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Kelly wrote: "Reva wrote: "I need help. I'm sure I've accidentally hit a function key on my Toshiba computer keyboard and can't get the keyboard to type in the comment boxes. Thank goodness for my iPad. Any su..."
I think it's a keyboard issue. It happened two years ago but I forgot the solution.
Maybe this?link
Click Start.
Click Control Panel.
Select "Ease of Access Center"
Select "Make the keyboard easier to use"
Untick "Turn on Filter Keys".
Press Ok.
Reva wrote: "I live in Toronto and we've had a heat wave almost all summer this year. I do hope they're wrong about the coming winter."Bring it!!!
I am a teacher and we love snow days more than the students do:)
Oh btw if anyone needs a healing boost, I have 2 +3hp eggs to give away again this week. Free to a good home (aka hungry and slightly wounded adventurer).
Can I have one please Morgan? :) thank you!
Alyssa wrote: "Can I have one please Morgan? :) thank you!"Sure thing! :)
I have the shard now. Is the modified attack strength:1. Earth Magik Strength 10 x 2 = 20 +1 Shard = 21 attack
OR
2. Earth Magik Strength (10 +1 Shard ) = 11 x 2 = 22. ?
battle experts (and others) I need a favor...I had some major bloodbath yesterday and I'd appreciate if someone could go over my numbers and check them - post - before I continue fighting and attacking eisdrake.
In case it's not clear (or so you don't have to search ☺) I started with earth and fire orbs, horse, puppy lvl1, rock lvl1 and bauble for staff
Thanks :)
Any chance anyone has a book with fruit on the cover they're willing to sell? Trying to get my advanced kitchen because I know the heal potions will be great for the dragon, but my book has been on hold at the library FOREVER.
RebeccaS wrote: "Any chance anyone has a book with fruit on the cover they're willing to sell? Trying to get my advanced kitchen because I know the heal potions will be great for the dragon, but my book has been on..."
Sex, Lies & Sweet Tea 328 pages mysteryIs an ebook available for FREE at Amazon.ca.
The advanced kitchen doesn't need a book with a fruit on it...
Haha no Teresa but I need to make the drop bear steak receipt first so I can cook things. I have all the books read for the advanced kitchen (except one), but still need that darn recipe hah.Thanks for the suggestion Reva!
RebeccaS wrote: "Haha no Teresa but I need to make the drop bear steak receipt first so I can cook things. I have all the books read for the advanced kitchen (except one), but still need that darn recipe hah.Than..."
Happy to help. Let me know if it's worth reading. It's usually a chore to do books with food on the cover. Cosy mysteries are ok but I prefer the grittier stuff.
I've been listening to a lot of memoirs of chefs on audio- those tend to have food in the covers and their interesting enough but still light to listen to while driving.
❀Tea❀ wrote: "battle experts (and others) I need a favor...I had some major bloodbath yesterday and I'd appreciate if someone could go over my numbers and check them - post - before I continue fighting and att..."
Tea, after quick read: Hydra Sloth - to count +3 for WEP you have to apply the potion to both weapons.
Kelly's post: 4076:
Zuzana wrote: "Kelly, can we use two enhance weapon potions in one battle, one for the staff and one for the sword? If not can we use 1 in 1 battle and second in another battle within the week (1 for sword, 1 for..."
I'm ok with using one on each weapon. That's not stacking them in my opinion since it's still just one on each weapon. (You can't use two on the same weapon to get a +6)
Yes, you can use it for the monsters.
Sloth - This one averages so if you have it on both then it'd add +3 to your averaged score.
Envy - I count this as potion based damage so it would count as an additive.
Pride - I think it's ok to treat this as an add-on when it's on the higher weapon since if your sword is normally 10 and you boost to 13, if you subtract your staff at 7 you end up with 6 whether you do it before or after.
Your Hydra battles look fine otherwise. Good job!
Tea, did all your battles take place on 9/13? You fought Logoliphic lemur twice - I take you bribed it with a book?And that's all. Hope it helped.
BTW I find my killing sprees oddly satisfying. :D Am I the only one?
Thanks Zuzana :)I was tired after it like I really did all those battles. :p But it was great and I kinda felt sorry I don't have much left to kill without getting other stuff first. I can't believe I'm going to say this, but my major problem was that I was healing too fast. I still need to get to my one-hit battles since it seemed shame to do them when I don't need hp.
After I don't know how many drafts, lemur just slipped in again. *sigh* I wasn't planning to use book, but if I can't take it out without some major changes, I'll give him his book.
For sloth - I still don't get it completly :( Do I need to drink another wep or just use one I have in calculating averige attack? So instead (13+6)/2 I'd have (16+9)/2? Or it would be 16+6?
Also could you add that part about hydras and wep to faq? I'm sure there are still some heros that need to get to hydra
re wep: You should apply onother one to your second weapon (sword). If you do you don't have to change anything else.I think that wep isn't drinked by the hero it is applied to the weapon (either staff or sword)
I'm on my phone till tomorrow night. Could anybody please take a look at my post about hydras and wep (the part with Kelly's answer) and either copy and paste it to the FAQ thread or shorten it to a simple rule and post it there? The heading should probably be Enhance Weapon Potion. Thx.
Zuzana wrote: "re wep: You should apply onother one to your second weapon (sword). If you do you don't have to change anything else.I think that wep isn't drinked by the hero it is applied to the weapon (either..."
hm, I don't want to use another potion for sword since I'm not using it at all. I'll just go back to drawing board and leave sloth for another round.
Thanks :)
I asked this 2 days ago. I would appreciate an answer please. I have the SHARD now. Is the modified attack strength:
1. Earth Magik Strength 10 x 2 = 20 +1 Shard = 21 attack
OR
2. Earth Magik Strength (10 +1 Shard ) = 11 x 2 = 22. ?
Reva, my money is on 2. Base attack is 10, it makes sense that the +1 modifier should be applied to spell base value.
Reva wrote: "I asked this 2 days ago. I would appreciate an answer please. I have the SHARD now. Is the modified attack strength:
1. Earth Magik Strength 10 x 2 = 20 +1 Shard = 21 attack
OR
2. Earth Magik ..."
#2. It updates base attack.
Ok, thanks. I'll update my next attack. I went the conservative route in attack # 11. 3 points isn't worth worrying about.
Freshly laid egg is looking for hero in need :)
For the cheaters quest:I have this book which has a palace on one edition and a woman seated on stairs. Does this qualify for the house cheat?
His Mistress for a Week (Harlequin Presents) by Melanie Milburne
Reva wrote: "For the cheaters quest:I have this book which has a palace on one edition and a woman seated on stairs. Does this qualify for the house cheat?"
It depends what cover did you read. It works only if you read cover with stairs.
Although, I'm not sure if Kelly would take palace as house. :) Don't know how strict she was when she wrote it
❀Tea❀ wrote: "Reva wrote: "For the cheaters quest:I have this book which has a palace on one edition and a woman seated on stairs. Does this qualify for the house cheat?"
It depends what cover did you read. I..."
I havent yet that's why I asked.
Tea, I loved your Eisdrake battle(s) especially all those "hero runs away" parts. ;)
I had lots of monsters left from my last fight. Especially those one-hit ones, so I had enough to get my hp up.Now I need to get some stuff (rug for example) before I can get to next big battle. Probably sometime next year :P
❀Tea❀ wrote: "I had lots of monsters left from my last fight. Especially those one-hit ones, so I had enough to get my hp up.Now I need to get some stuff (rug for example) before I can get to next big battle. ..."
I find that's the best approach. Usually I find that I rarely need all the HP healing on Sundays with the sheets, bed and merekat blanket --let alone the two eggs generated by the PPP. The nook Squirrel and the Kindlecorn as well as the weekly others pretty much ensure that I'm up to full health by my next Eisdrake battle.
Congrats Tea on taking such a nice chunk out of Eisdrake.
I hope we get some more Zombie modifiers so I can attack #'s 3, 4, & 5 without hemorraging major heal potions. Kelly will you need help with the next update? We can surely do the Classifieds and scrounger lists for you. We can make it spooktacular!
Did everyone catch the 2 - Hour return of Z - Nation on Friday night? Such a good show.
I also binge-watched the Ray Donovan series on HBO. Liev Schreiber and John Voight have such fantastic roles.
Oh, I forgot about ppp!I have two eggs looking for hero in need
I also managed to level up with all those battles so my hp is full. I think my next eisdrake attack is going to be more of hit & run. :)Need to finish kitchen upgrade so I can start collecting potions.
Also I got nice chunk of gold *looks around in case someone wants to rob her* so I'm thinking about getting a cat or maybe squirrel to trow those nuts at monsters. Good idea? Bad idea?
Currently I'm nowhere near magic spells, but that's all mostly because I'm still not planning my reads, but try to fit books after thing is done. And mostly they still end up in tote *shakes head*
Also, Kelly, we really really have too many tasks asking for food on cover or trees. Especially if you are working on those tasks at the same time *grins* We definitely need picnic task :P
It might be good to start the discussion about upcoming quests and what kinds of challenges we'd like to see. Last year I set myself the challenge of reading at least 4 books of a series from authors of different countries (either English or translations into English.). I failed miserably. I was too caught up in reading for this challenge.
So something along the above: say 5 foreign authors originally writing in languages not your mother tongue.
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I like to travel. So authors from 5 or 6 continents.
Or traveling from east to west in one direction only --a minimum of 5 books-- To a mamimum of 20. Books set in different cities of the world.
Or
The wonders of the ancient or modern world. Books mentioning things like the hanging Gardens of Babylon or the Pyramids of Giza or Collossus of Rhodes, Victoria Falls, CN Tower, Aurora borealis, Taj Mahal ...
It's been forever since we had a spell-it-out, so I would like something like that to add more flexibility than all the cover tasks.Maybe in conjunction with Reva's wonders of the ancient world, since I have a feeling finding mentions of those in things everyone would like to read would be harder than fruit on a cover. lol.
Maybe spell out a wonder? This would also be a good way to gain XP for newer players similar to the berry tasks or the shape one -- your points would depend on your choice from what can be a set list.
Maybe also 5 or 6 authors not from your continent instead of being from each from a different. But a BONUS if they are each from a different continent.
I like the travel idea and using the books to move in a single direction -- sort of like the relay race which was great for points.
I had some other ideas knocking around like last week -- hopefully I will be able to think of them tonight at work since it's bedtime. XD
Look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!
I am hoping my magik book will have a use next month (hint, hint).
Lol. Classifieds are really quite easy, they just come from the spreadsheet and I paste them in.I'd take a scrounger list if someone wants to make me one. I usually aim for 5 easy words, 10 medium words and 5 hard words. Give or take.
Kelly wrote: "Lol. Classifieds are really quite easy, they just come from the spreadsheet and I paste them in.I'd take a scrounger list if someone wants to make me one. I usually aim for 5 easy words, 10 mediu..."
Happy to help. Do you use a word generator? An 8 ball? Or just stick a pin in Webster's Dictonary?
❀Tea❀ wrote: "Oh, I forgot about ppp!I have two eggs looking for hero in need"
If you still have those eggs I would love to take one off your hands!! Letting the dragon totally kill me every week is taking it's toll so I am desperate for health hehe
❀Tea❀ wrote: "*gives egg to Rebecca*"Thanks!!
Nice battle Morgan. One point:
Fire Magik - Increases the next hit (next turn) by 20% attack power
You increased the hits for all the turns thereafter. I think it's only meant for one hit only. :-(
Reva wrote: "Nice battle RebeccaOne point:
Fire Magik - Increases the next hit (next turn) by 20% attack power
You increased the hits for all the turns thereafter. I think it's only meant for one hit only. :-("
Think you meant Morgan. I WISH my battles were even close to that powerful.
I used it (the spell) and added the 20 on different turns (the ones that followed the spell use)...at least in theory. >.>I am aware of the mechanics there.
Now to recheck my copy paste lol
Yeah, it's got the 20% bump just on the rounds following the fire spell being used? So not seeing the issue there?3 Fire Spells used
3 20% bumps on following staff strikes.
So sorry Rebecca! All that talk about battles above -- I never checked who actually posted the battle.
Reva wrote: "Happy to help. Do you use a word generator? An 8 ball? Or just stick a pin in Webster's Dictonary?"I usually just make them up around the theme then go googling when I run out of ideas.
My apologies Morgan, I should have read your attack more carefully. Incidentally, I ran my attack #11 through the scenario of using more fire attacks and the results came back exactly the same.
I guess it depends on the attack strength of your weapon and the number of rounds fought as to whether there would be an advantage to using more fire attacks.
And whether you had stockpiled enough casting materials.
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I'm sure I've accidentally hit a function key on my Toshiba computer keyboard and can't get the keyboard to type in the comment boxes. Thank goodness for my iPad. Any suggestions for..."
Can you type elsewhere on the computer? If so maybe it's just a setting in your internet browser and if you go into settings you could reset them to default?