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labyrinmods) wrote2024-12-31 11:50 pm
labyrinmods) wrote2024-12-31 11:50 pm
Shard Spending
• 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.
Rewards
Shards can be exchanged for the following wishes, for the right price.
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REGAINS (Powers)
REGAINS (Items)
REGAINS (Companions)
WISHES (Personal Housing)
Characters can have 1 home in Visium and 1 home in Lumindeas.
- 75: Extra room or significant renovation to a home
- 100: Extra room or significant renovation to a manor
- 150: Extra room or significant renovation to a mansion
- 200: Extra room or significant renovation to a landholding building
- 400: Two additional acres of land
- 375: Extra room or significant renovation.
WISHES (Vehicles)
- 250: Small carriage (2 passengers)
- 400: Medium carriage (4 to 6 passengers)
- 150: Custom additions
- 500: Small boat (two passengers, tiny cargo)
- 700: Medium boat (4 passengers, small cargo)
- 200: Custom additions
- 800: Small airship (one pilot two passengers, medium cargo)
- 1000: Medium airship (one pilot, four passengers, medium cargo)
- 275: Custom additions
WISHES (Potions)
WISHES (Setting)
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.)
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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.
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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.
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Got it re: 1 & 2.
My only other question is is...
3. Is it possible for a character to wish for an animal companion from another's canon if they're aware of it?
Using the same example, a chocobo from one of the various FFs. (Love your choice of example, btw!)
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In regards to the specialized housing option, we expect and trust our player base to be reasonable and thoughtful in what they create and get from their 1000 comment rewards. It's also something that is often discussed when it is submitted for, so we will always guide players should they submit something that is beyond the intended scope of the reward. It is easiest to have conversations about these rewards within the request rather than to ask pre-emptive exhaustive questions before submission because they are so often unique and require individual attention.
We want to avoid a lot of discussion on the questions portion of this page about unique individual rewards/requests to keep it from becoming cluttered and cumbersome. I hope this explains a little how I approach rewards and the way this system is intended to work!
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3. At this time I am not looking to allow purchases of creatures from other settings that the character does not belong to. An exception could be made if the animal is a gift for the character from the same canon. I will clarify this in the main post.
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Thank you for your hard work!
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