Post by Katie on Jan 15, 2021 11:47:36 GMT -5
DOWNTIME ACTIONS
During the course of the chronicle there will be many things you want to accomplish that won't necessarily make for an interesting scene. Uses of Influence, actions performed by your character's Retainers, improvements made to your Domain or extended rolls for investigations and research are still very important to the story! To address this, we are utilizing our forum to keep track of Downtime Actions.
Once a week, you may submit to your character thread ONE (1) Downtime Action for your character. You can use your character's Influence, make a cursory investigation of a location or person, ask an Ally for help, patrol a Domain or any number of other things that do not necessarily call for a scene request but are just as vital to the story.
If your character has dots in the Retainer background, you get one additional Downtime Action per week! This allows some time for you to give orders to your Retainer to carry out even while you are also engaged in some off-screen activity. Please note: regardless of how many Retainers you have, you may still only request a single Downtime Action to be carried out on your behalf. We're only human, after all!
Asking an Ally for help with a Downtime Action grants a player use of one of the Ally's Backgrounds, like a quick loan (Resources) or a word in the right ear (Influence).
Downtime Actions will be handled by a Storyteller every week. Please try to post any urgent Downtime Actions as early as you can in order to have them resolved quickly! They will be processed by the Friday of the following week!
During the course of the chronicle there will be many things you want to accomplish that won't necessarily make for an interesting scene. Uses of Influence, actions performed by your character's Retainers, improvements made to your Domain or extended rolls for investigations and research are still very important to the story! To address this, we are utilizing our forum to keep track of Downtime Actions.
Once a week, you may submit to your character thread ONE (1) Downtime Action for your character. You can use your character's Influence, make a cursory investigation of a location or person, ask an Ally for help, patrol a Domain or any number of other things that do not necessarily call for a scene request but are just as vital to the story.
If your character has dots in the Retainer background, you get one additional Downtime Action per week! This allows some time for you to give orders to your Retainer to carry out even while you are also engaged in some off-screen activity. Please note: regardless of how many Retainers you have, you may still only request a single Downtime Action to be carried out on your behalf. We're only human, after all!
Asking an Ally for help with a Downtime Action grants a player use of one of the Ally's Backgrounds, like a quick loan (Resources) or a word in the right ear (Influence).
Downtime Actions will be handled by a Storyteller every week. Please try to post any urgent Downtime Actions as early as you can in order to have them resolved quickly! They will be processed by the Friday of the following week!
Downtime Action Types:
Crafting, Building, Repairing, or Creation (CBR)
Investigation (INV): Searching for Ritual Components, Investigating a Sestiere, Spying on Someone, Scouting (There are many possibilities here.)
Social (S): Spreading a rumor, Passing as your Alternate Identity, Meeting NPC Characters
Patrolling (P): Patrolling your own Domain/Haven, Security Detail
Learning Disciplines (D): Learning AND Teaching Out of Clan Disciplines
**Note: Learn a Discipline as Follows: You must find someone to teach you a discipline, and
spend time learning. You also must ingest the blood of your teacher (A one step blood bond). This can happen
via another PC, or you may be given access from a mentor. This is two seperate dowtime actions (1. Blood Bond 2.
Practice) The person who teaches the discipline must also use their Downtime Action to do so.
Background Building (BG): Status, Resources, Influence, Retainers, Domain, Alternate Identity
Influence Actions (INF): see Influence
Rituals (R): Beginning a Ritual, Researching, learning, perfecting and/or subverting a blood magick Ritual.
Downtime Actions should be short, and concise. We do not need a bluebook for every downtime action. If you would like to write a bluebook, please post it in the Public Bluebooks, or Private Bluebooks and Correspondences. To create a Downtime Action post in your Character Thread, please title the post using the correct abbreviation for the type of Downtime Action you are performing at the top. The following paragraph or sentence should be how you are performing the action. Please make Experience Requests a separate post.
EXAMPLE:
Howard Downtime Action (INV)
Howard is Investigating the docks for pirates, using his charm to question the workers there.
Howard is Investigating the docks for pirates, using his charm to question the workers there.
If you have a retainer, their Downtime Action should follow your’s in the same post with the same exact format, but you will be adding the skill that your retainer will use.
Lucita dowtime Action (S) (Leadership)
Lucita is spending her time at the various taverns and inns of Venice, spreading rumor that Jack has acquired a large amount of gambling debt, in order to tarnish his reputation.
Lucita is spending her time at the various taverns and inns of Venice, spreading rumor that Jack has acquired a large amount of gambling debt, in order to tarnish his reputation.