Talk:Temporary teardrop tattoo

I have a question regarding this item, the eel battery and shark cartilage. Are they just really rare, or is there a special condition/method for getting them? --Prestige 15:01, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

At a guess, they're rarer than hen's teeth. The first two batteries in the mall were both in Mox class shops (an AT and a DB) so it might well be they're pickpocket only. I had no joy with 70 divine crackers, nor in bird form for 30 advs, and running my high level DB didn't get anywhere either. RNG hate probably. --Denarius 17:38, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

I got 2-3 of each, no pickpocketing (120turns, fishy). Crank up item %, hit hard (also MCD+10 and sometimes in bird form but never got initiative). --Fig bucket 17:50, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Fig Bucket - what equipment were you using? Were you using the fish weapons? Fish Scaler? The special sea salt crystal effect? I just did over 200 turns w/ Fishy effect and got zero of these items. If you have so many of each, can you use one of them and see what it does so we can speculate on the other two? --Moldar 21:35, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

No fish weaponry, and nothing that had any obvious special effects:

Equipment: bat hat, Grateful Undead T-shirt, haiku katana, kickback cookbook, stainless steel slacks, mayfly bait necklace, Order of the Silver Wossname, makeshift SCUBA gear

Familiar: Frozen Gravy Fairy (little bitty bathysphere) (15lb with all effects)

Effects: Elemental Saucesphere, Fat Leon's, Saucemastery, Empathy, One Very Clear Eye (only for 40 turns), Melancholy Burden, Peeled Eyeballs, Heart of Lavender, Ocelot Eyes, Powers of Observatiogn, Ermine Eyes, Strung-Up Quartet (+items), fishy, fish breath, Heavy Petting, gr8tness, phorcefulness, tomato power, well-swabbed year (30 turns), bird form (60 turns)

Attack method: Spring Raindrop Attack, then either just hit, slash, or saucegeyser

Result in 120 turns: 2 cartilage, 4 batteries, 4 teardrops --Fig bucket 21:57, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Fig bucket, clearly you're getting more of these drops than anyone else (judging from the auction house). I'm guessing you didn't see any special messages when they dropped? Aside from the +item effects that everyone's probably using, the only thing you listed that might have a special narrative effect would be fishbreath. Might be worth investigating. --Prestige 03:37, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

The fishbreath effect does cause a special message only in the Briniest Deepest (see Fishbreath) before each combat. Yesterday I might've had the effect on maybe half the time. Today I was sure to run always with fishbreath (and with a bit higher/more-consistent +item%---I think it averages to between +150% and +200%). Result: 10 batteries, 16 cartilage, and 9 teardrops in 149 turns. I save my gum wrappers, on the off-chance that makes a difference. --Fig bucket 22:53, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Interesting. I think we have our answer. I wonder if fishbreath makes the enemies tougher as well. --Prestige 23:13, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Cry baby

• Tattooed tears didn't originate in the john waters film. is there anything else that makes this a reference? --Evilkolbot 21:41, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

• if i recall, inmates in prison systems would get a tattoo of a teardrop if they murdered sombody. outside of jail however, they can be used to signify the death of a loved one--Le canard 00:21, 10 November 2008 (UTC)