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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.
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).
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 Player-made 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.
At the Memento Forge you have the option of making either a single memento (cost: 25 SP) or a Memento Mould (500 SP) if you will be making multiple copies.
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's Use button, and is visible only to the holder of that memento.
When creating the Memento, you can set the Name, how it will pluralize, the description that everyone can see, and the use text that only the holder can see.7) Each Memento can have 100 characters for the Name, 100 characters for the Plural name, 255 characters for the Description, and 1,000 characters for the Use Text. You can also set the attributes8).
Uses for mementos
Of course you can collect mementos and gift them to your friends.9) 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.
Mementos you've found, or ones people have given you—or ones you've made—automatically go into your Shoebox, the bottom section of your inventory.
From there you can click Use to read the extra flavour text (if any), and decide whether or not you want other people to know that you've got it. If you do, click Display in Bio. Anyone who clicks on your name will then be able to see the Memento's name and description below your character stats, description and medals.