ACTIVITY REWARDS

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AC REWARDS

Since Kenos is a plot-heavy game based on engaging with other characters and the setting, we want to reward people that go above and beyond! Kenos does this through a Token system, which is a set of OOC rewards that translate to IC rewards. Using Tokens, you can make augment your character’s powers (or make completely new ones), get plot clues, or buy an exotic pet, to name a few things!

TOKENS

Tokens are earned through going above and beyond with game participation in the following ways:

• Completing Bonus AC (1 token)


• Participating in an Oracle Event Log (1 token) (Max 1/month)


• Running a player-led event (2 Tokens) These happen once every 3 months (eg. Xanadu, World's Edge)


• Tagging new players on the TDM (1 token)

Mods may also hand out a Token or two for other work that helps the game, though this is at mod discretion. You can view your current amount of Tokens on this spreadsheet. This spreadsheet is updated weekly after activity is processed. As a note, a character can have max five tokens at a time, unless you have earned tokens by running an event. These tokens are allowed to go over the maximum as an extra thank you for helping run the game!

Tokens can be used to purchase items from the list below. If you have an idea for something you might like to use tokens on that isn’t listed or aren't sure how many tokens your idea would cost, feel free to ask! Mods may adjust the Token cost for some requests, since below are guidelines, and specific requests may fall into a different Token cost depending on the capabilities of the request.

Note, the Power Cap applies to all purchased items and powers, so they may require adjustment to fit underneath these limitations!

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1 TOKEN

• Swap a Spellbook Spell : Spells learned via Harmonization can be swapped out for a different spell from the same Spellbook. Note: Spells purchased via tokens cannot be swapped. (Leveled discounts do not apply)

• A Gift! : You can have Cetina or Kathova gift your character something from the timestream! It will be fully at mod discretion what they gift them, and it can be anything from something useful, to something silly! Make sure to keep your survey up to date, or you might get a repeat!

• Weapon/Minor Magical Item Regain : Standard weapons or items with basic magical properties. For example, a Hidden Blade, Harry Potter's Wand or Sending Stones.

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2 TOKENS

• Learn a Tier 1 Spellbook Spell : Learn an additional spell from the Tier 1 Spellbook (assuming you are already able to wield these spells)

• Minor Power : Powers roughly equivalent to the Tier 1 spellbook in power. These are small versions of abilities that may have use in combat, but may be limited in some way. These powers are approximately up to half of the power cap or less.

• Standard Mount : A non-magical creature that can be ridden

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3 TOKENS

• Furnished Home : Purchase a fully furnished home in your city of choice (Leveled discounts do not apply)

• Start a Business : Start a PC/Player-Owned business in your city of choice (Leveled discounts do not apply). If you would like for it to be added to the maps on the wiki, just take a screenshot pointing out where you would like your business to be! Once approved, please fill out the form on the Setting Submission page so that your IC business can be easily found and referenced by other players.

• Upgrade a Minor Power : Upgrade a Minor Power to a Major Power

• Minor Lore Quest : A lore-associated questline, designed largely for off-Oracle month enjoyment. Minor quests do not have the degree of risk or detail required by participants. To claim a quest, file your purchase request below and then include the link as a comment under its header on the lore quest page. Once the purchase is approved, you can get started!

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4 TOKENS

• Learn a Tier 2 Spellbook Spell : Learn an additional spell from the Tier 2 Spellbook (assuming you are already able to wield these spells)

• Magical/Flying Mount : A creature that can be ridden that either flies or is magical in some way

• Major Weapon / Major Magical Item : An item with significant innate power which approaches a Major Power. For example, Mjolnir, Lasso of Truth or a Lightsaber.

• Mid-value Lore Quest : A mid-value questline associated with the overarching lore of Kenos. Mid-value questlines are categorized by their need for a modest degree of planning. To claim a quest, file your purchase request below and then include the link as a comment under its header on the lore quest page. Once the purchase is approved, you can get started!

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5 TOKENS

• Learn a Tier 3 Spellbook Spell : Learn an additional spell from the Tier 3 Spellbook (assuming you are already able to wield these spells)

• Major Power : Abilities that can go up to (but not past) the overall powercap. These can be roughly equivalent to the Tier 3+ Spellbook Spells.

• High-value Lore Quest : A high-risk, high-reward questline associated with the overarching lore of Kenos. High-value questlines are categorized by their need for detailed planning, preparation and participation. To claim a quest, file your purchase request below and then include the link as a comment under its header on the lore quest page. Once the purchase is approved, you can get started!

Finally, this system also includes a Powerlevel Discount. As a part of your application acceptance, you were assigned a Level based on the powers you described in your application. This Level entitles you to a discount of the prices above, which is as follows:

• Level 1: -2 Tokens
• Characters with no or extremely limited abilities.
• Level 2: -1 Token
• Characters who have special abilities, but perhaps only a few or those that are quite limited in scope.
• Level 3: No discount
• Characters with a large or wide variety of abilities.

As a note, if your discount would make a request 0 Tokens (negatives will always become 0), it may become a 1 Token request depending on the request itself. We’ll let you know this when you make the request and confirm that you still wish to spend it.

This discount is to help address power creep and try and make the stakes of the game more even. This way characters who come into the game well-equipped from their canon don’t dominate others, which results in better tension and stakes! With that in mind, mods may reduce or take away a character’s discount as they become more evenly matched with higher Levels, which you will be informed of.

NOTABLE ACTIONS

In addition, this page is also used to share and submit your Notable Actions! Notable Actions sounds fancy, but it’s essentially a summary of what your character did during the month! This helps the Loremaster team by giving a good view of what characters are up to and interested in so that we can help the world be responsive to character actions. This summary can be a bulleted list or prose, and we would love it if it also included links, but it doesn’t have to. For an example of what we’re looking for, see this comment which shows the general format and what you can expect from rewards and/or this comment, which is a character played by one of the Loremasters!

Notable actions should include things that have been threaded out this month, but can also include hand-waved interactions about interacting with the world of Kenos at large, and we in fact recommend this! Is your character a regular at a bar? Did they start modeling for a clothing shop they like? Or maybe they're often seen at one of the city's libraries this month because they're deeply researching a new topic. Let us know, since this helps us get a sense of what your character's interests in the world are and can help us create more customized hooks for your character in turn!

IC, characters are asked to at least check in with their faction’s second-in-command once a month, since they’re similarly interested in what characters are getting up to. This check-in is at the character’s leisure and meant to be casual IC as well! Depending on what characters tell their respective NPC, they may get special information or missions that are relevant to what they’ve been doing IC, or the NPC may be the one to ICly grant them the boon that’s bought OOC with Tokens. For more on your faction’s NPC, you can read up on both Cetina (Meridian) or Kathova (Zenith).

If your character does not have a faction affiliation, they’re not missing out, don’t worry! They may still receive information and/or missions, but they’re more likely to come from a generic, unnamed NPC instead. In terms of boons, you’re free to figure out how it’s received or hash it out with the mods.

(We also recommend keeping your Character Survey up to date, since you never know when a mod might think to reference it, hint hint!)

FORM

Notable Actions
A summary of what your character was up to this month! This can be prose, a bulleted list, however you want to do it. It's truly just to let mods know what your character got up to this month.

Specific Actions
Which city did your character spend most of their time in during this AC period?: Self explanatory!
What venues or residences did they spend the majority of their time in while there?: This one too!
Did your character perform any notable actions in front of NPC's in either city this month? If so, what/where?: Did they deck someone out in public? Did they steal something and get caught? Were they blackout drunk and stumbling around the city? Did they help a kid who scraped his knees when he fell? Tell us what the populous saw your character up to this month! For anything important, please include a thread link!
Did your character contribute to either city? (Resources, work, side quests, etc - this includes Kowloon): Again, feel free to give us links to any threads with your character completed, contributed, or partook in something that contributed something to one of your factions/cities.
What is their current discord level (at the time of their check-in)?: If you'd like to include a brief blurb about whether this has increased or decreased from last month and how, that's a bonus but not required.

Did Your Character Check In?
With either Cetina or Kathova, if applicable. A simple yes or no is all we need, but if you want to add a detail like "they would have, but they were dead half of the month", that's fine.

Token Purchase (Delete this section if you are not using tokens this month)
Purchasing: What are you purchasing
Cost: How many tokens does this cost? Remember to include your Powerlevel discount if applicable!
Description: If applicable, a full description of your purchase including parameters, limitations, etc. Please see examples for how to describe these best!

Notes: Anything additional to tell the mods?

<b><u>Notable Actions</u></b> <i>A summary of what your character was up to this month! This can be prose, a bulleted list, however you want to do it. It's truly just to let mods know what your character got up to this month.</i> <b><u>Specific Actions</u></b> <b>Which city did your character spend most of their time in during this AC period?</b>: <b>What venues or residences did they spend the majority of their time in while there?</b>: <b>Did your character perform any notable actions in front of NPC's in either city this month? If so, what/where?</b>: <b>Did your character contribute to either city? (Resources, work, side quests, etc - this includes Kowloon)</b>: <b>What is their current discord level (at the time of their check-in)?</b>: <b><u>Did Your Character Check In?</u></b> <b><u>Token Purchase</u></b> (Delete this section if you are not using tokens this month) <b>Purchasing</b>: <b>Cost</b>: <b>Description</b>: <b>Notes</b>:

Token Requests and Notable Actions are processed on the first week of the month. If you purchased a lore quest, a gift, or a power, we'll let you know if it's approved/what your character received!

For examples of what these rewards can look like, see below!

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october 2022

[epiprocta]

Notable Actions

• Woke up in his gooey sarcophagus, which he didn't enjoy very much.
  
• Caught up with some previous CR while hanging out in Yima's basement and purging the Kenoma from his system. Most notable: checked in with Gray, who he'd been worried about for reasons he can't quite remember; and spoke with Amos and Misa to deal with the emotional aftermath of events that happened just before their awakening.
  
• Spoke to Yima, who gave him Reiji's shard. Though he's still too wary of her to commit himself to Zenith (or align himself with anyone, really), he was thoroughly shaken by the "gift."
  
• Explored his new isekai setting a bit after leaving Yima's basement.
  
• Participated in the (attempted) rescue of newcomers from the Tree of Life, which went great! Namely, ended up caught in a very emotional clash with the dryad alongside Amos, Misa and Kaeya, where he ended up surrendering a toe. Followed by a second round, where he ended up sacrificing another toe while trapped with Sebastian and Morgan.
  
• Ends up emerging from the whole debacle with Tier 2 Discord and a small handful of other effects. Wonderful!
  

Did Your Character Check In?
No, because he hasn't aligned himself with a faction.

Token Purchase
Purchasing: Major power
Cost: 3 tokens (with level 1 character discount)
Description:

Six Feet Under - the ability to basically hide in or fast-travel through the ground. To go into the technicals:

• The ability to affect the tangibility of any ground he's directly in contact with, allowing him to sink into the ground and stay there. It will feel a bit like swimming through water, but with magnitudes less friction.
• While underground he can breathe and move without effort. However, he needs to be conscious and lightly focused to stay underground (roughly the concentration level of remembering to hold onto an object); if his concentration is badly disrupted or he loses consciousness, he's violently ejected from the earth and spit out onto the ground in very uncool fashion.
• He can stay underground for about half an hour for before the physical pressure starts to be too much and he needs to come back above ground. After hitting his thirty-minute limit, he needs a recovery period of an hour before he can use it again. He can use the ability in quick bursts, but his ratio of usage:recovery still remains 1:2 in the long run.
• While underground he can 'glide' through the earth, allowing him to move at a speed up to 5 times a normal person's running speed. This uses up about the same amount of physical stamina as running; if he spends his entire 30 minutes doing it he won't emerge completely wiped, but will definitely need to slow down during his recovery time.
• While underground it's only the earth itself (including any small obstacles that he mentally considers part of the earth, like tree roots, rocks, etc.) that's intangible to him. He's still vulnerable to anything that can penetrate through the earth (physical or magical), and can also be 'dug up' by other earth-shifting abilities unless he physically dodges them. His presence can also still be detected by other supernatural means.
• He can make the transition of tangibility smooth or abrupt, i.e. he can sink slowly into the earth or just plunge into it instantly like it's water, can creep out of it stealthily or form a foothold while underground to launch out of it for an ambush, only poke out a hand to grab at something, etc. However he does it, he leaves behind no marks of his movements into or out of the earth.
• Only works on 'ground,' i.e. surface he can stand on, no walls. Also works on surfaces like the second floor of a building, allowing him to drop through to the floor below, but uses up more energy if it's not directly in contact with the earth.
• The ability can also affect anything he's in direct contact with. If he takes something underground in part or in whole and lets go of it, it will be left buried in the earth there. Clothing and objects on his person can be brought along with zero effort. Bigger or heavier objects require a proportional amount of physical strain.
• Anything that Gen perceives as having sentience requires much higher mental strain to bring underground. Organisms like plants, bugs and fish require basically no extra effort. Animals like reptiles or mammals require some concentration to sink into the earth, but he can essentially trap them by grabbing them, sinking into the ground, then pulling away and emerging alone. In moments of very high desperation he might be able to use this method on one guard-level NPC, but it would nuke his entire 30-minute "energy pool" in one go and require the full recovery time afterward.
• PCs, due to their sentience and general extra power levels, are off-limits for being fully sunk into the earth. Though Gen can affect them in part (e.g. grabbing someone's arm and then sinking into the earth to bury them up to the shoulder), he can't affect more than about a third of their body before the mental strain becomes too much. This counts for both friendly or hostile PCs.

Notes: I was told it would be okay to cash in tokens for a power even if it won't be unlocked until later when Gen actually aligns himself with a faction and thus harmonizes to at least Tier 1. So even if this token purchase goes through, I presume Gen won't really feel any changes or benefit from it, sucks to be him!