(all views described are master's views)

Room View: the smoky image of a dainty heart
You see: You release a puff of smoke that morphs into the form of a heart outline. With a quick exhalation, you shoot a thin smoke arrow that lodges itself into the center.

They see: Glaerith releases a puff of smoke that morphs into the outline of a dainty heart. With a quick exhalation, she expels a thin smoke arrow that lodges itself into the center.

At person: Glaerith releases a puff of smoke that morphs into the outline of a dainty heart. With a quick exhalation and a wink in your direction, she expels a thin smoke arrow that lodges itself into the center.

Room View: the image of a smoky taffelberry-laden bush

You see: You release a round puff of smoke from your mouth in the shape of a flowering taffelberry bush. The blooms open and drop off, leaving plump berries ripening on the smoky branches.

They see: Glaerith releases a round puff of smoke from her mouth in the shape of a flowering taffelberry bush. The blooms open and drop off, leaving plump berries ripening on the smoky branches.

At person: Glaerith releases a round puff of smoke from her mouth in the shape of a flowering taffelberry bush. The blooms open up and drop off, leaving plump berries ripening on the smoky branches. They dangle enticingly in front of you.

(Maybe other people see them drool!)

Room View: a fat smoky bullfrog

You see: A large puff of smoke rolls out of your mouth to form a fat bullfrog. Its mouth opens in a silent croak as its tongue flicks out to catch an invisible bug.

They see: A large puff of smoke rolls out of Glaerith's mouth to form a fat bullfrog. Its mouth opens in a silent croak as its tongue flicks out to catch an invisible bug.

At person: Glaerith puffs out a ball of smoke that forms a fat bullfrog. Its mouth opens in a silent croak as its tongue flicks out to snatch an invisible bug off of your nose.

Room View: a smoky miniature of the town of Arthe Dale

You see: You exhale a complicated form of smoke that resembles the Halfling town of Arthe Dale. Diminutive residents of all races pass through the main gates, columns of smoke rising from the chimneys of the knolls.

They see: Glaerith exhales a complicated form of smoke that resembles the Halfling town of Arthe Dale. You can almost make out the diminutive forms of travelers passing through the gates as columns of smoke rise from the chimneys of the knolls.

No at person.

~Tartsnatcher Glaerith

<<so, how much more practicing does it take to go from master to master* ? or is there a different requirement to be able to teach an image? --Edieata >>

I didn't time or count any of mine, but it didn't seem like it took any longer to get to master* than it did any of the other levels. You do need the asterisk to teach though.

--aka Mykk

<<you don't get prior knowledge of smoke images unless you choose a guild>>

that is untrue.

you just need to be an olvi. I have a commoner olvi that was Master of deer image as soon as she was rolled up. :-) The others you have to work on though. Same as a guilded olvi <my olvi bard started out with the same level of competence in smoking as that character when Olvi first got the "smoking" thing>




~stabbity,whiff,thud~

Hello all -

It has been brought to my attention that the Olvi who knew the phoenix image is no longer around.

Would hate to see that image lost forever, therefore I'm pleased to announce that Artisan Bungles will be around Sunday afternoon at some point to teach his fellow Olvi this lost image. (He'll probably have lots of tarts to serve as well.)

Please give me an idea if you will be able to make it. If Sunday is a bad time for some of you, then perhaps Bungles can be persuaded to stop again during the week. Spread the word to your fellow Olvi who perhaps don't read the postings here.

As usual, he can be found close to his hummock located at Berry Knolls, Blueberry Lane.


Cheers -
Morzy

Oh right, I forgot... I'll definitely be there in one form or another. Do we have any idea when on Sunday afternoon?

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Primary Magic: 5 31.91% clear

You say, "Sweet! Spell slots here I come!"

What great news Morzy. Ive long been starving to learn another smoke image. Im glad that this 'lost' image was taught to Artisan Bungles before the original puffer walked to road. What a sneaky guy to keep it secret all this time!

Sunday isnt good for me at all. I would love the experience of learning this image straight from the source, but if the date cant be moved, I understand. Hope someone else will track me down and teach it to me. Otherwise, Monday night would be great!

-Merry Meragin
Hedonistic Halfling

If you can't make it to hang out with Bungles, i'll gladly teach the image to whoever wants to know it once I have it down (which shouldn't take long at all).

~ Mulious

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Primary Magic: 5 31.91% clear

You say, "Sweet! Spell slots here I come!"

>>I suggest that nobody teach Fizzia the phoenix image until she shares the bracelet.

I don't really think this is the thing to be doing to Fizzia. She -won- the competition, she has the right to keep her image to herself if she wants to. The bracelet is her design and the GM's compeitition made it so that it would be exclusively hers. We should not penalize her as a population for winning a competition and enjoying the rewards of it.

Former Empath Shaunn

<<Yes, i'm talking about the bracelet. Fizzia's image. Now, call me cruel, but I don't think it's very fair that one person in the realms should know all the images available while everyone else sits around them and drools. Therefore, I posed this to the Olvi with me at this gathering and, due to their agreement, am posing it to you - I suggest that nobody teach Fizzia the phoenix image until she shares the bracelet.>>

Nice. Can't wait for Fizzia's player to read this. Since Gonif chose to continue this awful idea in the Social-General Discusssions folder too, I'll start off repeating what I said there:

"Two words: Lame. Petty.

If you (anyone) wants to own multiple accounts and/or play 20 hours a day 7 days a week so you can "win the game" by having every possible ability in the game, and it burns you to only know 21 of 22 smoke images--those all important super-secret Olvi abilities--then I say Good. Hope you lose sleep at night.

The good news is I doubt Fizzia, or her player, care half as much about the Phoenix image, as you seem to about her Bracelet image, which she won in a contest."

But in this folder, where I hope my rambling is more accepted, I'd like to add:

Some people have a pretty weird sense of what's "fair" in this GAME. You're worried about a smoke image??? I laugh at you. I've "won" this game many times over without hope of ever attaining most abilities out there.

You don't know why her player doesn't teach it. You don't know why Fizzia doesn't teach it.

People 'sitting around her and drooling'? What people??? LOL. She knows who her friends are. And they don't seem too worried about her image. If I were her (and don't worry, she's much nicer than I am), I'd have a new reason not to teach it.

Maybe the player gets a kick out of knowing that after 6 years of playing, given the fact she's a part-time player who splits what little time she has between many characters, that she's got an ability that none of you multi-account, 140 hours/week players can get. Not even Galain. Not Ruf. Not Cloudcrest. Just wee little Fizzia. I know I would.

She won an image in a contest, and people are upset about it. I have to laugh again. Not like she won a spell, a roar, or something like that.

Okay, I guess I'm vented. Anyone wants to take me on, though, I'll be happy to ramble on some more ;-)

--aka Mykk (that means Mykk's player for you newer players)

ps. Mykk would teach Phoenix to Fizzia as soon as he learned it (assuming she likes it), so apparently some of you should take that into consideration.

Wow..

I am disgusted that you would say what you did, Akshan. I don't know one single Olvi player who was around when the new smoking system was introduced that is "sitting around drooling all day" over something that she made the effort to win. Responding to each of the points you stated is pointless as it's obvious that you are just going to respond with cheap shots in an attempt to belittle, but I want to voice my opinion that I wholeheartedly disagree with what you want done. I would much rather see new smoke images introduced than to have one person's unique one taken away from her.

-Sarvatt's player, muttering something about the selfishness of people these days.

<< I don't know one single Olvi player who was around when the new smoking system was introduced that is "sitting around drooling all day" over something that she made the effort to win. >>

Perhaps you should meet a few more Olvi. I know quite a few, including a good friend of mine, who have been playing for over 5 years and feel the same way. Like I posted in response to Mykk, you're entitled to your opinions, just don't expect everyone else to agree with them. If you believe they should... well, that's a completely different level of ignorance.

I don't expect people to accept my opinions about the bracelet image and praise it on high. I just want to make it known, which would be why I did something silly like post it on the boards. Who would ever think of posting an opinion there? ::rolls eyes::

Off the topic, why do people find it so hard to spell my name right, especially on the boards? Not like it's not right there in front of you...

~ Player of Ahkshan (previously posting in this thread as Mulious anyway)

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Primary Magic: 5 31.91% clear

You say, "Sweet! Spell slots here I come!"

<< and I find your post to be nothing but mean-spirited >>

Sorry, wasn't the intent.

<< I have previously spoken to you, Ahkshan, both in game and in IM's about this, and I also gave you a few rare and one-of-a-kind pieces of tobacco that were also part of my contest winnings >>

Yes, and yes. I still believe that such knowledge is made to be shared. Yes, you won the contest, yes, you're entitled to do with the prize as you choose. However, Mykk's player made a point that people are all about "winning DR" and other such sarcasm and I wonder why you can't just take pride in having won the contest without denying the Olvi race of something which, theoretically, could be shared with all.

Ahkshan definitely had a pleasant exchange with you in game and I by no means intend to undermine that by calling you names or anything immature like that. I feel like immature personal attacks are a bit beneath anyone old enough to understand the text that scrolls up their screen when they play DR. However, I also feel like i'm entitled to my opinion which I have expressed here, namely that the bracelet image is something that should be shared. Your choice not to is still your choice, but it's definitely not what I would do in the same situation. To pick on Mykk again (nothing personal), just playing the role(s) and keeping up with my friends IG makes me special enough, I don't need a smoke image for that.

~ Player of Ahkshan, Mulious, a couple of others

P.S. Thanks for taking the time to get the name right, Fizzia.

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Primary Magic: 5 31.91% clear

You say, "Sweet! Spell slots here I come!"

Ahkshan, I've been there as you gwethed as your trader, offering to teach smoke images for coin, then logged in your self-described "halfling mule" to teach anyone who replied. I find your eagerness to learn this image rather skeptical.

We should lobby for more smoke images if we want them, not fight over the one individual image that exists.

-Razzleberrie

Look at it this way.

Fizzia won an alteration. A unique prize.

The extra-unique part of this prize is that it self-replicates to be given to others.

Now, does that mean it HAS to be self-replicated, or that it CAN be self-replicated?

Recently at the last auction, someone won a bag that constantly replicates candy after a certain amount of time passes. The person won it. The prize is constantly returning and more is being created. Does that mean this person HAS to give candy to everyone, since it's a possibility?

Need a babelfish for DragonRealms?

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Greetings, I'm having a problem that I'm not sure is even a problem, and I think this may be the best place for me to seek an answer.

I was taught, by a kind Olvi smokeweaver, several smoke images to further enhance the dignity of my tobacco enjoyment. In doing so he told me that I was unable to match Olvi mastery in the images. This did not shock me, however what does disturb me is that I'm not sure I know the limit of my skill. I have, in an intensive training session overseen by Beeanna Donee, gone through a bit over two hundred fine rolled sungrown cigars, but in it all I seem to have naught to show for it save a nice aftertaste and a somewhat hoarse voice. I am at ameteur level of skill, and though after attaining amateur level I did further improve, to the point where I no longer accidentally exhale the most crude possible incarnation of the specific image I'm training, where it did before while still at amateur level, I do not seem to be improving any further than that. So, to my question.

Do any kind Olvi, or anyone else reading for that matter, know if amateur is the upward limit of my skill? I spoke with a demigod of the realms, who seemed to think otherwise, but he also bade me ask here. Dead fish and wrecked ships are interesting, but if it is possible, I would gladly spend the time and coin (which is nearing 3 platinum lirums as we speak!) to add some finesse to my smoke imagery.

Thank you one and all for your time and patience.

s'kra & prydaen can only get to amateur.
rakash in moonskin can only get to beginner.

i think all the other races can get to 1 additional level.

Only olvi can get master and master* <to teach it>




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A scavenger troll arrives, scouring the area.

The scavenger troll exclaims, "I dinks I like da' Moongate!"

The scavenger troll bends over and picks up the Moongate. After appraising it, the troll places the Moongate in its frayed knapsack

my main character is a s'kra mur. i'm positive. :-)


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A scavenger troll arrives, scouring the area.

The scavenger troll exclaims, "I dinks I like da' Moongate!"

The scavenger troll bends over and picks up the Moongate. After appraising it, the troll places the Moongate in its frayed knapsack

Accidentally posted this in the wrong folder a bit ago...so reposting it here in the right one!

Greetings!

Asked practically everyone I saw running around and no one could tell me how to do this...soooo, I decided to come to the ones that truly know how to smoke and ask! :)

Ok...am totally new to smoking, so please bear with me. Got a pipe and some tobacco, but it keeps saying the tobacco is too long to fit in the pipe. I try to break it, and it says it's too hard to break in it's current condition. Tried everything I know to get this stuff into my pipe...in other words...

HELP PLEASE I CAN'T SMOKE! <grin>

Any help from you wonderful OLVI would be appreciated, thanks!

<<Light the tobacco then put it in the pipe after it's lit.~ Ahk>>

Ahhhh, worked! Thanks so much, Ahk! (didn't know we could pick up burning tobacco!)

Our friend in Arthe now sells tobacco that will fit in your pipes. Please post if there are any further problems.

I know I haven't been posting on the boards of late, but I've been really busy. But I still have been reading them!

Morzy