Post by Crash on Apr 3, 2008 13:31:56 GMT -5
The Rules of Into The Shadows
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OOC RULES
1. Absolutely NO fighting. If you wish to fight with someone, take it off the site, dont bring it here.
2. No being rude to the staff members.
3. Yes, you can cuss just try to keep it to a minimum.
4. If your character doesnt like another character, keep that IC and dont bring that OOC.
5. The admins have the right to disable your account for an amount of days if you ignore their warnings.
6. Two warnings will be given before your account is disabled.
IN CHARACTER Rules:[/u]
-Characters
- You may have as many characters as you like, but if you don't use them, please delete them.
- Your horse can be light, neutral, or dark. Darks are evil, lights are heavenly, and neutrals are somewhere in between.
- No god-modeling. This means that you aren't aloud to attack, kill, or do anything to another horse without them having a chance to dodge, defend, or leave.
- Please try to have unique names, you are not aloud to use a name that is already on the taken names list.
- Cussing in character is permitted, but please try to keep it to a minimum.
- You aren't aloud to use land names, character names or land descriptions that you have not made yourself. Please try to be as original as possible.
-Lands
- You are only allowed two
[/li][li]There are no Sub-herds for now. (This might be changed in the future.)
[/li][li]Inactivity for two weeks will result in your character losing his land. If you have not posted in the absence board, your land will be up for claim and whoever wants it may have it.
[/li][li]We will not make a new board for you every time that you want a new herd. Have your character fight for it, and if you don't want to do that, then your character may stay in one of the Peasant lands.
[/li][li]Stallions may claim lands. If a stallion leaves a land permanently, the lead mare cannot take over.
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-Stallions
- Stallions can only lead one land and have one lead lady. Once a stallion has 5 mares, he must choose a lead mare. He may also choose a lead any time before that, but 5 mares is the deadline.
- Stallions may breed with any mare he wants to, but cannot breed with the same mare twice in one season.
- Stallions can own land, breed, and do everything he wants at the age of three.
- Stallions can: fight mares as well as stallions, claim a land with or without a lead lady, force mares and foals to come home with them, choose an heir [ONE ONLY!] and remember... STALLIONS ARE BOSS!
-Mares
- Mares cannot rule lands by themselves UNLESS IT IS A PLOT. If their lead dies or leaves and there is no other stallion to take over, then she must leave as well unless the new lead allows her to stay.
- Cannot stay pregnant for more than two seasons.
- May do whatever they wish with their foal. This may or may not include: murder, neglect, abuse, or abandonment
- Mares may not breed with the same stallion in one season, but may breed with many different stallions.
-Foals
- After posting the dam and sire stats in the foaling area, a staff member will post the foal stats.
- You are not allowed to request a certain gender, color, height, breed, or twins.
- Foals may leave their herd when they are two years of age, but are not required to unless the lead stallinos says so.
- The lead stallion chooses the heir, not the mare OR the beta.
- When you are given foal stats there will be genes listed. KEEP THESE SAVED IN YOUR CHARACTER'S STATS! When you breed this foal later in its life we need the genes to make an acurate foal color. So if you do not post these genes we will not post your stats. Get it? Got it, Good.
- If you have a still born... you may try again in ONE REAL WEEK.
-Breeding
- Breeding happens in the breeding grounds. You may either breed OOC, IC, or graphically. Be sure that if you are graphic breeding to put stars[***] in the name to warn other members if they choose not to read your thread.
- A pair of the same mare and stallion may not breed twice in one season if they are requesting a foal.
- If they have requested a foal once, they may continue to breed as often as they like, but may have NO more foals. ONE FOAL PER SEASON PER PAIR.
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-Fighting
- During a fight, each horse is aloud 5 attacks and two blocks. This way, each horse gets an equal amount of injuries.
- You aim attacks at the other horse, and whether they dodge it is their choice.
- In the rules that the challenger makes, be sure to include word count max, number of posts, and consequences for what happens when you lose/win. Staff may change your rules as they see fit.
- Anything may be fought over. When fighting or challenging, be sure to post so that it is clear who is being challenged and what for.
- Staff does the final judging. They will take into consideration what would happen in REAL LIFE after this fight, grammar, mechanical errors, and spelling. Be sure that everything is correct, and you will earn more points.
- After the fight, post in the Judging Arena using the given form. There, the staff will post the winner.
- After a fight, that character may not be challenged for 15 DAYS. Put a log somewhere saying when the fight occured, or else you will lose track. If you lose track of it and get challenged again, it is your fault.
- If you do not wish to fight, you forfeit. Refusing to fight is not allowed, but you may forfeit. If you forfeit, whatever was being fought for automatically goes to the challenger.
- Darks, lights, and neutrals may fight eachother for mares or foals, but cannot fight for land.
- Both must agree before a death can occur during battle.
- If your opponent does not reply within 7 days, you automatically win by default. (Unless stated other wise in your rules.)
- If you are challenged the challenge is posted in the Challenge board. Be sure to check here cause if you don't see the challenge it is your fault. You have 7 days to accept or decline a challenge after that you forfeit.
- It is your responsibility to keep a record in your lands of your fights. If you loose 2 fights in a row you may not be challenged for 3 real months.
- If you have lost 2 fights and do not have to fight for 3 real months, but you do not have it posted in your lands, it is up to the admins to decide if you have to fight or not... what they say goes, do not argue.
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-Stealing
- Put your steal into a guessable riddle. It has to be possible to figure out, if you really think about it.
- Stallions can steal mares and foals over the age of 5 months. Mares can steal foals over the age of 5 months.
- Everyone has three days to block whoever they think it is. One block can be made per day by each mare and stallion.
- Once a character is stolen, their herd leader has three days to reply if they wish to fight for them.
- If a character is stolen, they cannot be stolen again for 15 days. Like with the fights, make a log, or else you will lose the information.
-Class
- Order of rank is as follows: Royalty > Dukes > Barons > Knights of The Court > Knights > Mercenaries > Peasants
- Every rank MUST
[/li][li] Stallions and mares must listen to the higher ranks, but only those of the same alliance.
[/li][li]Mares and stallions are allowed to boss around lower ranks, but only if the equine in the lower rank is of the same alliance.
[/li][li]Darks may only boss around darks in a lower class, lights may only boss around lights in a lower class, But[/u] Neutrals may boss around both darks and lights in lower classes.[/li][/ul]
An example is that a light stallion, mare, or foal living in a Dukes herd can boss around a light mare, stallion or foal living in a Barons herd. But may not boss around a mare, stallion, or foal that is dark, no matter if it were a peasant or a baron. How ever neutrals are allowed to boss around both lights and darks. Though lights may not boss around neutrals and neither can darks.
-Admins
- You are ranked based on activity, the more active you are the higher your rank.
- Abusing your powers will result in a loss of admin powers, the length of time is based on how many rules you broke or how badly/often you abused your powers.
- The password to the Lustful Meadow is Adult
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