The Zouve Corpse Game
Over the next few weeks I will be logging in to the MUD, withdrawing some cash from the bank (a minimum of 5K plat) and then plane shifting until I die.
It is then up to you to find my corpse and be there when it rots to collect the cash!
Or you can mess with people and preserve the corpse!
Of course, if I died in that room, there must be an aggro in it! (I refuse, however, to die to anything that I can slay while I am naked and immobile from the weight of the plat!)
I think I will post here when a new corpse is out to be found and whether or not it is on prime.
So the first corpse is out, it is on prime, it has cash, and, frankly, it may have rotted by this point... so there might just be a pile of plat out there on prime!
Let the fun begin!
Zouve
The Zouve Corpse Game Begins!
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Disoputlip
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fotex wrote:Get sequestered first so no one gets a cheap clair before you perish!
Not a bad idea, though my own thought was just to idle for hours on end next to Corth so people casting clair would get bored.
The second corpse is now in play, on prime, and in a location I did not recognize.
It took quite a while to die to pshift this time. I did land in Bloodtusk once, but in a safe room I guess, no alarms or such. Considering my past experience was 3 pshifts, 2 deaths, today was somewhat amusing.
I hope somebody found the first corpse or the plat after it rotted... otherwise 16K plat just went to waste on the floor in the Tarsellian Forest.
Z
We have a winner... but only because I got bored and shouted out that I would give a hint if anybody was interested. One person was:
Pilibible tells you 'There were: 6270 platinum coins.'
He found it, or the pile of cash after it rotted, in Doodajipple's Tower in Lurkwood where I was killed by a mechanical guardian.
I will post when the next plat-laden corpse is in place.
Z
PS How much plat would there have to be to get people to actively search for the corpse? Is 5K plat not enough? Is anybody actively looking, or should I find another way to amuse myself with the remaining 180K plat?
Pilibible tells you 'There were: 6270 platinum coins.'
He found it, or the pile of cash after it rotted, in Doodajipple's Tower in Lurkwood where I was killed by a mechanical guardian.
I will post when the next plat-laden corpse is in place.
Z
PS How much plat would there have to be to get people to actively search for the corpse? Is 5K plat not enough? Is anybody actively looking, or should I find another way to amuse myself with the remaining 180K plat?
Plat Quest
I'm sure Pilibible really needed the plat... about as much as most people with multiple lvl 50 characters, but it seems like the people that would be in places where you couldn't fight out of would be above the head of anybody that could actually use the platinum to begin with.
Maybe a more useful and worthwhile use of that money would be making up a few quests with platinum as the reward. Offer the quests to people that could actually use the rewards and give them tasks appropriate to their level.
Just a thought. :)
Maybe a more useful and worthwhile use of that money would be making up a few quests with platinum as the reward. Offer the quests to people that could actually use the rewards and give them tasks appropriate to their level.
Just a thought. :)
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Well yes, getting plat to somebody who actual needs it is the trick.
After thought on the subject, I decided it couldn't be done without a lot of work on my part (which just isn't going to happen), and even then I couldn't be certain that a given "needy" person wasn't just some greedy weasel of a level 50 who has a low-to-mid level alt.
I thought perhaps that the idea of 5000+ plat laying around would get a couple groups going to search for it, which would at least give people some fun and they could split it up. A mini-quest of sorts.
If 5K (or 10K, or 20K) plat isn't worth the effort, then the value of platinum on Toril is even lower than I had imagined.
Anyway, next corpse will go, since I have nothing better to do with my plat or my character!
Z
After thought on the subject, I decided it couldn't be done without a lot of work on my part (which just isn't going to happen), and even then I couldn't be certain that a given "needy" person wasn't just some greedy weasel of a level 50 who has a low-to-mid level alt.
I thought perhaps that the idea of 5000+ plat laying around would get a couple groups going to search for it, which would at least give people some fun and they could split it up. A mini-quest of sorts.
If 5K (or 10K, or 20K) plat isn't worth the effort, then the value of platinum on Toril is even lower than I had imagined.
Anyway, next corpse will go, since I have nothing better to do with my plat or my character!
Z
Actually, if your goal is to get plat to those who need it, you don't want to drop too much at a time. Otherwise the high levels will start banding up and looking for it. Your better off doing more smaller drops. 2k plat is a lot for a real noob and they should still have incentive to look for it.
Also, you might want to consider leaving a clue or two on this forum to make it more interesting. Just make sure to keep it vague. :)
Corth
Also, you might want to consider leaving a clue or two on this forum to make it more interesting. Just make sure to keep it vague. :)
Corth
Having said all that, the situation has been handled, so this thread is pretty much at an end. -Kossuth
Goddamned slippery mage.
Goddamned slippery mage.
Okay, corpse #3 is now in play. I have decided that corpses should be on prime. It is more amusing for me that way. (And then I don't have to keep chaning between planes, just smoke and prime.)
Taking some of what has been said here to heart, I seeded some of the plat on my landings in prime. There are a couple dozen piles of 10p each around the realms and some NPCs seems to have grown richer.
The best place I touched down in was:
You materialize in the prime plane!
Western Edge of a Great Square
Exits: -N -E -S -W
A miniture gargoyle known as a gargoylite stands here.
A small gargoyle child plays here, unaware of his surroundings.
A gargoyle wearing elite Ashgorrock platemail stands here.
Mostly because I had never been there before.
As for vague clues... well... my corpse is in a zone I have never done, yet I have died there before. The purpose of my death is unknown.
Z
Taking some of what has been said here to heart, I seeded some of the plat on my landings in prime. There are a couple dozen piles of 10p each around the realms and some NPCs seems to have grown richer.
The best place I touched down in was:
You materialize in the prime plane!
Western Edge of a Great Square
Exits: -N -E -S -W
A miniture gargoyle known as a gargoylite stands here.
A small gargoyle child plays here, unaware of his surroundings.
A gargoyle wearing elite Ashgorrock platemail stands here.
Mostly because I had never been there before.
As for vague clues... well... my corpse is in a zone I have never done, yet I have died there before. The purpose of my death is unknown.
Z
Zakissus wrote:jesus 180k plat? my necro could sooo desk herself out with that hehe. course no way I get to the planes to find piles of loot heh.
All my corpses have been on the prime material plane... which is the plane where you start out, so even a necro can find my corpses.
My current corpse is sitting at a fountain and it appears somebody has been preserving it!
Z
Zouve wrote:Zakissus wrote:jesus 180k plat? my necro could sooo desk herself out with that hehe. course no way I get to the planes to find piles of loot heh.
All my corpses have been on the prime material plane... which is the plane where you start out, so even a necro can find my corpses.
My current corpse is sitting at a fountain and it appears somebody has been preserving it!
Z
They didn't preserve it enough! Woohoo!!! I'm the newest winner of the Zouve Corpse Game!!!
Thanks Zouve!!! And keep 'em coming! :twisted:
Valuk wrote:Zouve wrote:Zakissus wrote:jesus 180k plat? my necro could sooo desk herself out with that hehe. course no way I get to the planes to find piles of loot heh.
All my corpses have been on the prime material plane... which is the plane where you start out, so even a necro can find my corpses.
My current corpse is sitting at a fountain and it appears somebody has been preserving it!
Z
They didn't preserve it enough! Woohoo!!! I'm the newest winner of the Zouve Corpse Game!!!
Thanks Zouve!!! And keep 'em coming! :twisted:
Yeah Valuk who sat for two days on my corpse at the WD fountain with a trigger set to pick up the loot when the corpse rotted. I may have to try that again with more coins than anybody can carry. I want to see extortion prices for a moonwell to the bank!
I also liked that there was a ton of crap on the ground to thwart anybody doing a "get all." A nice touch.
Another corpse (#5) is in play now in a place where things hang on tight!
I have decided to let wimpy stuff kill me now, so my corpses won't all be in deadly locations. I am just waiting to pshift into Split Shield!
And I lost my first level in the game, I am now only level 49.
Z
Kelenar tells you 'There were: 1 platinum coin, 8 gold coins, 97 silver coins, 18154 copper coins.'
So Kelenar found corpse #6 in Split Shield. I know, it was mean to put 18K copper there, but I welled him to the bank.
Corpse #5 is still "lurking" out there and it had plat on it.
I blame Rarik for suggesting the pile of copper as a decoy. I won't do that again... at least not with copper.
Z
So Kelenar found corpse #6 in Split Shield. I know, it was mean to put 18K copper there, but I welled him to the bank.
Corpse #5 is still "lurking" out there and it had plat on it.
I blame Rarik for suggesting the pile of copper as a decoy. I won't do that again... at least not with copper.
Z
Corpse #7 is sitting where corpse #4 was, just to amuse me. It doesn't have any plat on it, but neither does it have any copper. It does have over 20K coins on it however.
Corpse #8, a regular platinum laden corpse, is out and about now (died within the last five miutes) and is in a town. But what town?
Z
Corpse #8, a regular platinum laden corpse, is out and about now (died within the last five miutes) and is in a town. But what town?
Z
the player who's been pressing the CRAP out of that corpse claims people are waiting on the corpse with loot triggers. First off, who cares? Second off, first person to normally walk thru the room would find it in the first place. Either way, it won't be me - I can't have luck. I was born without it :P
If we're lucky, Zouve will loot that corpse and put them more challenging
If we're lucky, Zouve will loot that corpse and put them more challenging
Thilindel wrote:the player who's been pressing the CRAP out of that corpse claims people are waiting on the corpse with loot triggers. First off, who cares? Second off, first person to normally walk thru the room would find it in the first place. Either way, it won't be me - I can't have luck. I was born without it :P
If we're lucky, Zouve will loot that corpse and put them more challenging
Well, I dropped several corpses out yesterday, including #12.
Ironically, I dropped another one on the WD fountain with more cash in it that the first one and nobody pressed it, it rotted, and now Ashiarae is a bit richer.
I did drop one out in the wilds, but I bet it rots and the coins go unfound despite the fact that I died in front of a group. That seems to be the result of hiding corpses, nobody cares enough to look.
Z
I'll look Z, just let me beat down the RL beast first :) Oh yeah, and go drop it somewhere that I'll find it when playing my usual game of "How Stupidly Can I Die Today?" Hint: The basilisks haven't had at me in awhile :)
Nerox tells you 'Good deal, the other tanks I have don't wanna do it, and since your my special suicidal tank i figure you don't mind one bit!'
Alurissi tells you 'aren't you susposed to get sick or something and not beable to make tia so i can go? :P'
Alurissi tells you 'aren't you susposed to get sick or something and not beable to make tia so i can go? :P'
Zouve wrote:Kelenar tells you 'There were: 1 platinum coin, 8 gold coins, 97 silver coins, 18154 copper coins.'
I blame Rarik for suggesting the pile of copper as a decoy. I won't do that again... at least not with copper.
Z
Bah. Copper spends just the same! Birile could use a couple hundred thousand of em!
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Adriorn Darkcloak
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Found
Found one today with 4500 silver in it. Thought the silver/copper era was over? :P
Adriorn Darkcloak
Adriorn Darkcloak
Re: Found
Adriorn Darkcloak wrote:Found one today with 4500 silver in it. Thought the silver/copper era was over? :P
I just said I wouldn't do it with copper... that is just abuse. 4500 silver pieces... well... there was a time when that had value.
Z
sok wrote:moritheil wrote:Okay, that's just hilarious. This is officially the point at which Toril has jumped the shark.
for us non-americans, what does jumping the shark mean?
It is a term in Hollywood that comes from the sitcom Happy Days.
After a show gets settled in, it eventually runs out of ideas and has to do something to spice things up. In Happy Days, there was a two part episode where they went to LA and it culminated in Fonzie jumping over over a shark on water skis.
It is a dangerous point in a show, because the attempt to spice it up may alienate the loyal viewers while not attracting any new viewers.
Usually it is used as a term to indicate that a show is going down hill from that point, a desperation move, though, ironically, Happy Days did well after the shark.
That is my crude explination, anyway. There is a better one here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
If my corpse game had been officially sanctioned, it might well be an example of "jumping the shark." However, this is my own effort and the imms have stated no opinion (to my knowledge) one way or another on my attempt to amuse myself.
Z
My vote would be on Corth, Eudas, or Jazdak.
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