General
1.) Admins are Admins. Moderators are Moderators. But they're still Humans. And they're no better than you; they're just lucky enough to get jobs. Admins and Mods maintain boards; they shouldn't be tyrants who decide everything. The players should decide, both in and out of Character.
2.) R.E.S.P.E.C.T, something we all want....Please respect both your fellow members and the staffers. Meaning dont jump at them in a cussing frenzy for not acting fast enough on posting or on looking at your application or anything else for that matter. Violations will result in a temporary Ban depending on the matter.
3.) Racial Slurs in out of character will not be allowed, nor will sexist slurs. Freedom of speech is fun and all, but expressing personal prejudice in such a way is just wrong. Caucasian, Male, Female, African, it doesn't matter, you're human, and that's what counts. Violations will result in an automatic Ban.
4.) Jokes are good and all, but let's not go psychotic. Dead baby jokes can only go so far. In fact, they shouldn't. They're kinda not funny. They're gross. My point is, let's not stave into certain regions of hilarity. No one likes vomit on the keyboard.
5.) To maintain your active nature, you must post somewhere per 20 days, or you will become inactive. This will result in your loss of characters(Though they can be retrieved, provided your Canon characters may have been taken), and any job, such as Moderator or Admin, will be removed. You may post in the Leaving forum that you will be gone for a period of time, regardless of how long, and thus rule will not apply.
Roleplaying Rules
1.) Character Allowance - While Staff members will be allowed to actively control 4 characters as long as they can maintain an active status with all of them, regular members will be permitted 3 that they can apply for if they too maintain an active status with said characters. At least one of these characters must be a canon character, note you dont have to sign up as a canon at first though we would like it if it was your first or at least your second character.
2.) Cannon Usage - No more than 1 cannon character per member is allowed. Applying for a second cannon character will result in the profile being automatically rejected, unless special circumstances allow for it.
3.) God-Modding - Just plain NO, if your caught god-modding by Admin/Mods, it's an automatic 7-day Ban after the first offence. Repeated offences will result in a full Ban.
4.) Metagaming - No, No, No, No! The same rules and punishment for God-modding apply here.
5.) Powergaming - If I need to spell this out for you and explain that the same rules for God-modding and Metagaming apply here, then you don't deserve to play an RP.
6.) Post Length - To maintain a decent level of Roleplay, please keep post length to atleast a 200 word minimum. It's not that difficult really!
7.) Death, Sex/Rape and all that good stuff - Alright we all know this kind of stuff happens in the real world, no one is ever completely innocent....hell priests have been in the news for certain things so not even men of god are innocent. If you follow the storyline of Fruits Baskets you should know this stuff even happens here, people building strong relationships with their cousins for example so yes these things will be allowed. Of course when you're getting into something such as sex or drug-use in your topic please throw a Mature/M tag up there in the topic title or at the begining before you do things. As far as death and rape goes, if your character is doing either to someone else character please make sure you have oked this with both a staff member and whomever is playing the other character. Like as before, throw a mature tag up there for this as well.
Joining and Posting
1.) While you do not have to, it is preferred that you register as your character's name. It can be a nickname of your own or of your characters or just the first name of your character. Please if you do not sign up with your character's name, register as something simple, not anything like SuperFireyChick987.
2.) Please do not register a name simply to advertise, we are guest friendly when it comes to advertising.
3.)Remember that rule about racial and sex slurs? That DOES NOT apply to Characters in the RP. You can be as much of a white(Or any other ethnic or race) supremist as you want, but keep it to a civilized degree and don't let it carry out into OoC or against targeted people.
4.) Your character cannot be in two posts at once as everything across the board happens all in the same timeframe give-or-take. But yes in fact there are ways around this as you can be in more the one topic at once as long as you state that its a different time of day like, in one topic it can be morning while in another it is night time. Of course this means you cannot join someones topic that happens at the same time of day one you're already in does. Please dont go over board and post in five topics at once, stay in two or three at the least.
5.) God-modding,Metagaming, & Power-gaming here just like every other boards out there is a big no no. Unless you got the permission of the other player you cannot land any direct hits or force another character to do anything or play your character in anyway that appears to be contrary to your own profile, all-powerful, or by using information learned out of character. Any violations of this rule will result in a Ban, no questions asked.
6.) Please, no rip-offs of characters from any other anime, yes you can use a picture of them and use their name in some cases. Name and appearence thats as far as we'll go with characters from other anime/mangas. We dont wanna see anyone from Soul Society running around with a zanpakutou or pokemon running around causing havoc or anything like that.
7.) This is an advanced board meaning that the limit for posts here is 250-300 words at the least. Of course this doesnt mean you cant go any higher then this when writting up a post.
8.) Plagerizing - Please when making your application for a canon character, do not copy information from websites. We will be looking for this and if you do copy information you will be given one warning after this you will be banned. So in short terms, put things in your own words.
9.) The most obivious rule out there.....HAVE FUN FOR GOD'S SAKE!
(*Note, these are subject to change at times so please check back often*)
-Mike