User:Peacefulness/Peaceful Stuff

Overview

My current project is incense research. For many tales, the wiki has noted that adding Petals of Ra to incense can change its feeling, yet I have not found anything more than that. Time to poke at it and see what comes out! At this time, I am only researching the changes from Rose petals. It has been brought to my attention that petals can be harvested from all in-game flower types.

Observed incense feelings this tale are: Gentle, Giddy, Guilty, Hopeful, Invigorating, Joyous, Melancholious, Mischievious, Relaxed, Serene, Sorrowful, Suspicious, Troubled, Vengeful.

I will be testing with the University roses: GL=Goldenleaves, HB=Hatch's Bud, NB=Night Bloom, OS=Onion Skin, PA=Pantomime, PG=Pink Giant, RD=Red Dwarf, WG=White Giant, and if released, BH=Blood Heart, DB=Dawn's Blush, and HD=Heart of Darkness.

Here is my raw data. There's now way too much data to make it worth posting here. Hoping to find patterns and create a better way to show them. So far, adding petals seems to change the quality and sometimes the feeling.

Possible patterns:

• I have seen some consistency in some of the feeling changes. I am working on a model that reflects these changes, perhaps a path or a circle to be travelled along.
• Some feeling changes are rapid, and in some tests the feeling has not changed at all. No test has gone beyond adding 20 petals of the same rose.
• The concept of starting points may be useful in predicting feeling changes.

The incense Starting Points table available through Maia's user page suggests multiple feeling types, which leads me to believe that at some point, somebody has done research on this. Her table lists starting points for: Gentle, Giddy, Guilty, Hopeful 1, Hopeful 2, Melancholious, Relaxed 1, Relaxed 2, Relaxed 3, Sorrowful 1, Sorrowful 2, and Vengeful.

The data below has also been placed on a Google Sheet, arranged by starting point. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mWDHQ8S_nsslxLSS4COkY8InkdSaJcYibpmC7_43i4I/edit#gid=1452045906

Results!

The following six feelings are not represented in the Starting Points table. They can only be created by adding flower petals to an incense

Invigorating

Melancholious Starting Point +1 Pantomime petal

Melancholious Starting Point +1 Pink Giant petal

Joyous

Relaxed3 Starting point +5 Pantomime petals

Mischievious

Melancholious Starting Point +2 Pantomime Petals

Melancholious Starting Point +2 Pink Giant Petals

Serene

Giddy Starting Point +3 Pantomime Petals

Guilty Starting Point +4 Goldenleaves Petals

Guilty Starting Point +9 Pantomime Petals

Hopeful2 Starting Point +16 Pink Giant Petals

Relaxed1 Starting Point +4 Hatch's Bud Petals

Relaxed3 Starting Point +8 Pantomime Petals

Sorrowful1 Starting Point +8 Pantomime Petals

Suspicious

Melancholious Starting Point +4 Hatch's Bud Petals

Troubled

Gentle Starting Point +4 Pink Giant Petals

Guilty Starting Point + 7 Hatch's Bud Petals

Relaxed3 Starting Point +5 Red Dwarf Petals

Relaxed3 Starting Point +7 Hatch's Bud Petals

Sorrowful Starting Point +5 Hatch's Bud Petals