Information of all sorts regarding Kenash can be found here.
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This lazy agricultural settlement rests on the swampy shores of the Middle Suvan at the delta of The Kenash River. The River's slow moving bayou waters have bred a different sort of people - rugged, cultured, and somewhat violent. Sprawling plantations of tobacco and cotton grow on the outskirts of the swamp in the rich Cyphrus soils, while the city itself curls around the bayou and spawns decadence and sins of all sorts. Life is slower in Kenash, but the lack of pace is made up for in the excesses of food and flesh in a city where drinking, debauchery, gambling, slavery, and overbearing plantation families dominate the landscape.
Each PC needs to update their CS at each Season Change with updated thread lists, ledgers that account for cost of living and expenses doled out during the previous season, and all expenditures for the season just completed. This is for your own good as a player. Please update your CS’s as often as you can, ideally each time you start a new thread and/or make an expenditure.
All PCs must follow the Rules and Terms of Use for the entire site. If they do not, Moderator Interventions will be added to their threads and private messages sent.
All PCs should attempt to communicate with Storytellers clearly and promptly when problems and questions arise. With opens lines of communication the staff can strive to make the overall experience in Kenash fulfilling.
All PCs need to Register when entering Kenash and then remove their registry posting when they have exited the city for extensive or permanent periods of time. Registry postings must be reposted when PCs revisit the city.
Due to the nature of Kenash and its type of roleplay in Mizahar, all PCs within the City of Kenash must abide by the Magistrate’s Seasonal Rules & Regulations which change seasonally. Failure to do so will result in IC action taken against the PC in question, which might even include slavery or death. You are warned!
AVATARS & SIGNATURES :
Avatars are allowed of all sorts though the size must be 200 pixels by 200 pixels or smaller. The first person to use an avatar gets claim over that avatar and anyone else showing up secondarily must make sure their avatar is not already in use. Signatures in Mizahar are small notations which can include banners that are present at the bottom of each user's post both in In-Character and Out-Of-Character posts. Signatures often depict something of the user's character. They might include the character's name, image, or even a quotation or saying. Signatures can include links which often lead to helpful pages on the website or a character's Character Sheet. Signatures are not required. However, if they include a banner, those banners must be no larger than 600 pixels wide and 150 pixels tall. Signatures must follow the Rules and Terms of Use and cannot include profanity or nudity. If your signature does not conform to the guidelines on the wiki page, then you will be asked to make corrections. If corrections are not made, signatures will be removed.
IMAGE USE
Players posting images for use in the Kenash forums are responsible for making sure no copy written material is used without express permission. Images already in use take precedence over those trying to be submitted. We realize that certain architecture is rare and hard to often find images of, but that doesn't mean one structure can be utilized for multiple locations. It cannot. Please use a unique structure for each location. Please keep images in the correct theme for Kenash meaning New Orleans style, french colonial or antebellum architecture examples.
✥ ANNOUNCEMENTS & NEWS :
Information pertaining specifically to Kenash, both In-Character and Out-Of-Character related, will be presented to players utilizing the following two methods:
THE KENASH GAZETTE
Kenash does not have a printing press, therefore, it does not have a newspaper that is widely distributed. The concept simply does not exist yet. However, what it does have is The Gazette, which is a location within the city where residents can visit to catch up on the latest news, see special announcements, and, sometimes, even catch a snippet or two of gossip.
Presented in a bulletin board format, this In-Character location - a reading room of sorts - will have its own thread within the Kenash forum, similar to the Out-Of-Character chatter thread, but the posts contained within will appear as if they were posted at The Gazette itself, and should be treated as In-Character information that your PC could gain if they visited the location.
Be sure to subscribe to The Gazette today!
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP
This is Kenash's Out-Of-Character thread, which serves as a spot for questions, concerns, ideas, discussions, comments, and, well, everything in-between and beyond.
Feel free to use it often, but appropriately so. If you need to speak with a particular player or moderator, it is probably better to private message them directly. OOC threads have been known to move quickly at times, which means your post has the potential to get lost in the shuffle, which wouldn't be good at all, especially if it is something important.
So if it is a general item that doesn't require immediate attention, go ahead and post it in Still Waters Run Deep.
✥ CALENDAR OF EVENTS & SEASONAL ALMANAC
Most cities feature a calendar, which is tailored to the specific setting, and usually involves the people and places found around and within the city itself. It gives the players a quick snapshot of usually important, sometimes funny, and occasionally dramatic events that occur over the course of any given season. Players then have the choice to either actively embrace or totally ignore the events listed, utilizing them as they see fit, per their PC. Moderators also have the choice to either let an event speak for itself or take an event and run with it, turning it into a glorious epic quest or exciting seasonal scenario!
Kenash does indeed feature its own Calendar of Events. Furthermore, to add yet another layer of detail, Kenash has its very own Seasonal Almanac, which provides players with the weather for the entire season. It can be found within the same thread as the COE.
✥ DEVELOPING THE REGION :
The best way to contribute to Kenash without actually joining the staff is to have a hand in the city's development. Development projects can be acquired from staff storytellers in Kenash or Cyphrus and players can work on them independently then post their results in any of the various submission threads in the Deep Within The Swamp Forum. NPCs, Locations, even plots count towards development and all qualify for Swamp Perk Points.
SWAMP PERK POINTS
By submitting development of Kenash to any of the development threads that might be posted, you will be awarded Swamp Perk Points to be utilized in the Swamp Perks thread. This thread tracks people's points, and allows them to then 'shop' with said points buying land, property, unique quest items and a whole host of other custom gear or situations for their PC.
The Swamp Perk Points tracking thread can be found here.
✥ LOCATION USAGE
Each location should have something on it somewhere that indicates if it can be used in a thread as a self moderated location or if it needs to be utilized only via a moderator. The best most likely spot for these indicators is a Moderator's Note found at the very bottom of a location posting before the frame closures. If in doubt, one can always PM part of the Kenash staff and ask.
