Shard Spending

[labyrinmods]

• Rewards •

The Gist of It
All characters receive a crystal pendant upon arrival. This crystal harnesses energy from those characters and the people around them via interactions and emotions. This energy is called a shard, and it can be exchanged for an item or power of their choice. To do this, your character will need to approach the giant crystal in the center of the town and press their pendant against it, giving it the power they have harnessed. They can then make their wish, and given the right amount of energy, it will manifest.

Characters can wish for an item, power, animal companion or request for a specific event to happen. Characters who require certain items for sustenance (e.g. vampires who need blood to survive) do not have to wish for this through rewards. You can assume the item they need will be readily provided.

Wishes can be IC or they can be something your character did not ask for. In the latter situation, simply assume the crystal had read their innermost desire/random thought, or that the Overseer is just messing with them.


How it works
After submitting threads on the Banking page and having them verified by a mod, players may use banked shards to submit a rewards request using the form below, and a mod will grant the request in due time. Your character's wish will then manifest however you wish it to e.g. they will regain a power right there and then, or they'll go home and find that magical sword they want sitting on their bed. It's also possible to use shards to grant wishes on behalf of other people.

Players may submit multiple rewards requests per month, provided they have banked shards available.

Please only use shards that have already been banked and verified on the Banking page. Please do not submit threads for shards in your rewards request.


Rewards
Shards can be exchanged for the following wishes, for the right price.
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REGAINS (Powers)

150: A single special ability That the character canonically has or will have. Abilities must be under a single related umbrella; see header below for more information about powers. Items necessary to use the power may be regained as part of this reward.

400: All canon powers This is a discount for characters with multiple powers where it would be too cumbersome to request them one at a time. As before, any items necessary to use the powers may be regained as part of this rewards. Should the number of powers or level of powers exceed a certain amount we reserve the right to adjust this cost accordingly and will discuss it with you upon redemption attempt. Weapons and other tools that are independent of these powers, however, must be regained separately.

REGAINS (Items)

25: A small non-magical item or weapon from your world e.g. a piece of jewelry, a photograph, or a small knife

50: A basic item Small technology such as smartphones or laptops, lightweight transportation, or larger mundane real-world items

50: A standard mundane weapon or armor from your world Anything up to modern tech and firearms

100: A small magical or sci-fi tech item Nothing powerful enough to be used in combat

150: A powerful magical or sci-fi item Such as a weapon, a protective item, or any other significant ability

400: All canon weapons or items at once This is a discount for characters with multiple weapons and specialized equipment where it would be too cumbersome to request them one at a time. This is considered a one timediscount, and once powers are begin to be requested piecemeal, the discount will no longer be offered.

REGAINS (Companions)

50: A small domestic pet such as a dog, cat, or domestic bird from a character's own home - local small domestic animals are free to adopt narratively and are not a reward item.

150: A large exotic animal Up to the size of an elephant from a character's own home - local large exotic animals are not able to be requested as rewards at this time.

250: A magical creature up to size of an elephant from a character's own home - local magical creatures from the game setting are not able to be requested as rewards at this time.

WISHES (Personal Housing)

Characters can have 1 home in Visium and 1 home in Lumindeas.

150: Homes with two bedrooms

• 75: Extra room or significant renovation to a home

275: Manors with four bedrooms

• 100: Extra room or significant renovation to a manor

450: Mansions with six bedrooms

• 150: Extra room or significant renovation to a mansion

600: Landholding (outside Lumindeas only) - Eight bedroom building with two acres of land. Requires six permanent residents.

• 200: Extra room or significant renovation to a landholding building
  
• 400: Two additional acres of land

1000: Specialized housing - A small castle or other large building, a farm or other specialized facility, or any housing that serves a special purpose or has unusual capabilities. Only one specialized housing allowed per character.

• 375: Extra room or significant renovation.

WISHES (Vehicles)

Carriages For personal use, drawn by dragons | one per character

• 250: Small carriage (2 passengers)
  
• 400: Medium carriage (4 to 6 passengers)
  
• 150: Custom additions

Boats For personal use | one per character

• 500: Small boat (two passengers, tiny cargo)
  
• 700: Medium boat (4 passengers, small cargo)
  
• 200: Custom additions

Airships Personal or Business | one per character

• 800: Small airship (one pilot two passengers, medium cargo)
  
• 1000: Medium airship (one pilot, four passengers, medium cargo)
  
• 275: Custom additions

WISHES (Potions)

50: A second potion transformation For those who have taken a gold potion.

75: Full use of your Elemental or Healing potion power For those who have already taken the appropriate potion.

100: A second potion This can either grant a second potion color, or access to another element for those who have already taken a red potion. Limit one per character.

WISHES (Setting)

200: A business license Please submit a description of your business to the locations page after approval

200: A generic or simple non-canon ability or special item These can be commonplace powers such as super-strength or flight, or the simple canon abilities of other characters, subject to mod approval.

400: Up to four non-canon powers OR special weapons at once This option is exclusively for characters with no special abilities or magical/technological equipment in canon. It may only be purchased once.

1200: A special request. Characters can request for a town-wide event (such as a change in the weather, more flowers, something terrible happening), an unusual or powerful non-canon power (Anything too unique for the 200 point regain), a permanent change to their body, or something specific to happen to them. Mods will decide if the request can be granted. Shards will not be used if the request cannot be granted.

Claimable Powers:

• Canon powers already owned by your character can be reclaimed.
  Unless opting to reclaim all powers at once, 150 shards typically regain 1 special ability. This comprises of an umbrella of related abilities. For example, all fire-related abilities (the ability to blast fire, the ability to heat things up, resistance to fire) count as 1.
  
• We will not be approving abilities powerful enough to destroy a large part of the city unless they can be nerfed heavily. The limit to destructive power should be the ability to destroy 1 house.
  
• Mind-reading or mind control powers can be reclaimed but can only be used with consent from other players.
  
• Teleportation powers can be reclaimed but they only work within the land not covered by crystal, and in the lands beyond with the usual distance restrictions. When teleporting into character's homes, there needs to be some OOC discussion beforehand.
  
• New powers can be granted through rewards, as mentioned above. Reasonably generic powers or powers learned from another character in-game can be granted at the 200 point reward. Anything extremely unique or powerful can be discussed with the team upon submission, but may be denied altogether or be extremely expensive.
  
• Potion power upgrades are only available to characters with the basic potion power. You can't get full blue potion healing unless you already have the blue potion, you can't get full gold potion animal shapeshifting unless you already have the gold potion, et cetera.

Requesting items on another character's behalf: Characters cannot request powers, licenses, residences or large rewards for another character, but they can request small items. Please check with the character's player before doing this; if you do not mention their consent on the form, we will ask.
Cooperative wishing and miscellaneous requests: We'll approve cooperative reward requests on a case by case basis. Just ask under the header below!

If there's something you want that isn't on the list or you have some doubts, feel free to ask below! Please note that mods have the last say in all regains.


Please use the following form for submissions, do not link gdocs or other external spreadsheets!
(Delete whichever parts don't apply.)

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name and username:</b> <b>Requested Reward:</b> <b>Reward Cost:</b> <b>Extra Details:</b> (if necessary) <b>Total:</b> <a href="link_to_thread"># previously banked</a> - # reward cost = # shards remaining

Comments

QUESTIONS

[labyrinmods]

[coineater]

Is there a discount for the "all powers regain" tier if a player has already put in for power regains for their character previously?

[labyrinhelp]

As the all-power-regain is already meant to function as a discount, no. However, we're aware of previous instances where players requested singular power for 150, then subtracted that cost from the 400 for the remainder. In the interest of fairness, with citation we are willing to do this for those who have already bought previous portions of powers, but will not do so for those submitting power regains for new submissions.

[nterwebz]

Me again! I'm sorry if this is a silly question.

I understand that a Landholding can only be purchased for Lumindeas.

1.5. What is the difference between a Landholding and a Farm? How many bedrooms would you say the average Farm has to start (looking at Lumindeas specifically)?

I assume the farm has a greater acreage (I'm reading the average in the US is 460+???? PLEASE correct me if it's less than that here; I'm all about being creative, but I don't have anything to go off re: this world's scale). I'd also assume you could wish for it pre-established with what you need, but I'm a little shaky re: the questions I've asked.

2. Are the companion regains only for creatures and canon companions/etc. from our character's canon worlds?

I was wondering if cats, dogs, etc. were adoptable from within the setting itself and if we'd need to pay shards for that or not, but I couldn't find an answer anywhere.

[labyrinmods]

Your questions aren't silly, but I do think you're getting a little more bogged down in details than we want.

1. Landholding is only in Lumindeas, as stated you are correct. It is sizably smaller than a farm - the largest housing option, and also has a restriction of requiring a certain number of player characters to live there to be purchasable.

The other option, 1000 for Specialized Housing, is what farms fall under because they have the potential to be something beyond a large dwelling with the standard rooms and building. They are also much larger than 4 acres and specialized housing does not have the PC resident requirement.

We are not looking to give an exact number for acreage or number of these purchases the size of the setting can hold because that gets too specific and limits the game's ability to grow and adjust for player population. Handwaving a farm that has been purchased is a reasonable size for what the player wants to use it for without being excessive is what we're looking to establish.

The available area in Somnius is ICly limited due to game events, so it's safe to assume that those would be smaller in scope due to that than the ones that would be able to be established in Lumindeas. But once again, the exact size of these housing extras is not important, there isn't a situation where we are going to run out of room for player housing in either available location. We just expect players to be reasonable with size and keep in mind the setting when playing within the game.

2. Correct, we are looking to clarify this language but the intention of that section is companion animals or non standard animals from players worlds. We request patience as we adjust some things on the rewards page as we balance things.

A chocobo from Final Fantasy is a good example. Local non magical cats, dogs, birds, etc do not have a shard cost. Should a player want to adopt something that is less mundane, mentioned in an event post, or otherwise not something simple, we will address that when they approach for a reward of that nature.

It is always best practice to check costs and other notes in these sections when you submit them in case things have changed, but we will always strive to announce large changes to what is available with an announcements post.

[photographists]

HELLO....

If I wanted Basil to ask for something like a greenhouse, what would that be considered, reward wise? Would it be possible for him to request something like that?

[labyrinmods]

Would it be an extension of his business or something personal that would go as an attachment to his home?

canon power question

[nohero]

hello! last time i was in game, i asked about canon power regains for reiner over here. the answer i got was 150 shards for transformed & permanent abilities, equalling 300 shards total. since mod teams have changed, i wanted to check and see: is that answer still accurate? thanks in advance!

[labyrinhelp]

Hey, Kas!

Thank you for checking. We are handling power regain rewards a little differently than that.

If you wanted Reiner to regain his abilities separately, they would be 150 shards each and would follow the "single special ability" specification - meaning each unique ability of the Armored Titan would be 150 shards, as opposed to grouping them under the possession and transformation umbrellas.

The "all powers regained" cost of 400 is intended to act as a discount for characters who have multiple powers to regain where it would cost much more to regain them all separately.

[caycay]

Hiya mods! I hope you don't mind me asking for a quick clarification. If a character spent 50 shards to wish for a smartphone, would this upgrade their existing oracle device?

[labyrinmods]

No, it is a separate device.

Updating Bank after Reward Claims

[heterochromeow]

Hey Mods!

Is there a process for updating our bank after a purchase to keep a live tracker of current shards?

EG: I just claimed a reward, and now have 387 shards left. But if I check my banking comment it'll still have only the 617 that was initially there.

[labyrinmods]

We expect players to grab their totals off their spending page when submitting their next bank and keep up with their totals that way.

[nterwebz]

Hanami is on the way and I play Nao, so I'm obligated to ask.

How much would a normal adult sakura tree cost?

How much would a magical seed-to-adult sakura tree cost?

[labyrinhelp]

We’re not too fussed about tree-tracking, so Nao can have a couple insta-grown trees on her farm for a basic 50 shards. We just ask that you keep plantings to your character’s own property!

[redlines]

SO because this man is an absolute menace and bc I wanted to double check lest I count my chocobos before they kweh, I've got a silly and probably dumb question:

What would y'all consider his big red beast of a bike in terms of rewards? Initially I figured it'd fall under 150 considering he'd be regaining it from his world + in his hands it may as well be another weapon, but I figured I'd ask just to be 100% sure!

[labyrinhelp]

Not silly or dumb at all! Yes, that would count as a 150 shard magical item/weapon regain. Let that boy bike!

[nterwebz]

I'm not entirely sure where this one falls since it's between large and small, so let's say Nao wanted to wish for somebody else's (translation: Hoshina's) preferred weapon(s) from home as a surprise appreciation gift sort of thing! Would that be doable with player permission or would be that too much?

If doable, 'round abouts how many points could I expect for his dual blades or sword?

Thanks in advance, modlies!

[labyrinhelp]

Hi Kana!

So long as the weapons are generic, normal weapons and don't have any kaiju parts in them, they would fall under the 50 shard mundane weapon reward.

[sensitiveapple]

Good evening fair mods, I have a conundrum, and thus have a question!

Misa wants a speeder Looking at the rewards, I can't tell if she can get one - and it having no weapons would be perfectly fine! - or how much it would cost. Help?

[labyrinhelp]

After reading through the wiki, this could be regained for 300 shards if it has no weapons.

[mastery]

hello! i'm sorry if i missed the answer to this, but just a quick question: can mundane items be regained in bulk? for example, varian has a full collection of scholarly books, but unsurprisingly the staff didn't waste their budget defining the exact number and titles.

non wildcard persona regain

[amperor]

For a regular (non Wildcard) persona user, the persona regain would be 400 shards, correct?

business question

[fragmentaryblue]

If someone already has one business and wants to start a second "business" (more like an unmanned community space), would that just be buying the business license a second time? Or would that fall under something else?

[girlybruiser]

Hi mods! I have a question and hope it isn't silly, but I can't pinpoint what Haru's ranged weapon would fall under because it's a fricking grenade launcher, therefore how many shards it would require.

It's not technically magical, but it's not exactly a commonplace firearm either.

Please let me know so I can spend accordingly! Thank you so much.