@Pallas-Athene said in Mushroom steak:

If you want to get those other two items yourself, one way would be with Pandora’s Box: with the Lockpicking aptitude, watch for a byte that changes from 16 to 0 when you learn the skill, then change it to 1 or 2, then Divide Food.

This might be a bit beyond me, I just get the mushroom steak, even after changing that 0 to a 1 or 2. I am curious about the "yetch" and "not bad" food items though ^_^

@Pallas-Athene said in Mushroom steak:

I think it’s a bad idea for a bug fix to add a feature too. It’s your choice whether you want to apply the bug fix or not, though.

I guess it wouldn't fall under "bug fix" but I still think implementing things that gandreas had to cut out at the last minute is something that we should do ^_^ I still vote that the mushroom steak is more valuable than the lockpicking skill.

@Pallas-Athene said in Mushroom steak:

For a few more points of comparison, creating butter is New(16, 0, you, 0, 132, 0, 0) (in your inventory? or in the churn?).

I have no idea what any of the code means, but I can at least confirm that butter is created in your inventory.

@Buzzzzy said in Mushroom steak:

Since "Lock Picking" produces a mushroom steak, but "Lock Picking (0)" (rogue aptitude) produces a strange device, is it possible to hack a save to test what happens with Lock Picking (2) or something?

Interesting idea..

There's an awful lot of content that was either cut or never fully implemented. I suspect the mushroom steak was supposed to be one of several "not very good" food items, but I guess it could have been intentionally unique.

I am curious what other items aren't accessible in the final game. The hintbook implies that the game originally had at least two additional alchemy ingredients (snake fangs and taconite pellets) and five additional potions (hurting, poison, confusion, awaken, and sleep). It would be really cool if there were more food items, or any kind of item really. Just anything new ^_^

Edit: Also, does anyone have a way to use Bryce's bugfix patch? I am curious if Aethon's lockpicking skill would convert to a mushroom steak, once it's properly working.

Buzzy discovered that the lockpicking skill is actually converted into a mushroom steak when food is divided (or, if you have the lockpicking aptitude but haven't trained in it, it becomes an edible strange device instead). I cannot say for certain that a mushroom steak can only be obtained at the cost of your lockpicking skill, but I suspect that that is the case and that no one has ever noticed before because no one uses lockpicking anyway.

I am opposed to removing this bug without programming in some other way to get the mushroom steak. Here's my ideas:
-It could be one of the possibilities to get from Emesa when asking for food. Since she doesn't serve meat, a mushroom steak seems possibly fitting, but then again, she has a reputation for being a good cook, so maybe not.
-Helen could sell it at the study hall? She has a reputation for being a bad cook, so. Or maybe Paris could sell it in his shop, like he's trying to sneakily get rid of his terrible lunch without Helen noticing.
-Perhaps a mushroom steak could be placed in Aethon's inventory or somewhere in his house. People have believed in the past that their mysterious mushroom steaks originated from Aethon, which makes sense because having him in the party is a prerequisite to learning lockpicking. He also knows lockpicking himself, although that skill does not work except in Bryce's bugfix patch.
-Could be fun to hide it in Ayrit somewhere, since that's the mushroom capital of Cythera. I'm guessing the Seldane live on mushroom steaks ^_^

So cool and eerie! I'm looking forward to finding out more about this in the book ^_^ (Though I'm way behind)

This is great! I completely forgot about the otaekodu, so I totally didn't see that coming and it was exciting ^_^ I also like the ominous ending, and I hope that sometime you or someone else will write a continuation!

I wasn't expecting a Grapper (though if someone else decides to participate and include Grapper, I will be delightedly surprised ^_^). I really liked reading this scene. It was sad, but it was relatable. I like how it doesn't sugarcoat depression, but shows how utterly helpless it feels. And how well-meaning people try to help, but only end up making you feel guilty and continuing the depression spiral. Very well done! I hope that some day you will finish this chapter (even this chronicle?) so I can find out what happens to Tiernan! Thank you for writing this!

Your artwork is so beautiful! This story is certainly full of attractive characters. The details for the things like tattoos, jewelry, and embroidery are truly amazing. Thank you for sharing these!

Thanks for activating my account, Wizzy! I guess I should ask Fiery about the email. I'm sorry to hear the new forum is causing you so much trouble : __( I can't imagine you'll have time to deal with that on a regular basis.

Buzzy - I got quite a laugh at your temporary username : _D If you end up making another temporary account, will it be named buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy? For a moment I thought you were saying you started making a Let's Play and I got excited :x I don't think we could ever have enough Let's Play Cytheras ^ __^

Thank you for setting up a new forum, Wizzy! I registered an account there a few years ago, but that doesn't seem to exist, so I tried to register a new one, but so far haven't received an activation email.

Also thank you to Fiery for archiving the entire forum and add-ons! You're amazing, Fiery!

I'm sad about Ambrosia dying. There was so much joy and excitement on these forums at one time. Learning to play this great game, helping others to figure it out, writing stories together, inventing characters, weapons, worlds; learning to hack and later decrypt the game to unearth even more secrets. But of course this stuff was mainly 10-20 years ago. The time to move on has long past, but it's hard to imagine any community could be as comfortable and exciting as this one. I'm feeling nostalgic today, I think I'll leave the remastered Cythera music playing all day (have I mentioned how awesome it is?).

It certainly looks like I'm the last one left with an (activated) account : __( Soon I will need to say farewell, and log out, and join the ranks of Locked Out Forever ;_;

So more and more people are getting locked out of their accounts. I know Wizzy's already gone through two temporary accounts, and Fiery and Tyry have both recently reported getting locked out. I'm pretty sure Shorty's out for the count too. Who's still with us? Kat? Nezmy? Sely? Anyone? If you still have access to your account, maybe you could post a reply to this topic and we can see who's left.

Do we want to talk about moving to a less broken forum, or has everyone pretty much moved on from this community?

Edit: Kat reports being locked out too : __(

Edit 2: Buzzy seems to be locked out as well : __(

Edit 3: Sely is also locked out : __( The upside to this is if anyone wants to make a temporary account and start a spam war, there's literally nothing anyone can do about it ^_~

This post has been edited by BreadWorldMercy453 : 11 November 2018 - 04:04 PM