All players must be Adults, Ages 18+ Only. Some role-play we may create can potentially involve fictional/simulated murder, rape, torture, grisly deaths, child abuse, male pattern baldness, the use of caffeine in beverages, and other rough topics not for minors.

Players are discouraged from revealing any OOC information about a new character to other players, whether in public or private. This should be discovered through RP. Players are also discouraged from asking someone information about a new character that you haven't earned IC.

Even excellent role-players will unconsciously treat a character differently if they do not know what it is OOC, or if they think they know what it is before they've earned it IC. You will not be kicked out for this; it is just frowned on, not to mention hands other players advantages over you.

We will kick/ban people for inappropriate IRC behavior that may not have occurred in our game, but still violates IRC policy or U.S. Customs Law.

In specific, if we catch you doing any of the following anywhere, even in other channels,:

• Advertising (without Ops permission) for other channels, web sites, etc.

• Nuking people (Denial of Service attacks, etc.)

• Residing in illegal* channels (Incest, Kiddie/Teen Porn, Hate Crime (Nazis, Gay Bashing, etc.))

• Deliberately sending Viruses or Trojans to others

• Spamming

• Stalking other users

...not only will you be banned, but we will log proof of your actions and email it to your ISP's Abuse Department and US Customs/Law Enforcement [if applicable] for follow-up.

* - Illegal channels are those as defined by current prevailing US Customs Law (see www.cyberangels.org for guidelines).

We do NOT kick Adults for being in channels about legal topics between themselves and other Adults, whether we individually approve of the subject matter or not (like certain Sexual, Religious or Political channels). 

Certain volatile topics may come up during RP (racism, misogyny, rape, child abuse, etc.), but this is not permission to force others to discuss them OOC. If you wish to engage in OOC debates, do it in private message. We don't want arguments cluttering up the OOC channel while others are trying to roll dice or create RP. 

If another player is offended and doesn’t want to continue the discussion, leave them alone. We are here to play, not to force our personal opinions on others, and we do not want players to monopolize everyone's time using the channel as their personal soap box, confessional or social torture chamber.

You can be kicked out for OOC reasons, even if your role-playing skills are impeccable.

• The following are examples but are not considered to be all-inclusive.

• Any behavior that deteriorates the game will be regulated by the Ops and can result in a ban at will.

• Rules Lawyering (as in, after you are told to drop it)

• Metagaming - using IC or OOC info where it does not belong.

• Back-talking, insulting, or arguing with an Op; accusing an Op of cheating or playing favorites, or refusing to obey direct orders from an Op.

• Excessive/Prolonged Arguing. (Disagreeing is fine. Being nasty when doing so or not letting it go, is not.)

• Doing "Drivebys"/Revolving Door (popping in & out of channel a lot)

• A/S/L's, demanding IRL names, ages or pictures, or other invasions of player private information

• OOC unwelcome "Hot Chat" (Cybersex) or sexual harassment of other players

• Excessive displays of sexual, toilet, or body humor (Ops decide what is excessive)

• Deliberately flooding the channel or flooding someone in message

• "Trolling" / flame wars / chronic insulting. This includes inciting discussions on religion, politics, lifestyle choices, or any other topics that tend to encourage arguments in the channel that have nothing to do with the game.

• Not respecting other players' boundaries when they say to leave them alone.

Prospective players are welcome to sit in channel if they are checking us out for future RP.

We just don't like people who don't appear to be planning on playing, treating the channel like their personal social hall. If you are not intending to role-play, learn to role-play, observe our role-play, or discuss with an ST about your potential role-play, you have no business in this channel. This is not a place to just hang out when you are bored.

As stated on the Submission Guidelines page, if you don’t at least have a first draft of a character in to the ST’s within a week from your first day in the channel, or a final draft within a month, you’re not serious about playing, or else you just don't move fast enough to be able to keep up.

Either way, things would not work out with you playing here, if that is the best you can do. 

Please show consideration to fellow players and mark yourself AFK either by script or by Nick. This goes for Ops and Players alike. It is discouraging to players, STs and guests alike to see a seemingly full channel but nobody will interact with them.

NOTE: We do realize sometimes things happen; IRL emergencies, Nickserv vanishes, you get knocked off line while AFK and a script relogs you on with an Un-AFK nick, etc. We know the difference between that and the habitual offenders.

• Potential players will not be voiced until they have an approved character.

• Please do not beg for +v voice if you don't play here (you won't get it), nor if you have voice and are just too lazy to ID to Nickserv.

• Once you have been approved and your username of choice put in Nickserv, you can voice yourself automatically.

• HOW TO ID TO NICKSERV:

  • You must ID to the nick on file before you enter the channel.

  • You also can ID to that nick even if your current nick is something else.

  • Type "/msg nickserv id nick password" (where obviously the nick is your nick for voicing, and your password is just that.) When you come in, you get voiced. When Nickserv is down, the Ops will try to voice who they can, unless they are AFK, in which case, there's nothing we can do, sorry.

If you are prone to using the word "Huggles" for hugs (and also excessively hugging other players who don't know you and can't stand that Care Bear crap), or the word "Crys" for cries, just leave now before we disembowel you.

If you frequently say things like "my parents won't let me on the computer after 10 pm", leave now. If you're not lying about your age and they say that and you're well over 18, leave now and get psychiatric help. No, we're not kidding. It makes you sound 11 years old and makes us feel pedophilic for letting you in here. We expect players to sound, and act, like grown-ups in here.