Topic

Staff Topic

New Feats, collaborative backstory and you!

We love making Feats. They are fun to design, build, and then let loose on Ur. We watch the completion percentages climb upwards, grinning as you steadily progress through the challenges.

We don't want to have all the fun! So, we want to hear your ideas for the kind of Feats you would like to see. Post your ideas in this thread and give +1s to the ideas you like (please limit yourselves to a single +1, so we can do an accurate count). Create the whole thing: the name, the hint/blurb shown before the Feat begins, the legend/backstory behind it, the goal to be accomplished and any other detail you can think of.

We'll shortlist the most popular (and feasible) proposals and put them up for a vote by subscribers (using the votes they get each month). The ones that top that ballot will be put into the game.

Let the Feat ideas flow!

Posted 58 days ago by Mayor Quimby Subscriber! | Permalink

Replies

  • The Laborious Lullabies of Lackadaisy Leira

    It was said that the Butterflies once had the most beautiful songs to be sung. All across Ur from Dawn 'til Dusk many a Glitch would be enraptured by the multitude of melodies. It was the life force they were able to provide for themselves, making them near immortal. Through the course of many years the Glitchen began to notice a change in the songs of the Butterflies, once beautiful words were now replaced by garbled text speak. This change in dialect and verse has severely depleted the lifespan of all Butterflies. There was one Glitch, Lackadaisy Leira, who remembered the old melodies of the Butterflies and made it her life mission to Sing To the Butterflies of Ur in hopes to bring back their wit in language and song as well as maintain the longevity in life. Unfortunately, the Butterflies have a tiny attention span so the intensity of the song requires great energy for a Glitch to perform it, leaving Lackadaisy Leira to leave Ur after an untimely death by singing. Why she hasn't returned from Hell is still a mystery... To this day, when a Glitch sings a song to a Butterfly, a spark of the beauty and intelligence that it once possessed is found again, revitalizing them , if only for a moment. 

    So basically, a great Feat to sing to many butterflies. It helps them live longer and it's probably something that not a lot of us do because of the massive amounts of energy it requires to do it. It would also probably have to be an insane number of times to be sung as well, kind of like the insane amount of sparkly that was mined not too long ago :)
    Posted 58 days ago by Sweetum Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i also +1 at The Joy and Magnanimitiousness of Renigald Titterwinkle
    Posted 58 days ago by Sweetum Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to Chicken Squeezing then Hooch-o-Rama feats.
    Posted 58 days ago by Minti Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sort of like an old Street project. . . have a feat where we build a brand new type of street to introduce a new animal or plant into the world. Heck, with all the players now we could even build the whole island or area.
    It could be broken up into different themes: bubble tuners to make new kinds of music, construction tools to build background vistas, fruit machines to build new kinds of food for the new types of animals, etc.
    Posted 58 days ago by Gordon Lughsen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Random Kindness
    Posted 58 days ago by Dys Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for The Joy and Magnanimitiousness of Renigald Titterwinkle!!!
    Posted 58 days ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • + 1 The Joy and Magnanimitiousness of Renigald Titterwinkle also
    Posted 58 days ago by bored no more Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 The Joy and Magnanimitiousness of Renigald Titterwinkle.

    (Hoping Butlers can handle/remember that many messages and gifts)
    Posted 58 days ago by The Cat Face Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Midwife Molly and the Enbiggening

    Glitchen everywhere run around squeezing chickens for grain, nibbling pigs for meat, and milking butterflies.

    This is how the Giants intend it.

    They also feed the batterflies for guano, give bars to sloths for snails, and legends even speak of a lost tribe of Glitchen who raise tame rooks.

    This too is how the Giants intend it to be.

    But this was not always this way.

    Back in the early days of the wakening of we who call ourselves Glitchen, Ur was much more bare. Spriggan had not yet brought forth the bounty of trees that grace our land, nor Mab graced it with the crops that grow upon it. We were still in the early days of the Imaginging, and the Giants’ thoughts were even more chaotic than they were now. Yes, yes, I know you feel that the world could not be any way other than it is now, but there are those among us remember when many an area or street that you know now did not yet exist.

    It was into this young world that Molly appeared. Like all of us, Molly was consumed with a drive to search out the parts of our world and imagine it growing. Yes my little Glitchen, as you imagine it, it becomes! But Molly felt an urge unlike any before her. She felt driven to Humbaba’s chosen ones – the animals. As Molly roamed the world, she petted and massaged and squeezed like no other. This was not easy as you see it today. You see, in those days, Humbaba, exhausted as she was from helping to imagine Ur found little spare energy to imagine more of her favorite thoughts; the animals.

    As Molly walked Ur, seeking out the animals, she began to despair at how few there were. In fact, it was not long until she realized she had milked the same butterfly a fourth time. Determined that this should not happen again, and after having a small drink of milk of course, Molly decided to correct this.

    Climbing the great Fetorn Peak, she beseeched Humbaba for a way to help bring more of her two, four, and sometimes no legged friends into the world. And, after several days of intense meditation, a few vials of purple, and several more bottles of milk, Molly discovered what we know today as the Egg Seasoner. Armed with this new technology, and feeling a bit cold from spending several days on a mountaintop, she set forth to help populate the world.

    It was because of her efforts she became known as Midwife Molly, and likely that chicken or pig is a direct descendant of her efforts. There are those who would argue that genetics do not work that way, but they are not of Ur and should not be heeded. Molly spent many a year wandering Ur, helping to add to the variety of life that walked, flew, or lounged within the world. It’s safe to say she was successful in her feat, would you not agree? I can see your bags overflowing with the animals’ bounty from here. Lately, as the Giants imagine more of the world, I feel that I long to see another like Molly as this bigger world feels empty to my old bones. Our world should be full of life! I issue you this challenge – bring more life to our world!

    While no one, likely not even Molly, knows how many young animals she brought into the world, it is known that she loved butterflies and their elder cousins the batterflies most of all. Once, when passing through Axis Denyed, I heard one of the ghosts that haunt there mention he had died counting the very last of Molly’s original animals. It claimed that she had brought 91872 of them into existence and released into the wild. Is this true? Who knows. I would have stayed to learn more, but as I walked I swear I heard a pig talk and I ran for my sanity.

    Would the Glitchen dare to equal her feat?

    Bonus goal: 150297 animals hatched and released
    Supermega: 301971 animals hatched and released
    Completing supermega goal unlocks a quest. This quest unlocks the lost recipe to make Batterfly Eggs

    (Prelaunch blurb: Which came first, the chicken or the egg plant? There's one Glitch who can tell you the answer...)
    Posted 58 days ago by Evadrepus Terramere Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Million Lantern March

    During this Ziloween Feat Glitchen celebrate the season by placing lit Pumpkin Lanterns on the streets of Ur. Each individual can place a maximum of one Pumpkin Lantern per street, creating a worldwide Festival of Lights and encouraging exploration of every street on Urth.

    *During this Feat the restriction on placing lit Pumpkin Lanterns on the streets of Ur is lifted.
    Posted 58 days ago by The Cat Face Subscriber! | Permalink
  • These are great — thank you! — keep 'em coming :)
    Posted 58 days ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Spin Your Luck feat
    Spinning a game show ticket counts towards the feat
    Any prize from a game show ticket (with the exception of currants, another ticket and anything I've forgotten like those) are donated to a shrine.
    Each shrine can only be donated to 11 times until you have donated 11 ticket items to every shrine which then resets your ability to have donations counting towards the feat.
    Each emblem you obtain from these donations count as an extra feat point. (you can donate more, but it will not count towards the feat and any emblem acquired by over-donating will, also, not count towards the feat)
    Only items acquired at the time from game tickets will count towards the feat (so no donating 11 of anything when you've only used one game ticket (don't know if that can possibly be kept track of)

    +1 to the The Joy and Magnanimitiousness of Renigald Titterwinkle idea!!
    Posted 58 days ago by sgjo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 rook attacks -
    +1 laborious lullabies
    +1 random kindness
    +1 chicken squeezin'

    The Ludicrous Leap of the Lemmings

    One day all of the adherents of Lem decided that they should find out what happened after death.  Which was odd, because death hadn't actually been invented yet.  This, however, did not stop the lemmings from doing their absolute best to kill themselves.  Repeatedly.  They decided that the best way to do this would be to fling themselves off of the highest places they could find in large groups. 

    This did not actually have any effect at all, though it did tend to irritate the Zillots as they were annoyed that the lemmings were damaging Zille by wearing down the paths up the mountains and crashing repeatedly into the ground at high speed.  Thus started the first Zillot-Lemming war, which consisted mostly of them throwing very large quantities of fruit at each other, which irritated Spriggan so much that when he finally woke up enough to figure out what was going on he removed all types of fruit other than cherries from the world, as he assumed that with nothing bigger than a cherry to throw everyone would just get tired of the whole thing and stop. 

    This greatly irritated both Friendly AND Pot as the volume of recipies that could be made without those fruit was greatly reduced.  The giants involved began to bicker.  Gradually other Giants were drawn into the bickering. 

    Finally Alph stepped up and decided to solve all of the problems by creating a solution.  In this case, the solution was Death, and Hell.  The Lemmings began to die in droves, from expending all of their energy running up the mountains over and over in order to jump off.  Their curiosity about Death was assuaged, which made them stop wearing down Zille's mountains, which appeased the Zillots.  No one was really sure how Spriggan felt, as he had fallen asleep again, but his snores didn't seem any more irritable than usual.  However, he never changed back any of the fruit trees, which kept Friendly and Pot irritated for quite a while until the invention of fruit changing machines.

    This feat will consist of copying the Lemming's attempts to kill themselves by falling as much as possible - Only actual loss of vertical height counts.  Jumping up and falling back to where you started will not be an actual loss of height.  Jumping off a high platform and falling downwards to a level BELOW that of the platform is required.  The feat will require a large amount of distance dropped to achieve it.  When it is achieved it will unlock the ability to throw fruit at other glitches (all in good fun, no pineapples allowed, and of course, cherries can't be thrown.  Any other type of fruit will now have an option to 'throw' at a nearby glitch.  With sticky consequences.)
    Posted 58 days ago by FineousFingers Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Something is in the loam
    (aka: "Back to the shovel")

    It was the fith era. Or maybe the sixth. Who knows? Who remembers? It was long time ago, and in this era Spriggan himself had retreated to a monastery, high in the highest hills of Aranna, and had become known as "The philosopher Giant". He coined a lot of wise sayings, some have survived until today, but many are forgotten or only half remembered. Among the most famous are: "Many shovels make something something loam", "The only true loam is in knowing you know shovel", "A person who never made a loam never tried anything" and also the famous one: "By three methods, we make loam. First, by the shovel, which is the noblest. Second, by something, which is the easiest. And third, by hand, which is the bitterest."

    But his most wise and most famous quote is, unfortunately, only half remembered: "Something is not in the something. Something is in the loam."

    To find out what is in the loam, and to walk on the path of the Great Philosopher Giant, the Glitchen must work together, like they never did before:

    Feat: Dig together for loam. Only loam as a product of "help digging" counts towards the goal. Dig xx.xxx.xxx pieces of loam together. And become wiser than the wisest of Giants, by realizing that only together you can be successful.

    Bonus: Donate xxx.xxx.xxx loam to the shrines of Spriggan all over Ur.
    Posted 58 days ago by Louis Louisson Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to Race enough cubimals, collectively, to go to the moon (or something) and back in planks.
    There are a lot of great ones here, its hard to choose.
    A feat to harvest, water, pet or plant a certain number of trees might be nice.
    Crop and Herb harvesting could also be fun.
    Posted 58 days ago by Terribelle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The great plague!

    Some dude sneezed a lot, soon everyone was sneezing (A million glitchen sneeze in a day)
    They were fixed with a trillion sparkles  (a trillion doses of sparkly sparkled) & excessive flagellation (a quadrillion splanks)
    Posted 58 days ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The Nekkid Splanking Penance of St Spammola

    And so it came to pass in the aftermath of unholy spamming of poor innocents, in the time that came to be known as "The great teeth nash of inviting for gain..." That a punishment was deemed essential for the demented pervaders who inflicted this most callous of feats upon us.

    All Devs to run around nekkid for the duration of the feat allowing all players to splank at will - that way, the healing can begin guys..........
    Posted 58 days ago by Loupin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for GiaTori's Random Kindness 

    +1 for Koftun's The Joy and Magnanimitiousness of Renigald Titterwinkle

    +1 for Sweetum's The Laborious Lullabies of Lackadaisy Leira

    +1 for Evadrepus Terramere's Midwife Molly and the Enbiggening

    +1 for FineousFinger's The Ludicrous Leap of the Lemmings
    I especially liked the fruit throwing part. =D

    +1 for Louis Louisson's Something in the loam
    Posted 58 days ago by indelicacy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The Future's not so bright.....

    Scientists.....crazy bunch tinkering with the very fabric of things just because they have white coats and sexy glasses.   Anywhoo - the mad tinkerers at the FireFlex 3000 lab have been trying to come up with a wizard way of making toast land butter side up everytime.  Unfortunately in the process they have blown all the fuses and lightbulbs in the lab in an orgy of demented experimentation.  Their only salvation lies in the past with the collecting of as many fireflies as possible and taking them to the lab.....sustainable energy solutions for a better UR...
    Posted 58 days ago by Loupin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Staff, I know you don't want to hear this, but... please let us experience a street building feat!

    Actually, please build a small, linear (better: spiral-ish) island with a tall mountain at the center of it, and place something wondrous right at the top. BUT to get there a road must be built a street at a time - and did I say there are lots of Rooks around there? Lots of Rooks and a couple of surprises along the way (nothing too fancy. Maybe a heli-flamingos preserve? Something related to Bureaurocracy? Or maybe... something having to do with that mysterious child's room we visited so much time ago?)
    Posted 58 days ago by Ayzad Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The aspects important to me - social aspect to the feats, not too tedious (so two or three step or requiring some exploration) and the ability to knock off badges as well as participate (so when we get discouraged at being nowhere near the leaderboard we still want to take part).  The running back and forth to Gwendolyn fr'instance doesn't meet these criteria which is why I'm not feeling it.  Here are my ideas, I'm not creative enough to come up with back stories :)

    Cookin' with cheese
    - I think there should definitely be a cooking one, as people seem to like that.  Maybe cook and donate as many items with cheese in them as meets the limit (or cook and eat)?  Will require cheese-making and cooking and donating, I like the idea of two or three step feats.

    "Repair items on the subway" - for some reason I like the idea of this.  So people could break picks, pots, tincturing kits, whatever as appropriate to their level and in-game goals, then have to go on the subway to repair them.  Social aspect seeing people ridin the subway, gets to the repair badges, anyone can participate.

    Trade window - I tried to think of one involving the now-irrelevant trade window so some of us can get those badges but I can't think of one that couldn't be gamed.  Maybe trade with unique/individual glitches, so you can't partner with someone? 

    Party time - Cumulative minutes spent in Pitchen Lilliput (my favourite) or one of the other party spaces?  Again, a social thing.  AFK sleeping doesn't count.

    Resource use and repair
    - Use 2 or more resources (each time) on different glitches home streets.  The two or more to prevent people just moving from one street sign to the next real quick.  Maybe incorporate a resource repair element so street owners don't get hammered with that - so use and/or repair 2 or more items.  Lots of img for street owners, visiting and repair badges for the visitors, very social event.
    Posted 58 days ago by Ms. Beagle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Why is the trade window irrelevant?
    Posted 58 days ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well maybe irrelevant is a bit harsh, but it's not used as much as it used to be I guess, with the towers.  I used to use it all the time.
    Posted 58 days ago by Ms. Beagle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Bibliophile Paradise....

    Ahhhh so many things about the rook we dont understand and we think the answer lies in the minds of the little glitchian running around Ur.  If only we could write down those ideas on some form or papery type thing using some sort of feathery type implement....

    As many notes dropped off at the Rook Museum as possible........
    Posted 58 days ago by Loupin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Johnny Paper Seed:

    When the Giants looked upon all that had been imagined, all 10 of them were quite happy.  Spriggan, however, was slumbering while the vote on completion was being made.  When he awoke, the Giants were discussing how to imagine up a map and what it should be written on.  Humbaba the Belligerent shouted, "The glitches can walk around with a sharpish object and hack down the trees...".   He then went into a long yelling rant about exactly how paper could be made with machines and chemicals.  The other Giants grew tired of this.

    A well rested Spriggan sprang into action wanting to save trees and because he knew this was mostly his fault for sleeping.  Knowing to appease Humbaba, he asked if the great Giant of walking things would allow a glitch to carry the paper seeds he forgot to plant when he was napping.  Spriggan sweetened the deal by saying they would be planted in 11 areas to represent all of the Giants.  Humbaba, proud of his mastery of walking and things, yelled back, "I GUESS THAT WOULD BE OK."  And it was noted to be added to the list of things to be imagined; however, without paper, nobody could write it down.

    Spriggan, being too tired to view all of the applicants in line for "Paper seed courier" chose the first person to walk in:  Some Glitch Named Johnny.  Some Glitch Named Johnny accepted the job, because he needed a job, but really half-assed it.  He also didn't pay attention to exactly what Spriggan told him to do.  Directions were not written down.  Now in Ur, there is a trail from Johnny's home to the "great paper orchard", where Johnny decided to call it quits.  What was done, was done, and could not be reversed because there were no seeds.  The Giants were angered at this lack of respect shown by Johnny, and how they will be remembered by an abundance of paper in only 4 areas.  Lem was especially mad because there was not a tree in an area dedicated to him, and how all the paper trees in the Ancestral lands turn it into a dump.

    Feat 1:  Paper Trappidation:  Retrace Some Glitch Named Johnny's steps in Ur.  Remember the Giants are watching; they're always watching.  And they're counting the number of traps set in the Ancestral Lands.

    Feat 2:  Notes to Lem:  Write some crazy number of notes to Lem to show our gratefulness and appreciation and to let him know we won't forget because we wrote it down.  Donate them to Lem, Humbaba, and Spriggan (the rest of the Giants mostly didn't care).  

    Feat 3:  No Paper Left Behind:  This feat also cleans up Ur's trash problem.
    Posted 58 days ago by Rennie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hey staff... how long do we have to post & +1 our ideas? I've got a very vague idea or three but can't flesh em out until the weekend. (if i miss it that's cool, but if I have a chance I'll ruminate on it when I get a chance this week)
    Posted 58 days ago by Vera Strange Subscriber! | Permalink
  • PartyUr:  Keep a party going for an entire Feat period.
    Posted 57 days ago by Rennie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for the Cat Face's 10 Fruit Epic

    +1 for Sweetum's The Laborious Lullabies of Lackadaisy Leira+1 for Evadrepus Terramere's Midwife Molly and the Enbiggening
    Posted 57 days ago by Twotone Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 hooch-a-rama but I don't want to just distill the hooch, I want to drink it. X amount of hours with a collaborative buzz.
    Posted 57 days ago by Csophae Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to ennuienta because i also think rainbow snowcones would be the coolest
    Posted 57 days ago by Patchwork Piggy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to juju dodging/trap triggering
    Posted 57 days ago by Symmol Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You could make a feat out of how many minutes we'd last in Wintry Place... if we last xx minutes with the energy loss, it could be part of the feat for rainbow sno cones :-)
    Posted 57 days ago by ennuienta Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'd be happy with any feat that involves cooking.
    Posted 57 days ago by Jay Kitty Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The Giant Feast

    The Giants are having a party and the Glitches are catering the event.

    The Giants' Pantry is a huge wall of SDBs, each holding a recipe. The goal is to fill all of the SDBs. Each Glitch can make however many they want to contribute of any item, take them to the pantry, and toss them in right SDB until they are full and won't accept anymore. The credit you receive is dependent on the value of the food made.

    It would use all the skills -- gather ingredients, transforming, grocery shopping, and collaboration and communication with other Glitches toward the end of the feat to see who could grow what crop fast enough, who could gather guano to speed it up, strategy on what to do first.

    It could unlock more and better recipes, maybe potions to make foods have special properties, new ingredients like mushrooms and honey that can be harvested rather than bought.

    This is sort of what I'd hoped the Feast thing had been in the first place. There has to be a reason we all hoard so much stuff, right? This would use a lot of it up!
    I
    Posted 57 days ago by LisaNH Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Random Kindness feat, but spreading it across both Glitchen and locations to prevent riots in Cebarkul.
    +1 to unlocking rainbow snocones
    +1 Cherry Poppin Spriggots
    +1 Subway expansion feat - perhaps an epic with one new branch per feat.  
    +1 Ilmenskie Jones and the Large Mysterious Cube
    +1 So You Think You Can Fry!
    +1 The Joy and Magnanimitiousness of Renigald Titterwinkle
    +1 The Laborious Lullabies of Lackadaisy Leira
    +1 Midwife Molly and the Enbiggening
    +1 Million Lantern March
    (ETA) +1 to LisaNH's Giant Feast!
    Posted 57 days ago by Frogger The Mad Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I LOVE LisaNH's idea about filling up the Giant's SDB's with food.  +1!
    Posted 57 days ago by ennuienta Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am bad at any sort of back story but I do have a couple of suggestions for feats

    1) How about trading 22,22222 unique items between players. Will help some glitches to achieve the trader badges and also foster interaction between players. 

    2) Visiting 51000  home streets excluding your own and earn at least 100 img from each home street. So glitches will have to interact with at least one resource ..
    Posted 57 days ago by !$Harrump$! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Achieve a certain amount of home streets visited! I love that idea, !$Harrump$!
    Posted 57 days ago by Csophae Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to Koftun's The Joy and Magnanimitiousness of Renigald Titterwinkle
    +1 to the Giant Feast
    +1 to the Ludicrous Leap of the Lemmings
    +1 to GreyGoose's subway expansion / others' subway riding feats

    What about a feat in which the Giants compete? We could all go on a mass donating spree to our favorites and the most favored giant would win the feat and all of that giant's followers would receive the greatest rewards. You would be considered a follower of a particular giant by donating more to him/her than the others (maybe by a specified margin so you couldn't switch to the winning side at the last minute). Success of any one giant would be based on teamwork and swaying other players to your side and competition would be between groups instead of individuals, so it would be a really different kind of feat.
    Posted 57 days ago by Reida Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 OMGBACON's Bacon feat
    Posted 57 days ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Here's my idea (backstory to be fleshed out later this week if this thread is still open... I have a vague idea of what it/they are). It's played out over an epic.

    The first few feats are about the ingredients (converting bubbles, distilling hooch, making tinctures, etc). They're measured on things like number of bubbles that were converted into other bubbles (so as to not give an unfair advantage to blue bubbles, or whatever). The final feat in the epic would be about using potions throughout Ur. This would require a lot of trading and collaboration of our various stocked up items as people would have focused on different things in the earlier feats. And, of course, it would be a total blast at the end. You'd have people killing trees, people saving them, and some trantsforming them. You'd have doorways popping up all over the place. Rainbow parties on a number of streets. We'd be getting bigger and smaller wherever we went and running around with lots of hearts over our heads. Completion of the epic would result in a new set of potions depending on how many of the feats went into the super bonus. 
    Posted 57 days ago by Vera Strange Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Vera's cause it sounds like fun (and not because of any threat of violence!)
    Posted 57 days ago by The Docta Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Send a letter to a friend with a gift attached! Bonus points for if they mail one back. Bonuser points if each letter is mailed from a different mailbox on a street in Ur.
    Posted 57 days ago by Moehr Ossum Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1  Laborious Lullabies of Lackadaisy Leira
    +1 Million Lantern March
    Posted 57 days ago by Holly Waterfall Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I saw this suggested elsewhere by someone else... I like the idea of having a feat that counts something, but no one knows what it is. At first, at least.  I'm sure we'd figure it out :)
    Posted 57 days ago by ennuienta Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You know, we could have one about planting crops/herbs.  No potions allowed; you have to do it old skewl.  *run*
    Posted 57 days ago by retstak Subscriber! | Permalink
  • whew - good ideas in here. Almost any of these feats would be great fun!

    My favorites for now:

    +1 The Cat Face: The Cherry Poppin Spriggots

    +1 Mal'akh: Ilmenskie Jones and the Large Mysterious Cube (I especially like the petting piggies part because ANYONE new or old can play on equal footing for that)

    +1 Sweetum: The Laborious Lullabies of Lackadaisy Leira

    +1 Koftun: The Joy and Magnanimitiousness of Renigald Titterwinkle
    Posted 57 days ago by Kookaburra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to Reida, I love the idea of group based feat! Global would be a madhouse :) 

    There's backstory about how each giant had their own age...so it might be a ritual to the long struggle of the past.
    Posted 57 days ago by M<3tra, obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Another from me...
    *********************
    Gee Harden's Toil

    "Gee, I dunno..." that's what Gee would always say. There are those who say that he had a different name, but due to his fondness for starting every answer with "gee, I dunno..." that they just started calling him Gee. Regardless of the truth, the Bureaucrats have his name on file as Gee Hardin, and that is what matters. At least to them.

    Gee was the laziest Glitch to ever walk Ur. When the new day would dawn, and the energy pour into everyone's tank, Gee needed but a few drops to top himself off. He would walk the face of Ur, but as he walked chickens stood unsqueezed, butterflies unmilked, and the sloths starved. Were it not for other Glitchen, perhaps Humbaba's flock would have passed from Ur! Gee's greatest desire was to walk the world of Ur. The Giants like this of course, as exploring Ur unearths new and exciting creations, but whilst one walks, the Giants expect that there is interaction between the Glitchen and the world around them. And of course, all do...except Gee. When asked why, he could only reply "gee, I dunno..."

    One morning the day crested, but Gee's energy tank did not fill. Although confused, he did not worry much. Due to his style, he could easily manage without a fill for a day. But the second day was more critical. More so the third. On the fourth, with his tank slipping deep into red, he ran through Ur, looking for a solution. Sprinting through Ur, he stumbled and fell as he raced through Groddle and landed face first in fresh batch of carrots. In desperation, and with weakened arms, he harvested a few of the orange taproots and began to munch. Slowly, his energy began to refill, and with stronger legs he stood up and surveyed the area. All around him lay vegetables growing, planted by Spriggan for the benefit of all. Sating himself, and offering thanks to Spriggan for his help, he decided to wait for a new day as all this unaccustomed effort had worn him out. But lo, come the dawn, instead of filling up, his energy tank drained away to almost nothing. He once again scrounged the area, eating whole corn, zucchini, cucumbers, and tomatoes; whatever he could find to keep himself from fading. It was only after the next day dawned and once again his tank drained that he more clearly understood his fate. More carefully this time he refilled his energy, taking care to separate the seeds of the area for the patch he had cleared had grown dangerously bare in his time there. After being full, he fashioned a crude tool from a dropped branch and began to plant the seeds.

    Some time later, another Glitch entered the area where Gee had settled down. This Glitch was amazed to see a vast horticultural bounty - everywhere rows of tomatoes grew along spinach plants, and cabbages and potatoes covered the ground. Never had such a wealth of plants ever been combined and grown. As the Glitch walked around the area, he saw a little house on one side of the planting. A simple mailbox stood outside with the occupant's name upon it. Looking in the window, they could not see anyone within, but out in the field they did find the farmer, taking a small nap in the shade of a particularly high stalk of corn. Not wishing to disturb him, the Glitch took his leave. He spread the word and soon others came to visit. And the farmer was known for his generosity, sharing his vegetables with other Glitchen in exchange for gifts from the outside world. If there were those who found it odd that he would not leave his little plot of land they did not say it aloud. In fact, there were those attempted to emulate his behavior, and dedicated their work to him with a little plaque bearing his name; "G. Harden".

    Spriggan looked upon Ur and smiled. "G.Harden. I like that. Perhaps more simple? Garden, perhaps? Ho ho, garden indeed!"

    And thus a legend was born.

    Gee came to enjoy his labor, and spent time refining his skill. In his later years, he frequently held contests with his fellow farmers. His greatest adventure was when he pitted his skill against all of the farmers at one time. It was both a great and delicious battle, and all ate well for many weeks. Gee's skill was superior to his fellow farmers, and his field produced a staggering 170395 vegetables. The corn alone was enough to build a small mountain! And there were those who developed a fondness for that sun-warmed corn and even learned how to do things with it...

    Bonus feat: 400918 vegetables grown
    Superbonus: 2081968 vegetables grown - completing this superbonus item unlocks the lost recipe for Popped Corn (corn + frying pan + butterfly butter).

    (Teaser blurb: There are those who wander the world and find the secrets it hides. There are those build machines to create new things of pure imagination. And there are those who don't. This is a story about one of them.)
    Posted 57 days ago by Evadrepus Terramere Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wonder if all these feats are going to unlock the re-launch?
    Posted 57 days ago by Appy Subscriber! | Permalink