Guilds/GreenValleyFalls/Tests/Architecture

1: Test of the Obelisk

Skills: Easy | Duration: 1 week

2: Test of Towers

Skills: Easy | Duration: 1 - 2 weeks

3: Test of the People's Pyramid

Skills: Easy | Duration: 1 day

4: Test of Life

Difficulty: Medium | Duration: Months

5: Test of the Megalopolis

Difficulty: Easy | Duration: 1 day

Megas are group builds, and when a group has all of the materials together to start building their mega, it is common for them to open the Mega to others needing to complete the test. As an example, you may need to bring 1 cut stone block to put into a construction site already built at the Mega site. Add this stone block and when the Mega passes, you pass.

6: Common Options for a 6th Test

6A: Test of the Funerary Temple

Difficulty: Not hard but tedious | Duration: 10 days - many months

This test requires that you build a temple and fill it with 200,000+ tiles, maximising a specific scoring system. We have 30+ ovens in which you can bake tiles. Baking tiles requires you to sit attentively at an oven for up to 2 and a half hours, and you will need to bake many, many ovens! You will also need to carry tiles back, so this test is best begun after you can carry a boxed lunch.

It is totally possible to power this test; Huggz and Eimear did a passing temple in under 10 days, working as a team and burning ovens all day long. Most people do not use this approach and instead fill their temple over weeks or months.

6B: Test of Octec's Ghost

Difficulty: Hard | Duration: 10 days - many months

We can help you with the materials needed to build your Octec's, including marbles, and may (or may not) have spare crystals to give you. Unless you are extremely lucky and the crystal the University assigns you is a rare one like Osiris, you're going to need to trade not only crystals but materials, basically buying crystals. People with rares can ask basically whatever they want, and 500 gravel is an example of a traded price for rares.

7: Options for the 7th Test

If you do not do both a Temple and an Octec's, you will need to choose one more test to Oracle. All of the below are intensive tests, in terms of both time and resources. These are very big kid tests! Because goods at GVF are held in common, please speak with an Elder if you're going to have needs for vast amounts of papyrush, ash, potash or metals. Thanks!

Please Note: Guild support is available for these tests when you are a) paid; b) a Tale member of at least 12 weeks; c) a GVF member of at least Fellow.

7A: Test of the Library of Alexandria

All of these materials are just grinds, and learning to break and then not break buttloads of sheetglass.

The sticking point for most people is not the build materials (we can help you shortcut those via trades!) but the mandibular glue. Happily, glue is available for Library books for those needing Library for their Oracle test.

7C: Test of Ka

You're pretty much on your own for this one! We do have silk farms; start early...