When you use QUEST to be transported to the Needle of Pentas, you'll be confined to this area of the Isle of Ornath. There is some exploration that anyone can take part in, whether you want to participate in the event or not. There are five teleportation disks, Planar, Spiritual, Elemental, Chaos, and Order, that will bring you to Liabo. Each section will have a ring you enter which is where the trials take place. This is where you'll need a scholar's card and a brooch (the relic). You are awarded an increment to your brooch upon entering the puzzle area, win, lose, or surrender. The increment is only good for the "ring" you're entering. For example, entering Planar will increment the Planar benefit by +1. If you want to increment the Elemental benefit, you'll need to visit the Elemental "ring" to try your knowledge (and maybe luck) there. Solving the puzzles will award field experience. Hopefully they are both entertaining and challenging as well.

The brooch is a pin worn item that has 5 benefits. The benefits can be changed at this event via the TURN verb. Once the event ends, the benefit selected is locked in until next time Rings of Lumnis comes around. No progress is lost on the brooch if you select a different benefit. The brooch also unlocks verbs that do cosmetic changes to your character as well as additional messaging for your relic after completing a number of increments to your brooch.

The brooch can be upgraded quite a bit. It starts out gaining benefits very rapidly, but slows downs as the potency becomes stronger.

Bonus Per Run	Number of Runs	Total Bonus
+10	10 runs	+100
+5	20 runs	+100
+4	25 runs	+100
+2	50 runs	+100
+1	200 runs	+200
+1	200 runs	+100
+1	400 runs	+100
+1	500 runs	+100
+1	1000 runs	+100
Totals	2405 runs	+1000

Planar, Spiritual, and Order take the total you have and directly add it to the benefit. Elemental is a bit different in that the number translates to a percent bonus where +100 equals 10 (always rounding down). Chaos will randomly select one of the other benefits with a chance to be up to 10% more of a bonus.

As a further example, after 250 runs, the bonus is 545. So for Planar, it increases your field exp bucket by 545. For Spiritual, you can instantly absorb 545 exp. For Elemental, you have a 54% chance for an improved roll on various Adv. Guild tasks. For Chaos, random between one of the other benefits using Chaos's increments, then you have 545 + random 1 to 54 for an addition bonus. For Order, you get +545 bounty points for completing an Adv. Guild task.

The brooch MUST be activated to use. Spiritual is instantly used. The others stays active for thirty (30) minutes. The brooch starts off at 1x/day, but with many runs, you can begin to gain additional uses. Gaining extra uses takes the entire's brooch's progress into account, not just the specific benefits, as does unlocking verbs. Don't worry about memorizing the numbers. We have a detailed ANALYZE on the item that will tell you exactly where you are with the benefits.

The brooch is account attuned, but passing the brooch off is completely your responsibility.

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Wyrom, PM

>>Does the relic have to be active when you get the task, or only when you turn it in to claim the reward?

Only when turning it in.

>>I will prognosticate right now that you guys may well be shooting yourselves in the foot here. Looking at the GSWiki says that something like a boss or bandit creature task is worth only around 1k BP at cap, and this (can!) be min/maxed up to more than double that figure.

Realistically, the item is balanced around 10 to 55 entries. This factors in all of our microtransaction events to date.

>>I will retract much of my doom-saying if you have already gone down the road of requiring a relatively balanced progression, a la Profession Guild skills or Adventurer Guild badge progression.

There are no plans for the Professional Guilds at this time.

>>Must it be worn to be active? Is it considered functional? Since it is already account-bound, can Premium Enhancives be applied to it?

The item can be worn or held. Adding Premium perks is certainly possible.

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Wyrom, PM

>>I was referring to the AdvGuild badges which have (three?) facets to them, the material and the trim and the <something-or-other else>, which start out shockingly hideous and turn out (after ten ranks of improvement, in each of their three facets) to be doomstone-encrusted platinum-twined deathstone badges (of Doom!), or some similar nonsense.
And while it is--so I'm given to understand--possible to advance solely in one of the facets (10/1/1) to the exclusion of the others, it is generally considered better/easier/cheaper to take a balanced approach (3/3/3 becoming 4/3/3 to 4/4/3 to 4/4/4 to 4/4/5 to 5/4/5 to 5/5/5).

You don't need to balance the brooch in any way. You can go straight for the benefit you want. I think I'm understanding what you're asking a bit better. It's not Monopoly where you have to balance your houses to get hotels.

>>"10 to 55 entries"... this run?

Yes. We review the median number of participants when preparing for these events. Finishing a brooch this time around is not something we anticipate, but we also made the item with a lot of growth and future use.

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Wyrom, PM

>>Hi, resident barbie chiming in. Tell us more about the cosmetic changes, please and thank you!

There are three feature-changing abilities unlocked.

TICKLE: Eye characteristic changed to "[color]-haloed"
SPIN: Unique line changed to "a sheen of [color] lends his/her skin a luminous quality."
PUSH: Hair changing to "an incredibly long [special color]-highlighted Liabo-white hair"

Where [color] it is red, blue, green, black, or white. Where [special color] it is crimson, cerulean, viridian, ebon, or golden.

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Wyrom, PM

Thanks Tysong. I deleted my original post, so to provide background I had estimated the 545 instant experience per day bonus in Wyrom's example would cost approximately $250 in SimuCoins. With my premium discount it's around $200 instead of $250.

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The brooch starts off at 1x/day, but with many runs, you can begin to gain additional uses. Gaining extra uses takes the entire's brooch's progress into account, not just the specific benefits, as does unlocking verbs. Don't worry about memorizing the numbers. We have a detailed ANALYZE on the item that will tell you exactly where you are with the benefits.
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Please share these details.

Starts off at 1x/day. When do you get 2x, 3x, more?

"it would be 250 runs" -- RobertsM8

...that you successfully complete.

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Fixed that up for you.

Great chart, Veythorne!

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Note that for 10-46 bucks, most people can be at the 100-300 stage for an extremely reasonable buy-in.
At this run of the event.

Could be, Berbels; I didn't read the rules in great depth yet. (Jumped straight to the payoff. <cough>)

Doug, if you're supporting 5 [paid!] accounts, you have more problems to worry about than what the rings will come to. :)

Those numbers for each unlock are total bonus and not total runs?

Sweet is the sound of the pouring rain,
And the stream that falls from the hill to plain.
Better than rain or rippling brook,
Is a mug of beer inside this Took.

Are the X per day increments usable by all characters on an account? For example, my ring has 3 uses per day. Can I use it on Character 1, then pass to Character 2 for the next use, pass to Character 3, for the 3rd use; then the next day, rinse and repeat in reverse?

Thanks.

Am I reading the increments right in that the only thing that increments the item is entering the event area? It seems like you get no "points", other than Field XP, for doing things like entering Trivia answers correctly, or getting past puzzles, etc.

>>So if you have 300 in Spiritual and 200 in Order, you'll have 3x/day for any benefit you set it to.

Thanks for the response, Wyrom! Quick followup question with this. What unit is that in? Is that 300 and 200 /entries/, or the bonus using the +10/+5/per etc?

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Myasara says, "Raining rocks down on my city was not the best course of action."

Sheesh - this is certainly in the bad part of pay2win now. Want free instant experience absorption? Give us tons of cash...

Hello!

This is what we have:

75 >TICKLE: Eye characteristic changed to "[color]-haloed"
100>SPIN: Unique line changed to "a sheen of [color] lends his/her skin a luminous quality."
125>PUSH: Hair changing to "an incredibly long [special color]-highlighted Liabo-white hair

~*~ Thandiwe ~*~
ASGM of Events

Yeah, you can only have one feature-altering item on at a time.

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Wyrom, PM

Question on Planar boost, say you have 500 bonus on Planar, you activate it (30 minutes duration correct?). If you get to Must Rest! during the boost, then it runs out, what happens to that extra 500 xp? Does it put you in Saturated and immediately absorb any excess?

I'm not familiar with the limits of Saturated but gut feel seems like about 30% of your normal field xp bucket can be converted to Saturated. If a normal bucket has say 1000 xp, the extra 200 xp goes where?

Thanks.

I'm enjoying the puzzles so far. The only one I'm stuck on is the stick and prayer bench.

Any chance of a hint?

I've learnt a lot about the Arkati thanks to this quest lol

Good hint :)