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Post by Chamomile on Apr 19, 2014 15:25:16 GMT -5
Essence
As explained before, Essence is like experience or money that you can use to add new spells to your repertoire, upgrade lower level spells, or add a new specialization. How you do you get Essence though? Simple. Posting! For every in character post you make, you automatically accumulate 2 Essence. However, you will also be rewarded for finishing a thread with 20 more Essence, so be sure to let the staff know in the Completed Threads thread so we can give you your rewards! Essence can also be obtained through special site events and contests. We will also reward OTMs with some Essence prizes when the time comes.
Items and Materials
Items can also be obtained through posting in two different ways. Either your character finds an item, or they make an item. In terms of Materials, the best way to obtain them is by going outside of Dorcha Hollow, and into the Dark Forest. The other way is by using Crafting Magic that will allow you to create and harvest new, usually rarer, raw materials. Items and Materials are used for many things for both character plots and site plots. Some items, crafted with raw materials through magic can even grant you spell like abilities. This will be especially useful during events that take place in the Dark Forest, or even for fun shenanigans in regular threads. On the other hand, sometimes plots require you to donate items and materials to Dorcha Hollow for the well being of all the mages, unlocking other fun new plots and other site content.
In order for your own mage to craft magical items of their own, they will need Materials, obtained in the ways explained above. Materials are only needed when you use a spell that creates a magical item, an item that when used will grant a spell-like effect. An item that grants a spell-like effect is essentially a one use (or multiple use if it is a high level or rare item) spell that is not restricted by your magic specializations. However, unless the item grants permanent spell use, the spell-like ability will not be added to your character's spell list. To use Crafting magic to create an item with very minor effects will not require Materials. However, making one of these powerful magical items will, otherwise a mage would have an unlimited supply of powerful spell-like abilities to share with whoever they want.
Posting Tags
In order to let the staff know what to do with your threads when they are complete, we have devised some posting tags to make the completion and archiving process smoother for all of us. These tags will let us know if you are participating in an event, or trying to obtain Materials, or just having an open roleplay. Please make use of these tags at the start of your topic title:
[Open] – This thread is open for anyone to join!
[Closed] – This thread is closed off to other members, and is only meant for a certain few to join.
[E] – This is a thread tied into an ongoing event.
[H] – This is a hunting thread, where mages plan on venturing into the forest to fend off monsters and find special Materials. This tag lets the staff know to look closely at what your characters are looking for in particular so we can then reward you with it in the end.
[C] – In this thread you plan on using Crafting magic to create Materials and Items.
Please note that these posting tags can be combined! An Open thread may overlap with a Hunting Thread, or an Event thread may call for both Hunting and Crafting. These tags are to help the staff give you, the members, exactly what you want from your roleplays so everyone is happy, whether that be items or Essence.
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