Guilds/Flavored Bacon Conspiracy

Purpose

The Flavored Bacon Conspiracy is dedicated to finding Favored Beacon Activities (FBAs) for the purposes of passing the Test of Beacons. As such, membership is generally open to players who have signed up for the Test of Beacons.

The Favored Beacon activity changes once an Egyptian week, but not at the same time as other "weekly" activities, such as thistle requests and ant leaves.

Favored Beacon Activities

Because Guild chat scrolls as quickly as it does, to minimize redundant testing of possible FBA's, what follows is a checklist of things to try, organized by type. Please note this is not all-inclusive and please feel free to try whatever isn't on the list. Likewise, activities will likely be listed that will never generate a beacon, but since we have so little data to actually go on, it is impossible to eliminate specific entries.

Over the coming days, the activities will be broken down by catagories (growin' stuff, killin' stuff, using skills, using machines, etc) to better organize, along with dates and spots to mark tested activities.

On Testing

You can test anywhere, but if you have access to an unconfirmed number of non-public buildings in the general vicinity (thought to be 30% or more in a 64-coord radius, based on previous Tale data. This may be wild speculation.), you will not attract a beacon, but you should get a message in main with something to the affect of A beacon altar was almost attracted to you, because you did the favored activity in the last hour. However, you own too many of the buildings in this area. You are at home.

Potential FBAs

Right now, consider this a placeholder of things attempted 09/23/09:

Currently tried:

• killed camels
• killed sheep in a pen
• Tended grapes
• worked quarry
• used chest
• nicked tree
• gathered wood, thorns, silt, resin, tadpoles, dirt, sand, mud, slate, clay, sap (injured cactus)
• judged artwork
• fished
• used expedition travel
• watermine (wound spring, collected gem)
• growing leeks & garlic
• collecting coconuts
• belly dance
• picking mushrooms
• spouse warp
• making bricks
• cutting stone
• baking jugs
• mining rubies
• fertilized both sea lily & ra bulb, checked for bulbing, seperated bulb, moved bulb, uprooted bulb
• Tithed a shrine
• poked another player with a sharpened stick
• Checked a beehive, withdrew contents
• ate an herb off the ground
• Grated carrots,
• cooked and ate a meal,
• maintained a compound
• gathered a chicken
• used a carp shop
• grew flax
• harvested seeds from flax
• ripped up a bed
• crushed seeds in a kitchen
• screwed up foraging an herb
• made a jug
• fired a kiln
• fert'd date trees, Gathered dates
• properly harvested an herb
• rotted dung
• crossbred a sea lily, planted a bulb, removed a bulb
• made stars
• smashed a beetle, fed beetles
• mulched a citrus tree, picked citrus, gathered aromatic honey,
• used reactory, MCB, & CB
• Made bricks
• spun and fired a few jugs
• tested for heavy metals and phos.
• gathered limestone, soda,
• solved an EHP,
• carved stuff, lit a firepit, grilled food
• built and lit a ritual torch
• gathered sulfurous(sp) water, dried same
• fashioned a stone blade,
• prospected for marble,
• dowsed for metals,
• registered as a watcher at a star lab,
• attempted to tune something with mechanics,
• drank from an aqueduct and harvested some moss
• built used and tore down a wood plane
• successfully stabbed a wild sheep
• picked up a wild sheep (male)
• fueled a glazier's bench
• smacked rocks until able to scoop gravel
• made a mortar, designed a firework and launched it
• drank wine (and face-planted)
• burned a raeli oven
• ate a mushroom
• made salts of various metals
• tuned & used/traveled via wings of horus