Post by Admin on May 29, 2007 10:28:12 GMT -5
- NO DRAMA. This means treat each other with kindness. If you're in a horrible mood, refrain from posting. If there is a problem with another player, take it up with the admins. DO NOT BRING DRAMA TO THE ACTUAL BOARD. Drama is something that kills role plays on proboards, GJ, LJ, etc. Just keep it out of here.
- Ages 16 and older only, please. We're looking for older and more mature role play here. Anyone younger will be denied. If you lie, that's fine with me, but you had better do a great job at your false age.
- NO MARY-SUES/MARTY-STUS. Here's the drift - No one can make up an original character who is related/married/whatever to the canon ones. I'm mainly concerned about brother-sister-secret luver of the following characters: Jack, Will, Elizabeth, and Norrington. Everyone else...well. This - i'll have to read your profile to make a decision whether or not they are accepted. NO NON-CANON RELATIVES OF CANON CHARACTERS. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. IT SMACKS OF SUE-DOM. JUST, NO. If you don't know what a Sue/Stu is, please find yourself another PotC RP. Kthx. All it means is that we expect you to make a character and play one that is not perfect, has some flaws, doesn't have every power, and isn't related to a main character in some OOC way that was not established within the canon. And canon characters aren't gods either - even Jack Sparrow got his eventually.
- ADMINS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO DENY ANY APPLICATION. If we don't like your original, we don't like it. You will either A) Be given some suggestions on how you can make your character acceptable for the role play or B) Told to never come back. Haha.
- GRAMMAR, SPELLING, WRITING! Since the age limit for this RP is 16, we're expecting people to comprehend the writing process. Spellcheck/grammarcheck your posts in Word or Works before posting them. Do a read-through as well so you don't post trash. If you constantly have noticeable spelling errors, you will be warned by an admin. I am well aware of ridiculous rules at certain role plays...anyway - American/British/Australian/etc English is allowed here. Just use the spellings that are the most comfortable for you. Try to use some of the period slang words located HERE, or just emulate some of the slang from the movies. Keep l33t/modern slang/anything else OOC out of the role play.
- WHAT CONSTITUTES A POST? Something that is at least 150 words, my dear Watson. That’s around ¼ of a page in Microsoft Word, Times New Roman 12. Zomg! Like…a normal sized paragraph!
- Play-bys - Every character must have a play-by. You will use a picture of the movie character/someone else for your icon. This is some trouble for those of you with original characters - I don't care if your character is pretty, but I don't want to see Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, or anyone else I can see on the cover of next week's tabloid. There are already THREE SUCH FACES in the PotC films. Letting the cast of this role play have more is just nutty. I swear to Loki if I see one of you using a Angelina Jolie icon with modern clothing for your original character, you will be banned in less than 10 seconds. Try to use pictures of people with clothing that resembles that of the early-mid 1700s. By the way, pictures of real people only in this clothing. I don't want to see anime drawings, catpeople, or whatever else you can drag up online.
- WANK AND DRAMA WILL NOT BE PERMITTED. I’m just letting you know. I hate drama so much. It’s annoying.
- IF YOU DISAGREE WITH THE ADMINS ON SOMETHING: Ask us about it, don’t run off in a huff screaming ‘YOU SUCK!’. There is always the possibility we didn’t hear your side of the story.
- BE ACTIVE WHEN YOU NEED TO BE. I know we've got school, work, hell, etc, but try to post whenever you're involved in a thread. If you are involvded in a thread, give the admins no warning, and holding up others more than a week, you will be power-played by a mod and warned via IM/Email. If you do not return within the next week, you will be deleted. For those of you currently not involved in a thread - trust me, if you want to role play, that should not be happening. Make sure to notify the admins and other players when you will be absent in the 'Player Announcements' area. We understand, trust me. If you have to quit the role play, also post an announcement in said area.
- No Plagarism- We don't mean to sound like your high school english teachers but this is a big problem. A bio or backround application is our basis for ascertaining if you; the applicant; has a grip or handle on the character your applying for, cutting and pasting from wiki or any other such site makes that impossible. You may use outside sources, in fact this sort of thing is encourage to get an accurate description of the char (who knows the height and weight of Elizabeth Swann off the top of their head? really?) please reword or paraphrase what you do.
- If you agree with all or most of the above, CONSULT THE BACKGROUND POST NEXT!
-Your mods