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Downtime Actions
Sometimes, your characters have long-term projects that might end up being plot relevant, or maybe your characters are hosting something that would be long-term community relevant. Maybe your character's on a campaign to read every book in the library in an effort to research everything there is to know about demons, or maybe they're grinding off-screen CR and skills through first aid classes, military training, regular lockpicking/jailbreaking practice, etc! Or maybe you're just looking to do a lowkey plot thing and have an idea of when you want to start playing with the results.
Whatever it is, this is the post for it! Here, we're looking for players to post plot/community efforts that aren't a single adventure, but an extended effort/off-screen grind.
Here's how it works:
Some guidelines:
OK, here's the form:
Whatever it is, this is the post for it! Here, we're looking for players to post plot/community efforts that aren't a single adventure, but an extended effort/off-screen grind.
Here's how it works:
- Fill out the copypasta at the bottom of this post.
- Mods will respond with the results of those efforts, along with a timeline (e.g. your character is doing this for 5 OOC months, results start showing in 3)
- You can start playing with those results once the time has passed for that to happen! (If something takes an OOC month and you posted in May, then you can start playing with the results in June!) If a specific adventure follow-up is necessary, we'll let you know!
- Profit!
Some guidelines:
- This post is for both mods and players! We encourage tracking the toplevel comments on this post if you want to be current with what's going on. Feel free to comment on community actions or otherwise get in touch with the player to get in on the fun/use as a springboard for CR! (EX: If someone's character has been burying themself in the library for Demon Research and your character regularly visits, maybe they can hit them up while they're in the library.)
- Downtime actions do not have to be anything big or plotty necessarily, but they must involve some sort of community effort if the character is not pursuing something plot-related. If your character is learning how to do medicine, cool, but that's for yourself. If your character is teaching other people how to do medicine, comment here so future characters/players know this is a service you're doing!
- Downtime actions are always things that can be accomplished entirely within the boundaries of the places the character has regular access to (Tokyo-F and limited parts of Heaven by default). You can't handwave someone running around in Liar Hell to recruit the Damned.
OK, here's the form:
[IN THE SUBJECT, PUT: PLOT, PLOT/COMMUNITY, OR COMMUNITY, PLEASE THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR MODS]
- Plot: This is something to do with plot, and requires mod approval. Example: Looking for plot information.
- Plot/Community: This is something to do with the community but also may be plot related. Example: Building an army.
- Community: This is something to do with the community, and does not require mod approval. Mods may give these efforts plot-related stuff but do not expect it. Example: Medicinal Herb Garden Club.
Title: A simple name for what the character is doing.
Type: Pick one of these three categories:
- Change: Change something in the setting or otherwise create something new
- Defend: Defend or reinforce something that already exists
- Gather Information: Gathering specialized information
If what you have in mind doesn’t fall into one of these categories, it’s probably a standard plot request rather than a downtime action.
Assets: What skills or materials is the character using?
Time: How long does the character spend working on this? Saying the project continues for as long as needed or continues indefinitely is fine too.
Description: Describe what the character wants to achieve! Be sure to include all characters involved in the effort, if there are multiple. If your character started a plot action before this post went up, please provide us a thread or OOC discussion screencap discussing/doing that action in order to get the results immediately. Otherwise, we'll assume that the date started is the comment's post date.