All good games need a few rules. Not many, just a few choice, moist, plump ones so that players can play in an organised and fun manner and people can more easily follow the game and enjoy themselves.<br/><br/>1) Please respect other players O/Os.<em>Heck, please make sure you have read everyone else's O/Os!</em>Please also, before you dive in with the tomato ketchup and eel enema rape, check with the player you are doing a scene with that<em>they are comfortable</em>with that.<em>Any non-consensual acts in-game must be cleared and ok'd by your writing partner beforehand</em>. Even though NC acts are allowed in this game, this is still a really important rule. Thanks.<br/><br/>2) For a consistent appearance and so that we get a visual prompt of the characters appearance, and so that other players know where your character is and who they are interacting with, please use this simple header to all of your posts. Do please use these fonts and font sizes. I'm in a couple of games now where these are being used and it is amazing how good a game looks with consistent fonts and how disjointed games look with variable fonts.<br/><br/>Please just use the forum software default font and size. I also find it helps other characters if the speech of your character is set in<strong>bold</strong>and "double quoted," and your characters thoughts are set in<em>italic font</em>and not quoted. I'm not going to make this a firm rule as we all have preferences but I would love you all so much more if you did make an effort to be consistent - again, a game looks so much slicker and more appealing to prosepctive new players if it has a consistent look.<br/><br/><div class="codeheader">Code: <a class="codeoperation" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return smfSelectText(this);">[Select]</a></div><pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"><code class="bbc_code">[INSERT 100px by 100px AVATAR IMAGE HERE]<br/>[font=trebuchet ms][size=18pt]RICARDO REYES[/size][/font]<br/>[b]Location:[/b] Rasecasse Bar, upper floor sun terrace<br/>[b]With:[/b] Julien Sabatier and his slave, Karin.<br/></code></pre><br/>3) Players may write in the first person ("I climbed the stairs") or the third person ("He climbed the stairs"). I do not mind which writing form you use. I will however be absolutely insisting that we all write in the past tense ("He climbed the stairs") and not the present tense ("He climbs the stairs"). Thank you.<br/><br/>4) Please discuss in the OOC any<em>extreme</em>scenes you plan to do or would like to do. We are in the extreme section of the forums, but many players have drawn lines excluding many extreme themes in the O/Os so if necessary, some extreme scenes may be given their own threads.<br/><br/>5) Please do try to find time to read and understand and try your very best to role-play in accordance with the Oath of Drake. (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=54576.0)