Shamus Plays: LOTRO, Part 14

[Shamus Young]

Excellent job! The Lulzy bard has done it again!

P.S. How close is she to getting those dyes?

It'll be a bit sooner than expected now that he has 21 extra pies to sell.

Shamus hasn't given us a number on exactly how much the new clothes cost, but I assume that getting wasted and waking up broke in another town does not help.

On that note, why has Lulzy never been paid a whole silver for her questing? The running price of any and all tasks in 90 copper, which is a weird number to me. And does anyone know how many silvers to a gold piece? I assumed it was ten, but I've never gotten a count for that.

90 coppers to a silver.
1,000 silvers to a gold.

Nearly all quests are 90 coppers between level 1 and your late teens. Then it jumps up to a few silver. (About three, I think.)

 

[ThySensFan]

On that note, why has Lulzy never been paid a whole silver for her questing? The running price of any and all tasks in 90 copper, which is a weird number to me. And does anyone know how many silvers to a gold piece? I assumed it was ten, but I've never gotten a count for that.

In LOTRO you have 1000 silver pieces for one gold.

OT: Hilarious as always, keep up the good work

 

[sooperman]

90 coppers to a silver.
1,000 silvers to a gold.

Nearly all quests are 90 coppers between level 1 and your late teens. Then it jumps up to a few silver. (About three, I think.)

90 coppers to a silver? Not a hundred coppers? And not that I want to argue the terminology, should you not have been paid one silver, not ninety coppers, Shamus?
By the way, holy hell. Ninety thousand coppers to a gold.

 

[spamtastic]

Now I must know what tron would be like if it happened in an Apple... dammit shamus.

 

[randommaster]

Excellent job! The Lulzy bard has done it again!

P.S. How close is she to getting those dyes?

It'll be a bit sooner than expected now that he has 21 extra pies to sell.

Shamus hasn't given us a number on exactly how much the new clothes cost, but I assume that getting wasted and waking up broke in another town does not help.

On that note, why has Lulzy never been paid a whole silver for her questing? The running price of any and all tasks in 90 copper, which is a weird number to me. And does anyone know how many silvers to a gold piece? I assumed it was ten, but I've never gotten a count for that.

90 coppers to a silver.
1,000 silvers to a gold.

Nearly all quests are 90 coppers between level 1 and your late teens. Then it jumps up to a few silver. (About three, I think.)

You'll only need to do 333 quests per gold piece then! Just think of how many times you WON'T have to deliver the mail.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Now this is realism. Contractors have been "working" on this renovation job for the three years since the game launched and they're still not done, but Ponto is desperate / foolish enough to believe the noise and expense will end soon.

Well, it will, but not in the way Ponto thinks...Sauron & Son will be along to finish the roof soon after a tip-off from a young hobbit lass. *whistles innocently*

 

[Hutchy_Bear]

Oh that made me laugh heartedly, "The floating log" I mean come on.

 

[Miral]

I swear, this series is the main reason I come to The Escapist now. You really need to begin your own fantasy novel - you'd be the next Terry Pratchett, I swear.

Have you read the one he already wrote? (I must confess, I haven't yet -- but I keep meaning to.)

 

[likalaruku]

It wasn't me who sent the pies. I'd have sent buckets of water instead. XD

The Floating Log is not being flushed.

I wonder if the quests in Runes of Magic are thiis insipid? My brain kind of shuts down the minute I start playing.

 

[likalaruku]

I swear, this series is the main reason I come to The Escapist now. You really need to begin your own fantasy novel - you'd be the next Terry Pratchett, I swear.

Have you read the one he already wrote? (I must confess, I haven't yet -- but I keep meaning to.)

I didn't know he wrote one. Is it a comedy?

 

[Andronicus]

I swear, this series is the main reason I come to The Escapist now. You really need to begin your own fantasy novel - you'd be the next Terry Pratchett, I swear.

Have you read the one he already wrote? (I must confess, I haven't yet -- but I keep meaning to.)

Yeah, I really need to get around to reading that too. It would be nice if he wrote a book that actually got published though.

Anyways, excellent as usual, and top notch rhymes in the song. Can't wait until next Thursday!

 

[schnargly]

Love this. Played LOTRO for awhile; it's a lot of fun, but yeah, the Shire quests can be pretty silly.

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[Otterpoet]

I swear, this series is the main reason I come to The Escapist now. You really need to begin your own fantasy novel - you'd be the next Terry Pratchett, I swear.

Have you read the one he already wrote? (I must confess, I haven't yet -- but I keep meaning to.)

Wow. I never knew that. I'll have to look for it! Thanks Miral.

 

[camazotz]

Shamus, you owe me a new keyboard. The aside about contract job ratios had me shooting coffee out my nose. That is exactly what we say every year when the contractors come by to do. . . well. . . whatever it is they do. However, our contractors have exceeded the ratio by having five "guys standing around scratching their nuts" while one guy used a toothbrush to smooth out the new sidewalk - 'new,' as in redone four times in the space of six weeks for undetermined reasons (maybe they forgot to floss).

I swear, this series is the main reason I come to The Escapist now. You really need to begin your own fantasy novel - you'd be the next Terry Pratchett, I swear.

I second this! Shamus, you might not only be the next Terry Pratchett....you might even be the next Robert Asprin!!!!

 

[zarathustra2k1]

In LOTRO you have 1000 silver pieces.

In Soviet Russia, 1000 silver pieces have _you_...

 

[Sidereal]

Man, this stuff is hilarious. I love this series.
And every last jingle that Lulzy sings. They're fun, and *really* add character.

 

[John the Gamer]

"the four farthings brewing-moot"

Lol. What? Four Farthings? I bet it doesn't attract too many visitors. XD

 

[duchaked]

Side note: Thanks so much to the smart-alec who mailed Lulzy 21 pies. I will get you for this.

hahahahahaha that is just too good xD