Setting your stats:

Once you have submitted your application, you will receive your HUD. Visiting the HUD set up area will allow you to assign your stats. You will have 5 points to place between three stats. Once you have assigned your stats please press the print button of the stat assigner to log your character in our database. For how to post in combat see this page.

Constitution: This relates to how well you take healing from the hospital. Each hospital visit can possibly harm you if your constitution is not high enough to withstand the sudden infusion of Essence. Each point you add to this stat reduces your chance of being harmed by 20%, thus allowing you to speed your heal time without any risk. You may only attempt to be healed once every 30 min. All healing is done through a NPC doctors, which are actual characters you can click on the Sim. To Heal yourself you will need one other player to come with you to the hospital, as you cannot heal yourself. The player attempting to heal should click on The Doctor and Target you. The rest will take care of itself.

Dexterity: This stat works in two parts. Each point you add to it increases both your chances at successfully making your defense roll in combat so that your Essence is shielded and your ability to pick locks around the city. Your odds of success with both skills are increased by 5% with every point added. There are locks in the city that cannot be picked by anyone with less that 2 points in DEX. If you use magic you can explain this as a magical shield if you like, otherwise you can emote the attack being soaked by body armor, dodged, or any other reasonable rationale.

Strength: This will increase the accuracy of your attacks by 5% per point you add, allowing you to hit more often.

HUD Commands:

• Purpose: This HUD has been custom-made exclusively for Rumor City, serving various functions in your roleplay experience.
• Leaving The Sim: Upon going to another sim your HUD will detach. Remember to reattach it as it is your responsibility. We will not restore missing health or re-rolls because you forgot to attach your HUD to start the timers again.
• No Alts: We only allow one character created per HUD. If you are looking for ALT characters you will have to have ALT secondlife accounts.
• Essence Display: The HUD prominently features your Essence status, allowing you to monitor it.
• Re-Roll Display: The HUD show you how many re-rolls you have remaining.
• Roleplay Mediation: The HUD works to mediate and facilitate roleplay interactions, enhancing the overall experience by tracking hits and misses to speed combat up and prevent players from never taking hits.
• Options button: Inside the Options menu, you can see how long it is until your next Essence and Re-roll are regained. You may set your character’s name for the HUD responses, you can check what your stats are, and you have a button to teleport to the hospital after your death.
• RP Helper and Chatter: This HUD includes a titler and a Chatter function. You can use the chatter function with the name you put in the options “/12” in the chat. To emote, use the command “/12 /me.” The RP Helper works like a titler and will display your character name above your head if it is different from your display name. This will also change colors depending on the amount of Essence you have left. You are not required to wear our RP helper, it is only an option.
• Essence Regeneration: When your Essence reaches 0, it takes a total of 7 and a half hours to fully replenish. You can shorten regeneration times by visiting the in-game hospital.
• Combat Management: You have the option to control the duration of your combat engagements. You will have to use OOC communication in general chat telling your attackers that you wish to flee. Example: (( I would like to exit this combat scene on next post, please)). You must post running away from your attackers. Giving your attackers the theater of feeling that they have put you on the run is what they get in return for being polite enough to let you leave the scene.
• Essence Restoration: Essence restoration pauses for one hour each time you use the attack or defend button. The first three orbs on your Essence bar restore 1 per 2 hours on sim. The final three orbs restore once every 30 min on sim. The more damage you take the longer your Essence will take to refill. A Healer in the Mystery Surgical Theater can attempt to lower the recharge time, but if you have less than five points in constitution there is a chance it could harm you instead. A Healer can summon The Doctor to attempt to heal you once every 30 min.
• Re-Rolls: Every seven hours, you earn a re-roll, and you can accumulate a maximum of three re-rolls. These re-rolls can be used to influence the outcome of any roll you have failed by invoking the favor of the RNG (Random Number Generator) god. You can earn additional re-rolls by completing Bounties. 3 Re-roll potions are granted per bounty unless the Bounty was issued by The Fiery Pit, then the reward is 3 re-roll potions and 2 health potions.