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Revision as of 22:51, 16 July 2009

Often quest names are not tied to their reward and certain items don't have quests associated with them. This page is meant as a quick means by which to find all the ways to benefit your character. So far, any repeatable procedure has a cap and/or suffers diminishing returns.

Player Stats

Get More MaxHP

• Complete Earth Initiation: +50 MaxHP
• Visit the School of Hard Knocks: +20 MaxHP, repeatable
• Activate the Ultimate Altar of Earth: +50 MaxHP
• Eat up to 6 Gorgan-zola Sandwiches: +48 MaxHP
• Eat a Human Liver: +20 MaxHP

Get More MaxAP

• Worship at the 4 Time and Space shrines: +50 MaxAP
• Activate all 24 Standing Stones: +120 MaxAP (+5 MaxAP per stone)
• Dig up 20 Apple Pips: +160 MaxAP (+8 MaxAP per pip)
• Activate the Totems: +120 MaxAP (+5 MaxAP per totem)
• Eat Cucumber Sandwiches: +3 MaxAP, repeatable
• Activate the Ultimate Altar of Air: +100 MaxAP
• Eat a Human Liver: +20 MaxAP

Increase my Damage Multiplier

• Permanent
  • Complete The Duel: +1 damage
  • Become a Baron: +1 damage
  • Become an Earl: +1 damage
  • Become a Duke: +1 damage
  • Complete Military Service: +3 damage (+1 damage per promotion)
• Temporary
  • Cast a damage multiplier spell
  • Eat a Bacon Sandwich or a Flying Bacon Sandwich: +50%
  • Drink a Brown Cow, Champagne Cocktail, Margherita, Piña Colada, Vodka Martini, Wallbanger, or a Whiskey Mac.

Increase my To-hit

• Permanent
  • Complete Fire Initiation: +25% to-hit
  • Befriend the Guards: +5% to-hit
  • Become a member of the Bomb Squad: +30% to-hit
  • Swig up to 66 Potions of Accuracy: +33% to-hit total, (3% per increase, 11 times)
• Temporary
  • Cast an accuracy spell
  • Enjoy a Picnic: +30% to-hit

Reduce my AP Regeneration Delay

Currently the best AP regeneration rate achievable is 7 minutes per AP.

• Permanent
  • Complete Air Initiation: -5min delay
  • Worship at the 4 Time and Space shrines: -1min delay
  • Activate all 24 Standing Stones: -1min delay
  • Activate the Totems: -30sec delay
  • Activate the Ultimate Altar of Air: -30sec delay
• Temporary
  • Join a Free Party: -50% delay while you are at the party
  • Join the Flying Party: -25% delay while you are at the party

Regain HP

• Drink a Potion of Healing: Full heal
• Visit a Healer: +various HP, costs GP
• Find a player who is On Call: +various, 100 GP
• Use a Clean Bandage: +5HP or +10HP for 5AP
• Use a Dragon Stone: 5AP for first aid, 50AP for a full heal; drops from the Undead Dragon or you can buy one in Brighthelm.
• Complete the Ultimate Altar of Earth for intrinsic HP regeneration

Accumulate AP

• Drink a Caffeinated beverage: +20 AP, diminishing returns, possible crash
• Reduce your AP Delay: Quicker AP regeneration
• Out of pure desperation, eat a Triffid Sting: +50 AP, +1 poison level, +1min AP regen after 11 eaten
• Play Russian Roulette with Dragon Blood: various effects, possible permanent damage to MaxAP, MaxHP, accuracy, etc
• Be top of a bunch of Monster Kill Leagues: +10*sqrt(number of monster leagues)AP at noon
• Get a nice hat for variable AP bonus
• Take some spice: up to +1260AP if 12 taken in one go, diminishing returns

Gain more Mana

• Melt down Bling with an Eldritch Machine
• Complete the Trail of Trials: +100 Mana
• Keep a familiar or two (or more); they poop Mana, train them up and they poop more (costs you booze)
• Hunt Manatees
• Hunt Imps/Nodules/Nodes/Nexi (mages only)
• Get a nice hat (mages only)
• Sit on a Pentacle for triple mana regeneration (mages only)

Player Skills

Walk Faster

• Complete the Creature Survey: -4AP modifier
• Deliver a Piano to Northwich: -2AP modifier
• Wear a Pair of Magic Boots, Pair of Firefly Trainers, or a Pair of Kraken Trainers: -2AP modifier. (Temporary)
• Wear two Winged Boots: -5AP modifier (Temporary)
• Carry a Walking Stick: -1AP modifier, stacks with any above. (Temporary)
• Raise a pet Horsie, Pet Dragon, or other Transport of the right variety. Stacks with none of the above. (Circumstantial)
• In the frozen north, wear two skis. Stacks strangely?

Learn to Swim

• Learn to Swim

Learn to Climb

• Complete the Treasure Hunt

Learn to Mine

• Complete the Treasure Hunt

Other

Learn my Horoscope

• Dig up 20 Apple Pips

Attack Passive Monsters

• Whittle at it with a Cruel Blade (base 2 damage)
• Render them hostile with a Wand of Anger
• Render them hostile with a Pokey Stick (plus base 2 damage, requires 2 AP to strike... no, really really.)
• Wear a Ghastly Bling

See, and Usually Attack, Invisible Monsters

Nominal Cases, such as Ghosts

• Whittle at it with a Spirit Sword
• Wait for midnight to make them visible
• Wear a Diamond Bling to see the invisible
• Open a Present (Permanent)
• Wear Ghost Hunter Gear

Huge Reptiles, Imps, Nodes and Nexi

• Become a Sorcerer

Stop Seeing Invisible Monsters

• Wear a Pair of Shades

Change my Alignment

• Attack a mirror monster with an aligned wand.
• Drink any of a number of cocktails.
• Cast a Become <Element> Spell
• Be attacked by someone holding a wand...
  • During a duel
  • While attempting to steal from someone.

User Interface

See Corner Squares

• Release the Snark (Permanent)
• Wear Field Glasses (Temporary)

See Paths Farther Away

• Become a Doctor (Permanent)
• Hold a Sword of Omens (Temporary)

See Monster HP

• Hold a Magic Opal (Temporary)
• Equip an Opal Bling (Temporary)
• Open a Present (Permanent)
  • Presents were nerfed when an accident with the roll-out of the Ruthven's Office quest gave everyone an extra present in July. They may be returned to normal at Christmas
• Create a character as Water alignment (Permanent)
  • Changing your alignment with a wand or alcohol does not bestow or remove this ability
• Hold a complete Tarot Deck (Temporary)