Currencies

Info and Lore:
Festival Tickets are a special currency only acquireable through completing festival activities during each months festival. Just like arcade games and countertop carnival games, you win tickets that you can trade in for prizes!


Community Use:
These tickets can be used at the Arcade Prize Counter (shop) to redeem items, loot boxes, MYOs, and other things at a generally cheaper cost than their gratitude shard variant prices.
These are granted to community members as thanks for participating in the festival alongside gratitude shards that are given for turning in activities.


Users are allowed to trade this currency between each other.

Lore-wise, these tokens that are granted to you for practicing with your weapon with Noah at his shop.
They can sometimes be found by defeating monsters who have consumed or attacked their previous owners.
Metal-eating creatures will often eat these as well as a food source.

What do they do?
They're used as a currency in Noah's Artisan Ironworks to purchase weapons,  armor, trinkets, and materials. This currency is exclusive to use in the RPG system since it allows you to buy materials, weapons, armor, trinkets, and other things to be used in battling and a general RPG setting. You can rarely earn these passively by checking things like the forage or encounters, but you can earn a lot more by using the dungeon's activity or by drawing armor and weapons and submitting it for gear tokens.

These tokens can be obtained a few different ways:

Drawing:
- Draw your Cloakat practicing with a basic weapon with Noah.
- Draw your Cloakat using their weapon in battle against other Cloakat, Monsters, or hunting wildlife for food.
- Draw your Cloakat using their weapon as a tool (if they have a multipurpose weapon)
- Draw your Cloakat in regular submissions but include the weapon stored on their body in some way.
- Draw a reference sheet or practice doodles of your Cloakats' thematically matching weapon.

Writing:
- Write about your Cloakat practicing with Noah.
- Write about your Cloakat using their weapon in battle against other Cloakat, Monsters, or hunting wildlife for food.
- Write about your Cloakat using their weapon as a tool (if they have a multipurpose weapon).
- Write about your Cloakat weapon description or how they first got the weapon if it's important to their story.

Winning/Earning/Free:
- Can be won in grab bags.
- Can be won in raffles.
- Can be randomly awarded for various purposes generally related to being helpful.
- Can be found in dungeons/completing dungeons.
- Can be rarely found when foraging.
- Can be rarely found using the encounters function.
- Can be won from the "Dailies" function.
- Can be won by leveling up your characters.

Users are allowed to trade this currency between each other.

Lore and Info:
A fresh Ginkgo Leaf you found while foraging or dropped from a monster while fighting them. It seems these pretty little leaves are well favored by Ginkgo, herself. (Go figure, hehe)
Maybe go give it to Ginkgo as she seems to love these things!


Currency Use:
Ginkgo Leaves as a currency is found exclusively through foraging and fighting monsters. They can be used to redeem lootboxes from Ginkgo from her shop if you go and turn them in to her. The more expensive the lootbox, the better the pool of items within them! This is a chance currency and isn't easily found, so it is treated as a "treat" currency.


This currency cannot be traded between community members.

Gratitude Shards are the currency used by Cloakat. Gratitude shards are crystal like gem shards they use as a currency, in their world, the color reflects their worth like that of the numerical value displayed on a coin or bill. Some Cloakats will often deposit their shards into a digital card called a Crystal Card. Gratitude Shard currency can be added or subtracted from a Cloakat's "Crystal Card", which is tied to their identity as a resident of their island, so stealing from ones Crystal Card is rather impossible to do. Gratitude Crystals can be occurred with being an honest person as it can sometimes form from thin air if genuine honesty with gratitude is involved, so many Cloakats do not go without so long as they keep honest.

· Gratitude Shard Gain and Use: (In their world)
Here are some ways that a gratitude shard currency can be obtained or used. Items/groceries are bought and sold in shards. Cloakat who work and serve can be tipped shards. A Cloakat could be grateful for you helping them with tasks and can reward you with shards. Really anything selfless can possibly get a Cloakat more currency for basic needs or desired. Inflation isnt very common in their community and the currency is rather easy to come across in the world of a Cloakat so long as you're a kind and honest person. This actually encourages the community to act better due to how they are earned.

* Not only are treehouses a mandatory staple of welcome in their community, but currency and lifestyle is easily supported to give the Bats an easy and happy life. Cloakat believe in taking care of one another (mostly) and strive to keep their community happy and healthy.

· Ways Gratitude Shards Can Currently Be Earned: (Some are chance-based)
*Note: The art related prompts listed are rewarded Gratitude Shards for Cloakat-related art only. This allows the community to associate more with each other and the species as a result.
  · When joining the site and submitting the new user prompt (For the first time only)
  · Art trades (Cloakat Related)
  · Gifted art to others/offering art to others and YCH's (Cloakat Related; Gift art and NPC art grants bonus shards)
  · Participating in polls
  · Participating in events/festivals
  · Joining Patreon (This also comes with perks of possible free items, tickets, customs, MYO's, First dibs, etc.)
  · Being generally helpful/informational surrounding the community.
  · Inviting others to the Discord server (You both get 50+ shards)
  · When selling commissions of any Cloakat-related kind in the community (YCH, commissions etc. The art itself grants you shards)
  · If you roleplay with another member of the community and this results in art (drawing, 3D, writing etc.) this can also sometimes be rewarded with shards when shared with the community.
  · More ways to earn shards for your Crystal Card will be updated as time goes on.

Users are allowed to trade this currency between each other.