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 roughly once an Egyptian week, but not at the same time as other "weekly" activities, such as thistle requests and ant leaves. The actual time alternates between settings: 2 days 14hours 40 minutes (or so) 'realtime' and 2 days 22 hours 40 minutes (or so). This allows us to predict when we can expect FBAs to change and focus efforts on 'weeks' that are eight hours longer.

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. When adding activities, please also ensure that the blank template is updated as well, so next week we can test the activity again!

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:

Tested for week ending FOO

Agriculture, Flowers	Tested
Crossbred
Fertilized
Planted
Removed

Agriculture, Grew	Tested
Cabbage
Carrots
Cucumbers
Eggplants
Flax
Garlic
Herbs
Leeks
Onions

Agriculture, Other	Tested
Beehive, checked
Citrus tree, Mulched
Citrus tree, Gathered honey
Citrus tree, Gathered fruit
Fertilized a date tree
Nicked a tree

Gathered	Tested
Cactus Sap
Chicken
Clay
Coconuts
Dates
Egg
Flint
Limestone
Moss
Mud
Mushrooms
Palm Frond
Papyrus
Red Sand
Resin
Sand
Sheep, wild
Silt
Soda
Sulfurous Water
Tadpoles
Thorns
Water
White Sand
Wood

Livestock, fed	Tested
Beetles
Camels, straw
Camels, honey
Chickens
Rabbits
Sheep
Snakes

Livestock, killed	Tested
Beetles
Chickens
Camels
Sheep in a pen
Sheep, Wild (successfully)
Sheep, Wild (failed)
Snakes
Rabbits

Skill-based	Tested
Carved
Dowsed
Fished
Foraged an herb (successfully)
Foraged an herb (failed)
Lit a firepit
Made a stone blade
Mechanics
Mined
Prospected for marble

Skill-based, Ecology	Tested
Acidity, tested for
Heavy metals, tested for
Phosphorous, tested for
Soot, tested for

Structures, Used: General	Tested
Acid Bath
Anvil
Beer Kettle
Brick rack
Carpentry shop
Casting Box
Charcoal Hearth/Oven
Chest
Forge
Glazier's Bench
Kettle
Kiln
Mason's Bench
Pottery Wheel
Quarry
Raeli Oven
Reactory
Rock Saw
Star Rack
Tub
Watermine
Wood Plane

Structures, Kitchen Activities	Tested
Ate a meal
Cooked a meal
Cracked a coconut
Crushed a cabbage
Crushed seeds into oil
Made fertilizer
Shredded a carrot

Structures, Miscellaneous	Tested
Drank from an Aqueduct
Maintained a structure
Salvaged a structure

Judged a(n)...	Tested
Artwork
Beetle Garden
Empty Hand Puzzle
Pathmaker
Raeli Gliderport (heh)
Venery

Test-Related	Tested
Acro, taught facet
Mushroom, eaten from the earth
Shrine, tithed at

Travel	Tested
Chariot, Free travel
Chariot, Regular
Expedition Travel
Navigated to a waypoint
Spousewarped

Vintner's Craft	Tested
Tended grapes
Crushed grapes
Bottled wine
Drank wine

Miscellaneous Other	Tested
belly danced
poked another player with a sharpened stick
ate an herb off the ground
lit a firework
lit a ritual torch
resgistered as a watcher at a star lab
bought Kartal and Sefet some tacos

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

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