General Rules

Subject: General Rules Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:41 pm

Anyone found breaking rules will be subject to any form a punishments such as penalties to your character such as Loss of stat points, money, or rank. Other punishments may be more severe according to certain punishments such as temporary bans from the chatbox, Temporary bans from the site, or a total ban from the site itself.

Ignorance will not be tolerated. Any rule posted here should be followed. "I did not know" will not be an acceptable excuse.

We here reserve the right to edit and change any and all rules, as well as add any new rules to settle a situation that may occur. Do not try to exploit or utilize any loopholes in order to further your character. This will be considered cheating. Instead notify any member of the Staff about this loophole and you may be rewarded for your efforts in trying to make this site better for everyone.

General Rules
Character Rules
Role-Playing & Posting Rules
Combat Rules
Multiple Topics

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Subject: General Rules Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:01 pm

General Rules:

Your username should match the name of the main character you create.
When creating your character please follow the Template provided. If you are needing help please ask a staff member or another member for assistance.
Wait until your character is approved before you begin play, once you character has been approved you may start play in your respective village.
Descriptions of death, gore, and blood are allowed on this forum.
All sexual content needs to be kept at a PG13 level at all times. This is not a site for anyone to “cyber-sex” and anyone involved in such activities will get themselves immediately banned.
Any and all inappropriate or offensive actions by any member must be reported to a “SoS Admin”. This may include any racial, sexual, religious, and any form of slur.
Rudeness will not be tolerated; insulting or flaming directed at any staff or regular members. For this disciplinary actions will be taken immediately.
Staff members cannot approve of anything if they are personally involved in it and another staff member will have to approve of it.
You will be the one to be held accountable for your actions. Always remember this; just because another player is breaking the rules does not give you the right or permission to do so as well.

Subject: Character Rules Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:10 pm

Character Rules:

You may have up to three characters; one main character and two alternative characters.
When you register an alternative character, please specify in your character application that it is an alternative character.
Alternative characters may take longer to accept for the fact when being approved it will be determined whether or not you are able to handle more than one character at a time as well as main character applications will come first to increase the number of players on the site. So please be passionate sooner or later it will be approved.
When creating your first character on this site, which is your main character, you must start out at as a Genin. Alternative characters can be a different Rank, but only if it is determined you are qualified to have it set to that specific rank. *Note* Characters that are ranked above Genin at the beginning of character creation maybe be weaker than one that has leveled up their character from Genin.
Your alternative character cannot have the same Kekkei Genkai and/or Clan as any of your other characters and must be from a different village.
You may not have any of your alternate characters benefit any of your characters in anyway, any member found to be doing so can lose all characters involved. If you want your characters to meet IC (In Character), please notify a staff member so that they can monitor that topic which your characters meet.
You must remain active with all your characters. Just because you may be active with two of your characters does not mean you can just not post with the other one and they will be fine. That goes for if you only have two as well; you must be active with all your characters or they will be taken away.
Each character must have its own account and you must post on the appropriate account. Posts that are posted by the wrong account according to the character will be voided.
Suicide is not permitted on this site unless deemed okay by a “SoS Admin”, should you commit suicide either directly or indirectly you may lose that character slot.
You may not start out as a rogue or missing for any of your characters; you must be apart of a village unless given the permission to do so by a “SoS Admin”.

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Subject: Role-Playing and Posting Rules Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:31 pm

Role-Playing and Posting Rules:

Every post you make should be at least 50 words long; more is preferred though.
You can only write in third or first person points of view, in complete sentences please. All posts need to be well written please no “Chat” style RPing (Role-Playing) here.
While Role-Playing try to write at least 100 words per post, but the minimum of 50 is acceptable unless a staff member says otherwise.
You must post in order, you may not double post unless in a topic alone.
Multiple topics
If your character is using a flashback topic any stats or jutsus gained cannot be added to your character while they are in a topic. Once that character leaves and enters the new topic then your character will gain those changes.
You must post actions, thoughts and/or speech of your character while you are Role-Playing.
When writing thoughts or speech please use the appropriate text marks. “This is for speech.” ‘This is for thought.’ If you would like to you can use colors to show the differences between speech and thought, but make sure when doing so the colors are readable. Using colors is not mandatory, but can be helpful to you and others that read it.
Make sure to break up your posts into paragraphs; no one likes to read just walls of text.
If you are wanting to edit a post you can only do so before another character posts; other wise you will need to ask permission from everyone in that topic to change your post.
While RPing you have 48 hours to post a reply to an action, after that the action is assumed to have succeeded without any form of interference. Absences can override this rule to a certain extent.
Remember that other people have lives and that they may have things they have to do. Please be patient and wait the 48 hours from the last post before you skip a character or call a hit or action.
• If you are going to be absent for more than three days, please inform the community and staff of this in the Absence section. Also be sure to exit any active posting topics your character is located in so that it does not hinder any Role-Play.
Any and all jutsus or special abilities including stats like speed, used in a post must be listed at the bottom of your post in brackets for example [jutsu here]. This is so staff and other members can see what jutsu, stats, or abilities used; this is in place to prevent cheating by people claiming they used one thing when they actually used another.
Any player found to be using the jutsu/abilities/stats information at the bottom of a post for their personal gain in combat there will be disciplinary action taken. You must play to how your character is and to how intelligent or wise your character actually is.
While RPing be realistic and write according to the situation; do not power-play, god-mod, Meta-game or ignore common sense. (Some forms of Meta-gaming are permitted depending on your characters Wisdom)
Your character must act accordingly to how your character is described in your character registration. If you fail to do so your character may be pulled and suspended from play in order for you to either remake your character or fix your posting. If there is any life or personality changing events that occur during role-play (RP) adjustments to your character can be made in your Character update section.
You cannot describe the actions of other characters other than your own, unless they are NPCs (Non-Playable Characters) created by you for the sole purpose of development or if you are given permission by the member to do so. You may not gain items, currency, or implants from an NPC.
You cannot kill another Role-Player's character without a justified reason; random-killing is unacceptable unless deemed okay by a “SoS Admin”.
If a person makes a vague post or a post that is written in such a way that you can hardly understand it, you are allowed to ask that person to clarify his post to you. If the other party refuses to clarify, please notify a staff member. *Note* Request this by Private Messaging the other person.
In a non-combat topic, you are expected to keep a posting order. However unlike a combat topic (A topic in which fighting has started between Player Characters) where you must keep a posting order at all times, you CAN post out of order to leave the topic.
Private topics do not make them closed; the topic is simply a request for other players to stay out. Any player may be able to enter and leave topics. It is, however, courteous to requests to enter a private topic.
All OOC (Out of Character) comments and questions must be kept to the OOC Section. There is to be no OOC conversations in the IC topics. If you need to speak to the other parties involved in your topic you may link them to your post in the OOC Section by putting ((OOC: This is your short message and the link)) in the top of your post. Your short message may be no longer than 10 words.
Should a conflict arise where the players cannot agree, please post in the Conflict forum for staff to discuss.
You MUST remain civil to others; you are taking the time to make a post and then post it, not just typing wildly in a chatbox. Poor behavior will not be tolerated and you will have no excuses. Think before you post; if you need to take some time away from your computer before you make a post – you have time to respond nicely. Staff or members will wait at least 48 hours to post.
You may never use OOC information IC. Should you do so the post will be voided and repeat offenses will be subjected to disciplinary actions.

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Subject: Combat Rules Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:36 pm

Combat Rules:

You are not permitted to dodge indefinitely.
Auto hitting is not permitted; this happens when a person describes an attack and a hit in the same post.
Always keep to posting order; unless 48-hour rule applies.
Make sure that you pay attention to your opponent’s posts; if you are confused about a part of the players post ask them for clarification on what they were trying to say. Your opponent must clarify their actions if requested.
Replacements can be used three times at most per topic and it can’t be used on other characters including NPCs.
If you have a dispute about anything related to the fight either ask another member to be a judge for the fight or a staff member.

Subject: Multiple Topics Fri Jul 06, 2012 4:56 pm

Multiple Topics
In total you can only be in five topics at once; if found doing more you will follow the punishment the admin or mod may give you at the time. So please be careful with so many topics going at once.

In Character Topic:
In character topics is the main topic for your character; it is the topic of which your character grows and develop as a character itself and creates the over all plot of the site. In this topic you can do just about anything you may want to do, you may personal or team train, do a personal or team mission, or even just chat with other role-players in some kind of setting.
In Character Topic: Now you are allowed one of these topics being your main topic meaning this topic should be the most important topic to you. Which you should be posting in the IC Topic often, more than any of your other topics. There are times which you may have slow points for this topic and is very understandable it happens. Just don't make it a frequent thing or you could loose the rights to use the other topics.

Personal Mission/Training Topic:
Personal Mission/Training Topics are separate topics where you can do loan missions to gain money on your own or you can do personal training for your self to gain jutsus, Advanced skills, or even stats.
Personal Mission/Training Topic: Now this topic is more limiting where you can only do missions or training for them. You are only allowed one of these topics and in the title of the topic you must place "[PMT] or [PTT]" this is so that mods going through knows this is a Personal Mission or Training Topic.

Team Mission/Training Topic:
Team Mission/Training Topics are separate topic as well where you can do missions or even training with up to three other characters max. This topic is used for team building and training. It is where you can get together with a team of people to train or do missions as said before.
Team Mission/Training Topic: This topic is to build up team work and for you and other characters to come together as a team for either training or missions. You are limited to one of these topics at a time with the max of three other characters in it. In the title of the topic you must place "[TMT] or [TTT]" this is so that mods going through knows this is a Team Mission or Training Topic.

Flashback Topics:
Flashback topics are separate topics for training or even just a topic you rp on your own to better explain the back story of your character if you want. All of these topics are based in the past no current events are involved in them. This kind of topic is different than the other topics for the fact it is all based in the past.
Flashback Topic: Now as said before flashback topics are different than other topics because the topic is based in the past so current events are not permitted to be used in these topics. You are only allowed to have two of these topics going at a time, this is the only topic that you can have two of them going at the same time.

Event Topic:
Event Topics are main plot topics that take high priority over all the topics if you choose to be in the topic. Now if you enter into one of these topics all other topics except flashback one flashback topic are basically placed on hold.
Event Topic: This topic takes high priority as said before meaning all other topics are placed on hold except one flashback topics. If you entered into one of these topics there is no way to exit the topic until it is over. The 48 hour rule is very strict for a topic like this, if you do not post within the 48 hours you will be immediately knocked out the topic enable to re enter it. Be very cautious if you are wanting to enter a topic like this.

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