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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'.

Once the FBA has been conclusively determined, announcement on public channels will be made.

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.

If you have summoned a beacon in the previous week or participated in a beacon ritual in the previous day, please do NOT test! You will not be able to summon a beacon, nor will you receive a message if you do perform the FBA for the new week.

Beacons can appear up to one REAL hour after the activity is performed, so keep this in mind when testing.

Potential FBAs

This Week's Activity: Fertilize a lily


Tested for week ending 10/09/09 appx 14:09 GMT
Agriculture, Flowers Tested
Crossbred
Fertilized 437pm
Planted
Removed
Agriculture, Grew Tested
Barley 539pm
Cabbage 510pm
Carrots 516pm
Cucumbers 518pm
Eggplants
Flax 543pm
Garlic 500pm
Herbs
Leeks 503pm
Onions 504pm
Wheat
Agriculture, Other Tested
Beehive, checked 545pm
Beehive, collected honey/wax 545pm
Citrus tree, Mulched
Citrus tree, Gathered honey
Citrus tree, Gathered fruit
Fertilized a date tree 547pm
Nicked a tree 548pm
Gathered Tested
Cactus Sap 549pm
Chicken
Clay 553pm
Coconuts 555pm
Dates 547pm
Egg
Flint 553pm
Limestone 602pm
Moss 607pm
Mud 616pm
Mushrooms
Palm Frond 701pm
Papyrus
Red Sand
Resin 548pm
Sand 617pm
Sheep, wild
Silt 619pm
Soda 602pm
Sulfurous Water
Tadpoles 459pm
Thorns 613pm
Water 459pm
White Sand
Wood 548pm
Livestock, fed Tested
Beetles 520pm
Camels, straw 621pm
Camels, honey
Chickens 633pm
Rabbits 520pm
Sheep 520pm
Snakes 557pm
Livestock, killed Tested
Beetles
Chickens
Camels
Sheep in a pen
Sheep, Wild (successfully)
Sheep, Wild (failed)
Snakes
Rabbits
Skill-based Tested
Carved 635pm
Dowsed
Fished
Foraged an herb (successfully) 641pm
Foraged an herb (failed) 638pm
Lit a firepit 645pm
Made a stone blade 647pm
Mechanics
Mined
Mounted a fish
Prospected for marble
Skill-based, Ecology Tested
Acidity, tested for
Heavy metals, tested for
Phosphorous, tested for
Soot, tested for
Structures, Used: General Tested
Acid Bath
Alembic
Anvil
Beer Kettle
Brick rack 650pm
Carpentry shop 653pm
Casting Box 728pm
Charcoal Hearth/Oven 719pm
Chest 523pm
Forge 738pm
Glazier's Bench 820pm
Grain Oven 822pm
Kettle 826pm
Kiln 834pm
Malting Tray 823pm
Mason's Bench
Pigment Laboratory
Pottery Wheel 829pm
Quarry
Raeli Oven
Reactory
Rock Saw
Star Rack
Tub 551pm
Watermine 811pm
Wood Plane
Structures, Kitchen Activities Tested
Ate a meal
Cooked a meal
Cracked a coconut
Crushed a cabbage
Crushed seeds into oil
Made fertilizer
Shredded a carrot
Structures, Miscellaneous Tested
Drank from an Aqueduct 606pm
Maintained a structure
Salvaged a structure
Judged a(n)... Tested
Artwork
Beetle Garden
Empty Hand Puzzle
Mosaic
Pathmaker
Raeli Gliderport (heh)
Venery
Test-Related Tested
Acro, taught facet
Mushroom, eaten from the earth
Shrine, tithed at
Travel Tested
Chariot, Free travel
Chariot, Regular
Expedition Travel
Navigated to a waypoint
Spousewarped 603pm
Wings of Horus
Vintner's Craft Tested
Tended grapes
Crushed grapes
Bottled wine
Drank wine
Miscellaneous Other Tested
belly danced
poked another player with a sharpened stick
ate an herb off the ground
lit a firework
lit a ritual torch
registered as a watcher at a star lab
polished a stone phoenix
meditated at a common altar
smoked a hookah
bought Kartal and Sefet some tacos

Blank Template for next week

Historical Tracking

Previous Weeks' FBA