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Mementos

WTF's a Memento?

A memento¹⁾ is a goody that players can carry around in the shoebox of their inventory as a keepsake. Mementos can be useful or merely decorative (more about that below). There are two kinds of mementos: Monthly Mementos (MMs),²⁾ and player-made mementos.

Basically, a memento is made to commemorate something.

It can be a magical sword, containing and powered by the souls of all the demons you've ever slain, crafted by mystics and handed down from your ancestral dragons—or it can be a seashell, or a piece of paper, or a blanket. It depends what the writer wrote. The important thing to note, though, is that having or not having a Memento will only affect your roleplaying. There is no intrinsic advantage to having one, especially if you only play the game for the hilarious monsters.

Monthly Mementos

Monthly Mementos (MMs) are made by CMJ and are available at the beginning³⁾ of each month. Sometimes they confer a buff; sometimes they provide a chuckle.⁴⁾ You get the MM of the month by chucking a tenner⁵⁾ in the kitty.⁶⁾ As befits the nomenclature, each MM is available only during that month.

Player-made mementos

Players can make their own mementos at the Memento Forge found in each outpost, and paid for using Supporter Points (SP).

At the Memento Forge you have the option of making either a single memento (cost: 25 SP) or a Memento Mould (500 SP) from which you can subsequently make as many copies as you like, using either SP or Cobblestones.⁷⁾

Mementos consist of two parts: the Description Text and the Use Text. If you choose to make a memento visible to the general public in your Inventory, the Description Text is what they see. The Use Text is what you see when you click on the memento, and is visible only to the holder of that memento.

Uses for mementos

Of course you can collect mementos and gift them to your friends.⁸⁾ If you get into Place Programming, you'll find another use for them. You can write a program that will check a player's inventory for the presence of one of your mementos. Thus, a memento can function as a key to open a locked door, or as a bookmark, or otherwise serve to activate a program.

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Not a momento, though it might take more than uno momento to explain why.

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This kind of MM doesn't melt in either your mouth or your hand, though who's to say that CMJ won't make one that does that someday.

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or as near the beginning as possible

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Usually both.

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at least

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But, of course, the real reason we donate is for the satisfaction of having performed a Good Deed. Right?

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Earn cobblestones by supporting the World Community Grid. See Jake the Hippy in Common Ground.

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at no charge, using the Gifting Station in Common Ground