User:Stelio
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When my then-girlfriend-now-wife moved in with me back in 2008, I stopped playing Cities. Now that we have children too, my time is even more limited. But every so often I do stop by to have a look. And I've been trying to keep myself on Holiday Island so that if the time comes I'll be ready to unleash a storm of activity. That time may be now as I've picked up some loose ends and made a good start at destroying my stockpile of AP.
A happy but inactive member of the Order of the Club (which itself has fallen into disrepair; like many other guilds, the guild hall has collapsed entirely).
If you'd like infinite Kipple, a Golem for the Military Service quest, or a Toy Unicorn for your personal pleasure, do ask me. I provide them free of charge. :-) I also have a complete book bag if you would like to borrow it.
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Highlights
- Glorious victory — Best cities pick-up line
- Much to my pleasure, I won gruther4's competition! Yay! Particular thanks to gruther4 for creating this opportunity and for granting me the first prize. I bow to you most graciously. :-)
- Successful Organisation — Knitting Circle
- I organised two successful knitting circles at Free Parties. The first was held at the Monsters' Ball with five participants, and the second at the Hammered Anvil Fest with six participants. Everyone ended up with a set of woollies for a fraction of the individual AP costs.
- Alternate Character — Calm Breeze
- I created a secondary character (who naturally has nothing to do with Stelio) as an interesting opportunity for roleplay, and to answer the question, "How far can a character advance without attacking anything?" Check out his journal to see how he successfully reached Knighthood without a single kill.
- Development — Mixology Shopping List
- I chucked together a spreadsheet that you can copy your inventory into and it will tell you what items you still need to complete the Mixology quest (and where to get those items from). The little bit of feedback I've had so far has been positive. :-D
Statistics
Current title: Armourer Stelio
Gender: Male (because in this game it's not always obvious)
Alignment: Water => AFAEAN => Fire
Maximum Hit Points: 869 (regenerating)
Base to-hit chance: 133%
Maximum Action Points: 701
Base AP Delay: 7 minutes.
Damage Multiplier: 2 (8 as a Knight)
Movement Modifier: -4
Starsign: Fire Dragon
Current Inventory
XML Info
Drugs taken:
| | lots | (tolerance maxed out 4 times) - perfectly caffeinated |
| Cucumber Sandwiches | 21 | (tolerance 6) |
| | 20 | (motivated x2, stimulated x3, stronger, searing pain, motivated, detox, stimulated, searing pain, detox, searing pain, really demotivated, stimulated x2, demotivated x2, stronger, demotivated) - and that's me done with Dragon Blood, with the long term effect of +1 max AP and +1 max HP; lucky! |
| | 6 | |
| | 1 | |
| | - | just say no! |
| | 66 | (tolerance 11 - maxed out) |
| | - | much more pleasant in real life |
| Spice | 2x12 | (tolerance 2) - collected 1/12 grams |
| | - | still just say no! |
| | - | that which does not kill you can certainly help kill you |
Snowballed by:
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Would you like to see your name here? You know what to do. :-)
Monsters leagues that I've topped at some point
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A respectable collection of varied beasties, especially considering that I've never gone out and tried to be the top of the Monster Bashing Leagues. It's just happened as a consequence of my actions at the time.
Pets
| Name | Species | Attack | Notes |
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| Fang | Goldfish | 1 @ 20% | |
| Ximinez | Goldfish | 1 @ 20% | |
| Smack | Horsie (black stallion) | 20 @ 60% | 1% evil; size 8 (of 12) |
| Biggles | Goldfish | 1 @ 30% | Registered with the Pet Registration Office |
| Loathing | Obsession with Golfers | 400 @ 10% | |
| Brown Jenkin | Familiar | 2 @ 20% | Eats: Bottle of Wine (35), Egg Nog (40), Bottle of Rum (80), Whisky Mac (40), Glass of Wine (15) |
| Pinky | Familiar | 2 @ 20% | Eats: Bottle of Creme de Menthe (15), Gimlet (40), Jäger Bomb (20), Bottle of Rum (80), Sazerac (40) |
| Orson | Juvenile Minrilax | 100 @ 30% | Eats: Gold Ore, Unit of Sand, Stone; size 6 (of 12) |
Also in inventory: 5 Annoyances, Brand New Electric Sheep, Uncertain Egg, many Minrilax Eggs, even more Mayfly Eggs
Current Quests
Alignment Quests
Air:
Air Initiation
/ Time and Space
/ Creature Survey
/ Standing Stones
/ Fortune Tellers
/ Totems
/ Ultimate Altar of Air
Water:
Learn to Swim
/ Water Initiation
/ Snark Hunt
/ Become a Doctor
/ Kill the Undead Dragon
/ Water Skin
/ Blue Flowers
- Cure Poison - cured 7/51 patients
Fire:
Fire Initiation
/ Befriend the Guards
/ The Duel (thanks to Merchant's enterprising service)
/ The Gauntlet
/ The Caverns & Bomb Squad
Earth:
Earth Initiation
/ Treasure Hunt
/ Rock Soc Pub Crawl (thanks to Stevie-O's Pub Crawl Trek)
/ Ultimate Altar of Earth
- School of Hard Knocks (9E 44S) - have completed 21 levels
- Aggregation
Area Quests
'Kingdom:
Herman the Hermit
/ Jock McStrapp
/ Animal Sanctuary
/ Scruffy Gerald
/ Pet License (third time lucky)
/ Paparazzi
/ Devil Went Down to Cities
/ Heinlein Books
/ Toxicology
/ Drunken Party
/ Poison Hand
Thieves' Forest:
Martial Arts Training 1
/ Martial Arts Training 2
/ Master Thief Training
Frozen North:
Thor in a Cottage
/ Ancient Castle
/ North Pole
/ Magic Egg Hunt
/ Asgard
- Ruthven's Office (Ancient Castle) - requires *W*, Au, NaCl glyphs
- Quantum Mechanic (6E 136N) - requires bridge partners
Underground:
South-West Tunnels
/ North-West Tunnels
/ North-East Tunnels
/ Royal Engineer
- South-East Tunnels - has been deactivated
- Information Points - would be easier with an Oyster
- Trainspotting (6E 7N) - registered
South Coast:
Dread Cthu1hu's Garden (thanks to Flt's Field Trip)
/ Ghost Hunters' Guild
/ Mixology
/ Slay the Gorgon
/ Pop Idol
/ Pandora's Socks
- Martial Arts Training at Ninja Island (51E 63S) - have completed NunChuks 1, Staff 1, Sai 2
- Compute-Cluster (88E 47S) - Forum Stores is currently inaccessible due to the schism
Pentium Motherboard 64 1 486 Motherboard 120MB Hard Disk Drive 0 120MB Hard Disk Drive 2 EDO SIMM modules 0 1 FPM SIMM module 0 ISA I/O adapter Pentium CPU 64 0 486 CPU PC Tower Case 64 PC Tower Case Floppy Disk Drive 64 Floppy Disk Drive PCI Graphics adapter 0 0 ISA Graphics adapter Quad-speed CD-ROM Drive 64 Quad-speed CD-ROM Drive
Oz:
Paul
/ The Goodyear Pimp
/ Brian
Frozen South:
- Deliver a Piano to Northwich (49E 549S) - requires a Grand Piano (3 mature White Elephants (!), 10 Pieces of Ebony, Tuna Fish)
- Longbrow's Cave (80E 598S)
Career Quests
Knight:
Become a Knight
/ Become a Baron
/ Become an Earl
/ Become a Duke
/ Military Service (Whale, Kangaroo)
Armourer:
Become a Smith
/ Become an Armourer
/ Blue Prince
- Become a Master Armourer (Ancient Castle) - Gas Bill: Ogoun (broken image)
Wizard:
- Become an Apprentice (10E 207S) - have got a XXXX
Other Quests
Collecting Cards
/ Jack and the Beanstalk
/ Twelve Days of Christmas
- Merchants' Guild (91E 3N) - level 1 requires 10 sales, 1 for 10+ Gold
Open Mic Rewards: Soothing Music / Rock Out / Hornpipe Song / Harvest Song
Micro-quests: Perfect Caffeination / Snake Research Program / Tim / Cattle Drive / Lycanthropy
Plan
Not in order of priority:
- Get Cucumbers (Water) to make Cucumber Sandwiches (need 6 more to make 7 sandwiches)
- Make more Pizza Slices to facilitate (59E 69N / 72E 65N) additional Martial Arts Training (51E 63S)
- Bleak Island (10E 207S) to become an Apprentice, and bag a Kangaroo trophy
Other Notes
Reminders
Water > Fire > Earth > Air > Water
| HP | Daemonic Weapon Upgrade | ||
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| 10 | Letter Opener | to | Dagger |
| 100 | Dagger | to | Knife |
| 1000 | Knife | to | Sword |
| 10,000 | Sword | to | Great Sword |
| 100,000 | Great Sword | to | Chainsaw |
Stelio uses the following Greasemonkey scripts:
Useful Links
| Game | Wiki |
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Real Life
| Stelio Passaris | |
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| Time zone: | GMT/BST (which handily is the same as game time) |
| Location: | Surrey, UK |
| Phone: | +44 7810 522 966 |
| e-mail: | cities@stelio.net |
