Post by Administration on Sept 6, 2009 15:56:58 GMT -8
M A N N E R S & C O U R T E S Y | It should be pretty obvious that we expect a good level of kindness and polite behavior among our members. Your characters can be as rude, discriminating and cruel as you want but as for you, you better be respectful. If you have a disagreement with someone, please try to settle it outside this site and in a mature manner. We do not want anyone to be enemies with anyone. If you have a problem with someone's race, religion, values, beliefs, sexuality, nationality or ANYTHING, keep it to yourself. This site is not for debate or bashing so either put your discrimination aside or we - - quite honestly - - don't want you to be a part of our site. If you purposely or accidentally hurt anyone's feelings, offend anyone ETC.; you will be required to apologize. If this problem continues with you, you will be put on suspension from the site. Any further trouble will result in you being banned and your characters deleted or put up for adoption ( if a canon ) without the possibility of you ever retrieving them for use on this site.[/color]
G R A P H I C S | Everyone likes to make your things look pretty, right? Well as we do allow signatures and icons we do have to have a few rules. Your signatures can not be more than 500 pixels wide and 300 pixels high. Every character must have an icon depicting their PB ( played by; see rules ) and must be no more than 150 pixels wide and 200 pixels high. Also, since we do not want our boards to be stretched, keep ANY and ALL graphics below 600 pixel width. Thank you, lovies. [/color]
A C T I V I T Y | It is completely understandable that most will not live their entire lives on this site ( but feel free to snuggle up in bed with the rest of us ;] ) but we do expect some activity. You will be expected to post at least one character every two weeks unless you have some reason why you can't. If you are sick, have work, an event or anything that would keep you from posting less than the Once-Every-Two-Weeks requirement, please post an absent thread. Try to be as active as possible! [/color]
R A T I N G | Seeing as there is the possibility of innocent minds on the internet, there must be some restrictions on the site content. You should expect strong language, sexual situations ( have you watched the show?! ), and somewhat graphic deaths. However, we do NOT allow, for the sake of making this even a little bit youth-friendly, sex scenes. You can use the amazingly, wonderful tool called Black-Outs ( also known as 'Fade-Outs') where you simply lead up to the sex but then 'fade out' before it gets to graphic. If your post will be above PG-13, please clearly write in the 'subject' section of the post 'Contains Mature Content'. This site identifies itself as a rated R site, so be careful. Make sure you do follow the ProBoard age restrictions. If you are under 13, we will not allow you on our site, I'm sorry. [/color] [/blockquote]
C H A R A C T E R C O U N T |[/b] There is no limit to how many characters you can have as long as you keep all of them active.
A P P L I C A T I O N S | We have supplied a pre-made application code that must be used when you create your character ( whether canon or original ). Every section must be filled out to the specification provided and posted completed. You can post your application unfinished in the Pending Applications subboard as long as you put [ND] meaning 'not done', [WIP] meaning 'work in progress' or [NF] meaning 'not finished' in the thread's subject. Remove that once your application is finished a member of the staff will go over your application, checking for mistakes or things that need to be elaborated on. Then they will either post a message telling you what needs to be fixed or accept your character. Only AFTER your character has been accepted can you make your character's Plot Tree or begin to roleplay. If you need any help creating your character, Plot Tree, ETC; contact a member of the staff or stop by the cbox. ( see the sidebar ) [/size][/color]
F A C E C L A I M | There are hundreds and hundreds of models, singers, actors, comedians, musicians, entertainers of all types in existence. Your character MUST be represented by a celebrity that fits their age group. ( some exceptions can be made. for example; John Barrowman? He does not look 200+ years old, but he can still play Jack Harkness for obvious reasons ) No two characters ( with the exception of twins, triplets, ETC. ) may have the same PB ( aka: played by; the celebrity ). To reserve a celebrity, contact a member of the staff. [/color]
N A M E C L A I M | Just like the Face Claim, there are hundreds, HUNDREDS of names to choose from. You can a) make up a name, b) choose an already existing name. If you need help choosing a name, contact the staff or wander into the Cbox. ( see the sidebar ) No two characters can have the same names. So no 'Christina' if there is already a 'Kristina' or a 'Krystena' or anything like that, Your character can also not have the same name as a canon character who already existed on the show. No Owen, Toshiko, John, Jack, Andy, Gwen, Rhys.... ETC. Also, to have the same last name as another character, they must be related or you will have to choose another name. No 'Mr. Jake Smith' if there is already a 'Miss Elizabeth Smithson', for example. [/color]
F I X T H A T A P P | You will have two weeks after a member of the staff has made reviewed your application for you to make corrections. If you do not make the corrections by then, the application will be placed in the Graveyard. Exceptions can be made if you contact the Admin. [/color]
C A N O N S | To play a canon character, you must have submitted a special sort of application. This will have you write a sample post for that canon character, talk about your roleplay experience and this will be sent via Private Message to the Admin account. If you are applying to play a member of a certain character's family, consult the character's player first so you can get permission; THEN ask the Admin via Private Message. There are some exceptions to these rules. [/color] [/BLOCKQUOTE]
C O N T E N T L E N G T H | You should try to make every post at least 350 words long, but as long as you would like. Write about their thoughts, feelings, emotions, what they see around them, how they look. Use their sense to describe what is around them or you can even have them think about a time in their past ( aka: flashback ). NOTE: All posts will be in Third Person, with the exceptions of flashbacks ( if you want. either First or Third person is fine ) or journal entries ( if you want. either First or Third person is fine ).[/color]
G O A L | In the series, there is a whole lot of action, back stories, and interesting characters. Something you do not get the chance to dig into, is the histories, feelings and thoughts of the characters. What we strive for here at TTR is for you to take your character ( canons or original character you have created ) and give us the inside look. Since we don't get to know how So-And-So is really feeling or thinking, this is your chance to make your character truly your own. While the show does rely a bit on action and things, we also would like you to incorporate the