rewards

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REWARDS

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We have three tiers of rewards available, all of which have more information down below. Please fill out the appropriate forms (you may combine different tiers into one comment) and follow the formatting below.

TIER 1: COMMISSIONS

Completing commissions from the biweekly Job Boards count towards bonuses. All you need to do is have completed the commission, or have the thread be a total of 10 comments minimum (so at least 5 per character). In the case of the latter, it is okay if the commission is still in progress; as long as it's the focus of the thread and 10 comments in. You may give us multiple submissions for the same job, as long as they are with different characters.

Commissions are eligible for rewards up to 1 month after the commission was posted.

Rewards in this tier are generic items that come with effects upon usage/consumption, or generic items that feature your character in them in some capacity! Commission rewards may also occasionally include items that are specific or relevant to the commissions themselves. These commission-specific rewards will be given once per person, per commission, which means that you cannot earn the reward 3 times for submitting 3 threads involving the same commission.

Note: Your first commission turn-in for the month will net you some new abilities that you can play with! These would typically be given with AC, but redeeming commissions will enable you to play with these abilities a little earlier. This bonus will begin from the end of Week 2.

<b>COMMISSION SUBMISSION:</b> <a href=LINK>Commission Name</a>

TIER 2: PLAYER EVENTS/EXPLORATIONS

Player Events are defined as player-run events that are considered game-wide player plots. For example, a mingle, someone causing trouble for everyone in the dorms, breaking up a large fight -- anything big where the whole game can get involved. Smaller plots (i.e. ones that are for 3 people) do not count.

Explorations are defined as mod-run CYOAs (choose your own adventures) that may pop up throughout the course of the game.

Threads must be a minimum of 10 comments, one submission per event per player. For Player Events, event runners may submit their post/initial writeups for a reward in this tier.

Threads in this tier do not expire and will always be eligible for rewards.

Rewards in this tier are gacha items that were submitted to us through your applications.

<b>PLAYER EVENT/EXPLORATION SUBMISSION:</b> <a href=LINK>Here</a>

TIER 3: RANK 10 SOCIAL LINKS

This is meant to be a "late game" sort of reward tier (though these can be submitted at any time), in which both players must agree that their characters have "maxed out" their bonds. Maxing out doesn't necessarily need to be in a positive way; essentially, both parties must hit a point in their CR where they feel as though they have revealed as much about themselves to one another as they possibly could have, even if they both feel negatively about one another.

For positive CR, this may mean that characters trust one another completely; for negative CR, this may mean that a character understands how the other operates, but disagrees entirely with the other's ideology. We are pretty flexible on the reasoning behind achieving a Rank 10 Social Link, however, so don't worry too much about providing the "perfect reason". As long as both parties feel like they've established an extremely strong piece of CR, we'll likely count any reasoning towards the reward.

A reward for maxing out a social link is a custom ability that both parties will receive. There is no cap on submissions at this time, but both parties must be present in a battle to use the ability they have received.

Please follow the instructions in the form below when submitting for a Rank 10 reward.

<b>RANK 10 SUBMISSION:</b> Please give us, at minimum, 3 sentences on why your characters have reached Rank 10 in their social link. Please provide at least 1 thread for us to look at. There is no penalty for not writing more than 3 sentences. After the initial form submission, please ask the other half of your CR to reply to your comment with confirmation that you are both on the same page.

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MAIKA & KAINÉ

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RANK 10 SUBMISSION:

Like a dog barking at a mirror, these two very nearly managed to come to a fight in their very first meeting: both guarded, both wielding their aggressive bravado like a preemptive attack. But when Kainé lowered her defenses for an instant to let Maika see the exhaustion and the loneliness underneath that, Maika couldn't help but relent. Without losing their knack for mutually annoying each other — because Kainé and Maika share most of their negative traits, wrapped up neatly with a self-loathing bow on top — they also recognize the vulnerability in each other. Maika comes to check on Kainé after the emotional exhaustion of Aubrey's palace, and Kainé in turn softens her tough act enough to ask Maika about her worries. When Maika explores Kainé's dream-memory and understands how similarly their need for revenge shaped them, but how differently their paths have gone, it cements in her a desire to look out for Kainé until she can be restored to the people who should properly be filling that role. If they had more time, there's a million more things Maika wants to learn about Kainé — but at the same time, she already sees so much of herself in the other woman that she thinks she understands her extremely well. In Kainé she sees a better reflection of herself, someone who perhaps genuinely has the potential to be a good person, and she's both drawn to protect that and sees Kainé as a form of proof that maybe even she has hope.

THREAD Strong first impressions and no secrets in dreams

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Pointing at my character arc writeup where I mention that Kainé ended up eerily moved by and attached to people who are more similar to her in personality and experience as a means of growing self-acceptance, and that's definitely what happened here. They handle the world similarly, and one subtle thing uniting them was their shared softness for kids.

ALSO OKAY so this social link did cheat itself a little bit because it was accelerated by dreamshare in a big way; anyone who experienced the Hook fight dream (a recurring dream that Kainé already experiences) would have been in the position to play into a role that Nier himself should have been fulfilling and coax out an accelerated bone with them. Maika's interference did that and then some. Everything beyond that is just icing on the cake. At first, the things she saw in Maika that were like things she hated about herself made things snarky and tense, but reaching acceptance and even enjoyment about sharing a friendship with someone like that is the real end-goal for this relationship. The earth sign of rank 10s... stubborn and familiar and comfortable.

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You feel as though your bond has become unbreakable...

SYNCHRONICITY: Psychic magicks link the two painfully similar women, and they find that their physical and mental conditions become connected. Should one receive damage, the other may choose to take on half of that damage, effectively cutting the damage received by the original target in half. For the duration of this pair ability, they may also decide to purposefully inflict Rage upon themselves, giving in to their anger and tearing apart their foes. This comes with the usual effects of Rage (their strength is doubled but the damage dealt to them is doubled, they may only physically attack), however they are able to roll with advantage on their attacks and may still activate their synchronized conditions to share any damage taken. As they are already inflicted with rage, they are also effectively immune to any other status ailments. Due to the psychic link, if one inflicts Rage upon herself, it will flow to the other as well. At the end of three turns, the psychic link fades, and their Rage subsides.

This pair ability may be triggered by either party and ended by either party, and lasts for three turns, including the turn it is activated. This ability cannot be used at the same time as any other Rank 10 ability involving Maika or Kaine, and can only be used once per battle.