Help Topic: Stories
Category: Story -- You must be alive to use this command.
Your personal story is the principal pursuit in Song of Avaria. The world's wide story may
be interwoven with yours, but your character's legend is centered through your play.
How do you pursue story? The first thing you do is think about something you'd like to
develop. Maybe you have a fear of water and never want to get on a ship, lest you drown!
Maybe you had an odd dream you'd like to understand, or you might've been present at a
sermon about revolting against the Kalentoi Church, or maybe the town's bank was robbed
and you want to get the money back!
Whatever your motivation, start by recording it. That is the beginning of a story 'arc'.
A story arc can have many 'developments' over time, and you can record those as well.
You might meet people along the way who impact this particular story Arc, and you
can attach relationship 'impressions' to developments. You can also attach logs, and
other events that may be relevant.
Usage:
story
story start
story edit <story name>
story develop <story name>
Some of these options will introduce you into short menus, but you are still present
at your location in game and can see what happens there. You can exit the menu in order
to react to in-game events anytime with 'exit'. It's also possible to edit your arcs
or add new ones from the website.
The recording of stories is primarily for you, as a way to keep track of your character's
stories. For the most part, the driving force of this story is your imagination and
your character's actions. It should be possible to pursue these stories through in-game
interaction with other PCs and with the environment, through game mechanics.
However, sometimes you might want a special reaction that is not possible through game
mechanics alone. This is when you would want to ask for administrative help with your
story.
If you only need a quick bit of simple guidance that could come through a plot note
or if you only want acknowledgment and recognition of the story via a dream, or any
short input like that -- you can use a STORY REQUEST. This takes 10 Presence points
and you can do it once every 15 days.
If you need something more in-depth, you can use STORY SUBMIT. According to however
much Presence you have invested in your story, it will place into a queue for staff
to address. You can do this once every 90 days, and these sorts of story addresses
could result in anything from a dream or a plot note to the triggering of magical
abilities to a NPC interaction to new code and in-game building being done.
While you are encouraged to put OOC comments onto your developments with STORY
COMMENT, there's no promises when it comes to what could happen as a result of your
stories! Presence investment only determines your position in the queue, and the
magnitude of whatever occurs from your story is largely determined by whatever
your character has done and what would make the most sense from a staff perspective.
Usage:
story request <story name>
story comment <one unique word from the story name> <new comment>
story submit <story name>
These functionalities are also available on the website.
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