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⬣//A SINGLE CRACK LETS THE LIGHT IN.
As they say, fortune favors the brave. Five lucky players took part in a Limited Quest: The Mysterious Sky Islands, in which they discovered a brand new Root Town. While the team was largely successful in their efforts to make the mysterious floating town in the sky habitable, not everyone embraced the spirit of teamwork on this journey.
When you gate in to this shiny new Root Town, you'll notice something curious: it has no name. Its name simply displays as "???" in every context menu and there is no signage around the Root Town itself that points to its true name— rather, the name it had before they came along.
Whispers on the wind tell of an evil wizard in flowing white robes who ruthlessly boiled the village elder alive. With him died all of this mysterious Root Town's lore and history, and in its place are tales of the monster who robbed this land of its identity. The elemental sprites that populate this village refuse to speak their name, simply wishing you "good luck, have fun!" as you turn to leave.
While on your journey to check out the island, you'll notice how unstable the bridges are. Unstable might be putting it lightly, because for some unlucky souls, crossing the wrong bridge means plummeting to your death. It seems that whoever was put in charge of constructing these bridges didn't give a damn about structural integrity.
The local sprites are pleading with adventurers to assist them in building better, more stable bridges, but bridging the gap between one island and the next is not a job for a single person. If you have enough of a heart to heed the pleas of the sprites, you'll want to work with your fellow players to get the job done. All the wood, nails, and rope you need to construct better bridges has been helpfully supplied to you by the sprites. You could always sabotage the project too, of course, but what kind of person would you be if you did that?
The professions system has been added to fragment. Rejoice, busybodies, for there is much furniture to be built and dubious potions brewed.
In celebration of the new crafting & gathering system, a crafts festival is being held in the Unnamed Root Town. Take care not to plummet to your death while traversing those rickety bridges.
Players are encouraged to set up a booth of their own and trade their unique handcrafted items with their fellow adventurers. In addition to being supplied with enough level 1 and level 2 crafting materials to give the crafting system a spin, the local NPCs are running a contest encouraging people to come up with their own for a chance to have their creations canonized as real crafting recipes.
To submit your own recipe ideas, you need only fill out this handy form:
Recipe name:
Recipe category: Alchemist, Carpenter, Chef, or Jeweler?
Which two items does your recipe call for? Choose two items to combine. Only gatherable items (refer to the professions page) can be used.
Effect: What does this item do, if anything?
Description: A brief description of your lovely new product.
Fragment's beta test has seen its fair share of unusual bugs and unintended features, and with the latest update bringing many new changes, it's inevitable that some things have broken behind the scenes.
If two players happen to log in at the same time, they might find their avatars swapped with one another's. Thankfully, this issue doesn't lead to the unpleasant exchange of deep-seated memories or anything of the sort, but getting used to a body that isn't yours takes time. Thankfully, this particular bug resolves itself when both players log out.
The windy town of Unnamed Root Town is generally quite scenic and pleasant, but there's just one issue. It's far, far windier than it should be. If the rickety bridges don't kill you, the gusts that intermittently blow across the sky islands might knock you off your feet if you don't watch your footing carefully. Thankfully, the crafts festival on the southernmost end of the island hasn't been impacted by the severe winds. Among them is one voice that you don't recognize: a voice that promises a death, gruesome and bloody, in the days to come.
To everyone's relief, the carnival and its notorious hall of mirrors has packed up and left Lumina Cloth, but your past hasn't finished haunting you. The foul winds carry whispers of the past along with them, uttering words and phrases uncomfortably familiar to you. They're the voices of your past, the voices of people you've known, loved, and lost. Covering your ears won't keep the voices out of your ears. Nothing will.
Finally, on the more mundane some of things, professions have a few kinks of their own that need to be worked out. Occasionally, a crafted item won't come out quite right, instead resulting in one of the following "items":
Alchemist: Truth Serum. Become unable to lie for 24 hours.
Blacksmith: Whatever you're enhancing transforms into a denim disaster. Introducing your new "body" armor, "leg" armor, "head" armor, and "arm" armor.
Carpenter: Mirror Mirror. Reflects the person you're most afraid of becoming.
Chef: Durian Delight. A succulent durian pudding that reeks so strongly that its stench can be smelled all across the Root Town or Area you're occupying.
Jeweler: Crystal Ball. Breaks after one use but allows you to read another player's thoughts for five minutes.
With crafting in full swing, a certain admin has been lured out of his hidey hole by the smell of delicious chef-prepared meals. Hien is hungry, and you will feed him.
Chefs are not limited by the recipes they know like some professions are, so players are encouraged to think outside of the box and combine unique ingredients to cook up something truly special.
Taste, however, isn't the only important part of a perfect meal. Chefs looking to impress the big man himself are expected to present their culinary delights to him with pomp and finesse. You need to impress Hien if you want to gain more from this venture than the participation prize of a chef skin.
Those who successfully woo Hien with their delectable dishes will be given an additional prize: a little black pomchi pet to accompany their avatar around Root Towns and Special Areas. Hien will be giving these out at his discretion, so you better suck up to the dogboss in charge if you want a pomchi of your very own. If you catch Hien in a good mood, he may even agree to give you a different breed of dog if you ask nicely.
Hello, everyone! Can you believe it's been an entire month since our beta test began? Even though we've already been through a lot together, we've still got three months left! I'm rooting for you all!
As of today, the level cap has increased from 25 to 50. That means new armor and weapons will be available to you! Get out there to different Areas and start leveling up! But don't forget to stop every once in a while and enjoy your surroundings, too. Which reminds me—don't forget to check out the new Recreational Areas! We have a beach and hotsprings for you to enjoy now. I hope everyone continues to have fun exploring!
We've also opened up the GP shop, where you can create your own special armor set for a certain price, along with a few other things. Please check it out!
Oh, and don't forget to use these three new greeting cards I've made! Here they are! Make sure you use them so you can connect with your fellow players! We're all friends here, after all.
RECIPE CONTEST SUBMISSIONS.
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Recipe category: Jeweler
Which two items does your recipe call for? Elegant Emerald, Gold
Effect: Grants a longer duration of time for buffs to exist when granted to the target wearing this item in particular (extends 30 second to a minute or two.)
Description: A pair of stunning, beautifully circular, yet square patterned emerald earings (as in, the overall shape of the earrings are perfect circles, yet the impression shape is square-like, exactly as this.) They are encased within a golden outer shell and guaranteed to wow anyone who so happens to glance upon these beauties.
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Recipe category: Jeweler
Which two items does your recipe call for? Copper, Ancient oak
Effect: Reflects spells back at the user. Breaks after two uses.
Description: The handle is roughly carved and the copper surface is well polished. A strangely shaped hand held mirror that doesn't reflect you at all.
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Recipe category: Chef
Which two items does your recipe call for? Diced Tentacles (Monster Hunter) + Slippery Potion (Alchemist)
Effect: These delightfully crunchy squid balls hide a strange surprise! Eat the whole bunch and you'll find yourself sporting tentacles in random places for the next 24 hours!
Description: A trio of lightly fried squid balls covered in a saucily spiced version of the Alchemist's slippery potion. They are deliciously crisp on the outside and gooey on the inside. This requires quite the effort to get right, from cooking the tentacles just right to not getting the potion all over yourself while pouring it over, so good luck, chefs.
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Recipe category: Chef
Which two items does your recipe call for? Herbs De Dungeon (Monster Hunter) + Aromatic Grass (Botanist)
Effect: +3 damage to physical attacks for 1 minute
Description: A nourishing salad that might seem easy to make. However, if the correct ingredients ratio isn't maintained, instead of slaughter there will be laughter (alone with salad).
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Recipe category: Carpenter
Which two items does your recipe call for? Firm Fir, Haunting Hemlock
Effect: Once placed, the sign creates a small 5mx5m field behind it that is impenetrable to all except the initial user. The user can interact with the sign to designate who else can enter the field besides themselves, such as party members, guild members, friends only, or specific individuals. No sound can penetrate the barrier, but it is see through. Lasts for 24 hours or until the sign is destroyed (it is a destructible object).
Description: A handsome, but simple little sign with the words "KEEP OUT" scrawled on it in black charcoal. Stick it in the ground, hang it on your door! Keep those pesky eavesdroppers out.
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Recipe category: Alchemy
Which two items does your recipe call for? Mysterious Goo, Powdered Demon Horn
Effect: This potion gives its user the "Kemonomimi" effect, granting them animal ears and a tail (ICly random, OOcly selected). For the duration of the effect, the user has stronger senses of hearing, smell, and sight, and are slightly quicker on their feet. The potion does not give any combat-related stat boosts.
Characters who already play beastmen may find their usual features swapped to a different animal. Were you previously a cat boy? Enjoy the temporary dog ears instead!
Description: A faintly glowing liquid in a cat-shaped bottle promises to grant you wildest dreams... literally. This potion turns you part-animal for its duration.
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Recipe category: Carpenter
Which two items does your recipe call for? Bleached Beech, Sky Fins
Effect: A reminder alarm that you can set for any reason. Handy when trying to set time aside a delicate balance of gaming, socializing, and sleeping. (???)
Description: A 12-inch tall alarm that resembles a penguin plush. It won't shut up until you have done said task you'd be doing at that time.
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Recipe category: Chef
Which two items does your recipe call for? Goopy Honey, Sleepy Sunflower
Effect: Eating this will cause animals found within the Root Towns to follow the player, and they will perform tricks if prompted; this lasts for 24 hours, so enjoy getting all of the cats and dogs and birds to shake and roll over.
Description: A deceptively simple caked soaked in a honey and sunflower syrup, decorated with whipped cream and sunflower petals. Somehow the flavor remains bright and fresh, and isn't too sweet or cloying, so long as you try to keep the cake from being too over-saturated with syrup.
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Recipe category: Jeweler
Which two items does your recipe call for? Rustic Ruby, Silver
Effect: Debuffs inflicted on the enemy will have a 15% duration increase. After 3 uses, the ring needs to recharge for another 24 hours before it can be used again.
Description: A silver ring with a ruby inlaid in the center, that almost looks black when it catches the light. The metal is shaped to resemble sharp claws clutching the gem, and it feels oddly cold when worn, no matter how long you wear it or how warm it is outside.