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ACTIVITY REWARDS
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 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!
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:
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.
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!)
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?
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!
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)
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!
☸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.
• 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.
☸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
• 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
☸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!
• 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!
☸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!
• 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!
☸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!
• 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.
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?
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!
Lord Voryn Dagoth
January 2023
☾✶ engaged in communion with the ❤TREE OF LIFE❤ and took on its miasma
☾✶ bought some gaudy curtains (this is going to be plot-important, fr)
☾✶ made people very angry
☾✶ sent a call-to-arms communion request to literally everyone
☾✶ continued to make more people very angry
☾✶ found a decisive lore book on otter species and entertainment
☾✶ discovered with sebastian that the roots of the ❤TREE OF LIFE❤ extend deep into the ocean
☾✶ "helped" retrieve one of the hourglasses with set and liem (liem got it, deservedly)
☾✶ laid the smackdown on the siren with ocelot
Did Your Character Check In? Yes, but Cetina would gross him out because he's a dirty racist, so he'd want his meeting with her to be brief. He'd also try to demand an audience with Cyrus instead because he's embarrassing. Please, don't give him one. He has been doing good work for Meridian right out of the womb, but Cetina deserves better than this.
Reward Opt-Out:
February 2023
Which city did your character spend most of their time in during this AC period?: springstar, with a sprinkling of highstorm for the dinner party and masquerade outfit shopping (but he'd never admit to this, they just had the colours he wanted).
What venues or residences did they spend the majority of their time in while there?: predominantly the marketplace before hitting kowloon, the church of helios and the tree of life (literally every month i am just going to handwave this; he's always visiting), his quarters to hole up and study, and sebastian's den of sin in highstorm.
Did your character perform any notable actions in front of NPC's in either city this month? If so, what/where?: he's been speaking with cyrus and yima—more notably yima—about manon and the nature of the information he possesses. the shard conversation will probably be important later, as he is both getting bad ideas and generating slightly better ones for kenos as a whole. the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one—does this apply here? no.
Did your character contribute to either city? (Resources, work, side quests, etc - this includes Kowloon): not one fucking bit.
What is their current discord level (at the time of their check-in)?: somehow tier 0.
Did Your Character Check In? yes, and unbeknownst to voryn, macking on cetina probably makes the meeting a bit smug. he has no idea, of course, and so it is a private joke for cetina to do whatever she damn well pleases with. he continues to be extremely racist with no noticeable improvement, demanding instead for the right to check in directly with sera cyrus or even hieropoios natalia who has nothing at all to do with this.
Reward Opt-Out: i don't deserve a reward for how slow i've been.
Notes: tbh there's not much here because i was absolutely totalled for february, i just really wanted to fill out the blurb for voryn's check-in.
April 2023
Which city did your character spend most of their time in during this AC period?: springstar most likely, but he was all over the damn place.
What venues or residences did they spend the majority of their time in while there?: out and about, mostly. he had sasuke over for enchantment fun in government housing, visited set's den of sin, and is constantly at the church of helios. he's also been visiting the tree.
Did your character perform any notable actions in front of NPC's in either city this month? If so, what/where?: n/a, not in front of npcs. unless the tree counts, because he had a little communion chat with it and also buried link's shard in the soil in the root caverns. f
Did your character contribute to either city? (Resources, work, side quests, etc - this includes Kowloon): enchantment goods, aka not telling people he's actually using souls to make their weapons and shit stronger. he was also focusing trying to help civvies and escape time pockets.
What is their current discord level (at the time of their check-in)?: zero, baybee... though, that should probably go up considering march's memory adjustment and now this bullshit...
Did Your Character Check In? yes. cetina, we have got to stop meeting like this. people will start to talk. he is beginning to think that cyrus isn't actually busy when he drops by and that cetina has been lying to him. sensitivity training has devolved into him trying to teach the class with insane chalkboard diagrams why diversity is good but equality is bad.
Reward Opt-Out: opting out, baybee.
Notes: voryn @ zenith but it's actually the opposite.
May 2023
Which city did your character spend most of their time in during this AC period?: both, actually! but the majority of the time was spent beneath the tree of life.
What venues or residences did they spend the majority of their time in while there?: in time pockets, at the church of helios, in the bathhouse, in his private chambers, and in the root caverns. he shockingly wasn't visiting many businesses.
Did your character perform any notable actions in front of NPC's in either city this month? If so, what/where?: voryn was trading meridian and zenith sap in front of the iconoclast effigy and hosting a blood ritual with quetzalcoatl and john. also in front of the iconoclast effigy.
Did your character contribute to either city? (Resources, work, side quests, etc - this includes Kowloon): work for the church of helios and enchantments for the populace, but other than that, no. he's still a freeloader.
What is their current discord level (at the time of their check-in)?: tier 1 (finally). may go up to tier 2 after this event.
Did Your Character Check In? yes.
Day 151. The asylum Kenos has offered me has been conditional. Comprised of disparate islands, its only tether to sameness is the dying Tree of Life; each locale's population is diverse. While I am satisfied that I have walked a high road under the beady and skeptical eyes of the lesser races, there is one of the beast-folk who has dedicated herself to my debarment from the Seat of the Tribune. Each effort made to secure a private audience with Tribune Cyrus has been thwarted by that deer woman despite my superior devotion to Cyrus' and my campaign.
Tomorrow, I shall write another letter to him detailing my outrage. While none of my writings have reached the hands of Cyrus insofar as I'm aware, they cannot forever be stopped at the door. Imbuing it with an aggressive enchantment may be prudent to deal with that n'wah, but as my ally Sasuke has gone, the soul gems in my possession are few. For now, perhaps my chap'thil Louis is up to the task. He is not subtle, and that may now be what is needed. If something or someone should catch fire, the responsibility is his—it is his foremost duty in service to me.
Reward Opt-Out: finally not opting out this time, but i ain't buying anything. i am token hoarding (my two whole tokens).
November 2023
☾✶ was introduced by set to everyone as one of the scientists who's going to be working on the B.F.G. to nuke highstorm with (i felt that this was relevant)
☾✶ aired out sebastian's sexual prowess in front of god and everybody
☾✶ set up cornerstones to ease the paths of meridian faction allies (plotted with claude, not threaded)
☾✶ tried to get claude and midna to tier up, shamed link for de-harmonizing
☾✶ completed puzzles in the oracle event with a random assortment of freaks (savants, meri, etc.)
☾✶ childe and voryn licked each other
☾✶ got up close and personal with the evil shadows now lurking outside of the labyrinth
☾✶ dissipated silco's ass together with hayame
☾✶ met ❤FANE AND DRIZZT❤
Specific Actions
Which city did your character spend most of their time in during this AC period?: springstar.
What venues or residences did they spend the majority of their time in while there?: his abode, the kowloon markets.
Did your character perform any notable actions in front of NPC's in either city this month? If so, what/where?: does the effigy count as an npc? also, setting up cornerstones in springstar to aid in fast travel around the residential area during the oracle event was probably witnessed by multiple npcs. he probably told them to get the fuck out of the way.
Did your character contribute to either city? (Resources, work, side quests, etc - this includes Kowloon): work for the church of helios as ambassador and trying several times to entice people to tier up. he also provides enchantments out of his lame-ass government home that got stripped of furniture and decorations (his fucking curtains are gone) by cetina!
What is their current discord level (at the time of their check-in)?: i was supposed to up him to tier 2 by now, so he's tier 2, baybee!
Did Your Character Check In? yes, of course.
Reward Opt-Out: nein.
Token Purchase
Purchasing: a home in the residential district.
Cost: 3 tokens.
Description: tbd, but i will comment back to you once i develop some kind of cute layout post for it with visuals and shit. voryn will be way too excited. also it'll be extremely cult-y in nature, i'm sorry in advance to his neighbours.
Notes:
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THAT IS PERFECTLY FINE, I GOT SO INTO EVERYTHING THAT I FORGOT I WAS A RE-APP. GOD BLESS YOU FOR BEING PATIENT WITH ME. no need to apologize for my error! i'll get it some other time!
December 2023
☾✶ not much because i was fucking dead in the water this month, but
☾✶ got a hand-made poetry notebook from liem (ongoing)
☾✶ had a messy conversation with sebastian about sebastian's territorial tiff with raphael (ongoing)
☾✶ kissed set for his bingo card maybe (ongoing)
☾✶ was an absolute grinch and refused to participate in literally any festivities
Specific Actions
Which city did your character spend most of their time in during this AC period?: springstar.
What venues or residences did they spend the majority of their time in while there?: the kowloon markets, his government-issued housing unit.
Did your character perform any notable actions in front of NPC's in either city this month? If so, what/where?: no, he was a home-body this month.
Did your character contribute to either city? (Resources, work, side quests, etc - this includes Kowloon): providing enchantments for meri, but that work has slowed considerably since he has to venture out to get his own soul gems... blech...
What is their current discord level (at the time of their check-in)?: tier 2, baybee.
Did Your Character Check In? yes.
Notes: as a tier 2+ meri, voryn would love for his boon to be A HOME. I CAN'T WAIT TO DECORATE THIS SHIT!!! since samba santa already got him a bottle of his family's brandy, which will make him privately be vewy upset... he's blessed......
the title was tempting but he has too many already, smfh
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