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Spirits & Lures

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With ample opportunity for Humans to accumulate money, Horses are in need of options of their own. While Horses arguably have less need for money, they still have the right to earn compensation for effort. Lures and Spirits exist to satisfy this need.
Spirits are the equine equivalent of Coins since it doesn't make much sense for a Horse to be carrying around money! Spirits are, as their name indicates, the life force of a deceased animal. However, not just any animal can produce a Spirit upon its death. The Gods choose particular creatures to bear this morbid gift, the creatures generally called Marks, short for "The Marked Ones."
Marks can only be baited and killed for Spiritual profit if you can draw them to you IC. In order to do so, you must earn it through a Lure Thread, simply called a Lure.
Lure threads vary in design but, regardless, can only gain money for a Horse. The location, amount earned, frequency it can be completed, difficulty, requirements, and whether it affects Tamed and/or Untamed all depends on the specific type of Lure you are aiming for, each one outlined in the second tab of this thread.
You'll notice most Lures reward Untamed, isolating the Tamed Horses with little ability to provide for themselves. The Tamed are forced to rely on their Owners to create a balance. If the Owner wants the Horse to behave, they will need to satisfy its wants, just as the Horse will need to cooperate to have its desires fulfilled. This also encourages roleplayers to make a Tamed Horse character because they can potentially receive free items from their Owner. And, of course, a bedecked horse is more likely to sell for a higher price in the Vendue so this is a further incentive for enhancing your Horse's physique.
We do not leave the Tamed without hope, though! They can earn Spirits for themselves through Contests in Faewin's Cathartic Arena.
No Lure thread can count toward another Lure thread's requirements. For example, if you complete Population, you cannot use it as a thread to meet the requirements for Perseverance.
You may never re-use any Lure post, in part or entirety, for another Lure. If found to be repeating Lure posts in any sense, you will be blocked from attempting any Lure for at least one month and receive a Warning Bar Increase. The effort you expend to earn those Spirits is through writing and if you do not fully write the posts, you do not deserve the reward.
You may only play one character within a Lure thread.
All Lures must include the "Lure" label the moment you decide it is a Lure. This way, all participants are aware that it is not a normal roleplay thread and staff can consider it an official Lure.
Even if a thread was not originally intended to be used as a Lure, it can be changed into one at any time so long as it qualifies. All participants in the thread, at the time, must agree before it can be converted.
The first post must include whether the Lure will be archived upon completion of the Lure or if the roleplayer intends to continue as a normal roleplay thread after the Lure is accomplished. If you do not indicate it in this post by the time you end the Lure, as you can edit in at any point, it will be archived by default. Feel free to request its return if this is not what you intended.
The first post must also include the intended type of Lure, named below, and level if applicable. This should be edited in as soon as possible if you did not include it originally.
When the Lure requirements are all met, a participant must post in Invocation for a staff member to process. All roleplaying in this thread must immediately cease. A staff member will then post in the Lure alerting the participants to the appearance of a Mark. They will give you a very basic occurrence to work with, such as how the Mark appeared into the current action of the thread.
What the Mark looks like is entirely up to whomever posts next. You may make up a species or use an Earthen creature and make it fantastical or normal. The actions and behavior of the Mark is also yours to decide. The Mark must be appropriate to its Value: so if it only earns you a small amount of Spirit, that means it is a smaller creature.
Any of the participants, regardless of posting order, can make this response, called a Kill Post. The Kill Post entails the character terminating the Mark however they choose. Note that the Mark must be killed; it cannot randomly die without the character committing it, as the Gods would not reward this. Remember, the Horses are carnivorous predators.
Kill Posts must be more than 200 words but may be no more than 400 words. They do not need to be incredibly elaborate so long as they indicate the Mark's demise caused by the character. This is to keep reviews easy for staff.
The Kill Posts must correspond with how staff described the Mark's approach. This is to prevent cheating through premade posts. Note that Doubled Lures (from the list below) will have more intricate staff posts to add further security against cheating.
You may not powerplay any characters in the Kill Post unless their roleplayers have added an OOC note in their Entry Post (their first post in the Lure) giving permission. If they allow it, you can then include what their character did during the Kill Post, otherwise you may not write about their actions, only your own character's. Since only one Horse makes the Kill Post, as there is only a single Kill Post, this rule is necessary. If members do allow you to powerplay their characters in the Kill Post, it may not be anything against their personality or deliberately intended for a negative purpose, such as humiliation, and also cannot injure them in any way. If you do anything the member feels is inappropriate, they are free to message the Administrators and request the action be retracted, meaning it never happened IC.
After the Kill Post, you must again post in Invocation. The responding staff member will now post the amount of Spirits earned. All participants earn the same value of Spirits, it is not divided up (they receive the full sum listed below) but they will only receive money if they met their separate qualifications. For example, if the Lure required a Completed Thread and they only posted one time in the Lure, they will not partake in the winnings.
At this time, the Lure is considered finished and may either resume as a roleplay or will be archived, as explained above.
Lures need to make sense IC. For example, if you were attempting the Lure type Sacrifice, you cannot begin a thread randomly fighting with another character. There must be logic and reason present explaining why the Horses began to fight.
You may not turn any Lure into Emulation's Thread Completion since you are already receiving reward for it both through the default amounts you earn when posting IC and the Lure winnings.
When a Lure requires a Completed Thread, it must meet these qualifications: 5 posts from each character in the Lure, all posts consisting of at least 200 words and no more than 400, a single Kill Post, and a distinguished posting order throughout the entire thread.
A Completed Thread is only required as part of the Lure's qualifications if specifically said in the Lure description given in the second tab of this Guide.
The below list of Lures includes the term "Cooldown." A Cooldown is how long you must wait before repeating the exact same Lure type of the exact same level. Cooldowns affect only that type of Lure, so if you complete a Escape, that does not affect an Avoidance Lure in any way. Levels within the same type of Lure do not count toward one another's Cooldown, either, such as a Level Easy Population and a Level Hard Population.
A Cooldown begins when a staff member distributes the Spirits in a Lure, as this is considered the completion of the Lure.
You must respect the Cooldown period. Any thread started during the Cooldown period cannot qualify as a Lure of that Cooldown's type.
If a character enters your thread who is currently experiencing a Cooldown for the Lure type you are planning on attempting, you can allow them to post but they will not count toward any requirements and they will not earn any Spirits upon completion.
You may not partake in more than one Lure of the same type and level at a time, so even if there is no Cooldown listed you still must wait until your current Lure is finished before attempting the same one again (rather than having both simultaneously ongoing). Note that you can have a Lure of every type and level going at once, just not multiples of the same type and level.
Difficulty is determined in comparison to the hardest Lure to the easiest Lure and follows the key: Very Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard, Very Hard. The level of difficulty defines the value you will receive, which is the amount of Spirits each qualifying participant earns. Lures can have several levels, each one acting like its own Lure sub-type.
Each Lure does come coupled with an IC Explanation to aid you in describing the interaction. The IC Explanation simply is why that Mark would realistically be baited to your character. The Marked Ones are drawn to particular situations and objects because the Gods ordained it, a gift to the Untamed Horses so that they could gather Spirits so long as they deserve it. What draws them, though, varies and is described in the list below.

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Lure Name/Type

Level Difficulty
Value Earned
Cooldown Period

Requirements/OOC Description [number of minimum posts required, this does not include the Kill Post]
IC Explanation

Accepted

Very Easy
4 Spirits
None
Your first post as a Herd Member where at least 3 other Herd Members of your new Herd are present. Only counts once per Herd you join. Steals and Force Claims also qualify as "joining" a Herd. Does not require a Completed Thread [at least 4 posts]
When you join a new Herd, their pheromones intensify to fully coat and thus initiate you and the increased scent attracts the Mark

Avoidance

Easy
8 Spirits
None
Avoid the capture attempt of a Human successfully in a Completed Thread [at least 10 posts]
The smell of a Human attracts the Mark

Duration

Medium
12 Spirits
None
A thread with 15 posts from each qualifying Participant [at least 30 posts]
Marks grow more curious and confident the longer you are around, causing them to finally give in and approach; the harder Marks are more wary and take longer to approach and thus earn more Value

Hard
16 Spirits
None
A thread with 20 posts from each qualifying Participant [at least 40 posts]
Marks grow more curious and confident the longer you are around, causing them to finally give in and approach; the harder Marks are more wary and take longer to approach and thus earn more Value

Very Hard
20 Spirits
None
A thread with 25 posts from each qualifying Participant [at least 50 posts]
Marks grow more curious and confident the longer you are around, causing them to finally give in and approach; the harder Marks are more wary and take longer to approach and thus earn more Value

Doubled

Very Easy
4 Spirits
7 Days
A single post made in the Outskirts where the Kill Post is posted within 3 hours of Mark's appearance, does not require a Completed Thread or participants [at least 1 post]
Some Marks are blessed twice by the Gods but the amount of magic infused in their mortal bodies overwhelms them and causes rapid decay, making the quality of body to deteriorate; the sooner you can gather its Spirit, the better the value of it

Easy
8 Spirits
7 Days
A single post made in the Outskirts where the Kill Post is posted within 2 hours of Mark's appearance, does not require a Completed Thread or participants [at least 1 post]
Some Marks are blessed twice by the Gods but the amount of magic infused in their mortal bodies overwhelms them and causes rapid decay, causing the quality of body to deteriorate; the sooner you can gather its Spirit, the better the Value of it

Medium
12 Spirits
7 Days
A single post made in the Outskirts where the Kill Post is posted within 1 hour of Mark's appearance, does not require a Completed Thread or participants [at least 1 post]
Some Marks are blessed twice by the Gods but the amount of magic infused in their mortal bodies overwhelms them and causes rapid decay, causing the quality of body to deteriorate; the sooner you can gather its Spirit, the better the Value of it

Hard
16 Spirits
7 Days
A single post made in the Outskirts where the Kill Post is posted within 30 minutes of Mark's appearance, does not require a Completed Thread or participants [at least 1 post]
Some Marks are blessed twice by the Gods but the amount of magic infused in their mortal bodies overwhelms them and causes rapid decay, causing the quality of body to deteriorate; the sooner you can gather its Spirit, the better the Value of it

Very Hard
20 Spirits
7 Days
A single post made in the Outskirts where the Kill Post is posted within 15 minutes of Mark's appearance, does not require a Completed Thread or participants [at least 1 post]
Some Marks are blessed twice by the Gods but the amount of magic infused in their mortal bodies overwhelms them and causes rapid decay, causing the quality of body to deteriorate; the sooner you can gather its Spirit, the better the Value of it

Escape

Easy
8 Spirits
None
Your first post in the Wilderness after you have escaped from a Human's certified Ownership, during which at least one Completed Thread must have occurred as a Tamed Horse with your Owner [at least 11 posts]
The smell of a Human lingering on your flesh attracts the Mark

Expectant

Easy
8 Spirits
None
A Pregnant Mare starts the thread which then progresses until it qualifies as a Completed Thread. Can only occur within the first 2 weeks of their pregnancy beginning when their successful conception is declared by staff [at least 10 posts]
Mark interprets the Pregnant Mare as slow and vulnerable and thus is enticed

Impaired

Easy
8 Spirits
20 Days
An Impaired Horse with at least one temporary Injury or Sickness in its Ailment field starts the thread which then progresses until it qualifies as a Completed Thread [at least 10 posts]
Mark interprets the Impaired Horse as weak and vulnerable and thus is enticed

Matured

Easy
8 Spirits
20 Days
A Horse 40 years or older starts the thread which then progresses until it qualifies as a Completed Thread [at least 10 posts]
Mark interprets the Senior-Aged Horse as frail and vulnerable and thus is enticed

Parallel

Easy
8 Spirits
None
An interaction involving a Tamed and Untamed Horse making at least 5 posts each [at least 10 posts]
The Tamed Horse smells strongly of Humans and thus attracts the Mark

Medium
12 Spirits
None
An interaction involving a Tamed and Untamed Horse making at least 10 posts each [at least 20 posts]
The Tamed Horse smells strongly of Humans and thus attracts the Mark

Hard
16 Spirits
None
An interaction involving a Tamed and Untamed Horse making at least 15 posts each [at least 30 posts]
The Tamed Horse smells strongly of Humans and thus attracts the Mark

Perseverance

Medium
12 Spirits
None
A Completed Thread in 3 separate Wilderness boards [at least 30 posts]
When one wanders, they will uncover the hiding spots of Marks; the harder Marks require longer investigation and thus earn more Value

Hard
16 Spirits
None
A Completed Thread in 4 separate Wilderness boards [at least 40 posts]
When one wanders, they will uncover the hiding spots of Marks; the harder Marks require longer investigation and thus earn more Value

Very Hard
20 Spirits
None
A Completed Thread in 5 separate Wilderness boards [at least 50 posts]
When one wanders, they will uncover the hiding spots of Marks; the harder Marks require longer investigation and thus earn more Value

Population

Easy
8 Spirits
None
A Completed Thread with 3 qualifying Participants [at least 15 posts]
Attracted to large groups of Horses; the larger the group, the larger the Mark and thus more value

Medium
12 Spirits
None
A Completed Thread with 5 qualifying Participants [at least 25 posts]
Attracted to large groups of Horses; the larger the group, the larger the Mark and thus more value

Hard
16 Spirits
None
A Completed Thread with 7 qualifying Participants [at least 35 posts]
Attracted to large groups of Horses; the larger the group, the larger the Mark and thus more value

Very Hard
20 Spirits
None
A Completed Thread with 9 qualifying Participants [at least 45 posts]
Attracted to large groups of Horses; the larger the group, the larger the Mark and thus more value

Risk

Very Easy
4 Spirits
7 Days
A single post made in the Outskirts, does not require participants or a Completed Thread. You must roleplay in this thread upon completion and respond to anyone who decides to reply, even a Human [at least 1 post]
Marks are most abundant in the Outskirts and will likely be found there

Sacrifice

Very Easy
4 Spirits
10 Days
A thread with at least 4 Fighting Posts where blood is drawn, can be a Battle but does not have to be so long as there is physical confrontation, the fight must be logical as you cannot just start the thread fighting someone for no reason [at least 7 posts]
Marks are attracted by the smell of blood and implication of vulnerability

Waypost

Very Hard
20 Spirits
None
Every time you reach the next Waypost, which is a Post Count that is a multiple of 50, you can turn any post in for this Lure; so after I reach 50 posts, I can collect on the 51st post or any after, and again after 100, etc. [at least 50 posts]
You have traveled around significantly and encounter the various Marks hidden in Alcryst

Youth

Easy
8 Spirits
None
A Newborn Foal starts the thread which then progresses until it qualifies as a Completed Thread, can only occur within the first 3 weeks of that Foal's life beginning when accepted in Inception [at least 10 posts]
Mark interprets the Foal as young and vulnerable and thus is enticed

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1. Darclen Kai'os Meridius Kayde

2. Kyndriel Raiden Fray Estrelle

3. Stryke

4. Talen Mythik Aureon Gale

5. Viranchi

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Exp	12 yrs
Mood	Determined

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Just a guy who spends way too much time on the computer.

Spirits & Lures

Sept 27, 2015 20:32:13 GMT -6 Word Count:

Post by Brady on Sept 27, 2015 20:32:13 GMT -6

add lure for how escaped tamed horses can repair/renew their horseshoes

"The first post must also include the intended type of Lure, named below, and level if applicable. This should be edited in as soon as possible if you did not include it originally." change that to "named in the next tab"

in the bullet about mark appearance, promote using Contribution and link to it, possibly require them to use an NPC-allowed contribution only

"kill posts must be AT LEAST 200 words" rather than "more than"

"The Kill Posts must correspond with how staff described the Mark's approach. This is to prevent cheating through premade posts. Note that Doubled Lures (from the list below) will have more intricate staff posts to add further security against cheating." change to "from the next tab"

"After the Kill Post, you must again post in Invocation. The responding staff member will now post the amount of Spirits earned. All participants earn the same value of Spirits, it is not divided up (they receive the full sum listed below) but they will only receive money if they met their separate qualifications. For example, if the Lure required a Completed Thread and they only posted one time in the Lure, they will not partake in the winnings." change to "the full sum listed in the next tab"

"The below list of Lures includes the term "Cooldown." A Cooldown is how long you must wait before repeating the exact same Lure type of the exact same level. Cooldowns affect only that type of Lure, so if you complete a Escape, that does not affect an Avoidance Lure in any way. Levels within the same type of Lure do not count toward one another's Cooldown, either, such as a Level Easy Population and a Level Hard Population." NOT THE BELOW LIST GODDAMMIT

"Each Lure does come coupled with an IC Explanation to aid you in describing the interaction. The IC Explanation simply is why that Mark would realistically be baited to your character. The Marked Ones are drawn to particular situations and objects because the Gods ordained it, a gift to the Untamed Horses so that they could gather Spirits so long as they deserve it. What draws them, though, varies and is described in the list below." NEXT. TAB.

Lures need to be alphabetized

reconsider spirit amounts, make sure they're earning enough based on our economy realistically

doubled - make very hard be 10 minutes

find a way to emulate seraphic cathedral/blessings with a lure?

june 2018
equid inception - "Which horses can partake in lures?" - wild, tamed, both (both is answer)

august 2018
contribution rules references "Killing post" - rewrite if I wind up changing the term or process

october 2018
" You must also notify the chosen contribution creator by posting in their thread with a link to your crop thread." type of sentence for the mark creatures

jan 2019
doing milestone badge for this. I have it so they have to complete 1 lure of every applicable type for the silver badge and 3 of every type for the gold badges. silver requires 30 lures, gold requires 60. adjust the numbers if it winds up being really odd pairing - way too many or way too few types for the badge requirements to make sense.
also, adjust the required amount of separate roleplayers/characters if I am requiring more than available (i.e. if only 5 lures involve other characters and I'm demanding you involve at least 20 characters lol)

Last Edit: Jan 26, 2019 16:41:45 GMT -6 by Brady

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