This is the online version of the Fishcasting documentation.

Fanciful Fishing

Ha! That even that fisher should have gone to such lengths -- just in order to fish without pause... I shudder to imagine what over a week of non-stop fishing would do to my psyche. As different as this Casting Rod may look, it offers me no additional benefits in my work aside from its durability, should I wish to cast using a Focus Bobber.

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Shepherd's Casting Rod

Blessed Focus Bobber

A construction similar to the Fanciful Staves.

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Budding Amethyst

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For a brief few moments when under heightened stress and with their minds slipping, certain traders reach a state of mind ripe for plucking. In those instants, if I were to flay their mind, even an inexperienced wanderer would suffice for my work. For this to work, the subject must be fully submerged in the void. I may use a Focus Bobber to extend my ambit into the void.

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Annihilation

Whatever it is that came to inhabit these things, it has warped the body into something else in the process. In any case, with the sounds and writhing they do, I should consider it a good deed to set them free with a bolt of lightning. In the process, I may find an Allay suitable for my work.

Newsletter #1

Newsletter

Day-three-way tie, usual champion still first

Opinions, Discussion 1.

Stay classy champ.
One person knocking three people out of the top six spots. Cheating by exploiting loopholes as usual.
Imagine thinking its the same person just because they are wearing the same robes.
It’s probably one fishcaste's meme doing it though, judging by the robes being worn all being the same one.Next year is going to be my year, just watch.

Opinions, Discussion 2.And that right there is why I while heartedly believe that the tournaments top three are either hexcasting, or rod sharing. Babs had a full three hundred point lead over second place in two days, and then the current second and third come out of nowhere to have over six hundred points each as well, matching Babs' score. Even my acquaintance who is spending between nine and twelve hours each day in there, fishing for nothing but crystalline carp, isn't anywhere near those points

If you've taken part in any other tournaments with similar rankings you'd know that twelve hours is not nearly enough for a top rank.
Yeah for stuff like this you pretty much have to out-no life the no-lifers. Or have a group that you share a rod with.
Babs is a known and notorious griefer, i wouldn’t put hexcasting past them.
Regardless of what they're doing to get all their points, if someone appears on the leader boards out of nowhere it's because they didn't turn in the things they gathered until that day. Sounds to me like your friend isn't fishing optimally enough.

Opinions, Discussion 2. cont.

Six hundred ninety is nowhere even near the all-time top score, stop having such a kneejerk reaction. Most top fishers are pulling one hundred to two hundred a day. Take a look at the super secret leaderboards.
This fisher was at nine hundred points that year, same time in the tournament. These are not terribly high scores for a good fisher.
Is the champion hexcasting? I dont know, I dont care. But as another high-scorer I'm really fucking sick of being accused of hexcasting when there are other people with much higher scores. Most of us ultra high-scorers are spending fifteen to twenty one hours a day in place.

Some people certainly are pulling monstrous numbers.I know people who are aiming to reach one thousand points just to say they did it.I hope The School looks at the people who are way above others. The disparity is too much to ignore.Most people aren't giving a shit, there are only a handful of people seriously competing for a given tool. Think back to the great potato farming war if you need an example, which was essentially just between two people.

Opinions, Discussion 2.1.

I know the fishers, they've been spending every waking minute in the place and worked out optimal fishing methods for this year's contest on day one. They did the same stuff with the other contest, more, etc. They grind themselves to the brink of exhaustion nonstop until it's done.Just because you know the fishers doesn't mean you know whether they are hexcasting or not. Do you expect people to tell you "yeah I'm hexcasting in place"?

Well they've shared their fishing method with me, and I've put it to good effect and I would have similar results if I put in nine plus hours a day fishing myself instead of three. Not to mention that "hexcasting" can't magically change your luck on reels.what hexcasting or rod sharing can do, however, is allow you to essentially have a twenty-four hour uptime on fishing, not accounting for meal times, travel, and fish sensing something amiss. I know that those top three scores can be one hundred percent legit, especially since were at the halfway point in the ranking period, but for people like my buddy, and others in my fishcaste, and even myself to drop more time than we spend at work just fishing, and still not come close to that? Seems more than a little fishy.

Opinions, Discussion 2.1. cont.

If they are fishing nine hours a day since the start, that’s actually kinda low of a score. See scores on place

. It’s obvious they didn’t turn in all of their fish as they caught them but all at once for the meme laughs. There’s lots of people farming potatoes too at over six hundred, jumping up three hundred or so points over a day.

six hundred points in one day dude, are you really trying to justify that? Luck doesn't matter when you can do it for an extended time longer than any regular fisher can without repetitiveness breaking them. Either you're willingly defending hexcasters or you're naive and eat what they tell you.It's seven hundred over three days. Which is totally normal pace.If you look at two of them, you can see their point gain in the last twenty four hours, which is indeed nearly seven hundred in one day. That said, as others mentioned they could be hold on to their catches over multiple days, in theory.Yeah, that isn't over one day, that's my point. My point is all fish handed in must be considered to be over the entire duration over the ranking period.

Opinions, Discussion 2.2.Fish may expire, but their point values do not expire. They've been fishing since the start, they just never turned in all the stuff until yesterday to get the triple tie. I have been sitting right next to them as they fished for the last few days chatting with them.I really don’t think people realize the amount people can no life stuff like this especially with a lot of people on holiday right now. Like no-lifing fishing for eighteen hours a day isn’t even unfeasible especially if you’re only doing it for about a week.Seriously. I was on vacation for the silly competition and the fishcaste I was competing with put in eighteen hour days for a week straight, easily.Don’t get me wrong I don’t think can commit to that a type of play anymore but I’ve seen way more ridiculous things than this from people who took part in the potato war.Oh for sure, there are definitely people who go way more hard in things.

The Ignorance is strong in this one.I've gotta say I agree, "Either you're willingly defending hexcasters or you're naive and eat what they tell you." You're either full of yourself or honestly don't realize that you may just be wrong. I don't know which would be worse.Nah I think most people just don't realize how widespread hexcasting tools are, when even things like art can be automated.Hexcasting isn't hard, it's the fact hexcasting for things like competitions is just straight up asking to get banned and I'm sure they will if that is the case. But the fact of the matter. The numbers aren't that ridiculous given the circumstances. I feel like you really just underestimate some of the types of people who compete in sports like this.Would you like them to give you a copy of their True Name themselves so you can spy on them fishing all day, for your approval? I don't know why you can't comprehend the possibility that some people competing have nothing else to do, and they don't get bored of fishing for hours on end.

Opinions, Discussion 2.3.I would love to know what their optimal method for catching crystalline carp is. I've probably made ten trips to the lake and only caught one. Only gotten the indicatory bite like four times. Two I lost off the hook and one I dropped on land before it slipped back, and I was left furious.You'll need to be fishing way underground to catch any for this year's competition. I've typically found mine somewhere about half-way to bedrock.

Opinions, Discussion 3.funny as fuck, but still all reasonable scores.I cannot help but respect this. That is diligence.I have Babs right across the cave from me right this moment so this made me chuckle.Make sure champs' doing alright, yeah? I worry for the little twerp.

Newsletter #2

Opinions, Discussion 1.

I finally did it! I beat Babs!Babs didn't take part in this year's competitions.What?

Opinions, Discussion 2.

Thank god that hexcaster didn't cheat this year too. I saw they had embezzled over a billion emeralds from somebody using a hex just a few months ago, terrible person.If you mean the transaction mentioned in last month's newsletter, that article was satire.

Notes #1

Year 6666, Day 1.

I'm going to be entering the competition again this year. It'll start tomorrow. As usual I will be using my trusty wooden fishing rod. The people telling me to upgrade my rod are out of their minds, my rod works perfectly fine. At least only total idiots would accuse somebody without a casting rod of hexcasting.

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I neglected to step away from fishing to write in my diary again this year. I won, again. I passed out as soon as I handed in my last batch of fish, raising my final score to well over two thousand points, putting me at number 1 world-wide, again. My friends put in a modest effort, reaching over a thousand points each, getting them a shared sixty-ninth place. I don't think I'll be fishing next year.
I'm going to go for a walk.

Notes #2

Year 6667, Day 90.

I've moved, I no longer have a partner and I've decided to stop standing around while fishing for once. I think I'll pick up sailing. Maybe I'll even get that casting rod people had been nagging me about.
If I'm going to be touching any of that stuff, I may as well do so wasted. I've got enough bottles to last me a lifetime, anyway. I'll just chuck the bottles out along with anything else I want to get rid of when I'm done.

Notes #3

Year 6669, Day 34.

It almost feels as if something is trying to seep into me, warded off by my present enough mind. The other life around here seems unbothered, is it because I'm not as simple or is it because of something else?

Year 6669, Day 39.

The fish I've found here are strange. One of the stranger fish had no fins and no gills. It's making a lot of noise, almost like a ticking clock, but I think I'll keep it as a pet. Doesn't seem to need much maintenance, and I could use the company down here.

Notes #4

Year 6669, Day 102.

I've had enough of spending all my time hiding away from the sun. There aren't any more fish to be caught here. I spent the better part of the last week trying to take apart this look-alike I fished up. It is an unremarkable blob of flesh Cursed to live, intelligent much like an Allay, yet undying.