Help?

[allen]

Got this armor, it's 4x brig, anyone able to help me find out how resistant it is to cold attacks? And if it's permanent or temporary, and why it's loresinging for as much as it is?

As you sing, you feel a faint resonating vibration from the dark brigandine armor in your hand, and you learn something about it...

The first thing that strikes you about the armor is the weight, which is about 23 pounds. In your best estimation, it's worth about 24,600,000 silvers.

As you sing, you feel a faint resonating vibration from the dark brigandine armor in your hand...

It has a bonus of +20 from a normal armor, and the way it vibrates in tune with your voice tells you that it is rigid leather armor. It also has some type of special ability, but you can't tell what yet. The dark brigandine armor seems to have some sort of unusual protection against damage.

As you sing, you feel a faint resonating vibration from the dark brigandine armor in your hand...

The harmonics generated tell you that the armor has been enchanted by a wizard, though you are unable to determine exactly whom.

As your song penetrates the dark brigandine armor, you determine that it is resistant to frigid attacks.

[Stunseed]

Have a Ranger assess the armor for it's protection.

[Asha]

For that price it better be permanantly padded against cold attacks.
But then again singing didn't really give a truly accurate evaluation of the worth did it.

[allen]

Thanks, loresong was way off, just temporary, anyone ever seen a ridiculous loresong on just some temp resistant armor?

[crazymage]

yeah all the ranger padded stuff is way nuts

[StJimmy]

Like my bundle of shop bought plain arrows that I e-bladed loresing at over 15m. I wish!

[Janarth]

Does the pawnshop use that number to calculate how much they will pay? I mean, I thought all items had an intrinsic "worth" upon creation, and when selling to shops, that worth was modified by race bias, availability/demand, and the trading skill. Maybe that armor could fetch more in the pawnshop then selling to a player? (no one would pay even 13M for 4x temporary padded armor, but if the pawnshop pays half the intrinsic worth...)

Just a thought. Am I way off base?

[allen]

Naw, pawnshop doesn't give you more than like 30k for an item, he'll tell you what he thinks it's worth, but that it's too expensive.

[Meges]

The values don't always mesh anyway. Loresong will sometimes say something's worth an absurd amount, and you know it's not worth that much. When you take the item to the pawn shop, the owner will offer you a much lower value, and if that lower value is within what he'll pay silvers or a note for, you can at least get something for it. If he'll not pay you, then the system likely recognizes the absurd value as accurate.

I think doodads were a good example of this. I believe they loresung around 200k in value, but you'd only get around 2k at the pawnshop for them. So, one system was not recognizing what the other was doing.

Meges

[Meges]

Actually, I'm not sure about the doodads. The stat/skill enhancive potions sold a few years ago are what I was thinking about. I have a ton of them for different skills and whatnot. I recently had my bard sing to them and was taken back by the value. So, when I went to see if the pawnshop would really pay that much (which they can't anyway), I realized something's a little wonky with loresong or with the item:

a brilliant gold potion
This is a small item, under a pound. In your best estimation, it's worth about 200,000 silvers.
You sense a faint aura of magic around the gold potion. From the pitch of the vibration you determine that the purpose of the potion is as a consumable item of food or drink. Also, it seems to have some sort of enhancive properties.
This is a drinkable item, which casts spells of some type, though you are not sure of the sphere. It has 8 sips. (originally 10 sips).
The potion resonates with your voice, indicating that it enhances its owner in the following ways:
It provides a bonus to Perception Ranks.
You think that you could probably find out something more about the potion's enhancive properties if you tried.
The potion resonates with your voice, indicating that it enhances its owner in the following ways:
It provides a bonus of 5 to Perception Ranks.
The potion looks to have quite a few charges remaining.
The bonuses provided by this item should last a little while.

At the pawnshop:

You ask the pawnbroker to appraise a brilliant gold potion.
The pawnbroker turns the potion over in his hands a few times.
The pawnbroker says, "Hmm, an interesting magical artifact indeed. I'll give you 582 silver coins for it."

Meges