Fractals is considered an mud wide event that happens a little more than every 3 days. It was designed to scale to the player as far as damage done and received. The mobs themselves do not hit very hard at all, it’s the mprog damage that has to be considered to be the real threat. Because of this scaling and low damage everyone can take part in Fractals. Level 1-201, Tier 0 or Tier 9.
Fractal will usually be announced on epic channel, or if you are in Boot and Madrox is online, he has a colorful alias that says Fractal is up. What this means is that 3s from global recall a mob named Fractal Wanderer will be there. It also does not hit hard and must be killed by everyone in order to begin the actual Fractal. Once it dies, you enter portal and the real fun begins. The basic thing everyone will tell you is to have the yell channel on as someone is usually running a plugin that will give you general directions on what to do during the games. Also if you die at anytime during Fractal you can heal up and come right back and keep playing. Just be careful on re-entry. At every 10% the Fractal Anomaly will attempt to play a game. I say attempt because if you can push his percentage passed the 10% you can do what we all call a skip. So he will attempt to play these games at 90, 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20 and 10%. 10% being the last game possible. If you skip one of these via high damage and/or stunning you will not get a game until the next %. So if the room pushes the Fractal from 91% to 89% next game will be at 80%. Once all games are exhausted and he is below 10% you just kill the Fractal.
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*** The weave is calm again. ***
*** The anomaly reconstructs itself ***
*** into a being of light ***
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Once you do, you will NOD;UNKEEP FRAC;GIVE FRAC FRAC to get your reward. You can choose to just nod and keep your fractal weave and turn in at level 201 for a chance at a good bit of more trains. Some people prefer to do that. You can turn in multiple weaves if you are handy at turning in one and running back 3s entering portal and turning in a second one as you have 3 minutes to get rewards. Once you do get your reward you will be transported to a set of shops selling really expensive items. These items are tokens to allow players to pop a punching bag mob that when killed everyone can nod at and get a random reward. These are usually purchased by players to have clan sponsored events and not recommended for newer players to waste gold on.
Games:
Now here is where we will discuss all the games that are possible during a Fractal. I will list them and a general idea of how to avoid death.
Pylons:
^^/ ODD, MALIGNANT STALAGMITES COME INTO BEING \^^
This is a game where a pylon will load in all 4 corners. Anyone who stays in the middle with the Anomaly will begin receiving damage, so it is best to go assist killing pylons. Once all 4 are dead, you return to the middle and continue on.
Fake Anomaly:
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~~~~ THE FRACTAL ANOMALY STEPS BACK ~~~~
~~~~ SPLITTING INTO FOUR ILLUSORY ~~~~
~~~~ PHANTASMS ~~~~
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This is a game where 4 fake Anomalies will spawn in the far nooks all e w n and s from middle. Only one of them is “real” the rest are fake. Players will go to these mobs and look at them and the one with the phrase “Despite being somewhat unique” in the description is the one everyone has to kill. It will usually be yelled which is correct. Once it is dead, back to middle.
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~~~~ A PHANTASM SHATTERS INTO ~~~~
~~~~ HUNDREDS OF GLASS-LIKE ~~~~
~~~~ BUTTERFLIES ~~~~
~~~~ THEY RETURN TO COALESCE ~~~~
~~~~ INTO THE FRACTAL ANOMALY ~~~~
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Tidalwave:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!! A TIDALWAVE OF FLAME RUSHES IN !!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This game is a game where a wall of fire will spawn. You will have to flee from the middle and depending on which map you use you will literally see a wall of symbols and be able to know to go in the opposite direction. If not, someone will yell which direction and you will go into one of the nooks far e w s or n from middle.
!!! THE FLAMES DIE OUT. THE AIR SIMMERS STILL !!!
Once the message echoes that it is safe, you return to the middle.
Fire Blossoms:
!!!!——>> A SHRILL WHINE PIERCES THE AIR <<——!!!! This game is announced via a message about a whine piercing. This will make it so only 2 of the 4 corners are safe. You can tell which based on the map if you use that version and someone will usually yell which ones are safe. Get to one and wait for the message for it to be safe and return to middle. !!!!——>> THE INFERNAL PETALS FALL AND THE AIR COOLS DOWN <<——!!!! Clock: ——> A VAGUE, INCORPOREAL CIRCLE OF SMOKE BEGINS TO CIRCLE THE BATTLE <—— This game is very simple, you will see a message about a clock appearing. ——> A LARGE, ETHEREAL CLOCK APPEARS BENEATH THE BATTLE <——
You want to flee out of the middle and stay out of the middle until it is safe. Once it is safe, return to middle.
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< THE CLOCK EXPLODES WITH A >
< MASSIVE FORCE! >
< THE ANOMALY SHIFTS BACK >
< IN TIME! >
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Lamp:
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** ONE BY ONE THE COMBATANTS **
** ARE SUCKED AWAY **
** INTO A LAMP OF STONE **
** TOWARDS A PLACE **
** THEY MUST NOW CALL HOME **
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During this game, half the players will be transported into a section filled with fog and one lamp core. The goal is to kill the lamp core before the other players kill the lamp which will be randomly somewhere around the fractal.
*** THE LAMP CORE BLAZES BRIGHTLY, THEN FIZZLES OUT ***
If the lamp dies before the core, everyone inside dies. It is also good strategy if 201 to strangle the fog inside the lamp as they do mprog damage.
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*** THE LAMP BURSTS OPEN ***
*** EXPELLING ITS BURDEN ***
*** AND SPARING YOU ANY ***
*** MORE BAD POETRY ***
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Fae:
~~ THE ANOMALY CASTS YOU TO THE UNSEELIE COURT ~~
This game is dedicated to the former clan of Daoine, it involved having to kill Archfey Xaludar who is always at room 35501 so if you have it mapped you can xrt 35501 repeatedly to get to him.
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~~ THE FAE CHITTER, EXCITED, ~~
~~ AS THEY BEGIN TO JOIN THE ~~
~~ FRAY, POURING FROM THEIR ~~
~~ DENS ~~
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Mprogs will block some of your movements and eventually fae will spawn casting petrify farther making navigation more difficult. If you keep spamming xrt 35501 you will eventually get back to Xal’s room and you can help kill him where once you all do you will be returned to the middle and restored full hp and mana.
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~~ WITH THE ARCHFEY FELLED ~~
~~ THE COMBATANTS ARE ~~
~~ DEPOSITED BACK ONTO ~~
~~ THE BATTLEFIELD ~~
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Raiders:
~~~ You find yourself escorting a caravan of travelers. ~~~
This game is dedicated to the former clan of Romani. It involves killing raiders and riders before they get to the middle and kill all the citizens. Once the players kill all of them eventually Medusas show up and also have to be killed. All the mobs do decent mprog damage and flee a lot and require webbing. Once everything is dead and not the citizens you will be returned to the middle at full hp and mana. Failing this game will send you back to the middle and no restore with needing to do 10% more damage to Fractal.
!!!~~~ THE CARAVAN HAS BEEN SAVED! YOU ARE RETURNED TO THE FRAY! ~~~!!!
Vorel:
/\/ THE ANOMALY CASTS YOU INTO BATTLE AGAINST VOREL /\/
This game is dedicated to the former clan of Dragon. It involves killing Vorel. This might be the most intense of all of the games and the one where most people die.
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/\/ VOREL INHALES AND BREATHES A CONE OF WHITE FLAME /\/
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Vorel will breath fire out over the playing field and some rooms will now have white flames and such that deal mprog damage. Your goal is to find a room that has nothing in it but players. Keep an eye out because the mprog damaging items can enter your room at anytime.
/\/ VOREL FINISHES EXHALING THE WHITE FLAME /\/
Once Vorel stops breathing, everyone will return to the middle to keep damaging Vorel.
^’.’^ VOREL’S WYVERNGUARD FLIES IN, BREATHING FIRE INTO THE BATTLE ^’.’^
Eventually Vorel will spawn 4 wyvernguards in the corners. Everyone will go and kill each of these wyvernguards until they are all dead. Then it is back to killing Vorel when he is not exhaling. Once he dies, players will be sent back to the Fractal Anomaly with full hp and mana.
/\/ VOREL FALLS FROM THE SKY AND THE STORM SUBSIDES /\/
