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« Thread Started on Oct 27, 2005, 9:18pm » | |
Read 'em and weep baby! Nah, just kidding. But you have to read these.
-Durmstrang Institute Rules-
1] Everyone. And I mean Everyone, including the admins, must write a character profile. This is the ONLY way to get accepted. Only when I modify your post with "ACCEPTED!" at the top and I have changed your position, may you post!
2] No power playing! Trust me, It's not fun to walk away from your computer to get some food and return an hour later to find that another member has killed you! You are not all powerful, learn this statement...make your role-playing realistic, saying that you’re the smartest person in the world, and saying you control everything even if your only like 11...seriously people...no god moding, no power playing, if I find you do this, you will be banned.
3] Correct English and punctuation are a must! "I wanna shw u sumthin in da oder room!" Can you read that? Yeah, neither can I! It's alright if you change how they speak and let them say something like "There's somethin’ really cool in the other room I wanna show ya!." That is acceptable for speech, and speech only. When showing action it can't be like this:
'I take Jen's hand and run into the next room.'
That is unacceptable. Please write your posts in THIRD PERSON PAST TENSE, meaning like this:
'She grabbed Jen's hand and ran into the next room.'
If you need examples of third person, you can PM, email, or IM me, and I will show you a better and fuller example then just one sentence (probably just one of my old posts that I think is generally alright).
4] Normally I have a rule about how many character's one may have but we all know that I have never ever kept this rule. So you may have as many as you want as long as you post regularly as ALL of them. If one of the Admin team sees you slacking they will ask you to pick your favorite and delete the rest.
5] When asked to give your characters blood-line you may say one of the following ONLY if you PM me first and ask me about whether you can or not! Werewolf, Veela or Vampire. But please, Save the Elvish blood-lines for the LoTR sites! This, my friend, is Harry Freaking Potter! All characters should be BASED ON HARRY POTTER! No freaking Anne Rice characters—yes, I have seen someone around on one HP site parading around as Lestat—no game characters—mentionably like say, Final Fantasy, yah, saw another person parading around on an HP site as a character from Final Fantasy—if it’s not Harry Potter world based, then forget it. Also, like the movies, NO AMERICANS! Got it...? If you have a question about what’s Harry Potter based and what’s not, either ask me, or go to the -Harry Potter Lexicon-.
6] When asked to give a role-playing example in your application, you must do so as that character! At the end of the application you must also type Kitty.
7] The penalties for breaking these rules are severe! Anything form Banning to Probation can be a punishment! Believe me; I am so not above it!
8] I do expect that if you are not accepted, that you will NOT send me a million messages asking why you didn’t get accepted, and trying to explain that you should be accepted, and all that type of stuff. This will cause you to be banned from the site, I don’t care how good you think you may be.
I’m not trying to be mean if I don't accept you, I seriously am not. I want to make sure this site is good, and if you are not accepted for some reason, well, don’t blame me, just fix the problem, and resubmit it. I’ll see if you’ve fixed it, and then if there is still a problem, I’ll tell you that, and all you have to do is fix it. Don’t get mad; don’t get angry, just fix it, and I’ll see about accepting you.
9] After registering, you have six weeks to submit your character's bio. If you do not by the end of six weeks, then your account will be deleted. If you insist on signing up again, only to not create a character bio once again, you will be banned.
10] You are NOT allowed to post anything while waiting to be accepted UNLESS it is a QUESTION. If you do otherwise, you risk suspension, and then banning if you insist on doing it again when you have not been accepted, nor sorted.
12] No net speak! I know number four on this list is basically the same, but I'm saying it agian, to make sure you listen. This rule goes for both IN CHARACTER POSTS and OUT OF CHARACTER POSTS! I'm sorry if it's quicker, but get used of not doing it. In the chat board, you'd think I'd allow it, but no, I'm not. Only in private messages if you want to I guess, otherwise, it is not allowed.
This is a serious site, for serious Role-Players and Role-Players willing to learn. We won't accept silliness unless it's your character that’s a troublemaker/immature/etc/whatever. But please, be mature about this. People, in out of character mostly, who I get two or three complaints about, well you’re facing probation and possibly banning, depending on how serious.
If you want to join this site you will need a detailed application. I don't expect one short little paragraph for the history, and two sentences for physical & personality description, and role-playing example. We expect a good few paragraphs (at least two paragraphs) for at least the history and role-playing example. For the Personality and Physical descriptions, at least 3 lines (lines, not sentences), okay? People that give like little brief statements...well it makes me just want to know reasons, details about certain events. Like say your character was orphaned, why? Why they'd become an orphan? Or if they hate their parents, well why do they hate their parents? Why? That’s one question that comes into my mind a lot. Maybe you could try and actually answer these questions that might come to a persons mind, so that you don’t have to explain it later on to them if they ask.
And to the people who just want to get it done and over with, forget it. You're not going to be accepted with a short and simple skimpy little application that tells me nothing about your character.
The rules are subject to change at any time.
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