Post by Administrator on Mar 19, 2007 18:29:28 GMT -5
General Rules
IC Rules: What Your Characters Need to Know
Please take note that these are IC rules – if your character breaks one of them, THEY will be punished, not you. Feel free to have them broken.
Candidates:
Weyrlings:
Flights and Hatchings
Greenflights
Goldflights
Hatchings
Characters and their Restrictions
Making a Character
Restrictions
Cbox Rules
- No discussion of politics or religion is permitted OoCly anywhere.
- Be careful with who you give your e-mail address, screenname, etc. to. Sharing phone numbers and addresses is prohibited.
- Respect not only admins and moderators, but everyone.
- We’re not Nazis – if you think something’s unfair, let us know; just don’t whine. Nobody likes it when people whine at them.
- Powerplaying and godmoding are not allowed, unless the other member has given their express permission.
- Refrain from running away with threads – for three/four-person threads, it’s suggested to keep a posting order; for plot and Hatching threads, please post only once per “round” – i.e. plot-runner posts; you post; everyone else posts; plot-runner posts; you post again.
- There is no minimum or maximum word count as far as posts go (quality over quantity, and all of that), but please, try to avoid one-liners unless you honestly think you can sum up everything in one line.
- Keep threads within PG-13 romance-wise, please.
- Timing it and telekinesis are not canon to Selenitas – don’t do it unless you have an admin’s approval.
IC Rules: What Your Characters Need to Know
Please take note that these are IC rules – if your character breaks one of them, THEY will be punished, not you. Feel free to have them broken.
Candidates:
- Curfew: Candidates are not allowed to leave their Barracks until 7:00 AM, and are required to return by 10:00 PM.
- Candidates are not allowed to be physically or mentally incapable: There will be no blind, deaf, paralyzed, etc. Candidates Standing. At all. They all go through a physical exam before being accepted so there will be NO exceptions to his rule.
- Candidates are ranked basically as Drudges at all times – save for when there is a Touching or Hatching, whereupon they are immediately elevated to the most important people in the Weyr.
- Candidates are not allowed to go to the Weyrling Barracks, Rider Weyrs, or Hatching Sands unless sent there by a Rider or by the Headwoman, and even then must have the Candidatemaster’s approval.
- Dragon Candidates must be between the ages of 12 and 25.
- Wher Candidates must be between the ages of 12 and 32.
- Candidates are not allowed to Stand for Salamandyr Hatchings.
- Candidates are expected to attend Lessons; failure to do so may result in being stripped of Candidacy.
Weyrlings:
- Curfew: Weyrlings are not allowed to leave their Barracks until 7:00 AM, and are required to return by 10:00 PM.
- Weyrlings are expected to attend Lessons regularly, and will be held back from passing if they do not.
- Weyrlings are not allowed to Stand for Salamandyr Hatchings unti ltheir dragon reaches maturity.
- Weyrlings do not acquire their full Rider rank until their dragons and they graduate from Lessons, and still rank just over Drudges.
Flights and Hatchings
Greenflights
- Greens do Rise on Selenitas, though they rise only once every six months OoCly.
- Green dragon and wher Rise/Runs must be scheduled and put onto the calendar – simply contact an admin to do so.
- Green flights can only last a maximum of a week. If you pass the allotted time then your thread will be moved to the archives completed or not.
- Green firelizard and Salamandyr Rise/Runs can begin at any time without admin approval.
- Green dragons/whers/Salamandyrs do not clutch.
- Green firelizards can clutch, but rarely do – if you have a reason you want your green to clutch, contact an admin, but don’t be disappointed if we say no.
Goldflights
- Golds of all species will be scheduled a time to Rise by the admins.
- A goldflight should last a maximum of four days.
- Goldflights will produce clutches, no matter the color they are caught by, though egg count will vary with the color of the sire.
- If you have a gold, do not ask for your gold to clutch another queen – if Selenitas needs another queen, you will be asked.
Hatchings
- Both dragons and whers come with names. These are not to be changed, and please do not request for a dragon or wher to have a specific name.
- Hatchlings of all species also come with personalities. These will probably change over time, but do not change them without reason (i.e. a sweet, bubbly green becoming harsh and cruel because the writer wanted a harsh, cruel green, without anything happening IC to explain the change). Expanding it is expected, but please no random, complete changes – that defies the point of the queens’ players even going to the trouble to write the profile.
- Impressions are pre-chosen, and trying to force-Impress a hatchling (grabbing its head and making it look at you, or picking it up and stuffing food at it in the case of firelizards and Salamandyrs) will likely result in your Candidate being mauled.
- On the subject of mauling: It happens, in dragon and occasionally wher Hatchings. There will be blood, and there will be pain. If you’re not okay with this, make sure you let the person running the clutch know beforehand. If you forget to mention it, don’t flip out when your Candidate gets mauled. By neglecting to mention it, you’re basically giving the clutch runner permission to maul. There will be no deaths unless you request it, and your Candidate will be able to stand for another clutch after mauling, unless, again, you request otherwise.
- Don’t complain if your Candidate didn’t Impress. There will be other Hatchings, and whining doesn’t make anybody want to give you a hatchling. Hatchings are also final. This means if your character Impressed something you didn't want them to, you can't take it back. Impression is supposed to be a life changing event, let your character grow into it.
- Queen owners reserve the right to Impress to any Impression-aged person within their hatching. Enter your characters into hatching threads knowing that the above rule applies to those Impressions as well.
Characters and their Restrictions
Making a Character
- Use the template provided under the ‘Characters’ board; just copy and paste it into a new topic.
- Please ONLY post new profiles in the 'Pending' subboard in the 'Characters' board.
- Make sure your Character’s history is compatible to Selenitas’s – you may want to check the Timeline (under the History board) to make sure you’ve gotten the main things. Cookie-cutter histories won’t make the cut; Selenitas has a very specific history.
- Wait for an admin’s approval. You may or may not be asked to make edits to your profile.
- Once it’s approved, it will be notified, and the profile will be moved to its appropriate category.
- Do NOT start roleplaying until your character has been moved.
- If you have been inactive without informing us why beforehand Or have been inactive for more then two months, any golds or bronzes you have may be frozen or removed. As will any specials, special positions ect, you have acquired.
Restrictions
- Queens of any species will automatically be rejected: They can only be Impressed IC.
- Bronze whers and dragons are allowed to be made; if you want a bronze, fill out the application form for one under the Request board.
- Neither firelizards nor Salamandyrs are allowed to be created. There are sufficient hatchings for both.
- Red hair and green eyes are limited. You may have one of each among your characters at any one time. You may not have both on one character, though.
- Twins are not allowed to be created at this time. Nor will your character be allowed to birth twins. We are at our limit for them currently.
- You may apply to be an HAD [Hears All Dragons] after you have been active on Selenitas for six months. Do not be surprised if you are turned down.
- There will be NO Level III HADs.
- HADs are female only.
- The levels of HADs proceed as thus: Level I HADs do not hear dragons talking unless they are addressed, but can mentally contact a dragon; Level II HADs can hear dragons talking even when they are not being addressed, but can block it out, and can mentally contact a dragon; Level III HADs can hear dragons talking, are unable to tune them out, and can mentally contact a dragon, and are usually greatly affected by draconic emotions.
- There are two HADs allowed on Selenitas at a time, and only one of each level allowed. The current Level II is Terilyn. There is no current Level I.
Cbox Rules
- Respect not only admins and moderators, but everyone.
- Keep it pg-13: no overt mentions of sex, including euphamisms for it. Innuendo can be appropriate.
- Do not link inappropriate (aka, non-pg-13 things) in the cbox.
- Do not mention other roleplay sites.