Rules of Shadows of Mutation...

I. Conduct

    A. Please respect all members of the RPG.

        1. If someone reports or an authority catches you disrespecting a member, you will receive a warning called Conduct Warning 1.

            a. If you continue to do this, you will receive another warning called Conduct Warning 2.

            b. The third time you disrespect a member, you are suspended for a month and your status shall change to Probation once your suspension is over.

                1. During Probation, if you disrespect a member again, you shall be expelled from the RPG.

    B. No cursing, profanity, or sexually explicit messages.

        1. The same warnings shall apply.

II. Groups

    A. All groups can consist of 18 members.

        1. A group consists of 3 parties maximum.

           a. A party consists of 6 members maximum.

    B. A member of each party starts the story with a message, sending it to all the members of the group, and each party must have a different subject of the email in order to differentiate between the three parties.

        1. Each party starts their story in a different part of the world.

        2. In order for the parties to meet each other, each party must read the other parties' role-play messages in order to determine if any of the parties are at the same location.

        3. Members of different or the same parties are allowed to duel or battle each other.

III. Characters

    A. NO INVINCIBLE OR TOO POWERFUL CHARACTERS, a.k.a godmoding

    B. No controlling other people's characters.

    C. Yaoi, yuri, slash, and couples are acceptable.  Lemons and limes are acceptable as long as it is not frequent.

IV. NPC's

    A. NPC's may be role-played by anyone of the group.

V. Role-play

    A. All role-play shall be through email.

    B. Messages shall be written in third-person, past-tense, story mode with no action symbols i.e. '*' or '::'.

    C. Frequent swearing is prohibited.

    D. Keep all messages detailed and interesting.

VI. Activeness

    A. A member must post at least three times a week.

        1. If a member fails to post once in two weeks, he or she will be given an Activeness Warning 1.

            a. If a member fails to reply to the warning and post once in the following week, he or she will be given an Activeness Warning 2.

            b. If a member fails to reply to the Activeness Warning 2 and post once in the following week, he or she shall be suspended from the RPG for one month.  After suspension, he or she will be placed on Probation status after one month, and must post frequently in order to stay in the RPG.  If the member does not do so, he or she will be expelled from the RPG.

            c. All warnings/statuses shall be dropped if the member gives a good explanation of why he or she failed to post.

                1. If the member already knows that he or she will not be able to post, that member must write him or herself out of the story for a good amount of time until he or she comes back.  He or she must email the sitemaster telling him or her why you will not be able to role-play for the amount of time given.