ABOUT KYRIAKOS

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INTRODUCTION

Kyriakos is a team-based amnesia game in which characters gradually regain their memories to restore their shattered worlds. General play is mainly done in the kyriakos community in direct character interaction form with a commentspam tag style. Games and special events are primarily done on the soulping journal. Your character has awakened in the dorm of one of numerous teams, with only the knowledge of a single memory or skill. They wake up in front of a near-empty mirror - one of many in each dorm, as these mirrors are directly connected to the characters' souls. With their team, your character can regain more memories and skills by playing in games run by beings called Echoes, which will be returned to them in the form of mirror shards upon a successful win. Of course, not all games, nor Echos, are without their dangers. Won shards are placed into the character's mirror and reexperienced or reinherited in the case of skills. In rebuilding their own shattered soul, your character will also be rebuilding their world, thus saving it from entities known as Reapers that are crossing all manners of existence and destroying everything. In addition to the main community, Kyriakos also has an OOC community (kyriakos_ooc) and a very useful network (zodiacnet) that follows all communities and character journals associated with the game for a singular, easy to follow reading page. Kyriakos also has a Plurk (kyriakosmods) as well as an IRC channel (#kyriakos on irc.lunarnet.org).

POSTING

Kyriakos uses a roughly 1:4 IC/OOC timeline. That is 1 IC day per 4 OOC days. We use the term roughly because sometimes things move slightly faster of slower depending on the IC goings on. When posting, please keep in mind that each post should be around the same time or soon after the post before it. This ensures in-game time will move at a reasonable pace. Please use the following format when posting, also located on the sidebar of zodiacnet: <b>Who:</b> <b>When:</b> Day X, Time of Day <b>Where:</b> <b>What:</b> Kyriakos also uses a tag system, so please make sure to appropriately tag your posts (there are !day tags for every 10 IC days, !game tags for running games, etc.), as well as any posts you play in with your character. Community members can add new tags for their own characters upon joining!

TEAMS & GAMES

Kyriakos is made up of 9 (formerly 13) teams based on the Chinese Zodiac. For more detailed information about how teams work, including the special role of the Cat team, please visit our memory loss & roles page! All teams in Kyriakos participate in games that are run by the Echoes. Games are small-scale themed events, planned and conducted by the players of the Echoes. A game can run from 3 - 5 hours to over the span of a couple of days depending on its theme. They can be games where your character must make choices, or simply be given a list of tasks to complete for points - creative variety is the key to games. They can also be light-hearted and fun, or dangerous and deadly. All games have their own unique set of rules and manner of scoring to determine the winners. Each game will reward memory shards to half of the participating teams, and Cats on a case-by-case basis depending on their role in it. Which means so long as one member of a team is there and wins, the entire team is rewarded, so not being able to make every single game is fine! Games also have an OOC "loser-tier" rule in effect, so no team will go an extended amount of time without a win! To read more about games and game-running, see our games & game-running page!

STARTING BASICS

Each team dorm in Kyriakos features a mirror room - where all of the team members' mirrors are located. Your character wakes up in front of their own mirror, their clothes in their team's color, and only remembers a single thing - be it a memory or a skill. Many newcomers make their own introduction post, though if their team has recently posted, sometimes they opt to simply tag into that. Introing into a mingle or game is also fine, though, depending on preference! The memory or skill your character awakens with is entirely your choice. They are inherently aware of it already. To read more about memories and skills, visit our memory loss & roles page. Please keep in mind that in the case of any character skills, Kyriakos has a powercap in place. Read more about that on the powercap page.