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Originally posted by The Sage

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Originally posted by Sill Alias

After two months of sitting here I was thinking, how much post you needed to get 5 stars?

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Acolyte -- 0 - 14 [no stars]
Seeker -- 15 - 74 [one purple star]
Learned Scribe -- 75 - 349 [two red stars]
Senior Scribe -- 350 - 999 [three gold stars]
Master of Realmslore -- 1000 - 1999 [four silver stars]
Great Reader -- 2000 -- 9999 [five yellow stars]
Miscellaneous title -- 10000+ [five yellow stars plus unique title of your own choosing]

Dark blue stars are reserved for site administration staff and light blue stars indicate site moderators.

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Are there any VIP members except for the authors and moderators?

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Site administration staff, as I mentioned above. There are other special titles also, like George Krashos remaining as a Master of Realmslore even though he's past 2,000 posts. That was at his request. And, of course, there is the Lady Herald of Realmslore, which is a Candlekeep-only title bestowed upon the always lovely and bountiful 'The Hooded One,' who relays questions and answers back and forth between the scribes of Candlekeep and Ed Greenwood. But that's about it.

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Originally posted by Ayrik

The stars are magical shuriken used with great proficiency by the monks of Candlekeep when defending their library, and you'll obtain your first one when your post count reaches 15. The golden ones are only +1, +2, or sometimes +3 but they magically return to each monk's belt after a short time (partly for combat purposes, partly because they otherwise end up serving as bookmarks); the Grand Poobah Mods wield specially blessed +5 Mystra-blue stars which are capable of instantly slaying trolls and other regenerating creatures, plus they may utter command words to teleport scrolls or ward them against further tampering ... it is sometimes whispered that Alaundo's stars have been darkened by the Shadow Weave or infernal scriptfire; it is suspected that they allow him to bypass all locks and wards within Candlekeep, move with free action through webs and ether of all kinds, instantly and unerringly locate scroll even in when the keep is completely paralyzed under siege, and (on rare occasion) cast powerful necrobibliomantic magics like resurrect scroll or banish writing.

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Originally posted by Ayrik

The stars are magical shuriken used with great proficiency by the monks of Candlekeep when defending their library, and you'll obtain your first one when your post count reaches 15. The golden ones are only +1, +2, or sometimes +3 but they magically return to each monk's belt after a short time (partly for combat purposes, partly because they otherwise end up serving as bookmarks); the Grand Poobah Mods wield specially blessed +5 Mystra-blue stars which are capable of instantly slaying trolls and other regenerating creatures, plus they may utter command words to teleport scrolls or ward them against further tampering ... it is sometimes whispered that Alaundo's stars have been darkened by the Shadow Weave or infernal scriptfire; it is suspected that they allow him to bypass all locks and wards within Candlekeep, move with free action through webs and ether of all kinds, instantly and unerringly locate scroll even in when the keep is completely paralyzed under siege, and (on rare occasion) cast powerful necrobibliomantic magics like resurrect scroll or banish writing.

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Originally posted by Brimstone

Sage said "bountiful!"

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Originally posted by Kajehase

Only 72 more to go...

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