Events/Holiday Snow Storms Dec 2016

Holiday Snow Storms Dec 2016

It's SNOWING in Egypt. Flurries flying faster than owls and pressies falling from the sky.

The guilds Snow Hunters at the OE CS and SETI in RP help find and direct the snow flake hunters.

Pressies are triggered by 14 players standing under the eye of the storm.

• At the 24 hours left to go mark, the number of players needed to trigger dropped to 7.
• At the 6 hours left to go mark, the number of players needed to trigger dropped to 3.

If you use spouse warp, please exit the snow storm completely and then re-enter after the warp 
to get the storm to properly  account for the quorum needed for pressie spawn. 

Unlike previous tales, the 2016 Tale 7 storms drop pressies directly for the players standing in a storm. So don't forget to pick up your pressie right away!

If there are more than 14 players storm hunting, one technique for helping others to get their pressies is to have a group stand outside of the storm aura. Once everyone is in place, the outer group then "jumps" into to trigger the pressie drop. All players inside the aura will get a pressie.

note: Only those players directly in the snow will be counted for achievements and holiday titles.

note: Only players actively participating in the storms will get pressies. (new for Tale 7)

Some storms will drop multiple presents. Early mega storms (multiple spawns) dropped 5 presents.

There are lots of new items in the present boxes and new titles for participation. The more storms you participate in, the better quality pressie.

Help for Snow Hunters

This page uses the Worship Logs to find reported snow and then maps it. It removes the marker when the coordinates are marked "triggered".

[ http://julianatdeltona.com/atitd/snow.aspx ]

• Worship mic posts only for TRIGGERS and INITIAL location posts (all other messages will be excluded)
  • Worship mic is location at festivals guildhall. This microphone is useable by festival guild Ranked from FELLOW.

• Other posts about storms post in ET mic or Seti guild mic (to join type /join Egypt Today or /join Seti Guild)
  • if they have a moderator online.

• Guilds for snow hunting
  • SETi in RP
  • Snow Hunters in OE

Event Acknowledgments

Tale 7 saw a complete revamp in how the Winter Holiday Snow Storms played out. It generated some unique and significant dynamics in the event and Egyptians rose to the occasion to answer the Puzzle of the Snow Fall. Many players took leadership roles during the event to assist their fellow players in gaining Presents from Pluribus. This section is to acknowledge some of them.

Please add in any names that were helpful to you during the event

• Guilds: SETi (founded Winter 2015) and Snow Hunters (founded Winter 2016)

• Sabuli who created the Snow Tracker Helper.

• Microphones: Worship, Spam Radio, SETi Guild

• Food Depots with Sinker and Snow Foods (high Dex, high Speed and long duration)

(not in any order)

• LadyKayTay
• Balthazarr's Train
• blondie
• Lazybum
• Zfree - Ruby's

We would also like to acknowledge the indefatigable snow chaser group members, who led the way, 
scouted for new storms, selflessly logged spouses to build up team numbers and spent hours 
chatting, watching the snow gently fall with patience and good grace!

• Safa
• Peacefulness
• Windsong
• TheMazeEcho

Holiday Titles

• Santa's Helper (2)
• Gift Wrapper (20)
• Tinsel Wrangler (40)
• Snow Shoveller (60)
• Snow Frolicker (80, also assigned to users at later levels)
  • spelling errata: Snow Flolicker
• Storm Chaser (98)
• Egg Nog Connoisseur (100)
• Mistletoe Bandit (120)
• Cookie Nibbler (140)
• Reindeer Herder (160)
• Elf Wrangler (180)
• Snow Whisperer (196)
• Ribbon Curler (200)
• Yule Log Burner (240)
• Wearer of Ugly Sweaters (220)
• Toy Assembler (260)
• Stocking Stuffer
• Frostbite Fixer
• The First Candle
• The Second Candle
• The Third Candle
• The Fourth Candle
• The Fifth Candle
• The Sixth Candle
• The Seventh Candle
• The Eighth Candle
• THe Shamish Candle
• Snow God

Achievements Titles

• Storm Chaser

Achievements

• 1 Snow Storms
• 7 Snow Storms
• 14 Snow Storms
• 21 Snow Storms
• 28 Snow Storms
• 35 Snow Storms
• 42 Snow Storms
• 49 Snow Storms

Winner for the Most Snow Storms

Safa with 505 storms received a Portable Cornerstone

2016 Gifts

Gifts change as you increase in levels. At the beginning, the present contents are basic materials such as wood and stone. As you progress, metals and salts are introduced. Crystals come in at around level 80/90.

General

• 100 wood
• 10 small blocks of stone
• 20 cut stone
• 40 cuttable stone
• 50 papy seeds

Animal

• 20 leather
• basket of cobras
• 5/10/15/40 ant food
• catnip (appears to teach cats new tricks)

Metals/Alloys

• 10 aluminum metal
• 10 antimony metal
• 10 copper metal
• 10 lithium
• 10 magnesium metal
• 10 platinum metal
• 10 quicksilver
• 10 silver metal
• 10 tin metal
• 10 tungsten

• 10 brass alloy
• 10 bronze alloy
• 10 metal blue alloy
• 10 moon steel alloy
• 10 octets alloy
• 10 pewter alloy
• 10 sun steel alloy
• 10 Thoth's metal alloy
• 10 water metal alloy

Pyro

• 20 saltpeter
• 10/20 potash
• 50 charcoal
• 30 ash

• 10 salts of aluminum
• 10 salts of antimony
• 10 salts of copper
• 10 salts of iron
• 10 salts of lead
• 10 salts of magnesium
• 10 salts of silver
• 10 salts of tin
• 10 salts of titanium
• 10 salts of tungsten
• 10 salts of zinc

• bundle of fireworks

• 10 fuse (explosives)
• 20 low explosives

Insects

• all kind

Flowers

• 5 Flower Fertilizer
• 5 Sticky Sun Fertilizer
• 5 Liquid Sun Fertilizer
• 5 Geb's Bounty Fertilizer
• 5 Dawn of Ra Fertilizer (Causes recently planted bulbs to bloom instantly)
• Nut's Essence

Cooking / Herbs

• 10 apple
• Herbs (60)
• Herb Seeds

Miscellaneous

• 1 coal
• 1 petroleum
• 1 loom frame
• 7/14 raw silk
• Beer Keetle Kit
• 1 pinch roller
• Marbles/Granites (60)
• Assorted Chocolates

Super Presents

• Elixir of Travel - milky (1 hour), clear (12 hours), glass (1 day), crystal (7 days), diamond (30 days)
• Fly Rods - all
• Camp Deco - Lion Statue, Flaming Altar, Trash Can Kit, Snake Statue
• Untuned Microphone
• Cornerstone
• Waypoints
• University Beer Tokens

Test Items

• Eye of God Serum
• Octets Ghost Crystals (70)

Items NOT in Presents

• sickles (Pluribus: for herbing events only)