Stealth Forage 04/23/2009 01:43 AM CDT
Want stealth forage, pls.


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Re: Stealth Forage 04/23/2009 01:49 AM CDT

> cast

You gesture.
The sounds of the world around you grow quiet and distant as you feel yourself fade into the protection of nature's canopy.
I> forage grass

You move forward slightly, hoping to find a better foraging spot.
With incredibly nimble fingers and the knowledge of the wilds, you find the absolute best grass amongst the rest.
Roundtime: 4 sec.
IR>

=)
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Re: Stealth Forage 04/23/2009 01:58 AM CDT
Whoo. It's a magic feat. Nevermind then.


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Re: Stealth Forage 04/23/2009 04:04 AM CDT
For the life of me I can't figure out how you could find some actual value in this.


-Joshua, player of Malkien
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Re: Stealth Forage 04/23/2009 04:58 AM CDT
only thing that comes to mind is dirt


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Re: Stealth Forage 04/23/2009 05:06 AM CDT
>>For the life of me I can't figure out how you could find some actual value in this.<<

Not spamming the room with a billion "So and so roots around until he finds a (wood) stick"?
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Re: Stealth Forage 04/23/2009 05:09 AM CDT
>>only thing that comes to mind is dirt

Okay, that would be one actual thing.

>>Not spamming the room with a billion "So and so roots around until he finds a (wood) stick"?

Less spam is generally a cause worthy of devotion, but if this is the only reason you can think of for stealth forage... well, if a problem can be solved with squelch it really isn't too big a mechanical problem at all, IMO.


-Joshua, player of Malkien
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Re: Stealth Forage 04/23/2009 06:18 AM CDT
actually thought of a few more things, throwable foragables like rocks and logs


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Re: Stealth Forage 04/23/2009 08:23 AM CDT
Healing Herbs while you hide from the enemies that are attacking you.


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Re: Stealth Forage 04/23/2009 11:36 AM CDT
And now this conversation has gone from pointless to depressing.


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Re: Stealth Forage 04/23/2009 12:38 PM CDT
>And now this conversation has gone from pointless to depressing.

Oh I don't know, I was amused...

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Re: Stealth Forage 04/23/2009 12:59 PM CDT

Useless?

The need to do this is rare - but: "hide, prep nc, wait for full prep, cast nc, prep compost, collect branch, cast" gives the room extra mana for awhile and you are safe as nc can make you during the 30 second collecting roundtime.

I use this sometimes when I have to raise mana to rebuff stw, em , sott, etc all at once in a wilderness hunting area where I usually I can only hide and snipe. Of course it is just as easy to leave the area and rebuff in safe foraging area.
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Re: Stealth Forage 04/23/2009 08:49 PM CDT
>>Oh I don't know, I was amused...

I'm more impressed by their ability to try to guess my motivations without any prompting whatsoever. Or rather, what passed for their attempts to guess my motivation.

I was prepared for people trying to figure out what I meant by "stealth forage" (I mean, I've got two or three things in mind), but I didn't realize everyone would just assume it was to make me better at killing stuff or surviving being killed.

Shame on me.


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Re: Stealth Forage 04/24/2009 12:22 AM CDT
i'm confused then, the only other thing i can think of is:
using in a completely different way tied in with the new creation system and forage up grass(?) to braid into a trap, either to trap a random animal that could be used as food(raw or cooked) or monster trap (monster stumbles into trap, can't attack/move until it breaks free using escaping skill)


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Re: Stealth Forage 04/24/2009 01:13 AM CDT
Heh. I remember writing up a cooking system for DR. Ridiculous drivel, that was. Would be a good thing for DR, but it doesn't involve killing large quantities of quasi-sentient abstractions, so I don't think it'll happen.

...oooh... Poisoned dinner parties! Someone tell Tiesse.

But I don't see how any interpretation of "stealth forage" could get twisted into "trapping system".


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Re: Stealth Forage 04/24/2009 01:23 AM CDT
>But I don't see how any interpretation of "stealth forage" could get twisted into "trapping system".

i'm weird like that(maybe i think too far out of the box), forage up the materials while hidden, make the trap and then while staying in hiding lay it

But if that's not it do tell us i'm curious what those three things are cause you have me completely stumped


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Re: Stealth Forage 04/24/2009 01:26 AM CDT
>>...oooh... Poisoned dinner parties! Someone tell Tiesse.<<

Been done, diseased cupcakes, by awesome villainous low-mid level NPCs. Awesome event.
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Re: Stealth Forage 04/24/2009 02:30 AM CDT
>>But if that's not it do tell us i'm curious what those three things are cause you have me completely stumped

Hm. I wasn't going to, but since you're asking so nicely.

Initially, I simply meant being able to forage without messaging the room, heh. Wanted to be able to give people flowers without rooting around the area for a while. Dignity and stuff.

Then when I was posting, I realized it might be a prefetch where you figure out where something is before you forage, so the actual act of foraging is done discreetly, but the snatch is still visible. Semi-liked that one better, but wasn't sure.

I didn't put it all in the first post because I was curious as to how other people would interpret it. Forgot that in DR parlance, stealth == hidden. =(


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Re: Stealth Forage 04/24/2009 06:26 AM CDT
So in other words you want an option to hide foraging attempts from others like we can try to hide spell preps?

Anything to reduce room spam, for sure.

But I also like the idea of being able to forage from hiding.

-pete
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