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[fairyfoes]

♛ . . . GENERAL FAQ . . . . . If you wish to contact a mod, please do so here. GENERAL FAQ APP FAQ | ARRIVAL FAQ | GAMEPLAY FAQ | QUEST FAQ WHAT KIND OF GENRE IS THE GAME? ED is, first and foremost, a Fantasy Adventure war game. The world is vast, the bestiary is large, and we fully encourage people to ride off into the sunset, become a dark lord, gain minions and have their own storyline on the go. Don't want to get involved with events? You don't have to. Please be aware that ED is not tailored to cater to sci-fi characters or technologically-based canons. We cannot stress this enough! If your character is AI or cyborg-based (beyond the steampunk-genre!) they will have to be humanized! This is a drastic alteration and cannot be reversed in order to permit such characters to function in-game. WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH THE MODS/ HOW DO I CONTACT THE MODS? The quickest way to get a hold of us is by private messaging fairyfoes with your issue in the subject line. Please understand that we work and study full time and sometimes we can be delayed when answering inquiries. On occasion, we will have to discuss a question before answer and that can also take time; ordinarily we will let you know if this is the case. Sometimes we forget! As is the way of only being human. Our mod situation is different than other games, as you will be aware. At the moment, we are currently operating with several anonymous head mods to help with all facets of the game. Sometimes we mess up, as you'll know. Our anonymous head mods also deal with NPC, event plotting, and influence, among other things. We also have several helper mods who organize our lists and who approve reserves. Anonymity within the Mod Team is a personal choice; it's convenient for us to keep all correspondence in the one place rather than being contacted individually. Some of our team feel more relaxed operating under anonymity; largely, it's easier for us to separate being a player and being a mod this way also. If you are unsure how to contact a mod, we stress that the easiest way to do so is to private message fairyfoes with clear intentions in the header. HOW OFTEN ARE APPS/RESERVES OPEN? To preserve the sanity of the mod staff, apps are on a bi-monthly basis, with as many slots open as would bring the game up to 200 characters. HOW MANY CHARACTERS CAN I PLAY AT ONCE IN-GAME? You can play up to three different characters in-game, unless you can prove two successive passed AC rounds with the max of three characters: at that point, you may apply for a fourth the following application round, providing links to the passed AC for three characters in your application. Please try not to play individuals with a more than reasonable chance of knowing each other within the same canon. Please consider the time you have available before apping more than one character! WHAT IS THE AC REQUIREMENT AND HOW OFTEN DOES IT GO UP? AC is done every other month on the 26th, staggered with apps (except for December when there will be no AC owing to it being the busiest time of the year irl for a majority of players/mods). To pass, twenty network comments will suffice (non-linear or linear as needed) or ten comments in a log. Neither of these includes entry starters. The minimum requirement per AC thread would be five for logs and ten for network threads. WHAT ARE THE OOC AND IC DATING SYSTEMS? OOC the ratio is 1:1. IC you may defer to the current UK lunar calendar (characters can realise this adds up to the cycle of 2014 if they check the libraries and keep their own notes). This is for the benefit of characters who require a set routine such as werewolves, waterbenders or wizards. As of November 2015, the current IC year is 150 in the Age of Rifts in the predominant IC calendar. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I HIATUS/DROP? During hiatus you may put your character on auto-pilot or have them fall into an enchanted sleep in the infirmary of their respective strongholds. They will be rushed back here by fairies/imps via fairy-rings no matter where they are, if they are abroad! Shardless, however, are on their own and must be taken somewhere by PCs. If you drop, your character will vanish into thin air the second they are alone and the servants will begin clearing your former rooms; where your character was last will be their newly exposed and depowered Shard. Boons your character received all vanish from the drabwurld. WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON 4TH-WALLING? Always make sure you first ask the other player involved if your character knows of theirs as a fictional creation. As a general rule, it's a no-no. HOW OFTEN MAY I CANON UPDATE? Every four months you can update your character to wherever you wish in their canon. This grace waiting period is to allow any shock factor to wear off from the new information they bring with them and to allow other characters the chance to acclimatise to any changes. While being canon updated, the character will suffer the same effects as when hiatused. That is, a deep and overwhelmingly sudden urge to sleep. This enchanted nap will last seven days! Whatever changes overcome your character will be shown on their physical body while they slumber (height/hair growth, for example). Wounds will not be displayed and instead manifest themselves as expanding scars depending on the injury. Lost body parts will remain intact in the Drabwurld but be surrounded by even nastier scars that act as an echo for the events happening in canon. NB Unlike hiatusing where Shardbearer characters are hurried to the infirmary of their faction, fairies/imps will not come for them! Canon Updating can happen at any time, anywhere! MAY I CHANGE MY ALIGNMENT? Yes, either during a canon update that significantly alters your character's perception or whenever you feel it has become necessary due to in-game developments. The same process as usual will occur for a normal canon update (the 7-day rule, etc): your character will suffer a deep and overwhelmingly sudden urge to sleep whenever, wherever you decide. However, when you change alignment, your character will "fade" from sight into their new bedroom at the opposite stronghold. IS THERE AN UNDERLYING PLOT? There is! Though it may not be immediately apparent, and is likely to grow and change around player activity. If you want to, you can completely ignore the underlying plot and live your character's life however you please. WHAT ARE THE EVENTS LIKE? Events range from adventure/political/mystery/strategy on a loose basis. For clarification, these are the basic kinds of events a player might see: 01) The monthly event, as discussed in the calendar released at the beginning of each month. All characters may participate in these events. 02) Metaplot events, which involve deep interaction with significant npcs, and reveal or advance the metaplot; for mod sanity, since these are heavily npc'd, player participation in these is usually capped. 03) Player plots and quests, which are simply players orchestrating their own events which involve others, typically involving no or very minimal npcing. 04) Player requested npc scenes or quests, which are usually very short, but give characters enough information to move forward with other quests. There are widespread events which affect all realms. One month might consist of multiple small events, whereas another might have have two large events the full span of 2-3ish weeks. The leaders might issue proclamations (listed as having been issued on the OOC monthly event post with respective dates and not posted on the IC comm, for the easy reference of players) for groups of characters to ride out and fight a foe or to commit to subterfuge and steal a relic. Events are not mandatory and you can completely ignore them or only dip into them now and again, if you like. CAN MY CHARACTER AFFECT THE GAME? Absolutely. In fact, they affect the game even if they never participate in an event. The conclusion of Monthly Events can change the balance of power in the Drabwurld just as much as player plots, and by participating in metaplot events groups of characters can gain powerful allies for themselves and their faction, and may even change the map itself.

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Comments

[ashing]

I'm not sure if you're accepting questions here but I couldn't see where else to ask: Will reserves and applications open at midnight/00:00am GMT? Probably a silly question, but I wanted to be certain!

Also, out of a more general curiosity, how do you pronounce eachdraidh?

[bluffs]

If we're apping a character for whom there is no confirmed canon age, is best guess acceptable as long as we note it as such?

[pontificus]

Question: what if your character starts out one way which would make them alley with one court, but as the series progresses, life events change your character's outlook on life enough to change their alignment and you are thinking of updating them once they are established in game at some later time. Would they still be whatever court they are originally or would they change?

[excessivehubris]

I apologize if this question is answered somewhere and I've missed it but transportation?

Is there a livery of horses for character who do not have their own? Carriages/wagons? Or is it there are you feet, try not to get eaten on your way to the Station.

[bullhorned]

Do characters have full access to the smithy? For instance, Gendry is a smith himself. Would he have access to material to craft weapons and armor? And if not that, at least improve existing ones?

[aliased]

so what sort of animals are in the cities, could it be safe to assume that there are cats? i am thinking of doing a post of arya chasing cats, would that be feasible?

[notafishwhisperer]

Sorry if this has been asked already, but out of curiosity, regarding language:

"There are none [language barriers] unless you actively choose to make a point of it IC."

If a character chooses to consciously speak in a language from back home, will it come across as that language and not be understandable to people who cannot speak it?

[brainiest]

Hi! I have a quick question about travelling. Are there inns/hostels outside the Courts where characters can stay when they travel, and would these places have accessable fireplaces? Then, for example, if Harry and Hermione travelled out to these places and, later, asked for Floo Powder as a boon would they be able to use it to travel to these inns and meet each other? If not Floo would apparition and/or Porkeys work?

[inafadingcrown]

How well known is the information in the locations page? Basically, I'm trying to figure out what my character is likely to know when considering travel plans that she might make.

[notyetlegend]

queeeeestion time

say Merida wanted to start hunting and making a living off of selling her catches and their hides, would there be other animals around like deer and the like rather than those provided in the bestiary?

[aureinsof]

Question about this guy right here!

How do you handle multiple personality-like situations? The one we play the game as, Emil, is actually not really the main personality, as he's just a cover personality while Ratatosk, the main one, sleeps and recovers his strength. Ratatosk does, however, come out more and more as they gain more of his power. At the point where I want to app Emil from, Ratatosk can come out whenever he wishes. Usually it's just during fights but also when Emil gets too angry or threatened he'll come out, too. So he's an important aspect for sure to consider.

If you do allow Ratatosk, will he need a separate sample as well?

[voicelessresistance]

I have two questions kind of in one. The first is, how do you deal with two characters who are so 'interlinked' that they might as well be one? Specifically I'm referring to Red here and the Transistor, her sword. The sword has a personality (from someone being trapped inside it) and does all the talking for them because Red had her voice taken away. Could they be app'd as a single unit?

The other one is, can a technological weapon be turned into a magical one? The transistor is very, very fancy machinery that would only work at the station. Through boons and such, could be be turned into a magic sword? Allowed to talk/function outside of the station I mean? I know sometimes tech gets converted through boons, but I wasn't sure if that was a conversion, or just replacing it with something else...

[forsworn_rose]

How would magic spells from Final Fantasy like LIFE and FULL-LIFE work in regards to, well, death here? They're never very clear in the games whether characters die and the spell revives them or they're just near death and the spell just brings them around, to be fair.

But with near-death causing shards to emerge and stuff, would the spells have any effect on that?

[quest]

Hey guys! Bit of a random question.

So I know when a character is dropped, their shard is left behind. Percy currently has a shard in his possession from a dropped castmate. If that castmate is reapped, will the shard disappear from wherever he's keeping it and go back into said character when they enter the game?

[romantichero]

Would an old fashioned flintlock musket or pistol work outside the station?

Things in favour of: it's a tube with gunpowder, it's simple in function and explodey-shot-out-power

Things against: Flintlock mechanism is reasonably innovative in the way it lights the gunpowder by creating a spark, even if all it is doing is smacking flint against iron/steel to create a spark and make the shot fly


DIAL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND VOTE NOW

ETA: Here's a fun article on how flintlock guns work if you're bored.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a bit confused about the magic system. I thought "normal" characters gained the ability to learn magic just by coming to the Drabwurld. But I'm seeing characters that want to learn and ask others to teach them how to "invoke" the power of the shard. Isn't the power of the shard a different deal that only a few PCs know how to do?

Also a question about AC: why can't we link unfinished threads? The current playerbase relies a LOT on backtagging. It's really silly that I have 30+ comment threads that I can't hand in because they aren't over. And what if the other partner suddenly goes on hiatus o just drops the thread?

[oathshackledbird]

While I was chatting with Kayneth's mun about the terrible things we are going to do to our characters in the battle, a question struck me. I know that when a character heads back to their world to canon update, if they lose a limb or something like that back home, the body they return to in game doesn't have that limb missing--there is just a terrible scar instead. How does it work if someone loses a limb (or in Kayneth's case, for example, his crest) in the Drabwurld and then goes home for a canon update? Do they have that part of them sill missing while they are back home?

And a secondary question, how does a person who returns home remember the Drabwurld? Does it seem like a dream? Do they not remember it at all? I don't remember ever reading a mod answer on this, but I could just be forgetting in my old age! LOL!

[daventries]

Hiya mods! Two questions:

1. I saw that Emma's player asked a similar question but I just wanted to check: is there a reference of minerals/stones and such and what they do in the Drabwurld? I know of blood granite and how it has anti-magic properties, but is there anything else?

2. Are there any sort of powerfully bred or magical dogs/wolf creatures that would be accessible in a market or a breeder's den or anything else? I know of wolfhounds and other things but I'm just asking to see if there's anything else that's common knowledge or in a guide somewhere. I checked the bestiary already.

[skjalf]

Elizabeth would very much like to gain power and influence in Briste! Is there anything specific she'll need to do over the long-term to do that, given how stubborn and thorny the people there are to mainlanders?

I'm going to concentrate whichever quests she takes in future in the area, to start! If there is anything else, then I'll have more to work toward as an ultimate goal which would be kind of awesome.

[gordianknots]

Oh lovely mods!

I have looked for this info for a while now, and with the Void stuff shifting into gear I have realized I should just ask you guys: what is alchemy like in the Drabwurld? Is it mostly scholarly and esoteric, or is it also something that can be used in combat as an offensive weapon?

I'm definitely asking for combat reasons, so.

[uncertaindestiny]

Eventually I will stop having questions for you. However, today is not that day.

I know lockets always attach to a person's name, making anonymous replies impossible. But do they always show, for instance, a person's real name? And would someone need to know a real name to specifically contact a person?

The reason I ask is because Azula may (or may not, depending on the answers!) be giving a name that's not her own to kind of mask who she is. I just want to know if it'd immediately be given away when she uses her locket.

[erythristic]

With boons being replaced by the item request and skill acquisition, if a character gained a magical ability through a boon, could they now train over the months to strengthen it or would it be effectively "locked" at the level it was at?

[withbite]

For vampires that have aligned themselves with a vampire clan, how is that going to work now? Are they still the same clans? Are there different leaders? Are there vampire clans at all?

[babbylon]

A quick question for you guys regarding Leathann! I know it's set to drift around the world, but how fast does it move, and does it move in any particular direction? Or is it completely random? Just wanted to clarify this so I have an approximate idea of where it might be at any given time.