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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Comments

[wontforbidtherain]

Character: Aphra SparksSheet
Item: Healing pod (750 point version?)
Details: She needs to regrow a hand.

[trainmasters]

Hi! First of all we apologize for the wait on this.

This is of course approved!

[awakenerd]

Character: Rean
Item: Carriage Upgrade x3
1) a nice sex room for his room
2) also a nice recreation room for ginger as a whole
3) a personal room upgrade

Details:

1) fancy and kinky with a private bathroom, and soundproofing is extra important, and maybe a secret entrance like a bookshelf that is actually also a door because look, it's more subtle that way and he'd rather not get asked "where's that door go". Big bed, places for cuffs, a closet for kink gear

2) Lots of board games, darts, billiards, maybe arcade machines or an entertainment system? An area with a really cozy set up for playing board and card games.

3) Fancy! With lots of books and shelves, a bigger bed, a little meditation area in Japanese style, a solid oak desk, and vases of flowers. Ideally a opening to a small garden with a tiny waterfall or fountain, and general nice atmosphere whatever you wanna really

[trainmasters]

Hi! While this is approved pending write-up, a separate bathroom is another upgrade. Would you rather spend the sparks for that, or have it excluded?

[daydreamshimmer]

Character: Solar Flare
Item: Tattoo Kit
Details: Tools to do a tattoo and enough paint for several tattoos.

[trainmasters]

Hi! First of all we apologize for the wait on this.

It would be 200 sparks for the kit itself and 100 per set of inks, each containing roughly 12 colours in big enough supply to cover an adult human body head to toe!

[bestbrotherever]

Character: Loki
Item: A dagger
Details: A simple Asgardian dagger

[trainmasters]

Hi! First of all we apologize for the wait on this.

Your purchase is approved for 200 sparks, or 400 if the dagger is a specific one from home!

[overworker]

Character: Towa Herschel
Item: Orbal Gun
Details: A single, small handheld magical gun.

[trainmasters]

Hi! First of all we apologize for the wait on this.

Your purchase is approved for 400 sparks, or 800 if it's her specific gun from home!

[featherbeaned]

Character: Meridian
Item: Personal room upgrade
Details:
+ AS BIG AS POSSIBLE. Like a big cozy den, but with plenty of natural light.
+ For sleeping, she wants a giant rectangular one of these, big enough to starfish sprawl on, with as many extra blankets and pillows as she can get. Bonus points if it's heated. BIG OL' NEST.
+ A HOT SPRING, preferably in some kind of ~outdoorsy~ area.
+ Trees (fake or otherwise) with perches.
+ Dragon-sized scratching posts.
+ A sandpit ... ... ... ...
+ Somewhere, a wardrobe with a built in dresser/vanity. There should be two mirrors, one at the vanity, and one nearby that's full length.

[trainmasters]

Hello!

This is approved pending write-up on Friday, with one caveat!

A full-sized hot springs bathing room would be a second upgrade. She can, however, have a small tub-sized one in the main room if you want it to be included in a single upgrade! Let us know which you prefer and we'll include it in the write-up!

[featherbeaned]

Let's go for the double upgrade!

(If the hot tub area could be secluded but not like, entered through an actual hinged door somehow, that would be fab as well. But either works!)

[bowtiedbones]

Character: Eliza
Item: a pack of respirator masks
Details: like the disposable N95 kind from a hardware store. just for particles, not for gas.

[trainmasters]

Hi! First of all we apologize for the wait on this.

This would cost 50 sparks for a pack of 10!

[whatsmytalentagain]

Character: Rantaro Amami
Item: Text to Speech option
Details: It's just another feature for his Chain so he doesn't have to keep showing his phone to people. Bonus points if I can give it a robot voice.

[trainmasters]

Hi! First of all we apologize for the wait on this.

For the benefit of other players or if you return, TTS should be included on the Chain by default!

[schrodingerscockroach]

Character: Washington/Dusk
Item: Another combat knife, three throwing knives, and a normal pistol.
Details: ....he likes weapon options.

[trainmasters]

Hi! First of all we apologize for the wait on this.

Your purchase is approved! Each weapon (3 throwing knives can count as a single weapon, coming in a set) is 200 sparks, or 400 if they are specific items from home!

[schrodingerscockroach]

Character: Dusk/Agent Washington
Item: Personal Room Upgrade
Details: First off is the room just being bigger in general, to feel as least cell like as possible. One wall is just pure window to make the room seem even bigger. With blackout curtains to block out the light when he wants to, but having the option to open up the space more is important.

Having a loft area for his bed, accessed by a moveable ladder. Just a place of height and also not cell standard. A bigger bed with a lot more pillows and blankets.

All along the walls is a bit of a cat paradise, with an assortment of ledges, boxes on the wall, and cat trees to climb. Lots of little hidey holes and things to climb and poles to scratch. Plus some catwalks near the ceiling to go to a few pole cat trees in the middle of the room.

A few bookshelves, a desk, and media center. Maybe a few plants. Warm colors a plus.

[trainmasters]

Approved pending write-up! This should be done with tonight's announcements!

[daydreamshimmer]

Character: Solar Flare/Sunset Shimmer
Item: Personal Room Upgrade
Details: Bigger room and the stone work made of a lighter stone, with archways, going up into a more domed ceiling. Some kind of rafter work and a seat attached to a pulley system to get up to the top. (She has plans to paint the place herself. Kind of like Rapunzel's tower from Tangled.)

Four poster bed is still good, but coloring it with more yellows and reds to go with Senna orange. Also having the bed up in a loft area to keep it separated for when she wants to do Work.

Wide floor space to do Experiments. A desk for writing and a chair with adjustable height. A couple of chalk boards. Bookshelves still good. Also one of those tables you gets in school labs where there is a sink and bunsen burner. A fire extinguisher wouldn't hurt.

Bigger windows to allow more light in, and plants to help decorate the room. She's good with pretty much any kind, but she likes succulents and ferns.

[trainmasters]

Approved pending write-up! This should be done with tonight's announcements!

[wontforbidtherain]

Character: Cat
Item: An Apron and cooking ingredients for 7
Details: Cat is craving holiday fish stew. A recipe exists.

[tobluerafters]

Character: Klarion Bleak
Item: **a pet: his cat, Teekl
Details: Teekl is an medium hair orange tabby cat. He is Klarion's familiar, and thus shares a part of Klarion's soul.

**I understand that Teekl is a magical creature and thus may need to be limited in some ways. Usually, Klarion can see through Teekl's eyes and communicate with him telepathically, though they don't tend to have conversations often. Usually Teekl only pipes up when he feels there's something in particular he needs to draw Klarion's attention to, or if he feels he needs to remind Klarion of his obligations. There are also some spells that Klarion needs Teekl in order to perform (i.e. he cannot become the Horigal without Teekl to combine with).

I'm cool with having any particular bits being nerfed as necessary. At the very least, Klarion would like to have his cat to snuggle ;w;