Neighborhood
| Location | Cavern |
|---|---|
| Link-in point(s) |
DRC ## Bevin 5 60,265 6 999 7 -71 |
| Restoration progress | |
| Current phase | Released |
A neighborhood is a community area, located on the Cavern wall.
Known neighborhoods include Bevin, Kirel and Seret. They differ in their configuration, though the general layout is rather similar. Kirel is a blue, mirrored version of the Bevin style, while Seret shares the same style with Bevin but has different lamp features. Currently, Kirel and many neighborhoods patterned after Bevin are accessible to the explorers in the Cavern.
Two other neighborhoods, Jenahkai and Shegahdah, are known only by name. They are not available to explorers, and nothing is known about their location or layout.
Elonin is a neighborhood discovered by Dulcamara and Ametist.
Many neighborhoods were rather well-preserved from the fall, and have been one of the first major places to become publicly accessible once more by explorers thanks to the DRC's restoration work.
Bevin's main square.
Kirel's main square.
The only released picture of the Seret neighborhood. The people visible are Rand Miller and RAWA.
Features[edit | edit source]
| Feature | Bevin | Seret | Kirel | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eddie | Yes | No | Yes[1] | A beachball with no known purpose. |
| Ahyoheek Table | Yes | Unknown | No | Used to play the Ahyoheek game. |
| Classroom | Yes | Unknown | Yes[1] | Bevin-type neighborhoods' classrooms contain useful information provided by the DRC for new explorers to get started in the form of posters and journals. Kirel's classroom, aside from being tidier, instead contains an imager with information provided by the explorers' restoration and their guilds' meeting time. |
| Telescope | Yes | No | No | Allows viewing of Kerath's Arch and, in the distance, Ae'gura. |
| Private Room | Yes | Unknown | Yes[1] | A Private Room, blocks KI's |
| Bahro stone | Yes | Unknown | No | Leads to Tokotah Courtyard in a hood-instanced Ae'gura. |
| Imagers | Yes: 2 | Unknown | Yes: 1 | One imager displays recent visitors as well as (Bevin only) Ahyoheek and pellet scores, and tips for new players. Bevin's second one is used by members of the neighborhood as a KI image display. |
| Auditorium Podium | Yes | Unknown | Yes | A somewhat garbled D'ni recording can be listened to in Bevin-type neighborhoods' podiums, and a list of contest-winning poems can be read on a DRC journal placed atop them. Kirel's podium has been repurposed to play back informative recordings from Restoration Efforts. |
| Guild Tables | No | No | Yes | Five tables, each with some information about one of the new guilds. |
Orange mushroom-like vegetation grows on some lampposts.
Naming confusion[edit | edit source]
The word "Bevin" is not D'ni for "neighborhood".[2] Explorers have, however, used it as a shorthand term for them (e.g. "the Bevins", or "so-and-so's Bevin"), and there was a period of time during the Third Restoration when the DRC did the same. For many months, all of the accessible neighborhoods were called "Bevins" in the KI interface.
Bevin is also not to be confused with Beginner's Bevin, the neighborhood where Restoration Engineers used to give orientations and provide assistance to new explorers.
More confusion has been caused by the fact that moth-style lamps, believed to distinguish Seret from Bevin, have been appearing in the latter.
