Happy New Year! Soon we will share the EoY post, and talk about next year... but first, January Promotion!

First, a 30% price reduction on credits!

Next, an entirely new promotion, balanced similar to the Wheel of Fates, with odd twists.

The Iron Bank has long stored all sorts of random things, and when the owners of those vaults fail to pay their dues, they are repossessed! Imps have better things to do than make auctions for all this stuff, so instead, they pass the winnings on to you.

Iron Bank vault keys are available online at www.aetolia.com/credits and may be made from four pieces, should you find those pieces in other ways (Milestones, wink wink). Once you have your key, go to your city's bank (or the open market in Esterport for you tetherless) and IRONBANK ENTER. A new area awaits!

Key to the this promotion is the prize list. While it is not so varied and high value as normal, it is static instead of random. There are 100 vaults. There are 100 prizes. If the total average value of the vaults fall below 20cr, they reset. If there are less than 15 prizes left, they reset. If you are feeling froggy, use a key and MAKE them reset. Otherwise you may see what has been claimed, what hasn't, etc. Clever players could wait for ideal moments to attempt to snipe!

BONUS: At the end of the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 31st we'll gather up the people who have used keys and be giving out a 500cr prize at random!

Note: The Iron Bank is neutral territory. It is also all safe rooms. Please don't make trouble here, I had some heartache about making a central zone like this. BE NICE. It is not meant in any way to provide an advantage, so I'll explode you if you find a way to make it do so and abuse it instead of just telling me.

In front of the vault, you may use the IRONBANK commands, listed via IRONBANK HELP.

IRONBANK ENTER - Travel from city bank to the Iron Bank.
IRONBANK EXIT - Travel from the Iron Bank gates to your city bank.
IRONBANK - Look at the vaults! (visual, do not use as VI)
IRONBANK # (or click) - Look at a specific vault, to see what its status is
IRONBANK OPEN X Y - Open the vault, using a key, by its x, y coordinates.
IRONBANK OPEN NUMBER # - Open the vault by number.
IRONBANK OPENED - List numbers that are open (for VI!)
IRONBANK CLOSED - List numbers still to be opened (for VI!)
IRONBANK PRIZES - List the unclaimed prizes.
IRONBANK COMBINE PIECES - Combine 4 pieces into a key!
IRONBANK RESET WITH KEY - Force the bank to reset its vaults by USING a key.


Minipets
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a soot-covered canary x1 Avian *NEW*
a horde of baby chicks x1 Avian
a large spider cricket x1 Insect *NEW*
a crimson millipede x1 Insect *NEW*
golden exchange token x5 (For those that forget, this ensures an exchange makes a pet you do not own)

Credits
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25 x20
50 x5
100 x1
250 x1
500 x1

Bound Credits
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30 x19
50 x5

Items
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a hunting boon token x1
a small bag of chocolates x10
a cryptic chest x10
artifact salvage x4
XP Chalice x3
a box of artifact vials x1

-T

PS. Obviously, this is new and different. Please leave commentary and questions, and I'll be modifying this all through the month. I made myself sick coding this, so it has a lot of options we're not using. We could use more than 100 prizes, so there's more randomness to boards... we could remove the reset option, make it so that there are multiple vaults to go see, etc. Heck, we can even move the reset barriers around! Do you hate the prizes? Tell me what makes you happy 🙂 The idea here is to remove junk prizes and put in a barrier to prevent people from getting TERRIBLE value. We could even make it not reset, so it always gives out ALL its prizes, the last person would know exactly what they get.

PPS. This Flintbeard guy keeps @'ing me. Who the heck is this?

PPPS. WHO LET HIM POST ON ANNOUNCE, WHAT THE HELL RAZMAEL?!

Penned by my hand on Falsday, the 15th of Arios, in the year 485 MA.
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