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

[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.

[trainmasters]

We apologize for the long wait! Your upgrade's been added to the team page.