Singing Pin

[Kit]

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[Haidee]

I don't think interest is really the problem here....I'd be more then willing to take them off of both of your hands.
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>l in corset
Inside an intricately beaded twilight black suede corset with hot pink lacings you see a buttery nipple, a buttery nipple, a steaming pile of gamojab poop, a speckled red crab, a chocolate chip brownie, a map of Haelrahv, a huge blonde hair ball, a severed Haidee head, and your boobs.

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[Haidee]

Hey, I don't go around stealing your +3kazillion tailoring junk! Besides, what in the world do YOU need singing for? <harrumphs>
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>l in corset
Inside an intricately beaded twilight black suede corset with hot pink lacings you see a buttery nipple, a buttery nipple, a steaming pile of gamojab poop, a speckled red crab, a chocolate chip brownie, a map of Haelrahv, a huge blonde hair ball, a severed Haidee head, and your boobs.

[zamde]

Boo and hiss all you want, but I'm of the opinion that there are just plain too many bonus items floating around in the game.

Reason A: Hunting for treasure is obsolete simply because there's no sense trying to find a jobber box item with a half-useful bonus when you only need to wait a week and a half or so for whichever GM/Alterer to make you something with the cheap custom-chosen bonuses you want.

Reason B: Lucky trait? See A.

Reason C: [COMM][0](X Player) - Anyone need an extra law ring? I've already got four hundred fifty-seven to match my supply of spellcaster rings and tikzor rattles.

Reason D: Dancing : 200 (315)
That's unbuffed; I can stack another +25 on that if I really put my back into it. I'm uninterested in the dancing pants based solely on the fact that I already feel like my skills are obscenely unbalanced.

Reason E: My old armor with +3 evasion and a "minor quality enhancement" : $375,000 - when 375k was actually a lot of money. The comparable cost at the current "going rate" : Approx $120,000 - when possessing $1million is a ho-hum affair.


The only positive aspect of this I see is that a +5 will devalue dramatically with the upcoming skill cap where it only equates to a single level's worth of bonus.
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An eye for an eye; but my eye's worth more.

Dixie Pierce says, "I heard Zamde can't have kids cause she lactates poison."

[Telepathy] Yaru Dex projects: I thought Zamde doesn't have kids because her womb is full of aisobs.

You can't spell "slaughter" without 'laughter'.

Llanfair Anti-Cyber Brigade Member #0000

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[HR-Mickey]

If this puts it in perspective, I was hesitant to put out the instruments for sale at the 2003 festival (+1 charisma, +2 performance skill) because I was afraid they were overpowered.

</nostalgia>
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Mickey Brunner

To make a long story short, don't tell it.

I may be going nowhere, but I'm going nowhere fast.
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Kelvin Watt says, "I stopped drinking coke when no longer drinking beer didn't make my gut disappear."
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Kaelin Rae says, "Wait a minute..."
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Kaelin Rae nods to you.
Kaelin Rae says, "Greaser."
Kaelin Rae looks at you and sighs.

[Kit]

[Kit]

[Kit]

[SolitaryTurnip]

[HR-Mickey]

That's understandable, and I didn't intend it to sound like "Tough luck for you if you don't have those crazy bonuses". The point I was more trying to make, though, is that the existence of bonuses (and the extent they appear to) is precedented (and thus ultimately expected by the population) by the volume, quantity, and frequency in which they appear; so at one of the spectrum, you have an annual appearance by Papo (or a minor bonus instrument for sale) with a +1 here or there, and people say, "Holy crap, BONUSES!". At the other end (closer to how I see the situation now), bonus items are suit and standard, and people expect them at alarming frequency and in high value (or to 'catch up' to those with more than them) - "Holy crap, WHERE ARE all the BONUSES?!?"

I'm also a big fan of the balanced-item trick; that is, a drawback or disadvantage to the item that's concordantly oppositional to the advantage it gives. Like the Gemrem books.

As far as the item in this thread goes, I think the price is subjective to the buyer; a +20 to singing is a massive boon to a Performer, but there's not a lot many other people can do with it (none of those performance bonus items are from me, by the way; to date, I've yet to introduce any rare or ultra-rares). It reminds me of the story "The Pearl", a bit. The protagonist finds a pearl so perfect and so large that he can't find anyone willing to buy it, essentially making the pearl worthless. </literary philosophy>

And a quick sidebar...

[maddie]