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Someone with more time and energy than myself might feel inclined to make a list of the "basic" items you can get from dev accounts.--[[User:Qbr12|Qbr12]] ([[User talk:Qbr12|talk]]) 01:46, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
:I'm not sure if this will be easier or harder to do as time goes on. Like, they might even have a limited number of items out there, just to get the pool of washed items started. I'm not sure which way it works yet. --[[User:Chamou|Chamou]] ([[User talk:Chamou|talk]]) 14:56, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

The page says "occasionally".  Is this correct?  I seem to get one item every fight. --[[User:Greycat|Greycat]] ([[User talk:Greycat|talk]]) 15:37, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
:OK, not 100% of the time.  ''Very'' rarely, it does nothing.  Maybe it's an implementation glitch, or it has to be "primed" by having something washed away, or the pool of washed-away items is empty and hasn't had dev/flood items added yet, or some other mysterious subtle behavior.  --[[User:Greycat|Greycat]] ([[User talk:Greycat|talk]]) 13:56, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

It seems to me that each of the dev/flood accounts has its own unique set of items that are added to the pool.  This seems like something that would be worth tracking. --[[User:Greycat|Greycat]] ([[User talk:Greycat|talk]]) 13:56, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
*[[Wikipedia:Deucalion|Deucalion]] -- [[5-ball]], [[batgut]], [[bat wing]], [[big red clown nose]], [[bottle of gin]], [[bunny liver]], [[disease]], [[gnoll lips]], [[gnoll teeth]], [[goat beard]], [[Knob Goblin steroids]], [[Mountain Stream soda]], [[squashed frog]]
*[[Wikipedia:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] -- [[2-ball]], [[big red clown nose]], [[boxed wine]], [[briefcase]], [[bunny liver]], [[gnoll lips]], [[goat beard]], [[meat paste]], [[Mountain Stream soda]], [[roll of toilet paper]], [[skeleton bone]], [[squashed frog]]
*HotStuff -- [[bunny liver]], [[catgut]], [[deodorant]], [[disease]], [[Dyspepsi-Cola]], [[gnoll lips]], [[Knoll mushroom]], [[meat paste]], [[squashed frog]], [[wad of dough]]
*Jick -- [[7-ball]], [[bottle of whiskey]], [[boxed wine]], [[Cobb's Knob Wurstbrau]], [[goat beard]], [[meat paste]], [[moxie weed]], [[roll of toilet paper]], [[squashed frog]]
*[[Wikipedia:Manu (Hinduism)|Manu]] -- [[chorizo taco]], [[Cobb's Knob Wurstbrau]], [[disease]], [[Dyspepsi-Cola]], [[Knob Goblin firecracker]], [[Knob Goblin seltzer]], [[Knob mushroom]], [[lemon]], [[loose teeth]], [[squashed frog]]
*[[Wikipedia:Noah|Noah]] -- [[3-ball]], [[baseball]], [[disease]], [[gnoll lips]], [[Knob Goblin seltzer]], [[Knob sausage]], [[skeleton bone]], [[squashed frog]]
*Pantsless -- [[1-ball]], [[bottle of whiskey]], [[boxed wine]], [[bunny liver]], [[Cloaca-Cola]], [[disease]], [[magicalness-in-a-can]], [[roll of toilet paper]], [[squashed frog]], [[tomato]]
*Riff -- [[disease]], [[Knob Goblin firecracker]], [[Knob Goblin seltzer]], [[Knoll mushroom]], [[meat paste]], [[patchouli incense stick]], [[spider web]], [[squashed frog]]
*[[Wikipedia:Ziusudra|Ziusudra]] -- [[4-ball]], [[7-ball]], [[bunny liver]], [[chorizo taco]], [[deodorant]], [[frigid ninja stars]], [[Knob Goblin steroids]], [[loose teeth]], [[squashed frog]]

Hmm, maybe it's the same list for each account after all. --[[User:Greycat|Greycat]] ([[User talk:Greycat|talk]]) 12:16, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Gemelli '''may''' also be in the list of NPC accounts giving items, but I can't tell because he's also in Heavy Rains as a player.  So I left him off this list, for now. --[[User:Greycat|Greycat]] ([[User talk:Greycat|talk]]) 15:30, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

==Something Changed==
I reported this as a bug, and got some replies from Gemelli:
:Greycat: "In Heavy Rains, the pool skimmer is only giving items from other players, not from NPCs any more."
:Gemelli: "The pool skimmer only gives NPC items when the pool does not have enough unique items in it. I suspect that the skimmer's firing frequency is currently such that the pool of items is now well-stocked more often than not."
:Greycat: "Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. The pool skimmer is very frequently giving NOTHING at all. No message, no item. This happened every once in a great while when the path was current, but now it's happening all the time.<br><br>As it turns out, you CAN still occasionally (very occasionally) get an NPC item, but you are far more likely to get nothing."
:Gemelli: "Something was changed once the path was no longer current, yes."
--[[User:Greycat|Greycat]] ([[User talk:Greycat|talk]]) 14:30, 27 November 2014 (UTC)