♪ Rules for That'll Be The Day ♫
Rules
Characters:
- The limit is one character per player. This may change as we fill in all the canon characters.
- Remain In Character. In general, no one will leap down your throat in this community, unless your version of the character is wildly off.
(ie: Rachel the Dumb Blonde)
- Nobody is perfect; as such there will be no Mary-Sues/Gary-Sues. (Which falls back on remaining in character.) Everyone has got something that they do not like about themselves and/or some kind of fear.
Original Characters:
- Currently we are not accepting original characters. This may very well change as we fill up the canon characters. Check back often!
Posting:
- Logic. This may be a fantasy setting, but certain aspects of real life should be kept intact. For example, a character that just woke up from a coma shouldn’t be running laps in the gym two hours later; a teacher who takes inappropriate actions towards a student shouldn’t expect to be spared administrative or legal repercussions.
- We are playing real time.
- Remain active. Inactivity without notice or reason is bad.
(Ways to be active: making personal posts, role play in threads, or posting logs.)
- Do not invite yourself in on current threads unless it is marked open to all. If a posted thread doesn’t directly involve your character, or it does not say Open, you do NOT post in it. Unless the Players in the thread decide they want you in then feel free to join. Remember, the journals are not interconnected in any way, hence why we ask for 'Open' in the subject line. Unless otherwise stated, it's one-on-one interaction.
- No God-Modding. If you must move a character or make them say something, ask the Player or Mod first.
- Proper role playing is good grammar, full sentences, and paragraphs. No short hand/net speak when role playing. Net speak is not accepted in personal posts either. (This is 1956, remember). Also try to stay away from one liners if at all possible. The more you write the easier it is for people to respond to your post but also don’t go nuts and write a book for one post. ^^
- Role playing threads will be structured like this:
Who:
Where:
When:
Why: (not a must)
Warning: (A MUST. Have some type of warning on all threads to give others warnings.)
< lj-cut text="witty sentence here" >
First character's post.
< /lj-cut >
- A personal post must be under a cut. Let's not clog up everyone's friends pages.
- The journals are not magically connected, this is 1956 in Lima, Ohio not Hogwarts. Feel free to read everyone's posts but remember, your character can't read them and thus won't know anything written therein.
Posting:
- Every character must make a journal entry every week and be active in a thread at least once every two weeks. The Mods will contact you after they notice you have been inactive and ask if you would like to continue to play or not. If you say yes but become inactive again we have the choice of kicking you out.
- The Mods will play it by ear about inactive characters as our goal is to keep the game running and have many happy active players.
OOC:
- No OOC Drama. You will be kicked out if you are the cause of OOC drama. OOC drama kills communities and we do not want that to happen.
- To elaborate on 'drama' that can be caused in OOC; we mean do not cause fights that exceed what would normally be called a discussion. Discussions of one's feelings are fine for OOC threads, however if one recognizes that they are no longer having a civilized conversation we, as mods, hope that our players will be humane enough to calmly back down from what is going on.
- If the situation turns into something that you, as a player, believe is entirely uncalled for and you cannot make a comment in reply without the ability to remain calm and feel that something could become troublesome to the community if you do reply, then we ask that you bring the problem to the mod for help.
- We want to let everybody know that harassment of any kind between role players is not acceptable in any circumstance and won't be tolerated by the mods here. We'd also like to ask you to report any such harassment to the mods for two reasons: First, so we can remove the offender from the game if the harassment is severe enough, and second, so we simply know what's going on and can be informed when dealing with any resulting drama.
- On the same note, if you have a problem with another role player that you can't easily resolve, do anything BUT drag it into the community. If the problem has to do with characters and actions within the community, then take it to the mod so it can be addressed properly. If it's an OOC problem that you just can't keep out of the community, you can feel free to take that to the mods as well and we'll try to address it in way that's not harmful to the community. Also, if you're having a heated argument and know you should walk away from it, but can't, talking to the mods and being told to stay away will give you a good excuse.
- Also, if you feel that there is a problem between players, discuss it between yourselves (if you do not first wish to notify a mod). If that solves nothing, you can then bring it to the mods (with logs if you wish so that it make be clarified) so that the proper actions can be taken to ensure it stops.
- All things OOC go in the OOC community.
(ie: Telling us you will be away so you don't get a warning for not being active, posting something funny, icons, fan fics, or fan art that you think the others will enjoy.)
Community:
- Straight, bisexual and gay are all accepted in this community; characters and players.
- Sex, drugs, and all things a like are permitted in this role play as they always appear at any type of high school no matter how private it is. If that is something that bothers you, perhaps you should not apply.
- Storylines. If you have ideas for the overall storyline, THAT'S GREAT! You need to consult with one of the mods first, though, either through the OOC, AIM, or e-mail. No one wants to have their toes stepped on, and this will give everyone time to be filled in, even if it is an excellent idea, will get everyone in the community involved, and will really shake things up.
- Characters need to have character journals for this role play.
- Try to learn the names of your fellow players. A happy community is one that knows who’s in it. If you’re unsure of who plays a character you’d like to interact with, check the Characters List or ask the mods.
- You get one warning from the mods on your first offense and the second one you are out. No ifs, ands, or buts. There are no favorites with the mods no matter how hard you try to butter them up.
- Last and most important: The Mods' word is final.
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