- Please don't start to roleplay until your application has been accepted.
- Register with a first name and a last name. No 'screennames' or middle names. For example, "John Smith" is an acceptable name, "johnxx666" and "iluvjoseph" are not.
- Keep OOC and IC separate. This means that your characters can bicker and fight as much as you like, but you as a player have a responsibility to be nice to the other players.
- Signatures should be no bigger than 400x200 pixels, avatars no bigger than 110x110 pixels.
- Don't contact staff members to ask them to read your application, they will get to it when they have time. However, it is acceptable to contact a staff member if your application has been sitting untouched for five days - but you should ask nicely.
- No double posting - that means, please edit your post if you have something to add instead of posting again straight away.
- To have another character, you must get permission from an admin. Only take on as many characters as you can handle, as additional characters are subject to the same inactivity rules as the other characters.
- Try to create a well-rounded character - one-dimensional characters are not only boring, but are also incredibly hard to play.
- No death of characters or pregnancies without an admin's permission.
- Roleplay posts are to be in the past tense and in third person. For example, "Maggie walked down the corridor to the staff room," is correct, while "I am running to the staff room" or *runs to staff room* are not.
- Posts should be at least a paragraph of ten lines. We understand that you get writer's block sometimes, so an occasional short post will be okay, but they must not be a regular occurrence and certainly no one-liners. To the other extreme, eight paragraphs is just silly. We don't care if you think it's a literary masterpiece - to reach that length, you have almost definitely padded out some things that didn't need padding. We will make exceptions if it is clearly very good and is a topic-starter thread which sets the scene, but otherwise you should keep your posts a little shorter than that.
- If the person you are roleplaying with is producing four good paragraphs per post, it would be rude to reply with one short paragraph. The only exception to this is if the person has quite clearly filled their post up with rambling fluff or nonsense to create a longer post, in which case you would be allowed to give a shorter reply.
- If a topic becomes 'R' rated (ie. delves into subjects such as drugs and alcohol), please edit the topic title to show this. This rating is equivelant to a "15" film rating. If it is heading towards an "18", please take it to private messages or ask an admin for the password to the restricted area.
- Swearing is acceptable as long as it's not excessive and is in character. If a post contains to much swearing, it should have the 'R' rating mentioned above.
- No godmoding. If you don't know what it means then you're probably doing it. What this means is that you are writing your out-of-character knowledge as something your character knows, even if they haven't actually been told within the game.
- The same goes for powerplay, which is when you write the speech, thoughts or actions of another character. You are only allowed to control your own character and it is considered very rude to try to control anyone else's. Doing so will result in a warning.
- Give it 72 hours (ie. three days) before you start asking someone to get round to replying to you. Real life can and does get in the way sometimes and it can be horrible when you're having a brain-death/writers' block moment and someone keeps asking if you're going to reply. After three days, you can give a gentle, polite reminder. After a week, hassle away! xD
- Be nice, don't advertise in the chatbox, don't discuss site activity in the chatbox.