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Ding, Dong, the vigil's done!

Who, When, Where

Who: Pantherd90, SaRuum, Tenenit, Khellendros, Playon, Divinity, Krankarette, Aaragh, Klaye, Xenlo, Amanesus, Amethyra, Talen, AgathaCathrene, Sallah-Hazerah, Jakik, Nefer-Bast, Cattleman ... and myself. (This list from memory. I'll confirm it later.)
Where: altar just north of the chariot stop in Nile Delta
When: The first toss was at 8:54 pacific. The last was some time about 8am the next morning, if memory serves.

Several people passed during the week this ended, although some had had points from previous vigils. I expect most (if not all) to pass in future weeks on the basis of this vigil.

actual vigil site

The altar is at: 825, 7143, on a hill just to the north of the chariot stop.

2 Huge chests were established, along with a number of Large chests, both vigil-guilded and private.

communications

We used Panther's Den (at 927, 7137) as the vigil communications guild/channel. Once we get the last of the vigil sorted out, we can return his guild to its regularly scheduled uses. Or whatever... :)

public facilities and additional storage

Stonecrop

The guild Stonecrop has a most excellent facility at 860,7045. This is just south of the chariot stop, a big building with green trim.

Amanesus compound

Amanesus loaned us not only his equipment, but also his Tent. We did not abuse his trust, and things have been returned to their normal state.

Pantherd90's compound

Along with the guild, Panther loaned us the use of his compound, which included 4 carpentry shops, a number of kilns, and more. Thank you once again, Panther.

Nearby Mines

Our mining was limited to gems, for the most part, although we did come away with Zinc much in excess of our needs.

• Common metals
  • Iron
  • copper
• Uncommon and rare metals
  • Tin
  • Zinc - 939, 7299, Level 1 (no sorting required, public facilities available)
  • Lead
  • Other
• Gems
  • Topaz - 1214, 6772 (and aluminum)
  • Emerald - 939, 7299 (same as the Zinc mine above)
  • Sapphire - 1212, 6749
  • Ruby - 1045, 7356
  • Diamond -
  • Quartz - 1194, 6758

Vigil Surplus

What we had at the end of the vigil: vigil surplus

And since I'm posting links, how about this one to the list of sacrifices (and director's commentary... :) ) vigil data

Materials before the vigil

Not much use now, but perhaps someone later may find it interesting. The first number was the amount gathered, the second was my goal.

metals and mine products

Metals are hard to acquire, except during the first 8 or so hours of the vigil. Be warned that when the sacrifices speed up, you may not be able to get more.

27/10 aluminum	24/30 copper	10/10 gold	18/40 iron
0/10 lead	0/10 silver	0/10 tin	30/10 tungsten

  Minimum amounts were provided by Amanesus, although kept under his control until the vigil actually started.  More was brought during the day as people joined in. 

1/20 dirt

55/100 lime

0/300 limestone

The dirt and limestone were satisfied by later donations, for the most part. The lime needed was made on the spot.

gems

6/10 md Diamond	0/10 md Emerald	10/10 md Quartz	4/10 md Ruby
2/10 md Sapphire	10/10 md Topaz	12/50 sm Diamond	0/50 sm Emerald
81/50 sm Quartz	32(82)/50 sm Ruby	21/50 sm Sapphire	52/50 sm Topaz

Gems proved a little easier to come by than I had thought. Still, the diamond mine we had access to spat out more mediums than smalls (the one I'd gone to earlier in the week was the reverse). With everyone pitching in, and donations from all parties, we had enough to cover. And even had some small diamonds to pass on to another vigil.

papyrus and derivitives

1/9 baskets

0/50 dried papyrus

0/1000 papyrus

   Papyrus we managed to come up with mostly during the vigil.  We had enough seeds to last us, and papyrus products were not a common hit.  Some baskets were donated while the vigil was under way, and all baskets present were eaten.

flax and derivitives

500/2000 flax	0/100 dried flax	240/1200 rotted flax	100/500 tow	45/30 canvas
73/300 twine	41/200 rope	0/200 lint	515/500 thread	5/30 linen

We did not start with too much flax. We did, though, reap much more during the vigil. Both a flax train and conventional methods netted us enough to satisfy demands. Keeping a sufficient supply of each product, though, meant we could spare the time to plant, rake, spin, or weave as required. Having 3 or 4 of us ganging up on a hackling rake worked well, in the main. All our canvas was eaten by the vigil, and as we have no linen left, I think we ate that as well.

dig products and derivities

72/200 cuttable stones	0/30 cut stones	12/30 pulleys
6/50 medium stones	0/6 crucibles	0/12 nail moulds

You might be tempted to think that medium stones were a critical resource. But while we needed them, we needed cuttable stones out of all proportion. Not only did we start with an influx of a couple hundred cuttables from a pre-vigil dig, but we begged another hundred or more from folks joining the vigil in progress. And be warned... we needed lots of cut stones as well, so do have at least a handful of rock saws available if you do not pre-cut them.

animal products

420/200 oil	140/300 leather	0/??? mutton	186/400 camel meat
490/200 dung	189/200 saltpeter

We got some mutton in during the vigil, but it wasn't called for terribly often, or in great quantity. Camel meat, though... we had that added in during the vigil too, and did not have great numbers of it left. Oil, Leather, Dung, and Saltpeter supplies held out well.

vegetables

298/250 onions	0/400 cabbages	0/100 leeks
0/200 garlic	0/400 carrots

Lots of veggies were grown during the vigil, a fair amount of garlic and carrots were imported during the vigil, though. And... I still need to find out where those cabbages were grown. I only get one per seed, and it is HORRIBLE!

fish

20/80 abdju	13/400 carp	223/400 catfish	347/400? chromis
0/600 grilled fish	5/80 oxyrynchus	412/600 perch	40/80 phagrus	174/400 tilapia

Phagrus, the Official Fish of the Vigil. Not only did we come short, but we squeaked by a 73 phagrus donation only by virtue of some last minute trading done by Cattleman. (That, after I'd given up hope of our succeeding in it.) EmmieDeGhost also donated 14, which helped with a further sacrifice. And this was with EVERYONE in the vigil going out fishing for the blasted things. Please, don't cook them... someone will want them for a vigil.

foragables and misc

0/40 ash	18/300 beeswax	36/400 boards	49/20 brick racks
1180/800 bricks	300/400 charcoal	200/400 clay	512/500 firebricks
34/30 flint	16/30 grain mortars	350/400 honey	300/150 jugs
765/1000 silt	170/100 slate	12/20 slateshovel	52/50 stone blades
25/60 sulfur	90/400 straw	174/2000 thorns	500/1000 wood

Most of these were no real problem. We went through all the sulfur that was collected (what is above plus 250 more), and we had a whopping 216 slateshovel sacrifice... that we met! We ran out of boards several times, but managed to restock. Same with wood. 777 wood sacrifices eat up a 1K wood stock real fast. Lots more flint than I ever expected to see in one place, much of it now gone.

A couple of large (250+) orders for jars came and went too...

Materials pledged

(It isn't on site, but you intend to bring it.)

AgathaCathrene brought...

300 Charcoal	200Clay	500 Firebricks	40 flint	75 grilled fish
200 honey	500 silt	100 slate	18 stone blades	200 water in jugs
350 boards	50 brick rack	600 bricks	45 canvas	101 clay
15 cut stone	22 cuttable stone	20 dirt	53 dried flax	5 flax
100 grain mortars	50 leather	5 linen	7 MQ	4 MR	2 MS
6 medium stone	10 MT	200 mutton	200 oil	15 pulley
222 rotten flax	97 saltpeter	30 SQ	14 SR	20 SS
11 ST	76 tow	500 wood

I'll also bring a complete set of seeds, in case someone needs to grow veggies, but I would like to have those back at the end. ... did you get all your seeds back? (that goes for anyone else who brought seeds)

From Amanesus (on request):

140 Copper	120 Iron	30 Lead	20 Tungsten	9 Silver
8 Tin	150 Leather	900 Oil	900 Onions	250 Sulfur

Most of the silver was used, some tin, lead, copper. The sulfur, as well. I hope that most of what you donated was returned...

Lessons

• Wood. You have your choice: run a long way to where you can get wood from a lot of trees, or hang around the much smaller number of trees. It comes out to be pretty much a wash either way.

• Hatchets. If you want only so much wood at a time, it's great. If you collect wood from two stands, and by the time you get to the second stand it has reset, that's great too. But if you end up collecting 3x wood from the trees then mope around 3x the time for them to reset, you aren't really any better off than without the hatchet.

• Firebricks part 1 - local storage. Didn't have a chest handy, and really needed one. If you start with 450 or so silt, you end up with 540 or so firebricks. But in the mean time, you have to carry wood to stoke the kilns...

• Firebricks part 2 - You just don't notice it much, when you are making 12 or 50 firebricks. But Kilns have this bad habit of wearing out when you're making massive numbers of firebricks. ... dang, reminds me. We may not have access to the Stonecrop kilns. And if we do, they may wear away, leading to ... awkwardness. Have to lay in additional supplies of firebricks to replace kilns eaten during the Vigil.

• Speaking of things that wear out, you will want to have sufficient materials on hand to build/replace hackling rakes, and to replace carpentry blades. -LittleCleo

Hackling rake built at my compound, enough nails/boards/bricks to produce another on the spot if needed. There are 4 public true kilns at my compound, and 4 more at the compound next door, which is at least no further from the vigil site than Stonecrop. I can pound out replacement carpentry blades in well under a minute as necessary, provided I don't run out of iron (I have well in excess of 100 at this time). - Amanesus

• Wood part 2 - you don't have enough. What you have will be gone in a few very large volume sacrifices, and what doesn't get eaten by those will be made into boards.

• brick racks - you have enough and more than enough. You can't generally break them back down into boards, and vigils call for them in small numbers. Like 10 or 15 at a time.

• Flax - spinning takes time. raking takes time. don't rely on the fact that you have 15,000 flax stored up to save your bacon when that 93 rope donation comes due.

• facilities - when you're at the 1 sacrifice per minute point, 10 minutes is too far to travel to get to your distaffs and kilns.