Rules
1. Respect your fellow players, and your mods. This should not have to be explained. Do not harass or bully other players, and don't start OOC problems for the sake of being a drama queen. If you have problems with another player that cannot be resolved peacefully, bring it to a mod to be sorted out.
2. NO GODPLAYING/MODDING OR METAGAMING! Godplaying is when you make another character do something physically or just take them over all together. Metagaming is when your character knows OOC information, things that they - by all rights - should not know. IE: knowing another character's secrets without permission from that character's player.
3. This game is very likely to involve adult situations. Whether it be drugs, drinking, or sex (het or slash), it's all allowed here. However, anything above an R-rating must be clearly labled. For this same reason, we will not be allowing players under the age of 18. Additionally, a lot of our players access the game at this work. For this reason, we request that any adult content be behind a cut, with simply a NSFW/NWS warning with the who, where, and when. You don't have to specifiy drug use, violence, or sex - as these words can be picked up by page filters. ;)
4. You must be active. Each character will be expected to show activity once a week, in both journal entries and scenes. If you are inactive, you will be given one warning. After your warning, you have three days to resume activity. If you fail, you will be removed. If you are going to be unable to be active for some period of time, please inform a mod. :) If you end up on the inactive list three times in a row, the character will be deleted.
5. Please use proper spelling and grammar. Look, everyone makes typos, and that's okay. We can't force you to use spell-check to remove them, but it really would help. If ur p osts look liek dis all teh tim, you will be forced to edit, or removed from the game. If you're psots our full off tipos or ovbiosly mispeled words, you will be forced to edit, or removed from the game. Furtherly, any applications with very obvious grammar and spelling mistakes will not be read or accepted. And netspeek does not belong in any scene, ever.
6. Character journals are just that - character journals. Every character must have their own journal. There are several computers inside of the Compound - they do not and can not connect to the internet, but there is a special network for those inside the Compound, and all participants are expected to keep an online journal on their computer. Also, other characters inside the Compound can read and respond to each other's journals.
7. Scenes/logs/threads are to be done in the third person, past tense. No offense to other styles, it's just much easier this way. When you have two people in a scene, and they're both using first person (IE: I walk into the room and say, 'Hello', as opposed to Joe walked into the room and said, 'Hello'), it's way too confusing.
8. Scenes can be done through thread or AIM logs, depending on the player's preference. Please note that all AIM logs go in the community, not your character's journal.
9. OOC comments and posts do not belong on the in character board. Now, everyone's had that tag scene where you have to tell the other player something - be it a new line notice, or a correction request - but please, do not post OOC comments along with your tags. Any OOC notes, corrections, or questions belong in the OOC board, private messages/e-mails, or in conversation on AIM. If you must post OOC questions/notes in scene posts, please do it in a seperate comment from scene content that can be deleted by the mods later.
10. Do not join to post nothing but smut. If that's what you're after, this is not the game for you. NC17 scenes are fine, but there should always be content and something actually happening.
11. Do not only post with one other character. If we see a set of characters that have grouped off and ignored the rest of the house, we reserve the right to issue a warning.