I've been away for a long time, but just thought of a handy piece of gear that all sorcerers may enjoy. It is a leather bag with an enruned flap or buckle. They are inherently phaseable like a locking container, without the lock. Additional, when phased, the enruned flap/buckle thingie does not phase, meaning the sorcerer can access goods within it.

They would have one other special property - act like the gem jar for a sorcerer's components, reducing small items like paint brushes, runestones, chalks, inks, salts, etc. to a single item. Each bag may have several areas, one large and several small, so that you can look at your paint brush or your runestone and know how many and what kind you have.

For style purposes, there should be several varieties of bags:
one for scrolls and 714 components,
one demon themed bag for runestones and gems,
one used for chalks and books,
and the last for animation gear.

All should be available within the guild store.

Other types of adventures could have access to the scroll style bags, with a different, non-sorcerer themed description for alchemy. The large storage area should hold a small cauldron instead of scrolls as the sorcerer's bag does. It would also be phasable, but without being a sorcerer, the point is moot.

A second suggested item is a wide bandoleer for holding heavy quartz orbs. Again, it should be phaseable and have a chance of genning with a new sorcerer character.

One last idea, sorcerer's should have a teleport themed title under various title headings. One should be granted for each teleport themed ability. The choice should be awarded for 704 and 740, 130, and one for each society skill that allows teleportation. If sarcastic titles can be allowed, perhaps 720 and 712 should have a particularly off color title, in reference to the way you can die from these spells.

The idea of selling straight up phasing containers that just work is definitely a good one. I think the best bet here is arguing for ones with locking clasps that you just turn with your fingers. I'd even go so far as to argue guilds in different cities should use different nouns to give a variety of them, and perhaps worn in a few different places (shoulder, belt, leg, etc). Given that there are weight-reducing containers that sell for quite a lot, making a direct item for sorcerers which are the same (or better) sounds unlikely, so probably we cannot get into it while it is phased. Still, I will fully support some off-the-shelf container with a simple locking clasp; sounds quick, easy, and painless.

Even as a sorcerer who carries a ton of stuff, a few of these points seem over the top though or irrelevant. Why would you be carrying more than one runestone with the same rune on it other than by mistake? Wouldn't you pour your ink from one ink into another, and all your potions of the same name up to 7 doses, rather than carrying multiple inks around etc? (I think that works with ink, though I forget right now.) Chalk also can be phased and bundled, so you only ever need two sticks of chalk on you.

I'm not up to snuff on how salts work right now to comment, since I'd probably say something erroneous.

I'm not sure what you'd really gain with a bandoleer for quartz orbs. A sorcerer with no demonology can only phase 10 pounds, and orbs weigh 7, so phasing a bandoleer with more than one orb is impossible anyway without a fair bit of lore. Just phase each orb or get a 1712 scroll and charge it. One thing that would be nice is if phase could somehow last longer. I'd even settle for something like a bard song where the duration per mana is the same, but the stuff re-phases itself with some option enabled. It's kind of annoying when I have to stop and re-phase like 4 items each 20 minutes when the message of my cloak feeling heavier and remember which one I phased first (have to look in cloak for top-most item).

I'm all in favor of the "Master of Space and Time" skill title, or anything similar that's more in character.

~daid (player of the temporally-challenged Harvest-Moon clan)

<Chalk also can be phased and bundled,>

I didn't know these could be bundled.... this will help out a ton since I like to keep a healthy supply of both kinds on me (never know when it'll be needed).

Starchitin

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Inner realm chalk comes with quite a few uses off the shelf and for the cross realms chalk you can bundle up to 40 uses. Probably the same limit on both but you'd only use two sticks of the cheap stuff to cap that out I think. I don't see that any one said how, but you just phase each piece of chalk then bundle.

I was under the impression you needed three runestones to infuse and at least one for demon summoning.

As far as the orb bandoleer goes, it would be a low level sorcerer stock item for heavy orbs. Lord know you need some punch if you are hunting with only a handful of mana disrupts. I’d be the first to admit that it is a fluff item, an oddity that sorcerers may have.

>7 pounds is a bit much for something with typically 1 to 2 charges that lasts 5 minutes each. Even if they were 2-3 pounds each they'd still be pretty heavy in my opinion. If they were 2 pounds, then a first level sorcerer could phase a sack or something holding 4 of them -- once they found someone with lock mastery to put a lock on the sack...

you can buy 30 charge orbs in Twilight Hall's shops in the Landing (Fortress west room, 3rd block of spinewood (lich #355)) and Teras (Whorten's, one of the stores (lich #1976)). They cost less than 1k per charge. My demons usually carry my orb. When I find excess orbs beyond what the demon can carry, I toss it in my disk.

Even better, you can get scrolls with 1711 (mystic focus). this is the spell in the orb. You can get those infused. Scrolls weigh 1/2 lb. Weight issue gone.

>Even better, you can get scrolls with 1711 (mystic focus). this is the spell in the orb. You can get those infused. Scrolls weigh 1/2 lb. Weight issue gone.

Yeah, I mentioned that in my first post (although I used the wrong spell number). That's what I usually do when I bother with the spell at all.

~daid (player of the temporally-challenged Harvest-Moon clan)