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

moffit

[asixthsense]

Takashi Natsume

[asixthsense]

REWARD SUBMISSION 01

[asixthsense]

Player Name: moffit
Character Name and username: Takashi Natsume, asixthsense

Requested Reward: All canon powers regained
Reward Cost: 400


Total: 400
201+243 previously banked= 444 - 400 reward cost = 44 shards remaining

[labyrinhelp]

Hi, Moffit. Can you elaborate on what Natsume's canon powers entail? If this is in your app, copy-pasting it from there is fine. (Going forward, we've decided to have this information duplicated on the reward submission. The main post will be edited to reflect this.)

[asixthsense]

Sure! I'll c&p from it.

Powers and Abilities:
- Can see, interact with, and sense spirit types (ghosts, gods, demons, youkai, etc).
- Extremely strong raw spiritual power that can be sensed by spirit types (he smells delicious) but he cannot control it very well.
- Packs a powerful punch if striking spirit types, but for anyone or anything else it's just a normal hit from an average human.
- Can share in spirit types' memories and dreams if they're nearby or very emotional, but this ability isn't something he can control.
- Can use basic exorcism utilizing symbols and ofuda, and break seals made by others.


( also ty and sorry for nagging. ;.; )

Approved!

[labyrinhelp]

Natsume is now fully equipped for a ghostbusting expedition! All powers require permission from players to use on their characters.

[asixthsense]

Thank you! & yes I'll definitely hash out anything with other players ♥♥♥

REWARD SUBMISSION 02

[asixthsense]

Player Name: moffit
Character Name and username: Takashi Natsume, asixthsense

Requested Reward: his Book of Friends
Reward Cost: 150
Extra Details: It's a magical type of book full of contracts with various youkai's true names, that he can call on if he knows their name and what they look like. Since it was inherited, there's only one name he can actually call, Misuzu. (Unsure if Misuzu is appable/able to be summoned.)

Requested Reward: Room addition to Maomao's mushroom house.
Reward Cost: 75
Extra Details: He attempted building an outdoor Japanese-style shower & soaking tub that had to go barebones and unfinished for a while. This would turn that into a finished product attached to the house with proper plumbing, electricity and improved from what his novice ability at the time was able to craft. Maomao's mun (runawayballista @ plurk) is aware of the plan.

Requested Reward: A small box filled with pictures from home.
Reward Cost: 50
Extra Details: A picture of his parents, one with him, his foster-parents and Nyanko-sensei, and photos of him with his friends.

Requested Reward: Cater Diamond's skateboard, restored to like-new condition aside from any stickers it had on it.
Reward Cost: 50
Extra Details: It's a birthday present. Cater's mun (ddsapphire @ plurk) is aware.

Total: 325
453 previously banked - 325 reward cost = 128 shards remaining

Approved, with caveats!

[labyrinhelp]

Natsume now has loot fit for friends and family! Some stipulations on the book:

• No appable characters can be summoned; we leave this to your best judgment.
• Up to 3 can be summoned at once.
• Summons are temporary and will go away after a day or two.

[asixthsense]

Thank you! Also for thinking ahead for me. ♥

REWARD SUBMISSION 03

[asixthsense]

Player Name: moffit
Character Name and username: Takashi Natsume, asixthsense

Requested Reward: 2-bedroom home
Reward Cost: 150 shards
Extra Details: A 2-story cottage outside Stellari with 2bed/1bath, kitchen, living room, enclosed back patio/porch. Lots of windows for natural light and a cozy 'with nature' sort of fairytale feel to it, near water. He isn't using the offered free home in Lumindeas because those don't have room to grow.

Requested Reward: Some renovation to the same home
Reward Cost: 75 shards
Extra Details: Add on a Japanese-style bathing area off the master bedroom on the second floor, and modify the entryway into a simple genkan.

Requested Reward: Bicycle
Reward Cost: 50 shards
Extra Details: Old-fashioned style with the banana seat, handlebar basket and rear rack.

Requested Reward: Gold potion upgrade
Reward Cost: 75 shards?
Extra Details: It came up in a recent-ish FAQ question that there was wiggle room to enhance potions. I'd like Natsume to be able to become the same dragon he is now, but much larger. Still within size limits of course, but big enough to carry 1-2 passengers with ease.

Total: 350 shards
374 previously banked - 225 reward cost = 24 shards remaining

Approved!

[labyrinhelp]

Natsume now has comfy living for two, transportation fit for an 80s kid, and a big ol’ lizard upgrade. All aboard!

REWARD SUBMISSION 04

[asixthsense]

Player Name: moffit
Character Name and username: Takashi Natsume, asixthsense

Requested Reward: magical boom box
Reward Cost: 100
Extra Details: comes with CDs but it can also play what it wants at any time instead

Requested Reward: stock of snacks/food/drinks from Japan
Reward Cost: 100?
Extra Details: various shelf-stable cooking ingredients otherwise unobtainable, as well as a mix of conbini and vending machine snacks, food and drinks to last a few months.

Requested Reward: a gift-wrapped box containing a high-end fashion outfit for Vil
Reward Cost: 50
Extra Details: Dubs gave the OK

Requested Reward: smartphone oracle upgrade
Reward Cost: 50
Extra Details: If possible, have the case display this

Total:
658 previously banked - 300 reward cost = 358 shards remaining

Approved!

[labyrinhelp]

Tunes, treats, tech, and trendy clothes be upon ye! Natsume now has it all, friendly faces for his phone included.

REWARD SUBMISSION 05

[asixthsense]

Player Name: moffit
Character Name and username: Takashi Natsume, asixthsense

Requested Reward: His own set of ODM Gear from Attack on Titan.
Reward Cost: 150
Extra Details: The older version without guns, so he can stop borrowing Jean's to train with.

Total: 150
1189 previously banked - 150 reward cost = 1039 shards remaining

[labyrinmods]

Hi Moff!

After some discussion with the current mod team, we are not going to be allowing characters to regain items that are unique to other canons such as OEM Gear. We understand this is a departure from the previous mod team's policy, but after lengthy discussion, we think this is the best course of action for the game.

If you would like Takashi to have ODM Gear, it would require a character from said canon to gift it to him using their own shards.

We will clarify this ruling on the rewards page.

[asixthsense]

That's fine, I'm not familiar with the previous mod team anyway. I'll pass it on!

REWARD SUBMISSION 06

[asixthsense]

Player Name: moffit
Character Name and username: Takashi Natsume

Requested Reward: Media room birthday gift
Reward Cost: 375
Extra Details: Adding a basement level room furnished with a large flat-screen TV with magical access to streaming movies, a couple gaming systems pre-loaded with games and extra controllers, and comfy seating - unsure if these would cost extra

Requested Reward: Box of yukata to share with friends
Reward Cost: 200
Extra Details: Unsure how many will claim one, intent is to have it handwaved in the log details or in a top level

Requested Reward: Magical composter
Reward Cost: 100
Extra Details: Something that can break down plastic & styrofoam

Requested Reward: Nail polish set
Reward Cost: 25
Extra Details: Just a bunch of colors, clear coat etc

Total:
1400 previously banked - 700 reward cost = 700 shards remaining