Being Other People: RP Guidelines/Rules

Communication: Communication is your friend. When in doubt, talk it out.

Your Fandom: Don't assume anything with regards to your fandom. Be sure to contact the players of other characters from your fandom to check what the precedent is and find out who is from which part of the timeline.

Canon Relationships: Canon relationships don't automatically translate to your character's relationships at Fandom High without the express permission of the other characters involved.

Approved Journals Only: Only approved character journals are allowed to participate in official Fandom High threads, including those on character journals. If there's an unapproved journal commenting on one of your posts, tell them to stop it and then bring it to the admins. Players of unapproved journals may have their membership revoked (if they're a current player with other characters) or be banned from joining in the future (if not currently a member).

Guest Stars: Yes, you're allowed to have the occasional guest star for your plots. To cut back on the amount of guest stars running around Fandom, we do ask that you have a legitimate plotty reason for that guest star to be in town. Please run your guest stars past the administration so we can keep this under control, and keep in mind that we will likely ask you to use your own character journal to run the guest star..

ICA=ICC: In Character Actions = In Character Consequences. Think before doing something, because you will be expected to deal with the consequences of your character's actions. However, there is such thing as OOC decency. Do not hide behind ICA=ICC as an excuse to be rude to people. If you want to deal with consequences, arrange it OOCly with the other player(s) involved first.

Diversity: Try to branch out from your fandom. This is about mixing up the fandoms, not clinging together.

Time and Timing: You can't be in two places at once. Take care to make sure you're not doubling up.

OOC vs IC: What you know as a player and what your character knows are two totally different things. This includes anything you learned from an unofficial game community. Don't use OOC knowledge IC. Period. When in doubt, talk to the other people involved OOC to clarify what should or shouldn't be known before posting. Also, IC issues remain IC. OOC issues remain OOC. If you let an OOC issue leak into IC interactions, you will be called on it.

Godmodding: Godmodding is indicating that another character carried out an action without permission of that character's player or doing something that will affect another character without the other player's permission. Don't do it. It's bad cricket. Ask before affecting other characters. Mistakes will happen, but if it's a regular habit admin action will be taken, including possible removal from the game. That would be bad.

Retconning: Don't go back and change the past. That includes rewriting unless directed to do so by the admins. It messes with continuity and gives everyone a headache. This is a big one. Don't do it or you'll be removed from the communities.

Magic and Combat: This is pretty much covered under 'godmodding'. If you take a swing or cast a spell at a person, you don't get to control the outcome. That's up to the player of the character you are attacking. It's much easier if you just work out the scene beforehand with the other player/s involved. The scene will flow easier. You cannot detect that someone is under the influence of magic or has used magic unless it's canonical for your character to be aware of such things. However, there are magic-sensitive characters in this game. Don't think you can cast a big spell and not have it noticed. No major magic is to be performed on the island without administrative permission.

Alternative Role-Playing: Playing by email or IMs is allowed. In order for your playing to be considered as game canon, you have to post the finished logs in your own character journal or in the appropriate community in a timely fashion (ie: ASAP). If it doesn't show up in your character journal or in the communities, it didn't happen. Also, you may not include external role-playing sessions with players that have left/been thrown out/players who aren't part of the game without admin approval. Try to keep external role-playing of events in public places to a minimum because it rules out the possibility of witnesses or possible consequences.

Deleting Journals: If you delete your journal or delete past entries or make them inaccessible, you are out of the game and will be on a permanent ban list. This is a one-strike offense. For real, don't do it.

Interfering/Getting Involved With Plots: If you want to interfere or get involved with someone else's plot, ask first.

Deaths: No player-character deaths without prior admin permission. Character deaths have a huge effect on the other characters in the game, so please take that into consideration.

Realism: We're wacky enough as it is. Try to keep things a little bit realistic. (ie: if you get hit by a bolt of lightning, play out the consequences!)

Extreme Plotlines: Please get admin approval before running an extreme plotline. This includes anything involving a lot of violence and/or controversial issues such as rape, torture, kidnapping, etc. This is not to infringe on anyone's creativity, but there may be other issues going on with players that may make the situation inappropriate at that time. Please just check in to be on the safe side.