1.) Respect. You must respect your fellow players. You do not, however, have to like them. We are all for joking and swearing, even threatening eachother or even roleplaying OOCly to humiliate eachother. That's right, we are laid back, but only because we do not mean what we say most of the time, and if one person pisses the other off, it usually goes away within a few minutes, apologies are handed out, and everyone's happy and joking again.
2.) Maturity. This is a PG-13 to R rated public FFRPG. If you have troubles with intense violence, drug references, suggestive themes, sexual references, and graphic, detailed scenes of blood, guts, gore, etc. then we suggest you hit the road. We will not change the way we play, but, if you can find someone who wants to RP with you and not be so gory about it, more power to ya, bring 'em on in.
3.) Activity. You MUST be online every so often to let us know you are still around. If you leave for too long, you could get lost in the story. An IC friend of yours may have died or been raped, and you wouldn't know it. If you are going to be away for, say, longer than a week.
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IN GAME: These rules are for in-character (IC) situations.
1.) God-Mode. This is the worst IC crime you can commit. Our definition of a god-moder, or GMer, is one who might try to control other peoples' characters to make them do as they want. For example, if in a fighting situation, a GMer might do as follows:
<Vampire1> *hisses and lunges at his target, yanking their head back to expose their neck, and sinks his teeth into the soft flesh, draining his victim of their blood. His prey dies, and he looks at it emotionlessly, licks the blood from his lips, turns and walks away*
You see, the other player would have no chance whatsoever to react, and the GMer gets away without so much as a scratch! It takes the fun out of the game, and it will win you few friends. Let's look at how this should be done properly:
<Vampire1> *bares his fangs and moves with lightning speed to get behind his prey*
<Gargoyle1> *growls, eyes glowing white, turning swiftly around to find the Vampire ready to strike, spreads his wings and leas into the air, catching a good updraft and gliding out of reach of his would-be attacker*
Isn't that better? This is not the whole fight scene, in fact I just made it up off the top of my head. Anything could happen from there, and the game continues. More people can join in if they want, and no one's character will die.. well.. provided they aren't already dead.. hehe..
2.) Death. You may not kill another person's character, unless its in battle.
3.) Injuries. Every character in this game will get hurt, get sick, crippled, etc. You cannot have a pristine character all the time. Massive wounds cannot heal in just one day. If you have major blood loss, it will take a while for you to be up to strength again. If you break bones, chances are it'll be broken for a while. If you become crippled, you're Vampire food. If you have an illness, you must play out as though you have that sickness. This can be anything from a simple cold, to alcohol poisoning, to Anthrax. Remember, though; it is your character. If you are getting bored, then shake things up a bit by spreading disease. ;)
4.) Multiple Characters. We don't recommend this at all. Playing one character at a time will save you the confusion of remembering what happened to which character when, blah, blah, blah.. So please, stick to just one character, unless yours dies. THEN, you can make another character. UPDATE: IF you can keep track and you have time to play more than one character, make him or her up, and send them to the leader of the order you wish to join.
5.) Sex. If you must, must, MUST have your character engage in sex with another, please take it to a private chat. We don't want to watch what you do behind closed doors. However, in the public chat, you may make it blatantly obvious what your intentions are by, say, escorting your partner someplace "private", or throwing them into the private room. We are open minded, but some of us have families watching over our shoulders at inopprotune times. We like to call what we do "parent dodging", and hope to make it an olympic event one day. ;)