RULES.

[admins.]

Rules;

These are quite important, and if we get the feeling that you've joined without reading the rules, we will not be happy, and constant breaking of the rules will result in punishment.

General rules;

Admins word is final;
Whatever the admin says, goes. This doesn't just stand for non-members, but all members. Our admins are quite friendly and are willing to help and advise, but if we are unprovokingly harassed or feel that we are being purposely patronised, we will not be too kind. If we say something to you or correct you, we are not attacking you, simply advising you, and will not tolerate fools who are just out for a fight. Punishments WILL follow.

Mandatory topics;
There are some topics that are mandatory. Look it up if you don't know what it means. But these topics must be completed before you're permitted to post anywhere else. You will know what ones must be done, as they will plainly say 'Mandatory'. If you fail to post these topics within the first two weeks, we will delete your account and open your character back up. If you are active and still fail to post, an Admin will send you reminders to do that. If you still fail to post them, your account will be deleted.

Absences;
If you are going to be gone for an extended period of time, it would be much appreciated - and beneficial - if you were to post in the Absences topic. Otherwise we will simply think that you've become inactive and delete your account. Likewise, if you fail to return for a certain amount of time after your absence, we will delete your account. It's simply too dificult to Role Play when half of the characters are inactive.

Have Fun;
Cliched and self-explanitory.

Swearing;
It's permitted. We all let some slip occasionally, and we're sorry if it offends you, we didn't mean it. If it does bother you that much, simply say so and we'll try to tone it down. That being said, gratuitous amount of cussing is not permitted. If it's simply unnecessary we will ask you to stop or an Admin will censor the words in your post.

Descrimination is not permitted;
This is an obvious one. We will not tolerate it, and anyone that does it, or is purposely trying to cause trouble will be kicked off quicker than you can say 'no excuses'.


Future members;

Do NOT sign up until approved;
We will be slightly lenient with this rule, because we know that misunderstandings happen. But we would prefer if you would be as cautious as possble to not make and activate an account until your application has been approved. If you do happen to - hopefully by mistake - make an account without admin permission, please just continue to post your application, and just explain to the admin in a note that it was a mistake (or whatever your excuse may be).

Sign up as soon as possible;
Once your application has been accepted, you must sign up as soon as possble. We have been fairly easy going on this rule in the past, but frankly, I'm getting sick of it. We will give you a week to sign up, no longer. Once the week is up your application will be rejected and your character will be freed up again. If you think you're not going to be able to be active in that week, Please leave a note for the Admin in the Guest OOC forum.

Only one character to begin with;
Once you have been active we will permit you to have more characters, of course. Until we've seen enough of your RPing to judge how many characters you will be able to handle, we'll then give you the option to claim another characters, until then- only one.

Accounts;
When making your account, feel free to to give it whatever sign-in name is easiest for you. Once you've made the account though, you need to change it to the name of your character. You are NOT permitted to have a general OOC account. Only accounts for your characters.

Your account should have both an avatar and a signature. Although, you can have just a signature and no avatar, but it is preferred for you to have both. If you need some help, please ask one of our members.


Members;

No more than 4 characters;
The rule with characters has been changed and is fairly important. Due to people hording a whole lot of characters and never using them, the rule is you're only allowed to take a new character if your previous one(s) are in at least 1 active rp and you are allowed no more than 4 characters.

Female/Male Ratio;
It's common for the female characters to be claimed much quicker than the males, so to keep it even, if you have a female character you must take on a male for your second character unless otherwise approved by the admins. This might not seem fair, but everyone knows that males are more needed in rpgs, so please do not complain.

Member groups;
You may only have ONE character per member group. This means if you have one royal, you CANNOT have another. This goes for ALL of the groups. Only one per group per person. You cannot have two characters that are royals, unless they are one from each kingdom.

Creating new characters;
If you wish to take on a new character and already have at least one active character, there is no need to post a sample again. Simply fill out the audition form and one of the admins will take care of it for you. You CANNOT create another character without putting it past an Admin, first. You will be reprimanded if you do this. If you wish to delete your character and start again with them (the same goes for bio's and other manditory topics) you, again, must ask an admin to do it. I cannot press this enough.


Role-Play;

Roly-Play posts;
Your posts must be at least 4 well-written paragraphs. Anything less will not be accepted. If you struggle with writing more than that, please, don't feel afraid to ask some of our members for help. Although this is only classed as a semi-serious Role-Play, we only say this to allow for a broader range of members. Keep in mind that a majority of the members on here are actually serious Role-Players and their posts, at their smallest, are about 6 paragraphs. We are willing to help with increasing your post lengths.

Writers block is understandable and tolerated - we all suffer from it at times - but it is not okay to use it as a constant excuse. Seriously, if you are going to struggle with the post length but still want to try out, feel free to ask our members, we're more than happy to give advice.

Colors & symbols;
We don't care if you have some symbols in the title of your post, but please don't have them throughout your post. It is distracting and unnecessary. All we want from you is a well-written post. We don't need embellishments or colors of any kind. Please keep the font color and type and size as is UNLESS is is the header of the post or a letter and you have it representing the handwriting. There are some things we will allow you to change the colors on such as templates and such, but when it comes to your actual posts, please keep the font the normal black and don't change the size. It is too hard for some of us to read. Thanks!

Grammar;
Good grammar is a must. A lot of us have busy lives outside of this site and we don't want to spend half of said lives trying to decipher poorly punctuated posts. This means capital letters, commas, semi-colons, correct apostrophe use, quotation marks and full stops. If you have a habit of not using them, I suggest breaking that habit or just not trying out.

No Mary-Sue's and/or Gary-Stu's
For those that don't know what these are, they are characters who are perfect. That is, they're attractive, strong, talented and never get anything wrong. Everyone has flaws, fictional characters included. That being said, you are allowed to alter a cannons personality in some way but nothing too dramatic. We can't have King Ceolman handing food out to peasants. Keep it relatively believable.

Thanks.

Head Admin: Mika.
Moderators: Kay & Chaos.

[admins.]

UPDATED! Please read and abide by these rules! The change below goes into effect immediately. I know a lot of you are going to hate me for this, but it just isn't fair to new members that we have taken up almost all the royals ourselves.

Member groups;
You may only have ONE character per member group. This means if you have one royal, you CANNOT have another. This goes for ALL of the groups. Only one per group per person. You cannot have two characters that are royals, unless they are one from each kingdom.