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In the corner of the convenience store, there’s a bunch of dusty gacha machines with opaque, brightly-colored plastic capsules. A crumpled piece of paper has been taped to the front and reads in scrawled handwriting “OUT OF ORDER”. If you try to put in a quarter, it just eats it. But if you insert one of those weird tokens that you found in your room and turn the crank, it spits out a capsule that fits in the palm of your hand. Upon opening the capsule—
—You now have an item in your possession. The capsule is nowhere to be found. How lucky that the convenience store had this in stock.
What are these gacha machines?
Every time you insert a token and turn the crank, an item will pop out. These can range from things usually found in such toy capsule machines to things from one's home dimension. Every so often, tokens will show up in your character's pockets. None of the workers in the convenience store will acknowledge that these machines actually work.
How do we earn tokens?
ICly, it's a mystery. OOCly, tokens are awarded for every 10-comment thread (5 comments per person) between player characters you submit here. The only threads you cannot submit are those that take place during investigations, trials. and motive announcements. Threads with NPCs and ghosts are eligible for coins as well, but these threads must take place in public (i.e. you can't submit any letters/private threads with the host for coins). You can also use your AC threads to redeem tokens.
How do they work?
A token earns you a play on the slot machine, and every coin earns you a gift. This may be one of your regains, somebody else's regain, or a piece of junk. This is all determined by RNG (there are two item groups, regains and misc. items. each item in those groups has an assigned number. we roll first to see if you're getting a regain or a misc. item, and then we roll to figure out exactly what you're getting.)
Do the threads I use/my coins have to be from this week?
Eligible threads never expire. For example, you can still submit week 1/intro log threads long after those periods end.
Can we use our coins to opt out of death rolls?
Nope. Death comes for us all, buddy.
My threadmate turned in our thread already. Do I have to turn it in too to get a coin?
Yes.
How do threads with more than two people work?
In order to be able to redeem a thread, your character has to have contributed the minimum 5 comments normally in a standard coin thread. For instance, in order for all parties to be able to submit it, a 3-person thread has to be 15+ comments with at least 5 from each person, a 4-person has to be 20+, etc. Any participant with at least 5 comments can submit it for coin so long as the thread is at least 10 comments total.
The character I was threading with died. Can I still get paid for interacting with them?
Absolutely! Dead characters cannot redeem coins.
