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MANA REWARDS (DEFUNCT)

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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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Character Name: Yuzu Hiiragi
Reward Cost: 120 coins (Permanent Monster Change, randomized between Gargoyle, Harpy, and Merperson)
Activity: 40 COINS FOR OCTOBER
20 COINS FOR NOVEMBER
20 COINS FOR DECEMBER
20 COINS FOR JANUARY
20 COINS FOR FEBRUARY
Request: Yuzu doesn't want to be a Shade anymore, she'd like to be something corporeal and able to touch people... maybe even something that can fly or breathe underwater.
Backfire? She's not used to making these requests to Mana, so her request is very vague. She doesn't know what she'll turn into until it happens.
Quest? I would like a quest! I'd like it if it was one that required the help of someone else so that it can be threaded out.

There is a special breed of long-eared owl that has adapted to nest in the remaining crags of Plaga’s Peak. Yuzu must gather a fistful of feathers and one spring egg. She will be given careful instructions to make a camp at the shores of Lake Fors and steep the feathers in the lake waters for 2 minutes to make a tea. She should then drink the brew, tuck the egg into a satin pouch, and lay down to rest.

Afterwards, she will fall into a deep, undisturbed sleep for 24 hours, during which she will dream of ascending past the clouds to the Sea of Stars. When Yuzu awakens, the egg will have hatched, and she will be permanently transformed into a harpy.

Please adjust your coin count once her transformation is complete!

Edited 2021-03-05 19:42 (UTC)

Character Name: Eridanus Sungazer
Reward Cost: Permanent Monster Modification (80 coins)
Activity: 5 coins for July, 20 coins for October, 17 coins for November, 20 coins for December, 12 coins for January, 6 coins for February
Request: "I wish this unsightly scar removed from my stomach."
Backfire? Why would Eridanus try to remove a cool scar? Maybe he wants a cool mouth instead! The scar becomes a functional second mouth that can only be used for eating, not speaking.
Quest? I would love a fun little quest! Big or small, I'm not picky <3

Mana will take Eridanus’s coins and tell him that he must slaughter and drain the blood of a doctor. The blood then must be taken to a tattooist, who must be convinced to tattoo over Eridanus’s scar using the blood as ink.

Afterwards, he will suffer two days and two nights of sharp, burning pain along his scar. On the dawn of the third day, the scar will split into a mouth. That’s what Eridanus wanted, right? Isn’t this even better than a scar?

oh this is horrible THANK YOU MODS!!!

Character Name: Gabriel Morgenstern
Reward Cost: 30 coins (A structure from home no bigger than a five-bedroom house.)
Activity: 20 COINS FOR DECEMBER (none remain)
8 COINS FOR JANUARY (none remain)
2 COINS FOR FEBRUARY (5 remain)
Request: The farmhouse. It's a 5 bedroom safe house from back home, complete with a small greenhouse at the back, spread over a single floor. If it could be placed somewhere on the outskirts of Bavan, to the northeast it would be greatly appreciated. It has an armory and garage inside, but I don't care about the contents of those. They can be empty for all I care.
Backfire? None, he would ask for this and only cares about the building itself.
Quest? N/A

Edited 2021-03-05 19:31 (UTC)

Granted! Please adjust your coin count accordingly.

Character Name: Majima Gorō
Reward Cost: 120 coins for a major ability
Activity: 40 COINS FOR OCTOBER
20 COINS FOR NOVEMBER
20 COINS FOR DECEMBER
20 COINS FOR JANUARY
20 COINS FOR FEBRUARY
Request: Majima would request the ability to generate and control electricity, with the understanding that it should be able to be used for offensive purposes. He's tired of being tased, dammit! He wants to be the tase-er, not the tase-ee!
Backfire? N/A
Quest? N/A

Granted! Please adjust your coin count accordingly.

Character Name:Yuya Sakaki
Reward Cost: Permanent monster change-150 (To Waldgeist)
Activity: 16 COINS FOR --AUGUST 2020--
20 COINS FOR --SEPTEMBER 2020--
40 COINS FOR --OCTOBER 2020--
20 COINS FOR --NOVEMBER 2020--
20 COINS FOR --DECEMBER 2020--
20 COINS FOR --JANUARY 2021--
20 COINS FOR --FEBRUARY 2021--
(156 total, should have 6 left over)

Request: Yuya’s first request is very simple. “I want to be human.” he means it permanently of course… which is something he can’t have. Either because Mana refuses or says she can’t turn him human forever, Yuya’s next statement is:“he’d rather be dead than be this.” Referring to being a monster, but could be taken as he doesn’t like being a goblin. Plus he mumbles something out about not being able to even hug the people he cares about since he is covered in spikes.
Backfire? So Mana kills him : )(or you know- gives him an undead monster you get it) and also gives him fur so he’s no longer a danger to hug. Waldgeist time.
Quest? Uh I’d like a personalized quest, something that does turn him back human at first… only for everything to start all over again. For extra angst, cause he’ll think Mana actually helped him out before the whole process starts again. This time with his death. (maximum amount of time this would take is about a month, the changes would all happen within about a day or 2 of each other once it starts) I’d also like to be able to thread the quest out with another member if at all possible.

Mana will warn Yuya that this is not a simple request, and it will take dedication to complete. After her warning, she will give Yuya specific instructions on how to voluntarily give up his goblin-hood.

First, he must give up the gift of wind flight. He must clip his talons and/or the tips of his small wings and voluntarily give them to a member of the Tågevalgten.

Next, he must give up his elemental magic. To do this, he must collect a sea creature from the deepest crevice of the Franfalle Line south-west of the peninsula, cook it with 3 drops of blood collected from a prick in his tongue, and eat it whole. Only monsters with an affinity for water can safely traverse those kinds of depths.

Third, he must give up the night and the shadows. After eating his last fishy goblin meal, Yuya must pluck three hairs from a hare and face the dawn. He will melt away into the shadows and hallucinate a collapsing nightmare-scape, full of elemental magic gone haywire. When he awakens again at nightfall, he will have reverted to human flesh.

What Yuya does not know is that he will begin to waste away, unable to sate his thirst and hunger, until his eventual death and rebirth as a waldgeist.

Edited 2021-03-06 14:20 (UTC)

Character Name: Black Hat
Reward Cost: 80 coins - Upgrade an existing monster ability
Activity: 8 COINS FOR APRIL
8 COINS FOR MAY
16 COINS FOR JUNE
7 COINS FOR AUGUST
13 COINS FOR SEPTEMBER
14 COINS FOR OCTOBER
2 COINS FOR DECEMBER
8 COINS FOR JANUARY
11 COINS FOR FEBRUARY (7 left over)
Request: Black Hat wants a power boost! Specifically, a teleportation upgrade, since he uses that power so much and frankly 30 meters isn't cutting it - so his range will expand to 500 meters, as mentioned here.
Backfire? N/A
Quest? Yes please! Something that a second person can help with so it can be threaded out if possible!

In exchange for his coins, Mana will give Black Hat a mortar and pestle and instruct him to collect the following artifacts: a piece of antler, the claw of a quick-moving monster, and one tablespoon of purple moss collected from a clearing in the Silent Woods on the night of a full moon. He must then pulverize the ingredients into a paste with the mortar and pestle and spread it like a salve on the bottom of his bare feet. After five hours, the paste will absorb through his flesh, and he will start to feel a numbing sensation spreading from his toes. Once the numbing spreads to his heart, he will involuntarily teleport his maximum distance.

Once the ability is unlocked, it will take a little bit of practice (the length of which is at the player’s discretion) for him to master longer distances. Get practicing, Black Hat!

AW YEAh

Question! Does Ryslig follow the real world moon cycle? If so, does Black Hat have to personally gather his moss or can he go find someone in Bavan, like a seedy pharmacy, that's collected some in February and bully them out of it so he doesn't have to wait until March 28th to get his moss?

So long as his quest is fulfilled, it doesn’t matter who collects the moss or how it’s collected. The source is explicit, though, and he’ll have to trust whoever collected it to be telling the truth.

You can also fudge the date of the full moon for the purposes of this quest if you’d like, and align it with one of the fog days before March 8th for convenience (when the moon isn’t visible by the general population anyway).

Sounds great! Thanks! ~~sorry I can. sometimes overthink things a little too much~~

Character Name: Daniel
Reward Cost: Change to a different feeding source - 40 coins
Activity: 40 COINS FOR OCTOBER 2020
Request: "I need a different way to feed. I can't go on like this."
Backfire? Daniel would gain the ability to purge and consume souls. Hooray!
Quest? N/A

Shoot, I have a quick question. Is it possible to keep his old feeding source as well? Or does it need to be replaced entirely?

Hey Nigh! At this time the 40 coin reward is for swapping feeding types, so he wouldn't retain his original. However, if you wanted to get the original back as a secondary feeding method with another purchase, you could do so for 40 coins; if you wanted a second feeding method that wasn't your original, that would be a 80 coins.

Aah got it! Since faeries have two feeding options (energy and meat), would it be possible to replace the meat eating with this option, but keep the energy feeding?

Since faeries have this caveat for multiple feeding methods, this would be fine!

Granted! Please adjust your coin count accordingly.

Character Name: Souma Kokuryuu Itou
Reward Cost: 30
Activity: 30 COINS FOR OCTOBER
Request: A replica of his family's small barn from home and the adjacent vegetable patch
Backfire? n/a
Quest? Souma needs to collect:
-enough hay to build a haystack
-an alpaca whiter than snow
-a cow as black as night
-a goat as badly behaved as a devil
-a rooster that can run faster than a dog
-a shovel and hoe

Granted! Please adjust your coin count accordingly.

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