RETAIL THERAPY.

[agogemod]

BONUS REWARDS;

get your sweet loot here

Yep! It's finally time to cash in your XP. Here you can buy things for your characters with the bonus points you've accumulated in the months since they've arrived. There are two kinds of items they can purchase: set items (items listed below with set prices) and proposed items. Proposed items are things or abilities or whatever you can think of, which you'll tell us the details of, and we'll give you a price quote. If you're okay with the price, let us know, and you're good to go.

The purchases you'll be making are OOC; your character will not be aware of these purchases. The items will arrive in your character's room on Base, so they'll get it on the 9th. You have plenty of time to come up with a shopping list.

Mote on the 'Basic Items' category: Since listing minutely every single item it's possible to buy would be a huge pain in the ass, we're going to describe what some of the items are without getting into specifics, so you can be creative, pick items from home, or items your characters have never seen before, whatever. In your shopping lists, please feel free to go into detail. If we disagree about how you've priced the items, we'll tell you, but honestly I doubt we'll care. This is mostly for fun, anyway.

Because it's time sensitive, this post, and the opportunity to buy shit with your XP, closes on December 8th, but don't worry, the opportunity to cash in XP will come around again every few months, usually between missions.

BASIC ITEMS

• 1 XP - one outfit of basic clothing of no special protective capabilities, in any style
• 1 XP - three average sized meals of average sustenance levels with no special qualities, in any style
• 1 XP - one weapon of no special magical or technological ability that does not need to be reloaded, in any style
• 2 XP - one weapon of no special magical or technological ability that does need to be reloaded, in any style
• 1 XP - one packet of ammunition for above weapon
• extra amenities to the characters specifications
• 1 XP - one miscellaneous item, which can have some magical or technological attributes, but cannot be used for combat
• 4 XP - one weapon of great technological or magical power that your character used before they joined COST

SPECIAL ITEMS

• 3 XP - Bird repellent: A loud air horn that makes all birds in the vicinity leave you alone for a total of 5 minutes.
• 3 XP - Tarnhauser's Book Of Petty Magyks: A cursed book, about 50 pages, detailing ten spells that can be deployed at any time, but only once. What spells the book contains changes every time it's 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 upon purchase.
• 3 XP - OmniKey: A key that will open any door, but only once.
• 3 XP - Base Interactive Map: A paper map that will lead you through the base, showing you not only what's in it, but where everyone is (if they have their location set to public), as well as the location of all the DACTYL droids, what showers are currently being used, and the amount of birds in a given area.
• 3 XP - HelperTron 782-54: An experimental prototype meant to replace DACTYL droids, the robot is the size of a football and half as intelligent. It can barely remember it's name and doesn't like the color yellow. It's best use is 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.
• 4 XP - Norn Cards: An old deck of cards with faded, esoteric images on them. Some say reading them will tell the future, and certainly more cards seem to pop up at certain times than others, despite the fact that there are only one of each card in this deck of 25. If you choose to purchase this, we'll give you a rundown on the cards and how they work, and, yes, they do tell the future... in really vague ways.

BCE UPGRADES

• 1 XP - ZapChat: A fun app that lets you take pictures or short videos of yourself, adding stickers, filters, and other weird bullshit onto them. Anyone can recieve one, but only those with the app on their BCE can send them. Due to limited server space within COST, all media sent through this app will automatically delete itself after ten seconds of being opened.
• 1 XP - TrioLinguo: A language-learning application that teaches you basic vocabulary and sentence structure before testing you at least once daily, with a point system to keep you engaged. Current language packs included are: Modern English, Modern Japanese, Ancient Japanese, French, Jhachsh'ii, Aesiri, Ancient Greek, High Valyrian, Lemurian, Klingon, and Australian.
• 1 XP - Majel: A helpful AI that will do things for you. Majel, set an alarm for 4AM. Majel, delete ZapChat off my BCE. Majel, send a message to Achilles with the words 'no more dickpics'. Majel, make an appointment to catch the king's beheading. And Majel will, with a minimal amount of backtalk.
• 1 XP - Cards Against Immortality: You can probably guess.

PROPOSED PURCHASES

• The only rules for these are: it can't be sentient, it can't be something that would change the entire structure of the game, it can't be something giving time travel or dimensional travel abilities, and it can't be bigger than a house. Otherwise, go to town.
• (Note: We reserve the right to deny a proposal if even if it doesn't meet the above criteria, simply because we can't think of every way something could go horribly wrong ahead of time.)

BASIC ITEMS:
<u>CURRENT XP TOTAL</u>: <u>BUYING</u> <b>PRICE<b> - ITEM <b>PRICE<b> - ITEM <b>PRICE<b> - ITEM <b>PRICE<b> - ITEM <b>PRICE<b> - ITEM <u>PURCHASE TOTAL</u>: <u>NEW XP TOTAL</u>:

PROPOSED ITEMS:
<b>WHAT DOES IT DO?</b> <b>WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?</b> <b>WHERE WILL IT BE STORED?</b> <b>HOW WILL IT BENEFIT YOUR CHARACTER?</b> <b>HOW WILL IT DISADVANTAGE YOUR CHARACTER?</b>

NAV. NETWORK LOGS OOC PLURK DISCORD

Comments

time to dump a bunch of my random ideas

[trample]

COUNTER-FITTER

WHAT DOES IT DO? It prints/mints money from whatever historical time period and region a mission is set in. Alternatively, it just provides a sum of items with intrinsic value (think gold nuggets/bars or gems).
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? Imagine the aesthetic of a modern safe, but about the size of those big printers your high school always abused. There's a simple computer menu to control it that will automatically have mission parameters installed by virtue of being connected to COST's database. Around waist level there's a chute by which the machine shits gold releases its contents into a cubby.
WHERE WILL IT BE STORED? It fits and sits on the counter of Eren's room.
HOW WILL IT BENEFIT YOUR CHARACTER? Gives him a small fortune before going into the past. Turns him into Edmond Dantes lite.
HOW WILL IT DISADVANTAGE YOUR CHARACTER? He's too much of a dumbass to effectively use it the first few goes. Not only that, he'll probably draw a lot of attention just by being a rich guy out of nowhere if the situation calls for it.
I was thinking he'd have to deal with keeping from making too much of an impact with it while at the same time using every last speck of cash effectively.

CRANKY-HANKY

WHAT DOES IT DO? It's a handkerchief just like any other, except in that it's got a layer of chloroform on it. Forever. Got a problem? Want to snub them? Just use this! Unlike in the movies, it'll take a minute or two of constant effort to actually make your buddy pass out, but it's not like they were going to comply in the first place. Doubles as a medical tool.
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? Achilles' cum rag A plain handkerchief.
WHERE WILL IT BE STORED? Probably Eren's pocket, honestly.
HOW WILL IT BENEFIT YOUR CHARACTER? Eren's sick of not having any anesthetics for surgery whenever he goes back to the past Samurai Jack and would be happy to have something to amend that with. It would also serve to help with being all sneaky beaky like, but that's something he's not concerned with particularly.
HOW WILL IT DISADVANTAGE YOUR CHARACTER? It looks like he's carrying around a wank rag. It's embarrassing.
On a more serious note, having to explain "how the hell are you knocking these patients out safely" would make public surgery a lot harder, so...he'll probably have to lay low with it for the most part unless it's a one off thing. This is assuming the time period is, in fact, before the advent of more modern anesthetics.

MY LEG

WHAT DOES IT DO? It's a nondescript wooden stick tied around Eren's stump of a leg. It is, quite possibly, the most uncomfortable peg leg imaginable, as it's only held on with duct tape and honestly is more thin than it has any right to be, but it does not snap in half thanks to its carbon fiber structure and repairs any blemishes with Future Tech™. Its use will become legendary throughout history.
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? Like if someone took a weak, pliable wooden stick off a construction site and shoved it on the end of an amputation, expecting the best. Wrapped around with by an excessive amount of duct tape. Incredibly aesthetic.
WHERE WILL IT BE STORED? On Eren's person.
HOW WILL IT BENEFIT YOUR CHARACTER? It's a leg.
HOW WILL IT DISADVANTAGE YOUR CHARACTER? It's a peg leg.

[agogemod]

Given how useful the Counter-Fitter would be, we're going to price it at 10xp, with the caveat that it will not work if taken off base for any reason.

We'll price the Cranky-Hanky at 4xp, given its usefulness but lack of drain on resources.

Eren's leg is free! We aren't going to deny a man his peg leg.

[trample]

How much would a bag of gems be? Or a gold bullion? Would I be fortunate enough that those go under the 1xp misc. items? :thinking:

[agogemod]

Can... can I ask why Eren wants money...

[trample]

I quote, "If I eat any more stale bread, I'm going to become chronically constipated."

[agogemod]

Honeybunches ur going into a warzone next, money will not buy you better food :(

[trample]

if I spend the whole of the next mission on the toilets I'm blaming sarge

[agogemod]

Sarge really doesn't want to hear about your bowel movements, child.

Also, to pretend that I'm a good mod again, if there's something specific that you want we'll work with you to get it; if the end goal really is 'money' we can see what we can do without unbalancing the game, though knowing why you want money will help us. Or maybe Eren just wants to start a bank.

[trample]

the truth is I'm defaulting to dosh because I have no other ideas on what else to spend xp on

I mean uh

[agogemod]

Have you considered investing in bitcoin?

[trample]