The Venery

The Venery
(Test - Thought)
Demonstration
kirie on July 24, 2018
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Create a Venery - a mind bending hunt across the land, to challenge and entertain those developing their Focus.

Test Description

Design a Venery, a treasure hunt around your home, throughout your neighborhood, or across Egypt. A good Venery can teach runners about local sites, and is neither too easy nor too difficult. After completing your design, if you wish to turn off the Venery menu on objects, turn off the option in 'Interface Options' under 'Show menu items for venery configuration'. This option was added when you started the Test of the Venery.

Principles

Principles of the Venery requires you to build a simple Venery and have seven judges rate it, averaging at least Good.

• Make an Eyelet cut Amethyst (Optional)
• Make an Eyelet cut Lapis (Optional)
• Make an Eyelet cut Turquoise (Optional)
• Make an Eyelet cut Garnet (Optional)
• Make a Simple Lockbox
• Make Papyrus Paper
• Build a Venery Gathering Point
• Install at least 7 Lockboxes
• Open your Venery
• Tear down your Venery Gathering Point, OR
  • Have 7 Judges run and rate your Venery
  • Design rated Good by most judges
• All of the above OR complete three recent winning Venerys

Additional Information

This is the second test in the discipline of Thought.

This test allows the builder to create a small story and bring the participant through a series of locations while participating. It can be timed and can be as small as within eyesight to Egypt as a whole.

Passing Principles

• Open a Venery (Venery Gathering Point and Simple Lockboxes) and tear it down OR
• Have seven Judges run and rate your Venery Good or better OR
• Complete three recent winning Venerys

Complete and collect 3 Venery Certificates. Show them to any School of Thought. (Note From T7- last step does not seem to be necessary. I leveled up at Venery Gathering Point after getting third Venery Certificate - Estaar)

Creating a Venery

1. Make at least 7 Simple Lockboxes
2. Determine where you'd like to start your Venery
3. Build a Venery Gathering Point
4. Name your keys
5. Install your Simple Lockboxes
6. Create your clues - Consider using the Venery Planner to plan and write your content.
7. Open your Venery.

Notes on Lockboxes and Clues

• You need to select 'Configure This Venery' at the Venery gathering point before you start installing lockboxes. Then you can install keys and lockboxes anywhere you like.
• Make sure that Options > Interface> Tests > "show menu items for venery configuration" is checked, or you will not get the option to install the Locboxes! - Minerva

• A venery should be fun to do. Many Egyptians get frustrated with the very hard ones and will tend to quit the venery.
• Make sure your clues are precise and not too hard to decipher.
• Always keep in mind that people will be voting on this so if you want to pass it needs to be finely balanced between easy and hard.
• Some people in previous tales built chests and placed rewards in them for others to collect. However you do it is up to you.
• Some people will also have an answer sheet attached to their wiki page.
• Remember Just Have Fun.

• For more on how to design a Venery see Dreasimy's Guide to Creating a Venery!

Venery Locations

Region	Coordinates	Designer	Name	Passed	Remarks	RL Date Opened
Upper Egypt	712, -1854	Saintcyr	Colors of Egypt	N	Near Koptos cs	13 Feb 2020
Lahun	-1365, 4760	Archis	Building permit Venery	N	Near Lahun cs	11 Feb 2020
Blue Nile	15, -6928	Fryoj	Meroe Grand Tour TP Venery	N	Next to King Sheeple	9 Feb 2020
Valley of Queens	931, -4044	tehm	Trade to Win		Learn to trade at Sheepstache Trading	2 Feb 2020
Meshwesh Delta	911, 6937	Mira	The Delta Gem Heist!		Chase a thief throughout the Meshwesh Delta with the help of Shesmetet	1 Feb 2020
East Sinai	4372, 6711	Zowee	A Culinary Experience	Y	User:Zowee, just south of Tell Ed Daba	24 Jan 2020
East Sinai	4370, 6710	Spatulus	The Sedate Latrine	Y	An online puzzle experience, just south of Tell Ed Daba	16 Jan 2020
Upper Egypt	926 -1759	Buck	Over the rainbow...to follow the blue brick road	Y	Near Koptos CS	23 Dec 2019
Upper Egypt	685,-1325	Aarys	The Princess Bride			22 Dec 2019
Upper Egypt	926,-1777	Jyin	Whirlwind Tours	Y		22 Dec 2019
Red Sea	1924, 2086	Al-Bilal	Riddles, Riddles, Riddles	Y		14 Dec 2019
Upper Egypt	1034, -2268	Shiva	Crazy Animal Facts!	Y	Just South of Koptos CS	25 June 2020
Meshwesh Delta	909, 6909	Armatus	The Pharaoh's New Pants	N		27 Mar 2020
Meshwesh Delta	929, 6815	Basmati	The Royal Tour	Y	Southwest of Tanis CS	13 Aug 2020
Bernike	3043, -945	Nissim	The Rise of Babaotep / L'avènement de Babaotep	N	NE of Sharuhen CS	15 Aug 2020
Upper Egypt	848, -1314	Bailobo	My Preciousss	N	No running required. Across river from U Body	18 Oct 2020

Veneries Map

• Green for recognized (passed) veneries (use "Gr" prefix on pin)
• Red for unrecognized (unpassed) veneries (use "Rd" prefix on pin)

This map uses the CondMap template, if this map imports data from other maps please edit those. Please see Maps for further details and links to all raw data pages

Passes

See Test Pass History

Demonstration

• • Demonstrated by kirie on 7/24/2018
• 49 Gold Wire
• 49 Brass Small Gears
• 98 Fine Glass Rods
• 98 Copper
• 49 Eyelet cut Amethyst
• 49 Eyelet cut Garnet
• 49 Eyelet cut Lapis
• 49 Eyelet cut Turquoise