be for stuff like this)
But I agree that it would be neat if a player could protect an item that was on the ground from the janitor. (ground slot?)
Does "guard" protect it? If so, then if you could guard the item before you drop it, that would work.
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Right. there should be a mouth slot. (all jokes aside there should be for stuff like this)
But I agree that it would be neat if a player could protect an item that was on the ground from the janitor. (ground slot?)
Does "guard" protect it? If so, then if you could guard the item before you drop it, that would work.
Codiax.
Forged Weapons:
http://www.elanthipedia.com/wiki/User:Codiax#Codiax-Forged-Weapons
There is something of a mouth slot, but it's not visible.
> eat gum
You chew your gum, savoring the 100% natural leech flavor.
> glance
You glance down at your empty hands.
> spit gum
You spit some gum into your right hand.
> glance
You glance down to see some gum in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.
> eat gum
You toss some gum into your mouth and begin to chew, releasing the 100% natural leech flavor.
> glance
You glance down at your empty hands.
> eat gum
You chew your gum, filling your mouth with the flavor of 100% natural leech.
> exhale gum
You push the gum to the front of your mouth, stretch it between your lips, and exhale as hard as you can.
You manage to blow a large bubble!
> eat gum
Inhaling a great swallow of air, you pull the large bubble into your mouth!
You chew your gum.
> exhale gum
You push the gum to the front of your mouth, stretch it between your lips, and exhale as hard as you can.
You manage to blow a huge bubble!
>
Your huge bubble suddenly pops!
The remains of your bubble quickly adhere to your face in a sticky mess.
> rem gum
You work carefully to remove the sticky gum from your face.
Roundtime: 5 sec.
> eat gum
You toss some gum into your mouth and begin to chew, releasing the 100% natural leech flavor.
>
> eat gum
You chew your gum, savoring the 100% natural leech flavor.
> glance
You glance down at your empty hands.
> spit gum
You spit some gum into your right hand.
> glance
You glance down to see some gum in your right hand and nothing in your left hand.
> eat gum
You toss some gum into your mouth and begin to chew, releasing the 100% natural leech flavor.
> glance
You glance down at your empty hands.
> eat gum
You chew your gum, filling your mouth with the flavor of 100% natural leech.
> exhale gum
You push the gum to the front of your mouth, stretch it between your lips, and exhale as hard as you can.
You manage to blow a large bubble!
> eat gum
Inhaling a great swallow of air, you pull the large bubble into your mouth!
You chew your gum.
> exhale gum
You push the gum to the front of your mouth, stretch it between your lips, and exhale as hard as you can.
You manage to blow a huge bubble!
>
Your huge bubble suddenly pops!
The remains of your bubble quickly adhere to your face in a sticky mess.
> rem gum
You work carefully to remove the sticky gum from your face.
Roundtime: 5 sec.
> eat gum
You toss some gum into your mouth and begin to chew, releasing the 100% natural leech flavor.
>
You could light the cigar from anything else burning, if you don't want to risk dropping the cigar. Light a stick/log/torch, light cigar with stick/log/torch.
Killing you softly with his song,
- Stormsinger Shavay
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Killing you softly with his song,
- Stormsinger Shavay
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
