Points & How To Earn Them
The most basic way to describe "points" is as experience in any rpg. They are used for a multitude of things, such as buying spells or ranks (see ranks and spending points), or upgrading already existing spells. Points can be earned through specific tasks that your character must do in the roleplay, which will be logged in the chats. The chats will be tallied from time to time, and those points will be awarded to your character. You can not trade your points between characters (with the exception of duels) and are an OOC concept only.
Chat Rooms are tallied every week, typically on a friday. Various staff and volunteer members will read through all the existing posts that have been made in this specific week, and assign point values when a character is seen to have engaged in a point earning activity. Each specific point earning activity can only be tallied once per day, meaning that -- while you’re allowed to do more than one a day -- you can only earn the maximum amount of points. If you do not earn the maximum point amount in your first instance of doing an activity in a day, then subsequent posts of the same activity will increase the amount you earn until it has been maxed. Talliers base how much points you earn on the quality and quantity of your posts; this does not mean you have to write a novel for each one. Posts can still be small and earn max points, they must simply prove that there was effort put into them in order to reap the highest rewards. IMPORTANT NOTE: While this is ultimately up to the tallier, most of them prefer for people to split their point earning activities up by paragraphs at the least. If you post running and casting spells in one paragraph, you may earn less points than designating a post to magic training and a post to physical training. This does not mean you can’t do one type of training without the other, just that you should make sure to also include a specific entry about each on top of that.
Chat Rooms are tallied every week, typically on a friday. Various staff and volunteer members will read through all the existing posts that have been made in this specific week, and assign point values when a character is seen to have engaged in a point earning activity. Each specific point earning activity can only be tallied once per day, meaning that -- while you’re allowed to do more than one a day -- you can only earn the maximum amount of points. If you do not earn the maximum point amount in your first instance of doing an activity in a day, then subsequent posts of the same activity will increase the amount you earn until it has been maxed. Talliers base how much points you earn on the quality and quantity of your posts; this does not mean you have to write a novel for each one. Posts can still be small and earn max points, they must simply prove that there was effort put into them in order to reap the highest rewards. IMPORTANT NOTE: While this is ultimately up to the tallier, most of them prefer for people to split their point earning activities up by paragraphs at the least. If you post running and casting spells in one paragraph, you may earn less points than designating a post to magic training and a post to physical training. This does not mean you can’t do one type of training without the other, just that you should make sure to also include a specific entry about each on top of that.
•Reading: 2 points per book, three books per day.
Simply make a post about your character reading either a passage from a book, or an entire book itself. The detail in these posts don't need to be massive, considering as they only yield two points, but try not to just type one sentence for each. In order to earn points from reading WHATSOEVER, you must include a general description of the books contents. In addition, you cannot use books to learn extremely rare information without approval from a staff member, nor can you reference learning anything from a book I.C if you do not describe its contents first.
•Submit Character Sheet: 10 Points
Once your character is approved, make sure you've given a mod a link to your character sheet. They will be checked at random, and provided they are updated and accurate, you will be awarded 10 points for the next Tally.
•Physical Training: 5-10 points.
Type up a post about your character engaging in physical activity or exercise. Physical training must be an actual effort for the character, and does not include basic movement or mundane tasks.
•Magic Training: 5-15 points
Type up a post about using your magic, or practicing your spells.
•Bathing: 3 points
Posting in the #bathhouse will net you a clean 3 points a day, and provide you with a number of other good buffs as well. You don’t need to be super descriptive with these, so avoid writing erotica just so your character can clean their sweaty pits, please.
•Sleeping (Dreaming): 1-8 points
These must be posted in #dreams-and-nightmares . Once a day you may post in this chat, describing your character falling asleep and having a dream. Like most other activities, the points you earn are based on quality, but the full 8 points can be earned in relatively medium sized posts.
•Eating: 1-5 points
As long as you eat a meal in the cafeteria (post the eating part in #kitchen chat, even if you’re still in the café, as the main café chat is not tallied) you can gain anywhere between 1-5 points a day, based on your description.
•Task: 5-20 points
You can be given a task by a student/teacher of or above high mage. Tasks are simple objectives that must be completed for points, the number of points is determined by the complexity of the task. IMPORTANT: If you are assigning a task, it must be for a legitimate reason, and not just a convenience to help you/your friends grind out points. There must be a solid lore implication for assigning a task, and only one task can be assigned by a character per week. When assigning a task in rp, make sure you state its creation in a post. After writing your post, add something like [TASK CREATED: “<description of task>” | <”characters involved”>]. When the task has been completed, make sure to add a note too, along the lines of [TASK COMPLETED: “<points earned>” | “<characters who have earned points”>].
•Crafting: 1-20 points
Crafting can encompass anything from cooking and leather-working to creating runes and potions. As long as something is created using preexisting materials, you can gain points for this activity. Please remember that only basic objects / approved content can be crafted. If you are unsure if something is too complex, ask a staff member.
•Minor Class: 10 points
Minor classes are small events held by teachers that aim to inform or explain a current situation in the school. Spells are not taught during these classes, and they are far more relaxed.
•Major Class: 20 points
Major classes are more important than their minor counterparts; along with extra points for attending, you are taught a unique spell during the expanse of the class.
•Duels: 10-XXX points
Mages are able to challenge each other to fair combat in a duel, and wager a minimum of 10 points up to as many as they own. The winner will gain their points during the next tally, as will the loser forfeit theirs.
Lorne's Law: effective 2021/05/08, the server has come to the decision that dueling your own characters against each other is now forbidden. You may still have them fight, but you'll only get sparring/magic/physical points
•Sparring: 10-30 points
Sparring is engaging another mage in a friendly battle in attempts to help improve each other's combat ability.
•Adventure: 1-100 points
Upon reaching the rank of apprentice, characters may go on specific journeys known as adventures. Adventures take place outside of the campus in a specific chat ( #adventures ), and can be about whatever the characters involved chose it to be. In depth and highly abnormal areas and loot must be submitted for approval first, however.
•Man Hunt: 5-50 points
If a character commits a heinous act and is caught, they may be put up for a bounty. This causes a man hunt to begin, and whoever is involved with taking down the specific person will be awarded points. Points awarded are based on the events leading up to the guilty mages capture/death.
Characters who have earned the job of a teacher in Ulreich University unlock unique ways to earn points, not given to the main populace.
•Teaching Class: 20 points
Teaching either type of class; must have a specific lesson or theme for the class in mind.
•Rescue: 10-20 points
These points are given to a teacher if they rescue an endangered student in any location aside from an adventure. The points given are determined by the danger and measures taken to rescue the person. Points will only be rewarded if the attempt is successful.
•Make-Up Lesson: 10 points
If a student was unable to attend a class that issued a spell to its attendees, a teacher may hold a make up lesson at any time afterwards. The teacher will be rewarded points every time they hold one of these lessons, which must teach at least one student the spell, who hasn't learned it already.
•Discipline: 5-30 points
If a teacher needs to administer discipline to an unruly student, they have every right to do so. Depending on the punishment and the crime, points will be awarded to the teacher for correcting bad behavior.
•Patrol: 10-15 points
A teacher may go on patrol around the campus areas of Ulreich University in order to keep an eye out for threats or unrest amongst the students. This can be posted in any on-campus chat, and can reference your character walking around various other areas other than the one the post has been sent to. If your teacher’s patrol results in a rescue or discipline, the amount of points earned is increased to 20.