AidanShan Site Admin
Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 1790 Location: The folds of time, waiting for the time I can actually be free...
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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:37 pm Post subject: Shadows |
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Shadows should really be labelled in four levels, the first being Shadows(0). The reason for this is that all Ravenblack City vampires are born with this power, albeit rudimentary.
Shadows makes your vampire name vanish from the city and otherwise makes you immune to attacks, thievery and bitings. You will still be there, just "lost in shadow". You can be found by Locate (though this information will not be of any help to the locater), some of the immunities can be bypassed by raw URL strings and very importantly: You can still be scrolled.
Normally, you enter this state after four days of inactivity. With each level of Shadows, this waiting time is reduced by one day.
It should be noted that it is relatively easy to spot whether or not there are shadowed vampires in a square. The blood.pl script adds a linebreak (<br>) behind every vampire name whether displayed or not. So if you see a line free between two vampire names, another vampire is between them, 'hiding'. Of course, this eyes-only recognition works only if there are no vampires below the last visible one, which one can never be sure of, though the size of the square can sometimes be an indicator.
To find out for sure how many vampires are in a square, you can scroll it. It will tell you how many vampires (by their names) were moved and how many resisted - counting them together gives you the total amount.
Rumours have it that scrolling a shadowed vampire sometimes brings them out of Shadows? I have yet to see this happening. If it happens to you, please report it to me, together with a before and after screenshot of the location (so I can see which vampires have newly appeared, if any)
Price
Shadows(1): 1 000
Shadows(2): 2 000
Shadows(3): 4 000
Summary
Price: 1 000, 2 000 and 4 000 coins: 7 000 coins.
benefits:
faster defences
contras:
using Shadows as defence is regarded as "chickening out" and can be highly reputation damaging - if you care for such a thing. _________________ Dante| Marshall |katsuya|Izaka|Sins|Xxypher|Tara|Ashy
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