User:RiverPhoenix

Royal Art Museum

I am the curator of the art museum in Ankh-Morpork. If you're in the area, check out the player-designed exhibitions in the south wing of the ground floor. You can also visit our fan website, https://royal-art-museum.appspot.com for a historical record of player exhibitions.

Making pottery

• Each mould, stain, or glaze has several tiers of success. The highest-level outcome isn't always the most artistic, so testing is required.

• You can use multiple colors for those stains that require multiple stages.

• The stain command has a separate staining and design skill-check.

• I usually have players choose the main (glaze) color of the item first.

• Most items require visiting two or more pottery workshops, since each location has a different set of available options.

Example pottery

These are some of my favorite objects that I've crafted. Ask if you're interested in a special item!

Clay flutes

I can make flute-blowpipes too, but I usually make regular flutes. Clay flutes are one of the easier wind instruments to play.

a summer sea blue clay flute

A number of evenly spaced holes runs along the length of this flute which has been lovingly made from clay. It has been decorated deftly with an attractive pattern of sandy white waves, each on the point of breaking, falling one after the other in an unbroken circle. It has been coated with a vivid summer sea blue glaze.

a sun-baked red clay flute

A number of evenly spaced holes runs along the length of this flute which has been lovingly made from clay. The Sun Emperor’s court was once home to the most aesthetically pleasing hummingbirds. Yet their memory pales next to the disarming down white pattern of hummingbirds on this flute. It is covered with a vivid sun-baked red glaze.

Ink wells

The expert result for ink wells in the Sung pottery room is quite attractive. They function as normal ink wells.

a beautiful pale wine gold ink well

This masterpiece ink well has been laboriously crafted from clay and takes the form of an intricate lotus.  The fragile petals have been formed to perfection and the lotus is fully opened in a ceramic suggestion of revealing enlightenment at any moment.  It is covered with a lustrous pale wine gold glaze.

Standing vases

I make standing vases in the Ninja guild pottery room, which is dangerous to access for non-assassins. They can be placed as furniture and can hold about 2 pounds, or about twenty items.

a pleasant white standing vase

Tall and with a flat base, this pleasant vase serves its purpose as a work of art rather than a mere container. A quantum weather butterfly, its wings able to change the world with a single flap, has been stained on the vase in indigo. It is covered with a shiny white glaze.

a pleasant wine-dark standing vase

Tall and with a flat base, this pleasant vase serves its purpose as a work of art rather than a mere container. It has been exquisitely stained with a fetching black and orange wingless dragon floating majestically on a background of clouds. It is covered with a strong wine-dark glaze.

Standing amphoras

Similarly, standing amphoras are made in the Hashishim guild pottery room. They can be placed as furniture and can hold about 2 pounds, or about twenty items.

a beautiful battlefield crimson standing amphora

This beautiful amphora features graceful curves and two attractive handles on either side of the neck.  It has clearly been crafted by an expert potter as the clay is silky smooth and almost wafer thin; nothing like the common amphora seen in kitchens and storerooms.  A gently sparkling stream coursing along the base of mountains soaring into the heavens, with tiny yet elaborately detailed pearwood trees covering their lower slopes, was stained onto it in moss green and storm-cloud grey with near unparalleled skill.  It is covered with a lustrous battlefield crimson glaze.

a stylish sand yellow standing amphora

This stylish amphora features graceful curves and two attractive handles on either side of the neck.  It has clearly been crafted by an expert potter as the clay is silky smooth and almost wafer thin; nothing like the common amphora seen in kitchens and storerooms.  It has been stained with an artistic date palm, heavy with fruit.  A shiny sand yellow glaze covers the amphora.

Trophies

This was very time consuming to make, due to wanting to get the long description just right. This trophy is on display in the Thieves' Guild Trophy Cabinet.

a fine gold kylix cup

This precisely crafted kylix is almost a piece of art.  Held by its two stately handles, drinking from this fine cup would make anyone feel honoured.  An artistic pattern of black dollar signs adorns the cup.  It is covered with a gleaming gold glaze.

Faith rods

Reference for my faith rods. Happy to lend or sell these (with a few exceptions) to someone who will make use of it!

Rod type	Rituals	Diety	Charge level
tasselled staff	divine hand, longsight, remember place, mend	Sandelfon	imprinted, stored with CMS2
coral baton	creeping doom	Sandelfon	impressed
coral baton	rage	Sandelfon	impressed
dull grey baton	soothe	Sandelfon	impressed
dull grey baton	unquiet spirit	Sandelfon	impressed
dull grey baton	weft warping	Sandelfon	impressed
orange cane	paralysis, fear	Sandelfon	impressed
pale grey cane	visit, find	Sandelfon	impressed
pale grey cane	sacred fins, breathe underwater	Sandelfon	impressed
pale yellow baton	totem	Sandelfon	impressed
pale white baton	cure drunkenness	Sandelfon	imprinted
pale white baton	find	Sandelfon	impressed
pale white baton	raise dead pet	Sandelfon	impressed
pale white baton	resurrect	Sandelfon	impressed
purple baton	clarify	Sandelfon	impressed
purple baton	longsight	Sandelfon	impressed
purple baton	weft warping	Sandelfon	impressed
ribboned baton	artefact inquisition	Sandelfon	impressed
ribboned baton	holy sacrifice	Sandelfon	impressed
ribboned baton	holy sacrifice	Sandelfon	impressed
ribboned baton	soothe	Sandelfon	impressed
serrated baton	dust devil	Sandelfon	impressed
serrated baton	holy weapon	Sandelfon	impressed
wooden cane	major shield, cure medium wounds	Sandelfon	impressed
wooden cane	totem, far sight	Sandelfon	impressed
coral baton	breathe underwater	Fish	impressed
forest green cane	major shield, divine hand	Fish	impressed
orange cane	dust devil, N/A	Gufnork	imprinted
pale grey cane	warm, dark sight	Fish	imprinted
pale yellow baton	major shield	Gufnork	impressed
ribboned baton	find	Sek	imprinted
ribboned baton	find corpse	Hat	imprinted
ribboned baton	longsight	Gufnork	impressed
ribboned baton	relief	Gufnork	impressed

Lockpicking

See Research:Pick for my research into lockpicking. Many of the hardest pickable locks in the game require exactly 1000 bonus. Note that other locks exist that are either unpickable, or require unrealistic bonuses -- e.g. over 2000.

My covert.lockpick.doors bonus is 950, which can be temporarily boosted to exactly 1000 by stacking black leather gloves (+2 Dex), Mazda's bonus (+1 Dex), Tsortean horse (+2 Int), and intelligence tea (+1 Int).

Rearrange

CON		DEX		INT		STR		WIS
8		23		15		11		8

Charm collecting

See Club/Charm Chasers for details on the charms club! For now, I'm only collecting lockpick charms and coconut charms. I'm happy to help track down charms for other folks. Note: the lockpick and coconut charms are likely not available in DJB, so not every material can be acquired.

	lockpick	coconut
porcelain	NEED	NEED
glass	NEED	NEED
clay	NEED	NEED
obsidian	HAVE	HAVE
crystal	NEED	NEED
emerald	HAVE	HAVE
sapphire	HAVE	HAVE
diamond	HAVE	HAVE
ruby	HAVE	HAVE
bronze	HAVE	HAVE
brass	HAVE	HAVE
silver	HAVE	HAVE
copper	HAVE	HAVE
gold	HAVE	HAVE
platinum	HAVE	HAVE

Tumbler Safe Aliases

dtest: turn dial clockwise to 0;frimble Tumbler Safe Cracking;turn dial anticlockwise to 20;turn dial anticlockwise to 40;frimble 0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8  
9   0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9;turn dial anticlockwise to 60;turn dial anticlockwise to 80;turn dial anticlockwise to 0
dtry: turn dial clockwise to $1$;turn dial anticlockwise to $2$;turn dial clockwise to $3$;turn dial
anticlockwise to $1$;turn dial clockwise to $2$;turn dial anticlockwise to $3$;turn dial clockwise
to $1$;turn dial anticlockwise to $3$;turn dial clockwise to $2$;turn dial anticlockwise to $1$;turn
dial clockwise to $3$;turn dial anticlockwise to $2$;turn dial clockwise to $1$;open safe;l it

Notes:

• "dtest" spins the dial around to locate the click points, and frimbles a handy ruler as well (it may take a bit to get used to reading it).
• "dtry" is called with three args for the click points, and efficiently tests every combination.

Pottery Aliases

Here are the main aliases I use to help with Ozzie's pottery jobs.

shape: throw clay onto wheel;mould clay into $*$ on wheel;get $*$ from wheel
pot: shape $*$ teapot;shape $*$ teapot;shape $*$ teapot;shape $*$ teapot;shape $*$ teapot;shape $*$ teapot
ph: palm $arg:tongs$ into hands
st: ph brush; stain teapot 1 with $*$; stain teapot 2 with $*$; stain teapot 3 with $*$; stain teapot 4 with $*$; stain teapot 5 with $*$; stain teapot 6 with $*$
gl: nickname $*$ as potcolor; glaze teapot 1 with $*$ glaze; glaze teapot 2 with $*$ glaze; glaze teapot 3 with $*$ glaze; glaze teapot 4 with $*$ glaze; glaze teapot 5 with $*$ glaze; glaze teapot 6 with $*$ glaze; fire my teapots in kiln
gk: get potcolor teapots from kiln;identify them as mypot;put them on rack;look every potcolor mypot on rack;memo list
oz: get every potcolor mypot from rack;n;give them to ozzie;memo add Sto Lat Pottery in 1:00:0

Notes:

• If fewer than 6 teapots, the extra commands in "pot", "st", and "gl" do nothing, but this is fine.
• Repeat the "st" command 1, 2 or 3 times depending on the type of stain.
• Since "gk" checks colors, it only gets finished pots from the kiln.
• I just "gk" again to see if the pots on the rack have cooled off.
• Finally, "oz" sets a 1 hour timer for the next job.

Example usage:

pot dragon
n
say assign john wylde
s
st cabbage in banana yellow
st cabbage in banana yellow
gl girly pink
ph
gk
oz

Useful alias to get only finished pottery from the kiln:

get colored things from kiln;put them on rack

Buy 1 clay ("bc"), or several (e.g. "bc 4"):

buy $ifarg:$*$ clays$else$clay$endif$

Idle Alias version 5.2.0

My idle alias starts and ends at the Sandelfon high altar in AM, and takes 5 minutes to run to completion. I slightly modified it here from my actual alias for readability reasons.

put prayer beads in swag bag
palm prayer beads from swag bag into hands

(pe.tr.va.*)
get amber ring from box in swag bag
value it in provincial
value it in provincial
put it in box in swag bag
value iridescent pearl
value iridescent pearl
value batiste shirt in provincial
value batiste shirt in provincial

(fa.it.rods, ma.points)
retrieve staff from elsewhere
hold staff
hold staff
hold staff
store staff between here and there

(ad.ac.balancing, ad.ac.vaulting -- with added burden)
e; n; w; w; s; s; sw; sw; w; nw; sw; nw; nw; nw; nw; nw; w; w; w; sw; sw; w; s; se; s; s
get large dog
leap across 7 stumps
drop large dog

(co.lo.traps, co.ca.place, co.it.traps -- Miss Band's classroom)
w; s; s; s; s; s; u; u; n; n; e; n
palm lockpick from batiste shirt into hands
disable birch drawer
arm trap in birch drawer
disable birch drawer
arm trap in birch drawer
slip lockpick to batiste shirt
probe birch drawer
probe birch drawer
probe birch drawer

(co.ma.passing -- Musician's guild)
s; w; s; s; d; d; n; n; n; n; n; n; n; n; n; e; s; se; s; se; w; sw; w; sw; w; sw; se; stairs; plant penny on loz; plant penny on loz; plant penny on loz

(cr.mu.in.keyboard -- 1 Attic Bee Street)
stairs; nw; w; w; w; s; s; s; s; s; w; s
perform solo on dark piano
perform solo on dark piano

(try to use up my GP)
pray to Sandelfon

(walk back to Sandelfon's high altar)
n; e; e; e; e; e; ne; e; e; e; e; e; ne; e; e; ne; e; e; ne; ne; n; ne; ne; n; ne; ne; n; n; e; e; s; w

(display latest tells, score, TMs, and job timers)
htell brief 3
score brief
hskills
memo list

(fa.ri.special)
get prayer beads from swag bag
meditate over prayer beads

Additional notes:

Failing a trap in Miss Band's classroom can result in losing consciousness, which breaks the rest of the alias. I then need to travel back to Sandelfon's high altar. For this reason, it would be nice if Miss Band's classroom was the start location. Unfortunately, meditation (as of Feb 2021) also *always* causes you to lose consciousness, so "meditate over prayer beads" has to come last and the high altar must be the start location.

Research: There might be possible ways to TM stealing up to high levels (while idlechasing), but nothing has been practical for me.

Retired for me (but very useful) training rooms:

1. Mr. Schotter's classroom (AM assassins)
stand still (co.hi.person)
walk through <colour> strings (co.st.inside)
sneak along <colour> path (co.st.inside)

2. Climbing wall (AM assassins)
climb up
climb up
climb up
climb up
fall off

Taxi Locations

This is mostly for my own reference, particularly as some items are storing two different places.

Item	Region	Blorple	Remember Place
wild honey batiste shirt	Ankh-Morpork		Post Office
coffee brown batiste trousers	Ankh-Morpork		Thieves' Guild hospital
perfect cube brooch	Ankh-Morpork		Sandelfon High Altar
black velvet bag	Ankh-Morpork		Nella's Vault
Thieves' Guild Licence	Ankh-Morpork		Thieves' Guild quota room
flowing water kodachi	Ankh-Morpork		Dragon's Nest Player Shop
magnificent silver ring	Ankh-Morpork		Shonky Shop
handsome platinum flame ring	Ankh-Morpork	1 Attic Bee Street	1 Attic Bee Street
amber and silver ring	Ankh-Morpork	Filigree Street	Job Market
amber and silver ring	Ankh-Morpork	Royal Art Museum	Lanfear's House
amber and silver ring	Ankh-Morpork	Grunefair	Real Estate Office
amber and silver ring	Ankh-Morpork	Rathole Bar	Milords & Miladies
amber and silver ring	Ankh-Morpork	Delbert Pub	Cheesemongers Yard
amber and silver ring	Ankh-Morpork	Salt Shaker	Sator Square
iridescent pearl	Bes Pelargic		Pearl Shop
amber and silver ring	Bes Pelargic	First Imperial Bank	Real Estate Office
amber and silver ring	Bes Pelargic	The Medina	Ninja Guild Pottery
amber and silver ring	Bes Pelargic	Dragon Head Square	Blue Moon Park
amber and silver ring	Bes Pelargic	Tang Estate	Sung Estate
moonstone ring	Bes Pelargic	Market Street	Tuna Walk
amber and silver ring	Ephebe	Smugglers Cave	Tsortean Horse
amber and silver ring	Genua	Diamond City Casino	Charms Shop
moonstone ring	Genua	National Bank	Money Changer
amber and silver ring	Klatch	Swamps	Lower Djel Trading Post
amber and silver ring	Klatch	Fez Club	Harbour
amber and silver ring	Klatch	The Oasis	Hashishim Caves Pottery
moonstone ring	Klatch	Djelibeybi Crossroads	Chronides Farmstead
amber and silver ring	Ohulan-Cutash	Market Square	Shrine to the Small Gods
amber and silver ring	Ramtops	Bandit Camp	Copperhead
amber and silver ring	Ramtops	Brass Neck	Slice
moonstone ring	Ramtops	Lancre	Creel Springs
amber and silver ring	Sto Plains	Bleak Prospect	Nowhere
amber and silver ring	Sto Plains	Death's Domain	CTF Arena
amber and silver ring	Sto Plains	Grflx Caves	Hillshire
amber and silver ring	Sto Plains	Guntram's Pottery Shop	Sheepridge
amber and silver ring	Uberwald	Escrow Town Hall	Monks of Cool

Property

I currently own 1 Attic Bee Street, a three-room player house located 11 s and 1 w from the Mended Drum. The door is unlocked so feel free to visit, or use my large copper tub and dark piano located in the "front spa" room just inside.