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Tuitions needed:
- 20 Glass Rods (Nav 2) - 7 Large Opal - 7 Silk Cloth (Exploration Travel 2) - 100 Carrots - 100 Leeks - 100 Onions - 100 Garlic (cooking 1) - 7 Phagrus Meat (Filleting) - 7 Leaf Snapper - 7 Clearwing - 7 Red Cricket - 7 Slime Moth (Fly Tying 1) - 2 Oyster shell marble - 4 canary granite (Salvage Tech)
Materials Needed: - 1 Tangerine Marble (per marble tub)
Mushroom Locations:
- Razor's Edge: Southeast of SKA - Peasant Foot: Along river north of East Sinai CS
Venery Content:
The Upper Egypt Reactory Tour
Hello fellow Egyptian, and welcome to the Upper Egyptian Reactory Tour. Did you know that Upper Egypt is one of the world's foremost reactory regions? Here, mild weather, abundant resins, accessible mines, well-maintained public works, and people who really like circles, all combine to produce a profusion of unusual metals that don't exist in real life. Today, we're going to take a relaxing stroll through a beautiful valley, and experience the entire process of making Octec's Alloy from start to finish. Possibly we may stop at Brass if that's as far as we get. The afternoon will conclude with a tasting.
Our First Stop
The first thing any reactory-operator needs is precursor metals. Lead is just about the worst metal we could use as an example, because it's poisonous, it isn't used in any alloy recipes, and the wiki entry about lead workloads was literally written by The Stranger in an attempt to get you to quit the game. (https://atitd.wiki/tale10/Guides/Mining#Ore_characteristics). Just the same, this is a Venery and nobody is willing to walk more than 100 coords to finish one of these things, and there's a lead mine right nearby, so lead it is!
Coal
The next thing our master artisans need to make an alloy, is coal. Theoretically, a person could get coal at this lead mine, but personally I had a hard enough time getting enough lead for a chisel *without* having to think about how to use a single rock seven times in one pull. You also can't have two lockboxes on the same object, and I didn't want to do, like, a huge wall of text just on the lead mine. So I made a public chest and put some coal in it. If it has been looted by the time you get to it, I'm really sorry. Please judge this Brilliant anyway, I need the TP so I can get the thing that increases your chances of getting coal.
Resins
Resins are tricky. When you first get to Egypt it's like "Oh my gosh, all this free stuff from trees, I bet you can use it to repair student looms or something." That's a pretty cool idea and we might see it in T11. But for now unfortunately, as you can see in the attached chart, resins are pretty useless until you get to reactories. Then all the sudden you're thinking, "Where was that tree? Where was it? I know I just saw one!" Before you know it, it's 2am, you're in VoQ somewhere, and you've harvested 250 debens of herbs. Anyway, every alloy require a resin. Grab some at the [Tree over there] and we'll keep moving.
Facts and Myths about Alloys
As we head over to the actual reactory, I'll be talking a bit about the history and quirks of the region, and the industry.
One of my favorite things about giving this tour is hearing from people who are just beginning to take an interest in alloys. I love answering their questions, and helping guide them to the kinds of experiences that they will find edifying. One question that I get all the time is, "Does Electrum Do Anything?" That's a great, great question, and the answer is "No, it doesn't." There's always some smartass in the back who shouts out that it could be required for a Vigil, or a seasonal event that hasn't been announced yet, but that is basically a semantic argument and they know it. Take that nonsense to a poorly-attended city council hearing about bike lanes. I am talking about real stuff here.
The History of Egyptian Alloys
Many people believe that 'Water Metal' is a salient example of lazy fantasy copywriting, and that's pretty much spot-on. What is that, Metal from the mysterious and remote Water Region? Is it Metal with Water on it? Or inside it somehow? Why isn't there Fire Metal or Lightning Metal? Things were going really well with Sun Steel and Moon Steel. There was this whole celestial theme, it was consistent, and it made sense. Neptune is really far away and unattainable, maybe they could have named a metal after Neptune. I wouldn't make Water Metal at all because it's so expensive, except that it gives you way more blacksmithing hits than Moon Steel. Haha wait no it doesn't.