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What's your favorite kind of pie?

Strawberry Rhubarb 0.088 8.8% [ 55 ]
Pecan 0.0656 6.6% [ 41 ]
Apple 0.192 19.2% [ 120 ]
Cherry 0.0784 7.8% [ 49 ]
Blueberry 0.0624 6.2% [ 39 ]
Lemon Meringue 0.1024 10.2% [ 64 ]
Coconut Cream 0.0896 9.0% [ 56 ]
Peach 0.0288 2.9% [ 18 ]
Other 0.2928 29.3% [ 183 ]
Total Votes:[ 625 ]
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Welcome to the +USPT+ Pie Hard Event Thread!

Feel free to stick around and chat about the event! Who are you rooting for? What kind of pie do you like? If it's event related, your chat goes here! We'll be releasing event how to and item info as we get it!

The original +USPT+ is a 7-year old thread harkening back to the 2004 Annual Ball. It's a literate haven for the soft spoken, however even if you're not shy, you're still welcome to hang out with us! When the event's over feel free to come back to our MAIN THREAD in Friends Chat!

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~No begging for gold or items~
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I repeat: DO NOT BUMP IN THIS THREAD. PLEASE.
As the site grows bigger, event forums become more and more inundated with spam threads with people trying to achieve event objectives as quickly as possible. Finding chat threads with any kind of conversation or content is getting harder. The USPT has always been meant to be an oasis in a stormy internet sea, so let's please keep it that way!

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EVENT INFORMATION User Image



Summer is here, and that clearly means...PIE!
Rina has been baking her dubious pastries again, and no one is buying! Kanoko, being the master of failed capitalist enterprise that she is, comes up with the idea to get rid of them in a pie-eating contest! Rina's eyes light up at the idea of gorging Gaia's beloved citizens on her questionable edibles.

Many of Gaia's beloved NPCs have come forward to parttake in a pie-eating tournament!

Eliminations have taken place and only six contestants remain!

Pick your favorite contestant and cheer for them with all your might to encourage them to stuff their faces. Boo their rivals to hinder their pie-eating prowess!

HOW TO...?

From the event page, you can see the stats of the NPCs participating in the event. The more pie you feed them, the more their bars fill and the higher level they will be.

On the right hand side, you'll see your own stats, including the level and amount of pie fed to your top three NPCs that you have graced Rina's cooking on.

You'll also see a "stamp" card that will record the amount of pies you have bought. Fill this card up entirely to obtain one of the five event items available!

You can purchase pie by the slice for 100 gold or an entire pie for 500 gold.
Each whole pie purchased will fill in one "stamp" on your stamp card. You will need to purchase six slices of pie to fill in one "stamp".
There are 25 stamps to be filled per stamp card. At 500 gold per stamp, you can expect to need 12,500 gold per card filled.
There are 2 items to be won from filling your stamp cards, so this event will ultimately cost 62,500 gold for the full set. Now that's a gold sink!

Types of pies will be rotated out regularly, so make sure you keep participating in the event if you're going for the achievements!

HOW TO PART TWO

In order to cheer your chosen contestant on or boo their rivals, you'll need POINTS!
How do you earn points? By pieing members of rival teams in the Event Forum! You will be equipped with a dessert arsenal with which to launch at other users in the forums. Each user you pie in the face will earn you a point you can use to Cheer or Boo contestants in the running.
You can also earn pies and points by posting in the event forum!

There are event items to collect, and each team has different items!
When you pick your team, you will be awarded Face Paint in team specific colors. After 20 and 200 cheers for your team respectively, you will be awarded the Pennant and the Shirt.

In addition, while you're busy cheering or booing for different teams, you may see a picture of a Gaia NPC pop up in the upper left hand corner of the event page. Clicking on it will award a very special Alchemy ingredient you can use to transmute an exclusive Pie Hard alchemy equippable item!

These NPCs appear at random and there is no special rhyme or reason to when they will show up. You'll just have to keep your eyes peeled and fingers crossed!

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EVENT ITEMSUser Image

Stamp Card Items

User Image Pies! Pies! Pies! - Awarded for filling your stamp card for the first time.
User Image Giant Spoon & Fork - Awarded for filling your stamp card for the fifth time.

Team Items
*The Face Paint is obtained from selecting a team.
The Pennant is awarded after 20 cheers for your team and the shirt is awarded after 200 cheers*

User Image Team Diedrich Face Paint
User Image Team Diedrich Pennant
User Image Team Diedrich Shirt

User Image Team Carl Face Paint
User Image Team Carl Pennant
User Image Team Carl Shirt

User Image Team Ian and Rufus Face Paint
User Image Team Ian and Rufus Pennant
User Image Team Ian and Rufus Shirt

User Image Team Kanoko Face Paint
User Image Team Kanoko Pennant
User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.Team Kanoko Shirt

User Image Team Louie Face Paint
User Image Team Louie Pennant
User Image Team Louie Shirt

User Image Team Stein Face Paint
User Image Team Stein Pennant
User Image Team Stein Shirt

Alchemy Items
*Alchemy items are obtained from random events on the event page. An image of an NPC will appear in an upper corner, click it to receive an alchemy item.*

User Image Mr. Bibble's Silky White Cat Fur
User Image Bottled Abrasive Sexuality
User Image Moira's Tunes
User Image Gro-gain Beard
User Image Rina's Secret Pie Ingredient
User Image Ol Pete's Fleas
User Image Diedrich Clone
User Image Devin's Soothing Mantra


Achievements

*Note: All Achievements can be done with pie slices, not just whole pies. So far, it's unconfirmed if this is the case for the Pieversity achievement. ~Thank you Deep Dazzle for the info!~*

User Image Pie Pusher - Awarded to Gaians who give pies to 10 different contestants.
User Image Pie Trafficker - Awarded to Gaians who give pies to 20 different contestants.
User Image Pie Scarface - Awarded to Gains who give pies to 30 different contestants.
User Image Pie for All - Awarded to Gaians who have given pies to all NPCs.

User Image Pie Feeder - Awarded to Gaians who give the same contestant 10 pies.
User Image Pie Enabler - Awarded to Gaians who give the same contestant 20 pies.
User Image Pie Hoarder by Proxy - Awarded to Gaians who give the same contestant 30 pies.

User Image Pieversity - Awarded to Gaians who give out at least one of every single type of pie.
User Image Way Too Many Pies - Given to those rare souls with the insane pie stamina to give away 1,000 pies.
*Note: You must feed ONE NPC 1000 pies or pie slices, this does not work with your total pie count! cat_gonk *

User Image Heckler - "Boooooo! Booooooooooooo!"
User Image Piecatcher - Awarded to Pie Hard players who get hit with 200 pies.

Special Items
User Image Rina's Pie Print Apron - Available from the Tree House for 10 Wing Stickers
User Image Formula 1: Live Free or Pie Hard - Available from the Tree House for 5 Wing Stickers
User Image Live Free or Pie Hard - Crafted in the Bifrost using Alchemy

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NEW EMOTES

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PORTRAITS

For the sake of not bogging down this guide with too many images, the thread below contains the pie portraits of our favorite NPCs!
Piehard Portraits!

NOTEWORTHY GUIDES AND LINKS
Dev Notices & Site Changes - Stay tuned here for updates on event information!
Piehard achievements/items! (all now found!) & Calculations~

Secret Pie Hard Achievements Found! (+ pics & description)

Piehard event is up (link). W.stickers, achvs, & items!

[ THE PIEHARD PIE SHOWCASE ] ~ With all new fan pies&prizes

Pie Hard Vengeance Forum Online!
Pie Hard Vengeance Items

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COOK'S ILLUSTRATED'S FOOLPROOF PIE DOUGH

2 1/2 cups (12 1/2 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon table salt
2 tablespoons sugar
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/4-inch slices
1/2 cup cold vegetable shortening, cut into 4 pieces
1/4 cup cold vodka
1/4 cup cold water

1. Process 1 1/2 cups flour, salt, and sugar in food processor until combined, about 2 one-second pulses. Add butter and shortening and process until homogeneous dough just starts to collect in uneven clumps, about 15 seconds (dough will resemble cottage cheese curds and there should be no uncoated flour). Scrape bowl with rubber spatula and redistribute dough evenly around processor blade. Add remaining cup flour and pulse until mixture is evenly distributed around bowl and mass of dough has been broken up, 4 to 6 quick pulses. Empty mixture into medium bowl.

2. Sprinkle vodka and water over mixture. With rubber spatula, use folding motion to mix, pressing down on dough until dough is slightly tacky and sticks together. Divide dough into two even balls and flatten each into 4-inch disk. Wrap each in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 45 minutes or up to 2 days.


Source: Serious Eats

Sai's Notes:

This is a mealy type pie dough, not a flaky pie dough, kinda like French pate sucre versus pate brisee. This type of dough is easier to make than a flaky/tender/crisp type of pie dough.

You DO want to work the pie dough a little or else your dough will be liable to be extremely delicate to the touch to the point where it will fall apart very easily and have a greasy texture.
To much and you may encounter a tough, dense product that will shrink in the oven, though.

The key is to create irregular pieces of fat interspersed through your dough. I find it easiest to process part way in the food processor, and then to roll/flatten pieces of solid fat coated in flour between the pad of my thumb and my other fingers. I do this with all the fat lumps until I get irregular sized flakes of fat through my flour mixture. Then I form into a ball and chill.

This dough can be used for a pie shell with any filling of choice. You can also use it as an all purpose pastry dough. Bake at 375 until the dough is golden brown.

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Jennivieve
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It is! I'm just putting in content now!

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Yay!

1. New drop-down with emote categories! cat_razz cats yum_puddi yummies emotion_omnomnom emotions gaia_spoons gaia. Thanks to a friend for pointing these out.

2. Isn't it a bit alarming that only Kanoko is worried about what's in Rina's pies, even as Barrett noms a bacon one?
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Omg... I don't want to spend that amount to get to have fun... x . x I think I'll just stick around here and chat for the duration of the event. xd

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Hello. 4laugh

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Kikato Miyamoto Eternal

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Howdy and welcome to the thread, Kikato and Tobi!

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this event seems like a waist of gold, arent we all aware that event items usually suck? ._.;

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Howdy and welcome to the thread, Kikato and Tobi!

Thanks Sai. smile So I'm wondering, what does USPT stand for? o . O

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Kikato Miyamoto Eternal
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Howdy and welcome to the thread, Kikato and Tobi!

Thanks Sai. smile So I'm wondering, what does USPT stand for? o . O


"Unofficial Shy People Thread", its the name of a thread in Friend Chat where myself and some friends hang out in.

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