Post by ADMIN on Aug 17, 2013 17:19:02 GMT
! T H E ◦ ◦ R U L E S !
Please register your account as your character's name without spaces for example: firstlast. Also, the birthdate and gender of your account must be your character's birthdate and gender.
We have a very small minimum word count of 150 words - we value quality of quantity but we do ask that sometimes you try to match the word count of the person you're threading with or get relatively close since some find it a little annoying when you've written a 1000 word post and they receive 250 words in return...though, everyone understands sometimes you can't match it so the odd short reply should be fine and maybe the person you're threading with doesn't mind at all- just try to take this into consideration though.
Behaviour
- No godmodding or powerplaying. God-modding is where your character is invincible - which they aren't - and power-playing is where you play the other persons character whether that be replying for them, roleplaying them or giving them no choice in the situation.
- Treat others as you wish to be treated. Please be respectful to your fellow members and staff. If another member or even a member of the staff team is upsetting you or causing trouble, let one of the other members of staff know via PM! We will not tolerate our members feeling upset due to other people's behaviour.
- We allow swearing and such around the site but we draw a line over inappropriate subjects being spoken about in cbox. If we find inappropriate comments in there from a member, they will be warned. If trolls start trolling and do not stop, the IP of the pesky creature in question will be banned.
Graphics
- Avatars must be 150x150.
- Signatures can be no wider than 500 pixels. Pretty much any height is allowed within reason - if we feel it is a big too big, you will be informed.
- Any images posted on the site cannot exceed 500 pixels wide. If the image please either resize it or post it as a link. We don't want our board the be stretched!
Applications & Characters
- You have three days to complete a character's app posted in 'WIPs'. You may PM either or the admins if you need more time but if you have not done so, your app will be sent to the Archives. It may be recovered if you PM the staff but after two weeks the character account will be deleted.
-You can not use your character until it is accepted.
- Either once you've made an account or when you've finished making your character please make sure your character's full name is in caps.
- All characters must be 16+. Your character my have a child that's younger but they will have to be NPC'd.
- Once your app has been accepted, it is required that you post your Face Claim, Who's Who and make a Plot Page for your character. If you have read this then please, in the secret answer section of your app write your character's first name backwards, for example: sdrawkcab.
- Although we are aware London is a big city and is very likely to have more than a couple of twins, pregnant women, blind individuals, deaf individuals and individuals with uncommon mental health conditions, we do not want too many of these characters running around and will put a ban on them if we see fit.
- Also, though is a real-time site, in the case of pregnancies we will manipulate time. Pregnancies will only last two months as opposed to nine (because nine months is a long time). If you wish to have a pregnancy plot you must PM the Big Ben (admin) account requesting so because we will have a few rules to run by you.
- We do not want carbon copies of actual characters in fiction. That means no characters too much like Christian Grey or Bella Swan or Scott McCall or Sookie Stackhouse or...well, you get the point. We especially don't want to see characters with PBs of an existing character and having the same personality. For example; Matt Bomer or Ian Somerhalder character with too many similarities to Christian Grey. Or, Ian Somerhalder being too similar to Damon Salvatore or Tyler Posey being too similar to Scott McCall or Kristin Stewart to Bella Swan.
We don't mind some similarities because sometimes, certain personalities fit the look of some characters and sometimes we find it hard not to associate character traits with a PB. Plus, personalities come through in pictures and GIFs of characters. So some similarities are completely fine but please, put your own touch on the character make them different.
- We have no character limit but after making two characters you must have at least two active threads for each character in order to make another, this requirement will be repeated for each character. This is to assure that all characters are kept active and you don't just go making loads of characters willy nilly and never use them.
- If you wish to kill off one of your characters or just drop them completely please post on our Kill/Drop A Character board. This way, the staff will know.
Activity
We understand that real life will always come first and life can get pretty hectic and stressful- it happens to the best of us. And in these cases, you might not have time for RP'ing. However, we do ask that you follow the following rules to do with activity so we know.
- If a character is inactive for seven days the app will be moved to the archives and the account will be PM'd. You will then have another seven days to reclaim your character simply by replying to the PM we send you. Your app will then be returned to 'Accepted Apps'. If however, you do not reply to our PM within a week of us sending you it, your character's app will remain in the archives and the account will be deleted.
- If you're going to be absent from the site for a week or more you must let us know by posting on the absences board. This will make it so your character is exempt from the above rule.
ICC
ICC is a privilege. It is for fun quick fire communication between characters. However, it should not be used as a replacement for threading or developing plots. That is not what it's there for and we'd rather not see something massive and significant to your character's plot there- we'd rather you thread it so not only you know what's happened and can read back easily, but other members can read it too.
If we feel like you are spending too much time in ICC and not posting enough, you will be PM'd.
Our ICC is set up in a way that it's face to face character interaction. Not in the style of a chatroom. Chatroom style interaction can be done in our Instant Messaging board under 'Telecommunications'.
Face to face character interaction will work similar to how you would thread only, quicker and no lengthy descriptions, speech, or character thoughts. All ICC must be done in public places. This is so that anyone and everyone can join whenever they wish.
Character speech: Normal
Character action: *action in asterisks*
Character whispering: Italics
Character thoughts: 'Italics in apostrophes' or
Example:
Sloth: *crawls into the park*
Dog: *wandering through the park, spots the sloth* Oh, hello there Mr. Sloth.
Sloth: *looks up at the dog, a slow smile forming on his face* Hello. 'Oh, what a pretty little thing you are'.