clean red.footlocker dust

[brytta.leofa]

You dust off a red-painted bone footlocker.

As we've got pretty nattered recently about the twin problems of finding people and knowing that people aren't dead, how's this for an easy improvement?

• Make all locker items (or all container items, if that's easier) collect dust after not being opened or closed for 1 RL day.
• Optionally, cause the dust to be removed when the container is opened.

Sporeplant, I owe yeh one.

[Xygax]

This is a pretty cute idea....  I dig the idea of having things collect dust.

-- X

[SMuz]

This will also function as an alarm bell if I open someone else's locker

But I like the idea.

[Cutthroat]

Neat idea.

[Eloran]

That's a nice workaround.

Now think of one for tribes, brytta.  

[Marauder Moe]

I'm not sure I like the prospect of people having to dust off their character's crap to maintain a virtual presence.  

I know that my characters have codedly gone very long periods of time without opening owned containers, though virtually they'd probably do so fairly often.

[brytta.leofa]

That's a nice workaround.

Now think of one for tribes, brytta.  

A dusty yellow spice pipe is lying here.
A dusty blue spice pipe is lying here.
A dusty green spice pipe is lying here.

[Eloran]

I chuckled a bit at that.

[LauraMars]

Maybe dust could accumulate at a slower rate?  Say, a RL week instead of a RL day...

[brytta.leofa]

Maybe dust could accumulate at a slower rate?  Say, a RL week instead of a RL day...

Yeah, that's probably more useful.

In my perfect little world, there would be varying levels of dust:

A dusty red bone footlocker is here.
> assess red.locker
A foul stench clings to this item.
It looks large enough to smuggle home a nursling gith under sarge's very nose.
It is covered with a fine layer of dust.
Later:
  It is covered with a layer of dust.
    It is covered with a thick layer of dust.
      It is covered with a thick layer of dust and grime.
        ...

[AmandaGreathouse]

Oh... I like that idea. Especially if you make it a RL week.

Also: A new stealth/manipulation/whatever skill could be implemented allowing a skilled <guild> to open and close containers without disturbing the collecting/settled dust.

[jcljules]

It looks large enough to smuggle home a nursling gith under sarge's very nose.

I support this idea. And being able to smuggle nursling gith in containers.