Test of the Acrobat

"After careful instruction, you master (an acrobatics move). Instruct students in total solitude - for best concentration, nobody else should be around."

Principles

Principles of the Acrobat will show you how to perform your acrobatic move, how to teach facets of that move to others, and how to learn facets of other moves.

• Practice your Move
• Practice your move with another acrobat
• Watch another Acrobat practice
• Learn a Facet from another Acrobat
• Learn the 2nd facet of any move
• Teach a Facet to another Acrobat
• Teach seven facets

Level Required: 4

Demonstrate the Principle

Show up at the University of Body with a Dexterity of 7

Demonstrated by diania in Stillwater on 2008-12-21.

Overview

When you visit a University of Body to begin the Test of the Acrobat, you will be taught a single acrobatic move. Master 28 moves to pass the test.

Each of the 28 acrobatic moves has 7 facets which must be learned in order to master the move. Your Tests menu will allow you to track your progress in various moves as well as perform the moves.

Acrobats may teach each other facets by standing near each other and performing their moves. If other people stand too close to the acrobats (within about 5 coords), they will be unable to learn from each other. You must have performed an acro move in the last 3 minutes in order to be able to learn (teacher gets a "student isn't paying attention" message otherwise, and this does mean the first move in a session is useless).

For every four moves learned (including the first), an acrobat receives one point of dexterity. At seven points of dexterity (28 moves), the acrobat passes the test. The more dexterity you have, the more bulk you can carry and the faster you can run off-road. 7 Dexterity makes your off-road travel speed equal to an on-road travel at speed 0 (needs confirmation for T4).

The number of facets of each move that a student may learn from a given teacher is based on the total number of facets that the student has taught to other acrobats.

• A student who has taught less than 14 facets can learn at most one facet per move per teacher.
• A student who has taught 14 or more and less than 980 facets can learn at most two facets per move per teacher.

• A student who has taught 980 or more facets can learn at most three facets per move per teacher.

This may have been true in T3, but it doesn't look to be true for T4. I'm yet to see a 3rd per, Ay hadn't seen it when I asked, and I just had a perfect student hit 980, come back for lessons, and follow all moves. It's possible that the 3rd will hash to the same facet as the 2nd, but for that to happen so consistently that the leading 2 acrobats are yet to see it happen means that it may as well be a freak occurance. -- tlanthil

Details

T3 speculation on how the hash works

Teaching and learning facets

When a teacher performs a move before a student, the chance that the student will learn a facet is determined as follows (checked in order):

1. There is a 50% chance that the student will not follow the move on any given attempt, regardless of other factors.
2. There is a fixed chance that this teacher can teach this move to this student, based on how good the teacher is for this student. This chance does not vary with repeated attempts at teaching--either the teacher can teach this move, or he cannot. The chances are:
   1. Perfect master - 100% - (see comments below if this seems weird to you)
   2. Great teacher - 50% (1 in 2 chance)
   3. Pretty good teacher - 25% (1 in 4 chance)
   4. Last resort - 6.25% (1 in 16 chance)
   5. Blur - 1.5625% (1 in 64 chance) There is some debate whether the percentages for complete blur and last resort are switched, but the above percentages are what Teppy said they were.
3. If the above checks succeed, the student will learn a facet if one he doesn't already know is available to be taught by this teacher. The facets available are based on the combination of student, teacher, and move- and will not change with successive attempts at teaching. For each facet per move a given student can potentially learn (see above) one of the seven facets of the move has been chosen randomly (with replacement- the same facet may have been chosen more than once, if applicable.)
   1. If one or more of the chosen facets are not already known to the student, the student learns one.
   2. If the student already knows all the chosen facets, he cannot learn any additional facets from this teacher, teacher and student receive a message "follows the move". This message means that it's impossible to learn more of this move from this master, unless after seeing this message the student teaches a 14th or 980th facet and gains the ability to learn an additional facet per teacher.

Notes

• The message "Although you don't pick up anything new, you do follow the move: ABC" means that this teacher has already taught you move ABC as many times as you can currently learn from that person.
• Acronyms such as "AI" for "Asian Influence" are almost always used for acro moves - see the table below for the standard names.
• It's a good idea to put what moves you have and how many facets you've taught in your info text (click Self->Utility->Edit my info text). This enables people to see what moves you have to teach and to avoid attempting to teach you ones you already know.

Common Acronyms

NOTE: What we believe is the current list of moves. This would mean that Bicycle Kick (BK) and Greek Bridge (GB) were replaced for this Tale.

Move	Acronym
Asian Influence	AI
Broad Jump	BJ
Cartwheels	CW
Cat Stretch	CS
Clapping Push-ups	CPU
Crunches	CR
Front Tuck	FT
Handplant	HP
Handstand	HS
Inverted Push-ups	IP
Jump Split	JS
Jumping Jacks	JJ
Kick-Up	KU
Leg Stretch	LS
Lunge	LU
Pinwheel	PW
Push-Ups	PU
Rear Squat	RS
Roundoff	RO
Run In Place	RIP
Side Bends	SB
Somersault	SS
Spin Flip	SF
Squat Thrust	ST
Squats	SQ
Toe Touches	TT
Wide Squat	WS
Windmill	WM

Acrolines

A simple guide to Test_of_the_Acrobat/Acroline.