December "Events"

[Blue]

Don't worry too much about your tab, P. I know you're good for it

I went ahead and sold my last two Wocky T-Shirts on the TP this afternoon for a very tidy profit. I almost feel guilty for just how tidy. Almost. I priced it 5k lower than the lowest I saw on the TP at the time. When I sold the second one, I had something like 40 offers within 10 minutes! This is just insane that a junk Wocky T-Shirt is selling for over 100k.

[Siniri]

Thank you so much for your foresight, Blue! I hope tomorrow's is easy; I've got a long day of travel and not much time to be online before/after.

[Blue]

My pleasure, Siniri. I hope tomorrow is easy, too. I don't know that I'll have much time until late tomorrow night when things are gone.

ETA: Today is not an easy day. Three unbuyables already at 12:15.

Desert Poogle Music Box U/B
Desert Arrow Launcher U/B
Desert Kabob U/B
A History of the Lost Desert
Lost Desert Architecture

Thankfully, I was able to find a few Kabobs at a premium price and had the other two U/B in my SDB.

[Siniri]

Ugh, I've managed to complete every day so far, but I'm apparently lacking all the unbuyable things. (I thought the poogle shish kabobs would work, since they were the junk kabobs I had...)

Where the heck are these "junk" Desert items supposed to come from? I do the Shrine every single day, twice a day. And the Fruit Machine once per day. And Expellibox. Maybe they come from desert scratchcards? But seriously, TNT, no one buys those! (Except me, this week, but I've only ever won sandstone boots and sand snowballs from them... or 500 NP.)

Maybe prices will drop this evening when everyone's trying to play "get rid of the Old Maid." Definitely no time before I leave, so meh.

[Pickles]

Books are still cheap, the Kabob has dropped to 12-13k, but the other two are still unbuyable. Ugh. I had a whopping one of the books in my SDB. Go figure.

Here's hoping I can snipe some...

ETA: Sniped a launcher. Now I've got everything but the music box!

ETA2: Mr. P gave the one he had (he decided not to do today's since the other item was U/B, too) since I'd given him an u/b yesterday. Of course, right after he does this, I actually saw one on the SSW for the first time all day.

Woot, got the avvie after completing it!

Also, his memory is better than mine. Four of the items came from the Desert Diplomacy puzzle.

[Blue]

Ooh. Good to know that the avvie is awarded upon completing the 8, not after it's all over!

[Siniri]

Thanks, Blue! I'm in Florida now, and ready to finish the quests. I appreciate you snagging the things for me.

I wonder if there's going to be any kind of reward for doing more than 8. I kind of getting the feeling there won't be...

[Blue]

You are very welcome. Thankfully, the wording on my TP lot was enough to prevent most people from making an offer. Only one other person put in an offer, unlike yesterday which yielded ~40 in a few minutes!

I really hope tomorrow won't be as bad as today with the U/B items!

[Pickles]

Here's hoping, right, Blue? I doubt that it will, though.

[Blue]

Yeah, it's been exponentially more expensive each day!

ETA: Today should be a piece of cake for everyone. I believe all items are extremely plentiful and cheap, but I did not price the snowballs because I have a lot of the needed two in my SDB. If by some miracle, the prices go crazy, I have gobs* of each.

Piece of barbed wire
piece of wool
poison snowball
evil snowball
shimmery seagrass

*gobs = at least 10 of each

[Pickles]

Wow. As far as I could tell, the prices are still dirt cheap. I didn't have the barbed wire or seagrass, but I spent a whopping 27nps to get both of them. O.o Pretty sweet!!
9/9 here!

[Blue]

I wonder if this is how TNT envisioned this event to go each day. Yesterday was nuts.

[Pickles]

I wonder if this is how TNT envisioned this event to go each day. Yesterday was nuts.

Most likely. They probably knew inflation would happen, but the inflation of the last few days has been crazy.

[Siniri]

Yeah, I had all of them in my SDB, and extras on the snowballs and grass. Selling them for whatever I can get for them.

I was going to recommend berry-picking, but that's more expensive than buying the wool and wire.

[Blue]

Ironically, a little before midnight last night, I was buying a bunch of random "junk" Roo Island items (just in case they were next). Then I thought. "Hmmm. Maybe I should look at Merridel," and went berry picking! I got a few random berries, but no barbed wire or wool


12/24 ETA: Two potential U/B today.

Bone Vault Background
Cave Foreground
Courgette Field Background
Relaxing Shenkuu Rock Garden $$
Scary Ink Frame $$$

With the total unpredictability of pricing, I secured two full sets which are now sitting reserved on the TP

Merry Christmas, everyone!