gamer_extreme_101
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1939
Registered: 03-07-2004
IP: Logged
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WoTD - Smitemaster's Duties (0)
"It's bad news," Hallholder Bombus Gadhan announced to the Smitemaster's Guild members. "It appears our guess is correct, and the DAA is in fact recycling old rooms for use in brand new dungeons"
It was the worst thing the group could possibly imagine. With that news, they knew that the architects had already started collecting more greckles than ever imaginable to a delver.
Beethro was the most annoyed at this news. He had never been a fan of people who practice the art of architecting, and anytime they were gaining status was bad news to him. He knew something had to be done.
"There must be something that we can do to stop this! If we let them continue this, then the amount of dungeons in the Eighth will increase ten-fold, and that's more workload than any of us can handle!"
The rest of the members cheered Beethro on.
"Yeah! We need to find a way to stop this outbreak!" they shouted.
Hallholder Bombus knew that they needed to stop them, but had no idea how. Luckily, there were much smarter people at the meeting today. A semi-regular member, Pierot Hulphart, was sitting in the back row, shaking his head at the chaos in the Hall.
"Members, members, members, you must realise that there is no authority to which we can stop the architects except for their own association"
"What exactly do you mean by that?" Bombus questioned.
"Simple. They are doing this because they expect that no one will discover that they are recycling rooms. What we need to do is find all of the dungeons that have been built within the past two weeks, go down there, and find all of the rooms that we have seen from previous dungeons. Then, we write down all of our findings, retrieve our completion records of those rooms, and present it to the DAA. Thus, they will have no choice but to stop their plans of replication"
"And thus the number of dungeons decreases, and their status is lowered! Ingenious, Pierot!" Bombus exclaimed. "Well, it looks as if our work is cut out for us, fellow Smitemasters. You have heard what we have to do, so let's get to it!"
With those words, the members departed the hall.
You are the smitemasters, and you are not only out to find what rooms all of the entries originate, but to show proof that you have cleared an original of the room at some point. Yes, it means that you will need to do a lot of delving and exploring (In an older version of DROD, nontheless), but preventing the architect's plan of domination from working and giving honour and glory to the Smitemaster's Guild must surely be important to you. Plus, the prize is most definitely worth it!
Entries will consist of two parts - Room guesses and Architects' Edition victory demos of the original rooms. Room guesses must be extremly exact, and titled following the conventional format contained in the following examples:
"Entry #1 - King Dugan's Dungeon: Seventh Level, Three North"
"Entry #8 - Deep Hold: First Level, Entrance"
Room demos must be in AE format to prove that they were around before the Architects' remade rooms. Because it is complex and long, I'm going to make correct entries and demos worth a certain amount of points. For every correct room guess, you get one (1) point. For every proper AE demo you give me, you get two (2) points. Of course, if you submit a demo, you should know where it came from, meaning that in total you get three points.
Now for the more complete list of rules:
1) All entries must be emailed to me at CrazyCanuck00 [AT] gmail.com or sent to me via PM or MSN (If need be). When I receive your entry, I will confirm it, but I will not reveal the results to you. I'm not going to give people the chance to make thousands of guesses knowing that they have only one room wrong.
2) You will, however, have a bit of information about where the leader is at. I will be making a seperate topic titled "Smitemaster's Hall" where I will make posts saying "The leader currently has x points. You can use that information to your advantage, but please note that I will not be updating that post the second I receive an email, so be warned!
3) Only your most recent entry will be considered valid. If you submit a second entry after the first one, then your first one becomes void, and so on and so forth. This means that the leader's total can actually drop as well as rise.
4) If you had submitted any demos in a previous guess, you must always state whether you want the demo to carry on or to be removed from your guess. If you do not tell me, it gets removed. Or, just feel free to continually attach it to your email. With all of Gmail's space, I won't be having a problem.
5) Architects are not allowed to enter this part of the contest. You have chosen your side, and treason is an organizational felony. If I catch an architect submitting an entry to this part of the contest, both entries will be considered void.
6) Please don't use Stefan's converter. The point is to play rooms in the original version of AE.
7) If you want, feel free to contact people who may have a player file of the hold you are looking for. Watch out for asking any architect, as they will be required not to give you one or to give you a wrong one.
Now comes the release of the prizes for both Architects and Smitemasters! I'm hoping it met the expectations I was building up for you. It is an increased amount, and I thank Erik for allowing these:
-The architect to get the third highest rating for his/her makeover will get 25 rank points and two topic postings absolutly free! The delver who places third in his competition also gets 25 rank points and two free topics.
-The second place delver and architect will get 50 rank points each, and will get mentioned in my new article for DROD.net, which I have been procrastinating in for awhile now.
-The first place delver and architect will be guaranteed to have 75 points each, but will go for a deathmatch to get the Prize Pile item and the extra 25 rank points. More details will come at the end of polling.
-Any architect whose room is not guessed correctly by any of the delvers will get a bonus of 15 rank points. Excellent!
-And, to be fair, any delver who guesses every single room correctly on their first try (regardless of demos) will get a bonus of 15 rank points as well, whether they scored first place or not. Let the love flow!
-Any first-timer gets 10 points right out of the gate for either side.
But enough chit-chat! Time's a ticking away, and there's a lot on the line to win!
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--That guy with a million different aliases since he doesn't like this name anymore.
[Last edited by mrimer at 07-16-2005 06:18 PM]
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Not only from partially remembering where some were, but also so that I could scroll through the rooms offline through JTRH..
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