Guidelines of Kailiauk

View Towards the Thentis Mountains

Please read the following guidelines. Your cooperation in abiding by them is greatly appreciated by the muns of the citizens of Kailiauk, an AOL Role Playing Group on AOLGor.

  You must be at least 18 years of age to play in the city of Kailiauk. AOL Gor is an adult role playing forum, and contains adult content. If you are discovered to have lied about your age, you will be ejected from the city.

  OOC = Out of Character. IC = In Character.  Character = The persona you adopt to play on Gor, your character, a fake person you pretend to be. Mun = Mundane of..., in other words, YOU as opposed to your character. Do not confuse the two, as so many do. You may be playing a character, but you are Bob or Judy or what have you. You are not Grunt the Magnificent, so don't act like it. If you write an OOC email, sign it as "Mun of..." not as  Grunt. It gets confusing where you're coming from otherwise and it doesn't impress anybody.

  Keep OOC in the rooms to a minimum. The place for OOC is in IMs. Try to limit yourself to BRB (be right back) and AFK (away from keyboard). We don't need long descriptions of your activities while gone.

  Be mindful of AOL TOS rules while role playing. Keep graphic comments and descriptions to private rooms. Use them in public rooms at your own risk.

Please, while playing in Kailiauk rooms, try to devote your attention to the room and not IMs. If the IMs are more important to you than the activities in the room, please respect your fellow role players and go "AFK" or leave the room until your IM situation is under control.

  No attacking or collaring of characters whose muns are AFK.

  Role play realistically. Role play is give and take...it means taking turns. If you take an action, give the other people a chance to respond before you do anything else. And please, no multiple actions in your descriptions, for example: "Pushes past her guards and grabs the free woman around the throat, holding an axe under her chain as he growls in her ear..." Also, if it is obvious that the person you are attacking or fighting with did not see your post, do not play as if they did nothing...remind them that it was their turn. Rooms get busy and with a lot of scrolling, it is not always easy to keep up.

  Though Kailaiuk is based on the city and culture described in the novels of John Norman, remember that not every aspect of Gor is described, and some discrepancies and contradictions exist. Where the books fall short, common sense must rule. These guidelines, and the city laws are considered to be the final word in so far as they apply. Any further issues that arise will be dealt with by the Council of High Castes of Kailiauk.

  No flame mail. You will be warned once. Repeated use of the official city mail string to send insulting or hurtful emails will lead to expulsion from the city. Keep disagreements private and among those who are in the "need to know."

  The Council of High Castes will mediate disagreements both IC and OOC for the city and its citizens. All citizens and their muns are expected to abide by the final decision of the CHC.
 
  Certain individuals and groups are not welcome in Kailiauk due to either the nature of their RP or their...how shall we put it?...life status. The PPBC (Predator's Pride Black Caste) is not welcome in the city. There is only one Black Caste on Gor, and this one ain't it, folks. Neither are dead characters who just refuse to stay dead. Any character claiming immunity to death is banned from Kailiauk. People, if you can't die, you can't kill. It's that simple. KurjanP is banned due to his lack of willingness to suffer injury while delighting in inflicting it.

  Child characters without parents, in other words, orphans or wandering children, are banned from Kailiauk.

  There will be no Panther Girls in Kailiauk unless they role play somehow arriving in the city, from the Northern Forest through the Thentis mountains, either over them or via Boswell Pass.

  Though the City of Kailiauk has no affiliation with the old GHC (Gorean High Council) of AOL Gor, we do abide by the dice rules originated by that body, in other words, the "2d20" system as opposed to the ANGor "percentile" system. There is no requirement that a character be registered with his/her caste, but neither is that forbidden. The dice recognized are:

* Includes Wagon Peoples, Red Savages, Alars and Torvaldslanders, pirates, any who might be said to make their living by the sword.

  NPC Bashers: For your information and enlightenment,NPCs (Non-Player Characters) are a time-honored tradition in role playing. The City of Kailiauk recognizes their existence, as do its muns. If you don't like NPCs and refuse to acknowledge them, there are many other places you can role play. Do not expect to come into OUR city and force us to play by YOUR rules. Bottom line: You come here, you play by our rules.

  A final note for visitors/intruders: Please role play your character's arrival in the city. Don't just pop in from the Tahari in the blink of an eye and then back again. We won't take you seriously here if you do. And if you intend to make trouble, remember, this is a living, breathing city. There are NPCs here covering merchants, traders, travelers, soldiers, etc. The streets are not empty just because only one mun might be on playing his character. If you intend to attack, expect to be required to role play your attack, and to justify your actions.