Kittenpox
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12/9/2018
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Airomir wrote:
Every year they send us a rat. Every year I forget that they do that. Every year I have a small heart attack as I get given an item that might just randomly take my stockpile of currently 35,000 mourning candles. I really need to remember next year. Happy Ratmas.
I have two 'Rat of Glory', and here I was thinking a couple-hundred Mourning Candles was something to fret over! :-p
(Gotta ask - why so many?)
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Airomir
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12/9/2018
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Kittenpox wrote:
Airomir wrote:
Every year they send us a rat. Every year I forget that they do that. Every year I have a small heart attack as I get given an item that might just randomly take my stockpile of currently 35,000 mourning candles. I really need to remember next year. Happy Ratmas.
I have two 'Rat of Glory', and here I was thinking a couple-hundred Mourning Candles was something to fret over! :-p
(Gotta ask - why so many?)
I've been going through the boxful of intrigue loop for a while to make echoes and they've just sort of piled up. Still a year or so off from the cider so plenty more candles to go.
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Jason5237
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12/9/2018
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So I’ve got to say that today’s Advent Calendar gift (the verbiage) is priceless. I don’t recall this wording from previous years, but could just be my memory.
Thanks, Failbetter. Too funny.
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dov
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12/9/2018
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Jason5237 wrote:
So I’ve got to say that today’s Advent Calendar gift (the verbiage) is priceless. I don’t recall this wording from previous years, but could just be my memory.
Thanks, Failbetter. Too funny.
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Indeed, it's been there for a few years. Definitely a favorite.
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Catherine Raymond
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12/10/2018
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Airomir wrote:
Every year they send us a rat. Every year I forget that they do that. Every year I have a small heart attack as I get given an item that might just randomly take my stockpile of currently 35,000 mourning candles. I really need to remember next year. Happy Ratmas.
Not to worry! Once it's in your inventory, you can choose the option that lets you ask the Scuttering Company take the Rat of Glory away.
By the way, if anyone has had their Rat Of Glory activate, how many candles did you lose? All of them? All of some types? Or a mixture?
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Skinnyman
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12/10/2018
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Airomir wrote:
I've been going through the boxful of intrigue loop for a while to make echoes and they've just sort of piled up. Still a year or so off from the cider so plenty more candles to go. Why not make it faster with the newer grinds?
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xKiv
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12/10/2018
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Catherine Raymond wrote:
By the way, if anyone has had their Rat Of Glory activate, how many candles did you lose? All of them? All of some types? Or a mixture?
Random amount of many types. This is usually (but not always) 1 for the singular ones.
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Catherine Raymond
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12/11/2018
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xKiv wrote:
Catherine Raymond wrote:
By the way, if anyone has had their Rat Of Glory activate, how many candles did you lose? All of them? All of some types? Or a mixture?
Random amount of many types. This is usually (but not always) 1 for the singular ones.
Thanks! Good to know. Since my character is not Seeking, I'm not terribly concerned.
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Optimatum
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12/11/2018
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It's worth noting that the Rat of Glory can only activate if you choose to use it, so your horde of candles is safe, Airomir.
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Jason5237
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12/12/2018
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Optimatum wrote:
It's worth noting that the Rat of Glory can only activate if you choose to use it, so your horde of candles is safe, Airomir.
This is good information. I think there's a pervasive fear by many that it could activate at random while sitting idle in your inventory. I had interpreted that as a possibility based upon the text.
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Monara
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12/12/2018
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Catherine Raymond wrote:
By the way, if anyone has had their Rat Of Glory activate, how many candles did you lose? All of them? All of some types? Or a mixture?
I've seen 2 activations ever, both times I lost <100 out of 60,000-100,000 foxfire candles and had no other candles except a few mourning candles which I also lost. According to the wiki it's a random number between 1-[amount owned] so I might have been lucky with the foxfires.
The first time it happened I thought I could avoid it by using second chances and backing out on failure. Turns out it's a rare "success" so that doesn't work.
P.S. today's gift is a pail of snow, don't miss it!
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Siankan
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12/12/2018
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Jason5237 wrote:
This is good information. I think there's a pervasive fear by many that it could activate at random while sitting idle in your inventory. I had interpreted that as a possibility based upon the text.
The text is misleading here. I suppose it is intended to be rather like the Observatory text, where you are "relatively unlikely to be eaten by spiders."
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dov
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12/12/2018
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Monara wrote:
P.S. today's gift is a pail of snow, don't miss it!
And it comes with an access code which includes the phrase "bucket of cat" in it...
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Jolanda Swan
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12/12/2018
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Eeeeew.
Not that I am not getting it, but ew!
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MidnightVoyager
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12/13/2018
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dov wrote:
Monara wrote:
P.S. today's gift is a pail of snow, don't miss it!
And it comes with an access code which includes the phrase "bucket of cat" in it...
Access what?
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elderfleur
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12/13/2018
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dov wrote:
And it comes with an access code which includes the phrase "bucket of cat" in it...
Maybe "CAT" is an acronym... Cold Awful Trash? Crustacean-Adjacent Taste? Correspondence-Afflicted Teeth? A Bucket of Can't-Actually-Tell.
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Jolanda Swan
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12/13/2018
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How are these any better?
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Siankan
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12/13/2018
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elderfleur wrote:
A Bucket of Can't-Actually-Tell.
I don't know. I think this one has a certain cachet.
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Catherine Raymond
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12/13/2018
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elderfleur wrote:
dov wrote:
And it comes with an access code which includes the phrase "bucket of cat" in it...
Maybe "CAT" is an acronym... Cold Awful Trash? Crustacean-Adjacent Taste? Correspondence-Afflicted Teeth? A Bucket of Can't-Actually-Tell.
Possibly. Or possibly because the "snow" smells like cat p*ss? The description does say it smells somewhat of ammonia....
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Jolanda Swan
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12/13/2018
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Definitely that. Hence the ew.
Eeeew. Again.
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