Post by Jennifer Brooks on Feb 4, 2007 22:32:18 GMT -4
First off I want to welcome you all to Hogwarts. There are a few rules that you will be forced to follow, and if you decide not to, you will be punished. You may recieve three warnings, before being banned, unless it is a great offense to the rules. Thank you for joining, the rules are as followed.
KILLING
MAGIC
POSTING:
Applications
Character Rep
C-BOX
Activity
Additional
Admins:
Jennifer Brooks - admin
Emily Snape - Crissy
KILLING
- NO KILLING ON HOGWARTS GROUNDS! That does not mean you can't kill, cause by all means, you can. But it must be a mutual agreement between you and the character you will be removing. Also, if you are killed, you are removed from the game.
- Another important thing!!!! You CAN NOT kill off a Canon Character without an admins permission. If you do not wish to play the character anymore then let us know and we will delete the account. You can't decide to play Harry Potter and kill him off within the first week you RP with him. It's just not going to be allowed. So please just let us know and we will deal with it. Also, if you have a Canon Character you must post in the Canon Character thread to let us know so we can mark that character off. And if you decide you no longer want a canon character then make sure an admin knows so we can re-add that character to the list.
MAGIC
- High-level spells, and curses. No first through fifth year could hope to accomplish the Pratronus Charm or be an animagi, so don't say you can, or even try and use it. The three unforgivables are also off limits to those under a sixth year. Of course, you are not supposed to use them, but what we don't know won't hurt us. The one curse you cannot use is the Imperious Curse, you can't control anothers character.
- There are to be no “God powers”, in other words your character can die, and cannot control obscene magic, or magical items. (Besides a wand) This is a Harry Potter RPG if you want to have these abilities or items go to another site, Charmed would probably be better suited. Another note is that since this is a Harry Potter RPG we'd like you to leave out Charmed characters or Buffy or whoever else. You can have the name or whatever else, just not their history.
- There will be no God-moding or power playing. The only exceptation is if someone like a noob attacks an admin.
- Example: You cannot control the elements, have a sword or immortality, or any kind of immortality, control night and day, etc.
- Another example is when you are RPing and you cast a curse at someone and say what effects the curse took. You have to give the other character a chance to fight back. Here is an example:
- Maddy sent a curse flying at River and hit her square in the chest causing her to fall over.
- No magic in the hallways. Now I know that some of you are going to be like, "So we cannot duel?" that is not true. You can duel, and pick on people, just do it outside, not in the hallways. If you are ratted out for dueling with someone, you will be punished (Nothing Serious). However, if you are caught doing magic in the hallways, unless you were attacked, you will lose house points, and recieve a warning.
POSTING:
- Please use Third person, meaning don't type like this, "I walked over to the window," it should be, "Troy walked over to the window." Please use spell check if you are not sure how to spells soemthing, and to check what you have already written.
- I hate to tell you all this, but NO post are going to be allowed, from this point on, that are less that Four sentences long. That does not mean five lines, just sentances. That way people are not posting one-liners and so that the person they are RPing with is able to come up with a good response post. There’s always something to talk about, even in the dreariest of situations. Attitude? Clothing? Lighting? Feelings? Expressions? Etc. And please use correct gramatics, and punctuation. It is important.
- No double or triple or however many posting. USE THE EDiT BUTTON! It gets very annoying to have to read three posts by the same person, all in a row. Give people a chance to respond.
- Posting will go in an ABCABC fashion, unless another person consents to allow the others to continue posting without them. (EX: That person sits in the corner and watches a fight, stands back and observes a battle, or explains that they wish for the others to carry on without them for the time being.)
- No leaving someone behind. If a person is left behind, they can contact an administrator and order the deletion of certain posts so the left out player can reply.
- USE SPELL CHECK. We canot stres enouf how importent it is to speel chek. It is vere anoying to c stuf lick this in a post. It only take a couple seconds to hit that button and check your mistakes. Everyone makes them.
- SPELL WORDS OUT!! Do not use 'u', '4','y', 'ur', and so on. It is fine to use them in the C-box but it will not be tolerated in your posts. It is annoying. We understand that sometimes when ur in a hurry u do it and don't even realize it. USE MODIFY. Modify your post and fix it.
- Please, no long paragraphs that take up a whole page. Split up your words into separate paragraphs, it’s so much more pleasing to the eyes. Imagine if the Rules was one big paragraph. I don't think ANYONE would want to read them. I know I wouldn't.
Applications
- If you do not understand something in an application please ask an admin we are more then happy to help out.
- PLEASE do NOT post lists in mind-set.
- Another thing. Applications left undone will only be kept in pending applications for 1 week, after that you will be given 1 week notice to finish it and if you don't it will be deleted.
- And Finally. If you are playing a canon character. We understand that coming up with a good application can be very hard. So you may go to a trusted site and get information on them and use that. The only thing that MUST be 100% original is the RP sample. If that is plagerized in anyway the character will be deleted immedietly and the rest of your characters (if u have more) will be banned for 5 days.
Character Rep
- You must post your character rep after you finish your application. If you do post it before it will not be approved until your application is approved. Which means if someone wants that character rep and they finish their application before you, they may get it. So we suggest that you ask to reserve a character rep.
C-BOX
- The C-box is a great way of communication with the rest of the members on the site. It is not a place for you to advertise. The affiliates board is the place for that. It is fine to show others a site but we ask that it be by an active member. We don't want noobs coming onto the site and joining and then adversizing in the c-box for another site and never being active on ours. It just doesn't seem right. We have no problem advertising your site in the affiliates scroll bar.
- We don't want any bashing of any characters or the people who play the characters. It is fine to just goof around but when someones feelings get hurt that is when it becomes more serious. If you are caught bashing another character or the person who plays the character, and that person comes to us then you will be banned for 3 days. We take this very seriously and will not put up with any drama on the site.
Activity
- Please be active. We would like at least one post a week. And the Games board does not count. If you think you are going to be gone for a week or longer or you just have no muse then let us know in the Absense board and we will not count it against you. If you are inactive for a week with no post in the Absent thread you will be PMed a warning. And if you do not respond with a good excuse or if you don't post then your account will be deleted exactly one week after the PM was sent. We don't want 20 members on the site who never post.
Additional
- The only people who can speak Parseltounge are the Riddles and Harry Potter. We can't have everyone running around hissing at each other. It just wouldn't make sense. So don't do it!
- When a character's house is not password protected, by all means do not start posting in there. Please get permission from the owner of the house before you start making random posts. It can mess up someone's plot idea. This also go for threads that have also been started. If you see that the thread is about a page long, pm the members in that thread and ask if you can join them. It can be very distracting to have someone come into a thread after so many posts.
- Each person, may only have up to 3 accounts. NO MORE. If you have a sibling that is on the site and shares the computer... TELL US! Because if we see you have more then 5 charries you will be sent a message and if you don't respond by deleting one then the less active one will be deleted for you.
- Now the rules will constantly be updated, and if you have any suggestions post them in the suggestions board, or PM me, or one in the Administrators. Thank you.
Admins:
Jennifer Brooks - admin
Emily Snape - Crissy