Post by DOG on Jun 5, 2008 19:16:26 GMT -5
Overview:
__ is what can be considered a "semi-strict" roleplay dream. Most roleplay dreams have character creation and roleplay rules for their patrons to follow, the better for roleplay in the dream to flourish. Like stricter roleplay dreams, __ requires those who wish to roleplay here fill out an application (basically, a Character Sheet) for their character for staff to approve. Also like stricter roleplay dreams, there are specific guidelines in terms of character creation for members to follow.
The Warriors series is, at its heart, a tale of feral cats living together in a colony and defending their territory against other cats.
While there are liberties taken in the series with realism (the cats' belief in Starclan, the anthropomorphized view of having a single mate, etc.), the cats themselves are ordinary domestic cats living as ferals without human contact. That said, characters that roleplay here are ordinary domestic cats.
Unlike other strict roleplay dreams, however, __ is a lot more loose on what it accepts regarding roleplay skill.
More experienced roleplayers help out less experienced roleplayers; most strict roleplay guilds accept members based on advanced roleplay ability.
If your style of roleplay is to create an unusual, hybridized, mutated, or otherwise not-natural character, then this is not the dream for you.
Those who wish to join must respect the fact that __ is unlike the persona-roleplay Warriors dreams typically loaded.
Dream Rules:
* Unlike the Warrior Code (posted below), there ARE OOC consequences for any rules you break on the Dream Rules list. Depending on the severity of the offense, you may be warned, ejected, temporarily or permanently banned.
* This dream reserves the right to change, add to, or remove these rules at any time, with no posted notice.
* You must follow Furcadia's User Agreement. Failure to comply will result in immediate banishment.
* Your character must be a domestic cat. This means no humans or dogs or wolves or lions or tigers or bears or anything of the sort.
* Respect the staff members and their decisions, and do not argue with them.
* Respect your fellow roleplayers. Try to settle disputes by yourselves before calling staff.
* To roleplay in the dream as a Warrior Cat, you must apply on the forums. Until staff members approve you, you cannot roleplay in the clan camp or enter the IC area, as you need their approval in order to become officially a member of that clan. As some clans are more populated than others (Especially Field and Cliff) there may be restrictions on how many cats can join those.
* To roleplay as a loner, rogue, or kittypet, you must fill out the application on the forum for approval first.
* Put OOC comments in brackets when you are in the IC area. Put OOC chatter in /whispers or -shouts. The shout channel may be used as an OOC conversation line, and will appear as yellow text on your screen to help differentiate between the shouts and normal text. Do not chit-chat OOCly in the IC area.
* Please do not use the same character here that you use for all the other Warriors dreams you play in. This means we don't want to see an entire description consisting of "[TreeClan apprentice] [Warrior of FireClan] [Leader of BobClan] [FlakeClan apprentice]" etc etc. If at all possible, limit your alt to being used in one, maybe two dreams at most - it keeps things much less complicated.
* Do not use chatspeak (u, ur, b/c, etc.) in your posts or description.
* You may curse, but try to keep it to a minimum. If someone asks you to stop, don't curse around that person at all. Staff will enforce this if requested.
* Keep anything higher than a PG-13 rating IN WHISPERS. We don't want to see your intimate conversations.
* Elitism, also known as "wolfspeak" or "thesaurus speak," is not permitted anywhere in the dream, including descriptions. "Wolfspeak" is a manner of "roleplay" in which "fancy-sounding" words are used in place of more common words, often incorrectly. (Common examples of wolfspeak words are "auds," "optics," "orbs," "femme," "brute," "caudal," etc.)
* It is not permitted to summon a non-member or the OOC alt of a registered member into the IC area.
Nor is it permitted to give the IC command(s) to non members.
Only registered IC characters are permitted in the IC area, and summoning others will result in suspension and/or banishment.
* Members found slandering Dawn in other dreams will be dealt with accordingly, and may be banned if the errant behavior continues.
General Character Rules:
* Place your Clan, Clan Name (if applicable), and rank in your description.
*All characters created must fit the Coloration and Naming rules. You can find the appropriate pages on the navbar above.
* A full description of your character is not required, although it is nice to have and highly encouraged. If you choose not to write a description, however, it is asked that you write at least one basic sentence, as is done in the Warriors books (example: Pale gray she-cat with green eyes), and that you describe your character to some extent in your posts, so that the other roleplayers are not confused and so that they do not accidentally offend you for something they did not know.
* Unless your character is a former kittypet, it may not wear accessories. Also, twolegs aren't likely to pierce their cats' ears or give them diamond-studded collars, etc. - be realistic.
* Rare and pure-bred cats will not be allowed within the continuity. Stray cats are not going to breed for blood lines, and escaped kittypets are most likely not going to come from owners who show cats or have that much money to let wander outside. See the Colors page for more in-depth information on what colors/'breeds' are and are not accepted here.
* The majority of accepted kittypets must be spayed (for females) and neutered (for males), just as it would be in reality.
*Pedigree cats are permitted for kittypets ONLY, but must be spayed/neutered and unable to breed - an expensive pedigree cat that an owner wishes to breed or show would not be permitted to be an outdoor cat, so any outdoor pedigree cat would be spayed or neutered to prevent unwanted breedings. And as far as breeds permitted for kittypets, no "rare", new, or uncommon breed of cat (Like the Toyger, Cheetoh, Sphynx, Rexes, American Curl, Egyptian Mau, Ragamuffin, Japanese and American Bobtails, etc) can be used, as no one who shells out thousands of dollars for a breed of cat would allow it to be indoor/outdoor. And as pedigree cats cost so much, and are far surpassed by domestic short/long/medium-hairs in terms of breed of cat kept, they will only be allowed to be spayed/neutered kittypets on a LIMITED BASIS.
* Magical abilities, mutations, etc, are not permitted with the exception of polydactyly ("extra toed cats"). Mutations such as male tortoiseshells, albinos, and the like are results of genetic abnormalities, and cats born with those and similar conditions would not survive in the wild.
* Blue-eyed whites are limited in this dream, as there is a large percentage of blue eyed whites that are born deaf. Please make your white cat character odd-eyed, green eyed, or yellow-eyed instead. To have a blue eyed cat, you must speak to Patchedstar or Silver Greenstripe to see if there is an availability to play a blue eyed white.
* Speaking of blue eyes - blue eyes in non-white cats (i.e. solids, tabbies, and bicolors) are very uncommon, and if seen, are generally in very light colored cats or in bicolors. When creating a character, please consider that blue eyes are uncommon, and honor the eye-color of the cat in the reference photo(s) you provide for your character.
General Name Rules:
* Try to get your IC Clan name as your log-in name, so that users named XxBobxX aren't being called Specklefoot (as an example). If you can't get the name you want, try to find something similar - like Speckledfoot or xSpecklefoot. If you can't get a name, due to space limitations in Email or some other reason, contact Smokefur and he can set you up with a gmail account- but try to get your warrior name if you can.
* Do not use numbers, smiles/icons, or symbols in your login name
* The only acceptable addons to a name are one (or two, at most) x's before or after the name, or a period.
Examples: xBlackpaw, Fernfrost x , xStormpeltx
* All names must follow the naming protocol - see the "Names" page for more in-depth rules on naming your character
Roleplay Rules:
General:
* If you see someone at a lower roleplaying experience level than you and your companions, don't be crude. Try to incorporate the newcomer into your group, and share your knowledge. Teach the person what he/she is doing wrong, and help him/her to correct it. Don't shun people or insult them.
* Keep in mind that the Warriors books take place somewhere in Britain. Some animals are not native to that area, and so the cats would not know of such creatures. These include large/wild cats outside of Clan cat folklore, such as pumas (cougars), cheetahs, servals, etc. as well as various other species like giraffes, wolves, and hyenas.
* IC and OOC are VERY SEPARATE. This means that you should not hold a grudge against a player because his/her character did something to your character. It also means that you are not your character. In example, YOU did not go hunting; your character did - so don't say something like as an OOC comment, unless YOU went out with your gun and shot a squirrel for some reason.
* You cannot change Clans without a valid IC reason. All IC reasons must be approved by the staff BEFORE you roleplay the clan change.
* Once your character is dead, he/she is dead and part of StarClan. StarClan may NOT walk among the living, and they may NOT return to life. Only leaders have multiple lives, and they are limited to nine(9).
* Continued roleplay is allowed - if and only if it is one-on-one. You may not, however, continue a roleplay with more than two people involved. The only exception for this is if one or both persons are using alts. In the event that a fight occurs and someone has to leave, the above rule holds true; all spectators count towards people present, and if the total is greater than two people (excluding alts), the fight may NOT be continued.
* OOC knowledge cannot be used ICly. As an example, if someone whispers you "omg im dying i need ur help," you cannot rush to his/her aid, because your character was not told ICly that the person's character is being killed. If someone were to run to you and to post "There's a fight! We need help!" your character would be allowed to go and help.
* If a major decision must be made on behalf of the Clan (for example, an alliance or discussions taking place upon the removal thereof), it should be arranged for the leader to be present (whether immediately or on a later date) if at all possible. If it is not possible, the deputy may act on the leader's behalf. If that isn't possible, the medicine cat may stand in, and after him/her, the most senior warrior.
Fighting:
* If you don't want IC trouble/fighting, do not go to a Clan's camp/territory unless your character is part of that Clan or has been invited there. A raid or attempt to take over a Clan, or to do any major harm to a Clan in any way, may not be attempted by one or more cats unless five or more WARRIOR characters are present and active IC. Kits do not count towards this number, and two apprentices may count for one warrior.
* In an IC fight (physical, not verbal), there is NO AUTO-HITTING. This means that you may "attempt to scratch Bill very deeply," but you may not "scratch Bill very deeply." Violation of this rule will result in the fight and all injuries caused during it to become void. You may dodge, but try to go by the "Dodge, Dodge, Hit" rule - For every three attacks, allow at least one to hit.
* DEATH IS ALLOWED. Your consent is required for the character to be killed, but please be reasonable. If your character has just had its throat ripped out and you go "Wait, I don't want him/her to die!" then you'd better find a pretty darn good (non-magical) medicine cat. If you know your character is outclassed and you don't want your character to die, run from the fight. Running IS NOT twinking. Please post running - don't just run off without replying to the other person, or it WILL be considered twinking.
* You may not whisper/summon other players for help, or bring in an alt to assist your character.
* Other players who have been alerted ICly are allowed to be brought to help. Ex: Alderpaw, Smokefoot, and Foxtail are attacked by Talon, Wind, and Birch. Foxtail sends Alderpaw back to camp and fetch reinforcements in the form of Blackpaw and Mousenose.
* A person is allowed to run from an attack and therefore dodge all of the original post's attacks in the process. The character may be pursued, however, if the player does not argue against being chased - but if the person says that he/she isn't going to fight, don't try to force him/her into it.
* If someone happens to walk in upon a fight and wishes to help one side or the other, it is allowed, unless some prior agreement has been made by those currently fighting. However, if it is discovered that the newcomer was tipped OOCly on where/when to find the fight, the results will become void and the fight will have never taken place ICly.
* Continued fights are NOT allowed. If you have to leave in the middle of the fight, it is considered dodging and running from the fight (but there can be no IC consequences for running if it is beyond the player's control). If the two characters wish to start a NEW fight on a later date, that's fine, but you may not 'pick up' where you 'left off.' Try to come to an agreement about the outcome of the fight before leaving.
* If your character comes across a fight, or is called to aid in a fight, you must roleplay out being asked to help (if necessary), and then upon arriving at the fight scene you must post your arrival. You MAY NOT ATTACK on your first post. After all members of the group have posted once (after your initial post), you may enter the fight.
__ is what can be considered a "semi-strict" roleplay dream. Most roleplay dreams have character creation and roleplay rules for their patrons to follow, the better for roleplay in the dream to flourish. Like stricter roleplay dreams, __ requires those who wish to roleplay here fill out an application (basically, a Character Sheet) for their character for staff to approve. Also like stricter roleplay dreams, there are specific guidelines in terms of character creation for members to follow.
The Warriors series is, at its heart, a tale of feral cats living together in a colony and defending their territory against other cats.
While there are liberties taken in the series with realism (the cats' belief in Starclan, the anthropomorphized view of having a single mate, etc.), the cats themselves are ordinary domestic cats living as ferals without human contact. That said, characters that roleplay here are ordinary domestic cats.
Unlike other strict roleplay dreams, however, __ is a lot more loose on what it accepts regarding roleplay skill.
More experienced roleplayers help out less experienced roleplayers; most strict roleplay guilds accept members based on advanced roleplay ability.
If your style of roleplay is to create an unusual, hybridized, mutated, or otherwise not-natural character, then this is not the dream for you.
Those who wish to join must respect the fact that __ is unlike the persona-roleplay Warriors dreams typically loaded.
Dream Rules:
* Unlike the Warrior Code (posted below), there ARE OOC consequences for any rules you break on the Dream Rules list. Depending on the severity of the offense, you may be warned, ejected, temporarily or permanently banned.
* This dream reserves the right to change, add to, or remove these rules at any time, with no posted notice.
* You must follow Furcadia's User Agreement. Failure to comply will result in immediate banishment.
* Your character must be a domestic cat. This means no humans or dogs or wolves or lions or tigers or bears or anything of the sort.
* Respect the staff members and their decisions, and do not argue with them.
* Respect your fellow roleplayers. Try to settle disputes by yourselves before calling staff.
* To roleplay in the dream as a Warrior Cat, you must apply on the forums. Until staff members approve you, you cannot roleplay in the clan camp or enter the IC area, as you need their approval in order to become officially a member of that clan. As some clans are more populated than others (Especially Field and Cliff) there may be restrictions on how many cats can join those.
* To roleplay as a loner, rogue, or kittypet, you must fill out the application on the forum for approval first.
* Put OOC comments in brackets when you are in the IC area. Put OOC chatter in /whispers or -shouts. The shout channel may be used as an OOC conversation line, and will appear as yellow text on your screen to help differentiate between the shouts and normal text. Do not chit-chat OOCly in the IC area.
* Please do not use the same character here that you use for all the other Warriors dreams you play in. This means we don't want to see an entire description consisting of "[TreeClan apprentice] [Warrior of FireClan] [Leader of BobClan] [FlakeClan apprentice]" etc etc. If at all possible, limit your alt to being used in one, maybe two dreams at most - it keeps things much less complicated.
* Do not use chatspeak (u, ur, b/c, etc.) in your posts or description.
* You may curse, but try to keep it to a minimum. If someone asks you to stop, don't curse around that person at all. Staff will enforce this if requested.
* Keep anything higher than a PG-13 rating IN WHISPERS. We don't want to see your intimate conversations.
* Elitism, also known as "wolfspeak" or "thesaurus speak," is not permitted anywhere in the dream, including descriptions. "Wolfspeak" is a manner of "roleplay" in which "fancy-sounding" words are used in place of more common words, often incorrectly. (Common examples of wolfspeak words are "auds," "optics," "orbs," "femme," "brute," "caudal," etc.)
* It is not permitted to summon a non-member or the OOC alt of a registered member into the IC area.
Nor is it permitted to give the IC command(s) to non members.
Only registered IC characters are permitted in the IC area, and summoning others will result in suspension and/or banishment.
* Members found slandering Dawn in other dreams will be dealt with accordingly, and may be banned if the errant behavior continues.
General Character Rules:
* Place your Clan, Clan Name (if applicable), and rank in your description.
*All characters created must fit the Coloration and Naming rules. You can find the appropriate pages on the navbar above.
* A full description of your character is not required, although it is nice to have and highly encouraged. If you choose not to write a description, however, it is asked that you write at least one basic sentence, as is done in the Warriors books (example: Pale gray she-cat with green eyes), and that you describe your character to some extent in your posts, so that the other roleplayers are not confused and so that they do not accidentally offend you for something they did not know.
* Unless your character is a former kittypet, it may not wear accessories. Also, twolegs aren't likely to pierce their cats' ears or give them diamond-studded collars, etc. - be realistic.
* Rare and pure-bred cats will not be allowed within the continuity. Stray cats are not going to breed for blood lines, and escaped kittypets are most likely not going to come from owners who show cats or have that much money to let wander outside. See the Colors page for more in-depth information on what colors/'breeds' are and are not accepted here.
* The majority of accepted kittypets must be spayed (for females) and neutered (for males), just as it would be in reality.
*Pedigree cats are permitted for kittypets ONLY, but must be spayed/neutered and unable to breed - an expensive pedigree cat that an owner wishes to breed or show would not be permitted to be an outdoor cat, so any outdoor pedigree cat would be spayed or neutered to prevent unwanted breedings. And as far as breeds permitted for kittypets, no "rare", new, or uncommon breed of cat (Like the Toyger, Cheetoh, Sphynx, Rexes, American Curl, Egyptian Mau, Ragamuffin, Japanese and American Bobtails, etc) can be used, as no one who shells out thousands of dollars for a breed of cat would allow it to be indoor/outdoor. And as pedigree cats cost so much, and are far surpassed by domestic short/long/medium-hairs in terms of breed of cat kept, they will only be allowed to be spayed/neutered kittypets on a LIMITED BASIS.
* Magical abilities, mutations, etc, are not permitted with the exception of polydactyly ("extra toed cats"). Mutations such as male tortoiseshells, albinos, and the like are results of genetic abnormalities, and cats born with those and similar conditions would not survive in the wild.
* Blue-eyed whites are limited in this dream, as there is a large percentage of blue eyed whites that are born deaf. Please make your white cat character odd-eyed, green eyed, or yellow-eyed instead. To have a blue eyed cat, you must speak to Patchedstar or Silver Greenstripe to see if there is an availability to play a blue eyed white.
* Speaking of blue eyes - blue eyes in non-white cats (i.e. solids, tabbies, and bicolors) are very uncommon, and if seen, are generally in very light colored cats or in bicolors. When creating a character, please consider that blue eyes are uncommon, and honor the eye-color of the cat in the reference photo(s) you provide for your character.
General Name Rules:
* Try to get your IC Clan name as your log-in name, so that users named XxBobxX aren't being called Specklefoot (as an example). If you can't get the name you want, try to find something similar - like Speckledfoot or xSpecklefoot. If you can't get a name, due to space limitations in Email or some other reason, contact Smokefur and he can set you up with a gmail account- but try to get your warrior name if you can.
* Do not use numbers, smiles/icons, or symbols in your login name
* The only acceptable addons to a name are one (or two, at most) x's before or after the name, or a period.
Examples: xBlackpaw, Fernfrost x , xStormpeltx
* All names must follow the naming protocol - see the "Names" page for more in-depth rules on naming your character
Roleplay Rules:
General:
* If you see someone at a lower roleplaying experience level than you and your companions, don't be crude. Try to incorporate the newcomer into your group, and share your knowledge. Teach the person what he/she is doing wrong, and help him/her to correct it. Don't shun people or insult them.
* Keep in mind that the Warriors books take place somewhere in Britain. Some animals are not native to that area, and so the cats would not know of such creatures. These include large/wild cats outside of Clan cat folklore, such as pumas (cougars), cheetahs, servals, etc. as well as various other species like giraffes, wolves, and hyenas.
* IC and OOC are VERY SEPARATE. This means that you should not hold a grudge against a player because his/her character did something to your character. It also means that you are not your character. In example, YOU did not go hunting; your character did - so don't say something like as an OOC comment, unless YOU went out with your gun and shot a squirrel for some reason.
* You cannot change Clans without a valid IC reason. All IC reasons must be approved by the staff BEFORE you roleplay the clan change.
* Once your character is dead, he/she is dead and part of StarClan. StarClan may NOT walk among the living, and they may NOT return to life. Only leaders have multiple lives, and they are limited to nine(9).
* Continued roleplay is allowed - if and only if it is one-on-one. You may not, however, continue a roleplay with more than two people involved. The only exception for this is if one or both persons are using alts. In the event that a fight occurs and someone has to leave, the above rule holds true; all spectators count towards people present, and if the total is greater than two people (excluding alts), the fight may NOT be continued.
* OOC knowledge cannot be used ICly. As an example, if someone whispers you "omg im dying i need ur help," you cannot rush to his/her aid, because your character was not told ICly that the person's character is being killed. If someone were to run to you and to post "There's a fight! We need help!" your character would be allowed to go and help.
* If a major decision must be made on behalf of the Clan (for example, an alliance or discussions taking place upon the removal thereof), it should be arranged for the leader to be present (whether immediately or on a later date) if at all possible. If it is not possible, the deputy may act on the leader's behalf. If that isn't possible, the medicine cat may stand in, and after him/her, the most senior warrior.
Fighting:
* If you don't want IC trouble/fighting, do not go to a Clan's camp/territory unless your character is part of that Clan or has been invited there. A raid or attempt to take over a Clan, or to do any major harm to a Clan in any way, may not be attempted by one or more cats unless five or more WARRIOR characters are present and active IC. Kits do not count towards this number, and two apprentices may count for one warrior.
* In an IC fight (physical, not verbal), there is NO AUTO-HITTING. This means that you may "attempt to scratch Bill very deeply," but you may not "scratch Bill very deeply." Violation of this rule will result in the fight and all injuries caused during it to become void. You may dodge, but try to go by the "Dodge, Dodge, Hit" rule - For every three attacks, allow at least one to hit.
* DEATH IS ALLOWED. Your consent is required for the character to be killed, but please be reasonable. If your character has just had its throat ripped out and you go "Wait, I don't want him/her to die!" then you'd better find a pretty darn good (non-magical) medicine cat. If you know your character is outclassed and you don't want your character to die, run from the fight. Running IS NOT twinking. Please post running - don't just run off without replying to the other person, or it WILL be considered twinking.
* You may not whisper/summon other players for help, or bring in an alt to assist your character.
* Other players who have been alerted ICly are allowed to be brought to help. Ex: Alderpaw, Smokefoot, and Foxtail are attacked by Talon, Wind, and Birch. Foxtail sends Alderpaw back to camp and fetch reinforcements in the form of Blackpaw and Mousenose.
* A person is allowed to run from an attack and therefore dodge all of the original post's attacks in the process. The character may be pursued, however, if the player does not argue against being chased - but if the person says that he/she isn't going to fight, don't try to force him/her into it.
* If someone happens to walk in upon a fight and wishes to help one side or the other, it is allowed, unless some prior agreement has been made by those currently fighting. However, if it is discovered that the newcomer was tipped OOCly on where/when to find the fight, the results will become void and the fight will have never taken place ICly.
* Continued fights are NOT allowed. If you have to leave in the middle of the fight, it is considered dodging and running from the fight (but there can be no IC consequences for running if it is beyond the player's control). If the two characters wish to start a NEW fight on a later date, that's fine, but you may not 'pick up' where you 'left off.' Try to come to an agreement about the outcome of the fight before leaving.
* If your character comes across a fight, or is called to aid in a fight, you must roleplay out being asked to help (if necessary), and then upon arriving at the fight scene you must post your arrival. You MAY NOT ATTACK on your first post. After all members of the group have posted once (after your initial post), you may enter the fight.