Post by Livvia on Jan 23, 2010 15:11:19 GMT -5
Basics:
1. Respect all Admins, Mods, and Members alike. Meaning do not badmouth, undermine, hack, or disrespect anyone in anyway. We want this to be a friendly, safe place that people can feel comfortable in. Get it! Got it? Good.
Joining:
1. You may have as many characters as you wish and can handle, provided you have the Karma to pay for it. (First is free)
2. Your display name needs to be your characters first and last name. If that is not what your name is, your display name will be changed by an admin. (Please refrain from putting nicknames in this spot).
3. This is a literate site. (see below)
4. If you join, please be active. What is the point of joining if you don't stick around? If you haven't been on for a month, your account might be deemed inactive and the plots involving your character might be changed and moved on.
5. As for Playbys, please no anime or drawn pictures. Make them of real people (preferably famous people, just in case someone else wishes to find more pictures, for you). Please, thank you, and sorry. Also, no cos-play. Please.
Abilities:
1. No duplicate abilities; Meaning that if someone has a power that is like, similar, has basically the same effect in any way, etc. etc., then DON'T CHOOSE IT!
2. If you are a shape-shifter, you may turn into one thing, and only that one thing. Not counting your human form, of course. Furthermore, the number of shape-shifters will be limited. Depending on how many are currently in existence, and how many the individual user already has, you may be told not to make one. Ask an admin if you have any questions about this.
3. Being "all powerful" is no fun for other people (or yourself)! Please restrain yourselves from choosing abilities that would make you unbeatable. Meaning you must have some sort of weakness! And you MUST state it in your application. There must be some way to hurt or kill you. Everyone has a weakness. We CANNOT stress this enough. If an admin thinks your power is too powerful, you WILL be asked to change it. Keep it simple, keep it beatable, but keep it interesting.
4. DO NOT DRAW YOUR POWER DIRECTLY FROM DEATH. Having some sort of connection to death is ok, but you are not a zombie, you cannot bring anyone back to life, you cannot control another character's soul. There is no instant-kills (see godmoding and the info on deaths/births). Get it? Got it? Go on and keep reading.
Role playing:
1. This board is rated R for mature content mostly involving violence and possibly sex. However, if your character and another person's character intend to get graphic/extremely intimate, then please place a 'Warning' in the topic’s title, as not everyone wants to read something that contains gore or has sexual content.
2. On a related note, your character may not become pregnant or kill another person’s character without the admin and the other role player’s consent. This is just to ensure that not everyone is walking around with a baby or, well, dead. It’s just not realistic. If you character becomes pregnant, you must wait two real weeks before they can have the baby. Once they are born, you must attend to them. Also, admins will be monitoring your topics and, if you kill your character without permission, the topic and/or posts involved might be subject to deletion. If you don't want all your hard roleplaying erased for all eternity, then follow the rules.
3. This is a literate site. This means:
* You have proper grammar and spelling. It doesn't need to be perfect, but we need to know what you are saying.
* There is no godmodding or powerplaying. Just stick with your own character.
* You must have an acceptable amount of content to your post. One-liners are not acceptable. We ask that you have at least 2-5 paragraphs a post of a good length, or more. Into posts or the each person's first post on a thread, should be a little longer in order to properly set up the scene. If your post length is questionable, an admin will notify you. If it continues, punishment will be in order.
* Please, no first person and keep your posts in the appropriate past tense. (I've had problems with this before...)
4. You may be in more than one thread at once. Try to keep some sort of timeline in your head, if necessary, in the event that you are doing multiple threads wit your character that might effect future posts or plots.
Other:
1. If you break the rules, a warning will be PM’ed to you. If you continue to do so, your account will be suspended for three days. If your actions continue to be disrespectful to the staff and its members, your character will be deleted. And dependent on your actions after this, you may just be banned from the site. Please don’t make us have to do this.
2. No stealing. If you take any posts, applications, rules, etc, you will be banned from the site. If you want something, ask for it! If someone makes you a banner, you must credit them.
Please read often as new rules may be added.
PLEASE SUBMIT AN APPLICATION TO JOIN!
If you do not and just start roleplaying, your posts will be deleted and you may be subject to banning.