The Dedicated Follower of Fashion
by Lok

Class: Any
Tag: DDF

Introduction

You are fickle. You are whimsical. You tire of your attire faster than anyone else. Sounds like fun? Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends, you are a Dedicated Follower of Fashion (Kinks song inspiration).

Rules

The only items you can buy are keys, potions, scrolls, tomes. All other items must be found or gambled. After all, who needs boring predictable items in their lives? Although keys and such are so tiresome and similar, they are consumables and therefore mildly tolerable and beneath notice.

All gambles are random. Gambling is regarded as a shopping spree. You close your eyes, wiggle your mouse around on the gamble screen several times, squeal with glee, and click. Whatever you have clicked (if you have the gold) you gamble then wear- you have made a fantastic fashion find! You simply MUST HAVE IT! At least once per level you must go on a shopping spree, dear.

For each map, remember the first object type that drops. Think of this as the ‘trend setter’. If another object of the same type drops before you complete that map, you wear it (and follow the trend). By type we mean base type, so if tarnhelm drops on a map, and a cracked skull helmet drops, you wear the cracked skull helmet. Being in on the fad while it is hot is what matters, not the quality of what you wear.

All objects replaced by gambling or finds are sold. After all, you got to finance your shopping somehow, right? And selling off last year’s wardrobe gives you just the excuse you need for a little spree, right?

Any time you find a gem, you socket it. If you have no sockets left, the next socketed item that drops, you socket the gem in and wear it. Extra gems in a holding pattern are stashed, and you may cube them for higher gems. Perfect gems may be saved for Horadric cube recipes to generate new random magic items. Gems are pretty, but we are fickle, right? So what if it was a flawless emerald crown, it was passe right?

Life is too fun to worry about decisions - let fate decide. Any time you face a decision, flip a coin to decide. You can either do this literally, or you can rapid scroll on gold drop and stop on odd/even amounts of gold (you are not actually dropping it). Examples: Should I use this shrine? Should I go down into the hole? I have found the stairs to the next map, should I clear this one or go on? Hey look a WP, should I go to town? PKillerGUY wants to group with me, should I let him? Do not flip coins if you are under immediate attack.

You like to go to auctions. Go in channel to some kind of auction, and ask the important stuff, such as, "Is that lance blue? I really cant stand red lances, they are so vulgar." If you think you can get a better price at auction than in town, offer up last years wardrobe. Example: Simply Divine cracked skull helmet! A must have! Only 8000 gold!

If someone hostiles you, feel free to comment on how boorish their attire is. Offer to help them get a new look and accessorize! If for some strange reason they agree, tell them to turn their loot on, and have them stand still while you disrobe them (IE kill). Then take all their stuff to town, sell it off and gamble them up a ‘simply to kill for’ new look!

All DDFs need to fit into the latest fashions, so at the very least every even level they diet (allocate +3str, +2dex stat points). The most dedicated of DDFs diet always, but alas, not all can resist the occasional binge (no more than 5 pts allocated to vit/ene on odd levels).

If you run across someone else who looks just like you, you throw a tissy fit, going to town, selling off everything, and go on one big happy gambling spree to get a new look. HOW DARE THEY!

If you think you have a large enough audience in town, be sure to parade up and down (the Catwalk) in your latest finery, fishing for compliments with questions like "How does my wand look?" or "Do you like my hair in this pony tail, or does it look better in this chapeau?" Each DDF has his own particular walk that they practice to draw attention to his wardrobe. If you see another DDF on a catwalk, tell her things she wants to hear like "Oh, that strawberry winged helmet looks yummy."