Game Rules

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The mods reserve the right to change/add to these rules at any time and will do so if the need arises.

[edit] General Rules

• Be respectful of other players. This is the common courtesy rule, boys and girls. Be mature, be decent and keep all that OOC drama for the llamas, cause we don’t want it in our game.
• You must wait two weeks between one character being accepted and the next being applied. This is to give players a chance to establish new characters before bringing in more.
• Slash is very much allowed, as are threesomes/foursomes/however many folks you’d like. All we ask is that you mark all R/NC-17 logs or threads appropriately and place the logs behind a cut.
• Players are welcome and encouraged to create their own plots that other players can get involved with. However, if you plan on creating a plot that you know will affect other players' characters directly, you must contact them. Plots that would affect the entire game must be discussed with the mod first.
• All in-game posts and tags must use proper spelling and grammar - no chatspeak whatsoever, no emoticons. And to keep it consistent between posts; it would help if it's in third person, present tense. These rules don't apply to journal entries - characters are allowed to have bad grammar or spelling or draw in smileys or whatever. But in actual roleplay posts with narration and so on... no. Posts and tags violating this rule will get a warning to change it if it's a long post or tag - if it's just a short paragraph-long thing, they will be deleted.
• All posts and tags must be at least a paragraph long (5-8 sentences minimum). One or two tags below this will not get you in trouble, but most tags should be consistently at or above this level.
• Players are expected to keep characters active. There's no set limit, where you must post a character X times per month, but if the mods judge you are not active enough, you will not be allowed any more characters until your activity level is brought up. This gets much stricter the more characters you have.
• In-character actions lead to in-character consequences. While no one's allowed to kill someone else's characters for no good reason, if your character has backed themselves into a corner where serious injury or death is impossible to escape, do not expect the other players to bend their characterization to keep your character alive. If there's no way out for your character, they have to deal with the consequences of their actions, and will not be rescued just because their player doesn't want those consequences.
• Keep in mind that your characters cannot get money or things requiring money from nowhere, and wanderers especially have limited resources because they don't have any identification from this universe. This won't be strictly enforced, but if your characters consistently have things they shouldn't have been able to acquire, the mods will call you on it. Pets and pregnancies/babies require mod approval.

[edit] For Fandom Characters

• Canon-puncture is dealt with by the players. If the mun of the character expresses a desire to not have their character canon-punctured, then that’s that. End of story. On the other hand, if they seem to be fine with it, then by all means, have at it!
• This last part isn’t a rule so much as it is a suggestion. If you are playing a character from a fandom and there are other characters from the same fandom already in play, it might be good to get together and talk to their muns OOC. As stated before, it’s certainly not a rule but might be nice for all who are involved.