Group Rules

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1.  Respect. The number one rule of BTW. This means respecting every member, contributor, Co-Founder, Founder, and character. Being nice and respectful outside of the RP isn’t illegal, especially to the people that worked hard on the group you leisurely use.



2.  Please, do not pester your Founder and Co-Founders about your character, because we would not like our inbox and pages spammed over something we will get to when we can, and it will only make us want to move slower on getting to it. Patience.



3.  Before you send in your application/submission sheet, please make sure that your name is not the same as another character’s, whether male or female. This would grow increasingly confusing in the RP, and we’d hate to have to ask you to change it. Also, make sure you go over the list of illegal powers/creatures/powers that are already taken, so we don’t have to ask you to fix it.
(Note From Your Co-Founder: WE DON’T SUPPORT SPARKLY VAMPIRES! ;D No Edward Cullen’s).



4.  Attention whoring. No. We do not tolerate this what-so-ever. It doesn’t matter whether you’re Rping or not. We will have none of it in our Group.
(Note From Your Founder: If your character slipped on a wet rag and managed to impale themselves on a knife in the kitchen and is now bleeding to death, I will demand that they simply be untouched and allowed to bleed to death.)



5.  Be literate if a literate RP is going on (Especially since we are a LITERATE RP group). This means, respectably, no one-liners, especially if the person(s) you’re Role Playing with worked hard on their post and it’s lengthy and quite literate. And even if you’re not Rping, do not flood the board with OOC-- especially OOC written in ebonics and bad grammar; meaning no “u”, “2”, “wut”, and things of the like.
(Note From The Staff: The SHIFT key is there for a reason. Use it.)



6.  No art or design theft. If you don’t think we can tell, we can. While your Application sheet does NOT have to be drawn by you, it must be a commissioned work. If you cannot do this, simply fill out the written sheet.



7.   Please, no extremely annoying, emo, depressed, uppity, dickish, anxiety-ridden -- just don’t make your characters unbearable to other characters. Nobody likes a party-pooper, or attention whore, and no one wants to be mean and decline your invitations to RP because of it.



8.  Be considerate! If two or three people are Rping a moment of confession, sadness, love, or personal argument that has absolutely nothing to do with your character, do not just jump into the RP and ruin it, interrupting them.



9.  No God-Modding or Auto-Hits if your characters are fighting! Also, keep in mind that no one character is more powerful than the other; regardless of their ability. But; remember that neither character and block every single hit. Keep it fair, and do NOT try to kill or kill another person’s character.



10. No sexual Rping in our boards. If your character wants to RP sexually, do it through notes.  



11.  You MUST be active. If no one has seen your character for a week, you will be given a strike. Three weeks (total) of inactivity will end up in removal of your character and yourself from the group.



12.  We do not allow pets, of any kind. This means Shadow-Monsters, Golems, and Giant Snakes that lurk in the air above your character.
(Note From Your Founder: Pet rocks and pet Spiders don't count, trololol.)



13.  You MUST complete the assignments given to you and your character, unless you have a good reason. If you do not, this also results in a strike. It stinks to have to be this way, but it’s proving your activity.



14.  Honestly, we care if you're having problems with another member. We don't want anyone in our group to feel uncomfortable, especially with another member, because this can be avoided. If you're having a problem with another member, please note the group with your side of the argument, and we'll try to figure some stuff out.


15.  We are a literate RP group, so your posts shouldn't be in the script style of RPing, or really short, especially if the other person(s) worked hard on their posts. (Meaning there should be no posts like = Darrian: *Walked through the door* Hi.)



16. Guys. I know you guys have been to an RP, and someone posted before you, ruining your perfectly good post. I'm afraid, because of that, that this has to be mandatory; Establish an order before you start RPing. It's much neater, and though it may be a tttaaaddd bit slower than posting randomly, it gives everyone a fair chance to do something.



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We have a Three Strike system here, and each strike applies. If you get a Strike for disrespect, and a Strike for inactivity, it adds to 2, regardless of them being different Strikes. Three Strikes, and we remove you and your character from the group.


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RP Examples;


Example Of A God-Mod, Auto-Hit, And Short Post;


:bulletblue:This is what we want to see;

______ lunged at the white haired boy against the wall, his teeth bared and eyes ablaze with fury. He knew that the nurses would not approve of this fight, and his final strike could be his ticket to getting him transferred, but he didn't care. Darrian was as slippery as a snake, which didn't surprise ________. His kind always were. After fighting with the golden-eyed male for about an hour, and now ______ was gasping for air, trying to breathe properly, but each ending up in a shallow pant. _______ had finally managed to get Darrian up against a wall awhile ago ( A few posts ago, in which Darrian's RPer agreed), and now had the perfect opening to land his last hit, right against the male's face. With his fist clenched up tight, and his face screwing up in an animalistic snarl, _______ slammed his fist in the direction of Darrian's face, eyes narrowed and gaze red as he assumed it would make compact.


______ (Our nameless character) made a semi-long, and semi-detailed post about what was going on and what was GOING to happen. Instead of saying he actually managed to punch Darrian, our Nameless character instead left it up to Darrian's RPer to chose whether his/her character took the hit or not.


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:bulletred:This is what we don't want to see;

Darrian: *Was not hit. Threw a punch at _______ that broke his jaw*

or

Darrian was not hit. He had not been hit throughout this whole entire fight. Instead, though, he recoiled and threw a punch at ______, aiming for his eye but instead managing to break his jaw.


While you can allow your character to avoid
some hits, you can't allow them to avoid them all. It's not fair. These posts are short, and we ESPECIALLY do not want to see the first example. (Which is Script RPing. It's okay if you're just playing around, but it should not be a real RP or affect the real RP at all.) Also, with Darrian being able to break our Nameless character's jaw, this is an example of an Auto-Hit.
God-Modding, Auto-Hits, and Short-Post RPing 101, BTW style.
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Respect the rules..Or Ayuwuwu will eat your spleen.
Trust me, you need your spleen.