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Gameplay => In-Game Roleplay Events => Topic started by: Under the moon on November 09, 2007, 09:41:00 pm
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[[This is an official game event being put on by Devs and GMs]]
Kemedes grins over the table at Darven Bounash as the Ylian rattles the dice around in the cup once again. Kemedes's side of the table seems heavy with coins and more than a few of the more potent Kran drinks. Darven looks down dismally at his side of the table, which only holds one small pile of coin.
“Well, get on with it so I can take the rest of your money,” Kemedes says, though the words are not quite as clear as they should have been, and the kran wavers in kras chair.
Darven sighs and tosses the dice, using the action to hide the glint in his eyes. Kemedes’s eyes go wide as the pips all come up with the highest roll.
Darven grins. “Looks like Luck just found a new master, Kran,” he says with a wink as he pulls all of Kemedes’s coins to his side of the table. “It also looks like you just ran out of currency to lay on the table. Too bad. You were doing so well for a while there. Be sure to come again… if you have the courage.”
Kemedes grunts at his now empty side of the table. “You wait there. We aren’t done yet. I have…” Kra pats kras coinpurse, finding it indeed very empty, but for a few pebbles. A jingle from another sack draws kras attention, though. “I have these!” kra says, slapping the sack on the table.
Darven pokes at the sack doubtfully and empties it on the table. His eyes glint at what he sees… the full set of keys to one of the newly restored guildhouses on the upper tier. “We have a bet.”
Five minutes later, Kemedes walks out of the room with head held low and an empty sack at kras side. Darven grins from the open doorway and tosses the keys in one hand, pondering how to get the most tria out of his new… investment.
[stay tuned for further details, folks. Darven has something crafty up his sleeves.
OOC reason for this event: To be fair to all guilds and players, each guild is only allowed one guildhouse right now. Kemedes ended up buying two for his guild, and decided to give one back in the best RP manner. This guildhouse will be sold in a another way, not in an auction.]
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[Good on him. Hopefully it did not take any (much) arm twisting to get him to do so. Certainly some people might have gotten really upset about it and since this is the first I (at least) have heard of it I say again Well Done Kemedes!
Although I have no chance of coming into this house, most likely, it is good to see new things being tried.]
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Darven Bounash sits alone in his newly acquired guildhouse, flipping a gold coin in the air over and over. Normally, he did not have gold coins, but that merchant had been a little too sure of himself. He looks up at the ceiling of the house, and at the high walls. It is all spacious and generously decorated. Everything seems to shine. Darven looks around all of this spendor… and finds himself bored out of his mind. He hops up and grabs the rolled up posters he made, and heads to the door as a grin starts to form on his face.
“Well, time to get this kikiri plucked.”
Soon, the posters are nailed to every available board in Hydlaa, and just as many were on their way to Ojaveda and the other surrounding cites to be posted by the end of the day. They read as follows:
Don’t miss the chance of a LIFETIME!
I, Darven Bounash, shall be offering you the chance to win your very own Luxury Guildhouse.
Yes, you heard that right! For the mere fraction of the cost of buying one outright, you could be lounging in your own Guildhouse!
“How can I do this?!”
Well, let me tell you! For the paltry sum of 100,000 tria, you will get the chance to be randomly chosen at the designated drawing. That is right. Only 100,000 tria can land you that guildhouse of your dreams! Bring your wagers and raffle sheets [blank book] to me, Darven Bounash, or one of my good partners on the date of [Saturday, Nov 24] starting at [18:00 GMT http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ ] and ending at [21:00 GMT], on the upper tier in Hydlaa in front of the guildhouse. You will be assigned one number per ticket, in the order you hand them in. Buy as many raffle tickets as you wish! The winner will be drawn by random number at the end of the allotted time. Have fun, and bring food and drinks!
Legal disclaimer: Government regulations state that one fifth of any profits made in this endeavor must be paid to the Octarchy. In addition, only guilds are allowed to legally own a guildhouse. No individuals may purchase raffle tickets. No restriction can be placed on the number of raffles a single guild may purchase. All guilds talking part in this raffle must fill out and hand in one raffle sheet per entry with the following information:
Name of guild:
Leader of guild:
Number of guildmembers:
Purpose of guild in 50 words or less:
[[OOC info and instructions: Buy a Blank Book from Jayose. Fill out the above information –exactly- as stated. Any deviations WILL be discarded. At the timespan stated, bring your book(s) to the upper tier up the stairs near the gate most of you know as the North gate, and give it to the person waiting there, along with the 100,000 tria (400 circles) fee. Tickets do not have to be bought all at once. Then wait until the random choosing at the end. A die will be rolled with the exact number of sides as number of votes turned in. This will be done in public view. Note that Guildhouses have been selling from 2 to 7 million tria, and this will be the ONLY guildhouse awarded this way.]]
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[[four day warning, folks. Be sure to have your 'raffles' filled out ahead of time.]]
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[Railen won with a raffle for The Organisation!
32 raffles were turned in. 5 was the winning number. Thanks for taking part!]
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a very funny event where the officials left without telling us who won! really unbelieveble! but they were able to take our money! Congrats - well done!
Congratulation to the winners :)
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Uhm, I think they told who the winner was. Wasn't it the guild <The Organisation>?
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Heh, look up.
[Railen won with a raffle for The Organisation!
32 raffles were turned in. 5 was the winning number. Thanks for taking part!]
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It was announced ingame right away. Keys were given in an RP manner. People gave congrats, and poor Zwenze had to be carried away.
Perhaps you were too far away to hear it all. :)
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Just like to Thank all those that organised the Raffle, and to those who congratulated us on our brilliant luck. \\o//
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Tematus says: READY?
Granitius says: ready
Nemolix says: No Wait Please :P
Nyarimius says: Aye on with it man!
Delom shakes the die and looks for a spot on the ground.
Storeas shouts: Go!
Granitius says: ^ ^
Arerano chuckles at all the uprising nervosity
Delom tosses the die.
>Player Delom has rolled a 32-sided die for a 5.
Tematus says: FIVE!
Railen says: YES
Delom says: That appears to be a five.
Tematus goes through the raffles.
>Lesilie Moreti stands up.
Zwenze falls over unconcious
>Zwenze Whitebearded takes a seat by Guildhouse 11.
>Railen Morgol stands up.
Silavur sighs
Granitius says: Congratulation
>Zakrei greets Aiwendil Hallacar.
Andoryn says: Oh no... Never...
Glodin says: Oh well ...
Tematus says: The winner is.... RAILEN!
Nemolix says: Next Please...
Railen says: WAHOOOOOO
>Scharius Oefedii stands up.
Nyarimius says: Congrats Railen!
>Scharius Oefedii takes a seat.
Nefert says: Congrats Railen
>Scharius Oefedii stands up.
Lesilie cheers
Railen says: Thank you
>Gorft Purrest stands up.
>Plank stands up.
Lesilie starts to dance
Lyoven says: Oh well done The Organisation
>Aiwendil Hallacar greets Zakrei.
Tematus says: Please, everyone back away so Railen can come forward.
Joffrion cheers the winners
>Lyoven Erovecit stands up.
Delom observes the transaction.
Lyoven cheers
Ebrasch says: hey ain't THAT fat
Ebrasch laughs
Gorft applauses for the Organisation
Arerano looks suspiciously at Railen
Gorft says: Well done
Tematus pulls out a set of keys as Darven looks on sadly.
Railen smiles
Tematus says: There be ten keys here, and one master key for making more.
Railen says: Thank you
Darven eyes the chest of tria.
Delom watches Darven closely.
Lesilie goes to the tavern and get beer
>Tematus gave Railen 10 Small keys, a Small key.
Railen says: Thank you Tematus
Tematus hands the keys over.
Tematus says: Congrats.
Railen grins looking embarrased
Andoryn cheers for Railen!
Delom takes a scroll from his pocket and writes something on it.
Railen smiles "Thank you Andoryn"
Tutoned says: they are sleeping deep i guess...
Delom signs his name on the bottom.
Glodin says: Let us get out of here. I need a drink
Darven Bounash says: Hey, pally. Give me three tria, and we'll play us a game.
Ebrasch says: help me gathering up Zwenze then
>Ebrasch stands up.
Delom holds the scroll out to Tematus "And you need to sign where indicated."
Nefert congrats again her new neighbours
>Nefert stands up.
Glodin shakes Zwenze
Tematus eyes Delom, but signs.
>Zakrei greets Aiwendil Hallacar.
Glodin says: Wake up Keeper!
Delom walks over to Darven.
Zwenze opens his eye: Have we won?
Glodin says: erm
Delom hands Darvent the scroll to sign.
Thank you for joining and congratulating on us everybody!
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Ticket numbers and assigned names should be made public before the raffle. That's for fair and clear results.
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The number of the tickets had been on the tickets...so everybody who had a ticket knew, which number he/she had. I don't see the problem. Why should it be public, who bought how many tickets and with which specific number?
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Tickets were assigned a number in order as they came in. The person that bought the fifth ticket won because the random die roll was a five. Numbers were not told to people so that they did not know how many tickets were already bought. There is a reason for that. If a person was going to turn one in, but saw there were already 25 raffles turned in, they might not have bothered. For the people putting on the raffle, that is just bad buisiness, and would have made "fair and clear results" out of character.
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[where did you get a 32 sided die from and what was it's shape? I realize you are limited by the game mechanics as to how you randomly select one entry but instead of using the games faulty terminology it might have been more appropriate to gloss over the inconvenient details rather than to incorporate them into the role-play. I do not believe there is a regular geometric form suitable for dice with 32 sides.
All the same congratulations on a successful event.]
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[Y'know, I could always make a 32-sided die out of clay, take a picture, and post it here. Shouldn't be too hard. :P If it's possible, then it works!]
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[Generally, raffles are pulled out of a tophat. Tophats are not implimented yet. xD Anyways, you can only do so much with game mechanics the way they are. It was stated to be a 'special' die. There are a lot of them out there. Ya just whisper to them how many sides you want them to have, and throw. ;) ]
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[Well there are only something like 25 regular polyhedrons, if you had wanted to stick with the dice theme you could have rolled an 8-sider and a 4-sider, forms we know can exist. Either use the 4-sider to generate how many 8's to add to the 8-sider roll (0,1,2 or 3) or vice versa. Other numbers might take more effort to come up with a method.
Let me be clear I am not taking issue with using the roll dice feature of the game, I just thought you might dress it up to make it more in context. I do not care how special your dice are it is just not possible to have an object with an arbitrary number of sides be a "fair die"
The full geometric set of "uniform fair dice" (face-transitive) are:
* Platonic solids: 5 regular polyhedra: (4, 6, 8, 12, 20 sides)
* Catalan solids: 13 Archimedean duals: (12, 24, 30, 48, 60, 120 sides)
* Bipyramids: infinite set of prism duals, triangle faces: (6, 8, 10, 12, ... sides)
* Trapezohedrons: infinite set of antiprism duals, kite faces: (6, 8, 10, 12, ... sides)
* Disphenoids: infinite set of tetrahedra made from congruent non-regular triangles (4 sides)
* "Rolling-pin style dice" (also called "rolling logs" [3]) are the only way to make dice with an odd number of faces[4]. They are based on an infinite set of prisms. All the (rectangular) faces they may actually land on are congruent, so they are equally fair. (The other 2 sides of the prism are rounded or capped with a pyramid, designed so that the dice never actually rests on those faces.)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dice)
I suppose, having looked at the quote I posted and some other links, I really have to withdraw my objection. Perhaps some day gem cutters will be able to make sets of dice for all occasions.
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Not to mention that rolling 1 die of 32 sides and many smaller dice do not share the same probabilities. Many dice favor higher numbers to the detriment of lower ones. They make it impossible for poor number 1 to win (unless each die has a "0" side, which actually makes it possible that nobody wins).
So, let's better not dwell on this rather peripheral detail. The raffle was transparent and well run. Congratulations to the winning guild and to all happy guildhouse owners out there. And kudos to the Settings team for always thinking of new ways to introduce content and novelties in the game. Keep it up!
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Good show.
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32 sided dice :D (http://membres.lycos.fr/arjan/num32.htm)