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24.3.15 Artifact Fragments

Artifact fragments are won during special promotions and can be combined to create whole artifacts. There are also limited time promotions in which you may be able to buy crates of artifact fragments. Each fragment crate contains five random pieces. There are currently 4 different types of crates. Each crate comes with a different variety of pieces. You can get a list of those pieces below.

Single pieces may be traded to other players (With the PROMO TRADE command) or may be traded in for credits (See the commands below). Completed artifacts can be traded in for more than the individual pieces.  

Commands
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OPEN CRATE
- If you have an artifact crate you can open it and receive 5 random artifact fragments. There are currently 4 different types of crates. Each crate comes with a different variety of pieces. You can get a list of those pieces below.

ARTIFACT FRAGMENT LIST
- This will display all fragment pieces you have.

ARTIFACT FRAGMENT TURNIN <piece>
- Turn in the fragment for the value listed in the list above. 

ARTIFACT FRAGMENT REFORM <piece>
- You can randomly reform a single piece into another. You can only do this once per piece. This may result in a piece worth more or less, use with care. There is a change the reform will fail and result in breaking the fragment as well and you will be given bound credits instead.

ARTIFACT FRAGMENT <item>
- If you have five of the same piece, you can assemble it into an artifact.

ARTIFACT FRAGMENT PURCHASE <item>
- You can purchase an item for twice its turn in value. You will not be able to turn in fragments purchased like this.


Crate Types
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There are four types of fragment crates you may find in Imperian. Below is a list of the types of fragments you may find in them.

Soul
- Chaotic Crystal
- Tombstone of Life
- Squirt bottle
- Crooked Eyeglass
- Pet Licence
- a simple toolkit
- a delicate mithril flute
- a sack of meat
- Crystal pendulum
- Dictators Pen

War
- Mithril Top
- Allegiance Pin
- Slippery Cloak
- Devil Salts
- an elephant carving
- a sphere of peace
- a poisoned whip
- an inscribed stone
- Circumferentor
- a storm signet ring

Idol
- a monkey idol (rejection)
- an octopus idol (entanglement)
- an angel idol (resurrection)
- a rhino idol (repulsion)
- a whale idol (tsunami)
- a wyvern idol (meteoric)
- a scorpion idol (acidic)
- a elephant idol (tossing)
- a gopher idol (burying)
- a skull idol (ravenous)

Costume:
- Any of the costumes listed in HELP COSTUMES.



Item descriptions:

a delicate mithril flute
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BLOW FLUTE and all mutual allies in the room with you will follow you.

a sphere of peace
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ACTIVATE SPHERE and everyone in the room with you will unenemy you. 10 minute cooldown on the item.

a poisoned whip
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Hit a target with this whip and the target will have movement problems for 15 seconds. They will knocked them off balance when they move from room to room. WHIP <target>

a monkey idol (rejection)
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Drop the idol in a room and it will auto teleport the next enemy that enters the room to another random room in the area. Once dropped it cannot be picked up. After one game month it will return to the players inventory. The owner must be in the room for it to work.

an octopus idol (entanglement)
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Drop the idol in a room and it will auto entangle the next enemy three enemies that enter the room. Once dropped it cannot be picked up. After one game month it will return to the players inventory.

an angel idol (resurrection)
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Drop the idol in a room and it will auto resurrect the next ally that dies in the room. Once dropped it cannot be picked up. After 60 minutes it will return to the players inventory.

a rhino idol (repulsion)
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Drop the idol in a room and the next player who enters the room will be knocked back out of the room and knocked off balance. The next player has a 75% chance of being ejected, then 50% then 25%. Once dropped it cannot be picked up. After one game month it will return to the players inventory.

a whale idol (tsunami)
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When you drop this idol is starts spewing water into the air. It will flood the room you are in and all of the adjacent rooms. It will continue to do so for 60 seconds. After one game month it will return to the players inventory.

a wyvern idol (meteoric)
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When dropped the idol will fire meteors at enemy characters in the area. The target is randomly chosen. It will attempt to fire every 15 seconds for 90 seconds. This is similar to the star tarot and meteor arrows in crystalbinding. After one game month it will return to the players inventory. Must be placed outside.

a scorpion idol (acidic)
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All players, including the owner that enter the room with this idol will instantly be hit with poison for 10% of their max health and mana. This will continue for 60 seconds. After one game month it will return to the players inventory.

a elephant idol (tossing)
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Any player (except the owner) entering the room is tossed up into the skies. It will not effect players burrowing up, swinging down, or landing in the room. Will not work in a room considered to be indoors. This will continue for 60 seconds. You can only be effected by the elephant and gopher idols once every 7 seconds. After one game month it will return to the players inventory.

a gopher idol (burying)
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Any player (except the owner) entering the room is buried instantly. Will only work in a room players can normally be buried in. This will continue for 60 seconds. You can only be effected by the elephant and gopher idols once every 7 seconds. After one game month it will return to the players inventory.

a skull idol (ravenous)
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When an enemy player enters the room this idol will swallow them whole and drop them in the rashirmir for 10 seconds before returning them. After one game month it will return to the players inventory. The owner must be in the room for it to work.

a simple toolkit
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The toolkit that lets you disassemble crafting items for a partial return of components. DISASSEMBLE <item>

a sack of meat
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You will not lose your mobile followers when you tumble from a room.

an inscribed stone
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An item that unenemies you to all players in the area and does not let them enemy you again for a few seconds. 60 second cooldown. FLIP <stone>

a storm signet ring
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This ring will create a powerful thunderstorm in the characters area. Anyone outside, including the user, has a chance of being struck by lightning for serious damage. TWIST <ring>

an elephant carving
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When dropped in the room, keep people from flying. Only it's owner can pick it up.

Dictators Pen:
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DICTATE INTO <journal>
STOP DICTATING
Doing your own paperwork is inhuman, use this pen to take care of it for you. Activating this pen will cause anything said in the room to be written into a journal. 

Circumferentor
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Shows room numbers along with the room names for skills that report a target's location
Works for the following skills:
Descecration: Treelist
Engineering: Spyglass
Fayth: Seek, Presences
Malignosis: Demon Observe
Naturebinding: Treelist
Necromancy: Sense
Perception: Farsight, Scan, Rivensense.
Terrestrialism: Locate
Shadowbinding: Seek
Shamanism: Divine
Spatium: Demon Scent
Telepathy: Sense, Fullsense
Terratheria: Windscribe
Voice: Ka, Iluma
Racial: Scent 
Shards: Presence

Crystal pendulum
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This will increase leyline influencing by 10%.

Devil Salts
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Awakens a character from death, as long as it has happened in the last 10 seconds. Players have an AGREE command if they want to come back. They flail and scream in terror for a few seconds first, lashing out and striking random players in the room. 60 minute cooldown. USE <salts> ON <corpse>

Pet Licence
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Player can have 2 pets out at once. One has to be a mount, the other cannot be a mount.

Slippery Cloak
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You cannot follow a player wearing this cloak.

Crooked Eyeglass
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SQUINT <dir> <dir2>
This item will let you use the squint command around corners. It reaches a maximum of 5 rooms.

Tombstone of Life
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TOUCH TOMBSTONE 
Return to the surface from anywhere in the Underworld after a short channel.

Squirt bottle
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Make your pet obey no matter what. 

Allegiance Pin
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OBSERVE <ally>
UNOBSERVE
Focus on one mutual ally. Alerts when that mutual ally is attacked, revealing attacker and location. 

Chaotic Crystal
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TOUCH <CRYSTAL>
This crystal will change your gender. This item has a 24 hour cooldown.

Mithril Top
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SPIN TOP
Spin the top to be flung to a random room on the Material Plane.