Post by Admin on Oct 4, 2012 23:19:06 GMT -5
It is the your job as a player in GHU//SW to ensure that you read & understand the SL rules & general information about GHU//SW (campus information, where your character lives in housing, etc). This SL is a game, and like all other games, it comes with rules & instructions. "I didn't know" is never an acceptable excuse, especially when the information is already posted on the website. The Owners and Staff reserve the right to suspend and/or remove any player from the SL if they are deemed to be disruptive or potentially disruptive to the SL.
RESPECT & CIVILITY & MATURITY, Oh My! ::
.......Everyone here is at least 18 years or older. You know what respect is. Treat others OOC how you would want to be treated. Do not automatically run to the staff with your problems, if you can handle them on your own without drama, please do so. If you cannot or the situation is something that requires the Owner or Staff assistance, please feel free to contact us! We're here to help you. If the Owners or staff are attempting to have a conversation with you, please give them the respect they deserve and do not ignore them. We will show you the same civility.
AGE & CROSS GENDER PLAY ::
.......MUN AGE :: This storyline may contain mature themes, and therefore all mun/players/characters must be at least 18 years of age. There are no exceptions to these rules, and violation will result in immediate removal from the storyline. Character applications that do not meet the 18+ threshold will be denied. This being said, however, if your character has NPC characters under the age of 18, IE a sibling they care for or their own child, please let us know when you apply! Any FCs for these characters will be put on the NPC list.
.......CROSS GENDER PLAY :: We do not care about cross-gender roleplay. If you wish to play the opposite sex, please feel free. However, to avoid possible OOC drama, we urge you to not keep this from your RP partners. We do allow two screen names for cross gender characters, where you play females on one SN and males on another.
CROSS ROLE PLAY ::
.......This is a concept or acronym lost on some people, CRP stands for Cross Roleplaying. If you don't know what this means, here's your guide. You cannot take knowledge you have found out OOC [Out of Character] and take that knowledge IC [In Character]. You cannot be told something OOC or IC on your character Jane Doe and make sure she somehow tells June Smith "In Character" this information because it is convienent to your Role Play. CRP will be dealt with on a case by case basis.
CHARACTER CREATION & DELETION ::
.......CREATION :: While the Administration here at GHU//SW do not have a strict character limit, we do urge you not to swamp yourselves with characters. Please do not make more characters than you can handle. At a given point we might ask you to remove a few characters if we feel that you are not active enough on the ones you have. While we will not limit how many characters you have, we will limit how may you can enter at one time.
.......CHARACTER DELETION :: Sometimes even the most beloved character runs its course. If you are thinking about retiring or deleting a character, contact the owners prior to taking any action. Any characters who are deleted will NOT be allowed to return to GHU/SW for a minimum of 90 days. Any player who deletes or deactivates a character without discussing it with the owners first will have their remaining characters removed from the SL. No exceptions.
FACE CLAIMS & PHOTOS ::
.......The Administration reserves the right to deny certain Face Claims if we feel they are not age appropriate [IE. 18 or older] and, or are not appropriate for use in this SL. This means if they've got 20 pictures and 18 of them are nude or very close to it, we reserve the right to deny or suggest alternatives. We do this not to hamper you as a mun, but for ease of finding pictures acceptable for the Administration to post. The staff reserves the right to deny faceclaims to muns who are not active enough for very popular FCs.
.......POSTING PHOTOS :: The Admnistration will not be held accountable if your character comes under fire for photos they chose to post. However, when chosing a FC, please remember that when posting pictures to your facebook there are certain guidelines as to what is acceptable for 'public' view. If any are found not to be within certain guidelines Administration will mark these photos and muns have 72 hours in which to remove or crop them.
.......RESERVING FACE CLAIMS :: If you wish to reserve an FC, please contact the staff via email located here. Due to a high demand on reserving FC's, we will allow each mun/player to reserve no more than 3 Face Claims. Each reserve is held for maximum of 42 days unless otherwise stated. If you are not active enough the Administration reserves the right to remove reserves to free up FC's for new members and active members. It is the player's responsibility to review our FC list to ensure you are selecting an available face claim.
NETWORKING ::
.......While we employ the use of Facebook™ it is not Facebook as you know it. Rather, all characters are part of a local network native to Gallows Hill and Salem. This network is inclusive of the university and the city, and is a closed network, meaning this network is also considered to be monitored, and subject to local laws regarding stalking, cyberbullying, fraud, and other crimes. All characters in the network must be friended, even if your characters hate the character in question. DO NOT ADD characters to your Friends list until an announcement to do so has been posted on the GHU and or SW FB Wall. All College students will be announced Via the GHU FB, all Salem characters Via the Something Wicked FB. Once a month we do FB checks to ensure that only GHU//SW chars are your friends.
ACTIVITY, GROUP PLAY, & MESSAGE BOARDS ::
.......ACTIVITY :: Activity is key to the survival and prosperity of any Storyline. Here at GHU//SW we require you make a minimum posting once a week with ALL characters you have. If you have not been on your character and posted for that week we will mark this down. Two weeks of inactivity will earn you a warning. Two more weeks without posting and your character will be suspended. The owners reserve the right to remove characters who are inactive for a long period of time. Communication with the staff is vital to avoid being perceived as having 'Gone AWOL'.
.......JOURNALS, LOGS, & BOARDS :: Here we require one of three things due by the last day of each month. If you have 6 characters and wish to mix up your required things please feel free. If you wish to do a journal entry despite the fact you chose to do logs or group scenes please feel free!
..............1. A journal [2+ paragraphs.] written before the last day of every month for all of your characters. This helps you if you cannot be on all the time,
or can only be online when others aren't. ALL, character journals are to be read OOC unless stated otherwise. Your character can only react IC
to a journal you have read if they are tagged in the journal.
..............2. Logs of your play with other people to be posted on the boards by the end of the month. You can either tag team to post these, or one of the muns
can post the entire log. For ease of play, please colour code the players in the scene. IE Jane, John, Paul, Ringo.
..............3. Group plays/Scenes will be set up. If you participate in these, it counts towards your activity.
.......GROUP PLAY & MESSAGE BOARDS :: Group roleplay is highly encouraged, as is the use of the proboard. These things not only help to prove you are an active writer, but they help to enhance your overall game. All muns will be required to make an account on the messageboards.
FAME, FORTUNE & FOREIGN SOIL ::
.......The Staff of SW//Gallows Hill reserves the right to limit very wealthy, famous, and/or foreign characters. If we feel that for the time being there are more than enough, we will ask you to wait to bring these chars in or help you think of a new character. In general, we try to assure people have no more than one a piece so that the storyline can remain somewhat realistic.
.......FAME :: Yes, everyone wants it, but the odds of of there being 3 billionares, 4 rockstars, 5 actors, and 2 celebrities in Salem [despite it's closeness to Boston] is slim. We understand you want to be special, but we would more than love to help you figure out how without it being entirely unrealistic. While the point of Role-play is to enjoy something you aren't/don't have in every day life it's also our job to ensure that it's not outside the realm of posibility! IF you want your character to be well known you must contact the staff with this. We want to know the plot so everyone else can be made aware of the fact. Please keep in mind that these spots are limited.
.......WEALTH :: All things need to be in moderation. Keep in mind, once more, this is a smaller town in Massachusetts, the odds of all 8 of your characters being wealthy in the millions living here, isn't great. We understand the want for your character to have lots of money, but please keep in mind we won't allow you to have all extremely wealthy characters and drive $2m cars. The odds of John Doe needing a Bugatti in Salem, MA is slim. While we are more than happy and more than pleased to allow people to have wealthy characters, the staff reserves the right to limit this when we feel there are enough wealthy characters in the storyline or if we feel you have reached your limit of wealthy characters. We will NO LONGER accept characters with net worths in the billions, while we will accept wealthy characters, characters worth hundreds of millions will probably be asked to be put on hold.
.......FOREIGN SOIL :: This is a smaller town in Massachusets and a fairly small college. The this lessens odds of 40 characters bussing into this small town/college to live and go to school for no particular reason from England/Russia/Australia/Mars. The staff here at GHU/SW reserves the right to turn down foreign students and charaters if the quota is already maxed out.
LEAVE of ABSENCE ::
.......Please notify the staff at least three days in advance that you need to go on LOA or leave the story. Standard LOA is 30 days unless stated otherwise. IE, boot camp, extended training.
PREGNANCIES, DEATH, ILLNESS, MAJOR/NON CRITICAL INJURIES ::
.......PREGNANCIES :: Here at GHU/SW we allow up to two pregnancies per female mun at any given time. However, you may only have one college student pregnant at any given time. All pregnancies requests/descisions must be submitted via writing to the Owner and Staff here. Please see #10 in Extended SL Rules for more guidelines on character pregnancies.
.......DEATH & ILLNESS :: All major/terminal injuries or illnesses must have GHU staff approval prior to being put into play. Depending on the type of injury/illness that you wish to incorporate for your character, the owners may determine that a dice roll for complications and/or whether your character succumbs (i.e. dies, goes blind/deaf/mute, etc) to the injury or illness is necessary.
.......INJURIES :: Any major injuries, critical or non critical must be brought to the owner and mods ahead of time. This includes shootings, stabbings, beatings of your character or someone elses in the SL, major car wrecks, and fires. This doesn't mean if your character trips on the sidewalk and hurts themselves you don't have to inform Staff, that would be silly. However, odds are unless it's completely ridiculous, we will allow it! However, we want to keep some degree of realism so we want to make sure things don't go over the top.
FAMILY & FRIENDS ::
.......We encourage your characters to have siblings and family members that other people can play, however, we do NOT want you to invent children/siblings that have never been heard of before just for the sake of having someone tied to your character. IE: Jane Doe has been played previously as an only child, yet OOC your best friend wants to play a character with you, so Jane suddenly has a sibling never heard of before.
MUN CONSENT & STAFF APPROVAL ::
.......The murder, rape, kidnapping, or assault of another character(s) has to be approved by all participating players in that particular story & reviewed by staff of the Gallows Hill//Something Wicked storylines before being played. Also, the same principles apply to characters committing crimes, and members must be aware that all violent crime will result in real life consequences for their characters if that information is provided out in the open (meaning Facebook walls, group chats, and etc.). Failure to follow through with this rule results in removal from the storyline.
-- Additionally, any crimes your character may choose to commit must be played out, and a log sent to the owners. Failure to provide a log negates the
actions in this SL.
RESPECT & CIVILITY & MATURITY, Oh My! ::
.......Everyone here is at least 18 years or older. You know what respect is. Treat others OOC how you would want to be treated. Do not automatically run to the staff with your problems, if you can handle them on your own without drama, please do so. If you cannot or the situation is something that requires the Owner or Staff assistance, please feel free to contact us! We're here to help you. If the Owners or staff are attempting to have a conversation with you, please give them the respect they deserve and do not ignore them. We will show you the same civility.
AGE & CROSS GENDER PLAY ::
.......MUN AGE :: This storyline may contain mature themes, and therefore all mun/players/characters must be at least 18 years of age. There are no exceptions to these rules, and violation will result in immediate removal from the storyline. Character applications that do not meet the 18+ threshold will be denied. This being said, however, if your character has NPC characters under the age of 18, IE a sibling they care for or their own child, please let us know when you apply! Any FCs for these characters will be put on the NPC list.
.......CROSS GENDER PLAY :: We do not care about cross-gender roleplay. If you wish to play the opposite sex, please feel free. However, to avoid possible OOC drama, we urge you to not keep this from your RP partners. We do allow two screen names for cross gender characters, where you play females on one SN and males on another.
CROSS ROLE PLAY ::
.......This is a concept or acronym lost on some people, CRP stands for Cross Roleplaying. If you don't know what this means, here's your guide. You cannot take knowledge you have found out OOC [Out of Character] and take that knowledge IC [In Character]. You cannot be told something OOC or IC on your character Jane Doe and make sure she somehow tells June Smith "In Character" this information because it is convienent to your Role Play. CRP will be dealt with on a case by case basis.
CHARACTER CREATION & DELETION ::
.......CREATION :: While the Administration here at GHU//SW do not have a strict character limit, we do urge you not to swamp yourselves with characters. Please do not make more characters than you can handle. At a given point we might ask you to remove a few characters if we feel that you are not active enough on the ones you have. While we will not limit how many characters you have, we will limit how may you can enter at one time.
.......CHARACTER DELETION :: Sometimes even the most beloved character runs its course. If you are thinking about retiring or deleting a character, contact the owners prior to taking any action. Any characters who are deleted will NOT be allowed to return to GHU/SW for a minimum of 90 days. Any player who deletes or deactivates a character without discussing it with the owners first will have their remaining characters removed from the SL. No exceptions.
FACE CLAIMS & PHOTOS ::
.......The Administration reserves the right to deny certain Face Claims if we feel they are not age appropriate [IE. 18 or older] and, or are not appropriate for use in this SL. This means if they've got 20 pictures and 18 of them are nude or very close to it, we reserve the right to deny or suggest alternatives. We do this not to hamper you as a mun, but for ease of finding pictures acceptable for the Administration to post. The staff reserves the right to deny faceclaims to muns who are not active enough for very popular FCs.
.......POSTING PHOTOS :: The Admnistration will not be held accountable if your character comes under fire for photos they chose to post. However, when chosing a FC, please remember that when posting pictures to your facebook there are certain guidelines as to what is acceptable for 'public' view. If any are found not to be within certain guidelines Administration will mark these photos and muns have 72 hours in which to remove or crop them.
.......RESERVING FACE CLAIMS :: If you wish to reserve an FC, please contact the staff via email located here. Due to a high demand on reserving FC's, we will allow each mun/player to reserve no more than 3 Face Claims. Each reserve is held for maximum of 42 days unless otherwise stated. If you are not active enough the Administration reserves the right to remove reserves to free up FC's for new members and active members. It is the player's responsibility to review our FC list to ensure you are selecting an available face claim.
NETWORKING ::
.......While we employ the use of Facebook™ it is not Facebook as you know it. Rather, all characters are part of a local network native to Gallows Hill and Salem. This network is inclusive of the university and the city, and is a closed network, meaning this network is also considered to be monitored, and subject to local laws regarding stalking, cyberbullying, fraud, and other crimes. All characters in the network must be friended, even if your characters hate the character in question. DO NOT ADD characters to your Friends list until an announcement to do so has been posted on the GHU and or SW FB Wall. All College students will be announced Via the GHU FB, all Salem characters Via the Something Wicked FB. Once a month we do FB checks to ensure that only GHU//SW chars are your friends.
ACTIVITY, GROUP PLAY, & MESSAGE BOARDS ::
.......ACTIVITY :: Activity is key to the survival and prosperity of any Storyline. Here at GHU//SW we require you make a minimum posting once a week with ALL characters you have. If you have not been on your character and posted for that week we will mark this down. Two weeks of inactivity will earn you a warning. Two more weeks without posting and your character will be suspended. The owners reserve the right to remove characters who are inactive for a long period of time. Communication with the staff is vital to avoid being perceived as having 'Gone AWOL'.
.......JOURNALS, LOGS, & BOARDS :: Here we require one of three things due by the last day of each month. If you have 6 characters and wish to mix up your required things please feel free. If you wish to do a journal entry despite the fact you chose to do logs or group scenes please feel free!
..............1. A journal [2+ paragraphs.] written before the last day of every month for all of your characters. This helps you if you cannot be on all the time,
or can only be online when others aren't. ALL, character journals are to be read OOC unless stated otherwise. Your character can only react IC
to a journal you have read if they are tagged in the journal.
..............2. Logs of your play with other people to be posted on the boards by the end of the month. You can either tag team to post these, or one of the muns
can post the entire log. For ease of play, please colour code the players in the scene. IE Jane, John, Paul, Ringo.
..............3. Group plays/Scenes will be set up. If you participate in these, it counts towards your activity.
.......GROUP PLAY & MESSAGE BOARDS :: Group roleplay is highly encouraged, as is the use of the proboard. These things not only help to prove you are an active writer, but they help to enhance your overall game. All muns will be required to make an account on the messageboards.
FAME, FORTUNE & FOREIGN SOIL ::
.......The Staff of SW//Gallows Hill reserves the right to limit very wealthy, famous, and/or foreign characters. If we feel that for the time being there are more than enough, we will ask you to wait to bring these chars in or help you think of a new character. In general, we try to assure people have no more than one a piece so that the storyline can remain somewhat realistic.
.......FAME :: Yes, everyone wants it, but the odds of of there being 3 billionares, 4 rockstars, 5 actors, and 2 celebrities in Salem [despite it's closeness to Boston] is slim. We understand you want to be special, but we would more than love to help you figure out how without it being entirely unrealistic. While the point of Role-play is to enjoy something you aren't/don't have in every day life it's also our job to ensure that it's not outside the realm of posibility! IF you want your character to be well known you must contact the staff with this. We want to know the plot so everyone else can be made aware of the fact. Please keep in mind that these spots are limited.
.......WEALTH :: All things need to be in moderation. Keep in mind, once more, this is a smaller town in Massachusetts, the odds of all 8 of your characters being wealthy in the millions living here, isn't great. We understand the want for your character to have lots of money, but please keep in mind we won't allow you to have all extremely wealthy characters and drive $2m cars. The odds of John Doe needing a Bugatti in Salem, MA is slim. While we are more than happy and more than pleased to allow people to have wealthy characters, the staff reserves the right to limit this when we feel there are enough wealthy characters in the storyline or if we feel you have reached your limit of wealthy characters. We will NO LONGER accept characters with net worths in the billions, while we will accept wealthy characters, characters worth hundreds of millions will probably be asked to be put on hold.
.......FOREIGN SOIL :: This is a smaller town in Massachusets and a fairly small college. The this lessens odds of 40 characters bussing into this small town/college to live and go to school for no particular reason from England/Russia/Australia/Mars. The staff here at GHU/SW reserves the right to turn down foreign students and charaters if the quota is already maxed out.
LEAVE of ABSENCE ::
.......Please notify the staff at least three days in advance that you need to go on LOA or leave the story. Standard LOA is 30 days unless stated otherwise. IE, boot camp, extended training.
PREGNANCIES, DEATH, ILLNESS, MAJOR/NON CRITICAL INJURIES ::
.......PREGNANCIES :: Here at GHU/SW we allow up to two pregnancies per female mun at any given time. However, you may only have one college student pregnant at any given time. All pregnancies requests/descisions must be submitted via writing to the Owner and Staff here. Please see #10 in Extended SL Rules for more guidelines on character pregnancies.
.......DEATH & ILLNESS :: All major/terminal injuries or illnesses must have GHU staff approval prior to being put into play. Depending on the type of injury/illness that you wish to incorporate for your character, the owners may determine that a dice roll for complications and/or whether your character succumbs (i.e. dies, goes blind/deaf/mute, etc) to the injury or illness is necessary.
.......INJURIES :: Any major injuries, critical or non critical must be brought to the owner and mods ahead of time. This includes shootings, stabbings, beatings of your character or someone elses in the SL, major car wrecks, and fires. This doesn't mean if your character trips on the sidewalk and hurts themselves you don't have to inform Staff, that would be silly. However, odds are unless it's completely ridiculous, we will allow it! However, we want to keep some degree of realism so we want to make sure things don't go over the top.
FAMILY & FRIENDS ::
.......We encourage your characters to have siblings and family members that other people can play, however, we do NOT want you to invent children/siblings that have never been heard of before just for the sake of having someone tied to your character. IE: Jane Doe has been played previously as an only child, yet OOC your best friend wants to play a character with you, so Jane suddenly has a sibling never heard of before.
MUN CONSENT & STAFF APPROVAL ::
.......The murder, rape, kidnapping, or assault of another character(s) has to be approved by all participating players in that particular story & reviewed by staff of the Gallows Hill//Something Wicked storylines before being played. Also, the same principles apply to characters committing crimes, and members must be aware that all violent crime will result in real life consequences for their characters if that information is provided out in the open (meaning Facebook walls, group chats, and etc.). Failure to follow through with this rule results in removal from the storyline.
-- Additionally, any crimes your character may choose to commit must be played out, and a log sent to the owners. Failure to provide a log negates the
actions in this SL.