Rules and Codes of Conduct

[Q]

General Conduct

1) Respect all other members. No public flaming.
2) If you must argue on an issue do it through PM
3) Members not participating in RP do not have the right to insult the gaming of those playing. And members participating do not have the right to insult non-players on the issue of not playing.
4) Any aspect of the board that needs improving, or you have an idea for should be posted in the suggestions and comments section.
5) Signature and avatar requests are to be made in the Sig test forum ONLY.
6) Any member found posting in threads inactive for a month with no viable information or reason will be dealt with accordingly.
7) Any violations of the rules or abhorrent behavior will be handled thusly:

First offence=warning.
Second offence=short ban.
Third offence=1 month ban.
Fourth offence= perma-ban.

Punishments are not arguable. If you are perma-banned you must start a new account, continued offences will result in e-mail and IP banning.

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Game Conduct Rules:

1) Playing is a privilege, not a right.
2) This game is a dictatorship, not a democracy. – Q is god. And Q has the final say on anything. Any complaints or concerns should be discussed privately or in the appropriate thread.
3) Players may not play in the Role-play without an approved character.
4) Out of Character discussion should be carried out in the OOC board or in PM. Discussions deemed out of character in the IC boards will be moved or deleted without notice.
5) Combat is concentual only and there are no 'one shot one hit' kills.
6) No character may die or be killed without their player's consent.
7) No power or effect may be 'forced' onto a player without consultation and consent.
8 ) Canon Characters from other series, including TV, videogames, anime, movies, books, the internet, webcomics or other media are NOT permitted in this game.
9) One action to one reaction for combat and conflict situations. Multiple actions per post will result in moderation and possible interruption. Intent should be implied in the post, however, it should not be stated to have happened. The player being affected will ultimately decide effect of such attacks. Note: Be reasonable. Never taking damage or never getting hit is banworthy and do not try to use abilities you do not have. If it isn't on your character sheet, you don't have it.
10) Moderation or scene intervention ( act of god ) may happen from time to time if any of the above rules are being broken. Failure to comply to GM instruction will result in immediate ejection from a scene via deus ex machina.

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Player Conduct

1) Players are expected to be respectful to each other. If you feel there has been a conduct violation, please report it privately to Q or another mod. Do not take it upon yourself to publicly point out activities such as 'flaming'.
2) Older players are expected to help new players if possible.
3) Flaming is not permitted, however constructive criticism and 'no frills' aid is permitted.
4) No public posts should be of an adult nature. Keep such RP private. Violence, swearing, and gore is permitted.
5) Godmoding is a bannable offence. Godmoding is as follows:

• Character is indestructible and unharmable. If not indestructible, can dodge and parry everything.
• Never takes damage.
• Deals own damage.
• Will try to kill an opponent with a single blow, without giving the opponent a chance to dodge.
• Will declare an opponent dead when they are not.
• Has a weapon or something that gives him power over everything.
• Can kill a god with a single blow from said weapon.
• Does not respect the other character's powers and abilities.
• Acts without considering the consequences of their actions on everything.
• Is a hack and slasher and has no sense of creative roleplaying.
• Seems to focus on nothing but combat.
• Has no sense of humor about combat, takes it way to seriously.
• Never bothers to understand what they are fighting or want to fight.

6) Players should at least read the character sheets of the people they are interacting with or sceneing with so that they know what the character looks like.
7) Players are expected to be able to keep 'player knowledge' and 'character knowledge' separate. Players who can not keep their character and player knowledge separate will be warned, posts deleted and banned in that order for info leaks.
8) Proper grammar, spelling and punctuation are generally expected to be used when posting. If a post is illegible for WHATEVER reason, it will be removed. A few typos are okay, but all caps, no punctuation, no capitalization, and no paragraph breaks are not. There is a spell check on the board, use it!
10) Reasonable response time. When playing with other players, you are expected to reply within a reasonable time frame. At least once every 2-3 days. Players taking more than 5-7 days to respond may find themselves dismissed from a scene.

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Please PM me if you feel I have missed anything of importance.
Disclamer: Many of these rules are influenced heavily, nearly word for word, from other roleplays, namely Shifters. I take no credit for the original.

[Wolves_Cry]

sounds far enough, good job