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affinity ranks;
✽ AFFINITY RANKS | ||||||||||
Areas of Repute Within Aifaran are some unofficial factions that represent some of the interests or aspects of the city life. These are not ICly recognized groups (that is, there are no guilds or formal organizations representing these areas that a character can approach ICly) in that they have no defined structure, but merely areas of general repute.
Upon application acceptance, each character will receive a randomized set of starter rankings totaling 20 points altogether, which are randomly distributed throughout all the factions using RNG when a character joins the game. This point cap will prevent anyone from being able to max out too many affinity factions at one time. OOCly, each faction has ranks from 1-5 (with 1 being the lowest, 5 the highest), with each rank producing multiple different types of interaction with that group throughout the month. Players can choose to have their characters experience one or more of these instances to happen, depending on what their rank standing is with that respective group. Characters will not be required to experience all instances for all factions in a given month. This Google Spreadsheet is kept current by the mods that can be viewed by the players at any time, so players will always have access to their various Affinity standings at a glance. EXAMPLE: CRIME Rank 1 • Slippery Fingers: You are targeted for pickpocketing on the street! • Get Trashed: Your property (home, work, etc) suffers vandalism. • Shakedown: Your preferred places of patronage are harassed for protection money. Rank 2 • Supply & Demand: You sense eyes on you frequently, and when looking to purchase your usual staples, you find them either out of stock or ridiculously marked up in price. If asked, the shopkeepers will avoid answering the questions, as if they've been intimidated into silence. Rank 3 • Swag Swap: You are targeted for a mugging, but you're offered a cheap set of crystal glasses in exchange for all you lose. • Insurance: You're offered an insurance policy against theft for the month, but if you don't pay up, you may be more heavily targeted. Rank 4 • Mistaken Identity: During what looks like it will be a mugging, the perpetrator seems to recognize you and breaks off the attempt. • Guardian Criminal: Alternatively, during what looks to be a mugging, ANOTHER mugger will intervene, successfully chasing the first offender away from you. Rank 5 • Sudden Windfall: An anonymous person mails you a package containing what is definitely stolen, but likely untraceable, money and luxury items, the contents of which are now yours to do with as you please! Affinity Rank Changes Each month as part of AC, players will be required to submit their rank changes, moving 4 points total per month in any combination of their choosing. An affinity cannot be ranked at 0 or over 5, and all the Affinity ranks must collectively total 20 points - so points being added to one rank must come from subtracting from another rank, etc. Part of the AC requirement is a (VERY) brief description of the character's behaviour that led to the fluctuations in affinity. EXAMPLE AC COMMENT: Character: Bugs Bunny AC Proof 1 (required): LINK AC Proof 2 (optional): LINK Allegiance Rank Changes: +2 Sci-Tech, -2 Faith Notes: Bugs offered to teach a class on network basics to some less-than-tech-savvy elders (+2 Sci-Tech) but flipped off some Ban Om devotees when they wouldn't take a hint (-2 Faith). Affinity FAQ What happens if my character gets randomized Affinity starting ranks that don't make sense? IE; my sweet cinnamon roll gets a high Crime ranking? That's half the fun! ICly, it's explained by characters arriving that don't have any background in the city yet. Since these aren't literal, recognized factions, it's a little bendable. Maybe they're going with a gut feeling. Maybe they just don't like your character's face. Who knows! These rankings aren't static either - they go up or down with each AC, depending on what you want for your character. What if I don't want to use any of the monthly instances for my faction rankings? You don’t really have to if there isn’t anything in there you’d want to play with. Or make up something (reasonably) within the parameters that would be better suited to your character. Why do I have to move Affinities rankings around every month? As your character interacts with the peoples of Khu Ioduan, they will naturally get along with some groups and people, but not others, just as in the real world. Adjusting Affinities rankings is based on how you think your character's choices have been viewed by the various factions in the city. There is no 'right' or 'wrong' standing with the factions, so don't worry about keeping a set number; every option has new opportunities! | ||||||||||
SCI-TECH
RANK 1
• Alternating Current: The power in your residence, workplace, or a preferred place of patronage just can't seem to decide what it's doing. It flickers. It goes out for days. It comes back on, but sparks from outlets and fries anything plugged into them. No one else around you seems to have this problem.
• Where's Kerosene When You Need It?: In the process of cleanup and recovery, you're wading through the debris of what looks like a chemist's lab. A shelf gives way, bottles and containers go tumbling, and a chunk of pure sodium topples into the pool of water you are standing in. It hits the water, starts to smoke, and… explodes. You can probably avoid being burned, but it's not going to be a fun experience.
RANK 2
• Building Code Coincidence: During an inspection of your residence, workplace, or a preferred place of patronage for storm damage, the inspector discovers that the building's wiring and part of the flooring are not up to code. Despite the minimal impacts of the storm, it'll have to be redone. All of it.
RANK 3
• Fan Brigade: One of the places you frequent got rather wet during the storm but was otherwise undamaged, and some junior engineers are trying to be helpful buy bringing in a ton of fans to dry businesses and homes out. It works, sort of, but it takes a while and in the meantime it is both loud and Very Windy.
• Solid Bones: One of your favorite haunts or your residence suffered significant surface damage, but the old Muin woman who comes to assess the building has a fond smile on her face when she delivers the news: the bones are still solid. She pats a support beam fondly, ignoring the creaking floors and holes in the wall plaster that will need total repair.
RANK 4
• Shop-Vac to the Rescue: Some clever engineer has come up with a tool not unlike a wet-dry shop-vac. There aren't nearly enough to go around, but one of the rounds of shop-vac patrol comes to a place you frequent to deal with excessive water. It works exceptionally well. If questioned about the effectiveness, the engineer will just grin mischievously and call it a trade secret.
RANK 5
• Amalgamation Station: Whatever your science or engineering knowledge, you manage to come up with an ingenious tool for quick repair (e.g. Super Glue Gun that works on almost every material even if it's wet) out of completely improbable parts. The Opara Core will be in touch for your expertise.