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BLACK TUESDAY.
BONUS REWARDS;
get your sweet loot here
It's finally time to cash in your XP! The opportunity to cash in XP comes around every few months, usually while characters are at BASE. Here you can buy things for your characters, by using points you've acquired via bonus activity. These purchases are OOC; characters are not aware of them. Everything arrives in their assigned room after your shopping list is approved and you have until the end of the month to make purchases.
There are two kinds of purchases available: set (listed with fixed prices below) and proposed. Proposed purchases can be items or abilities or anything else that comes to mind. To get them approved, reply to this entry with the appropriate form and we'll give you a price quote. If you're okay with the price, add it to your shopping list when you're ready.
Submit completed shopping lists as a reply to your activity thread on the AC page, specifically the most recent mod comment that marks your AC as "APPROVED" and confirms your XP total. Put the current MONTH | CASH IN in the subject. For an example, check here!
BASIC PURCHASES
Since listing every single item that qualifies for this category would be a huge pain in the ass, we're going to generally describe them without getting into specifics. So you can get creative and pick items from your character's home or ones they've never seen before; whatever. If the mods disagree about how you've priced anything, we'll let you know, but it's unlikely.ONE (1) XP:
- Clothing: A basic outfit with no special properties.
- Food: Three (3) average-sized meals or beverages of average sustenance (but authentic ingredients), with no special properties. All of the same type/brand/etc!
- Weaponry: A non-reloadable weapon with no magical or special technological properties.
- Miscellaneous: An item that cannot be used for combat, but may or may not have some magical or special technological properties.
TWO (2) XP:
- Weaponry: A reloadable weapon with no magical or special technological properties. It comes with one (1) matching pack of ammunition.
- Armor: One full set of basic armor used only for defensive purposes, with no magical, technological or offensive capabilities.
- Weaponry: A weapon with magical or special technological properties. This weapon must be canonically available to your character.
- Armor: One full set of armor used intended largely for defensive purposes, magical or technological properties, and offensive capabilities. Must be canonically available to your character. (Does not include any kind of mechas or space marine suits; those must be negotiated individually as a proposed item.)
SPECIAL PURCHASES
ONE (1) XP:- Pan-Tone Capacuti™ Hair Dye: Read here for more details. The highest quality hair dye known to man, past or future. Colors are randomized, so it might be a good idea to buy several if there's one particular color you want. Have...fun.
- Futhark Headphones: A pair of collapsible wireless headphones that pair with your BCE or any other Futhark-enabled devices. Available over-ear, on-ear, and as earbuds.
- Iron Pills: Read here for more details. Blood not red enough? Buy some iron pills! (COST is not responsible for any side effects from iron pills.)
- Futhark Speakers: A pair of wireless speakers that pair with your BCE or any other Futhark-enabled devices. Each speaker is roughly the size of a soda can.
- BugOut Spray: This handy and helpful spray repels bugs for a whole five minutes. Handle with care; highly flammable.
- Tarnhauser's Book of Petty Magyks: A cursed book of about 50 pages, detailing ten spells that can be deployed at any time, but only once. The spells change every time the book is printed (that's why it's cursed), so it's kind of a gamble if you'll get anything good. The mods will let you know which spells you receive upon purchase.
- BASE Interactive Map: A paper map that will lead you through BASE and show you not only locations, but also where other recruits are (if they have their location set to public), the location of all DACTYL droids, and what showers are currently in use.
- HelperTron 782-54: An experimental prototype meant to replace DACTYL droids, this robot is the size of a football and about as intelligent. It barely remembers its name and doesn't like the color yellow. It best serves as an alarm clock, because it's really, really good at waking people up in the middle of the night. Tech-savvy characters are welcome to try to improve it. Or accidentally ("accidentally") do the opposite.
- Norn Cards: An old deck of cards with faded, esoteric images on them. It's said they tell the future and some cards do seem to pop up at certain times than others, despite the fact that there is only one of each card in this deck of 25. They come with a guide and, yes, they do tell the future...in really vague ways.
BCE UPGRADES
ONE (1) XP:- ZapChat: An app that lets you take pictures or short videos and add stickers, filters, and other weird bullshit to them. Anyone can receive these pictures and videos, but you need the app to send them. Due to limited server space, all media sent through this app will automatically delete after ten seconds of being open.
- TrioLingo: A language-learning app that teaches basic vocabulary and grammar before testing you daily, with a point system to keep you engaged. Current language packs are: Modern English, Middle English, Old English, Ancient Hindi, Modern Hindi, Old Norse, Ecclesial Latin, Modern Japanese, Ancient Japanese, Modern Chinese (simplified), French, Jhachsh'ii, Aesiri, Ancient Greek, High Valyrian, Lemurian, Klingon, Galactic Basic, Binary, Bocce, Lilliputian, and Australian.
- Retrogram: A photo-editing app with built-in filters, as well as a huge selection of colors and brush packages that allow you to edit photos to your heart's content. Or just draw original art on the canvas selected. Stick figures, here we come.
- STANDRDS App: A dating app that looks through your character's personality index via their network history and matches them with three ideal partners. The app automatically selects three characters from your cell, regardless of whether you've met or spoken to them before, or if they even have the app.
PLOT COUPONS
Want a special plot coupon, tailored specifically to your character? It costs 40xp!
If you request one, please give us some idea of what you'd like it to entail. Specifically, we'd like an idea of how you want it to affect your character emotionally, what skills it should utilize, and any overall effect you might desire on your character's status within COST. We'll do our best to work with you, but we will state that we can't always guarantee how it will go and so recommend a little leeway.
Buying one of these will require some background communication with the mods in order to make it work, though levels will vary. You can request one plot coupon every six months.
PROPOSED PURCHASES
The only rules for proposed purchases are it cannot:
- Be sapient or of otherwise markedly high intelligence.
- Be unique to a canon other than your character's own, if magical or alive.
- Change the entire structure of the game.
- Give time travel or dimensional travel abilities.
- Be bigger than a house.
Otherwise, go to town.
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