sparks

[trainmasters]

sparks

Sparks of Light are the currency with which your characters buy items they need or upgrades to their carriages. They're also used to track the overall progress of the game and reach plot milestones. Because of this, you must keep active track of how many sparks your character has earned and spent. A template spreadsheet can be found here -- make a copy and keep it updated at least every couple of weeks!

Sparks Earning Guide

Initiate a Bond - 200 sparks for a one-on-one Bond, plus 100 more per 5 people who participate. If 5 people respond to your Bond it's worth 300 sparks, if 10 people respond it's worth 400, etc.
Participate in a teammate's Bond - 200 sparks
Participate in another team's Bond - 100 sparks
Participate in an Event post - 300 sparks
Your team wins a Trial - 500 sparks (800 for a bonus win)
Your team loses a Trial - 200 sparks
Your character runs a Trial - 800 sparks

Sparks Shop
Below is a list of the most common things your character might want to buy. Items marked with a ★ require mod approval. Characters can always pool sparks if needed -- just let us know who's contributing what in your form. If you're not sure how much something would cost, or you want to apply for a mod-approved purchase, please use the following form. You don't need to ask approval for anything that already has a listed price and isn't specifically marked. Once we've got some new requests, we'll make a spreadsheet to keep track!

<b>Character:</b> (please link your sparks spreadsheet to be checked!) <b>Item:</b> <b>Details:</b> (if you're purchasing a carriage upgrade, for example, let us know what you're looking for and we'll give you a write-up with approval)

★ team carriage upgrade - 2000 sparks
healing pod - injury - 500 sparks
healing pod - life-threatening injury - 750 sparks
healing pod - revival - 1000 sparks
★ power share - 1000 sparks
★ simple magical item (such as a personal powercap or shield) - 200 sparks
★ complex magical item (such as a carriage-wide powercap or shield) - 400 sparks
★ non-magical weapon - 200 sparks
★ magical weapon - 400 sparks
ammo for ranged weapons (a clip or equivalent) - 50 sparks
a new accessory - 100 sparks
a new outfit - 200 sparks
single-serve packaged drink or snack - 10 sparks
full size packaged drink or snack - 30 sparks
single-serve alcohol or recreational drugs - 50 sparks
full size bottle/bag of alcohol or recreational drugs - 100 sparks
ingredients for a meal for 1 / 2 / 7 people - 20 / 30 / 50 sparks
fully cooked meal (low quality) for 1 / 2 / 7 people - 40 / 60 / 100 sparks
fully cooked meal (high quality) for 1 / 2 / 7 people - 60 / 90 / 150 sparks
bottle of OTC medication - 50 sparks
luxury toiletries kit - 200 sparks
★ a pet (small household pets only) - 500 sparks
a week's worth of pet care supplies 100 sparks

Notes: Any "magical item" that can affect others' play must be limited in scope. For example, you can buy a wearable item that suppresses your own magical traits, but an item intended to suppress someone else's powers must either have a short time limit (such as 10 minutes with a two hour cooldown) or need frequent replacement (works for a full day then needs to be re-purchased). This applies to magical shields, love potions, or anything else that can be used on/against other players. The exact limits are player choice, but please include them in your request.

You may buy specific items from your character's canon, but the price is doubled. For example "a sword" is 200 sparks, but "my family's heirloom sword" is 400. This does not apply to simple supplies such as food/shampoo brands, only to specific individual items with sentimental value.

You may collect from each type of bond once per thread! You may only get the initiating/teammate bonus once per thread. You may only count a bond one time regardless of the number of threads it spawned. If you got multiple threads on one bond, see the participation bonus instead.

All bonds have an initiator. You only get 200 sparks if you're the character starting the bond, or you're replying to a teammate's bond. You also only get sparks if your character purposefully had earning them/participating in the system in mind when the action was taken.

Trials are paid out per team. In other words, if your team attended a trial you get the win/loss prize whether your character personally attended or not. However, you only get sparks for a bond you personally tagged into.

Please use the !bonds tag on the IC comm when making a public bond post. Please put [bond] in the comment subject line when initiating a bond in a thread. Only marked bonds will be counted for collective sparks!

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[ewestmarch]

Character: Emilia
Item: a flying Magic Broom
Details: gonna explore the planet but flying seems safer than walking. would this be a simple magical item?

Item: A month's worth of books. Like thirty books.
Details: She is seeking to research about: Trains. "Apps." Any books that would have mentioned prisms, or malice, or the Prince, or his world, or this planet they're on currently. But mostly she is bored.

[trainmasters]

Books are 100 sparks each! A magic broom would count as a small vehicle, which would run at 500.

[desirestruth]

Character: Naeva
Item: a deck of cards. also, a query before attempt to purchase, would a jackal count as a small household pet. :|a

EDIT: ALSO WHILE I'M HERE, what about origami paper? those sets that come in like. 200-300 sheets of pretty squares.

[trainmasters]

A jackal would count! Anything smaller than a large dog and capable of living in the train is okay!

You can get 200 sheets of origami paper for 50 sparks!

[wontforbidtherain]

Character: Cat
Item: Breakfast for 2 (fried eggs, toast, black tea) (meal, high quality)

[trainmasters]

Approved!

[desirestruth]

Character: Naeva
Item: Pet (x1). THERAPY JACKAL. Additionally, 1 month of pet care supplies.

Details: A smaller than average Black-Backed jackal, with a collar and leash. Naeva's homesick. :c

[trainmasters]

Approved!

[bad_crowmance]

Character: Crow, eventually (this is a question for the future tho)
Item: I DON'T KNOW WHAT CATEGORY QUARTZ GOES UNDER
Details:

OKAY QUESTION

It's occurred to me that you can totally buy quartz for ARCUSes so we are not stuck with the setup our characters arrived with. SO! I wish to ask what the varying prices are for:

• Regular quartz
→ Is there a difference between "normal" quartz versus the slightly fancier and more rare ones?
• Lost Arts quartz
• Master quartz

[trainmasters]

Quartz will fall under the magical item prices. Regular quartz will be 200 sparks and master/lost arts would be 400!

[voreaciously]

Character: 80H/Amane, Crow Armbrust
Item: THE PARTY HARDY ROOM!
Details: -Large soundproof room with lots of silk, satin, and leather in red and black
-A large ass sturdy bed
-stripper poles, suspension harnesses, and a place to hang toys (maybe throw some in idk)
-probably a poker table for strip poker, honestly.
-a baaaar
-A bamf bathroom with probably with detachable showerheads. because listen. also with a jacuzzi tub. She'd want a lot of natural stone, wood and plant decoration. PLANTS ERRYWHERE
-for this room to be accessible from both their rooms and pass word locked and for them to get a ping on their chains whenever either of them is in the room.
-Fashion area that includes a chest of drawers for lewds and has a lot of mirrors including the ceiling because having sex in front of mirrors aaaaayy

[trainmasters]

Hello!

While the room at large has been approved, a separate bathroom would be another upgrade. Would you like to pay for both, or get just one part for now?

[awakenerd]

Character: rean and i will link the sheet when I'm on computer
Item: Carriage Upgrade
Details: A hot spring bath. Outdoor aesthetic would be ideal. Something for everyone in Ginger.

[trainmasters]

Approved! Your upgrade's been added to the team page.

[desirestruth]

This is a place holder for Naeva buying a lounge for senna—a comfortable room with a fuckton of pillows and couches, an aquarium, some bookshelves, and a screen for movie nights. The perfect place for sleepovers and makeovers.

[trainmasters]

Approved! Your upgrade's been added to the team page.

[nihilmancy]

Placeholder for Hlasoh buying a cozy and refined study room with books, soundproofed.

[trainmasters]

Approved! Your upgrade's been added to the team page.

[bosssfight]

Character: Eliza & Fang
Item: a doggie door
Details: so wolves can use the front door

Character: Eliza
Item: a parrot play gym for her familiar
Details: a bunch of PVC and wood perches all jungle-gym'd together with some toys. can be taken apart and reassembled in different configurations.

Character: Eliza
Item: carriage upgrade: a necromancy studies lab
Details: BIG expansion on Eliza's room yeah she's okay with just sleeping in her dead bones room. BIG open floorspace, very smooth for doing chalk arrays. Storage with a variety of drawers, shelves, and cabinets for sorting & storing specimens. Some or all of the storage is on wheels. A couple wheeled worktables. A necropsy table and a floordrain in a WELL-VENTILATED corner. A bookshelf (with reference material? or to be filled later). Some division of the area that has all her actual bedroom stuff-- ideally lofted, but a privacy curtain is okay too. A bigger desk. A monitor screen or projector to plug her chain into.

[trainmasters]

Approved! Your upgrade's been added to the team page. It'll be a price of 200 sparks for the doggy door, and 100 for the parrot play gym!

[voreaciously]

Character: Amane
Item: Mage Studio
Details: A studio is basically a mage's workshop/lab, to be attached to her bedroom, not included. As much of a workaholic she is, she doesn't take it "home" with her. Desk and comfy ass ergonomic chair for long nights of work. Nice smooth floor space, looots of storage and shelve space, but also space for plants to grow either as speciments or as part of the aesthetic. Flowerboxes on high, potted plants on low, columns in the design for climbers to wind around, but also a tree.

You heard me.

If possible I would like for a tree or something tree-like (but not Tree-like ;Dc) to grow from the walls/corner.

Also requesting a sterile closed-off space in which to do dissections, vivisections, and operations with cold storage and emergency/sanitation showers.

Also the whole place to be conducive to minimising magical and mundane accidents. Sort of like fireproofing a house.

Requested that it be connected to her room, again, and the sexy party room with also like some buzz/doorbell feature on her chain if anyone is outside it]


Item: Room Expansion
Details: For her bedroom, time to deck that out. Bigger bed, plants everywhere, C L O S E T space, shelving space, regular space, space space, decent-looking expensive af furniture (but not ostentatious). A low table and a high desk. bigass bed in case she has people over or smth. reinforced glass ceiling with covers to let in natural light or see the stars. idk surprise me.

And for an entire wall to be a water feature like so with water lilies and lotus flowers at the bottom. Perhaps it borders most of her room. (not the feature, just where the water collects)


Item: ARCUS II
Details: u herd me

we trails now

i don't even know what II doe--

okay but with water aaaand i can't pick between mirage or time locks.

water/mirage if like there is not a trails character that already has that. water/time if someone already does.


Item: A really big beautiful black moth. It's got a like three foot wingspan.
Details: A magical moth from AFD that was adopted by 80H. it has the power to enable telepathy between individuals it touches. I also intend to have Darchelle become her familiar in everything but name (she has hang-ups; snakes are supposed to be her familiars)

[trainmasters]

Room expansions are OOCly approved and will be written up and implemented soon!

There are both water/mirage AND water/time characters in trails so it's up to you which one you get, but Arcus is also approved!

Moth is approved at the sentimental items rate as well.

[wontforbidtherain]

Character: Aphra https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_Ve2_kiUtHGF06pO8oKktAdoBcolqLrivDkY-_g99Qo/edit#gid=489473629
Item: Knife
Details: A small knife mostly used as a tool

Item: A set of jars (to hold liquid), a bowl, and chalk.
Details: Used for spellwork.

[trainmasters]

A small knife will still carry the weapon price of 200 sparks, but is approved!

The other implements will be 50, 50, and 30 sparks respectively.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Character: Wash/Dusk (Hopefully I've been doing it right.)
Item: Wash has been introduced to Orbal guns. I don't know if he can purchase it since non-canon, but if he can, he will as the magical weapon.
If not, a non-magical pistol and two things of ammo also works.

And whichever of those, also a combat knife.

ALSO, Wash would like to purchase movies. Can they be played on the lounge's TV? If not, how much would a fairly big TV be?

Also also maybe a kitten. Because reasons.

Also how much would a deck of cards and a container of poker chips cost.

Details: He wants to at least get the original Star Wars trilogy and Jurassic Park because he wants to blow people's minds.

[trainmasters]

All purchases are approved!

Orbals guns are 200 sparks each, as is a combat knife. Movies would be 100 sparks each, and can be played on the lounge TV. If Wash would like a TV for his own room/for Clover, it'd be 200. A kitten is 500, and basic games such as a deck of cards or poker chips are 50 each!

[bowtiedbones]

Character: Eliza
Item: camping gear
Details: Tent, sleeping bag, big pocket knife. Equipment for 1-2 night trips into the jungle.

[trainmasters]

A tent would be 200 sparks, as would a knife. The sleeping bag would be 100, and a "pack of supplies" including all the small re-usable camping gear, packed into a backpack, would be 300.

[bad_crowmance]

Character: Crow Armbrust
Item: Double Sabre
Details: WEAPON PLEASE

[trainmasters]

Approved! If it's the specific one from canon it'll be at the sentimental items price.

[survivaltricks]

Character: TWILIGHT PINK SPARKLESHY
Item: A bag of glitter
Details: don't. don't ask.

[trainmasters]

That'd 25 sparks!

[bad_crowmance]

Character: Crow
Item: Magical Weapon (?) (Divine Knight)
Details:

FOR FUTURE REFERENCE

HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST TO BUY ORDINE?

[trainmasters]

FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.

Vehicle prices will be:
500 sparks for a small non=motorized vehicle such as a bicycle or a flying broom, which would fit inside the train without a problem.
5000 sparks for a small motorized vehicle such as a motorcycle -- the first person to buy this will trigger a garage car on the train which will house things you can feasibly get up a small ramp into said car.
25000 sparks for very large or complicated vehicles that would require their own special method of transportation when the train moves.

^ since Ordine is a sentimental item, he'd be 50k

[survivaltricks]

Character: Spark
Item: a shinto-style omamori
Details: I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THIS COSTS sobs

[trainmasters]

It'd be 30 sparks! Unless it actually has magic abilities in which case it'd be the magical item price.

[malignstar]

Character: Felix
Item: Magical Sword from Home, 800
Details: It's an evolved version of the amulet he wears. It can transform into a black blade sword that uses dark magic that saps willpower and can freeze people in place with dark ice magic.

[trainmasters]

Approved!

[survivaltricks]

Character: Spark
Item: CAT TREATS
Details: yes they're for you-know-who

Item: a coffee maker
Details: it was inevitable

[trainmasters]

a bag of cat treats would be 50 sparks!

a coffee maker would be 100 sparks!

[bluediligence]

Character: Faito
Item: MORE A QUESTION THAN ANYTHING. Faito has two clockwork prosthesis thanks to the Vampire's trauma game, I was wondering how much it would cost to fix something like that since it isn't technically an injury.
Details: See above

[trainmasters]

We're sorry for the wait!

If Faito can't get a player character to heal the prostheses, they can be healed at the pods for free, as apology from the NPCs for the disaster!

[schrodingerscockroach]

Character: Dusk
Item: Deer meat
Details: There was talk of venison BBQ and jerky. How much would a deer carcass cost? That's like fifty pounds of meat plus the other stuff, Eliza wants the skeleton.

Also how much about a basic appliance be, like a vacuum?

[trainmasters]

A small basic appliance would be 100 sparks, but since a vacuum is a bit bigger/more complicated, it'd be 200.

An entire deer carcass would cost 150 sparks, but it could likely be found in the forest alive...

[bluediligence]

Character: Faito
Item: Carriage upgrade
Details: Faito wants to upgrade her bedroom! She wants to turn it into a fancy climbing wall jungle gym - most of the walls should be climbable, with multiple bouldering sections and some stuff on the ceiling too. She'd like more/bigger windows for extra light, higher ceilings, and a double bed. It'd be A+ if there could be a split level, like a cozy reading nook that you can only reach by scaling the wall (possibly with a fireman's pole somewhere to make it easier to get down).

[trainmasters]

Approved! Your upgrade's been added to the team page.

[daydreamshimmer]

Character: Sunset Shimmer
Item: Not actually buying anything right now as asking about a thing.

How much would a magical device cost to change her between human and unicorn?

And how much would paint cost? Such as painting the train.

Also an instrument. Like a violin, or an electric guitar.

[trainmasters]

The device would be 200 sparks! Paint is 100 for a gallon or 25 for a tube of craft paint, and an instrument is 200.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Character: Dusk gonna treat his team
Item: Carriage upgrade
Details: Upgrading the kitchen! With butler Noon, and barista Twilight, and mother hen Dusk, definitely need some more room.

Some pictures for reference. Also black and pink look good but I mean flowers are hilarious even if Dusk wouldn't ask for those, but themes.

Biggest thing is having some space. More counter space, a big oven, a good gas range and griddle. Deep sink, big fridge, because cooking together is good bonding. Also space for gadgets, such as a previously bought coffee machine. Room to sit together and eat and invite people over without being overly formal.

[trainmasters]

Approved! Your upgrade's been added to the team page.