Regains (R3)

[bathymetric]

What is this?

This is the vending machine, sometimes referred to as The Regain Hole! Located in scenic The Helios Suites Lobby, the Vending Machine stands tall, proud, and inviting! Characters get coins throughout the week and put them in, and a couple times a week the mods will slide in and decide what they get out of the experience! Items range from things your character might recognize from home, things your character might recognize from someone else, and... mostly it's just weird junk.

Wait, coins?

Yup, coins! In character, there's no good explanation for why they show up, but every once in a while a number of silver coins, about the size of an American Silver Dollar, appear overnight, neatly stacked by a character's bedside table or windowsill. Out of character, these coins are your reward for meeting and going above and beyond the call of duty in terms of threads! For every five comments from your character in a thread (multiple increments in one thread for multiple coins ARE allowed up to five, or 25 comments), you can link that thread here and be rewarded with an appropriate number of coins!

Up to ten coins can be redeemed per comment, but not per regain period - multiple comments are allowed, more than ten just becomes a little unwieldy on the mod end. Please do not edit your comments to add more coins! Just make another, it's fine. Generally, regains will be processed twice a week, but if there are delays or changes we'll let you know.

Can I get stuff from home back here?

Why, yes you can! Every roll has a chance to drop a character regain, either from your character or from another - though most of the time it'll be from a unique pool of very special and very useful items chosen by... well, someone must have picked them.

What if my character gets a regain from someone else's character?

Well, in that case, do whatever your character would with it! You might want to let the other player know for courtesy, of course, and work something out if they would rather your character not like... eat it, but ultimately it's your choice.

Do coins expire?

Nope! You can keep backtagging a thread on Week 1 until the final week and turn it in then, it's your call.

What if I expire?

In the unfortunate event of your character's planned death, I highly encourage you to turn in coins anyway! Your characters final coins will be distributed as possible between their threading partners.

Are there threads that don't count for coins?

Yep! Any thread in an investigation, a trial, or private threads with NPCs is disqualified from counting for coins, but most everything else is fair game! You can even use threads both for AC and regains!

Can I submit a thread again if I already got coins for part of it, but it got longer?

Yep! Just make sure to note so, and start the thread when you link it just after the last multiple of five - don't want any of your comments going to waste, after all!

Comments

[giddyundertaker]

5 comments with Floyd

5 comments with Aiba

6 comments with Hagakure

5 comments with Vholran

6 comments with Seo

5 comments with Dandy

6 comments with Penelope

[timegazer]

- Rossiu. (1)
- Hodaka. (1)
- Aiba. (1)
- Brett. (1)
- Forrest. (1)

[onemillion]

- Adaman (1)
- Hodaka (2)
- Forrest (2)
- Gaius (2)
- Joy (1)
- Aiba (2)

[dullshooter]

Dandy (2)
Adaman (1)
Nandor (1)
Brett (3)
Floyd (2)

[kninja]

Aiba (2)
Drakkon (2)
Floyd (2)
Hagakure (3)
Dandy (1)

[capreelcious]

- Nandor (1)
- Misfire (2)
- Undertaker (1)
- Penelope (1)
- Obi (2)

Total: 7 coins!

[prompocalypse]

Undertaker (8 Comments)

Brett (10 Comments)

Hagakure (7 Comments)

Vielle (4 Comments) + Floyd (4 Comments)

Mr Fontaine (5 Comments)

[visiblepattern]

With Rossiu (2 coins)
With Brett (2 coins)
With Rossiu (2 coins)
With Gaius (2 coins)
With Hodaka (1 coin)
With Tommny (1 coin)
Total Coins: 10

[sixthnonsense]

Obi (3)
Rossiu (3)
Aiba (1)
Floyd (1)
Undertaker (1)
Seo Dawon (1)

[howveryglib]

Rossiu (2)
Vholran (1)
Johnny Harker (1)
Forrest (2)
Tommy (2)
Aiba (1)
Hodaka (1)

[inaclearing]

1. With Misfire (3 coins)
2. With Adaman (1 coin)
3. With Jonathan (1 coin)
4. With Forrest (2 coins)
5. With Penelope (2 coins)
6. With Tommy (1 coin)

[inaclearing]

1. Rossiu (3 coins)
2. Aiba (2 coins)
3. Hodaka (2 coins)
4. Joy (1 coin)
5. Gaius (1 coin)
6. Seo (1 coin)

[withagun]

With Obi (5 coins)
With Rossiu (2 coins)
With Drakkon (2 coins)
With Mielle (1 coin)

10 Total

[withagun]

With Misfire (2 coins)
With Seo Dawon (2 coins w/toplevel)
With Joy (1 coin)
With Hild (1 coin)
With Gaius (1 coin)
With Forrest (1 coin)
With Brett (1 coin)
With Adaman (1 coin)

[kninja]

Hodaka (5)
Fontaine, Joy, Zinda (3)
Eleanor (ft. Aiba) (1)
Nandor (1)

CONGRATULATIONS

[bathymetric]

35. Plastic Mask - For when you want to look… Handsome.
07. Nisse - A stuffed friend for the holidays, or really any other time of the year - Gaze upon it, love it, take it home.
04. Hand-Made Paper - Just a loose stack of really fancy bespoke paper! To make those letters you write in case of your death really pop, you know?
57. Atlas Shrugged - A hardbound copy of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand! Makes for poor reading, but fantastic kindling!
25. Bathrobe - A cheap deep red bathrobe, for when you want to look classy in your study but you just aren’t the kind of person with money for things like “a study” or “books” or “quality fabric.”
13. A Gallon of Seawater - Literally just some seawater spills out onto the floor from the mouth of the vending machine. Why this?
50. Corkboard - A small bulletin board with some pins stuck into it! Perfect for making intricate displays about how everything’s connected, or about non-existent workers in the building you work at.

CONGRATULATIONS

[bathymetric]

62. Inflatable Crocodile - An inflatable crocodile that one can lounge on! Love the crocodile. Be the crocodile.
16. Toy Laser Sword - A toy sword handle with a collapsible blade in one of several different colors! Not affiliated with any existing multimedia franchise.
18. Wizard Hat - A big pointy blue and silver hat! For commanding mystical energies, or maybe just looking like a dork.
61. Radio Play - A Fontaine Futuristics Accu-Vox recording featuring part of a serialized adventure.
33. Trust Exercises and You! - A thorough guide to conducting, coordinating, and adjudicating exercises from the classic trust fall to the more advanced. Be the self-made king of your workplace and transmit all your good vibes with this book from wordsmith and morale expert… the name seems to have been blacked out?
Hot Dog Costume: a hot dog costume you can wear. It’s wacky and made of durable materials. You’ll look absolutely ridiculous.

CONGRATULATIONS

[bathymetric]

54. _____ in Wonderland - A copy of Alice in Wonderland, except Alice’s name has been replaced with yours. That’s the power of public domain, baby.
33. Trust Exercises and You! - A thorough guide to conducting, coordinating, and adjudicating exercises from the classic trust fall to the more advanced. Be the self-made king of your workplace and transmit all your good vibes with this book from wordsmith and morale expert… the name seems to have been blacked out?
43. “Extra-Large Spice Grinder” - It’s. It’s just a full-on Medieval-style mace.
32. Bootleg Bear Plush - A plush of some strange bear that’s black on its right side and white on its left, with one poorly-stitched red eye. Who is he? Why is he here? He has a terrible aura…
03. Tea Variety Pack - An assortment of different teas, mostly green tea blends. If you find one you like, better hope another one of these drops, because there’s only one of each in here!
100% Sunshine Girl Umbrella - A cheery yellow umbrella with a teru teru bōzu attached to each tip. Used for when you absolutely need sunshine.
53. Gamer Fuel - It’s.... a salt shaker? Full of salt?
39. The Dreaded Knarrevik - An IKEA-branded nightstand! Comes unassembled in-box with the instructions missing. Good luck!
46. An Egg - Can the vending machine offer you one of these in this trying time? Hard-boiled, at least.
29. Bible+ - A copy of the Bible! Hang on, there’s an extra section at the back… why is there a copy of the script for the live-action Need For Speed movie in here?

CONGRATULATIONS

[bathymetric]

05. Life-Sized Stuffed Penguin - A stuffed penguin about a foot and a half tall. Looks almost real, but is almost unbelievably soft.
16. Toy Laser Sword - A toy sword handle with a collapsible blade in one of several different colors! Not affiliated with any existing multimedia franchise.
67. Lemon - This is a lemon.
35. Plastic Mask - For when you want to look… Handsome.
36. Shovel - A normal shovel. For digging. You know, with all the dirt you have access to.
51. Foam Dart Pistol - A small pistol that uses pressurized air to shoot foam darts! No notable brand, but it works well enough.
17. Rations - A set of military rations. At least they’ll never go bad?
Floral Teaset: A cute tea set consisting of four cups and saucers, each themed and coloured after a differently coloured flower and a large white teapot. It feels... expensive.
A Cup of Froyo: How human to take something so good like ice cream and make it just a little bit worse by making it frozen yogurt. It’s covered in neon gummy worms and the flavor is “Positive Attention From An Authority Figure”.

CONGRATULATIONS

[bathymetric]

32. Bootleg Bear Plush - A plush of some strange bear that’s black on its right side and white on its left, with one poorly-stitched red eye. Who is he? Why is he here? He has a terrible aura…
05. Life-Sized Stuffed Penguin - A stuffed penguin about a foot and a half tall. Looks almost real, but is almost unbelievably soft.
61. Radio Play - A Fontaine Futuristics Accu-Vox recording featuring part of a serialized adventure.
16. Toy Laser Sword - A toy sword handle with a collapsible blade in one of several different colors! Not affiliated with any existing multimedia franchise.
09. Marionette - An intricate and complex puppet that either looks creepy or cool, depending on your point of view. Surprisingly fun to mix and match with each other!
10. Mango - A relatively high-quality mango, which might be surprising the longer into this whole thing you get one out of the machine. You could make a religion out of this.
18. Wizard Hat - A big pointy blue and silver hat! For commanding mystical energies, or maybe just looking like a dork.
30. I Can’t Believe it’s Not Margarine! - A single stick of unsalted butter. Better refrigerate it.
25. Bathrobe - A cheap deep red bathrobe, for when you want to look classy in your study but you just aren’t the kind of person with money for things like “a study” or “books” or “quality fabric.”
22. Weirdly Specific T-Shirt - Hang on, how many people does this actually apply to? Also it’s like size XXXL.

CONGRATULATIONS

[bathymetric]

39. The Dreaded Knarrevik - An IKEA-branded nightstand! Comes unassembled in-box with the instructions missing. Good luck!
03. Tea Variety Pack - An assortment of different teas, mostly green tea blends. If you find one you like, better hope another one of these drops, because there’s only one of each in here!
27. Gingerbread House - A whole elegantly designed gingerbread house with all kinds of candy accents.
30. I Can’t Believe it’s Not Margarine! - A single stick of unsalted butter. Better refrigerate it.
31. Hand Bra - Who the heck left this in here? It almost seems like it belongs in a whole other world.
64. Pool Raft: A pool float that resembles one of the passengers on the boat. There's a face-sitting joke here, I think.
08. Malört - A bottle of a foul-tasting liquor produced and distributed exclusively in Chicago, Illinois. It’s literally named after wormwood, if you don’t like strong and bitter alcohol you’ll probably have a bad time.

CONGRATULATIONS

[bathymetric]

Quick note for the future! Threads cannot be combined for coins - please feel free to resubmit either of the 4-comment threads for coins later, but to keep the numbers simple we only operate on multiples of five within one thread.

59. VILE-Brand Pen - A souvenir waterproof pen with the acronym VILE on it. Great for signing checks!
50. Corkboard - A small bulletin board with some pins stuck into it! Perfect for making intricate displays about how everything’s connected, or about non-existent workers in the building you work at.
05. Life-Sized Stuffed Penguin - A stuffed penguin about a foot and a half tall. Looks almost real, but is almost unbelievably soft.
45. “Social Distancing Device” - A six-foot-long staff, with a pointed blade at the end. Yep, it’s a spear! Has all the powers of a spear, too. Like stabbing.
21. Labcoat - A standard white labcoat, perfect for pretending you’re a lab assistant to some kind of professor!

CONGRATULATIONS

[bathymetric]

44. “Personal Space Reminder” - A small handheld device that, when you press a button, generates an external current of electricity. Could be dangerous if you touched someone with the electric parts!
56. Stuffed Big Daddy - A stuffed toy shaped like… a huge man with a drill for a hand? Don’t worry, he’s soft!
48. Incredible Soaking Device - A water gun! Surely you will all be very responsible with this.
10. Mango - A relatively high-quality mango, which might be surprising the longer into this whole thing you get one out of the machine. You could make a religion out of this.
27. Gingerbread House - A whole elegantly designed gingerbread house with all kinds of candy accents.
27. Gingerbread House - A whole elegantly designed gingerbread house with all kinds of candy accents.
07. Nisse - A stuffed friend for the holidays, or really any other time of the year - Gaze upon it, love it, take it home.
14. Coconut - It’s a coconut. Secretly, as a food famous for floating, it’s suffering more than any of you, but it refuses to complain…
23. Wetsuit - A full skintight wetsuit! Somehow, despite the random nature of the vending machine, it fits you perfectly.
12. Live Bait - A styrofoam cup just… full of worms. In case you want to go fishing, or pull a really mean prank!

CONGRATULATIONS

[bathymetric]

13. A Gallon of Seawater - Literally just some seawater spills out onto the floor from the mouth of the vending machine. Why this?
20. Blobfish Kigurumi - No one asked for this. No one needed to bring this into the world.
08. Malört - A bottle of a foul-tasting liquor produced and distributed exclusively in Chicago, Illinois. It’s literally named after wormwood, if you don’t like strong and bitter alcohol you’ll probably have a bad time.
02. Hot Sauce - A bottle of very strong hot sauce! Use at your own risk!
07. Nisse - A stuffed friend for the holidays, or really any other time of the year - Gaze upon it, love it, take it home.
62. Inflatable Crocodile - An inflatable crocodile that one can lounge on! Love the crocodile. Be the crocodile.
Sandra Two: A small tape recorder with a single tape. It contains the second part of an interview between Brett and a woman named Sandra Howland-Pierce about her cousin Peter James.
33. Trust Exercises and You! - A thorough guide to conducting, coordinating, and adjudicating exercises from the classic trust fall to the more advanced. Be the self-made king of your workplace and transmit all your good vibes with this book from wordsmith and morale expert… the name seems to have been blacked out?
31. Hand Bra - Who the heck left this in here? It almost seems like it belongs in a whole other world.
04. Hand-Made Paper - Just a loose stack of really fancy bespoke paper! To make those letters you write in case of your death really pop, you know?

CONGRATULATIONS

[bathymetric]

44. “Personal Space Reminder” - A small handheld device that, when you press a button, generates an external current of electricity. Could be dangerous if you touched someone with the electric parts!
55. Pep Bar - Sort of a combination energy and candy bar? Guaranteed to put a pep in your step!
32. Bootleg Bear Plush - A plush of some strange bear that’s black on its right side and white on its left, with one poorly-stitched red eye. Who is he? Why is he here? He has a terrible aura…
14. Coconut - It’s a coconut. Secretly, as a food famous for floating, it’s suffering more than any of you, but it refuses to complain…
46. An Egg - Can the vending machine offer you one of these in this trying time? Hard-boiled, at least.
08. Malört - A bottle of a foul-tasting liquor produced and distributed exclusively in Chicago, Illinois. It’s literally named after wormwood, if you don’t like strong and bitter alcohol you’ll probably have a bad time.
19. Velvet Cape - A full velvet cape, perfect for swishing around and pretending you’re either an old-timey aristocrat or a vampire. Also useful if you wanna get a LARP started in here.
53. Gamer Fuel - It’s.... a salt shaker? Full of salt?
53. Gamer Fuel - It’s.... a salt shaker? Full of salt?
05. Life-Sized Stuffed Penguin - A stuffed penguin about a foot and a half tall. Looks almost real, but is almost unbelievably soft.