BOON REQUESTS

[fairyfoes]

Hey fairybros! You know what time it is? Boon time!

Requests are up, which means the fairies and imps are out and about bothering people from their respective factions to note down the number one item on their wishlist again!




Wherever Shardbearer characters are in the Drabwurld, at some point today they will be approached by fairies or imps, depending on their alignment, bearing a piece of parchment and a quill. They will urge your character to write down a request for an item, power or favour from their monarchs in exchange for fighting or supporting their faction and they will take it away through a fairy-ring when it is written. There are three easy rules your character will be informed MUST NOT be broken:

1) "Do not call for time and space to be bent to your will!"

2) "You may not request another's true love or devotion!"

3) "Ask not for a road home or the loved ones whence you came!"

Essentially, the OOC boundaries relayed through IC means to your character are to avoid game-breaking demands being made. They will be approved, altered or denied here until 15th DECEMBER (00:01am LONDON GMT) so that when your character receives their boon on the morning of 15th (you can pick any time for them to be delivered/show up) no matter where they are there is no fuss, no muss!

This month, everybody who hunted for the Hart gets a boon! Feel free to link to any threads (completed or ongoing) that will show your character getting involved in the event this month: only actual participation (not referenced participation) will warrant a boon.

So, want a boon? Simply C&P the below into your comment:



<b>CHARACTER NAME:</b> <b>CANON:</b> <b>FACTION:</b> <b>RELEVANT THREAD(S):</b> <a href="PASTE LINK HERE">Link #1</a> <a href="PASTE LINK HERE">Link #2</a> Please make sure to link to anything that indicates your character participated in the hunt! <b><u>BOON REQUEST</u>:</b> <b>POSSIBLE ALTERATIONS:</b> If you think your boon is a little too awkward, put some suggestions here for how we might alter it and still manage to grant the request. Bear in mind that if you opt for a WILDCARD, it could be COMPLETELY RANDOMIZED: for example, you could just as soon end up with an elephant as a packet of peanuts. Otherwise, make sure to mention something you think your character might want! Wildcard boons will almost always be done after the boons of characters with concrete requests, and for this reason are likely to take longer.



If your character doesn't want to request a boon they may simply wave away the fairies/imps. It is not possible to "save up" Boon Requests for later events, so make sure to get yours in if you want one! Please try to think of a boon to suggest; wildcard boons will likely be saved for last.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What exactly do you guys count as event partipation? I thought that to ask for a boon you had to fullfil the "this month, everybody who..." request, for example last month you denied the boon to someone that even if they participated of the event in logs, they didn't kill a dog.

But now I see someone submitting network network threads of only chatting to people and not actual searching for the hart and they get the boon anyway, which is not fair for people who some times are busy for logs and pass ac with some network threads.

Also, what exactly do you consider LOTS of activiy for a "Big Deal" boon? Because let's say you didn't notice those thread were network threads, mistakes happen. But they got with two threads the same boon another person was denied with only one. So only two threads is already a lot? Because then many people here should be asking for WAY more stuff.

[fairyfoes]

The mod team is generally very relaxed about activity necessary to receive boons: one log tag of participation, a log header which goes without response, etcetera. The player in question was notified via PM of the rules of submission, and had agreed to provide additional links.

"Lots" is generally relative to the event and month in question, because the same metric for a month such as December would easily get blown out of the water for summer months, or for events which inspire a flood of participation (such as coordinated attack events, the moon event, and others). In a month as sparse as this, as many as 10-15 combined comments would be considered a lot.

We like to think that we impose very few limits on what people can ask for, and the vast majority of boons are indeed people getting precisely what they ask for. Or nearly so, if only so that characters have more to work toward in future months.

That said, if you would prefer to see hard limits imposed or clear rubrics implemented, we invite you to hit us up on the feedback & suggestions page!

[(Anonymous)]

It's not about having hard limits or a clear rubic. In fact, I've always thought it was pretty clear! In the boon post you always write the requirements (for example kill a dog or search for the White Hart). What I expect is for YOU guys to stick to your own rules. You tell me 10-15 comments combined would be a lot for this month, and Erik never gave you that, even if you guys didn't notice they were network posts (which could've been a honest mistake), he had like four or five comments. So it looks really bad that you suddenly gave him the leg cure and not Bran. If you ask for more activity for a Big Deal Boon, then ask EVERYONE.

The one thing that could have some clarification (not a whole rubic, just maybe one sentence in the boon post from now own?) is what you consider a lot for each month. I know you said characters only get what they asked for, but you need to understand that some of us try to keep the boon request close to what our activity deserves. I asked for something simple because I would have NEVER imagined that only one thread with ten comments counted as a lot. That's basically ac, and in most systems rewards are earned by going beyong the minimum.

[fairyfoes]

In the example you give, it is true Erik does not have what might be considered a lot of activity -- however, as noted, we pm'd the player and hashed out a solution. In this instance, more leeway is given, and we trust in the solution discussed because Erik is a more active character overall. For comparison using the examples you cited, this is the activity logged for Bran over the course of approximately two and a half months in game. This is the activity logged for Erik, who has been in-game only six weeks longer. Within minutes of the agreement, they supplied additional links.

In general, we do give leeway to more active characters and not to those who are less active in the game as a whole when it comes to boons. As we said, most people do get what they want -- but overall activity is taken into account for big asks.

We'd also be happy to formally plug in a benchmark for big asks in future boon posts! If you'd like to continue this vein of discussion, however, we ask that you move it over to the appropriate area: the feedback and suggestions post linked above.

Also, just to quickly clarify that network threads are generally allowed as evidence if they event specifications are met in them. Apologies if I've misinterpreted your responses thus far as thinking otherwise.