Director Elections [Results]

June 28, 2020 Tashina O

7.7.20

Good morning Kanarbies!

Your outgoing KGE Secretary is here with the results of this year's Director elections. These incoming Directors will be seated at the upcoming Board of Directors meeting this Sunday. Our new Directors are as follows:

KGE Secretary: Aaron Polk

KGE Treasurer: Karigan Nash-Wayne

Even-year Player Representative: Robert Hubbard

Thank you to everyone who voted this week!

2020 Director Election Results

6.28.20

Happy Sunday Kanarbies,

As Erich posted earlier, the ballots for the 2020 Director elections have been sent out. Any Veteran member who feels they should have received a ballot and did not should email the Board of Directors and we will see what the problem is.

Possible reasons for a lack of ballot include not paying membership dues for the 2020 season, not submitting an Annual Registration Form for the 2020 season, submitting a bad email on your ARF, or having an outstanding balance for event fees.

Voting will be open for seven days, from today to next Sunday, July 5th. Results will be announced either Monday or Tuesday as votes are counted. From there, the incoming Directors will be seated at the next Board of Directors meeting that following Sunday, July 12th.

On the subject of the BoD meeting, agenda submissions for the July 12th meeting are due by next week; the same day voting ends.

Thank you,
Jacob Smith
KGE Secretary

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Thank you for a wonderful June 2020 event

June 24, 2020 Tashina O

Now that I have had a moment and the 2020 June on-line event has passed, I would like to thank some of the people involved in making this happen: First, to Kiri Brasseur for taking up the reigns and taking a small idea and turning it into a whole 3-day event. Your hard efforts were amazing.

Thank you to Kaitlin Bereczky and Jake Smith for providing Kiri with the moral support needed to not go insane during this process.

Thank you to Jenn Blair, Aaron Polk, David Chapman, Marcus Schwimmer, Matt Ash, Tashina O, the BoD, and the rest of the Media and Admin Teams. Thank you for the great efforts in providing a wonderful Discord server in which to play and all of the extra efforts during the event to sign players in and address staff issues quickly as they arose.

To all of the NPC Cast members that floated in and out to help the story along and provide the atmosphere of the city of Crossroads, thank you.

To the GM Staff, PM Staff, and CBM Staff for helping me in their varied ways allowing me to bounce ideas off and support me, so I did not go insane. Thank you.

To Steve Jones, Amanda Aquino, Christiana Ringbloom, Rath, and the various members who helped me wrangle the large groups going on backlogged modules and get them all to jump off the cliff at the same time, thank you.

To all the rest of the people who assisted even a minor bit, your helping efforts may not have seemed that much, but you were all important in making this wonderful, thank you.

Lastly, to the player base who attended and had a good time, you make the staff efforts worth it. Thank you for your fun, your energy, and your feedback to make us better.

Sincerely,
~ Tim Schafer – GM 1st

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Rest In Peace

June 14, 2020 Tashina O

Rest In Peace

obituary and funeral information

It is with a heavy heart that we have an announcement for the community. Yesterday, Saturday the 13th, Jason Morgan passed away while at his home. We are still waiting on the official results and there are not yet any official plans for a service.

Jason loved this community despite its ups and downs. He enjoyed his time on the field and all the friendships he made. The community helped him so much to grow and become a better person. He wanted the same for everyone else.

Community Cash & Paypal Donations

Amanda Plitchta and Alyssa Short will be collecting cash donations, or PayPal donations if you wish to give directly to Cassie and her family. For cash donations please contact Alyssa or Amanda directly. For PayPal, you can donate to the following money pool, which will not charge any fees on the receiving end.

https://paypal.me/pools/c/8pZpTdM87q

Community GoFund Me

KGE Community,

Recently, a club member, Jason (Yanoro) passed away. If you had the pleasure of knowing him, you know that he was a huge advocate for our club and a force for good. Jason would always go out of his way to make new members feel welcomed and could often be found telling stories around a campfire.

Jason was the partner of club member Cassie (Lia) and a father figure to her two children. Jason and Cassie were planning on purchasing a house together this month and starting a new chapter of their lives together.

I will always picture Jason running around the property with his brightly glowing spear and the largest smile on his face. He loved our game and always said that it was the people who kept him coming back. Jason could also be seen in the parking lot giving everyone the biggest hugs and always telling them how much he had missed seeing them only if it had just been a few days since their last parting.

Yanoro a true light in the darkness. It was amazing how whenever I thought a fight was lost he always showed up ready to keep pushing on. When all hope was lost he was the light that pressed you to take just one more step forward. While Yanoro will no longer visit Illveresh his spirit will live on in the stories we tell and the laughter that always echoes through our woods.

A GoFundMe has been set up in honor of Jason. All of the donations will go to Cassie and their family. If you would like to donate please go to - https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-honor-of-jason-morgan-for-cassie-and-their-boys

Thank you for providing your support in this time of remembrance.

Sincerely,
Marcus (Sir Tralik)

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June Event Details

June 13, 2020 Tashina O

June Event Details

Friday June 19th Answering a couple of quick questions:

"When can I get on the server to test out my settings/etc.?"

You can get on right now if you want, but we will not have active staff or begin approving people until the event's actual start time. The Discord link is: https://discord.gg/nc9VXwg

"I can still pay for the event and get in today, right?"

In order to be approved to join the event, we need to make sure you have your ARF filed, that you've paid your yearly dues, that you don't owe back amounts, we need to get you put into our online event documentation and other things.

People who made their payment ahead of time gave us a chance to complete this ahead of time. If you do this today, it means that we need time to do all that work on-the-spot. That takes time, and it requires someone available to do it, but staff are not available 24/7.

So, brief answer (and I apologize if this seems off in tone, I just wanted to be as transparent and quick with an answer as possible):

If you paid for the event yesterday or earlier, it will make your check-in process (hopefully) quick and easy.
If you paid for the event today, or if you pay for it at some point this weekend, you will be approved as soon as a staff becomes available to do so. If you're doing so at 3 am, I hope it's understood that it may take some time, since people are probably asleep, or eating, or something else. Please rest assured that we are all working as hard as we can to make things happen.

Thanks for your time and patience!
Matt Ash
Cashier/Bookkeeper/etc.

As the Kanar Online Event is June 19-21, I want to give some information regarding it.

The event will be $15.
The event will go from 5 PM June 19th to 5 PM June 21st.
- We will work to have the discord channel up a bit beforehand so people will get things set up.
- We will be working to have the link sent out as soon as possible.
During that time, the GM staff will be in and out.
The GM team will be working through those that need various modules. This may be done in numerous ways. The GM team will be talking with those affected individually.
- This event will be a stand-alone episode rather than push the overall story ahead.
- Module resolutions shall happen in (3) forms
  - (A) Players can choose to just forget above going on the module
  - (B) Players can choose a role play only resolution option
  - (C) Players can choose a Table Top like resolution option. Note, for modules of more than one, all players involved shall have to choose this option unanimously or this option cannot be chosen.
We will be doing the “NPC XP” like the last event. Here are the ways in which to earn XP. This XP will cap at 12 extra XP (for a 30 XP Cap).
- Video a new Bardic performance (dance, poetry, dance, etc)
- Take a picture of yourself in your garb outside.
- Take a funny picture of yourself in garb outside.
- Take a picture of yourself in someone else’s garb.
- Take a picture of your fantasy inspired room with the theme of nature.
- Post a LARP used recipe (aka a camping recipe) that includes bacon.
- Tell us about your favorite LARP memory.
- Tell us a story about how you got your favorite item.
If you have a season pass you will get the 30 XP.
You will be able to teach/learn skills. We ask that you follow the rules for the amount of time needed to learn a skill.

Purchase Tickets

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Working Towards an Inclusive Community

June 12, 2020 Tashina O

Working Towards an Inclusive Community

Hey everyone.

Due to current events between the pandemic and the protests, it is no surprise that the 2020 KANAR season is a difficult one. Not only are we attempting to adapt our game to an online format, but due to the current state of the polarity in our country, we can not ignore the fact that there will be discussions amongst our club members. It should be known that in these discussions, some conversations were brought to light and the BOD have been notified to a few incidents that needed investigation.

We all participate in this community because we share a hobby which we all love. With that said, we should all be diligently working towards a welcoming environment so that our club can thrive in a way that we can all be proud of. Our membership should strive to adapt so that we can work towards a welcoming and diverse environment, rather than meet it with hostility or aversion.

The expectation of being inclusive and welcoming is only half of our responsibility as our members should be diligent in preventing anything that could harm our clubs efforts. Actions that perpetuate discrimination will be met with investigation and consequences from the Board of Directors. If a member of our club is proven to partake in any action or belief system that encourages discrimination or bigotry, they are actively working against our goals and they will be met with consequences from KGE.

Again, we are all here because we all enjoy the same hobby. Our game is better with more people to share it with, and it can only grow if we do the best we can to be inclusive and welcoming to all those who show interest in joining our favorite past time.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Player Rep,
Angelo Aquino

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Covid Crafting Update

June 10, 2020 Tashina O

Hi there kanar crafters!

Some of you may have noticed a lack of withdraws in your personal coin banks for crafting costs and Econ staff wanted to give you an update in regards to that.

As of right now, all the printing has been on hold since the March event. Your tags will still be printed, and crafting is still allowed in conjunction with any approved events, but right now printing and charging for crafting is on hold until we are able to safely meet in person again.

Once our in-person events start back up again we will print all backlogged tags and charge you your crafting costs.

Now, a benefit of this and the reason we chose to do it this way is that all those backlogged tags will have extended expiration dates that will be set to when they get printed instead of when the item was crafted, so you aren't losing months on tags you physically can not use.

If you have any questions about the above info please feel free to email the econ staff at econ@kanar.club

Stay safe and healthy!
Economics staff.

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June Event

June 4, 2020 Tashina O

June Event

This past Wednesday, the Board of Directors along with K1 and KGE staff met up to discuss the Weeklong event, with our Safety staff giving an update on current trends going on around Michigan and Ohio. We discussed a number of potential options for the June event and collectively have decided that an in-person 10-day event is unfortunately not going to happen.

We are, however looking to provide an online event to be held from June 19th - 21st, with improvements on the foundations we built from the last event.

We will be providing more information about this event as it becomes available, and as soon as possible. We thank you for your continued support and patience during this time, and understand that this is not ideal. We want to make sure that the safety of our staff and our membership is continuously upheld.

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