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Cloakers' Tower keys on sale about everywhere

Post by Kilnasaggart » Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:24 am

Hi all,
Just to suggest that the cloakers' key tower becomes a one-use only. It starts to look a bit awkward that we would find such keys on sale so often here and then ? (probably once the people are done with the associated shadow plane writ). Just my two cents, best to all ;)

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Post by Subtext » Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:41 am

I don't think it's the worst thing in the world? The cloaker area isn't particularly easy to get into and it can be outright impossible if you don't know someone with a lot of open lock (one requiring high open lock, one requiring a very long trip and even higher open lock if the door decides not to be bashable and the last one being only available to a small group of people).
I don't recall any other area to be that prohibitive to get into for a writ.

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Post by With Darkness and Silence » Wed Jun 29, 2022 11:51 am

I've encountered this for the first time ever, in a single shop that was bought recently.

And because of it, for the first time in a decade, I'm going to visit the Cloaker's Spiral. An area Ive never been to before on Arelith.

I feel like posting a kudos thread for this.

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Post by Irongron » Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:29 pm

I understand the concern, but it is fine to sell keys.

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Post by Kuma » Thu Jun 30, 2022 2:29 am

Irongron wrote:
Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:29 pm
I understand the concern, but it is fine to sell keys.
How do you feel about Skal boat charters?

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Post by MalKalz » Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:31 am

Kuma wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 2:29 am
Irongron wrote:
Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:29 pm
I understand the concern, but it is fine to sell keys.
How do you feel about Skal boat charters?
This one was likely an oversight in design as the intention was for the person to first get there and acquire it. Not for it to be handed around. We will discuss resolving this somehow.

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Post by Whosdis » Thu Jun 30, 2022 5:54 am

I believe the keys are intentional to facilitate roleplay.

Try it from the other perspective. I got all the way to the cloaked door in the lower dark and couldn't complete the quest because someone bashed the door already, which made it untargetable when it respawned.

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Post by Edens_Fall » Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:49 pm

I rather like it as is. If it wasn't for the sharing of keys I would never have been able to visit the cloaker tower.
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Post by Security_Blanket » Thu Jun 30, 2022 1:03 pm

I have never been to the Cloaker Tower specifically because it's locked, and all the hoops I'm expected to jump through doesn't justify checking it out to me. I'm happy to leave places unexplored if it's too much hassle, if I found a key to that dungeon in a store, I'd have reason to go check it out.

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Post by Fava Beans » Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:34 pm

Part of the issue if the door bugs out anytime someone bashes it, forcing the only alternative is to have the ride skill or buy a key

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Post by Skarain » Thu Jun 30, 2022 6:53 pm

Fava Beans wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:34 pm
forcing the only alternative is to have the ride skill or buy a key
It has a 3rd entrance, but you have to go pretty deep to reach it. i.e. lowerdark

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Post by Fava Beans » Thu Jun 30, 2022 7:11 pm

The lower dark door is the one that buggs out when it gets bashed

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