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Djen_Kyshek

Thu Sep 11, 2003 9:24 am

Bazaar sales are pretty good, but somewhat limited and often random. We all know the top sellers are Pet Munchies andTatooine Sunburns, even thoughthe odd Veronian Berry Wine or Synthasteak gets sold as well. Regardless, the bazaar represents something of a crapshoot: Sometimes you get a hit, sometimes you don't. Eventually everything seems to sell, but the rate is never a constant. Sometimes the entire inventory flies in a night, other times it takes a week.

Personal vendors are more a fustration than anything. My Mon Calimari BarWench sure is cute, but she is as daft as a one-way dead-end street. Sometimes she barks... Sometimes she just stands there and examines her nails. On the plus side, I have had much better vendor sales since scrapping my own shop, and merging with a successful Master Weapons Maker (VERY recomended).

None of the above has made me rich though. You might call me a struggling Chef at best. Between harvesters, factories and buying skills from npcs, I typically hover around the 20k mark in the bank.

Enter the Cantina scene: A squalid, motley affair filled with camo-wearing novicemarksmen playing the Fizz, scantily clad Twi'lek dancers, random violent gunbattles,and a gaggle of powergamers sitting on the floor (as opposed to the handy chairs... I willl never quite figure that out). Overall I would say a pretty inviting scenario. One could just picture a bartender in the scene, passing out booze to the degenerates of the galaxy. So I did.

Snappy banter and quick wit is a more powerful weapon than any blaster. Before long I had a whole repetoir of product endorsments macroed up and was spewing them out to any that would listen:

"Rotgut with a crisp Bantha taste! That's how you might describe a Bantha Blaster! Slightly less painful than a punch in the face with only 3 times the after effects... Try one today!"

"If you enjoy the flavor of burnt petrochems (and who doesn't) you are going to LOVE the sweet acid burn of a Deuterium Pyro! Ask for it by name!"

"You there, the unkempt wookie in the back! You look likea guy whocould use the 110% adreniline rush of a Tatooine Sunburn! Step on up... if you are brave enough!"

It went on like this for quite some time, and I realized that even WITHOUT charging for a single drink, I was making more money in tips than I ever had selling food the conventional way. And, I was educating the masses. You would not believe how many combat types would goggle at the stats on a Sunburn. Plus, by the end of the night I had probably sent over a dozen emails with my vendor location.

Now I can barely keep my cute little Mon Calimari BarWench stocked. I try to do the bar scene every night and I even save all of my normal experimentation failures (you know, the ones that have one lousy charge) and hand them out at the bar.

I just got Mixology III and need to get my factories churning out alcohol, as identical-run alcohols seem to be the required ingredient in all the new drinks. I can't wait to write theproduct slogans for my new drinks.I am sooooo enjoying Chef!

- Djen

Shidi-Rommu

Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:01 am

#2

OK in homage to the Chuckle for the Smuggler thread and to get off the "macro" issueI would like to open this thread for Entertainers,Musicians and Dancers to post their funny and weird moments....

Let the good times roll............................

Shidi-Rommu

Thu Aug 05, 2004 5:50 am

#3

OK in homage to the Chuckle for the Smuggler thread and to get off the "macro" issueI would like to open this thread for Entertainers,Musicians and Dancers to post their funny and weird moments....

Let the good times roll............................

Cudayn

Thu Aug 05, 2004 6:50 pm

#4

Off to a good start I see

I will try and think about a single instance that might be good for a laugh because right off the top of my head all I can think of is when we used to have people /startband when you were sitting with an instrument and all of a sudden you would have musical notes pooring from you and be bugged

Durney

Equatorsm

Thu Aug 05, 2004 8:02 pm

#5

/Snicker...

Someone mistelled something pretty funnyin Groupchat today... Apparently they were getting down and dirty with their girlfriend... Cybersex is so wrong, lol.

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bawler14

Thu Aug 05, 2004 8:47 pm

#6

Without MT's I don't know what I would do...

I am the king of MT's. Fortunately most of mine are mild or just humorous out of context. I haven't had any really embarassing ones yet. A few opened me up to a couple good verbal jabs. But it is all fun. Speaking of MT's, has anyone started a thread to document them?

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                       /| 0 0 | \                          
+----------------.oooO--|  /  | --Oooo.-------------------+ 
| Doasa Arsim            \_-_/       Events Coordinator   | 
| Master Musician    .oooO   Oooo.   Master Entertainer   | 
| Fifth River Cantina(   )   (   )   Four Rivers, Correlia| 
+---------------------\ (-----) /-------------------------+ 
                       \_)   (_/

JohnMarble

Fri Aug 06, 2004 3:54 am

#7

I posted this story shortly after it happened, took place back in january...

So there was this trandoshan novice musician in the Coronet cantina, and he must've just fixed his macro, then went afk. He had it set up so he would play, and after every five minutes or so, he would shout, "Thanks for the Tips and Heals!" But something went wrong. It was slow at first. I noticed the trandoshan started shouting for his tips and heals every couple minutes instead of every five. Then every minute. Then every thirty seconds. And it kept builiding and building and building. Pretty soon everybody in Coronet noticed the guy and his shouts for tips, because he was doing it every second. Then he was doing multiple times a second. Then he was doing it multiple times every millisecond.

"Thanks for the Tips and Heals!"

"ARGH!"

"Thanks for the Tips and Heals!"

"SHUT UP!"

"Thanks for the Tips and Heals!"

"help!"

"Thanks for the Tips and Heals!"

We all tried putting him on ignore! It worked... for a little while. Then he was SPAMMING SO HARD that he BROKE THROUGH our ignores! There were howls and people screaming he must be a Hax0r! The tip heal spam was making everybody move like they were trapped in ice! YOU COULDN'T EVEN ESCAPE THE CANTINA! It was like his spam had become some kind of spider web! Somebody screamed we had only minutes to go before the trandoshan with the slitherhorn would take down the entire server! Then... it stopped, we could all move freely again, and we saw LD above his head. There were cheers, and somebody went outside and set off some fireworks.

So it was later that evening, and I'm doingmy grinding, and I spotted him in the cantina again. He must've been there a while, I yelled at him to fix his bloody macro. Then I remembered to take him off ignore, and found out he had been trying to get in a group for ten minutes, and had been wondering why everybody was ignoring him. I told him because he was some kind of devil. Hetook off forTheed.

Kanubis

Fri Aug 06, 2004 4:19 am

#8

Hmm, I meant to send a /tell to a close friend but forgot the.. /tell bit, I had the groupchat tab open so shared something along the lines of this with the group, who were all strangers to me..

'Just got a bloody text from ex-wife - we've been seperated for 18 months and she's still nagging - at least when we were together I had sex to make up for it'

What an ice-breaker. Within a few minutes the group all knew eachother much, much better...

Ka'nubis I'onia {SFR} - MIA, presumed dead, 20/10/04

THE DEEPEST CIRCLE OF HELL IS RESERVED FOR TRAITORS AND L33T-SPEAKERS (AND PEOPLE WHO PARODY MY SIG...)

Springbok

Fri Aug 06, 2004 10:39 am

#9

Not wierd. Not funny. Just nastalgic, of reading the boards. Wanderhome is not a server where you find bands, despite attempts. Sure they exist, but never for long. Last night for the first time in 8 months of being a master, I was in a cantina with 5 other masters. I'm sorry to say that we never started to jam or form much cohesion, although all in the same group.While none were afk, not exactly talkative =(. Maybe its time for me to make another master, elsewhere. This post is great, in it will aid me in forming such a choice.

Edit: Did think of one time

Me and another master, saw each other in Coronet, walked out just outside the cantina to have a lil' jam session. Upon just meeting, we immediately meshed together, and played better together with our 2 droids, his on bandfill, mine on nalargon, him on chidinkalu, me on the mando. We drew quite a crowd, I dare say more than what was in the cantina. On our server thats a rarity, and people were most probably first able to enjoy theMusician profession rather than just a necessity for BF healing....It was such a blast. To see so many watching along for quite some time, when they only came to heal up and move out. That's what our profession is all about. Or should be.

Message Edited by Springbok on 08-06-2004 01:45 PM

Aleyo

Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:00 am

#10

Springbok wrote:
Edit: Did think of one time

Me and another master, saw each other in Coronet, walked out just outside the cantina to have a lil' jam session. Upon just meeting, we immediately meshed together, and played better together with our 2 droids, his on bandfill, mine on nalargon, him on chidinkalu, me on the mando. We drew quite a crowd, I dare say more than what was in the cantina. On our server thats a rarity, and people were most probably first able to enjoy the Musician profession rather than just a necessity for BF healing....It was such a blast. To see so many watching along for quite some time, when they only came to heal up and move out. That's what our profession is all about. Or should be.
Message Edited by Springbok on 08-06-2004 01:45 PM

Wow, that's sooooo like an experience I just had this past Sunday.
I arrived at the Theed cantina to find that there were 5 or 6 people hanging out right outside the door (including someone playing some music). I stopped for a bit to chat and I found out they had gone outside to get away from the AFKers. Well, I got myself grouped with the other musician, and we each pulled out a droid, and we started playing various songs, using a bandfill, nalargon, chidinkalu, and mando (with the same instruments on the droids as in your story). We set our droids dancing in a little box around us, and jammed some awesome music. Little by little people added themselves to the party, and we recruited some of the dancers into the group so that they could dance in sync. We started advertising the 'Party Under the Stars' on our ent channel, and by the time Doasa came to visit from Bria that evening, we had quite a party going with maybe 20-30 people

. (The name changed to the Theed Block Party when daylight came).
One of the best times I've had in a while

.

Scipionus Mentus
Master Musician, Master Entertainer, Master Dancer - Tempest
-I support ATK people and playstyles.
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes."

StikerRunningfly

Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:38 am

#11

While on my way to master musician, I decided to break from the monotony of the AFK brigade in Theed, and headed to Bestine. While playing there, a new character who was working on dancer came in, and I invited her. A few minutes later, a new character working on musician came in, so I switched to Starwars1, and invited him. Within minutes the new musician set up his macro, but instead of performing flourishes, he only put thetipspam in there, and began to spam the phrase "give some tip's". Now where I fully believe that spamming for tips is a sure way to make a whole 0 credits, I don't usually say anything to the person doing it. They have a right to play the way they want, and I'll just sit back, make smalltalk with the other players, and make a few tips through being friendly, and making a few jokes.

What I failed to realize at first, he set it to spam for tips every 30 seconds, and it didn't take long for the spatialchat to look like this:

give some tip's

____ slaps ---- across the face

give some tip's

SHUT THE &$^# UP!

give some tip's

At that point I tried to explain to him, in group chat, that what he was doing would only serve to annoy people, and it was a way to ensure that he would be very poor. He replied in group chat with something I couldn't even make sense of, and I ended up placing him on ignore. I soon realized that he clicked his group chat tab in order to reply. And because ignore does not seem to affectgroup chat, the group chat tab was filled with:

give some tip's

I eventually booted him from the group, leaving him to his noob clothes and sitherhorn to play the same rif again and again. Several weeks later, I saw him again, still in Bestine, still not flourishing while playing sw1 on his sitherhorn, still in noob clothes, and after taking him off ignore to see, still spamming "give some tip's". I immediately put him back on ignore, and left.

Klayton

Master Entertainer/Musician/Dancer

Aleyo

Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:50 pm

#12

Well, I personally wouldn't call it a good thing (based on my position in the 'battle'.. keep reading), but the entertainers, and some regulars in the cantinas, on Tempest, have recently been coming down with an infection of twibblage. As far as I can tell, the virus' source is in Faiwi, a recently retired master dancer, who spreads the twibblage virus by twibbling aimlessly around everyone she sees.
I've been combating the infection (to which I seem to be immune) by licking those who are infected. It seems that if I lick them early enough in the infection (and if I scold them a bit), I can cure them of the disease. However, no amount of licking seems to be able to remove the virus from Faiwi herself, and there are a few members of the community that seem to have permanent infections as well, as frequent lick attempts on them have proved futile.
I will not give up the fight. I will fight to save the members of Tempest from twibblage.
/lick Tempest

Scipionus Mentus
Master Musician, Master Entertainer, Master Dancer - Tempest
-I support ATK people and playstyles.
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes."

Omnikron

Fri Aug 06, 2004 9:03 pm

#13

A couple of days ago I was invited to attend a wedding on Naboo, at the lake retreat. I was there (novice musician)with my friend Terolo (virtuoso)playing some croons for the soon to be newlyweds when a master musician showed upand joined our band. Shortly after joining the two of us, I began seeing "Tips and heals appreciated." coming from our new arrival. I almost pissed my pants. I sent a /tell Terolo with the message "Can you say recursive macro", and we both died laughing.

The master musician returned a little after that and was very apologetic. She was actually very cool and played a lovely tune as the bride and groom walked down the ilsle,but I stillchuckle whenever I think about it.

-Dizzie Jay

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