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MANA REWARDS (DEFUNCT)

MANA REWARDS DEFUNCT

THIS PAGE IS NO LONGER IN USE! PLEASE USE THE NEW MANA REWARDS PAGE FOR ANY PURCHASES

Once you've started earning bonus coins, your characters will find a small canvas satchel either in their pocket or under their pillow. The satchel will contain the number of bonus coins earned. Each coin is copper and looks very much like a penny except it has the character's monster stamped on it. The satchel also contains a small scroll featuring a single word: AGIMAT. Reading this word will summon Mana, who will gladly accept these coins as payment for magical favors, whether that be summoning an item from your character's home or bestowing unto them an amazing new power.

Receiving a reward isn't always easy, however. To focus her magic, Mana will send characters on a quest, usually to gather materials or perform a ritual. To receive a mod-custom quest, you must purchase a reward at 80 coins or higher. This is limited to one per player per month. Lower purchases may receive pre-written quests unless you opt out of them, and you are also free to write your own.

Mana can only be summoned by each character once a month. A new toplevel for each month will be posted where you can leave your requests, and the threads will be frozen at the end of the month, once all requests have been processed. Below are categories of rewards for characters to choose from, with a general idea of how much each thing might cost. If you're unsure which tier your reward belongs on, ask below in the relevant thread.

DISCOUNTS
Having recently become a bit more business-savvy, Mana is now offering regular discounts to monsters on various items! Every other month, different request categories will have a 20% discount. Wow! When putting in a request, make sure to note the discount in your comment. The schedule is as follows:

JANUARY
New year, new me! Permanent monster changes are on sale!
MARCH
Time to put down some new foundations. Buildings are on sale!
MAY
April showers bring May powers--that is, powers/abilities are on sale!
JULY
It's the dog days of summer. Pets/creatures are on sale!
SEPTEMBER
More like Sep-temp-ber. Temporary monster changes are on sale!
NOVEMBER
Get a gift for that special someone. Items/weapons are on sale!

ITEMS
This section excludes weapons; additionally, advanced tech (think super futuristic/sci-fi, not necessarily cell phones) falls into the same category as magical items. Magical items may be imbued with up to four magical spells.

10 - An item from home that can easily fit in someone's hand. You may make it magical and imbue it with a spell for an additional 50 coins.
20 - An item from home up to a meter tall/wide. You may make it magical and imbue it with a spell for an additional 40 coins.
40 - An item from home up to three meters tall/wide. An item from home up to three meters tall/wide. You may make it magical and imbue it with a spell for an additional 20 coins.
60 - A magical item from home with a single spell/effect it already has in canon.
60 - A magical item from Ryslig. Mods will design the item, but you should give us an idea of what it should do/be used for.

20 - A second spell or effect for your item.
40 - A third spell or effect for your item.
80 - A fourth spell or effect for your item.

WEAPONS
As with items, weapons may be imbued with up to four magical spells. Ammo availability will be determined on an individual basis.

20 - A mundane weapon from home. You may make it magical and imbue it with a spell for an additional 40 coins.
60 - A magical/high-tech weapon from home with a single spell/effect it already has in canon.
60 - A magical weapon from Ryslig. Mods will design the weapon, but you should give us an idea of what it should do/be used for.

20 - A second spell or effect for your weapon.
40 - A third spell or effect for your weapon.
80 - A fourth spell or effect for your weapon.

PETS/CREATURES
Any creature or monster summoned from Mana will come with their summon item (e.g., a Pokémon would come with a Pokéball, a demon would have their summoning catalyst, etc.). Characters may have as many non-magical pets as they can buy, but only one (1) magical one. Magical pets are limited to a single ability slot, and these abilities do not work on monsters. The prices listed below are in mundane-magical format; the first number is the price for a base pet, the second is the price for a magical pet.

20-60 - A pet from home that is the size of a small dog.
30-60 - A pet from home that is the size of a large dog.
50-70 - A pet from home that is the size of a human.
60-80 - A pet from home that is the size of a horse.
100-120 - A pet from home that is the size of a hippo. This is the largest size allowed; pets bigger than this in canon will be shrunk upon arrival in Ryslig.

MONSTER CHANGES -- TEMPORARY
20 - Change to a different monster form for one month. Temporary monster form is chosen by the player.
20 - The ability to switch between human and monster for a month. The spell allows the character to voluntarily switch every two days, and does not stop cravings. The human form does not retain any monster abilities, aside from the ability to switch forms.
20 - Turn human for a month. This eliminates cravings. You may revert at any time, but this will void the remaining duration.
60 - Change to a different monster form for four months. Temporary monster form is chosen by the player.

MONSTER CHANGES -- PERMANENT
20 - A minor modification to a character's appearance (e.g., gain a few inches, change eye color, sharper teeth, web toes, etc)
40 - Change to a different feeding source (e.g., meat, blood, souls). You will be gifted with the necessary modification for that source (claws and teeth for meat, a spell to drain souls, etc).
80 - A functional body modification (e.g., flight-capable wings, second pair of limbs, etc.)
80 - Weakness exchange (e.g., exchanging sunlight weakness for cold weakness). The player must provide the weakness being exchanged, but either the player or mods may submit a weakness to replace it.
100 - Change your monster type (mods randomize from 7 player-provided options)
120 - Change your monster type (mods randomize from 3 player-provided options)
120 - Ability to switch between monster and human form once per day. This does not stop cravings, and no monster powers carry over to the human form.
150 - Change your monster type (player's choice).

POWERS/ABILITIES
60 - A minor spell or ability, possibly with a time limit (e.g., walk on water for 20 minutes, double strength bonus usable once a day).
80 - Upgrade an existing monster ability.
80 - A summon, or a power tied to a summon (e.g., Stands, Personas). See the FAQ for details.
80 - An intermediate spell or ability. This largely covers powers that don't have a lot of restrictions, but don't affect monsters besides the possessor of the ability.
120 - A major spell or ability.

60 - An additional Travel or Stealth form, no time limit, but restricted to the bestiary's allowed species. (e.g., a rat Pooka with an extra rabbit form)
60 - An additional Travel or Stealth form outside the allowed species, restricted to one consecutive hour a day.
80 - An additional Travel or Stealth form outside the allowed species, no time limit.

BUILDINGS
20 - A structure from home no bigger than a two-bedroom apartment.
30 - A structure from home no bigger than a five-bedroom house.
40 - A structure from home no bigger than a mansion.
50 - A significant landmark built for your character (e.g. a castle, housing complex, massive bronze statue). This will be added to Player Locations.
60 - A small town (≤80 small houses).
80 - A magical location or structure no bigger than a five-bedroom house, or the enchantment of a preexisting Ryslig location.
120 - A large city (≤400 houses) that comes with a statue of the character.

20 - A second spell or effect for your magical location.
40 - A third spell or effect for your magical location.
80 - A fourth spell or effect for your magical location.

SUBMIT YOUR CLAIM
When describing your reward, please be as detailed as possible. Many lower-tier rewards are self-explanatory, but high-tier rewards such as powers, magical items/weapons, and monster modifications especially should be outlined clearly. The mods will be happy to work with you to ascertain a fun and balanced power set.

If your character wouldn't outright ask for the reward you want them to have, have them ask for something else and then fill out the backfire field with what you actually want them to have. (Mana is not as good at summoning as Tikbalang, and characters who don't follow her quests to the letter risk the ritual going wrong.) Your backfire should be something that could conceivably result from the actual request.

Please be advised that mods reserve the right to modify or veto a reward that is too incongruous with the setting.



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[personal profile] isawallflower 2021-11-07 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name: Riley
Reward Cost: 60 coins for the first ability discussed here!
Activity: 20 COINS FOR JUNE, 20 COINS FOR AUGUST, 20 COINS FOR SEPTEMBER please ignore that i said october in the header i was VERY stupid that night
Request: Hi Mana. It's her again. Riley very, very carefully tries to word this one as having a harmless ability to try and help her convey when she is feeling uncomfortable with a conversation so she can have an easy excuse to back out of it. This is maybe inspired by the recent party. She's going to try and keep this concise but just kind of ramble for awhile, because of course.
Backfire? The described ability and Riley swearing off Mana for the next several months.
Quest? No thanks!
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[personal profile] missleadingquestions 2021-11-08 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
WEIRD QUESTION HERE and as always we're cool if the answer is no u know me.

With the assumption that all parties involved are consenting to The Arrangement oocly, if one character wanted to purchase a spell from Mana to punish another character, and that punishment was to force the target character to feel empathy (alignmentswap type deal, along those 'feel what you do to others' lines) for a month-or-less period of time, is that at all something Mana would agree to do and/or be able to fulfill? And if it is, what would be the cost requirement?
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[personal profile] missleadingquestions 2021-11-08 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
very interesting. Thank you for the timely response!
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[personal profile] missleadingquestions 2021-11-09 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
HELLO related to my last question.

How much would that Potion of Make Man Feel Emotion (for one month or less, if you feel it should be less) cost, theoretically? Any price is fine with me, just gotta get sorted.
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[personal profile] missleadingquestions 2021-11-09 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
That's pretty cool and better than I was expecting! Thanks mods!
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[personal profile] endlesspastability 2021-11-11 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
PRICE CHECK ON PRUNE JUICE, BOB. PRICE CHECK ON PRUNE JUICE POWER UPS.

Functional Jet Engine: Sonic’s full sim form has a jet engine in the chest (image ref) that doesn’t do anything except make noise, throw sparks, and work as a cooling fan. Would upgrading it to fully functional (ie flying and goin’ fast) be an 80 (functional body modification/intermediate ability) or 120 (major spell/ability)? Here’s a few examples from canon of what it looks like: here and here. This would be just for the flight/speed and not any of the lasers or electrical fields or road exploding. Additionally it wouldn’t be supersonic speed but definitely Fast (comparable to Arachne/Vampire speeds).

Though speaking of Electrical Attacks…. How much would it cost to upgrade a sim’s natural zappy-ness to being able to use their electricity offensively at short range, as in the first video. I’m guessing that’s 80 (upgade existing monster ability)?

And finally Holographic Disguise! Would allow Sonic to appear in his human form, probably for a time limit of 2-3 hours a day. It’s a visual illusion (so he still smells/sounds the same), and if he gets hit hard enough or zapped/EMP’d/magnet’d it will glitch out and need to reboot before it can be used again. Monsters with especially acute vision may be able to see through it, and it won’t work on his fog form due to its inhuman silhouette. Would this fall into the 60 coin category?
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[personal profile] digiorno 2021-11-12 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
hiya! so giorno was pretty spooked by elias taking over his computer remotely a while back and wants to ask mana for a method of long-range communication other than the laptops. something like walkie-talkies or cb radios. is this mechanically even possible, and is it something mana could do? oocly i feel like it would be reasonable for these to be limited, giorno would ask for ten but i think five max would be make more sense. if this isn't feasible at all or would need to be much more primitive i totally understand!

in the event that it IS possible, i would of course like to know what tier this would fall under price-wise. thank you so much!
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[personal profile] digiorno 2021-11-12 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
yes, giorno would definitely ask for Specifically No Elias Allowed walkie talkies, so that works great. thank you so much, this is really helpful!
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[personal profile] missleadingquestions 2021-11-20 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name: Maya Fey
Reward Cost: 60 coins as here
Activity: 4 COINS REMAINING FOR NOVEMBER 2020
3 COINS FOR DECEMBER 2020
9 COINS FOR JANUARY even though it says 2020 it's not
10 COINS FOR FEBRUARY
8 COINS FOR MARCH
6 COINS FOR JUNE
9 COINS FOR JULY
6 COINS FOR AUGUST
2 COINS FOR SEPTEMBER
3 COINS FOR OCTOBER
Request: Maya wants an item that will allow her to give someone a taste of their own medicine.
As discussed before, it would be a potion-like item with two uses. When the potion is administered to the target (with player consent), it would force them to experience the kind of emotional pain they inflict on others a la an elaboration of how Elias punished those that bombed the cube. This phrasing is intended to allow the player it's used on to use the effect to its fullest, but I can tighten it up if you need me to.

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[personal profile] cratecrasher 2021-11-23 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Is it possible to buy two smaller rewards to meet the 80 coin minimum for a mod-written custom quest if there's a sufficient reason for them to be connected to each other? If one of them was no less than a 60 coin reward, perhaps...?

I was brainstorming on a 60 coin pet being paired with a 20 coin temporary monster swap.
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[personal profile] bestforyou 2021-11-28 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name: cairo
Reward Cost: 10 coin item
Activity: 9 COINS FOR OCTOBER, 1 COINS FOR SEPTEMBER (6 remaining)
Request:
Cairo brings Mana an urban paranormal romance book that she found in the Mall of Bavan and says she wants a book from home called Twilight which is like the book that she has. She gives an extremely detailed recap of the plot of Twilight and give Mana the book she brought and 10 coins.
Backfire? As discussed, Cairo can't actually receive Twilight, so her very detailed plot recap is merged with the content of the book she brought, which resembled The Draco Trilogy (or Shadowhunters, whatever) to create a hybrid book called Twilight: Order of the Shadowkeepers in which Edward Malfoy, a vampire keeper of the paranormal world, must go to high school with Ginevra Swan in order to save the world or something.
Quest? N/A
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[personal profile] endlesspastability 2021-11-28 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Character Name: Sonic
Reward Cost: 80 coin permanent monster change - functional body mod as discussed here
Activity: 20 COINS FOR AUG 2021, 20 COINS FOR SEPT 2021, 40 COINS FOR OCT 2021
Request: Sonic has summoned Mana every month since he started getting coins (and has tried to summon her multiple times a month, even), constantly asking for his speed back. He wants to go fast and he wants it NOW!!! Finally he has enough for Mana to actually do something. Sorry, Manabanana.
Backfire? Not so much a backfire, but Mana makes his jet engine functional for high speed movement and flight. Not QUITE what he asked for, but he’ll take it and be happy!!
Quest? if you guys are just SUPER INSPIRED go for it, but otherwise I’m good without one!
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[personal profile] soundsurfing 2021-11-30 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Ok so, Beat promised Atem and Marik that he would attempt to buy a way out by giving Mana enough coins. Would she flat out say no, no matter the price, or would she attempt it with a high enough coin drop (and obviously have it backfire).