The month of July sees the return of the cryptic chests, and we've shuffled things up yet again! The old set artifacts have been shuffled out, and replaced by new items listed below in this post.

As always, you can purchase the cryptic chests by clicking 'Artifact Packages' on our website at: www.aetolia.com/credits

You can refer to HELP CRYPTIC CHESTS for full range of possible rewards you can get in the chest.

GENERAL RELICS:
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You will find pieces to assemble these in cryptic chests. These are not permanent: They will either eventually decay, or be destroyed upon use.

1) an Albedi sunspear

Throwing the sunspear into the sky will cause it to break apart into shafts of light that penetrate each eld in the room, instantly killing them. The sunspear is destroyed on use.

2) an offshore translocator

When you USE TRANSLOCATOR, this will take you to a special room that has exits leading to each of the three main islands: Asper, Ulangi and Polyargos.

3) a sanguine choker

When worn, you will gain 2% of your health back when hitting a NPC. 2 second cooldown between procs.

4) a keeneye monocle

Increased chance of critical hits. Stacks with all other crit increasers.

5) a dreamscape mirror

Creates a dream version of an 20 room area radius around you, including mobs, you GAZE MIRROR. Essentially, your own private bashable instance. Destroyed upon use.
Note: Things like mob reactions, and special exits will not work in the dream instance.


RACIAL PART RELICS:
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These are PERMANENT. And will be BOUND TO YOU when you assemble them. Assemble with care!

We're pretty freeform with your endgame race appearance in Aetolia. Many of you will add features to your descriptions such as horns, claws, tails, tentacles and so on. With these relics, you will be able to give mechanical expression to these features. If you manage to obtain one of these, it's up to you to ensure they're expressed in your description. The assembled item disappears when assembled!

You will notice that some of them perform the same purpose, e.g. tail and tentacle. These are separate relics with separate pieces. They give identical mechanical purpose, but will have slightly different text in their usage.

Racial parts are as follows:

Prehensile Tail (a caudal segment)
Tentacle (a tentacle segment)
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Confers the YANK ability.
Can use TAILGRAB in place of GET.

Quills (a loose quill)
Spikes (a loose spike)
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Whenever someone attacks, you have a chance to deal minor (~30hp) damage back to them.

Acid Breath (a gastric gland)
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Does poison damage to the target and gives disfigurement affliction. BREATHE ACID AT <target>

Scorpion tail (a metasomal segment)
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Venom strike. Envenom it and jab someone. Basically a weapon slash. TAILSTRIKE <target> <venom>. You must have a vial of the venom on hand.

Retractable claws (a loose claw)
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Allows you to RETRACT or EXTEND claws. Basically an emote.
Can RAKE <target> with extended claws for minor bleeding attack.

Tapetum Lucidum (a cat's eye)
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Lets you use NIGHTSIGHT.
At night time, you can use the EYEGLOW emote.

Nictating Membrane (a reptile's eye)
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Allows usage of the THIRDBLINK emote.
- Grants a one-time defence against the blurry vision affliction. (cooldown)

Aquatic lamellae (a fish's head)
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Lets you breathe underwater without needing waterbreathing defence.
Can use the GILLFLAP emote.

Raptor claws (a bird's claws)
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Allows you to use the SWOOP command on grounded players while flying.
Allows the TALONFLEX emote.

A membranous muscle (a membranous fiber)
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You can AIRDASH to dash while flying.
You can also WINGGRAB in place of GET.

Nazetu hide (a scrap of Nazetu flesh)
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You can SECRETE a viscous slime that counts as standing firm.
You can also REEK to increase stench level.

An arachnid's caudum (a spinneret)
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You can WEBSPRAY people to web them without the tattoo.
You can also SPINWEB to put a decorative web in the room.



Penned by my hand on the 12th of Lanosian, in the year 423 MA.