Roleplay Rules

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**By making a character on our server, you have agreed to these rules.**

**1) Create a welcoming environment:**

COtF adheres to being an all-inclusive environment where everyone can enjoy their roleplay as both adults and as friends. This rule encompasses being mindful and respectful to others as they do to you. We are all here to create a story and enjoy the game -- TOGETHER. Behind every computer monitor is a real person playing a FICTIONAL character. Please remember this is a game, and while we understand that people will undoubtedly have disagreements: we ask that they are kept civil and respectful and OUT OF GAME. It is never okay to publicly argue with other members of the community, players or staff, or to make public accusations of any kind. Any such issues should be handled privately or escalated to staff to investigate via our ticket system. Staff reserve the right to silence anyone disrupting global chat or Discord with public arguments or toxicity.

**2) Whitelisted Characters are Required:**

As the rule implies, you must be a member of our discord and have completed a character sheet in order to play on our server. If you are not on the discord, nor have a whitelisted character, admins reserve the right to delete the character from our server. As an aside, if you are playing a character that does not match your whitelist, you will be asked to change it until you have gotten an approved whitelist for the new one.

**3) All Mature Content:**

COtF covers and allows a variety of dark and mature themes that we trust our players to handle in a responsible manner. However, there is some content that should be approached with a greater degree of regards to both the participants and those around them. Any of the following content requires all parties involved in it to consent to what is happening in them. These topics include but are not limited to: Drug abuse, murder, graphic depictions of Injury or Torture, pregnancy explicit Sexual Scenes or descriptions of Sexual Scenes, or a combination of any of these. When a scene following any of these topics is about to occur, it cannot be done in any area considered an admin or neutral zone. You are also not allowed to have an RP Locator on when engaging in any of these situations. Players that do stumble across such scenes and do not wish to participate in them due to their content may leave the scene at their earliest. In addition, it would be a common courtesy to reserve such RP for lower-range local channels, such as Whisper or Mumble. Bestiality pertaining to actual animals, such as a mage shapeshifters animal form, are prohibited. The only exemption from this rule is lycanthropy.

**4) Social Situations:**

We understand that there are bound to be issues that can crop up between players. If you believe there will be a problem in the future, open a ticket so we the staff can understand the situation before it escalates. Drama igniting, such as pitting players against one another or spreading malicious out of character rumors, will not be tolerated and without tickets, both sides may be considered at fault. For example, if you feel that you cannot communicate to someone, and have opened a ticket to state as such, but continue interactions IC, you will be considered as attempting to force victimization and will receive disciplinary actions.

**5) Underage, Age-play & Pregnancy:**

Depictions of characters under the age of 18 is strictly prohibited.

Playing characters, or describing characters below the age of 18 is heavily restricted.  This is a mature setting and all characters should likewise be of appropriate age.  Ageplay and under-age characters, or characters being obviously created to look suspiciously young are subject to admin intervention and/or an outright ban.

Pregnancy RP is allowed, though it should be played appropriately.  This includes birth mortality appropriate for the setting, and the chances of dying during childbirth.  Please also note that in the event of a roleplay story including carrying a child to full term must end in that newborn being quickly removed from the story by way of being sent away, or a reroll/shelf to exit the season.

**6) Meta-Gaming:**

Metagaming is when a player uses OOC information in character in order to gain an advantage within the server in any way. There are two types, hard and soft meta. Hard meta is the act of using OOC information without consent to influence IC actions and is, under no circumstance, allowed on the server. Soft meta, can be used by consent between two players, such as establishing meeting areas, or passing information about your own character to another player. This must be consented to by both parties.

Targeting players or bleeding IC situations into OOC feelings is not allowed. Remember, these are characters that are being roleplayed, not the players themselves. If you do not wish to RP with someone, communicate to them instead of avoiding the issue. If you feel you cannot do this yourself, open a ticket for mediation.

**7) Consent sheets MUST be filled out:**

Consent is KING! At no time does a player have the right to ignore another person's consent. For this reason, all members are required to fill in the consent sheet in game. Players involved in a situation are required to reach out to each other OOC for scenes that need consent.

If your consent sheet says NO to an action, you cannot perform those acts on others. No exceptions. As a player here, safety and fun for all is the goal. You ALWAYS have the right to withdraw consent during RP that makes you uncomfortable and FTB from a scene. However, you cannot do this to avoid RP consequences, combative scenarios, and you are still expected to RP the end result of this FTB scene, so long as it coincides with your written consent. While you are free to change your consent sheets as you see fit, you cannot change a consent sheet information while in the middle of any RP scene, particularly to manipulate a situation or for malicious intent. Anyone found doing this could be removed from the server at staff discretion.

**8) No Value of Life Rule- NVL:**

The 'No Value of Life' is a term used for those that do not show signs of caring for their own life in situations that could be the cause of their character's death or grievous bodily harm. This rule will be enforced on those that act in a way that puts their character/s in immediate danger on purpose, or knowingly being in a situation that could cause them to be harmed. Acting in a particular way that would get them harmed that no person in 'real life' would put themselves through unless they had a 'death wish'.

The following are some examples that will give insight into the meaning of this rule which indicates the NVL rule:

* When entering a war camp filled with orcs by yourself, and challenging everyone there to a fight.
* When entering a kingdom or territory and disrespecting the Royalty/Titles of said lands when multiple warnings have been given by authorities.
* While being tortured, the victim continues to insult and laugh at the torturer, pretending as if nothing hurts.
* Acting hostile or cocky in the face of a group that owns the territory you stand in, or who outnumber you in a hostile situation.

These are some examples of NVL (No Value of Life) but are not limited to the examples above. In most cases, these are reserved for those who think their characters unbeatable heroes, or dastardly villains of a story, when in fact they are not. We are all here to create a story, and with that, we are all here to have fun. When those appear that think themselves above the boundaries of common sense, rules such as these balance the playing field, so that all may enjoy their time playing with others.

When the NVL rule applies to your character and behavior, it means that you forfeit the right to decline your character's death. Meaning, that if an NVL has been decided, your character will die in that very moment, with no if, ands, or buts. This rule is to stop people from acting like they are all-powerful, and to act like nothing bad could ever happen to their characters. Even if this is a fantasy world, we have to keep some level of realism to keep the balance and keep the game fun for everyone.

**9) Always in Character:**

No matter what the player plans on doing or what they are emoting, they are always considered to be IC. If a character walks within the market to buy items, others can and will see that and may approach them. Due to characters being constantly IC, to avoid metagaming and upsetting other players, streaming on the server is prohibited.

**10) Inactivity:**

Players who have been inactive for a period of 10 days are subject to having their character removed if they do not notify staff in the ⁠absence-notifications Discord channel. Solo players can have their build and items removed as well, so we urge you to take the time to post a LOA, leave of absence, there to avoid this issue. If you leave the discord your character and build will be removed.

**11) Streaming of Server/Roleplay Gameplay:**

Streaming our server is not allowed. This includes showing active scenes of roleplay or combat that are ongoing. Showing off a build or a character may be allowed in some circumstances, but we encourage you to use screenshots instead.

**12) Power-Gaming & RP Avoidance:**

A player may not act or emote for another without permission, force a scene without consent, avoid RP without emoting, and must wait and react to an emote that may stop the character.

All emotes against other players must include an ‘attempt’. IE: ‘Oscar tries to pull Chris's arm’ is acceptable, whereas ‘Oscar pulls Chris's arm’ is not. Playing to win also falls under power-gaming, as players are expected to engage in a cooperative experience with one another on the server and in storylines, not seek to dominate the narrative.

Intentionally leaving the area before someone has finished typing their reply to you, leaving if a player approaches and begins to type, or leaving in the middle of a scene without posting is considered roleplay avoidance. ‘Leaving’ includes simply walking away, teleporting away, or logging out without responding or waiting for the other player to finish a response.

**13)Fail Roleplay & Rules Lawyering:**

If there is suspicion someone is breaking any rules or guidelines we have within our server, please reach out. Do not take it upon oneself to moderate the situation. Everyone is here to have fun, toxicity by virtue of the rules is unwelcome.

Fail RP encompasses any and all situations where characters are participating in behavior which goes against the grain of established expectations. This is not limited to just those things that can happen in roleplay, such as egregious 'Meme' roleplay or references to real world pop media, and roleplaying abilities your character does not or was not approved of having, but also encompasses using the game to your advantage.

This includes purposefully glitching your toon/character to get into (or out of) places you normally could not, glitching through the map, intentionally exploiting bugs in RPR to gain an advantage over others.

**14) Breaking the spirit of the rules/loop-holing:**

It is impossible to conceive and cover every form of negative or abusive behavior or attitudes, there are times when a person breaks the spirit of the rules in order to advance themselves. During these times, staff reserves the right to handle it at the time and circumstances of it happening and deal out the right punishment for such. These rules can be amended or added on to as necessary when circumstances arise.

**15) Futas:**

While we do allow transgender characters of COtF, we expect our players to play them realistically. The only thing we require is if female characters wish to have a penis we ask they look slightly more androgenous, i.e. smaller breasts and or more angular features as would realistically happen to someone with more testosterone to support a functioning penis. Please understand that this is our way to try to make it so intersex people are less fetishized in the community as futas. This would also require players to have only one set of functioning sexual organs, you may not have both even though this does and can occur in intersex individuals.