Talk:Baby Gravy Fairy
Should a note about a tiny plastic version of the familiar being sold in the Store of Loathing be mentioned? --CG1:t,c,e
Er, Gravy Fairies as stereotypes of women? Sorry, but I think you're reading WAY too into things. --AndyAnime 10:18, 26 March 2007 (CDT)
- I also really doubt Jick is much into teenage text-message slang; I'm a teenager, and _I've_ never even seen that abbreviation before. What in tarnation is a 'best girlfriend'? How many do you need? Get off my lawn, etc. But good job classifying women into stereotypes and all that. --Drab Emordnilap 11:56, 26 March 2007 (CDT)
Does the fairy (and fairy-like other things) have an effect when it's under 20 pounds? Might slightly nerf things that act as a fraction of a fairy--the wizard doll, if I remember, is a fairy at 1/3 or 2/3 weight. Qaianna 14:22, 3 October 2007 (CDT)
- I'm pretty sure that the fairy is 2.5%/lb up to 20 lbs and after 20 lbs it is 1.67%/lb. Is this correct? --CheezyBob 14:31, 3 October 2007 (CDT)
- I think what it is is that the Fairy (like the Leprechaun and Volleyball post NS13) starts off fairly powerful (something like 5% at one pound), and slowly diminishes in % per pound, giving exactly 50% total at 20 pounds. So thus it AVERAGES 2.5% per pound till 20 pounds, but does not give exactly that per pound (probably a little more until about 10 pounds, and a little less till 20). --Wildfire393 15:59, 3 October 2007 (CDT)
- No one knows what the fairy does below 20 pounds. There's some spading on the AFH site, but it's been much more tiresome to spade below 20 pounds than it was to spade above 20 pounds (and even that wasn't all that easy). For now, we have exact numbers for above 20 pounds and the vague idea that item drops are raised below. Basically, the numbers you're looking for don't exist yet!--QuantumNightmare 16:28, 3 October 2007 (CDT)
- It seems to me that spading at 17-19 pounds shouldn't be hard - just use a rat head balloon. Has anybody tried this?--Yiab 14:34, 29 December 2007 (CST)
- /em reaches back into his archives.
- Some spading was done. 17 pounds is around 44%, 18 pounds is around 46-47%. These values are only based on ~250 turns of spading each, so the results were not published anywhere but on our clan forums.--QuantumNightmare 20:06, 26 January 2008 (CST)
just came across something that looked familiar in a comic called Buttercup Festival - not suggesting this is the source or anything, but happy coincidence? could be... baby gravy (also the next page mentions a mushroom) --Tenorkev 17:29, 3 March 2008 (CST)
- page is from 2005, so no reference. --Evilkolbot 17:57, 3 March 2008 (CST)
I'm wondering if there is a way to allow someone viewing this wiki page to input the weight of their fairy and have it calculate the item drop bonus for you? Heady 01:55, 11 July 2008 (CDT)
- I doubt the installed extensions would allow for that. You're probably better off having an offline spreadsheet (or Google doc) of commonly calculated functions anyway, instead of navigating to this page every time you want to crunch a number. --Bagatelle 19:34, 11 July 2008 (CDT)
Fairy prevents non-combat adventures?
anyone knows if this familiar affects/prevents the appearence of non-combat adventures on the Treasury? it seems you only get fights with the fairy here. --SamusUy 01:41, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Simplifying the +item%/weight table
I think the columns for increases from +famweight (especially the percentage increases) should just be removed. It adds a lot of bulk without any additional information, and e.g. a link to a graph would be better for illustrating how the increase varies by weight. --Eleron 02:17, 18 March 2012 (CET)
- I'm not that fond of the giant table, either. Not sure a graph is any more illuminating, though, especially over a wide range of weights. I use the table as a way to figure out how much I'll get from going from one particular weight to the next. But every column other than "weight" and "bonus from this weight" I don't use. --Flargen 02:48, 18 March 2012 (CET)
