Post by knabstrup kels on Jan 21, 2010 22:52:24 GMT -7
*Rules!
obey or be pecked obsessively by chickens!
obey or be pecked obsessively by chickens!
respect
-everyone should know this one. respect other members and especially the admins. problems with anyone ooc should be reported to an admin and not escalated.
rating
-MATURE; this means that there MAY NOT BE be content not appropriate for younger eyes. so be warned.
registration
-you can register with whatever name you like, it just MUST NOT BE suggestive of drugs, alcohol, or other illegal doings, or be considered to be rude in anyway. also, please do not have punctuation in your name. it gets annoying. sorry.
-please have different accounts for all your characters.
-if human, please have your display name with your character's first and last name in all lower case, like this: john doe.
-if equine, please have your display name be the registered name of your character in all lower case, with no punctuation, like this: satans glory
posting, part 1
-we are intermediate to advanced, which means absolutely no one-liners whatsoever. do it and you're deleted. our minimum posting is two hundred words / two good paragraphs. if you're detailing your posts, it's not that hard to make your posts at least two hundred words. seriously. if you really need help on that, contact kels. she'll be glad to help you figure out details for posts.
posting, part 2
-spell check and proofread. no text talk, IM lingo, any of that in posts out of the iming room. we understand that there are words that you might not be sure of how to spell, but please at least google and use a dictionary. correct grammar and punctuation are love too. the admins are not your english teachers and will not try to critique your writing. instead they'll be college professors and ignore it. harsh reality.
mature content
-sexual, graphic, violent, language, anything of that sort. if you have anything in your posts that go to rated r type material, we require that you put {M} at the beginning of your topic title. not doing so will result in closure of the thread and it being moved to the admin forum, as well as warnings for all involved.
-for sexual content, PLEASE pm the admin, and we'll be happy to give you the password to the mature area. posting mature, sexual content out of the mature area, YOU WILL BE BANNED. you have been warned.
-it's better to be safe than sorry, so if you're not sure if your thread is mature or not, ask an admin.
graphics
-avatars are 100x100. signatures must not be longer than 500 pixels, and higher than three hundred. this is plenty of space.
godmoding
-people mainly associate this with controlling another character. we're going to associate this with everything. no controlling other characters, no mary-sue's/gary-stu's, your character cannot know what's going on in another thread without being there or being told by someone who was in the thread, etc.
-if you're not sure if you're godmoding or not, ask an admin.
activity
-there will be activity checks, and we require that you post at least once a week in character. post however much you want out of character, but it doesn't count toward your activity.
death
-it doesn't matter if you talked it over with the other person or if it's suicide, any plans of character death must be told to the admins. who's involved and the circumstances. the admins will then discuss and decide if you may proceed or not.
horses
-you can either role play a horse, and be owned by other member's character, or role play your character's horse. this makes it so that people who enjoy role playing as a horse can do so, and people who aren't too fond of that don't have to.
-students can own up to three horses at a time and keep them at the academy. students may not own stallions or horses under five years of age.
-staff members may own up to five horses and keep them at the academy. staff member can own any horse they wish to, any age, any gender. life isn't fair, sorry students.
-horses HAVE to be realistic. I won't have ten zillion buckskin gypsy vanners running around, or tons of brindle horses getting loose by unlatching their own stall doors. sorry kiddos.
characters
-i generally encourage people to have as many characters as they can, just as long as they can keep up with them. however, i do have a cap on how many characters are running about. i would like to see no more than four characters per person, and one of those four has to be a male human. if you think you can handle more than four, pm me, and we'll talk about you maybe getting the chance to have more.
dorms
-all human characters will be kept in dorms. for students, it is three to a room, for staff, they get their own apartments. Boys are not allowed in the girls dorms, and girls not allowed in the boys. the only exception is the common room connecting the two, and the ground floor.
-students must keep their dorms clean. there will be a housekeeper coming once a week to clean them for you, but if she finds that the room is messy, she will report straight to the owner(s). students with dirty dorms have to muck the stalls.
-students are allowed to have ONE PET, just so long that their roommates are not allergic. if your roommates are allergic, you will be moved to another dorm room, with dorm mates that are not allergic.
speaking animals?!
-ok, let's set this straight right here. horses can only speak to horses. parrots, if trained, can speak, but cannot have conversations. they are simply repeating, like that annoying little cousin/sibling you have.
anything else
-will be noted by the admins when thought of
credit
-always credit if the work is not yours. these rules are credited to rae of rpg-d and caution 2.0 and cherry crush and other places >.>'