Info: Wishcoins and Minting

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Types of coins

• 3 points: triangle. Suitable for small local effects like turning devices on and off, changing the colours of objects, tidying small areas, etc. Looks like this.


• 4 points: square. Suitable for medium-sized local effects like conjuring or banishing nonmagical objects, creating or banishing persistent illusions, curing colds. Looks like this.


• 5 points: pentagon. Suitable for conjuring magical objects or creating big permanent nonmagical effects, such as giving someone a skill or healing extensive injuries. Looks like this.


• 6 points: hex. Suitable for giving a person a permanent superpower or conjuring entire buildings, with or without magical properties. Looks like this.


• 7 points: star. Suitable for terraforming a planet. Looks like this.


• 8 points: evil. Suitable for resurrecting a dead person or making permanent changes to someone who torches that would otherwise be wiped out by torching. Looks like this.


• 9 points: arrow, niner. Suitable for large batches of things evils can do, or effects that must span an entire subworld of a worldsheaf. Looks like this.


• 10 points: tenner. Suitable for creating or significantly modifying entire subworlds in a worldsheaf, or effects that span an entire worldsheaf. Looks like this.

(NB: Holes through the middles of coins are smoothly round; ones that appear otherwise do so because of rendering limitations.)

Declawing

Any coin larger than a triangle will, on wishing, have a negative effect on the user as though someone wished them harm using a coin of the next power level down - squares do a triangle's amount of harm, pentagons do a square, and so on. This can be prevented by 'declawing' the coin before use. Any coin can declaw exactly one coin that is one power level up, or many coins of the same level, or any number of less-powerful coins. Hexes and below generally don't cause enough trouble to be readily noticeable, but stars and above are always worth declawing.

Constraining

It's possible to wish for a particular coin or group of coins to have usage limitations, e.g. a pentagon that can only be used to give someone a new language. A coin can limit one coin of its own size, ten of the next size down, a hundred of the next, and so on.