Downtime
Getting a Downtime
- Downtimes are available to anyone who has Played or Crewed a Campaign Event since the last time downtimes were open, and who currently has an active (approved and played at a Campaign Event) character.
- The exception to this if your active character has either died or been retired prior to downtime opening. In this circumstance you may submit a downtime for a new character, providing their new character concept has been approved by the Game Team. However, you may only submit the Serve the Inquistion Major Action along with any Minor Actions your character's traits entitle them to.
Submitting a Downtime
- The game team will email a link to a Downtime form to the email address you used to register for the last Campaign event you played or crewed.
- You will have the opportunity to write a brief freetext paragraph detailing what you want your character to achieve and how they are going about it.
- You will receive the results of your Downtime action by email before the next Campaign Event you play.
Downtime Actions
A character can perform ONE Major Action and ONE Minor Action.
- Major Actions represent the pursuit of plots and investigations outside Campaign events. They may provide greater insight to lore; an opportunity to tie up loose ends that you did not have time to complete during the game; or to pursue opportunities and areas of the setting that we won't necessarily explore in either the main Campaign Events or a Tales Event.
- Minor Actions are only available to characters with certain traits.
Cooperation
You may choose to cooperate with other character on a downtime action. If you do this, it is most likely that you will receive a shared writeup of the results of your action, with a small personalised section detailing specific activities unique to your character. Numbers are no guarantee of success, and you should not feel OC pressured to combine your downtime action with others in lieu of pursuing your character's goals.
Major Actions
All major actions come with a level of IC risk. Your action may fail, and there is always a risk of having ongoing roleplay or mechanical effects carrying into play.
- Serve the Inquisition - This is a Game Team guided option that will allow your character to build their reputation with the Inquisition by undertaking a task that the Inquisitors need dealing with. This is an option for being guided towards ongoing plots. It will result in further details on an ongoing plot, and will strengthen your ties with the Inquisition.
- Pursue an Agenda - This is a freetext option that allows you to pursue an Agenda of your Character's choosing. It is suitable for instances where you want your character to do something action-orientated such as pursuing a foe, investigating a location in person, and so on.
- Research the Archives - This is a freetext option that allows you to Research a topic of your Character's choosing. You must possess a relevant Lore Discipline and Specialism relating to the topic you are doing research on. Even this option is not without risk: even in a library, for example, there are records that can twist the mind and soul.
Minor Actions
Minor Actions are provided by certain Traits. They represent access to specialised resources that are not easily represented in uptime, and so are better represented by effects during the downtime period.
Currently the only traits that grant Minor Actions are Spymaster and Trader which both give the option to ask a specialised group of contacts a question:
- Spymaster - Whispers: You are tapped into a network of spies and informants that stretches the Prosperitas Sector - during a downtime cycle you have the opportunity ask your network a single question
- Trader - Carousing: You are tapped into a network of traders who travel the Prosperitas Sector - during a downtime cycle you have the opportunity ask your network a single question.
For the purposes of establishing whether you have access to a Minor Action, your trait build is considered to be the build you played the last Campaign Event with. If you change your build between events to include the Spymaster or Trader traits, these will provide you with access to a Minor Action after the next Campaign Event you play.