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Middian
04-29-2011, 11:25 PM
Lesser

some gilded black alloy armbands (Looking for Cash/trades/silvers offers)

cash bids = 8.5 per mil
MB = 100m
CB/trades = 65m + $250 Inso SOLD!


1) Up to 6x Shadow armor (cycles from robes to brig, you choose what armor you want) So no more heavy armor

2) Lets you "scream" (ring out) of a bad situation IN RATE

3) Darkened area (good for hiding)

4) eats bodies of your dead victims to recharge (cool show)

5) Link is broke, log onto Krak and search shadowdeath


Show
Made of an odd sort of black alloy, the vambraces give the odd appearance of something akin to ebon water trapped under glass. Currents ebb and flow, light catching occasionally here and there causing odd variations in the shades trapped within. The large guards may be worn with adjustable straps made of the same material, but give the distinct impression that it would be difficult to get a good fit without some additional assistance. Other than the odd properties of the metal, nothing else stands out.

Verbs

Nudge
You concentrate for a moment, and everything within sight suddenly becomes basked in a dull grey pallor. Everything here shifts as a mere shadow of its former self. Before your eyes can adjust to the alien sight your vision clears once more.

Gaerit's brow furrows suddenly and swirling black ebon lines invade his eyes, turning them into flat ebon orbs. Gaerit looks around, scanning the area before his eyes suddenly return to normal.

Attend
Shadows suddenly burst forth from your body, swarming across you and settling on you with the comfort of a close friend. Gnawing dark hunger and safe security compete for your attention before the shadows slowly sink into your skin, disappearing below the surface.

Shadows suddenly burst forth from Gaerit's body, swarming across his skin and settling on him with noticeable closeness. It lasts only momentarily before sinking back into Gaerit's skin once more.

Wave (untargetted)
You extend your arms in a wide sweeping motion, thousands of snaking tendrils of shadow bursting forth creating a great arc of snapping swarming, biting shadow maws and spiked tentacles. As your arm completes the circuit, you can feel the shadows retract, like iron spikes driving into your flesh.

Gaerit extends his arms in a wide sweeping motion and thousands of snaking tendrils of shadow suddenly burst forth creating a great arc of snapping, swarming, biting shadow maws and spiked tentacles. As Gaerit's arms complete the circuit, the shadows shrink back beneath his skin.

Prod
You feel a cold knot in the middle of your stomach, but it soon fades and you're left standing with an empty feeling in your gut.

Wear
As you put the vambraces on, a sudden bone-chilling cold creeps across your body until it you feel it settle like an icy grip on your heart! Your vision clouds momentarily, but then returns to normal. (First time)

As you put the vambraces on, a sudden bone-chilling cold creeps across your body until it you feel it settle like an icy grip on your heart! Your vision clouds momentarily, but then returns to normal.

As you settle the alloy arm vambraces into place, you feel complete once more. (Every time thereafter)

Gaerit puts on his vambraces. You could swear you saw shadows writhe across his body.

Remove
You remove the alloy arm vambraces, your veins suddenly bulging under your skin. The motion of the vambraces feels as if it were your skin being peeled away. Long tendrils of shadowstuff underneath thin and snap until the vambraces is finally free in your hands. You feel a distinct sense of loss.

Gaerit removes the alloy arm vambraces, peeling it away even though it is attached by many tendrils of shadowstuff that pull and snap one by one until the vambraces are free in his hands.

Get
As you reach for the vambraces, you notice the surface ripple like a stone dropped into a pond of black liquid. A sensation of completion fills you, and somewhere in the very back of your mind, a voice whispers something just beyond comprehension.

You remove some black alloy arm vambraces from in your spidersilk cloak.

As Gaerit gets the vambraces, the surface ripples like a stone dropped into a pond of black liquid.

Gaerit removes some black alloy arm vambraces from in his spidersilk cloak.

Rub (to check charges)
Your hand hovers close to the alloy arm vambraces, and suddenly a coldness seeps deep into your bones. Your stomach clenchs tightly, and yet you feel completely satisfied, as if you had just finished a meal at a large banquet. (full)

Your hand hovers close to the alloy arm vambraces, and suddenly a coldness seeps deep into your bones. Your stomach clenchs tightly, and despite the cold, you feel surprising comfortable, as if you had recently eaten a meal. (almost full)

Your hand hovers close to the alloy arm vambraces, and suddenly a coldness seeps deep into your bones. Your stomach clenchs tightly, and then rumbles - you feel the urge for a snack. (mid level)

Your hand hovers close to the alloy arm vambraces, and suddenly a coldness seeps deep into your bones. Your stomach clenchs tightly, and hunger pangs grip you as if you hadn't eaten recently. (almost empty)

Your hand hovers close to the alloy arm vambraces, and suddenly a coldness seeps deep into your bones. Your stomach clenchs tightly, and you feel a blinding, burning hunger course through you, as if you hadn't eaten in days! (empty)

Gaerit places his hand next to some black alloy arm vambraces for a moment.

Tap

An ice cold sensation grips your heart for a brief moment but passes just as quickly. (armor is not created because there are not enough charges)

Something twists hard and cold near to your heart as though it might burst forth. Just as you feel as if you cannot contain it anymore you sense a great feeling of resistance, and the sensation disappears. (armor is not created because you are wearing standard armor already)

You tap your alloy arm vambraces and an icy cold grip settles on your heart. The pain is almost unbearable, and you feel as though you're on the very verge of collapse when suddenly hundreds of tiny tendrils of shadow seem to burst from your skin, swirling and snapping until they settle into the form of armor type here. (armor is created and worn)

Gaerit taps his alloy arm vambraces and seems to freeze for a moment. Suddenly, hundreds of tiny tendrils of shadow seem to burst forth from his skin, swirling and snapping until they settle into the form of armor type here.

As Armor
Armor types

Some flowing black shadows (robes)
A form-fitting tunic of shadows (light leather)
A loose coat of shadows (full leather)
A form-fitting shroud of shadows (double leather)
A dense shroud of shadows (brigandine)
Armor is 3x to 6x based on how many charges are left.
A cold tingle runs down your spine, and you can feel the shadows suddenly shift. (armor drains a charge approximately once every four minutes)

Armor Verbs

Inspect shadows
As you focus on the shroud of shadows, darkness suddenly obscures your vision and overwhelms you! The blackness is all-encompassing, pressing in on every side until it seems as though you are trapped deep within the darkness. Harsh, grating voices fill your ears, chanting in some long dead dialect of a language similar to elven, whispering things that although you cannot understand give the distinct impression of tremendous horror.

Rub shadows
You caress the shroud of shadows, fingers trailing through the shadows as if it were water, leaving little wakes.

Gaerit caresses his shroud of shadows, fingers trailing through the shadows as if it were water, leaving little wakes.

Tap shadows
Your fingertips touch the surface of your shroud of shadows in a tapping motion, causing ripples of darkness to spread across like a pebble dropped in water.

Gaerit's fingertips touch the surface of the shroud of shadows in a tapping motion, causing ripples of darkness to spread across like a pebble dropped in water.

Poke shadows
You poke the shroud of shadows, pushing your fingers into the bone-chilling cold shadowstuff until you cannot bear it anymore.

Gaerit pokes the shroud of shadows, pushing his fingers into the shadowstuff until he suddenly pulls his fingers back out.

Remove shadows
You reach to remove a form-fitting shroud of shadows, but your hands just pass right through it!

Gaerit tries to remove a form-fitting shroud of shadows, but his hands just pass right through it!



Touch target (to pull a charge from a corpse)
Ravenous tendrils of shadow burst forth from Gaerit's body, streaking towards the storm giant to consume it in a gory feast of toothy shadow maws and barbed tentacles! (no treasure or gear is left behind, but you get experience as normal)

Ravenous tendrils of shadow suddenly burst forth from the darkness, streaking towards the storm giant to consume it in a gory feast of toothy shadow maws and barbed tentacles! (from hiding or invisible)

Ravenous tendrils of shadow burst forth from your body and streak towards the cold guardian, writhing and snapping furtively before returning! (failure if the critter is undead, a player character, or some odd magical entity that doesn't have a substantial form)

Pull (attempt to darken the area)

Ice grips your heart, but the area doesn't grow any darker. (failure to darken the room because it is too bright)

You feel a chill grip you, but nothing seems to happen. (fail to darken the room because you're low on charges)

An icy tingle shoots down your spine. The area grows darker.

The area suddenly grows darker.

Turn (to cycle through armor types)
You push a finger into the shadowstuff of the alloy arm vambraces and feel no resistance as the cold seeps to your finger bone. (the first of the five steps - set to robes)

You push a finger into the shadowstuff of the alloy arm vambraces and feel more resistance. (the next four steps through the armor types)

Gaerit pushes a finger into the alloy arm vambraces, the shadowstuff enveloping it.

Teleporting
Scream
You start to open your mouth to scream, but your guts suddenly wrench and feel as though they're going to leap right out of your throat! You open your mouth in pure agony and black shadow pours out to cover your world and turn it all to a dark grey. Your surroundings shift, the world around you is streaming shadow and blackness. Things speed by at a dizzying pace, and you seem to be walking...somewhere. Ahead. A bright, piercing light, as full as the noon sun and blistering with heat, you grow nearer and nearer until... (you enter the room)

Gaerit looks as he might scream, but instead of a scream writhing tendrils of shadow pour forth from his mouth! They cover Gaerit completely before suddenly fading into the surrounding shadows! (leaving the room you are currenty in)

Hundreds of tendrils of shadow suddenly burst forth from the surroundings, writhing and swirling as if they were alive. They quickly combine into a shadowy shape of Gaerit that evaporates away, leaving him standing there! (entering the room you've anchored to)

You scream but nothing happens. (failure when you don't have enough charges) [Edit: Or if the room is brightly lit]

Avaenn
04-29-2011, 11:31 PM
is that greater or lesser version of shadowdeath?

BriarFox
04-29-2011, 11:33 PM
is that greater or lesser version of shadowdeath?

Lesser. My old set. Akoe dug them up at EG09, Durg bought them from her, I bought them from Durg, and I altered them from armlets to armbands. I sold them to Drew, Drew sold them to Ausek (I think, or Ausek got them anyway), and Ausek just recently sold them, and now here they are again.

Boora
04-29-2011, 11:35 PM
sooo, what are they?

The link doesn't bring anything up on Krakii for me.

poloneus
04-29-2011, 11:41 PM
http://www.krakiipedia.org/wiki/Shad...es_(saved_post)

You have to add the final ")"

Known bug in hyperlinks from PC.

Boora
04-30-2011, 01:38 AM
thanks Poloneus!

Kinda...

No Gnomes Is Good News
04-30-2011, 02:31 AM
thanks Poloneus!

Kinda...

They are armor in a sense. Rechargeable by eating dead critter bodies.

Once max charged, they are I think 5x or 6x. No padding. Have a gold ring teleport like script using Scream, which can be used WHILE in RT. Using said function however will eat charges.

Armor can also be changed to various forms of soft armor, and has other various scripts.

When not wearing said armor, you simply only have on the armbands....

More to it, but nothing else of real hard note as these are the lessers. The greaters offer 1x per day cross realms teleport and a nifty sanctuary-ish room etc

Middian
04-30-2011, 10:30 AM
Pasted most of the info from Krak, since the link is tempermental. See whole post on Krak by searching shadowdeath.

Asha
04-30-2011, 11:13 AM
How many times can you scream? Is it only dependent on charges.
I never fail to be amazed by shadowdeath wearables. Lesser or greater.

Fallen
04-30-2011, 11:22 AM
Based on charges.

Asha
04-30-2011, 11:22 AM
That makes them pretty much incredible

Fallen
04-30-2011, 11:23 AM
There's a reason they go for about a min of 100 mill.

Asha
04-30-2011, 11:38 AM
I just didn't know the lessers were quite that impressive.

Boora
04-30-2011, 12:14 PM
very impressive.

No Gnomes Is Good News
04-30-2011, 01:07 PM
I just didn't know the lessers were quite that impressive.

IMO, they aren't as impressive as they once were.

While the scream function is what people purchase them for mostly (Some people even buy these, just to wear them ALONG with other armor)

Mechanically speaking, they aren't that better than other things. With things like Beseech, Sigil/signs of escapes and what not these kinda wore out I think. Even if it's based on charges it still is a bit lackluster now with other available ways to teleport away.

Not to mention, when you eat a corpse to charge the thing, you won't get the loot from the creature. Minor setback and nothing to care much about, loot is loot maaaaan! :P

They are nice pieces still and have history, but the price doesn't outweigh the functionality to me anymore

Asha
04-30-2011, 01:12 PM
Beseech would make you have to be a paladin and paladins are le douche so that's not gonna happen and sigil only allows you to do it once a day right?
The scream based on charges is an incredibly reasonable price to pay for infinite RT escapes.
Also, I've been used to not receiving loot from corpses some of the time from playing a sorcerer for 7 years, using 720, old 705 and 717.

Asha
04-30-2011, 01:14 PM
What I mean is, I would love to have this item!

Middian
04-30-2011, 01:21 PM
Ok getting alot of interest on this, I ll put a MB up to give everyone a fair shake at this. Also getting some item trades, so we'll see how this goes for fairness.

Originate
04-30-2011, 02:12 PM
Where do you end up if you use them to transport in the rift? Approximately how many creatures equal a charge, how many charges can it hold, and how many charges does the transport take?

BriarFox
04-30-2011, 02:19 PM
Where do you end up if you use them to transport in the rift? Approximately how many creatures equal a charge, how many charges can it hold, and how many charges does the transport take?

Like most teleporters, they don't work in the rift.

Middian
04-30-2011, 02:20 PM
You set it like a gold ring

The charges are like voln favor. The higher train NPCs you kill the more charges it gets, the lower the train then you, the less charges you get from the kill.

No idea how many it holds, you can check if its geting full by RUBing it.

Also I was told everytime you use the "scream" it will remove a random amount of charges. You can use it a 100 times a day as long as it has enough charges.

m444w
04-30-2011, 03:56 PM
You set it like a gold ring

The charges are like voln favor. The higher train NPCs you kill the more charges it gets, the lower the train then you, the less charges you get from the kill.

No idea how many it holds, you can check if its geting full by RUBing it.

Also I was told everytime you use the "scream" it will remove a random amount of charges. You can use it a 100 times a day as long as it has enough charges.

Voln favor is creature based, not level based. Unlike Voln you will not gain charges from creatures lower than -10 levels from you, and I am also fairly sure from my grimswarming campaigns creatures that are +10 levels from you also do not gain charges... But Grimswarms are weird creatures when it comes to this, so they are probably not the best example.

Scream doesn't remove a random amount of charges, it depends on A) the light level in the room you attempt to teleport from (the lighter the room the more charges) and B) the light level of the room you teleport to.

Middian
04-30-2011, 04:23 PM
Perfect, good information.

m444w
04-30-2011, 04:40 PM
Perfect, good information.

They're very nice items, with a very fair MB, just wanted to separate a little where the line of legend ends, and fact starts.

Middian
05-01-2011, 08:16 AM
Bids updated, I will move this along at a fair pace.

Middian
05-01-2011, 06:13 PM
Going ONCE!

Middian
05-02-2011, 07:46 AM
Twice!

Middian
05-03-2011, 09:16 AM
I have gotten a few trade offers, I will end this tonight when I get home around 8pm eastern.

Middian
05-03-2011, 07:42 PM
Sold to Inso! Thanks everyone for the offers.