Retirement Story Arc Request

Once you are an experienced participant in the Dystopia Rising universe, you may need to create a new character due to character death, retirement, or simply wanting to play a different type of character. If your character dies or you want to voluntarily retire a character, all in-character items must be turned in to one of your local branch’s Guides prior to retirement. You can discuss with staff the type of character retirement you’d prefer, so you can close your story in a fitting way. Once staff reviews these items, you will be awarded 100% of your existing experience points for the new character. Failure to turn in all items may result in some experience points not being awarded to your new character.

Upon receiving experience points from character retirement, 50% of your experience will be available at character creation. The other 50% of your retirement experience points will be awarded after 6 months of playing your new character. Please note that when creating a character with experience points carried over from a retired character, you do not receive the 50 starting creation points. However, you can purchase skills and Professions as long as you have the experience to do so. Using character death or retirement as a means to create joke characters, disrupt play, target other player characters in-game, or manipulate the game system is directly against the intent of this process and may result in not being welcome at future events.

1. A retirement story arc must be discussed with a player’s Home Branch’s employees in the downtime, and must be a mutually created story that not only brings a sense of completion to the character; but also provides a character retirement that will engage and drive story for other players.

2. A retirement story arc must be a minimum of 3 months in length and can take as long as 6 months.

3. At the start of a retirement story arc all currency, items, resources, and in-character materials that the character has must be turned over to a Home Branch. A character on a retirement story arc will be provided with some of their resources for the continuation of play; however, most items must be turned in. Both the Guide and the player should record what items are turned in just in case a retirement story arc is canceled before the end.

4. Once a retirement story arc begins, a player must follow the retirement story all the way through to the end. In the instance that the player decides not to follow the retirement story arc until the end, the items that were turned in will be returned to the player. Any items that expire between the start of a retirement story arc and its cancellation will not be replaced.

5. The player must check in with the Guides and participants they interact with the most on an out-of-character level to ensure that no only is the person who is retiring their character not experiencing negative bleed, but also that those who are impacted the most by the character retirement are not being impacted by negative bleed.

6. The Home Branch’s employees and the player must follow and agree on all outlined aspects of a retirement story arc (check-in, turning in of all goods, creation of a story that is beneficial to the player and to the community, and clear communication and direction in the downtime) at the start, middle, and end of the retirement arc.