Template:Temporary Roleplay Rules

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S.P.L.U.R.T. Station is a medium erotic roleplay server, and this means that you are expected to both create a character that makes sense, but also conduct yourself in a manner that makes sense for your character. You should also avoid disrupting the roleplay of other players without reason.

To this end, your characters should reflect a quality of roleplay that follows the rules below, and conforms a "medium roleplay" standard. This means avoiding characters and actions that may disrupt player's experience or immersion, and playing as a coherent and believable character.

Justifying in-character actions through proper roleplay is a our greyest area within the rules. If all players are satisfied, consenting, and the rules broken are conducive to roleplay and in-world lore, and do not needlessly impact other parties, then many of these rules can be broken. This is not an excuse to needlessly break rules, as poor justification that does not have the explicit intent to foster a good roleplaying environment for other players will be punished.

If your character or their personality is deemed to not contribute to the roleplay environment, you may be asked to not play said character in that way anymore, and staff are within their right to ask you to do so.

0 - OOC Roleplay Rules

0.1. Avoid using netspeak in your messages in-character (IC), except in contexts where it would make sense, such as PDA messages.

0.2. Avoid playing as characters that are from real life, this almost always disrupts player's immersion and experience on the server. (E.g. You are not allowed to play as Abraham Lincoln, the US president, but you are allowed to play as Toriel from Undertale.)

0.3. Do not use out of character (OOC) information IC, refrain from bringing information taken from Discord and L/OOC, the same being for bringing IC information to OOC.

0.4. Avoid respawning as the same character in the same round without staff permission, as this can cause immersion to be ruined.

0.5. English is the main language of the server, and we do not allow non-English languages to be used on the server.

0.6. Cryoing or making your character DNR for the purpose of respawning as another character to avoid IC punishments isn't allowed; if you get in trouble IC, you must roleplay it out in order to be fair to other players who have been roleplaying with and pursuing you.

0.7. Do not circumvent the 150 character minimum for flavortext, as this minimum was implemented to ensure players can showcase a baseline level of roleplay skills. Manners of circumvention include spamming random characters, using invisible characters, intentionally inputting random words, etc.

0 - Escalation

Fighting and mechanics should be proportional to the conflict, taking into account your character and the situation they are in. Unlike the real world, conflict and mechanics are natural and normal within SS13, however you should not go overboard when fighting someone.

In general, escalation should follow a linear path, although this will not apply to all situations:
Verbal (Talking it out) > Aggression (Pushing) > Non-lethal (Soft-crit) > lethal (Killing them).

The round-removal (RR) preference does not waive your protection from escalation rules, it means that when someone kills you, instead of leaving your corpse where it is (with sensors) or bringing you to medical, etc., anyone involved may instead remove you from the round once you are dead.

This does not mean you are protected from not being RR'ed with it turned off, instead in that case, the player will need a proper reason behind having you removed from the round.

Examples and exceptions.

Examples: 1. Do not round remove someone just because they called you a bad word, this is just poor sportsmanship. 2. Do not kill someone over getting denied access, this is not a valid reason.

1. Fuck around and find out

Your actions in character (IC) on the server, just like real life, have consequences from the rest of the players, if you are being acting like a general nuisance, except people to treat you as such.

If your characters behaviour is awful over multiple rounds, expect players to bring their retaliation onto future rounds, this can include skipping past escalation steps, this does not mean they can round-remove you if you haven't done anything to warrant it that round. If the staff team determine that your actions are due to how you have been acting as your character, then things will be allowed to continue.

Consider this when deciding on your actions in-game and how you decide to act.