Im mad as hell

[Fidgety]

I've gone mad to level 4. The voices are doing my head in.
I have been doing activities that lower madness but the level never decreases. whittling, butterflies etc.
I have read the wiki, am I right in thinking that only the teddy and tobacco will actually drop a madness level? The wiki doesn't specifically say that. I gave up trying to drop the level at 3 with a plan for level 4 to see if I could drop it. I stored up lots of logs and as soon as i hit level 4 i went on a whittling binge. ridiculous amount of stakes made and no level drop. right when i got to the last few, I dropped 6 levels in hammer and nail because of some stupid goblin terror fetish thing. An episode.
I also went to Prov and asked around for someone to sell me some tobacco as the markets didn't have any. someone sold me 3 bits of shredded tobacco for 50 silver. I smoked them in a cob pipe with gaps of about 5 minutes. No drop in level.
At this rate I'm going to be dead by the end of the weekend.
So, Am I right in that only tobacco and a teddy can drop a level? My friends character is going mad as well.
She found a rotten log and left it in a basket. she told me there was an option to shake it which i had never come across before. later I did shake it and there was a voice inside saying hey let me out, I give you candy. I figured it was a insanity episode or something and left it in the inventory. then my friend said it was a madness causing thing witnessing a something or other. could having that thing in my inventory and shaking it several times have caused the madness to increase fast?
I took it away in the woods and left it in a stump. Didn't know if chucking it on the fire would let whatever is inside it get out.

Also, if I do get the teddy, can I go to sleep 8 hours, log back in and then go straight back to sleep for another 8 hours to drop another level or is there any minimun play time needed before each sleep.

[grapefruitv]

Only teddy, tobacco and hookah can lower madness. Tobacco has pretty low chance of working at low madness, that's why it didn't help. Get yourself a teddy and an affluence set (you need 225 points iirc) to enter the den and smoke hookah, you can do that every 24h with guaranteed reduction of one level.

Yes, you can use teddy few times in a row, just don't forget to log in for a moment.

[jcwilk]

First of all, this was thoroughly amusing to read xD We need more madness stories.

I have been doing activities that lower madness but the level never decreases. whittling, butterflies etc.
I have read the wiki, am I right in thinking that only the teddy and tobacco will actually drop a madness level?

Yeah I don't think I've ever successfully dropped a madness level doing anything that doesn't automatically drop a full level... Then again I didn't go to any great lengths either.

So, Am I right in that only tobacco and a teddy can drop a level? My friends character is going mad as well.

The easiest way (I think) is to smoke the hookah in town. You need a clothing set that gives you at least affluence of 200 to enter the hookah den. You can do this once per day and has the very nice bonus of giving you ~50k of inspiration, wait for 7-8 head nods before moving to cancel it or else it will make you pass out and not benefit. You can buy an affluence set from players, they're not nearly as hard or expensive to make as most sets one would want.

She found a rotten log and left it in a basket. she told me there was an option to shake it which i had never come across before. later I did shake it and there was a voice inside saying hey let me out, I give you candy.

I'm not sure if this is related to madness, I don't think it is. When it makes that noise when you shake it, it's due to there being a mischievous gnome inside. If you split it then he will come out and make you drop your entire inventory on the ground so don't do this xD I love that you buried him deep in the forest from whence he came, though hahaha.

Also, if I do get the teddy, can I go to sleep 8 hours, log back in and then go straight back to sleep for another 8 hours to drop another level or is there any minimun play time needed before each sleep.

Yes, I've found this to be the case. I'm not positive whether or not you have to log in between those two 8 hour segments for them to count as two, but I think you do. An affluence set is probably about the same cost though, perhaps cheaper, and way better so I'd recommend that instead.

[Fidgety]

Thanks for the speedy replies and good advice. The hookah den is not something I knew about although I did type "hookah" into the wiki search engine to see if it was some sort of pipe I couldn't make yet. I remember skipping the hookah event after dock club on Sunday. Oops, first rule of dock club... .The search returned zero results so either I misspelled or there isn't a page yet.
The game is so much better when you play with others and not alone. So much funny stuff happens I'm constantly laughing like crazy.
At my new area, there is a deserted base to the south. I checked all containers and one had itchy britches in it. Common sense told me to leave it alone but my friend wasn't blessed with such a intellectual gift on this occasion. Due to her laptop crashing frequently and not being able to figure out what to do, she scratched herself to death like 10 times and dropped 20 points. Hysterical to watch and she got a pretty annoyed after dropping everything 4 or 5 times. Her pizza was burning and she went afk - scratch scratch dead. Got a drink -scratch scratch dead. Computer froze -scratch scratch dead. She knew she had to resist the urge 4 times but after maybe 10 resists I had to tell her to unequip the thing (read the wiki).
I really do hope there is plenty more little surprises like that to be had.

Neither of us knew anything more about madness when it started than the tool tip from the crab on a stick. We stood around talking trying to figure out what was going on for a good amount of time. We searched the surrounding forest looking for crab on a stick and also she started us off on a paranoia trip that there was a witch messing with us. She came to this conclusion as she said I was poking the bear on my thread in my house of Burgess Murica thread. I tried to explain to her that Judaism isn't a real threat like say Darwoth is, but she disagreed.
After a while scratching our heads and chatting, she started exclaiming that I was glowing. No I'm not. You are you are. I don't see anything it's your madness probably. Your feather in the hat was glowing and now we are both glowing. I remembered that she was out mushroom picking for glut just before and remembered reading something about witches hat so told her she shouldn't have eaten them. There was 2 boiled in the pot. She was adament she never ate a witches hat mushroom so we concluded it must have been the fumes from the cooking pot and dispersed of it quickly.
Is that possible? fumes from the pot?

[grapefruitv]

Sounds like you guys are having a lot of fun indeed.
I see 3 possible explanations to glowing episode:
1) alt clicking things was used
2) "blink radar objects" client feature was used
3) video card issues

[Fidgety]

:lol:
Sounds like you guys are having a lot of fun indeed.
I see 3 possible explanations to glowing episode:
1) alt clicking things was used
2) "blink radar objects" client feature was used
3) video card issues

So not the mushrooms then lmao!

[NeiroShop]

Is that possible? fumes from the pot?

As much as i really dont wanna ruin the magic of Madness & Insanity. No eating a witches hat mushroom will not give you insanity nor madness. If anything it'll give you shroom poisoning.

The best way to combat madness & insanity is just studying a lil bit between what youre doing. Go to bed when you log off etc. And yeh get rid of the madness levels as they come with hookah or teddy.

[Fidgety]

Is that possible? fumes from the pot?

As much as i really dont wanna ruin the magic of Madness & Insanity. No eating a witches hat mushroom will not give you insanity nor madness. If anything it'll give you shroom poisoning.

The best way to combat madness & insanity is just studying a lil bit between what youre doing. Go to bed when you log off etc. And yeh get rid of the madness levels as they come with hookah or teddy.

I will still have fun with it once I get a grip on it. I'm the type that has to experiment. I will have to see what level 9 is like

I did read about the studying on the wiki, but my companion, due to the witch paranoia and also animals attacking us has insisted on walling everything off so we have spent 2 days slowly building stone walls and little else. The day before yesterday I ran back at full speed to our house with a cougar hot on my heels, just as, would you believe it, she logged in for the first time of the day and exited the house. By the time I panickedly got the chat window up and got her name from the buddy list, she was dead. I wish that was recorded, must have looked funny her coming out the house and typing hey, as I legged it past her into the house with a cougar chasing me.
that was the last straw before the walls were started.

[jcwilk]

I remember skipping the hookah event after dock club on Sunday. Oops

Haha yeah I hadn't encountered the hookah prior to dock club either but after standing there watching like 50 people toke the hookah I was a pro afterwards

One of the more amusing saleming-with-others things lately is that my gf loves foraging (she calls it shopping "don't disturb me i'm shopping") and sometimes has dreams where she's chasing tumbleweed endlessly. I imagine that in lebowski trip sequence context, of course.

[Kandarim]

depending on your indexing way, 9 is death.
On my client (number shown next to the humour faces) 9 is safe but X (10) is death. When hovering over your biles, madness is also shown 0-indexed. Hovering over your biles will show one less than the graphically shown number. There, 9 is death.