Anu Travels

TRP3 Extended image conversion

Upload an image for TRP3 conversion

This converts any image into 92 colors, which are converted into a character per color, and a color index defining each character. This is usually small enough to be copied into a TRP3 item. You can copy this into an item like Neridris' group picture to make it into a picture inside TRP3 extended. It is recommended to scale the image down 3x vertically, and not make it wider than 480 pixels.

Carnal Stone

Carnal Stone is one of the things I crafted using TRP3 extended inside World of Warcraft. It's a card game that is similar to Hearthstone (or Magic the Gathering) but it is more suggestive. Instead of hurting your opponent you please your partner, and the person that is pleased the most will lose. It was initially invented for Carnal Play, which in turn was a more elaborate version of Crystal Palace, but in World of Warcraft is where it got a reasonable audience of people playing.

If you want to know more, please contact Ovokalia-MoonGuard on the US server of World of Warcraft, or join the Carnal Stone community there and hope one of the other players is online to share the game. You'll need Total RP 3 and Total RP 3 Extended. The game uses emotes, so it is generally good to find a quiet place to play. It has a multiplayer version as well, although that is very much unbalanced.

Ovokalia's Image in Roleplaying Profile

This is Ovokalia-MoonGuard's image converter to add a picture to your XRP, MRP or TRP3 profile. It needs some preprocessing, but it is completely client side (the picture doesn't need to be uploaded). You will need to take the following steps:

1. Scale your image to a width of at most 144 pixels, and a height that is around 3x shorter. A square picture should become 144x44. In GIMP this is done using Scale image...
2. Reduce the number of colors to 6. In GIMP this is done using Mode > Indexed...
3. Export the image as an ASCII PGM file. In GIMP this is done using Export As... and using the pgm extension.
4. Load the resulting file in a text editor (e.g. notepad) and copy the result into the text box below.
5. Hit "Convert".
6. If all goes well, the content of the text box gets replaced by a cloud of symbols. Copy the entire content and paste it in your profile.
7. You may need to rescale (and ask people watching your profile) to rescale their window to view the picture.

If you prefer to use ImageMagick, the command line to do the entire conversion (for a square image) is (replace imagemagick with your binary's name):

imagemagick result -resize 144x44! -dither None -compress none -colors 6 result.pgm

 

 

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Another move... but I am back

Although I have been to Azeroth before, the return is always different. I know what you're thinking, most people end up in Azeroth, and I am no different. Saali has been there in 2004. After Saali came Veeria. After Veeria came many other people. Soon there will be a new world to explore as well. It will be exciting. I'm not sure how much I will document here. We shall see.

 

Saali becomes Anu moves to Telara

Saali actually moved to Telara quite some time ago, but always had trouble with the URL of this blog, as it now gets rather confusing. But maybe it works. Regardless, you might be interested in the things that I am up to. It's now almost a year that Anu has been in Telara, and there are some things that I should show you. It will follow here soon.

Anu (or Anuradha, her full name) lives on Faeblight in Telara. Her story is similar to that of Saali, although she's better at making friends, or there are more friends to be made.

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Changes

I updated http://saalintaborea.typepad.com/blog/2012/06/about-saali.html to reflect the new me (change in guild and levels).

Again I got a completely silly stat (MA/PA), this time from using Ancient Mementos. These kind of events are what brought me to be around less (and also write less to this blog). I certainly have stopped buying any diamonds and spending them. I think I might retire once I run out of golden repair hammers. That would be sad, but it is quite likely.

At the moment you can become level 77, but I'm thinking I should make my knight side level 72 first, so I can equip all the items I have. I wonder if anything decent comes out, but I fear that tanking will never be possible.

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The Hall of the Seven Heroes - Hard

Ressurection

Ressurection

While walking through a rather hostile area I came across a body lying dead next to a ressurection spot. I decided to ressurect her myself, but unfortunately nothing happened. However, after several minutes suddenly the body came alive, to instantly die again immediately afterwards. It was quite sad.

The Hall of the Seven Heroes - Hard

Hard it is. Especially the first boss, which took several deaths. People need to get oil, and torches, and things get dark and light. People carrying torches sometimes get a debuff that I need to cleanse, which otherwise does a lot of damage. I'm not sure what went wrong when things went wrong, but we eventually got past it. The next boss was a boss where you had to hide behind shields, and I was way too slow, as I didn't expect the boss to drop in health as fast as they did. It meant a lot of debt, but I also completed the entire place, where I had never been before. I'm very happy with the ex-Bteam members for being so patient with me. A lot of other things have happened as you can probably image, given the long delay between posts, but I might bring you more up to date over time.

The saddest part was that I wasn't very useful. I should've listened to other people that had been there before, and gained some knowledge. I knew about the fight with the torches, as that was the first one and I investigated it, but I should've investigated the others as well. People have been in there before, after all. Now I just added some healing, and also was able to use soul bond and ressurect people after they died, but it would've been nice if I didn't have to slow people down as much.

An overdurable version of my "Hero's Bones" wand dropped, but I decided to pass on it, as there was another priest who I felt did a lot more during the fights (including giving me hints). Of course, I was also not looking forward to plusing and tiering the item.

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Ancient Treasures

You get here by taking to Ange Rassa. You can get to her through a quest on Varanas Plaza. Once inside, you talk to the man standing there and hand over 30 Phirius Token Coins. Go through the doors, and you end up in room 1. If you're low level, use hide to avoid the knights, and snipe on the dogs.

Room 1: go to the brazier and acquire the flame, avoiding the enemy walking around. Once you have the flame, go to the "cave ghost" (basically a force field) and touch it, which will make it disappear, giving you an opening to room 2.

Room 2: this room will have an unlit brazier and a dog. Go to either lit brazier (room 1 or room 2) acquire the flame and light the unlit brazier. In the wall through which you came into this room are other openings with cave ghosts, either to the left or to the right. Go tot he farthest one and touch it. This gives you an opening to room 3.

Room 3: go to the brazier (or the one in room 2) and acquire the flame. Go to the other exit from room 3, which leads o a room very similar to room 2, which is room 4.

Room 4: this room will have an unlit brazier and a dog. Go to either lit brazier (room 1 or room 2) acquire the flame and light the unlit brazier. In the wall opposite to the one you came in through will be one opening, open this one and head to Room 5.

Room 5: This is a small circular room with an even smaller room in the middle. There is also an unlit brazier. Light the unlit brazier and the dogs and knights and everything will soon go away. A door to the inside smaller room will open. Go through and open one of the chests. This will give you the 30 Phirius Shells you so desire.

The chests on the left and right also contain Phirius Token Coins, which can be useful, and guild donations. The chests at the back contain useless runes. The chests to the front are only there if you completed the treasures fast enough, and give you pieces to build one of two different types of awesome 30 day mounts.

Course of Terror

The Course of Terror is approached through Malatina on Varanas Square. It costs 30 Phirius Token Coins to enter, which are taken once you say yes while inside. Make sure you have a Potion of Unbridled Enthusiasm active, or other ways to speed up your movement. Once it shows "Round 1" move forward, the doors open and move inside. Don't move too far, as you could get stuck, stop before the edge of the tiles.

Once you're inside, click on a green tile (bush). It will change in a bush. Gather a branch from the bush and light it in the fire. While doing this, identify where the yellow tile (key) is. Look for a column leading to the back that contains as few brown tiles (gate) as possible. Ideally you find a path that has two. Make sure that one of the two blue tiles (cannon) on the first row is at most one column away from this row. Click on this blue tile, and use the cannon that appears to shoot the farthest brown tile. Click on the other blue tile on the first row, and use the cannon that appears to shoot the closest brown tile (second row). Now proceed going through that column handling the tiles as they go:

• Red tiles (ghosts): don't kill the ghost, kill the container they spawn from.
• Cyan tiles (gateways): wait for them to completely appear, and walk over the edge on the left or right.
• Green tiles (bushes): burn them with the burning branch you should already have. While it is burning, get a new branch by gathering wood from another bush and lighting it in the brasier.
• Yellow tiles (keys): click on them and gather the key. You're required to get all of these.
• Blue tiles (cannons): use these to first clear any additional gates, second to clear green tiles and third to clear red tiles. Occasionally you want to use them to get rid of gateways, if they block access to a key (you can't gather a key horizontal from a gateway, or burn a bush. You can, however, kill a red tile that way).

The strategy above can be used in most cases, however, sometimes you'll have to be creative and find a better path, or opt for a path that goes by a number of cannons rather than the keys, so you can use the cannons to free the keys.

Tricks:

• The gates can be killed. For me this takes a long time.
• Don't open the chests until you did all four rooms (the Phirius Shells is the most important thing to get here, you get 50 for completion).
• You can be slower in the first two rooms than in the last two, because the last two give special keys that give transmuter charges if you get them.

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