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J.D
10-27-2017, 03:47 PM
What would something like this be worth? I got visited by a crab and people told me it was a T6 jackpot.


A small crab scuttles up holding a sign that reads, "YES HELLO, CONGRATULATIONS! YOU FOUND SOMETHING AMAZING! WANT TO TELL ME ABOUT IT?"


A scrawny half-krolvin lad takes your coins, and you lean forward, plunging both hands into the cold salt water as you feel around. Something slimy passes between your hands, and you clamp down hard, pulling out a white-finned pinkish grey hagfish.
Roundtime: 10 sec.
R>
Durakar gasps.
R>
Durakar applauds you.
R>
Jumping from his perch, a scrawny half-krolvin lad rushes up to you and relieves you of your find. "Aw, gross," he says, as he unceremoniously drops it into the water with a loud splash. "Okay, man, you win. That thing is gross!" He turns to an iron-bound warped oak chest and pulls out a burnished rosewood cube carved with flourishing wild roses. "Here is your prize!"


You analyze your rosewood cube and sense that the creator has provided the following information:
This is a lapidary box that can change the look of your gems! Designs are limited to 15 characters (including a/an) and will only change the article description of your gem. (IE: "a tiny,deep blue,sapphire" can become "a speckled,deep blue,sapphire" or "a sword-incised,deep blue,sapphire".)

The cube will only hold gems, and it will only hold one gem at a time.
This item is not eligible for lightening or deepening.
Current verbs: CLOSE, OPEN, PUSH, TURN

Try as you might, you cannot get a good sense of whether or not the cube's pockets could get any deeper, but you can tell that the cube is as light as it can get.


You carefully eye the revolving center of your rosewood cube, lining up your desired sequence beyond the small transparent panels with exact precision. The interior is currently set to: "gilt-sparked."
>turn cube
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You carefully eye the revolving center of your rosewood cube, lining up your desired sequence beyond the small transparent panels with exact precision. The interior is currently set to: "flower-shaped."
>turn cube
You carefully eye the revolving center of your rosewood cube, lining up your desired sequence beyond the small transparent panels with exact precision. The interior is currently set to: "glimmering."
>turn cube
You carefully eye the revolving center of your rosewood cube, lining up your desired sequence beyond the small transparent panels with exact precision. The interior is currently set to: "red-flecked."
>turn cube
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You carefully eye the revolving center of your rosewood cube, lining up your desired sequence beyond the small transparent panels with exact precision. The interior is currently set to: "silver-shot."
>turn cube
You carefully eye the revolving center of your rosewood cube, lining up your desired sequence beyond the small transparent panels with exact precision. The interior is currently set to: "rounded."
>turn cube
You carefully eye the revolving center of your rosewood cube, lining up your desired sequence beyond the small transparent panels with exact precision. The interior is currently set to: "beveled."
>turn cube
You carefully eye the revolving center of your rosewood cube, lining up your desired sequence beyond the small transparent panels with exact precision. The interior is currently set to: "pink-laced."
>turn cube
You carefully eye the revolving center of your rosewood cube, lining up your desired sequence beyond the small transparent panels with exact precision. The interior is currently set to: "heart-etched."
>turn cube
You carefully eye the revolving center of your rosewood cube, lining up your desired sequence beyond the small transparent panels with exact precision. The interior is currently set to: "rose-tinted."

Mogonis
10-27-2017, 03:56 PM
So it's a lapidary box with more than five sides. Could be worth a bit. A lot of people at EG have five-sided ones, but this would allow them to have more to customize.

SonoftheNorth
10-27-2017, 04:09 PM
Ordim will probably trade you his first born

Zaigh
10-27-2017, 04:21 PM
If it came in a box that glowed when you opened it, it was a T6. Otherwise that's a nice T5. Definitely worth several millions, if looking to sell it I'd suggest starting at 5m and am sure it will go up from there.

Ltlprprincess
10-27-2017, 04:47 PM
I'm pretty sure the games don't offer glowing boxes for their jackpots, do they? Can anyone confirm?

Zaigh
10-27-2017, 04:49 PM
I can confirm, they do. I've seen it.

SonoftheNorth
10-27-2017, 04:52 PM
they hand you a chest instead of the just the item and announce jackpot

Lupine1732
11-01-2017, 11:53 PM
I'd pay 20m. But I'm a cheapskate.

drauz
11-02-2017, 12:01 AM
Good to know they can be unlocked at least up to 10 slots though, thanks for sharing.

Nephelem
11-02-2017, 12:28 AM
Supposedly all the boxes can in theory be unlocked to 10 but the service was not offered this year and might be a raffle level service if it ever is.

Roblar
11-02-2017, 12:30 AM
I didn't go to any or buy a box but pretty sure I saw a few announcements for box unlocking for these.

10 would still be far higher than any ones worked on this fest.

Nephelem
11-02-2017, 12:38 AM
Yeah, they are two off the shelf. I got one unlocked to 5 as did some others. That is the only 10 slot currently in existence, I guess it is either T3 or T2 depending upon whether you consider off the shelf T0 or T1.

drauz
11-02-2017, 12:53 AM
Yeah, they are two off the shelf. I got one unlocked to 5 as did some others. That is the only 10 slot currently in existence, I guess it is either T3 or T2 depending upon whether you consider off the shelf T0 or T1.

I am hesitant to update the wiki since there isn't a tier notification in the analyze if that is the next unlock after the 5 slots or if there is a 7-8 slot unlock before that.

Nephelem
11-02-2017, 12:58 AM
Entirely possible their is an unknown intermediary step, just sharing what I have seen or heard so far. Sounds like someone is good to go for a 20 million silver bid so congrats on the find!

Jhynnifer
11-02-2017, 09:58 AM
It might be worth asking the GMs if there's a hidden "auction tier" to these that allows for 10 settings and the analyze might be updated. It may end up being one of those things where they'll just allow you to keep adding settings with unlocking. Definitely a T6 win, with the script check. I think it was fairly rare to see T5 script checks (at least amongst the people I spoke to.)

Congratulations on the pull!

Merzbow
11-02-2017, 02:00 PM
It might be worth asking the GMs if there's a hidden "auction tier" to these that allows for 10 settings and the analyze might be updated. It may end up being one of those things where they'll just allow you to keep adding settings with unlocking. Definitely a T6 win, with the script check. I think it was fairly rare to see T5 script checks (at least amongst the people I spoke to.)

Congratulations on the pull!

What was the script check part of this?

Allereli
11-02-2017, 02:50 PM
What was the script check part of this?

A small crab scuttles up holding a sign that reads, "YES HELLO, CONGRATULATIONS! YOU FOUND SOMETHING AMAZING! WANT TO TELL ME ABOUT IT?"

Merzbow
11-02-2017, 03:39 PM
A small crab scuttles up holding a sign that reads, "YES HELLO, CONGRATULATIONS! YOU FOUND SOMETHING AMAZING! WANT TO TELL ME ABOUT IT?"

Ehh. At least one of my characters would be like "there's no fucking way I'm ever talking to a crab, let alone acknowledging one". So if I got this and just walked away, I'd be a script criminal? (Or, heaven forbid, log off after analyzing the item.) Sigh.

Jhynnifer
11-02-2017, 05:17 PM
Ehh. At least one of my characters would be like "there's no fucking way I'm ever talking to a crab, let alone acknowledging one". So if I got this and just walked away, I'd be a script criminal? (Or, heaven forbid, log off after analyzing the item.) Sigh.

They'd probably send you a few more before they tried to nail you.

Zaigh
11-02-2017, 06:24 PM
Definitely a T6 win, with the script check.!

Pretty sure this is a T5, albeit an upper eschelon T5. T6 wins come in glowing boxes, even from the games. The only ones I saw that didn't were from the T6 250k seashell pull.

Proof pulled from my logs:
T8 heads over to Reugo and shouts, "JACKPOT WINNER!" A golden mithril chest is quickly pushed into Reugo's hands.
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Reugo opens the lid on his golden mithril chest, which begins to glow.
- either 10/14 or 10/15