User:Aku

Home

My home is in Queen's Refuge at 499, -6205. I've joined Mixed Nuts, the Queen's Refuge public works guild so it looks like i'll be hanging around for the time being. Much of the equipment in my compound is public.

• Public equipment
  • 2 Student Forges with Nail Molds (but no extrusion plates)
  • 4 True Kilns
  • 2 Charcoal Hearths
  • 8 Improved Brick Racks (with more to come)
  • 1 Basic Carpenter's Bench (no upgrades)
  • 1 Student's Casting Box
  • 1 Anvil (bring your own hammers)

I reserve the right to turn any of these back to "Private Use" if i'm in the middle of a project. There is a box next to the charcoal hearths for any donations that anyone would like to make. I'll gratefully accept anything (except mud and sand :-) but don't feel obligated; I'm a big believer in "paying forward".

Status

Level 8

• Initiate of Leadership
• Initiate of Body
  • Acrobat - (passed Principle) have Clapping Push-ups, have taught 19 so i can learn 2 segments at a time.
• Initiate of Architecture
  • Obelisk - passed Principle
• Initiate of Harmony
• Art & Science - built statue at my compound
• Thought - nothing yet
• Worship -
  • Principle of Marriage

Rhythmic Strength

• L3 - in 100 picks i got 1 about 7 times, otherwise got 2.
• L4 - in 100 picks i got 3 about 10 times, otherwise got 2.
• L5 - in 100 picks i got 3 almost half the time, otherwise got 2
• L6 - in 100 picks i got 3 80 times and 2 20 times
• L7 - in 100 picks i got 3 83 times and 4 17 times

Current Projects

Having the attention span of a mayfly has its disadvantages, but a short "to do" list is not one of them.

Blacksmithing

I am currently questing after the 8K shovel and hatchet. I can pretty reliably make a 7.5K one of each (and if anyone wants one send me a tell in-game and we can haggle about price) but once i get there the screwing around i do just makes it worse. Of course i've only been practicing for a day so i am quite hopeful.

Then, of course, i'll start questing for 9K...

Mentoring

I've built my altar and banner and visited the island once but have yet to spend much time there. ATITD is such a social game i found the interaction with new players to be immensely satisfying.

General Metalworking

I'm slowly building up the stock to build a reactory of my own. To that end i've been trading with The Goods, a fine institution that i can't recommend highly enough. (Though the new "donation phase" thing is a bit off-putting; i don't see anyone who's not a member of The Goods donating 3 large gears for free, but perhaps i'm being uncharitable.) I've gotten the concrete and topaz, and will be trading for some tin to try to make steel in the Guild reactory so that i can make the sheeting for my own.

Glass Making

I'm going to need tubes for the reactory, so i'll need soda or potash...

Social Things

I'm trying to pay attention to things like digs, acro, and other activties that can only be done with crowds. I'm not entirely succeeding...

My Petition

Petition by Aku

Aku for Queen's Retreat Regional Garbage Collector

Oh, People of Queen's Retreat, hear the plea of Aku, a humble handmaiden of the region. Our public areas become blighted with abandoned flimsy brick racks, wood planes, and small distaffs. The people become discontent yet all efforts to legislate a solution fall short in some way, and the blight remains.

I petition to be granted the awesome power to salvage any of the three above items in Queen's Retreat which are not within a compound. I realize that this is a great power, and i understand the reluctance anyone might feel in granting it, unchecked, to a single individual. I pledge to use discretion and judgement, and that i am a thoughtful and civic-minded person with no intention of causing harm or unhappiness.

I believe this would do good for the region, clearing places for newcomers to experience Egypt in its beauty. I also believe that nothing short of this will alleviate the problem.

And since this isn't outrageous enough, i request that only the votes of citizens whose primary guild is in Queen's Retreat be counted.

Submitted for your consideration by Aku.

Inclinations

I don't have the time to spend grinding my way to the top, so i end up soloing a lot. I'm making an effort to be more social this time around. I like mentoring so if you want advice feel free to chat me and i'll see what i can do. If i don't answer right away i may be making glass or charcoal.

History

I played all of T1, sporadically in T2 and T3. I'm hoping to make it all the way through this one.