Rules and Guidelines

Our aim is to provide a fun and immersive environment for everyone to roleplay and simply socialize. Below you will find a list of rules and guidelines that will help us achieve the environment we strive for.

**You must be over the age of 16 to play on this server.**

All content created by players and staff belongs to the creator and is used for non profit.

1) Respect. Derogatory remarks, racial slurs, or comments directed to others regarding race, gender, religion, disabilities, or sexual orientation will not be tolerated. While In Character those things may come up, due to the nature of the setting, such behavior Out-Of-Character is a bannable offence.

2) Staff. A final ruling of a Storyteller in a scene is not debatable. Please respect both it and the staffers person. You may discuss said ruling with the staff council in the appropriate channel AFTER the scene. Retcons are not allowed but rules moving forward may be clarified.

3) Staff accountability. The staff team is comprised of volunteers from the community and is naturally held to a high standart of fairness and accountability.

4) Consent. Any manner of sexual encounters HAS to have the OOC consent of all parties. That said, this is the World of Darkness. As such, otherwise uncomfortable scenes, twisting of characters will, character death or otherwise "unfair" situation may and will happen with or without the players consent and mental powers have to be roleplayed.

5) Separation of Perspective. You are not your character. While two characters may have a mortal feud, their players may and should stay friends. Don’t bring In-Character grudges into your personal interactions or the other way around. If two parties are unable to do so, the staff team may intervene to prevent the hostility on the server, using methods up to and including bannings.

6) Cheating. It may take many forms, from misreporting dice rolls to lying to one member of the staff about another's ruling, disregarding a staff member's ruling, lying to the staff. Do not do this.

7) Meta gaming. It can be hard to separate what the Character knows and what the Player themselves know sometimes. That said, any intentional use of Out-Of-Character information to gain In-Character benefits will not be tolerated.

8) Harassment. It includes: disrespectful communication, repeated arguments about the same topic, forcing unwanted interactions (for example sexual roleplay), repeated arguments about the staff's rulings. While what happens in Personal Messages is usually not the business of the staff, if a player harasses another, or a member of the staff team in PMs, actions may be taken.

9) NSFW content. While this is an adult server we do not accommodate erotic roleplay or images depicting pornography, gore, or otherwise hard NSFW content. When an In-Character interaction becomes sexual we ask you to respectfully fade to black.

10) Activity. If you will be out of play for longer than a month or two please inform a staff member. Otherwise you may be removed from the game.

11) Advertising. We are happy to help advertise sister games run or played by our players, as well as support and spread their creative endeavors. Any other form of advertising is forbidden.

12) Spam. Please don’t.

At any time, staff members may take away typing permissions if any discussion is getting too heated. The server operates on a 3 strike policy, each of which will be communicated to the offending party. Those who gained 2 strikes may be banned temporarily (2 weeks), those who accumulated 3 strikes will be banned permanently. In cases of severe infractions (blatant hostility, clear incapability of separation separation, sexual harassment, blatant hateful remark, malicious spamming, etc.) the staff team may count the offence as 2 or even 3 strikes at once.

# **FAQ**

**- What edition do we play here?**

- We us Revised (3rd) edition of VTM, augmented by homebrew to adapt it to a living world setting.

**- What timezone does the server operate in?**

- We have players from all over the world, but for the sake of having one common reference point we use CST.

**- Can I advertise my server / channel / anything else here?**

- Other games or creative endeavours of our players are welcomed. That said, do not spam and do not promote any random things. If you are asked to stop by staff, please do so.

**- Where are the sexy channels at?**

- We don't allow for ERP on our server.

**- How many character slots do we provide?**

- One and only one.

**- What age, generation, sects and clans are allowed?**

- Short answer is almost all of them, with the main exceptions of infernalist and children concepts. Generation is decided by a dice roll and can range from 6th to 13th (14th, 15th on volunteer basis).

**- Can I play a mortal?**

- No, our chronicle is strictly Vampire. You may, however, be embraced as your first scene and play any retainers your character has, human or animal (they are not considered characters and do not gain XP).

**- How does the time pass in game?**

- Every two real life weeks are equivalent to one in game month. We call that our game Cycle.

**- How is XP handled?**

- Each cycle that you were active even in one scene will award 5 XP. Additional XP may be gained by taking part in plots and shenanigans.

**- The character creation / sheet is confusing.**

- We are happy to answer any questions in #character-creation. The character creation largely follows rules for each sects outlined in the respective books. The sheet functions exactly as any PDF sheet would.

**- How do we write here?**

- We don't have any kind of length or similar guidelines as different people will enjoy different pace in scenes. That said we do ask you to keep speech in "Quotations" and narrations in *Italics* for the ease of comprehension. `*Italics*, **Bold**, ```Text Box````

**- How "crunchy" (system and dice heavy) is our chronicle?**

- Depends entirely on what direction you will head in. More interested in roleplay and social interactions? You may never end up rolling a die. Interested in combat and Discipline usage? Then the rulebook will come into play. The chronicle at large is not combat focused, however.

**- How deadly is our chronicle?**

- We like to think that we do all in our power for it to be minimally so. That said, we still run a World of Darkness and death is an ever present aspect. Some mistakes may and will kill you and PvP is allowed. Your character may be hurt, their will subverted, put out of play or simply die if in game circumstances lead to it.

**- Can I be in multiple scenes at once?**

- As long as none of them are likely to end in significant character changes (death, dismemberment, crippling disciplines being used etc.) and the scenes are on different IC days, you may be in multiple ones.

**- What is our stance on homebrew?**

- We are fairly opened for player creations and additions, though in some areas more so than others. Custom rituals, merits/flaws and combo disciplines are easy enough to include. More involved things may take a fair amount of work and balancing to make them fit into our game.

**- What to do if I want to make a roll?**

- Is it something simple like singing or a part of your characters routine like a mask of 1000 faces for a Nosferatu? Just roll it and report successes in the scene you're in. Is it combat, frenzy or something affecting or prying into other characters? Ping a @Staff member and wait until someone mediates the rolls. Unsure if you need supervision for something? Feel free to ask.

**- When should I ping a @Staff member in the scene?**

- If any of following circumstances arise, the scene MUST be overseen by a staffer: Frenzy rolls, Rotschreck rolls, Combat rolls, Discipline use against players or NPCs, Social rolls of importance between Players or NPCs, Crafting, Influence, Investigations, Blood bonds

**- How do I spend XP / Submit my character / Arrange scenes with NPCs / Otherwise submit something for ST approval or notice?**

- if you add yourself to the @Submission role (see #role-changes), you will see the appropriate channels #general-submissions #scene-requests #exp-spends #new-characters