Rules

## General

* No NSFW or offensive content, whether speaking in the discord/ forums or when making a design.
	+ Offensive content includes racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, etc.
* No hate speech of any kind, no matter the topic.
* No venting or guilt tripping.
* Please do not cause or continue drama. If staff tells you to drop the topic, please drop it.
* You must be 13+ to join.
* Do not claim Project: Jiiqua content as your own.
* Do not create offshoots of Project: Jiiqua without permission.
* Do not create copies of Project: Jiiqua.
	+ If you see a potential copy of Project: Jiiqua, please notify staff and DO NOT harass the person. Harassing people will get you blacklisted.
* Please be respectful.
* Don't use loopholes to get around the rules.
* Please use #projectjiiqua when posting anything related to Project: Jiiqua.
* Members on the blacklist cannot claim their character(s) to be part of any Project: Jiiqua species, cannot gain any new Project: Jiiqua characters, and cannot participate in any of the events.
* When posting your intro, when stating that you have read the rules, please put something where one letter is repeated four times like "yaaaas", "yyyyyee", "certainlyyyy" instead of a regular yes.

## Discord

* Please avoid spam.
* Don't dox others or post personal information.
* Don't hack the bots.
* Don't impersonate other people.
* Be patient with the bots and staff.
* Make sure to use the right channels or topics.
* Use spoilers for sensitive topics or images.
* In art channels, make sure the person above you has received some comments or reactions before posting.
* In critique chats, wait for the person before to get substantial critique before asking for help.
* ✦welcome✦- basic information about the server
* ▹hello- where users come in
* ✦role assign✦- react using specified emojis to get the desired role
* ▹introductions- introduce yourself using the provided form

Important
* ✦announcements✦- official ARPG general announcements
* ✦events✦- official ARPG event announcements
* ✦links✦- links for important information

Issues
* ▹questions- ask questions to the staff related to the ARPG. Please do not bother the staff if they do not respond immediately, wait at least 48 hours before asking again
* ▹suggestions- make suggestions to help improve the ARPG

Chat
* ▹general- general place for chatting with other members
* ▹images and media- send images of any type, as long as they are appropriate. Art should be credited.
* ▹fandom- talking or discussing books, movies, or games. Please spoiler anything released under 6 months ago and put a spoiler warning at the beginning of the message for anything after.
* ▹m e m e- send memes, cursed images, or meme videos
* ▹no mic- chat for anyone in the voice chat without their mic on
* ▹voice chat- chat for streaming, gaming, or just chatting

Art
* ▹characters- share and discuss non ARPG related characters
* ▹wips- post unfinished art (doesn't have to relate to the ARPG)
* ▹jiiqua art- post finished art relating to the ARPG
* ▹misc art- post finished art not related to the ARPG
* ▹critique chat- request help with a work. Make sure to specify what you need help with.

Jiiqua
* ▹jiiqua chat- general chat for anything Project: Jiiqua related
* ▹jiiqua characters- share and discuss your Project: Jiiqua characters
* ▹jiiqua art- post Project: Jiiqua related art
* ▹jiiqua events- submit Project: Jiiqua related events or specific prompts for an item or CP reward

Marketplace
* ✦shop✦- shows purchasable items and their prices
* ✦specialty shop✦- appears every two weeks for three days at a time. Sells special items and sales on regular shop items.
* ▹shop- send your purchase requests here. Please use the form displayed in the shop or your request will be ignored.
* ✦official adopts✦- official adopts are posted here
* ▹adopt offers- make offers on the adopt posted in official adopts- make sure to specify what adopt you are offering on
* ▹community market- advertise adopts, commissions, etc.
* ▹trading- advertise item or character trading (ARPG only)
* ▹advertisement- advertise anything else

Submissions
* ▹design approval- submit a character design, redesign, anything else that has to be approved by staff
* ▹masterlist- submit transfers between members- item trades, currency trades, character trades, etc.
* ▹art- submit drawings, writing, craft, anything else of your Project: Jiiqua character for a CP reward
* ▹quests- submit media related to quests to get the associated quest and CP reward

Roleplay
Concept Galleries
* »-fauna and flora- concepts for the animals and plants of the worlds, biological stuff
* »-landscapes- concepts for cities, buildings, natural terrain
* »-society- concepts for technology, clothing, belief, magic and abilities
* »-sensitive- miscellaneous concepts that require warnings (skulls and insides, creepy and/or gory imagery)
* ▹comment chat- a place to comment and discuss concepts posted

## Adopts and Customs

* If using art as payment for an adopt, you have 1.5 months to complete and transfer the entire payment. Not doing so will result in the adopt going back up, no matter how much art has been completed.
* If using currency for an adopt, you will have 48 hours to transfer the entire payment. Not doing so will result in the adopt going back up.
* Members cannot make Project: Jiiqua adopts. Only official Project: Jiiqua guest artists and permanent guest artists can make adopts.
* Official customs can be bought from staff or GAs.
* Unofficial customs can be made by anyone not on the blacklist or greylist, but items must be used and the design must be submitted for approval. (as in you need an MYO ticket and trait cards for additional rare traits)

## Design

* Jiikaare, Djiknors, and Ae'kier are semi-open. This means that they do not necessarily require an MYO card to make one.
	+ No MYO
		- Access to unlimited common and 3 uncommon traits, after 3 uncommon traits unlimited uncommon traits can be used by applying trait cards
		- Add up to 2 rare traits using trait cards for each rare trait
		- Common colours only (exception: accent colours <80% do not have to be a common colour)
		- Variant mixes with maximum 2 variant types
		- Tier 1 laeksai and tyetro abilities
		- Origin system only (ex. Jiikaare on Jiiqua)
	+ MYO
		- Access to unlimited common, uncommon, and rare traits
		- Add epic, legendary, and mutation traits using trait cards
		- Access to rare colours
		- Variant mixes with maximum 5 variant types
		- Any ability type and tier (if you have the items)
		- Any important location
	+ Accessories, disabilities, and items earned during events or prompts can be applied to characters whether they were made with an MYO or not. Event participation also is not affected by the character not being made from an MYO.
	+ Note- djiknors and ae'kier are not available yet, and the drakiire will likely follow a different system
* Make sure you have the right items when submitting a character- check the Masterlist Inventory to make sure you have the item and inform an admin if you think the Masterlist is wrong.
* Please follow the guidelines when making a character.
* Do not copy other designs, whether they are within the ARPG, outside the ARPG, copyrighted characters, etc.
* You must submit designs to be approved by an admin through the proper channels.
* Minor redesigns such as pattern simplifications or style changes are allowed without using trait items. Larger changes such as trait swapping and major pattern/ colour changes need items, though the character should still be recognizable.

## Trading

* Characters must be on the Masterlist before they can be traded.
* There is a two week cooldown after being added to the masterlist before a character can be traded/ sold.
* A character (without extra art) is worth what they were originally sold for. (ex. if bought for 1000 CP, they can only be sold for 1000 CP, if bought for $15, they can only be sold for $15 ((in the same currency)), etc.)
	+ This goes for items as well- they cannot be sold for more or a different kind of currency than what they were bought for.
* A character sold with extra art is the amount they were originally bought for + amount the art is worth. Please don't make art of the character solely to raise the value.
* Do not sell or trade to users on the blacklist.
* When posting your intro, when stating if you have or have not owned a Project: Jiiqua character, please put something related to "no" but misspelled, such as "nop", if you have not previously owned a character. If you do have a character, please put down their name.

## Activities

* Do not copy/ trace/ heavily reference other works, whether they are related to the world or not.
* Only submit your own work for an activity, unless you are working with someone else. Then the submission should be a collaboration between all artists involved.

## Roleplay

* Please be respectful to other roleplayers- hate the character, not the person.
* No godmodding or OP characters.
* Don't control other people's characters- wait for them to respond to your action.

## Blacklist

Minor violations of the rules will get you a warning, but repeated or larger infractions will get you a strike. Major violations may result in gaining higher strikes or even banned, bypassing the lower strikes.

* Strike 1: Watchlist. Your activity will be closely monitored.
* Strike 2: Greylist. You cannot gain new Project: Jiiqua characters and may not be able to participate in various activities.
* Strike 3: Banned. Your characters will lose their affiliation with Project: Jiiqua, you can no longer gain more Project: Jiiqua characters, and you can no longer participate in Project: Jiiqua activities.