Should be craftable again now.

Cheers!
Kinak

You've earned 9 XP in Reflexes

You've earned 8 XP in Strength

You've earned 4 XP in Will
You learned a new Technique: Lash Out
You learned a new Technique: Parry (2)

I agree with Valliant's assessment. Also, "points" (XP + # of techniques) seems to depend on both your level and opponent's level.

As a side note, I imagine someone can only wait at one sparring ring.

Per: Best
Ref: Worst
Str: Third
Will: Second

Wins: Per/Ref/Str/Wil, Techniques
33: 0/1/1/1, 4
34: 1/0/4/2, 0
35: 2/1/2/0, 2
36: 0/1/4/2, 0
37: 0/3/4/0, 0
38: 0/2/2/1, 2
39: 0/1/2/1, 3

Seems pretty straightforward in general scheme: 7 points, split between stats & techs. Need more data points for more than that. Differences depending on number of wins when you defeat the champ? Is your stat distribution relevant, or will ref & str always get the majority?

You enter the ring. Al is strong, but you're stronger. Al is fast, but you're faster. You take him down and soak in the cheers.

You dethrone Al and do a victory lap.

You've earned 3 XP in Perception

You've earned 8 XP in Reflexes

You've earned 3 XP in Strength

You've earned 2 XP in Will
You learned a new Technique: Power Strike (2)
You learned a new Technique: Dive For Cover
You learned a new Technique: Beatdown

Also, watching the sparring ring:
You circle around the sparring ring, waiting for someone to challenge your one win.

Vholes Piper circles around the sparring ring, waiting for someone to challenge him. The big board shows Vholes Piper's record at one abdication.

You enter the ring. Vholes Piper is faster and stronger than you. You drag the match out as long as you can, but there's never an opening.

Vholes Piper manages to defeat you for win number 1.

You've earned 2 XP in Perception

You've earned 2 XP in Reflexes

Vholes Piper circles around the sparring ring, waiting for someone to challenge him. The big board shows Vholes Piper's record at one win.

You enter the ring. Vholes Piper is faster and stronger than you. You drag the match out as long as you can, but there's never an opening.

Vholes Piper manages to defeat you for win number 2.

You've earned 1 XP in Perception

You've earned 1 XP in Reflexes

You've earned 1 XP in Strength

You learned a new Technique: Brutality

Vholes Piper circles around the sparring ring, waiting for someone to challenge him. The big board shows Vholes Piper's record at one win.

You enter the ring. Vholes Piper is faster and stronger than you. You drag the match out as long as you can, but there's never an opening.

Vholes Piper manages to defeat you for win number 3.

You've earned 1 XP in Reflexes

You've earned 1 XP in Strength

You've earned 1 XP in Will

You learned a new Technique: Lash Out

You enter the ring. Vholes Piper is strong, but you're faster. You dance around him until you can get in a few good jabs and take him down to the mat.

You dethrone Vholes Piper and do a victory lap.

You've earned 1 XP in Perception

You've earned 1 XP in Reflexes

You've earned 1 XP in Strength

You've earned 1 XP in Will

You learned a new Technique: Brutality

You learned a new Technique: Parry

You learned a new Technique: Punch

I don't want Fop, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan man!

That's my all time favourite movie…

Nice predictions. :)

Safe, Boring Predictions

• A weapon with a power of 12
• A piece of equipment that grants 4 melee defense or ranged defense
• A chain 8 stealth technique
• Several additions to the ranks of hacking opponents
• A new place to go fishing
• Another chance to pick up a Tome of Binding
• Many misplaced apostrophes. :P

Slightly More Adventurous Predictions

• Abductions galore!
• A non-ghost ship
• An immersive web site
• New, interesting stuff hidden away in the Midgard Warehouse
• The Brothers will make a cameo appearance
• The opportunity to learn to make witchfire
• A sidequest from The Golden Chip
• A new kind of plantable spore, and, in general, Fae Eyes getting a lot more interesting
• A big info-dump on Project Munin
• The opportunity to help Dr. Johnson make his twisted hounds
• The ability to get a student ID and do stuff in the Metroplex U dorms
• Andrea the Grad Student discovers something noteworthy

Swinging for the Fences

• New chemistry component: demon ichor
• Adventuring in the depths of Lake Metroplex with consequent underwater breathing apparatus and/or weird, disturbing substitutes therefor
• A hacking boss fight vs. a twisted AI
• Burned-out car chassis, for us to dream about being able to rebuild after the next main quest line update
• The ability to construct a crude, portable force field device
• An amorphous, shoggoth-ish opponent

David will have some sort of etherhunting side quest

We'll have another shot at killing off the survivors, including Hel this time

Dr Myer's assistant will get back from the hospital

Someone beat me to this, but the spherical egg will do something, possibly as a sacrifice to the fishmen, or some sort of a corruption that you re-introduce to the fairies.

We'll meet Heimdall, or at least find a lot more about him

You can team up with Hammer if you've done things right

Watson Sr. Will show up, and you can kill him

You can pointlessly murder more people, for negligible benefit. (Whether or not this is true at launch I'll endevor to make happen.)

You can come across gangboss and tony if you let them get away

We'll finally be able to make Sea Sapphires.

There will be at least six rewards for the quest.

We will be given a choice adventure with at least one option to do something very, very stupid.

It will be possible to meet a Third Eye member higher ranking than Hawk.

We'll be able to advance the Dr. Thomas quest.

There will be a new type of drone, with an etheric counterpart.

Tags that are used to mark all items, buffs, etc. that give a buff or penalty to a particular stat or power seem straightforward uses.

An example of what I think of as a useful tag that I haven't put in across the board yet is one that tags all items/buffs/etc. that come from a single donation item. The Mysterious Puzzle Box is an example of one that I've labeled everything I could find. A useful sub-tag to that is all of the consumables (and effects from said consumables) that come from one item, like the various bloods, patches, music, feathers, etc.

Thoughts?

During 50+ rests, these are all the programs I could see on my antique plasma tv. Should we perhaps put a list of these on the antique plasma tv page or indicate it on this page?

-Slasher movie
-Classic movie
-Zaibatsu knives infomercial
-Nature programming (primal)
-You watch a bit of news and find yourself becoming more and more jumpy. It's a scary world out there.
-emergency room drama
-replica sword call-in show
-soccer match
-Crazy man on Public Access
-Ultimate Deathmatch Championships
-You flip through the channels the entire time you're resting and don't find a single thing worth watching. It's almost physically painful. (Does this one show up with a descrambled tv?)

That was last December, but there have only been a couple added since then I believe (and I don't know whether they're available on the antique).

I should mention that most of the limited-time content I'm giving out is courtesy of bonbon, who gifted most of his inventory to me when he quit the game a while back. Real Life In Peace, bonbon.

In addition, considering Kinak's penchant for obscure content, the first person whose prediction is discovered to be eerily accurate after prizes have already been given out will receive a custom flak jacket and a candy bowl as a medal of mysteries solved and remaining.

*whistles innocently*

Cheers!
Kinak

The Cybernetics Lab will open, and with it a new kind of crafting, and Boris will be helpful in teaching you a recipe or two, if you didn't decide to blow off his head and take his hand and PDA.

Nest Keeper will allow you access to the Webbed Building in the Slags.

Ground Zero will be expanded, allowing you to steal your items directly from your previous lives once you get to that point, allowing access to your previous self's items in a narratively interesting way. You may or may not have to actually defeat your previous self in combat to claim your stuff.

Metallic Oil and the Monarch's Call will interact to pull new things from the sewers beneath Oldtown.

You will be able to find Prof. Evans' comm number by hacking the university system.

In an addition to PvP Gang warfare, you can increase your ability to defend an area by building up favor with the NPC group that holds that area; Carlos' gangers in Southside, the security forces on the Docks, the remains of the Fangs in the Sewers, Third Eye at the University.

There will be more opportunity for more direct uses of the Ocean/Fae Eyes split, and the spherical egg will hatch into something useful.

The museum will open and have an exhibit on Norse mythology.

We will be able to travel to Oldtown, and there will be a shop there that will allow us to purchase more stuff with cash to use more of our oodles of creds than a college bookstore will allow. (More expensive than a college bookstore? Inconceivable!)

I suppose a range is plausible. Since there's no body cost to the item, perhaps the downside is that it's a bit unpredictable.

• Leave July 31 for a two-week family vacation where I'll have little or no internet access.

Your timing stinks, Kinak. :P

Non-Etheric, without Ocean Sight

Priorities to do before the 31st (roughly descending order):

• Complete a new reset while saving all three survivors - done
• Bank 100/40/40 energy - done
• Unlock computer lab - done
• Get a slags medical id - done
• Map out the tainted shoreline - done
• Complete as many potentially-relevant/necessary quests as possible:
  • The Protest - done
  • Dr. Myers Quest for chemistry experimentation - done
  • Boris's Hunt - done
  • Coding Assistance?
  • Problems on the docks?
• Stock up on consumables - done
• Gain as many stats as possible to make combats easier.

Am I missing anything?

Data points: 5,3,4,5,4,4,5,3,3,3,2,5,2,3,4,3,4,3,5,4

But who will prove themselves best prepared for the unknowable? Post you predictions for the upcoming content here, and if you prove to have the oracle's eye, you will win all our admiration, and perhaps something else as well.

Predictions must be entered in this thread before the rollout of the quest, and will be judged starting on August 10th. Accuracy is of course important, but boldness will also win you points. "Each survivor will have a separate quest line" will likely lose out to a more creative prediction even if it is only half-true.

Examples:
"We'll meet a friendly bearded NPC to teach us a new type of crafting."
"At least 2 new uses for the tome of binding will be introduced."
"The animosity between the fishfolk and the fae will be at least partially explained."

PRIZES (categories judged by Vholes)

Overall Best: 1st pick from below (each list is one prize)
Most Accurate: 2nd pick
Most Creative-but-Believable: 3rd pick
Zaniest: 4th pick

• 1 mummy mask, 1 wrapping pants, 1 torso wrappings, 5 organ transport boxes, 5 panacea pills, 20 each of comm of the dead, creepy clown statue, staring shard, bloody hook hand, list of names

• 1 each of reindeer sweater, New Year's blowout, green glass ornament, painted snowflake, tiny gift, frigid scarf, silk top hat, snowy cookie tin

• 25 piles of cut Nova and 5 piles of red flakes

• 50,000 credits

(anyone may substitute their prize for 25,000 credits instead)
(prizes might increase, will never decrease)
(EDIT: enter as many predictions as you like. If you're eligible to win an additional prize after the first, I will give you 10,000 credits instead and allow the runner-up to select a prize)

In addition, considering Kinak's penchant for obscure content, the first person whose prediction is discovered to be eerily accurate after prizes have already been given out will receive a custom flak jacket and a candy bowl as a medal of mysteries solved and remaining.

http://www.just-ping.com/index.php?vh=metroplexity.com&c=&s=ping!
http://www.watchmouse.com/en/checkit.php

Thanks, Vholes, these are handy.

Cheers!
Kinak

Seems like Hong Kong is fine. Good luck sorting it out!

Doing the same again during the same fight doesn't add another energy of the effect, although I could swear I've at least once had 1 energy remaining after a fight. But that was before I noticed the link with evasion.

There aren't any banned IP address ranges, no. The new account page isn't anything fancy. You should be able to navigate directly to http://www.metroplexity.com/newaccount.php

We've run into problems with anonomizers before, but it's always been after account creation and login.

Cheers!
Kinak

The one I used is http://ninjacloak.com/ to test successfully, but your milage may vary.

Total # of dockhands killed in current reset?

(nothing)*, RANK: Just starting (1)
(nothing)*
smelly old pants*
knit cap*, RANK: Learning (2)
smelly old pants*
filthy pistol, knit cap*
NEW DAY
dock pike, soaked newspaper*
filthy pistol, knit cap
empty can, high test fishing line*
2 pairs of smelly old pants, dock pike*, RANK: Amateur (3).
2 knit caps, dock pike*
knit cap, filthy pistol, waterlogged PDA
filthy pistol, lake bluegill, smelly old pants
2 pairs of smelly old pants, high test fishing line*
2 knit caps, waterlogged PDA
3 knit caps
soaked newspaper, high test fishing line, dock pike*
smelly old pants, soaked newspaper
NEW DAY
pitted thermos, dock pike*
filthy pistol, dock pike*
knit cap, smelly old pants, bait bluegill
waterlogged PDA, smelly old pants
2 pairs of smelly old pants
dock pike, 2 bait bluegills*
high test fishing line, soaked newspaper*, RANK: Comfortable (4)
soaked newspaper, waterlogged PDA, knit cap, SKILL: FISHING
high test fishing line, bait bluegill
2 pairs of smelly old pants, dock pike, soaked newspaper
knit cap, lake bluegill, dock pike, 2 soaked newspapers
smelly old pants, high test fishing line, pitted thermos
dock pike, lake bluegill, smelly old pants
lake bluegill, smelly old pants, soaked newspaper, empty can
bait bluegill, knit cap, pitted thermos

* = got better at fishing

Thanks,
The Mgt.

"You lose some"? Who are these guys?

Filthy cheaters, apparently :)

Cheers!
Kinak

You challenge a series of dock workers to arm wrestling contests. You win some. You lose some. All in all, though, it's great exercise.

"You lose some"? Who are these guys?