GOD 2023 E3 specials

This page lists things that are likely to affect GOD crew, because they're special for this event and change how we normally do things. It'll be as complete as I can get it, but I can't promise to spot everything: sometimes things get hidden and sometimes I just don't spot them!

This doesn't try to cover everything in the Winds of Fortune: sometimes player ask for information about conjunctions, or about how certain titles or opportunities work. They're things we might be able to help with, but they're not covered here because they don't fundamentally change how GOD processes work.

2023 E3 – Summer Solstice 385YE

Sunset

Is defined to be 21:00–22:00 this event.

Inkpot gods

• Weighers of Worth: If someone casts Ephisis' Scale and it's not a pre-arranged trade (e.g. one of the specials listed elsewhere on this page, or something that the players tell you they have otherwise arranged in advance with Ephisis):
  • If it's Friday or Saturday, record the ritual, take the players' box of stuff, and take it to Plot. They don't get it back until Sunday.
  • If it's Sunday, the ritual fails: don't take the player's mana, don't record it, give them back their stuff.
• Rewards of Virtue: If someone casts Ephisis' Scale with liao and the symbol Lann
  • If it's Friday or Saturday: they get one crown per dose of liao
  • If it's Sunday: the ritual fails: don't take the player's mana, don't record it, give them back their stuff.
  • If it's true liao: get Plot.
• Fire Sale: there are some special trades available with the ritual EmpireWiki:Before the Throne of Estavus. These need to be done at the regio; we can't process them in GOD. If there's an access issue with making the trade at the regio, escalate to Adam or Erin.
• The Mediators Bargain: Someone trading large quantities of materials might be after a schema. If you have plot wiki access, check the plot wiki for details. Otherwise, check with the Ref Desk.
• Vermin of the Cities: If someone is trading something that looks like a set of triangular tokens, if you have access, check the plot wiki for details. Otherwise, check with the Ref Desk.

Farewell wanderlust

• Summer Gold: Characters will be getting 26 rings of basic income rather than the normal 18 rings. This includes new characters, and new character packs should have it printed automatically.
• Ripples of Gold: Characters can diversify businesses for free. As ever with diversification, this is something players should sort themselves in downtime.
• Wages of Wickedness: Characters might perform Ephisis' Scale with money and vouchers. If you can follow the instructions on the Wind of Fortune, do so. If not, if you have plot wiki access, check if the plot wiki has anything useful. Otherwise, check with the Ref Desk.
• Enchanted Brokers: Characters who had businesses and who had their business subjected to Rivers of Gold, Streams of Silver or Gift of the Wily Broker at E2 2023 should get a ribboned magical item in their pack. If someone is missing such an item:
  • Check (a) they have a business, and (b) their business was subject to such an effect (from the character page, click on the Business, then check the Magic tab).
  • If that doesn't explain things, or the player isn't happy with the explanation, escalate as normal.
• Treasures of the Earth: regarding "deepstone" potion lammies: warstone, bloodstone, spellstone or heartstone. If someone casts a ritual on one of these, record the ritual as normal, and add a note to the ritual saying which stone the players used. Take the lammy off the players; the stone is consumed as part of the ritual and they don't get anything back immediately.
• Dissonant Growth:
  • Farms are producing 72 rings less than usual; characters with farms are instead getting "Ashen Residue". This is expected. They can be used when casting rituals:
    • Provided (a) the ritual is in Autumn, (b) the ritual is no more than magnitude 8, and (c) everyone involved in casting the ritual has it mastered, one Ashen Residue will provide all the mana for the ritual.
  • Forests are producing two measures less than usual; characters with farms are instead getting "metallic fruit". This is expected. They can be traded with eternals:
    • For the purposes of most trade rituals, including ones that normally have strict requirements about what can be traded (e.g. Tithe of Bats normally only allows someone to send Gloaming and Dragonbone), one Metallic Fruit can be used in place of five regular ingots or measures.
    • Trading one Metallic Fruit on its own will convert it to one vis of the appropriate realm.
    • If the ritual is Tribute to the Thrice Cursed Court, check with Ref Desk. It might work exactly the same, or it might not. I genuinely don't know.
• Menhirs and Mana:
  • If a Marcher with a farm wants to swap to a mana site, check if their farm has been upgraded. If not, just go ahead and swap them to a mana site as normal, but don't charge them and select the "new character, no charge taken" option. If it has been upgraded, write a ticket and escalate. There's no need for the player to hang around: a head of department can sort it out, it's just a faff.
  • Marchers who have diversified to produce more than two mana crystals will lose that diversification and get some of their money back. This happens after this event, so they won't see the effects of this until next event.

Fate and function

• A New Home: this is a resource change opportunity, so folk might come to GOD to get it processed. Apparently we're not handling these ones: players need to email in to plot@ to take advantage of it.

The horror and the wild

• The Beast of the Semmerlak: Fleets belonging to Dawnish, Varushkan and Holberg have a production penalty. They won't get as much stuff in their packs. This is expected.

Battle cries

• Despise the thieving bandit:
  • Anyone who brings the deeds for (a) a named level 4 business in Sarvos, (b) a named level 3 business in Tassato, (c) a named level 2 business in Tassato, (d) a named level 3 business in Karov or (e) a named level 3 mine in Karov can swap their resource to that named resource for free. Process the swap as usual (escalate if you need help) but select "no charge" for the swap.
  • Any League citizen can get a new business in Tassato for free; again, process the new resource as normal but select "no charge".

Ruin

• Watched: Someone casting EmpireWiki:Cast Off the Chain of Memory can use gloaming to get an additional effect. This can only be done at the regio, so players shouldn't come to GOD to process it. If someone does anyway (possibly for access reasons) talk to the ref desk or escalate.
• EmpireWiki:Ruin#Crescendo: The rituals Swim Leviathan's Depth, Clear Counsel of the Everflowing River and Combing the Beach cannot be cast on Sunday. If someone tries, tell them the ritual fails and give them their mana back.
• Blood and Consequences: rituals cast at the regio on Saturday between 10am and 10pm allow characters to gain an additional rank in the appropriate lore by reducing themselves to 0 hits, provided the ritual calls on an eternal for potentially violent purposes; check the Winds for more detail. This should normally happen at the regio, but if someone tries to use this in GOD (possibly for access reasons) talk to the ref desk or escalate.