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Has anyone seen the mousetraps?

Pfloyd

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After a friend of mine Sweet Ana Mawl mentioned them to me i started going around and doing some searching of my own...



We have found a few all over the place including Luna area. These are on Pacific.
 
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Capricious

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That's awesome! I wonder if there is a way for players to disable them.

Don't fall for it Sherry!
 

Pfloyd

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ive tried some things...sherry statue plus some cheese thinking it would close. So far nothing.

tried transferring a pet into it...rabbit. Nada
 

Wetherlocke

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Think this has something to do with Sherry not being such a strong supporter of the new king, Casca?
 

Bazer

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no mousetraps on Great Lakes yet, looked everywhere.
 

Pfloyd

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Think this has something to do with Sherry not being such a strong supporter of the new king, Casca?
I'm sure it is....just wish there were something we could do to help...i tried remove traps skill but it says its not trapped hehe
 

Bazer

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mmm wonder if they can be magicaly traped so she cant get traped by one
 

Cerwin Vega

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Maybe the mousetraps are only gonna show up on Pacific, Each shards EM's are aloud to run the events... aren't they?
 
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Teeshy

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Noooo!

SAVE SHERRY!

FREE RICARDO!

OFF WITH CASCA'S HEAD! (well, maybe, we still haven't made up our minds about that yet =P)
 

sablestorm

Babbling Loonie
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*trains Sherry in the remove trap skill and taste testing just to be safe*
 

GalenKnighthawke

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I am hoping it's not just Pacific. Even on the shards where Sherry is less opposing Casca than merely being suspicious, it would make sense.

The following items seem to be common to all shards:

  • Casca is consolidating power in his own hands (and Sherry is competition at best, a potential source of opposition at worst);
  • Sherry either sprung Ricardo and Avery, or at the very least has cultivated a line of communication to them in their imprisonment.

Either way, the mousetraps would make RP sense on any of the shards.

Especially if Casca proves to be a villain. Maybe even if he's not, but especially if he is.

-Galen's player
 
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Prince Caspian

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Hm.

You know, ol' Billy Shakespeare comes to mind here.

Casca was one of the conspirators who killed Julius Caesar. In fact, he was the psycho of the group and the first to stab Jules.

The Mousetrap was the play that Hamlet put up for his unk when he wanted to send the message that he knew what he was up to.

...hmmmmm.........2be||!2be :p


(Edmund has travelled back to the Elizabethan era and ran into Shakespeare)
Edmund: Sir Bard, I bring you a present from the future!
Shakespeare: Really. What is it?
(Edmund floors Shakespeare with a punch)
Edmund: THAT is for every college student for the next 600 years who have to stay up late all night trying to memorize all your stupid, dry, painfully long lines like "Hark, here comes Othello, babbling double whopper with cheese like usual..."
- Blackadder Back and Forth
 

BlissMarie

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I don't want any harm to come to Sherry or any little rodents, but darn those mouse traps are cute! I want some on Lake Austin!

*nudges LA's EM*
 
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Gwendolynne

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Sherry did not attend the Casca event on Lake Austin. I wil have to try to attend events on other shards if times are reasonable for me. Sounds like you are really getting involved role playing and having a lot of fun.

Safe journeys!
 

Crysta

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I'd be shocked if Sherry were stupid enough to fall for a mousetrap anyway.
 
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Lord Drakelord

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maybe tame a rat and see if that will set the trap off?

can the traps be busted up like you do with crates?
 

AirmidCecht

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I didnt see any boxes last night on LS but I did see a Glue Trap in the Counselor's Guild Hall. I'm not happy. Not at all. I think I'll throw an oil cloth over it.
 

Storm

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I didnt see any boxes last night on LS but I did see a Glue Trap in the Counselor's Guild Hall. I'm not happy. Not at all. I think I'll throw and oil cloth over it.
Yes i noticed that too did you also notice the ferret collar on table I believe that is new to!
 
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Kiminality

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Which shard has the best EMs?
Which shard has the best players?
Which shard has the best...
How do you just what is "best"?
Personally, I think the Europa EMs are pretty damn awesome, but I'm sure folk feel the same about their own shard's EMs.
 

BlissMarie

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Which shard has the best players?
Which shard has the best...
How do you just what is "best"?
Personally, I think the Europa EMs are pretty damn awesome, but I'm sure folk feel the same about their own shard's EMs.
I now see that I didn't phrase that very well. It might have been better if I had asked which shards have the most active or involved EMs.

I think the special decorations the EMs add to the shards are really neat and help show they are really interested in the shard and its players.
 

It Lives

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LOL, I thought the mouse trap was just some sorta way to poison me. Player dropped.

Course I fell for it and had to open it :)
 

ElvishArcher

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Uh Oh!!!! Watch out Sherry the Mouse! Ferrets are not good around mice! Me thinks that perhaps Casca has decided to use ferrets to try to kill Sherry, that and the traps!

This is from Encyclopedia.com:

The common ferret (Mustela putorius furo) is a domesticated form of the European polecat. It has a long, lithe body and is brown, black, or white (albino). Its average length is 20 in. (51 cm), including the 5-in. (13-cm) tail, and it weighs about 2 lbs (1 kg). It was originally domesticated for hunting mice, rats, and rabbits;
Too bad we don't have Prairie Dogs in game to tame, since also per Encyclopedia.com:

It is an endangered species, owing to the loss of its main source of food, the prairie dog
If there were Prairie Dogs in game we could tame a ton of them and release them in Blackthorne's Castle to distract the ferrets that Casca may have roaming around looking for poor poor Sherry! Maybe we should try to fill the Castle up with rabbits and name them "Ferret Bait" Could buy Sherry some time, lol at worst case maybe the EM's would get a laugh out of it!
 

Storm

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I was kinda thinking the same thing
 
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Stupid Miner

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Ok, to explain away the ferret conspiracy theory. I was there yesterday when Autolycus or Quantum placed it (they look the same, i can never remember which is which). Its for one of the players on LS who was in ferret form the entire meeting, has nothing to do with Sherry.
 

Kariny

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Think this has something to do with Sherry not being such a strong supporter of the new king, Casca?
I noticed the cheese scented glue traps tonight.

Our new king has much to learn. I doubt such a well educated and intelligent rodent will be caught in that manner.

But, then again, the only rodent I've smelled recently, is the one calling himself king.
 

ElvishArcher

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Conversely... a Casca supporter COULD try to get the EM's LMAO if at the next planned event/speech they each had as many ferrets as you can all named Mouse Hunter, or Sherry Hunter lol. Ferrets are ingame for those who want to try this out... could make for a good laugh all the same! Heck I may even do something like this as I am pretty bored lol.rolleyes:
 
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Kiminality

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Why do you all assume it's Casca that did this?
It could just as easily be someone doing this, knowing that Casca would be suspected, therefore making him look bad.
 

Magnus

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They were added all throughout the shard around the time Sherry was reintroduced as well as when we had the rat invasion that dropped the coins. You can go into either slime or rat form and teleport through them. They were in Castle Britain and that was it the last time I checked.

They also were a reward, either vet or a turn in at one point too I think.
 

DevilsOwn

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I'd like to report that Sherry will be safe on Legends..... we have eaten all the poisoned cheese and Aavie scattered food about for her so that she won't even be tempted by the traps

:D
 
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Kiminality

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They were added all throughout the shard around the time Sherry was reintroduced as well as when we had the rat invasion that dropped the coins. You can go into either slime or rat form and teleport through them. They were in Castle Britain and that was it the last time I checked.

They also were a reward, either vet or a turn in at one point too I think.
It's a trap!
 
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Fink

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One of our EM's on Oceania (Vespera I think) bakes ferret pies. There's one in the counsellor's guild hall.
 
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Katlene

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Yeah i dont think im keen on having a taste of that.
The kiwi fruits at the other end of the table however....nom
 
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Teeshy

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The captains of the guards told us they were going to put down "rat traps" on Oceania - so it might not be Casca's fault!

*glares at the Captains*
 
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Braden_of_LS

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Casca is obviously a Rat. Lets pick them up and put the traps in his shoes, or in his bed.
 

Maplestone

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"Super Mouse Killer 3,000 *This trap comes equipped with gas pumps and saws*"

LOL - someone really doesn't like Sherry.

(In the throne room of Legends by a mousehole)
 
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