Rules

These are the rules to abide by when playing Song of Avaria's alpha phase. We have some additional norms that we very much hope people will follow.

Rules

1. Please use the XCARD system in-game and report anyone who isn't respecting the rules. Because this is alpha, more formalized policies are still being decided, but we want to cultivate an atmosphere of mutual respect and general kindness.
2. No out-of-character bigotry of any kind. This includes slurs and jokes.
3. In-character bigotry may exist, but do not propagate cultural stereotypes as facts and do present all bigotry as a flaw.
4. No sexual assault between PCs or NPCs, though it can be a background theme.
5. Please consider behavior undertaken in public areas of the game to be PG-13 rated, so do not be overly graphic. However, all players should be 18+. We encourage the use of the FTB command.
6. Don't use out-of-character communication as a substitute for roleplay. Story is the goal of the game, and communication is story.
7. Don't reveal others' alts and don't reveal your own to people who don't agree to know. Don't play two characters at the same time, and don't benefit one character with the other in any way.
8. Report bugs, don't exploit them.
9. Take a break if you need to; you won't face any serious loss if you do.

Norms

1. Try to use the emote tagging system while roleplaying so that everyone sees their own recognition of the characters involved.
2. Respect the pacing needs of your writing partners and don't throw out multi-paragraph emotes while others are having an argument in says. Similarly, if others are trying to write a detailed character development scene, you don't have # to jump in and spam several short actions while they are typing.
3. All caps is considered yelling -- use asterisks or dashes for emphasis (slashes will attempt to use the emote tagging system).
4. Use XCARD GREEN if you need a moment or if you have to go AFK.
5. Use CONTACT to get close to someone if you want to emote touching them.
6. Don't meta-emote about your character's thoughts -- emotes are a visual representation that others can react to. Use THINK for thoughts.
7. Don't power-emote outcomes of potential physical struggles with another person; let the code decide what happens in a physical struggle.
8. The IC section of the forums are not a play-by-post area, but neither are they a place for OOC discussion. When players post their individual posts there, you can discuss those posts in the OOC forum for discussing IC posts.