About Elysium

## Elysium on Discord

Elysium's stories are written collaboratively through roleplay on Discord.

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## What is Roleplay?

Roleplay is an interactive and collaborative method of storytelling in which participants, posing as their original characters, enact prewritten or improvised scenes. Read our **full page of roleplay tips and tricks!**

### TUPPERS

Tupperbox is a Discord bot modification which helps roleplayers visually show the difference between multiple characters using special labels called "Tuppers". Elysium requires members to use Tuppers for roleplay. See a full tutorial **here**.

## Community Rules and Content Advisory

In order to keep Elysium safe and fun for everyone, all members must adhere to the following guidelines. **By interacting in any community or roleplay spaces, an individual automatically agrees to follow these guidelines and shall accept all consequences for breaking them.** These rules may also be found on Elysium's Discord.

### COMMUNITY

* No spam
* No doxxing. Please do not share your real name, address, school, contact, or other personal information on this server. Do not share, or attempt to find out personal information about any other person.
* No offensive language. Swearing is allowed in moderation, but slurs, hate speech, and direct insults will not be tolerated.
* Keep your conversation lighthearted and appropriate. Please do not discuss politics or controversial topics here.
* Refrain from sexually explicit conversation. We love a dirty joke now and then, but don't carry on at length.
* Refrain from graphic and disturbing conversation. This includes potentially triggering topics such as suicide, self-harm, violence, attention-seeking behavior, and gore. Online friends are not your therapists. Seek real help.
* Posting pornography, or links to pornography, results in an immediate ban.
* Do not harass or bully other players in their DMs. Sending unsolicited sexual content to other players’ DMs is FORBIDDEN and will result in an immediate ban.

### ART

* Be encouraging. Ask permission before offering constructive criticism on another's art.
* Include a disclaimer and spoiler on art that includes blood or violence.
* No nudity.
* No sexually explicit content, in art or writing.

### ROLEPLAY

* Respect other people's roleplay. Ask before entering someone else's scene.
* No Metagaming. You cannot use the knowledge that your character does not have, such as names or plans learned OOC, or through your previous (dead) character.
* No Powergaming. You cannot force actions/attacks onto another player. Describe the action you wish to make, and others will reply with their own character’s actions.
* No ERP (sexually explicit roleplay). You may not roleplay or imply sexual assault in any circumstance.
* Keep OOC (out of character) conversation in roleplay channels to a minimum.
* "Narrator" characters and the like are restricted to use by staff only. Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis.
* When you finish a scene, place a marker before moving to another channel. This indicates that this channel is now free for another group to use. Markers are created like this: ``` ```

### COMBAT AND PTK

* A character MUST have a real IRP reason to attack another. Mindless violence without due cause (i.e. insanity, possession) is considered disruptive and spam within roleplay spaces.
* Your character may not have infinite magical energy. When using ANY magic, your character should gradually become more and more tired. We expect you to require time to recover between spells.
* Allow your character to recover from wounds in an appropriate amount of time. Unless your character enhances their healing by magic IRP, we encourage you to research how injuries may affect your character and for how long.
* Attacks intended to permanently maim or disable another character may not be executed without OOC permission. This includes blinding or removing limbs. (This rule does not apply to Undead.)
* INITIATING COMBAT: You may not kill another character without explicit OOC (out-of-character) permission. However, by initiating combat with another character, you ***automatically give the other player permission to kill your character**.* Examples of initiating combat include:
	+ Challenging someone to a duel
	+ Attacking someone with violence
	+ Kidnapping
	+ Theft
	+ Trespassing

* Strike first at your own risk! PTK (permission to kill) exists because we believe that criminal behavior should be as risky in-character as it is in real life. However, experienced roleplayers understand that killing another character, even with PTK, takes away someone else's ability to have fun with and write stories for their beloved character. We recommend that all parties in a combat scene discuss the final outcome together in order to write the best story for everyone.

### CONTENT ADVISORY

Elysium maintains a PG13+ content rating. While the community has always strived to be a safe and inclusive space for everyone, Elysium's stories have "grown up" with its members. Both community discussions and roleplay-written stories may contain violence, strong language, death, sexual references, political and religious themes, bad puns, and magic. In compliance with Discord's Terms of Service, **participants must be 13 years or older.**