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The Ascendants are always watching, and as characters begin to interact with the world and the people around them, they will notice their Credits Account starts gaining numbers. Eventually, characters will be able to figure out the obvious: the more they socialize, the more they discover, the more credits they earn.
Deep in the heart of The Theorem of the Astral Rose is a small room, with a single screen inside. It brings up the character's account upon approach, and it asks them what they want. They can buy a number of things with credits, from spaceship upgrades, to the return of their powers, to the retrieval of items they had back home, and many more. These purchases take effect immediately.
Players can keep track of their credits, and bank them, at the Activity Check page.
Please use the following form to purchase your items:
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This category is for characters to regain items, both magical and non-magical, and advanced technology, that they had back home. Note that chracters must have had these objects in canon for them to be eligible for regains -- small things like non-magical jewelry or books that exist only in headcanon are fine for regains, but bigger items like magical weapons or advanced technology must have been in your character's possession in canon.
Additional note: timelines and canon AU items are also up for grabs. If your character didn't have Magic Sword of Healing at the canon point that you applied them at, but does so in the later stages of that canon, you may regain that item for them. Similarly, if there exists a canon AU for that content, you are also free to regain items from there.
- 20 CREDITS: small non-magic item regain. This is personal, non-magical items from home like a photograph, a ring, a book.
- 50 CREDITS: small magic and tech item regain. This includes small and mildly magical items from home, as well as small technology. This can be cell phones, cameras, small magical items like jewelry. This can also include multiple small items, like a minor book collection, or outfits.
- 100 CREDITS: medium item regain. This includes medium-sized technological items like televisions or gaming systems, manufacturing machines or motorbikes, or even cybernetic enhancements. This can also include medium-sized magical items, like minor magical weapons or shields.
- 200 CREDITS: powerful item regain. This includes powerful magic weapons, and large items of advanced technology.
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Power regains will work differently between different characters, depending on how their powers and magic are categorized. For instance: Bruce Banner aka the Hulk has just one power: the ability to turn into the Hulk, which comes with super strength and near-invulnerability. A DnD character, on the other hand, would have their powers separated: their cantrips would count as one power, their level 1 spells as another power, and so on.
If your character gets a power in the later stages of their canon, beyond their current canon point, it is eligible to be regained. If your character has a canon AU where they have a different power, it is eligible to be regained.
If you're not sure how to categorize your character's powers, please ask in the question section below, or in the FAQ!
- 100 CREDITS: Single power regain. Characters regain one single power they previously had in their canon.
- 400 CREDITS: Total regain of all powers. Characters regain all of their powers, even if they total more than four separate categories. This is essentially the bulk buy option.
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Each character has the ability to claim a personal spaceship from the docking bay; however, those only come in three basic models, with very limited personal space inside. With these rewards, characters can upgrade their ships in a number of ways.
Be aware that there are some limitations: spaceships have to remain small enough that they can fit in the docking bay of the Theorem -- so, they cannot be enormous -- and other things like weaponry are limited too.
NOTE: The Void Runner base model cannot add any rooms, the Stellar Nomad base model can add one small room, and the Iron Horizon base model can add two small rooms. If characters wish to have roomier ships, they will first need to purchase exterior modification to change the model of their ships.
- FREE: Employ a Host pilot. If your character is unable to pilot a spaceship themselves, they can ask that a Host act as pilot. The mod will make a Host NPC for them upon purchase.
- 100 CREDITS: Basic exterior modification. Characters can modify the exterior of their spaceship to resemble anything they like: a personalized spaceship, a train car, a classic UFO, whatever they like.
- 400 CREDITS: Complicated exterior modification. The complicated version of exterior modification: this would apply to turning their ships into a mech, or something else that transforms between up to three exterior options
- 50 CREDITS: Add one blank interior room. Spaceship gains one blank interior room; characters will need to decorate it themselves, whether by building their own furniture from supplies found on planets, or trading with other characters or settlements.
- 100 CREDITS: Add one furnished room. Spaceship gains a new room that is fully furnished; this can include libraries (though characters will have to supply the books themselves), bathrooms, kitchens, bedrooms, even terrariums (minus the animals) or basic scientific laboratories.
- 200 CREDITS: Add weaponry. Add weaponry to personal spaceships; this can include laser cannons, tractor beams, missiles, etc. There is a limit to how much power can be bought, however: the Ascendants will not allow the purchase of anything that could destroy a planet or do serious damage to a settlement.
- 200 CREDITS: Add complex technology. This includes hyperspace drives (the ability to jump back to previous locations), advanced medical bays, fabrication rooms, scanner rooms, starmap rooms, advanced scientific laboratories, etc.
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Throughout various events, characters will gain items, or optional transformations, or even optional powers. Here, characters that joined after those events can buy the same items/effects, as long as there is a reasonable explanation for why they would be able to gain said items/effects.
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- 100 CREDITS: Switch Edicts. Characters switch Edicts a maximum of once every six months if they choose, but beware, this will come with a side-effect randomly determined, as some Edicts don't take kindly to being rejected. Others, however, admire the right to choose, so side-effects may be positive or negative.
- 100 CREDITS: Switch Divisions. Characters can only switch Divisions once every six months.
- 1000 CREDITS: Mystery purchase. This will have an enormous impact: be cautious. (Limited to 3 per year, game-wide, with a 3 month cooldown between each.)
QUESTIONS
EXAMPLE
Character Name + Journal: starling's lament /
Purchase: Small item regain
Details: A non-magic pendant from home, in the shape of a swan
Credit Cost: 10
Total Credits: 52 - 10 = 42
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Character Name + Journal: jonas /
Purchase: employ a host pilot
Details: jonas would like a host
friendpilot for his ship... i am requesting a snakeform robot, if possible, but everything else i'd love to leave up to you and any shenanigans you'd like π₯° thank you so muchCredit Cost: free
Total Credits: 0 - 0 = 0 (bb no $)
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Jonas' Host pilot is named Gilded Reverie's Edge, and they are a snakeform. Their metal form is a delicate golden-yellow on their head, and striped black and white on the rest of their body -- they say they resemble a Raxalarian Sunspitter, but to your human eyes, they mostly just look like a Spiny Bush Viper. They are obsessed with 3D crosswords and dad jokes, and their main personality traits are being witty (badly), and optimism.
NOTE: This pilot will largely stay with Jonas' claimed ship, and will not follow him around on planets -- this is to ensure a swift emergency exit from the planet if necessary.
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Character Name + Journal: enjin |
Purchase: a host pilot, please!
Details: go crazy... the only real, non-mutated animals in his world (that we've seen thus far) are cats, so he's going to be thrown by anything that's really out there. and ty!
Credit Cost: free
Total Credits: 0-0=0
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Enjin's Host pilot is named Sunflower Sirocco, and they are a fishform -- they have anti-grav technology to swim through the air, and pilot by remotely connecting the ship. Their metal body is dark blue, with vivid red and ivory for their long fins, and they largely resemble a betta fish with glowing stripes. Their favourite hobbies are obscure plant facts and new-new-new psywave music, and their main personality traits are being fretful but curious.
NOTE: This pilot will largely stay with Enjin's claimed ship, and will not follow him around on planets -- this is to ensure a swift emergency exit from the planet if necessary.
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Character Name + Journal: karna β
Purchase: one host pilot, please
Details: anything is fine by me! given this man's tendency to bite off more than he can chew through his self-sacrificial/charitable nature, it's going to have its work cut out for it
Credit Cost: free
Total Credits: 0-0=0 (empty wallet.png)
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Karna's Host pilot is called Silent Pyre's Ascent, and they are a lionform -- not accurate to lion-size, but a miniature version. Their metal body is charcoal grey with a bright golden mane, and they can pilot by remotely connecting to the ship. They are particularly obsessed with detective novels right now, and their main hobby is learning every fact about ancient weaponry that they can. Their personality traits are being full of bravado, and very dedicated to the mission.
NOTE: This pilot will largely stay with Karna's claimed ship, and will not follow him around on planets -- this is to ensure a swift emergency exit from the planet if necessary.
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Character Name + Journal: Jayce Talis +
Purchase: A host pilot, please!
Details: Jayce wants a ship of his own for himself and Viktor but he never learned how to drive (it wasn't high on his list of priorities), so he would need one to help him if he's not going to absolutely crash into everything all of the time. Any shape or species is good with me! He's never had a pet or really been around animals so he wouldn't have a preference. (Except maybe not something poro shaped. He has nightmares about that thing.)
Credit Cost: free!
Total Credits: 0-0=0
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Jayce has met this little birdform before: their name is Rusted Promise Unraveled, but they have now taken on an owlform. Their metal body is a brilliant copper, with dappled white and gold on the edge of their feathers -- and yes, they love turning their head 180 degrees, and do it frequently. They pilot by remotely connecting to the ship. Their biggest hobby right now is writing fanfiction (particularly of the romance variety), but when they're not browsing Space!AO3, they're probably talking about how cool magic is. Their main personality traits are being frightfully chipper (and maybe a little intrusive), and very easily bored.
NOTE: This pilot will largely stay with Jayce's claimed ship, and will not follow him around on planets -- this is to ensure a swift emergency exit from the planet if necessary.
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Character Name + Journal: Phainon (Khaslana)
Purchase: Host Pilot
Details: Phainon's going to learn how to pilot this thing himself; he doesn't need a-- okay, fine, he's getting one.
If this little machine starts pontificating about shadows on cave walls, he's sending it out an airlock.actually make it a smug philosophy buff, as a K(h)aslana, it is his lot in life to suffer.Credit Cost: 0
Total Credits: 0-0=0 (a moth-like nymph disappears from inside his wallet, leaving behind an ephemeral kaomoji)
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Phainon's new pilot Host is called A Fractured Chorus at Twilight, and is a swordform. Their body is a polished silver, with lunar and solar imagery engraved in the blade. As they have no hands, they pilot the ship by remotely connecting to it. Their biggest hobby is getting into esoteric philosophy books from alien cultures you've probably never heard of, and they are a budding and enthusiastic artist in the holographic medium. Their main personality trait is being a tiny bit insufferable, but also being a huge mother hen.
NOTE: This pilot will largely stay with Phainon's claimed ship, and will not follow him around on planets -- this is to ensure a swift emergency exit from the planet if necessary.
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RIP Phainon, henpecked by his pilot host
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Character Name + Journal: Muelsyse
Purchase: getting on that host pilot train!
Details: Muelsyse has a feeling this is much harder than driving a car... She's determined to learn how to pilot these things eventually, but until then a little help from a little friend would be great. Feel free to go wild with it, and ty! π
Credit Cost: 0
Total Credits: 0-0=0
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Muelsyse's pilot Host is called Steel Petal's Slow Decay, they are a seahorseform. While they insist that they resemble a Ix-Eliate ocean oldsoul, they look remarkably like a leafy seadragon. Their metal body is a cheerful yellow, while their leaf-like fins ripple through all the colors of the rainbow. They are currently really, really into old school pirate movies from the distant ocean entertainment planet Hyalin, but if they're not watching one of those on holo, they're probably reading whatever science journal article they can get their nerdy little fins on. Their main personality trait is being highly intellectually curious, and they are incredibly shy.
NOTE: This pilot will largely stay with Muelsyse's claimed ship, and will not follow her around on planets -- this is to ensure a swift emergency exit from the planet if necessary.
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Character Name + Journal: Nao Mizushita +
Purchase: a host pilot
Details: Look, she's definitely already working on learning, but who doesn't want a cute little tutorial helper who can also pilot while she takes a nap or does other things that she can sometimes loom over like, "Tell me about your innermost workings!!" Tl;dr: no preference re: form, but she has 0 fear re: arachnids and insects. Go crazy!
Credit Cost: 0
Total Credits: 0 - 0 = 0
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Nao's pilot Host is called Dreaming In Photonics, and they are a spiderdroneform -- which uncultured people may find a little creepy looking, but the truly wise will know is very cute. Their metal body is unpainted silver, with joints and eyes that light up yellow when they're happy. Their current biggest passion is rocketblade sports, and they're also into first person shooter video games (which they kind of yell at, a lot, when they're not yelling at rocketblade matches). They are very much a social butterfly, and their biggest personality trait is enthusiasm.
NOTE: This pilot will largely stay with Nao's claimed ship, and will not follow her around on planets -- this is to ensure a swift emergency exit from the planet if necessary.
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Character Name + Journal: Sunday +
Purchase: a host pilot
Details: Dude, I'm not even sure if Sunday knows how to drive a car. I mean he might - not all of Penacony's cars are self-driving - but until Recent Events, he had people to ferry him places if he needed. And learning how to drive a space ship was definitely never on his to do list. So uh. having some assistance so he doesn't crash and die would be swell. Any form is fine - except if it's a birdform, probably not a crow or raven.
Credit Cost: 0
Total Credits: 0 - 0 = 0
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Sunday's pilot Host is called The Tempered Warmth of Porcelain in Direct Sunlight, they are a gryphonform, and Sunday should probably find a shorter nickname for them. Roughly the size of a cat, the metal of their eagle wings and head are a bright copper, while their lion body is charcoal. When they have downtime, they're absolutely fascinated by old science fiction novels (they like to compare if the books' predictions came true), and lately they've also been getting really into competitive Galadian goalsink, which is like croquet but if the balls also explode. Personality-wise, they like to pretend they are wiser than they are, and are full of curiosity for new topics.
NOTE: This pilot will largely stay with Sunday's claimed ship, and will not follow him around on planets -- this is to ensure a swift emergency exit from the planet if necessary.
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I mean um. Thank you very much! <3 Imagine using a nickname when Sunday could just call them The Tempered Warmth of Porcelain in Direct Sunlight every single time though?? Do unto others as you would have done unto you and the amount of times he has asked people not to call him Sunny--
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Character Name + Journal: Jiaoqiu /
Purchase: small non-magic item regain
Details: Jiaoqiu's red feathered fan (visual)
Credit Cost: 20 credits
Total Credits: 186 credits - 20 = 143 credits remaining
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Character Name + Journal: Dean Winchester (
Purchase: small non-magic item
Details: 1 standard-issue aluminum baseball bat, no frills.
Credit Cost: 20
Purchase: small non-magic item
Details: 1 silver knife (silver blade, wooden handle)! Nothing specifically magical about it. Dean just feels less twitchy when he's got something silver on hand lol
Credit Cost: 20
Total Credits: 194 - 40 = 154
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Character Name + Journal: Ladon Ceto /
Purchase: Small magic item regain (50)
Details:
A single gossamer thread that, when Ladon makes physical contact with, glows and lights up with (harmless) lightning sparks. It's largely useless aside from providing light and some solace. It's actually a piece of a ley line, and is bound to the rules of Ladon's universe. Typically, lines like this come from inside Talented beings, and vanish once separated from their host. Ladon found part of this on the body of a woman who fell from the top of a building across the street from his club, and the rest sticking out of a mirror that led to a study full of books from this multiverse's version of Earth. Ladon has been unable to use it to return to that world, and I have no intention of letting him do anything special with it beyond what he could do with any other wire or string.
Purchase: Small tech item regain (50)
Details:
His gun. It's a mundane gun (I figure 50 makes more sense than 20 because it's a potentially lethal weapon, but let me know if you want me to pay more or less) based on a Smith & Wesson Model 10 called a Grondemont 6 Shot. No additional ammo, three bullets in the chamber. Alternatively, if you'd rather he not have any ammo, he'll still take it because a loaded gun and an empty gun are hard to tell apart in the eye of the beholder. ;)
Credit Cost: 100
Total Credits: 151 - 100 = 51
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Character Name + Journal: Noctis Lucis Caleum |
Purchase: Total Power Regain
Details: Does what it says on the tin! His powers are specifically listed in his application. Note that Noctis has a hammerspace as one of his abilities, and at the time of leaving his homeworld to join the Theorem it was filled with a number of items β some incredibly useful, like weapons and rare monster parts, and others incredibly... not, like old coins and fish. I wanted to check if he would potentially have access to any of those goofy items for comedic purposes, the kind which are minor enough to be ineligible for regains, but I totally understand if that's overboard!
Credit Cost: 400
Purchase: Medium Item Regain
Details: Noctis's upgraded Engine Blade, a sword given to him by his father for his sixteenth birthday. On the surface it's a straightforward β albeit overly stylized β weapon, however it does have the ability to leech tiny amounts of elemental energy from any creatures Noctis happens to kill with it. This then enables him to use his elemancy.
Credit Cost: 100
Purchase: Small Item Regain
Details: Noctis's cellphone. There's very little of note stored on it, aside from sentimental photos that remind Noctis of Eos.
Credit Cost: 50
Total Credits: 574 - 550 = 24
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I don't see any reason to nerf the hammerspace or the items within, because nothing you listed seems game-breaking in any way? (As long as he can't use the rare monster parts for long-distance teleportation, or instant healing, or anything like that.) So he's more than welcome to have access to not only his weapons, but also goofy items for comedic purposes, as long as he explicitly had them in canon!
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If this is all good I'll assume that full regain, and appreciate the rule of cool and faith! I'll definitely lock it to the canon point, and while no items would be at all game-breaking I'll still use discretion.
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Also, I forgot to mention -- if he wants to hook up his cellphone to the Theorem network and use it to send texts/calls/etc like the datapad can, he can do so.
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Character Name + Journal: Castiel (
Purchase: 1 power regain
Details: Angelic Strength as listed in his app: What it says on the tin for this one! He's real strong. Can lift at least a ton off the ground without much struggle, punch through walls, break bones like snapping twigs.
Credit Cost: 100
Question: Can I treat his power regains ICly as a nondescript 'reconnection to grace' thing? If Cas could choose (either bc he knew what they were or bc a Host told him his options) he would pick powers I don't want him to have back yet
Total Credits: (154) - (100) = (54)
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And yes, you're welcome to treat these regains as a reconnection to his grace, rather than Castiel regaining them deliberately!
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Character Name + Journal: jonas /
Purchase: small non-magic item regain
Details: necklace with his mother's ring on it
Credit Cost: 20
Purchase: small magic and tech item regain
Details: personal cell phone
Credit Cost: 50
Purchase: small magic and tech item regain
Details: so many cartons of cigarettes
Credit Cost: 50
Purchase: add two furnished rooms
Details: he would like a washroom (with a bathtub/shower combo) and a bedroom please
Credit Cost: 200
Total Credits: 687 - 320 = 367
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Jonas is free to hook up his phone to the network and use that instead of (or in addition to) his datapad. Additionally, the two furnished rooms can be in whatever style he likes!
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