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Guilds/Flavored Bacon Conspiracy

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Purpose

The Flavored Bacon Conspiracy is dedicated to finding Favored Beacon Activities (FBAs) for the purposes of passing the Test of Beacons. As such, membership is generally open to players who have signed up for the Test of Beacons.

The Favored Beacon activity changes roughly once an Egyptian week, but not at the same time as other "weekly" activities, such as thistle requests and ant leaves. The actual time alternates between two settings: 7 Egyptian days (2 days 14hours 40 minutes (or so) 'realtime') and 8 Egyptian days (2 days 22 hours 45 minutes (or so) 'realtime'). This allows us to predict when we can expect FBAs to change and focus efforts on longer 'weeks'.

Favored Beacon Activities

Because Guild chat scrolls as quickly as it does, to minimize redundant testing of possible FBA's, what follows is a checklist of things to try, organized by type. Please note this is not all-inclusive and please feel free to try whatever isn't on the list. Likewise, activities will likely be listed that will never generate a beacon, but since we have so little data to actually go on, it is impossible to eliminate specific entries. When adding activities, please also ensure that the blank template is updated as well, so next week we can test the activity again!

On Testing

You can test anywhere, but if you have access to an unconfirmed number of non-public buildings in the general vicinity (thought to be 30% or more in a 64-coord radius, based on previous Tale data. This may be wild speculation.), you will not attract a beacon, but you should get a message in main with something to the affect of A beacon altar was almost attracted to you, because you did the favored activity in the last hour. However, you own too many of the buildings in this area. You are at home.

Potential FBAs

LAST WEEK'S ACTIVITY: USING THE CHARCOAL HEARTH

Tested for week ending 09/28/09 08:00GMT
Agriculture, Flowers Tested
Crossbred x
Fertilized x
Planted
Removed
Agriculture, Grew Tested
Barley x
Cabbage
Carrots
Cucumbers
Eggplants
Flax x
Garlic x
Herbs
Leeks
Onions
Wheat
Agriculture, Other Tested
Beehive, checked x
Beehive, collected honey/wax x
Citrus tree, Mulched x
Citrus tree, Gathered honey x
Citrus tree, Gathered fruit x
Fertilized a date tree x
Harvest Grass from Greenhouse x
Nicked a tree x
Gathered Tested
Cactus Sap x
Chicken
Clay x
Coconuts x
Dates x
Dirt x
Egg
Flint
Grass x
Limestone x
Moss x
Mud x
Mushrooms x
Palm Frond x
Papyrus x
Red Sand
Resin x
Sand x
Sheep, wild x
Silt x
Soda x
Sulfurous Water
Tadpoles
Thorns x
Water x
White Sand
Wood x
Livestock, fed Tested
Beetles x
Camels, straw x
Camels, honey x
Chickens x
Rabbits x
Sheep x
Snakes x
Livestock, killed Tested
Beetles x
Chickens
Camels x
Sheep in a pen x
Sheep, Wild (successfully) x
Sheep, Wild (failed) x
Snakes x
Rabbits
Skill-based Tested
Carved x
Dowsed x
Examined a Plant x
Fished x
Foraged an herb (successfully) x
Foraged an herb (failed) x
Lit a firepit x
Made a stone blade x
Mechanics x
Mined x
Mounted a fish
Prospected for marble x
Stoked firepit x
Allowed firepit to smoulder out x
Skill-based, Ecology Tested
Acidity, tested for x
Heavy metals, tested for x
Phosphorus, tested for
Soot, tested for
Structures, Used: General Tested
Acid Bath
Anvil x
Beer Kettle
Brick rack x
Carpentry shop x
Casting Box x
Charcoal Hearth/Oven x
Chest x
Color Lab (made paint) x
Forge x
Glazier's Bench x
Kettle x
Kiln x
Mason's Bench x
Pigment Laboratory x
Pottery Wheel x
Quarry x
Raeli Oven x
Reactory x
Rock Saw x
Star Rack
Tub x
Watermine x
Wood Plane x
Structures, Kitchen Activities Tested
Ate a meal x
Ate a MP x
Cooked a meal x
Cracked a coconut x
Crushed a cabbage x
Crushed seeds into oil x
Made fertilizer
Shredded a carrot x
Structures, Miscellaneous Tested
Drank from an Aqueduct x
Maintained a structure x
Salvaged a structure x
Judged a(n)... Tested
Artwork x
Beetle Garden
Empty Hand Puzzle x
Mosaic x
Pathmaker
Raeli Gliderport (heh)
Venery x
Test-Related Tested
Acro, taught facet x
Mushroom, eaten from the earth
Shrine, tithed at
Travel Tested
Chariot, Free travel x
Chariot, Regular x
Expedition Travel x
Navigated to a waypoint x
Spousewarped x
Wings of Horus
Vintner's Craft Tested
Tended grapes x
Crushed grapes x
Bottled wine x
Drank wine x
Siphoned Barrel x
Tore off Dead Vine x
Miscellaneous Other Tested
Belly danced x
poked another player with a sharpened stick X
ate an herb off the ground x
lit a firework
lit a ritual torch
registered as a watcher at a star lab x
smoked a hookah x
bought Kartal and Sefet some tacos

Blank Template for next week

Historical Tracking

Previous Weeks' FBA