Kingdom of Loathing, iWork Edition

Today's post comes live from my Control4 training course, via my MacBook Pro. Obvs, this' a MSExcel blog, but today i'm using Apple's Numbers. We'll see how it turns out, as i have little to no faith in Mac's approximation of MSOffice. All the nerdery of being surrounded by fellow home-automators has got me playing my favorite browser-based, multiplayer RPG, KoL.

Me!

While completing the Me and My Nemesis quest in The Secret Tropical Island Volcano Lair, it became necessary for me to decode the Rave Disco Combos in order to make the ravers drop equipment (rave visors, baggy rave pants, pacifier necklaces, etc.) which would increase my Raveosity.

The Secret Island Volcano Lair

These combos consist of three discrete steps (Break it on Down, Pop and Lock It, and Run Like the Wind), and are randomized per player per ascension. Since there're three steps, and each combo consists of each of the three, the total number of potential combinations is a permutation problem, 3! = 6 combinations.

Rave Combos

The preceding table is where i created the six combos (via a base 3 counting system), tested each on a raver, and eventually discovered Rave Steal, which enabled me to steal the Raveosity-raising equipment i craved! Huzzah!

Pop-and-Lock Raver

[Side Note: Apparently, Numbers doesn't have the ability to save spreadsheets as pictures (if anyone knows otherwise, please comment). I also have OpenOffice running Calc in Windows Vista in Parallels, but unfortunately, that doesn't appear to give me the ability to save as a picture either. So i exported the file from Numbers as a PDF, opened it in Adobe (Vista-side), took a screenshot, opened that in Apple Preview, selected, cropped, and uploaded. Ta da!]

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