How to get Meat?

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#1 How to get Meat?

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I'm seeing the lists of donations where people are throwing in 20,000 meat or more in at a time. I'm at level 9 and I've yet to have 20,000 meat at one time. Simply put, how can I get as rich as all you guys? I'd like to buy the rest of my buffing songs and go to take some trips (err, and donate to the clan, of course. :wink: )
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I've been hanging out in the games chat and it's been a tremendous help.

People are very generous there and you can win thousands of meat for being the first person to answer a trivia question (usually done through private messages, e.g. /msg playername). There are also raffles (which I have not participated in yet due to the fairly high ticket prices), anti-raffles, and ten-meat sales.

The anti-raffles are the most interesting because they consist of selling generally very good items (worth thousands of meat) for very cheap (usually ten meat) as tickets. When someone announces an anti-raffle, quickly click on their name to get their profile, then go to their store and look for the ticket they announced (you can usually tell by looking for a really good item selling really cheaply). After all the tickets are sold, they will ask the chatbot to roll a random number to choose the winner. The winner will usually get at least ten-thousand meat, and everybody else can be happy with their ticket.

Also, now that I'm level 9, I bought a store today and it's a much faster and easier way of selling things compared to the flea market (which did help to net me some meat). I've made a good forty-thousand meat since I set it up. Of course it costs fifty-thousand meat to buy, but it seems to be well worth it. So I'd suggest in your case, Maya, to save up meat from games and use it to buy a store since you're already level 9.
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You won't get it by just adventuring, unfortunately. Especially at your level, the Cobb's Knob treasury area just won't cut it.

The trick I've found is to hit the level three of the Knob Goblin arena down there and load up on booze, then buy cheap products like oranges and olives to make cocktails, then sell them in the market.

I'm slowly but surely working my way toward my own store, around halfway there right now.

The way I do it is to run myself down to about ten adventures, stop, brew cocktails, get nice and toasted, but one point short of drunk. (Since most cocktails seem to carry three drunkeness with them, I drink six, then top off with a nice can of Imp Ale, being a Seal Clubber and all.)

Then I hit it again to load up on more booze. I mostly scavenge food from the Clan Stash, bean burritos being a particular favorite. (Seal Clubber chow, there.)

Then when I'm down to my last few adventures, I mix up some more, and work a little cycle of adventure/mix until I'm down to no adventures and a couple-three or more bottles of booze. Then I toss off another cocktail, go over my drunkeness limit, brew up the leftovers, and drop my cocktails on the flea market.

Hopefully that'll get me my store in the next three nights or so.
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Hmm, I'd forgotten about the entire flea market deal. I'll have to try that.

And I'm glad you liked all those bean burritos I made. :D
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I never liked the looks of the flea market. The Market of Loathing, though, has been very good to me; not only do dozens of people sell useful stuff for 10 meat, but you can sell goods at a huge profit. For example, there is a vendor who sells sausage pizzas for 10 meat (and asks that only newbies use this). Also, I've bought up cocoa shell fragments, cooked them up into a lucky surprise egg (by adding a ten-leaf clover) and sold them for a profit of about 4k meat.

There are many examples for enterprising young loathers, and I can explore them in greater detail if you like.
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SCRawl wrote:There are many examples for enterprising young loathers, and I can explore them in greater detail if you like.
By all means, please do so.

I'm working the flea market heavily now. I'm still running in the red with my clan expenditures, but I think I'll start farming over the beanstalk.

One recommendation- frozen ninja stars run over two thousand in the Mall. Excellent sale item.
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Thanks for the advice! I was able to buy a store from the profits I made from selling junk in the flea market (Mayabird's Market, where the storekeeper speaks in proper capitalized and punctuated English).

From what I can tell, single bits of equipment is best sold in the flea market (where people will, for some reason, buy useless junk for highly inflated prices, much higher than in the mall) but mass numbers of things (particularly things that are consumed) are best sold in the mall.
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:shock:

Woah.
I just sold a Hell broth I made for the cost of one adventure and a few cheap items for 8000 meat at the market. I guess the services of the Sauceror guild are in high demand. :)
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People also pay good money for dry noodles (4-5k) and scrumptious reagents. Also, LSEs are a sure moneymaker, if you're willing to go fish for useless objects.
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Nephtys wrote:People also pay good money for dry noodles (4-5k) and scrumptious reagents. Also, LSEs are a sure moneymaker, if you're willing to go fish for useless objects.
I've been acquiring some of those. Does anybody have a mall store to sell them in? If so, you can find them in the stash.
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