User:Aku

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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), one has pinch rollers.
  • 1 Master Forge, unimproved
  • 8 True Kilns
  • 2 Charcoal Hearths
  • 15 Improved Brick Racks
  • 1 Basic Carpenter's Bench (no upgrades)
  • 1 Student's Casting Box
  • 1 Anvil (bring your own hammers)
  • 2 Compression Furnaces
  • 1 Water Mine

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 11

• Initiate of Leadership
  • Demi-Pharoah - i'm giving this one a miss this time around.
  • Mentoring - i've got the buildings but haven't seen many new folks, so i haven't been spending much time on Welcome Island, so i haven't seen many new folks...
• Initiate of Body
  • Acrobat - (passed Principle) have Clapping Push-ups, Toe Touches, and Wide Squat, have taught 21 so i can learn 2 segments at a time.
  • Cicadas - (passed Principle) I have about 10K points but despair of ever getting any speed. Too much running around.
• Initiate of Architecture
  • Obelisk - passed Principle
• Initiate of Harmony
• Initiate of Art & Science - built statue at my compound which only has 13 votes, and finally got impatient and built, opened, and tore down a second sculpture to pass the principle.
• Initiate of Thought
• 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...

Resin wedges, on the other hand, are weird, or at least different enough from the other two that my threashholds seem to be 1K lower.

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 blast furnace and 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 a large gear 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.

I've built both buildings and am practicing on the reactory, which is a pain in the butt.

I WANT A GYRATION FURNACE! WAHHH!

Glass Making

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

Skills I am sorta working on

• Navigation 2 - really should have done this a while ago, but the only travelling i did was looking for cicadas, and for that i only needed to get back, for which Exploration is fine.
• Cooking - i didn't get any carrot seeds in my grand University tour.
• Salvage Techniques 4 - my water mine is slowly generating cuttables.
• Making it to Level 12 - not a skill, exactly, but it's blocking Safari which i really want to try. Anyone want to do the Worship init?

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...

Water Mine Data

22 degrees, one full winding, 3 Amethysts, 2 Citrine, 1 Jade, 1 Sunstone, 1 Turquoise, 1 Small Quartz, 1 Medium Quartz, 1 Medium Ruby

My Semi-Blog

I'll put my observations here when i am moved to record them, which won't be regularly.

• Year 1, Shemu II-24

I've made a lot of progress on my gyration cell. The Moon Steel turned out to be less troublesome than i had planned for, and in fact i've got all 50 smelted. I should be able to get the cement i'll need from The Goods if i can't find it locally. The gravel will be a nuisance as i've run out of Medium Stones. Mostly what's left is mining a huge pile of copper and tin to make the sheeting and then making the sheeting. I may have to put pinch rollers in my second Student Forge to speed up the process.

• Year 1 Shemu II-28

I got my second Navigation point for 20 glass rods. I'll set it at the mining compound which i will build next to the guild one. Then i can start mining copper in earnest. I've found an existing gyration cell that i can borrow which will speed things up immensely.

• Year 1 Shemu III-10

I finished mining and smelting the copper i neeed for the sheets. Now i just have to forge them. I may have to invest in two more pinch rollers to upgrade another student forge for sheets but that means more mining.

I spent a couple of hours on Welcome Island. Hardly anyone responded to my offer of help though i did have a lively exchange with one fellow who should do fine and a rather odd exchange with another, the second person being unable to understand that i was an experienced player who was chosing to help out newcomers. ("Why r u here?") Overall it was satisfying, but i'm not pushy enough to translate any of it into Mentor points. There is a fuzzy line between helping out a newcomer and being bossy. I err firmly on the offer-only-when-asked side. I'm also "only" on for an hour or two a day at most, so i'm not an ideal candidate for a Mentor. So it goes.

Level 12 continues to elude me. I'll have to investigate Towers again, and start putting myself forward for the Worship init. Acrobatics is progressing slowly but surely and will continue that way since i don't have the fortitude to hang around for one of the massive Acro lines. I like the "acro blobs" better, and they happen periodically around the QR chariot stop, which i can see from my compound.

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.