Forest Covered Mods

Here on Koriko, everything revolves around commerce, including your stay! After all, you're in debt. But you don't really want to stay in debt, do you? Fear not, because it's actually possible for your character to succeed in getting out of debt! Just like real life- Oh wait...


'Debt' is not simply monetary here; in fact, if you try to pay the Witch in gold or some other typical currency, she'll thank you for the donation and then laugh. Your real payment comes from your work - and your work isn't limited to just your day-to-day life. The Witch realised what makes a place somewhere that people want to come back to is a feeling of 'home' and 'happiness' - a sense of community. The work a debtor does is about affecting people's lives, whether it's the customers or your coworkers'.

Of course, 'home' and 'happiness' can mean extremely different and sometimes dark things depending on the person, but details aren't something she gets caught up on. Haha.

In order to really lower your debt, there will be small 'quests' available for debtors to take up. These won't be announced ICly - usually - but rather OOCly, during announcement posts.

Most tasks would be able to be completed by multiple characters in some fashion, making them ideal for building CR, but only the character who chose to undertake it will be rewarded with a debt decrease. However, all others will receive rewards as well, as an incentive for improved services in the future, so don't let that stop you!

Below is an example of how a typical monthly quest set-up could look:

Tier One [3 Points]

- Help another character clean five or more baths

- Volunteer at an understaffed restaurant with rude customers

Tier Two [6 Points]

- Find a way to stop a feud between two rival kitsune

- Train a hopeless employee in a new job

Tier Three [15 Points]

- Do whatever it takes to trigger a fellow employee's name

- A customer desires you to poison an employee who wronged her: Tell the employee or poison them?

Tier Four [30 Points]

- Deliver meals on time to the residential district in the deep forest

WARNING: It will be impossible for your character to escape injury

More details would be given upon request for those who choose to do the task. Tasks can be failed and we encourage players to do what feels like the most fun and IC! Don't sweat it if your character fails; in fact, something good or interesting could be triggered from it. Please explore your options and take risks! More fun will be had the more players and their characters wiggle around the debt tasks.

Regarding the points themselves, however - they're just for fun. We encourage players to set their characters' debt point total themselves, and reasonably balance the numbers if they wish. If your character does succeed in getting out of debt, but you wish for them to remain in game, they could sign a new contract to help out castmates or friends or for further rewards or any other method that you think would suit your character.

If you don't want to religiously track your debt, that's fine! Again, we do not want this to be a stressor, but rather a fun mechanic. However, if you wish to keep track or just enjoy having hard numbers, please see this handy stats and permissions post we made for a possible template!

Because plots only coming from us wouldn't be as fun.

Quite simply, this is where you can make a plot suggestion. Your idea can be as vague - "What if really hungry kitsune though??" - or detailed as you like. Because Koriko is a city for spirits all over the world, as opposed just East Asia, even the sky's not the limit. There are rabbits on the moon, you know.

Alternatively, you can also request to run your own player plot here. Just give us an outline of your plan and we'll let you know if it's good to go, or when it would be, if it doesn't seem doable at the moment. Don't worry, though, we're flexible.

For mod plot suggestions, just go ahead and leave a comment. For player plots, please fill out the following form:

<b>Player(s)</b>: In case this is a group plot! <b>Dates<b>: Roughly, when would it be starting and how long would it last? Description: Here's where you get to tell us everything about the plot you'd like to run! <b>Warnings</b>: Just in case, let us know if there would be any need to worn for sensitive subjects or materials involved. Folklore gets weird, we all know it.

Anon commenting is on, and all comments are screened.

The fresh corpses of debtors, if poorly hidden, are found within a 24 hour period by minor spirits under the witch's command. Because their working capability has been so sharply disrupted by the fact that they've died, they are occasionally - occasionally - used as feed for any patrons who might like human flesh, gotta make up for that somehow and their revival costs are tacked on to their debts. The more you die, the longer you have to stay.

However, the witch does understand that death is a traumatic experience. In order to make your return to life a smooth one, she'll be removing your emotions and/or any unnecessary senses for a time.

Well. That's assuming she can be bothered to revive you at all. On that note, if you kill someone? Don't get caught.

Deaths are reported by players on this post - the particulars of what happens after are up to your OOC discretion, but you could have a mod choose for you, if you want! We'll be nice.

<b>Character Name<b>: <b>Cause of Death</b>: <b>Link to Death</b>: No html, please! Just give us the URL. <b>Date of Death</b>: <b>Date of Return</b>: Must be at least 24 hours after death. <b>Cost of Death</b>: Would you like to lose a sense or an emotion? Both? Would you like us to decide?

Existing on another plane of reality are many hundreds of cities catering to the unseen world of spirits. These cities are vast and strange, in many ways familiar, but inhabited mostly by creatures from folklore and myth. Most of them do not actually live in the cities for long, instead passing through them on their way to new places in the human world to call home, or just visiting for a vacation. In fact, the cities are quickly evolving into massive tourist spots, and spirits are just eating it up! Sometimes literally.

Of course, the problem with rapid expansion is the need for more labour. Lesser spirits are numerous, but projecting the image of an exotic getaway calls for something new. That's where you come in.

You aren't the first and you won't be the last taken from outside the spirit realm and put to work here, in the growing city of Koriko. Don't worry, though; the witch that runs the island picked you because you have a debt to pay. Just by working here, she'll absolve your debt and grant you a little favour in return. Just sign your name away and you'll be put to work serving the vacationing spirits.

Oh, you want to know how long it will take to pay off your debt? Well, that's up to you isn't it? You read the fine print...

Didn't you?

Have a general suggestion for us for how the game is run, how it looks, or anything you just want to toss at us? Please feel free to do so here! We're always open to feedback, and eager to make the game as pleasant an experience for our playerbase as possible.

IP-logging is off, anon is on, and comments are screened upon request.

We're sad to see you go, but we know things happen. Or don't, as the case might be. Either way, let us know here and we'll remove your character from our lists.

Unlike hiatuses, the circumstances for drops are much stricter: Your character has either paid off their debt (regardless of whether or not they were close previously, don't worry about having to choose the second option), or been eaten. But if you change your mind, don't stress over bringing them back later. That's how magic works, after all.

<b>Player:</b> Repeat This Code for each character dropped: <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Drop Method</b>: Fulfilled their debt or filled someone's stomach? <user name="USERNAME"> community forestcovered remove USERNAME community deadtrees remove USERNAME community moneytree remove USERNAME