Voluntary Access Fee, or VAF, is the way that 3 Kingdoms keeps running. The game is free, but those lovely people who run the mud ask that you consider making a contribution to the costs of running the mud.
As a reward for your generosity, there are a large number of bonuses you can gain through spending VAF points.
For more information, type help vaf.
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We humbly request Voluntary Access Fees (VAFs) from any of our players willing to pay them, with each $1 getting you 1 VAF credit. You are not required to pay a VAF to play 3Kingdoms (hence the 'voluntary' part), but without them to take care of operating costs, 3K can't exist to be played, so you can do the math. We rely on the generosity of the player community, players like you, to keep 3Kingdoms running for the good of everyone. It's kind of like PBS, but with monsters. As a bonus for VAFs given, you are afforded a number of choice rewards that are listed at the bottom. Once you are credited with your VAFs, you can then spend the credits in the Vault of Ancient Fables, which you can reach by 'kneel'ing at the Center of Town. There, the Guardian Atriel will assist you in your selections. If you have multiple characters, any VAFs given will be applied to the group, meaning that any of your characters will then be able to draw from your shared VAF pool. Basically, your VAFs are tied to the person controlling the characters, rather than a specific character. Once you spend a VAF on an enhancement, however, that enhancement is tied to that character alone (with some noted exceptions). VAFs are not transferrable between players (humans), and if all characters are wiped for whatever reason, all VAFs attributed to that character/set of characters are wiped also.
To pay online, use the below link. Your credits will appear within 24
hours, but usually much sooner than that. For any issues, "mail VAFS"
for support.
Goto http://www.3k.org and then click the Gold 3K VAF icon
Be sure to include '3K' and your character's name in the notes. (e.g. '3K Barnaby'). Only VAF in whole dollars, as rogue cents will be truncated. You can check your VAF status at any time by using the 'vaf' command. You can also learn more details about the individual enhancements below by typing 'vaf <enhancement>'
Limited/Reselectable Enhancements
dogjoy Makes your dog happy for the rest of reboot/login 3 VAFs scar Remove one scar 10 VAFs neutral Reset your current alignment to true neutral 15 VAFs ident Three usages of remote identify 15 VAFs bestpk Reset your Best PK Kill 20 VAFs rlevel Reduce your level by 5 without other penalties 20 VAFs bind Bind items across characters until reboot 20 VAFs bestk Reset your Best Kill 20 VAFs pkboot Set yourself with playerkiller status until reboot 20 VAFs untrain Fully untrain one mud skill 20 VAFs noscar Receive no scars upon death until reboot 20 VAFs sellall Remote sellall to the main shop until reboot 20 VAFs marvel Dispenses one Marvel token 25 VAFs weapon Three usages to make a weapon unbreakable 25 VAFs uncurse Three usages of remote uncurse 25 VAFs unquest Undo one quest from your quest list 30 VAFs portal Three usages to teleport to Center of Town 30 VAFs archf Reset your Arch Foe 35 VAFs archpk Reset your PK Arch Foe 35 VAFs sever Three usages to quit during combat 40 VAFs newbie Single-use Newbieland pass 40 VAFs unbind Three usages to unbind something from yourself 40 VAFs cswap Transfer crafting skills between your characters 50 VAFs xrlevel Reduce your level down to any level above level 1 60 VAFs kreset Free mud skills reset (no coins cost) 70 VAFs sever2 Three usages to quit during combat w/equipment! 80 VAFs allscar Remove all your scars 100 VAFs house Receive 4 million house credits for a character 100 VAFs unpk Remove true playerkiller status 100 VAFs sreset Full stat reset (with no experience loss) 125 VAFs xchar Grant yourself an additional legal character 150 VAFs item Autoloading unique item, description only 150 VAFs gswap Multi-guild one of your characters 200 VAFs marble Personalized quest marble 200 VAFs nchange Change your character's name 200 VAFs restore Restore a previous character in partial or full 400 VAFs numbers View real-time combat damage numbers Variable linkd Unlimited linkdead time to reboot Variable ldlogin Login another character while others are linkdead Variable
Permanent Enhancements
lt +1 name to linktell (max of 5 enhancements) 10 VAFs tellb Ability to tellb (tellblock) all 10 VAFs ktrig1 Automatic, server-side kill trigger 10 VAFs ktrig2 Full ktrig ability (10 total commands and more) 15 VAFs scaler Allows dungeon level scaling from 66% to +8 20 VAFs alias +25 max aliases (max of 4 enhancements) 20 VAFs friends +10 friend slots (max of 10 enhancements) 20 VAFs afk Triple-length afk message 20 VAFs massxp1 Allows you to toggle hiding your XP on massxp 25 VAFs scaler2 Allows scaling from 50% to +10 (requires scaler) 25 VAFs massxp2 Allows you to toggle hiding your self on massxp 25 VAFs rating Open up full capability of the 'rating' command 25 VAFs desc Ability to color-ansi your personal description 30 VAFs muffs1 Earmuffs level 1 (740) 30 VAFs idle Add 1 hour to idle limit (max of 6 enhancements) 33 VAFs tellhis Quadruple-sized tell history (64 tells) 40 VAFs pretit2 Colorized ansi pretitle (must have 'pretit' first) 40 VAFs mbox +100 capacity to your mailbox (max of 5) 40 VAFs muffs2 Earmuffs level 2 (940, must have level 1 first) 40 VAFs pretit Increase pretitle length to 20 characters 40 VAFs align2 Colorized ansi alignment (must have 'align' first) 50 VAFs wname Colorized ansi name on who list and finger info 50 VAFs align Custom alignment description (up to 20 chars) 54 VAFs title Custom title description (up to 80 chars) 60 VAFs title2 Colorized ansi title (must have 'title' first) 60 VAFs plan Ability to attach a colored plan to your finger 75 VAFs yadda Double shout length 75 VAFs pose Customized pose message 100 VAFs showac View actual AC values on items and yourself 100 VAFs showwc View actual WC values on weapons 100 VAFs mailer Full access to the Premium Mail System 100 VAFs satch 2x capacity crafting satchel 100 VAFs stimer Remove your personal shout delay timer 125 VAFs checker Remote board reader/writer 200 VAFs dogjoin Merge dogs across all your characters into one 200 VAFs