Post by Honovi on Sept 1, 2007 19:22:34 GMT -5
Rules
So, we got rules. EVERYONE hates rules. But these rules are essential to a fun and fair roleplay, and our sharp-eyed Enforcer, Skein, is on the lookout for any rulebreakers. These words are LAW.
1. No Gary-Stus or Mary-Sues. These are owls that are perfect and beautiful in any way, that are loved by everyone, even by their enemies. These are a major pet peeve to many people, me included.
2. No godmoding. Your owl can’t be totally unkillable, all-powerful and mighty. Everyone has weaknesses, owls included.
3. No power-playing, also known as manipulating and using other people's characters without their permission.
4. This takes place WAY after the time of Soren, Twilight, Gylfie, and Digger’s band. No one is allowed to play these owls, or any other owl in the Ga'Hoolian books.
5. Sex talk, racism, and other offensive language towards other members is not allowed. If your owl is the type that swears absolutely all the time, just swear all your character wants. However, remember that owls have their own swear words, and they tend to use those instead. ;D Out-of-character, you aren't forced to use those words, but I don't want to see the c-box or the forums spammed up with cusses all over the place.
6. Violence is PG-13 and no higher, please. We don’t want to go to bed thinking about blood and gore and mangled bodies.
7. This is a roleplaying forum for roleplayers of all types and of all experience. Every post must be at least five sentences, though, to avoid those dreaded one-liners. For those who are inexperienced in roleplaying, this can be a big help. Try to put a little effort into it. Explain how the character is feeling, how they look, is it night or day, what does the scenery look like, stuff like that. However, chatspeak/netspeak is not tolerated, and doing so will get you a warning. Chatspeak is +@lkin lyk dis l@vvl. Double posting is also not allowed and tends to be annoying.
8. The admins are Glaux here. Listen to them and do not disrespect them. Direct insults to them will get you into a good heap of trouble.
9. The codeword for the profiles is “Great Tree”.
10. When you roleplay, do NOT roleplay like this- *walks over to her and says hi* Use complete sentences and quotation marks for dialogue. It should look more like “He walked over to her. ‘Hello,’ he said."
12. Third person roleplaying is preferred. I've seen people use first-person before, but when it's used in roleplaying it tends to be an annoyance to many people.
13. If your owl loves another owl and they want to have lovely little chickie-poos together and be happy happy happy with their lovable babies, go to the Hatching board. Post both owls’ statistics there and wait for the admins to respond, who will give you information about the birth. The information given will include how many eggs there were and how many of them hatched, the chicks' genders, their appearances, and any abnormalities. You can choose teir personalities and names. No, people, this is not a sex-ridden roleplay. I've noticed that when graphic scenes are allowed, people FLOCK there and do it over and over again. This site does have a plot and regular conflicts to keep your characters busy, people.
14. I’m sorry for any spelling mistakes I make. I spilled Coke on my keyboard, didn't clean it, and now a lot of the keys don’t work. I have to deal with it until I have enough money to buy a new one.
15. I changed my mind, just to see if you’re really reading. The codeword will be “Owls of the Kingdoms” instead. I suggest you keep reading in case I change my mind again.
16. No auto-hitting. When fighting, your character cannot make contact with the other character unless that character says so. The same goes for killing characters. If you auto-hit another character, they have the right to ignore you and to contact an admin about it.
17. The admins don’t bite. Please, don’t be afraid to ask questions. We’ll be happy to answer them for you.
18. I do not own this site's ideas. Snowstorm, of the site Rise of Ga’Hoole (now sadly a dead site ), does own it. We, the few members left of that site, have made this V2 due to the fact that she left us. I based pretty much everything off of her site. Everything is about... ninety-threeish percent hers.
19. Don’t steal pictures of the owls from Kathryn Lasky. She won’t appreciate it.
20. There is an account called “Glaux”. This is an admin account and will only be used to stir certain events in the roleplay. Glaux can cause forest fires, typhoons, crow attacks, anything. It’s just there so your characters can respond to it and possibly bring life to dying threads.
21. You can have as many characters as long as you can keep track of them all. If I see that you are losing control over them, I will suggest you kill off or put a few up for adoption.
22. Your character CAN DIE. They can die from anything, pretty much. But don’t put stupid things that I've sometimes seen in roleplays like: ‘Bob was standing on a small pebble and fell. It was so high up, on that tiny pebble, that the impact of hitting the ground killed him instantly, his blood splattering all over the site.’ Is that proper roleplaying? Methinks not.
23. Take the time to use the handy Spell Check, especially if you have poor spelling skills.
24. Little accessories and jewellery is allowed on your owls. These can be acquired by trading objects with the traders that come around.
25. Here, we call warnings “pokes”. Breaking these rules repeatedly and deliberately will result in getting poked. After three pokes, you will be “pied”. Being pied here is getting banned. As in, not being able to rejoin.
26. YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE READ THE BOOKS TO JOIN THIS FORUM. As long as you know what an owl is, you're welcome. The members here will help you out with anything you don't understand.
27. The most important rule of all is to have fun. ;D
28. I change my mind again. “Great Tree” will be the codeword for the profiles after all.
So, we got rules. EVERYONE hates rules. But these rules are essential to a fun and fair roleplay, and our sharp-eyed Enforcer, Skein, is on the lookout for any rulebreakers. These words are LAW.
1. No Gary-Stus or Mary-Sues. These are owls that are perfect and beautiful in any way, that are loved by everyone, even by their enemies. These are a major pet peeve to many people, me included.
2. No godmoding. Your owl can’t be totally unkillable, all-powerful and mighty. Everyone has weaknesses, owls included.
3. No power-playing, also known as manipulating and using other people's characters without their permission.
4. This takes place WAY after the time of Soren, Twilight, Gylfie, and Digger’s band. No one is allowed to play these owls, or any other owl in the Ga'Hoolian books.
5. Sex talk, racism, and other offensive language towards other members is not allowed. If your owl is the type that swears absolutely all the time, just swear all your character wants. However, remember that owls have their own swear words, and they tend to use those instead. ;D Out-of-character, you aren't forced to use those words, but I don't want to see the c-box or the forums spammed up with cusses all over the place.
6. Violence is PG-13 and no higher, please. We don’t want to go to bed thinking about blood and gore and mangled bodies.
7. This is a roleplaying forum for roleplayers of all types and of all experience. Every post must be at least five sentences, though, to avoid those dreaded one-liners. For those who are inexperienced in roleplaying, this can be a big help. Try to put a little effort into it. Explain how the character is feeling, how they look, is it night or day, what does the scenery look like, stuff like that. However, chatspeak/netspeak is not tolerated, and doing so will get you a warning. Chatspeak is +@lkin lyk dis l@vvl. Double posting is also not allowed and tends to be annoying.
8. The admins are Glaux here. Listen to them and do not disrespect them. Direct insults to them will get you into a good heap of trouble.
9. The codeword for the profiles is “Great Tree”.
10. When you roleplay, do NOT roleplay like this- *walks over to her and says hi* Use complete sentences and quotation marks for dialogue. It should look more like “He walked over to her. ‘Hello,’ he said."
12. Third person roleplaying is preferred. I've seen people use first-person before, but when it's used in roleplaying it tends to be an annoyance to many people.
13. If your owl loves another owl and they want to have lovely little chickie-poos together and be happy happy happy with their lovable babies, go to the Hatching board. Post both owls’ statistics there and wait for the admins to respond, who will give you information about the birth. The information given will include how many eggs there were and how many of them hatched, the chicks' genders, their appearances, and any abnormalities. You can choose teir personalities and names. No, people, this is not a sex-ridden roleplay. I've noticed that when graphic scenes are allowed, people FLOCK there and do it over and over again. This site does have a plot and regular conflicts to keep your characters busy, people.
14. I’m sorry for any spelling mistakes I make. I spilled Coke on my keyboard, didn't clean it, and now a lot of the keys don’t work. I have to deal with it until I have enough money to buy a new one.
15. I changed my mind, just to see if you’re really reading. The codeword will be “Owls of the Kingdoms” instead. I suggest you keep reading in case I change my mind again.
16. No auto-hitting. When fighting, your character cannot make contact with the other character unless that character says so. The same goes for killing characters. If you auto-hit another character, they have the right to ignore you and to contact an admin about it.
17. The admins don’t bite. Please, don’t be afraid to ask questions. We’ll be happy to answer them for you.
18. I do not own this site's ideas. Snowstorm, of the site Rise of Ga’Hoole (now sadly a dead site ), does own it. We, the few members left of that site, have made this V2 due to the fact that she left us. I based pretty much everything off of her site. Everything is about... ninety-threeish percent hers.
19. Don’t steal pictures of the owls from Kathryn Lasky. She won’t appreciate it.
20. There is an account called “Glaux”. This is an admin account and will only be used to stir certain events in the roleplay. Glaux can cause forest fires, typhoons, crow attacks, anything. It’s just there so your characters can respond to it and possibly bring life to dying threads.
21. You can have as many characters as long as you can keep track of them all. If I see that you are losing control over them, I will suggest you kill off or put a few up for adoption.
22. Your character CAN DIE. They can die from anything, pretty much. But don’t put stupid things that I've sometimes seen in roleplays like: ‘Bob was standing on a small pebble and fell. It was so high up, on that tiny pebble, that the impact of hitting the ground killed him instantly, his blood splattering all over the site.’ Is that proper roleplaying? Methinks not.
23. Take the time to use the handy Spell Check, especially if you have poor spelling skills.
24. Little accessories and jewellery is allowed on your owls. These can be acquired by trading objects with the traders that come around.
25. Here, we call warnings “pokes”. Breaking these rules repeatedly and deliberately will result in getting poked. After three pokes, you will be “pied”. Being pied here is getting banned. As in, not being able to rejoin.
26. YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE READ THE BOOKS TO JOIN THIS FORUM. As long as you know what an owl is, you're welcome. The members here will help you out with anything you don't understand.
27. The most important rule of all is to have fun. ;D
28. I change my mind again. “Great Tree” will be the codeword for the profiles after all.