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[23 May 2008|12:31am] |
CHARACTERS
1. Only characters listed are available.
2. Follow canon. Make sure your backstory and gameplay doesn't negate canon.
3. All characters must start with a sexuality and if it changes you need to get it mod approved. That doesn't mean it can't be a secret, but you need that in your application and it must be justified. This game is not meant to play out random sexual fantasies, sexuality, like any sexual plot, must be character/plot appropriate.
4. No Mary Sues.
5. You must have a PB and I ask that your default icon at the very least be a picture with their face, not a drawing or abstract photograph of a shoe, etc.
6. YOU MAY NOT use a movie casting as a played by. I don't want a mix of movie castings and random actors. If you need help with a PB, IM moderation at Nimbuschick and we can work something out. Check ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) amy_icons for ideas.
7. KEEP YOUR APPLICATION in your journal or user info after acceptance.
8. NO APPLYING without the journal already made.
GAMEPLAY
1. NO ADLIBBING (deciding words or actions for other player characters). Also think about power-playing, meta-gaming, and all those other nasty terms. It's not acceptable. Pressuring other players into plots an actions they DO NOT want to participate in is power playing and against the rules.
2. Major plot of character developments (depression, death, pregnancy, etc.) must be cleared by moderator and if the plot involves another player's character, cleared with that player as well.
3. One post in story form every 14 day MINIMUM (Once a week is highly suggested. Periodic "sweeps" will be done to clear out inactive players. We don't have to give warning, we're nice like that. One journal post per week.
4. Anything that could get you in trouble in most countries (theft, murder) could get you in trouble in the Wizarding World. There are other canon laws! Remember that and play it out. If you character is getting in fights or doing something major, moderation needs to know to plot accordingly. You may get busted and Shacklebolt will be on your ass :)
5. OOC Posts belong in the OOC community!
6. Ask if you're not sure your character knows something. If I didn't say your character knows or their group knows, chances are they don't.
7. Expect sexual content. Sex happens. You have a right to inform other players if you do not want your characters in sexual situations, but do not preach to those who do. That said, please don't overdo it (Have other plot).
8. AIM transcripts go behind LJ-cut tags and should have a description and warning of sexual content. They belong, in story form, in the main community and do count as your open action post.
9. Do NOT be a snob. If your post is tagged, reply.
10. If you keep posting open threads and nobody tags them, maybe you aren't making them open enough for characters to be comfortable slipping into. Rather than complaining that nobody will plot with you, try posting on someone else's open thread. It takes two to play... at the very least.
11. Journals function as part of an experimental type of communication sold at book stores. Journal entries can be made private or public or viewable only by specific members, genders, or specified groups. This cannot be as vague as "Blocked to People I don't Like" or "To the Guy I met Friday".
12. Don't barge in on other's threads without considering if they want to be interrupted. When in doubt, ask.
13. RPing is in PAST tense, THIRD PERSON, dialogue goes in "QUOTES" Please refrain from bolding dialogue. I know what quotations mean.
14. Your icons should be good looking. Use icons from somewhere else, make them, request them. I do not want to see distorted proportions (squishing a 2-3 ratio down to a 1-1 without cropping), pixels, or blurs. If your icons don't look good, it makes the game look bad.
PLAYERS
1. Players must be active with a first and second character before picking up a third for one week. There is a limit of four characters per player. Moderation reserves the right to allow someone to pick up more characters. This judgement is based on player history and activity.
2. Must be 18 or older to play. We're covering our arses. Of course I can't acually check, it's impossible, but please realize that if you get in trouble for mature content, it is not my fault. I do not encourage you to do anything you know is against the rules.
3. If you get really busy and tell us so, we'll understand, but if you are always busy, never online, and it goes on for a long period of time (even if you post, I want to see taggage going on), and especially if a character's player complains about you abandoning their plot for weeks on end, I will have the right to sweep you. There is no "well her character isn't important so she can old onto her". If they inconvenience ANYONE by being non present they are important enough to sweep.
4. Moderation reserves the right to boot anyone at any time without warning.
5. DO NOT drop bombs in the OOC. That's what starts OOC Drama.
6. I reserve the right to reject any played by I find unfitting, overused, or just entirely annoying. This means that you should avoid Brit and K-Fed, Boyd Holbrook and Cintia Dicker, and any scene kid. Also, Emma Watson will never be approved, so don't try. There is no official list, but if I ask you to change the PB, that is my right as mod. Bad PBs turn people away from good games. It's a fact of life.
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