FuntasyMic

Welcome to Funtasy's little bit of the wiki. It aims to put the FUN back into Egypt through hosting Player Run Events and allowing the opportunity to role-play! Here we hope to post a forthcoming list of events, interviews, discussions and competitions.

What is Funtasy?

Funtasy is one of ATITD's 'microphones' or chat channels which broadcast to the whole of Egypt. As with all the microphones it is a moderated channel and abuse is not welcome. To join type /join Funtasy

Our aims are to make the dullness of grinding evaporate, to make you smile and more importantly to involve everyone who plays. Getting tired of your friends leaving then tune in and get involved to help banish those sad feelings. angry at the way the telling is going and that no-one is getting involved and helping out? Then do not moan, come and join us for some merriment.

Remember... We cannot have fun without you. !

Our founder was Elfus (who sadly has since left the game) who wanted a channel where people could have their own events (as distinct from dev events and story) that brought some FUN into Egypt. Funtasy has tried in the past to host its own storyline and introduce characters who are separate from the Official eGenesis story line. We also brought you The Male Oprah Show with cory0210.

Occasionally we like to have RANDOM discussions and chats on various subjects. These are just to get people TALKING to one another. Recent RANDOM chats include: 'What is your favourite guitar solo' and 'favourite Beetles track'.

Events and Event Coverage

Saturday April 24th 2010 @ 16:00GMT

Iron Chef

Queen's Retreat

Cooks of ALL levels wanted to take part. Materials will be provided and the event will take place in a specially constructed kitchen stadium. Great Prizes.

Chat murtha ingame for details and if you wish to take part.

murtha has agreed to be interviewed about the event on Saturday 17th April 2010 @ 20:00GMT.

The event itself will be commentated by Khaemwaset and hosted on FUNTASY.

Iron Chef will be a cooking contest suitable for all skill levels. Competition will be by elimination. Rounds will be by pairs given the same basket of ingredients and asked to cook to certain positive stats. Only required stats will count. The highest score wins that round. In case of a tie, the highest duration wins Meals must be positive in duration. The competition will go on until one cook is left standing. The winner will receive a huntsman pole. All Competitors will receive 3 wings of horus.

Stay tuned for further details.

There has been an interview conducted with Murtha and the transcript is as follows, for those that missed it:-

Khaemwaset: Okay welcome to Funtasy. Your cuddly RP channel dedicated to putting the FUN back into egypt

Khaemwaset: Cooking in Tale 4 has been an interesting experience. And with the tale appearing to suffer fro ma midtelling malaise a number of peeps are trying to recreate Egypt's active vibe.

Khaemwaset: So, next weekend will see a visit from an old friend.... th IRON CHEF TOURNEY

Khaemwaset: and with me here at funtasy HQ is murtha.... welcome

murtha: Thanks. and good afternoon egypt!

Khaemwaset: And for the moment i am suspending off topic posts

Khaemwaset: how are you murtha?

murtha: oh i'm just wonderful. it's spring and the gods are drunk with all the beer sacrificed

Khaemwaset: lol

Khaemwaset: Okay, so Iron Chef... what is it?

murtha: Iron Chef is a cooking contest. cooks are given given baskets of ingredients and asked to cook simple dishes to certain positive stats. no one will know what they have until they open their baskets

Khaemwaset: So no sneak previews then *grin*

murtha: what would be the fun in that ?

Khaemwaset: true. Okay so can anyone join in?

murtha: well for simplicity sake and the prize engine we have to limit cometitors to 8. but..if egypt likes this i'll do another before tale's end

Khaemwaset: excellent... but will any level cook be welcome? Some folks (inlcuding myself) only have lvl 2)

murtha: yes of course. The requirements will be simple

murtha: such as postive end and minimum neg dex

murtha: of course the dishes will have to have a postive duration

murtha: so very simple receipes will do the trick

murtha: though i've included enough in each basket so that dupilcate receipes should not happen

Khaemwaset: So even i with my limited cookign skills should be able to have a chance of winning?

murtha: thats a resounding yes!!

Khaemwaset: so when will this event be held?

murtha: Saturday, April 24 as {time:0900-1900}

murtha: kitchen stadium is located in QR 634 -6217

murtha: just south of CS

murtha: hoping to cut down on lag that way

Khaemwaset: Okay so you have 8 cooks right?

Khaemwaset: What about the rest of us? Can we come and taste?

murtha: i'm finalizing the list now. one or two haven't committed but i have reserves. and audience is welcome to eat the dishes between rounds

Khaemwaset: And each contestant has the same goodies to cook with?

murtha: i'm hoping we can make this a regular feature

murtha: yes

murtha: the way it will work is..

murtha: i'll draw names to pair off cooks

murtha: each pair will have identical ingredients . they will be given 10 mins to cook their dish

Khaemwaset: A bit like MAsterchef then :D

murtha: the negative stats will be subtracted from the postive (only the requred ones)

murtha: the highest score wins that round

murtha: the winners will be paired and so on until one cook is left standing

Khaemwaset: I should point out at this point that I will be commentating whilst one of my fellow Funtasy mods will be moderating :)

murtha: yes and thanks to Funtasy all of egypt can participate!

Khaemwaset: Okay that covers the basics... before I open up the board for questions How many ingrediants in each basket? And does this inlcude herbs?

murtha: each basket will have standard bases and herb. i've put 20 items in each basket

murtha: there are some ringers though so be careful:)

Khaemwaset: hehe sounds fun...

Khaemwaset: Ok I think that covers the basics.. so if anyone has any questions pelase pm me. We will take short break for random chat and then resume

Khaemwaset: Alternatively post questions to Funtasy and we can mod them :)

Khaemwaset: ***INTERMISSION***

Khaemwaset: *****HELLO EGYPT***

Khaemwaset: As nobody has posted questions i thought i would chat to murtha about her time in egypt....

Khaemwaset: How long have you played?

murtha: hmm i've been here since near the beginning of tale 2. a couple of friends from another game brought me over and I fell in love with the concept and the people here

Khaemwaset: And why cooking?

murtha: well, i only cook by published receipe. But, Egypt is suffering from a bit of apathy and I remembered how much fun Iron Chef was in tale 2 . Plus i have warehouses of herbs so..it just came together

Khaemwaset: something proactive and getting people doing stuff ?

murtha: I like to create fun, as those who have seen my playground for sheep know.

murtha: and it might be a good way to wake up egypt:)

murtha: plus..the events team is awesome, but some of their events require you to play for hours to accomplish anything. This is an hour or two, if that makes any kind of sense

Khaemwaset: Ok a few questions from an audience member... Firstly how many herbs or arent you going to tell?

murtha: how many herbs? it varies depending on the stats requred. some requirements need more

Khaemwaset: The ringer--- will it give positive or negative attributes? Or is that to be determines by contestant?

murtha: i've chosen ingreds from Orrin's charts and some are there that give no help or hurt to the dish and some are there that will give a more neg effect

murtha: there is only one or two per basket, but i did want to shake things up

Khaemwaset: So the contestant has to eitehr think or experiment?

murtha: aye. of the common bases there are only 6 debens of each though

murtha: and 1 of each herb

Khaemwaset: And your volunteers... are they recurring players or new to to Egypt?

murtha: both

Khaemwaset: Excellent.

murtha: that should make it more interesting

Khaemwaset: Definately!

murtha: i will publish the contestents as soon as I firm up

Khaemwaset: Hopefully a few gastro points?

murtha: i'm thinking of awarding extra points if someone comes up with a MP

Khaemwaset: Okay what about prizes?

murtha: that is random enough though, i'm not sure how that would work

murtha: okay prizes. and special thanks to orrin for them

murtha: the Iron Chef Winner will receive a huntsman pole

Alexa: will this be all cooking level 1 recipes or will it vary?

murtha: the 8 contests will receive 3 wings of horus each

Khaemwaset: Nice!

Khaemwaset: And are folks who are audience encouraged to come along and acro, hookah, wine/beer taste?

murtha: i'm sure something could be done. it's a good idea

murtha: i have thousands of herbs that could be put to good use

Khaemwaset: Okay as with many Player Run events we need YOU, yes that is right YOU to come along and take part!

murtha: and alexa, the cooking level receipes matter in how many bases you use

murtha: usually the simplier the better

murtha: in tale 2 we had a level 2 cook walk off with the grand prize

Khaemwaset: And if other folks like the idea of taking part.. you will try and arrange another before end of telling

murtha: yes, if there is interest

Khaemwaset: Okay folks... that about wraps things up here.

murtha: all it will take for future events is cooks and ingreds

murtha: and of course wheedling more prizes

Khaemwaset: Just to remind you that you can see (hopefully up-to-date) event information on the Funtasy wiki page

Khaemwaset: http://www.atitd.org/wiki/tale4/FuntasyMic

Khaemwaset: we hope to see you next Saturday for the IRON CHEF TOURNEY

murtha: Thanks Kha and I hope to see all of egypt next week:)

Khaemwaset: Please note that I will be commentating and that a fellow mod will be modding

Khaemwaset: Thankyou murtha!

Khaemwaset: Lets try and get a little bit of FUN in to Egypt!

Khaemwaset: Thank You and Good Night *****

Interviews

Interviews are in the pipeline

Discussion

Coming soon

Possible topics include (and we need volunteers for this- hint hint) are masterclasses on raeli mosaics and veneries.

Competitions

Early in the telling Elfus started a number of competitions (with prizes) based on a number of subjects. Past subjects included Ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology.

We intend to start this again with Stevehotep acting as quizmaster. There should be prizes and we will post what they are going to be here. Please note that it is likely that prizes will be donated by players. We hope that it will be the spirit of taking part rather than the prize that will encourage you.

Stay tuned for announcements ingame and here.