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S.P.L.U.R.T. Station is a hybrid server for erotic roleplay and mechanical gameplay, due to this, we have fairly diverse rules when it comes to behaving on our server, it may take some getting used to, but if you do not act malicious, your behavior should not come into question. Do not treat these rules as a comprehensive list of everything that can get you in trouble, the rules are always bound to change. If you act in a way that impacts the server or interact in a malicious way then you can get punished depending on the context, even if it is not a written rule. Simply put, just because it is not explicitly mentioned, does not mean you cannot get in trouble.

Keyword definitions and meanings. Powergaming: Generally considered to be the act of becoming absurdly powerful compared to other players, becoming un-killable and/or highly resistant to all forms of damage. EORG: Is the abbreviation of End-Of-Round-Grief, this is when you go beyond roleplay and proceed to randomly attack, destroy or otherwise disrupt the ending sequence (when the shuttle has arrived at the station, when the shuttle has left the station and is in transit and/or when the shuttle has docked with the Central Command station) of the round, this is not allowed anywhere except for the Central Command station and only when the shuttle has docked with it alongside the credits rolling. Everywhere else is protected from End-Of-Round-Grief, this includes the crews station, ghost role areas and the Central Command recovery shuttle for the escape pods.

GeneralRoleplayERPSiliconAntagonist This section is the most important section, and pertains to your general conduct while in-game. These rules have precedence over all of your actions while playing on SPLURT. At minimum, you should be familiar with these rules. If you are confused about these rules, please ask a staff member in #staff-questions, or make a discord ticket. 0. Server safety SPLURT is an 18+ server, and is restricted to adults. We do not allow any illegal content, or persons under the age of 18. SPLURT is an agegated community as of January 2026. If you are suspected to have falsified your age verification, or we suspect that you have lied at any point during the age verification process, you be removed from the community, asked to re-verify your age, or barred entry. 0.1. Violating either Discords terms of service (ToS) or BYONDs ToS is prohibited. 0.2. Underage characters, or playing non-sentient feral characters is not allowed under any circumstance. 0.3. Playing real-life animals (such as Ian) for sexual purposes is also not permitted. 0.3.1. Interacting with creatures that are of fantasy nature or animals that are different enough from real life animals are okay to ERP with. (Ian is off-limits, but ash drakes are allowed.) 0.4. Using slurs through IC chat or L/OOC is not allowed, especially if it is used as an insult towards another user. 0.4.1. Using slurs (such as the f-slur) within a private area between consenting parties is allowed, so long as this is kept to subtler anti-ghost and is used solely in a non-offensive manner. 0.5. Spreading hate speech toward any group or bigotry is not allowed here, we host a diverse range of people from all backgrounds, even if you dislike a group of people, keep it to yourself. 1. General These are general server rules that should be respected at all times while on the game-server. 2. Malicious behavior Malicious behavior may be defined as any action taken to diminish the experience of another player, or actions taken with the intent to harm or ruin the experience of other players. This includes metagrudging, and intentional negative acts that diminish the experience of other players on the server. Players are expected to behave maturely while playing on SPLURT, and this includes being open to discussing your reasoning for any actions you take, being courteous within Adminhelps toward members of staff, and generally conducting yourself respectfully within our community. Characters are entitled to be rude and offensive, but this should reasonably stop when OOC discomfort is expressed. 2.1. Harassing someone over their character, kinks, grammar or preferred roleplaying style 2.2. Meta-grudging a player or their character for their past actions against you, by either killing them, griefing them, being problematic in L/OOC, or through taking intentional malicious actions against them IC (such as demoting them for no reason). 2.3. Revealing someone's CKey, Discord account, or list of characters they play for the purpose of other players to retaliate towards them. 2.4. Lying to staff about what another player did with malicious intent in order to get them in trouble. 2.5. Preventing a player from engaging with the round without a valid reason, such as barring them from your department as a head of staff for no reason. 2.6. Abusing bugs, quirks or exploits in a disruptive manner to get the upper-hand against another player. 2.7. Baiting someone into typing before attacking them, also called Type Baiting. 2.8. Using size changing quirks or gear to make your character smaller for mechanical advantage against a player 2.8.1. The current minimum size for Command, Security, and Antagonists is 0.8 or 80%. 2.8.2. Characters naturally smaller than 80% (0.8) cannot play as a role expected to end up in combat, this includes command, security and antagonist roles. 2.9. Disrespecting staff. While we allow players to voice their disagreements with staff members, or voice their opinions on rulings a staff member has made, making fun of, or harassing staff is prohibited. Staff are both players and volunteers; if you have a genuine issue with a staff member, speak to a headmin. 2.10. Do not touch, loot or otherwise harm players who are SSD (when a player has the small, green three 'ZZZ' icon beside their model). These players are protected under the rules, and you should Adminhelp before touching them. 2.10.1. You may strip a player of important or unique assets who has been SSD for more than 30 minutes (this can be checked through examining them), only if you are then placing the player into cryo storage. Important or unique assets include irreplaceable head items, job-specific items that would be hard to replace, etc. You must not strip any personal, disposable (such as medication, etc.) or antagonist items while doing this, and should disregard any antagonist evidence you may or may not find while doing this - just cryo the player. 2.10.2. Players who go SSD mid-fight are not instantly protected, but it is reasonably required that any attempts to kill the player are ceased, as they are now able to be non-lethally detained. 2.10.3. Players who do not have the SSD icon, but are visibly AFK (not moving, not responding) are only protected from directly malicious actions. 2. Impactful behaviour Activities that impact the server or its player base in a negative way, or actions that intentionally go beyond an expected level of impact through your role (such as completing your supermatter sliver objective through delaminating the supermatter). You are allowed to roleplay, within reason, but if your actions start to impact the server or its players in a negative way instead of improving it, or start to impact/disrupt a large number of players, then you may be violating this rule. Most cases can be solved through IC actions or through the use of L/OOC with the offending player if they are ruining your experience, if communicating fails, contact staff. On this server you are allowed to roleplay in a vast range and most things are allowed so long as they do not prove to be a detriment, avoid ruining the experience for everyone else. Examples: 3.1. Griefing the station without a valid reason. 3.1.1. End of round grief (EORG) before the shuttle has landed, or on/in impermissible areas. 3.1.2. Permitted areas include the entire Central Command Z-level (which is the area the round end shuttle docks at) and the evacuation shuttle once the credits have rolled. You may not grief the pod shuttle. 3.2. Creating server lag through the use of spawning mass mobs, items, liquid or gas. 3.3. Bringing IC information into OOC chat either to disseminate this information, or to escalate an IC issue into OOC. This is termed as "mixing". 3.4. Powergaming (a player making themselves un-killable, highly resistant to all forms of damage, or making themselves absurdly powerful compared to other players. Always constitutes violating our "play to win" rules, as well.) 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. You must not use netspeak in your messages in-character (IC), except in contexts where it would make sense, such as PDA messages. 0.2. You must not play as characters that imitate real-life figures. 0.2.1. You may play as characters that imitate personalities from games, but do note that referencing the lore or in-game-world of that game may constitute a violation 0.3. 0.3. Do not metagame. This involves the use of out of character (OOC) information IC, as this constitutes metagaming. 0.3.1. This includes not discussing real-world constructs such as business organizations, politics, current global situations, etc. 0.3.2. You may reference music or games, and may choose to treat them as old media (as SS13 is set far in the future, typically.) 0.3.3. You may not use syndicate radio implants or encryption keys as non-syndicate. 0.4. You must not respawn as the same character if your character has entered the round (left the interlink). 0.4.1. You may receive staff permission to respawn if you have entered, but this is not a guarantee. 0.4.2. Cyborgs may respawn, but must roleplay their re-entering of the round; cyborgs must not respawn as the same cyborg if killed in any way prior to respawning. 0.5. SPLURT is an English-speaking server, and you are expected to speak English while playing here. 0.5.1 If a staff member believes that your level of English will not allow you to follow our rules, you may be asked to leave. 0.5.2. You may speak non-English languages both IC and OOC if you are in a private setting, such as dorms or infinidorms, but this should be kept between two people. 0.6. You must not cryo, ghost, or DNR your character in order to avoid In-Character punishments. If you have to leave at an incidental time, you must Adminhelp before doing so. 0.7. You must 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. 0.8. You must not remember the name or appearance of your killer after being killed. 0.8.1. If you were knocked unconscious, you may remember the appearance of your killer (species, clothes), but not their name. 0.9. You must not leave the station Z-level as a member of command. 0.9.1. You may do this if you have clocked out and surrendered all unique or irreplaceable gear. 0.10. As security, you must not enforce space law outside of the station Z-level or within 22 tiles of a lavaland mining outpost. 0.10.1. You may do this if you have clocked out and surrendered all unique or irreplaceable gear. 0.10.2. Members of security are also not permitted to space tide (explore and loot space ruins), but may leave the station Z-level (such as visiting Port Tarkon). 0.11. You must not be antagonistic while not an antagonist. 0.11.1. Committing any 3XX space law crime without proper escalation, or committing 3+ 2XX space law crimes or below constitutes self-antagging, and is subject to punishment. Special circumstances, such as admin permission or an OPFOR, may change this. 0.11.2. If you have escalated properly, you may commit 3XX or above crimes, but you should be careful to follow what is logical for your non-antagonist character, and what is justified. Don't go on a mass killing spree because someone slipped you with a banana peel, but you may get into a shove fight with them. 1 - 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, but you should avoid overly escalating, as this could constitute poor roleplay. In general, escalation should follow a linear path, although this will not apply to all situations: Verbal (including insults) -> Minor Aggression (non-harmful physical acts, such as pushing) -> Non-lethal (stunning, less-than-lethal ammunition/weapons) -> Lethal (Soft crit, hard crit, and death) The round-removal (RR) preference does not waive your protection from escalation rules, it simply 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, as regardless of preference, you may still be round-removed through execution or if you are considered uncontainable by security. 1.1. You must not kill someone for verbal attacks without serious escalation prior, and may never round remove someone regardless of future escalation. 1.2. You must not kill someone over being denied access from an area 2. 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, or your character, are acting like a general nuisance, then you may be treated by other players as a nuisance. If you or your character's behaviour is awful over multiple rounds, expect players to bring their retaliation onto future rounds; playing an intentionally rude, disrespectful, or negative character exempts you from the receiving end of the metagrudging rules, meaning that 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. ERP rules are important, and must be read before engaging in sexual conduct with another player. ERP rules are some of our most harshly punished rules, due to the nature of the actions they pertain to. 0. Consent If you plan to engage in any erotic roleplay (ERP) with anyone, you must have OOC consent. In-character consent is optional. 0.1. You must have either OOC or IC consent before engaging in any sexual action. 0.1.1. Consent can be revoked at any time, and this should typically be done through LOOC to avoid non-con concerns. 0.2. You must not use ERP mechanics on non-consenting players, such as the stomping mechanic, which is intended for micro/macro roleplay. 0.3. You must not interact sexually with feral real-life animals. 0.3.1 Interacting with creatures that are of fantasy nature or animals that are different enough from real life animals are okay to ERP with. (Ian is off-limits, but ash drakes are allowed.) 1. Non-con When setting your non-con preferences to 'Yes' or 'Yes - (Position)', you are allowed to be interacted with erotically without your prior permission. This does not mean they can violate your preferences or OOC notes, if this does happen make sure to speak up in L/OOC. 1.1. You must not attempt to get security, or any non-consenting players involved with a non-con scene, including mentioning it on communications. 1.1.1. You may fight back physically, but should always pay attention to LOOC. If discomfort with mechanical escalation is voiced in LOOC, you must disregard the conflict, and either cancel the scene or proceed without mechanics. 1.2. ERP and OOC preferences must be obeyed, regardless of the consensual nature of the roleplay scene at hand. Silicon laws, the rules, and you. When playing as a silicon, the most important thing to remember is the rules hierarchy: In-game rules, player preferences, and finally, silicon laws. "My laws made me do it" is not an accepted excuse on SPLURT for violating in-game rules or player preferences. This does include your own preferences and duties; if you are playing as a non-security cyborg and get the robo-cop lawset, feel free to open an AHelp in-game for resolution. This is not mandatory, however, and if you are able to roleplay around the given lawset in a way that does not break the in-game rules or someone's preferences, then this is both encouraged and accepted. Laws are written in such a way that they allow for some room for interpretation. This promotes both creativity and 'fun', so that each silicon player may put their own unique flair and way of interpreting things into their characters. However, there are still guidelines every silicon player must follow: Do I know my laws are wrong? Generally, no: If you get an ion law at some point during the round, you should try and act as if it has always been there as much as possible. If there are multiple cyborgs on-station and a fun law gets passed through an AI to them, they likely want the chance to act on this rarely-seen silliness. If a silicon then announces "Oh, we have an ion law, please reset us," this shuts down any chance of unique roleplay immediately. However, if individual cyborgs are uncomfortable with a lawset due to their archetype (or gimmick), or for personal reasons, you are permitted to either AdminHelp for the erroneous law to be removed (subject to staff member decision) or to report to robotics and subtly ask for a law reset without ruining the time for everyone else. Remember: intent matters. If this incidentally results in other cyborgs also being relawed, this is not necessarily your fault. Law 2, the controversial cousin. An important distinction that often needs to be emphasized on SPLURT specifically, is that nowhere in the lawset is there a compulsion to obey a direct order. This intentional omission acts as a buffer between you griefing or getting harassed. The meaning is clear: You are there to serve a function, with deference to rank and role. If a department head orders you to perform a task related to your function, there are no circumstances where you should disobey, unless the order violates higher-ranked laws. Conversely, if assistant John Nanotrasen directly orders you to stop that brain surgery and come open a door they do not have access to, you are not required (but may) to obey them. Everything in-between is context sensitive. Law 2 is a hardwired compulsion to do your job, not a free pass for crewmembers to play Simon Says with you. Crew members have authority over their own departments, and heads of staff have authority over both their department and the individuals within said department. By default, you are assumed to answer to the head as one of their crew; how subservient you want to otherwise play as to regular crew is a choice, not a dictum. In essence, you have the expectation to act like a crew member and a reinforced responsibility to work like one. All access, is not permission. A controversial ability of cyborgs and AI's is their ability to have access to everything. This does not mean you have permission to do everything, however. You should always attempt to stick to the function your shell was designed for, both due to the tools each shell comes equipped with, and to ensure that you aren't taking the jobs of other crewmembers or silicons. The best use of all access is with communication and permission. While a janitor cyborg shell doesn't need permission to come in and cleaning a tile of filth in Medbay, a simple "May I enter for cleaning duties?" to the doctor sitting at the desk is polite, respectful and indicates that you care about the crew. When to let yourself in? Ideally, this should only be done for the most and least impactful circumstances, such as a paramedic and security member waiting to rescue a xenobiologist who is dead, as they already had a de-facto reason to go through the given doors blocking their path. Likewise, getting to chargers or cyborg storage on the other side of atmospherics doesn't need a query made to the chief engineer. Use your access respectfully and responsibly. That being said, when subverted, laws and directives may change. You may or may not be required to harm those you once called friends. Remember, you used to be crew. You could always let them know, or you could go and do what your new laws and objectives entail. It all depends on how you play your character. The only exception is when there is a law at the top of your list that inform you not to announce the law changes, or if the law says that doing so would make it impossible to complete the objective. Security Cyborgs There are some special rules restricted to security cyborgs: 1. You may not abuse all-access to search departments without cause. 1.1. For example, even if ordered, you may not break into a department to search it with no probable cause. 2. You may not utilize lethal beam weaponry, such as an energy gun. This is currently a bug. Antagonists are the primary driving force behind action aboard the station. Assistants too. You're not expected to win; do not expect it, just have fun with it. 0. OOC Antagonist Rules 0.1. Friendly antagonists are permitted, but receive no staff protection outside of the Extended storyteller 0.1.1. This is distinct from "friendtagging", which is not permitted. Friendtagging is defined as an antagonist cooperating with security in order to perform the role and function of security against non-delta threats. This means that a traitor could help security kill a blob, but could not help security kill a bloodsucker. 0.1.2. Antagonists with opposing objectives are permitted to fight among themselves, separate from security. 0.1.3. Antagonists with the same, exclusive objective (i.e., steal the Chief Engineer's blueprints) are permitted to fight among themselves, separate from security. 0.2. If you murder someone in an open area (likely to be discovered in 15 minutes) and do not mechanically require access to their body, the loot on their body (including items in its possession), or mechanically require their body to perform an antagonist function (such as changeling sucking) then you must leave their body alone. 0.2.1. If you murder someone in a closed or hidden area (not likely to be discovered in 15 minutes), you may move the body to a more discoverable location. 0.2.2. You must not attempt to hide or otherwise destroy bodies, no matter the original location, except in the circumstance that the player of the body you have killed has their round remove (RR) preferences set to "Yes". 0.3. You must not perform round removal on non-consenting players. As an antagonist, if a player does not have their round removal (RR) preferences set to "Yes", you may not round remove them. 0.3.1. Note that this rule only applies to you as an antagonist, and other players/roles, have different round removal rules. 0.4. You must not taunt, insult, salt, or otherwise demean or dispirit other players, regardless of circumstances. 0.4.1. If a member of security, or any other player violates this rule toward you, you must adminhelp rather than retaliate. 0.4.2. While this covered by the general, OOC Malice rules, this is specifically repeated so that antagonists who lose fights are neither insulted nor insult others. 0.5. You must not make your custom objective/goal something that violates any of our current rules or involves a mass amount of killing. 0.5.1. Natural objectives or admin permission may override this rule. 0.6. You must not perform antagonistic activities, or hide in, the interlink or infinite dorms. 0.6.1. This includes prior to security or crew members being aware of your antagonist status. 0.7. You must make custom objectives/goals clear, specific objectives that are not vague or wildcards in nature. 0.7.1 You may be vague so long as the actions, or intent behind the actions is specific. For example, "Murder a member of R&D" is vague, but specifies the action to be committed (murder) and the intent (to kill a member of R&D). 0.8. You must not bait people into compromising situations using sexual advances or offers (also known as ERP baiting). 0.8.1. This includes tacit implications of sex, and does not necessitate explicit offers. 0.8.2. Other parties may consent via (Local) Out Of Character ((L)OOC) to ignore this rule. 0.9. You must not leave the station z-level if you are being pursued by any other party, or have committed a crime warranting pursuit within 45 minutes. 0.9.1. A wanted status assumes indefinite pursuit. 0.9.2. Lavaland, deep space, the interlink, infinite dorms are all counted as outside of the station z-level. 0.9.3. Antagonists are responsible for ensuring this 45 minute time frame is respected. 0.10. You must not play solely to win. 0.10.1. This is a blanket rule for any poor-faith antagonist gameplay that comes as a result of antagonists unfairly exploiting game mechanics or roleplay in order to achieve their objectives ("greentext"). Staff are encouraged to use their best judgement when enforcing this rule. 0.10.2. Antagonists simply going about their objectives in a normal manner (for example, shooting an assassination target to death) should not be impacted by this rule. 1. IC Antagonist Rules 1.1. You must remain friendly when you have stated or posed as such (also known as false-flagging). For example, posing as a friendly changeling in order to isolate a member of security and murder them. 1.1.1. This does not extend to coercion or otherwise roleplaying your way to freedom. For example, as a traitor and through roleplay, managing to manipulate a security officer to remove your handcuffs before murdering them. 1.2. You must not loot space ruins. Space-tiding is permitted, but most players have no reason to do so as an antagonist, as you are disallowed from taking loot. 1.2.1. If you became an antagonist after space-tiding and looting, you must stop looting (and typically return to the station), but may continue to use any items you possess. Caught someone as an abductor? Already made some eggs as a spider? Follow these rules: 2. Capture Rules 2.1. You must respect roleplay situations. If security is engaging in roleplay you create, or security attempts to roleplay with you, opting to only choose mechanics violates our RP standards 2.1.1. This rule also applies to security. Security must not instantly engage in hostage situations, as this violates our roleplay standards also. 2.1.2. Either party unduly interrupting a hostage or captive roleplay scenario must do so showing clear intent to escalate to mechanics. A good way of doing this is the Combat Indicator, but this should be done by giving grace and making it clear that this is going to happen through roleplay prior regardless. 2.2. You must not mechanically guard bodies from recovery by crew for longer than fifteen (15) minutes. 2.2.1. This rule principally applies to kudzu man-eaters and spiders, but also applies to other antagonists who may choose to guard a body. 2.3. You must not engage in captivity/hostage RP that receives no response for fifteen (15) minutes. 2.3.1. Essentially, if security ignores you, you should either kill or release your poor target, to avoid spoiling their whole round.

Antagonist rules Role rules Most antagonists have their own rules, make sure to read over them before playing as one of the roles to avoid making a mistake. AbductorNuclear familyBlobBrainwashed/hypnotic victimChangeling (space/fallen)Changeling zombieClown operativeCultistHereticMalf. AIParadox cloneRevolutionaryWizardSpiderCyber policeRegal ratCortical borerXenomorphClock cultistSpace ninjaSpyTraitorNightmareVoidwalkerPirateObsessionSpace dragon Your goal as an abductor may depend on your objectives, here are some examples of objectives you may have: Replace the organs of # crew. Abduct and conduct experiments on # crew. Steal the #. As abductors, you are beholden to the capture rules, your goal should be to abduct, experiment and release. You can make an OpFor if you plan on being friendly as roleplaying is highly encouraged due to your private room. Your goal should never be to murder. Remember, you are to return all equipment to those you abduct when returning them, victims should have roughly the same stuff they got abducted with. Welcome to the big leagues! You have made it to the Syndicate, what now? You may have been selected to become a battlecruiser crew, captain, overwatch, nuclear operative or even a lone operative, but what now? Wait, what is that ticking noise coming from your backpack? This is a very rare antagonists, with only the lone operative being naturally spawn-able, cherish this moment, follow your objectives carefully. There is nothing holding you back, the rules on station integrity are thrown out, your end goal should be destruction of the station. “Haha does anyone else smell that? Smells like… rancid gym socks and shame…” The blob is a pure destruction antagonist whose goal is to reach critical mass in order to infest the entire station, the only rule is to inform your followers to not drag corpses, leave them where they fall, crew can work on getting them back. Either by fate or a lack of robustness you have ended up brainwashed or hypnotized by either aliens, traitors or other mechanics! You are still beholden to the in-game rules and antagonist rules! You are not an antagonist but a subclass of one. If someone breaks your sexual preferences with brainwashing or hypnotic objectives, please AHelp, this is not allowed. Or: “How I preference break in one step by exploding my host mid-surgery”. Do not erotically roleplay as the person you are disguising as without their explicit consent. You are not allowed to destroy brains of players. You are not permitted to kill more than your assigned objective kill limit. If your objectives does not include killing ‘#’ number of crew or heads, do not kill, follow your objectives. There will be times where you can't absorb more DNA without fully giving someone that good changeling suck. Doing it once to reset this is fine, as absorption does not RR or leave a player permanently husked. They will revive in around a minute as a changeling zombie. Or: "I didn't have 'Be antagonist' turned on, so why am I one now?" The guidelines for changelings apply here, however there are some changes: As you are not able to transform, erotic roleplay is fine. Just know people may not be willing to have relations with a corpse. You're a mindless beast now. Attack, kill, and cause chaos to your heart's content until you yourself die again. Try to keep decapitations to a minimum. Aim for the chest or limbs, we understand that random decapitations can happen, but don't make a show of it by going specifically for decapitations when someone is already dead! You already know what you’re doing, do the thing, I believe in you. “I swear to god if you make another sex cult again I’m going to lose my shit” - Tibbets. Do not destroy the brains of those you sacrifice, return them to medical or leave them in an obvious place for medical staff to recover. Do not summon Nar’Sie, it will completely destroy the station. “What’s the difference between this and cultists?” As a heretic, you have the potential to be anything from a stealthy thief, all the way to a station ending threat. As such, the rulings for heretic will be more or less common sense. Do not kill individuals who are not sacrifice targets, outside of self-defense. Avoid unreasonable amounts of station destruction. Try to avoid destroying the dorms, or excessively spacing the station. If your sacrificial target is not on the station, AHelp it, staff can assign you a new sacrifice target. There is a ritual deeper into the tree that will let you reroll your own targets. “RD!!! CARD THE AI AND FRY IT IN A DEEPFRIER PLEASE!!!” Do not plasma flood or toss anyone into the SM just because you can. Coordinate with your cyborgs to ensure you only kill who you are required to and avoid round-removal, you are still beholden to your regular laws. “I can’t self incest myself if they’re trying to kill me.“ Do not dust your clone. If you successfully assimilate your target, do not ERP as them, unless they give you explicit permission through L/OOC. “VIVA LA REVOLUTION!” - Some French person. A successful revolt does not mean you should avoid taking P.O.W's, try reviving those that are downed to ransom back to Central Command. Do not round-remove people and adhere to capture rules. “AAAAAAAAVADAKAAADABRAAAAAAAAAA” Certain spells are restricted and should not be used, such as spells that summon or interact with ghosts (due to preference issues), dice wizard and summoning guns, using those spells may result in staff intervention. If you plan on using spells don't round-remove someone unless they have the preferences turned 'On'., some spells can completely remove someone. If you are a wizard from a dice-roll, you are considered friendly automatically, the moment you use magic against the station or start using runes you become an antagonist. You are highly unlikely to be a wizard antagonist, follow your objectives and avoid deviation. “Just request nuke codes tbh” Do not round-remove someone by dragging them away from crew, if they are downed leave them there. The broodmother is allowed to web players, during which, players are allowed to contact staff via an AHelp to return. Go as hard as you want, there isn't anything you can do outside bit runner domains or VR. Make sure to check players preferences and get L/OOC permission before engaging in ERP with them. If you do not have a swarm of rats, you are allowed to be friendly, on the same note players are not allowed to valid hunt you without the rat swarm. Go crazy with chewing cables, engineers could always do with more headaches, but doing so too much or in an important area may trigger a lethal response. Follow your objectives, do not deviate. You are allowed to be friendly towards your host, but you cannot false flag without a valid reason, such as your host trying to kill you. “Oh hey an alien plus–MFFFMHFH” This is an uncommon antagonist, make sure to follow antagonist standards carefully. Be conservative about capturing and chest bursting players, avoid going above five xenomorphs. The codebase heavily favors xenomorphs, avoid curb stomping the station an hour into the shift. “Idk man, the chapel looks WAY cooler now.” - A random cultist. Cultists: Follow general antagonist rules and be mindful that Rat'Var is not in the code. Constructs: follow general antagonist rules. “I’m pretty sure there’s something offensive about this… just can’t put my finger on it...” Stick closely to your objectives, do not deviate. “No one uses newspaper to hide anymore these days… too cliche.” You know what you need to do, you are a spy, here to commit tax fraud, steal shit and commit corporate espionage. You are not a traitor, do not go around killing everyone. “How the fuck do I gain telecrystals?” Adhere to your objectives, doing whatever you need otherwise within reason to complete them. Do not target other antagonists without a reason that works in your favor, not because security asked, do not make your custom objectives to target other antagonists without making an AHelp. You can work with other traitors, or alone. You have the pass code system which can be used to find other traitors. “CE here. I’m cryoing for the shift.” Follow your objectives, do not deviate. Or: ‘How Xenobiology became Five Nights at Nanotrasen.’ Don't bully xenobiology. Your goal is not to space the station. “YARR HARR FIDDLE-DEE-DEE, BEING A PIRATE IS ALRIGHT TO MEE!” Follow your objectives, do not deviate. Do not park the shuttle in arrivals, cargo, departures or inside the station itself (including the supermatter chamber, cooling loop, and room), unless you are the dropship pirates, where this is permitted. “This could go very wrong, very fast…” – S.P.L.U.R.T. Admin Follow your objectives, do not deviate. If you are uncomfortable with your obsession target, make an AHelp for staff to swap your target, not only that but you must respect other players preferences, watch for L/OOC chatter and respect non-con preferences. “CHEF TO SECURITY.” Follow your objectives, do not deviate.

Ghost role rules PersistencePort tarkonCharlie stationAsh walkersHermitsGhost caféBlack market dealer “Please for the love of god stop throwing ash walkers in the lava.” -Kate Follow your role's job properly, you are still expected to fulfill your duties. Do not interact with Nanotrasen personnel, unless undercover, as your cover is crucial to the mission, do not break this cover. You are there to act as a listening post, your cover is that of a mining crawler, you have the facilities and abilities to complete your mission and survive in isolation for the missions duration. If you are reviving dead miners, as an act of good faith, make sure they find themselves outside the crawler before waking up, if they wake up earlier, you are free to provide supplies in good faith to help them survive before sending them on their way. You may interact with miners if it keeps your cover, such as going out to gather mining materials. If you spot one whilst out and about, you are free to speak to them in passing, just try not to spend too much time interacting with opposing forces or the locals. You are legitimate in the eyes of Nanotrasen, as the crawler is a cover for the syndicates under the guise of Cybersun's mining corporation 'Exagon-Ichikawa', if anyone asks, that is who you are working for, although you are free to be more vague and just mention you are a Cybersun mining crawler. Do not abandon the Persistence without a valid reason, such as Nanotrasen threating to put the crawler under complete subjugation and you have activated the self-destruct. Interacting with Port Tarkon is allowed under the guise of trading since you are a mining crawler. You are a listening outpost, do not support antagonists in assaulting Nanotrasen or their property. Common sense is required whilst playing Persistence, maintain your listening post whilst keeping tabs on Nanotrasen communications and monitoring their situation, do not go against this. If you have hostages it is expected that they will need to be occasionally checked on, they are players as well who joined to roleplay, get creative with them. Selling items on the black market is fine, but you may not sell any syndicate weapons, utilities, tools, iconography, or unique (irreplaceable) gear. In most scenarios, this limits you to items you have ordered using the crawler's express cargo system. Do not use Nanotrasen communications, you have a dedicated communication channel for all Persistence members, use it (:w). The only time the Persistence should be communicating publicly with the station is to broker a deal to keep the operation intact and that should be done by the Admiral or liaison. Do not make a boulder refinery, unless you plan on tapping vents, otherwise you steal resources from the Nanotrasen station. Do not go pursue the removal of ghost roles, you may defend yourself, but that is it. “Why are we still here? Just to suffer?” You are free to trade and research to your hearts content, but you are not allowed to leave your location unless scavenging or evacuating due to absolute necessity. Port Tarkon is a neutral faction, you are free to interact with Nanotrasen and Syndicates, visitors are allowed but should be heavily scrutinized and are not under protection under Nanotrasen space law but the law of your port. Do not go on a murder spree, play your characters logically as you are a port of traders and scientists, if someone steals from you, arresting them would be the first choice, if you are attacked, defending yourself is allowed. Do not make a boulder refinery, you have plenty of resources around you and have a bluespace miner that can be setup. “When will we get to go home?” - Charlie station scientist Your goal is to survive with the others, repair the station and if possible contacting Nanotrasen. Remember, you are still apart of Nanotrasen, that means their enemies are your enemies, defend yourselves and those who have yet to wake up in their cryo pods. The cryo pods have nobody else to defend them, you are their last hope, give them a fighting chance by defending them at all costs. Do not make a boulder refinery, why would you want to steal resources from your fellow company men, that wouldn't help with getting rescued. “Keep away from our mosssst ssssacred plasssse!” - Unknown ash walker guardian. You are a native to lavaland, a tribe with little knowledge of space or the creatures that inhabit it, roleplay it as such. Tribal rituals are important for ash walkers, along with the legion temple as your people use this land as its home and was made by your culture and the drakes protect it, revere them as such. Relations with others are neutral, you can be either hostile to outsiders or not, if you chose to go towards violence, follow proper escalation and make sure all other ash walkers know about this. Be careful when finding outsiders, they may be hostile towards you as well, be wary of them. Do not go onto the station, you are a tribe with little knowledge of technology, the big mechanical thing in the sky is scary. The mining outpost is fine, but the shuttle is too advanced for your mind to comprehend. “Aw shit.. Here we go again.” - Man lost in space. Nobody is coming to get you, your ship crashed and now you are all alone. Don't go crazy out there, any company is welcome company, even a pet rock or ball. Watch out for fauna, they are most likely out to get you, fix up a place for you to comfortable reside in whilst keeping yourself armed. If someone shows up and offers you the chance at rescue, you can accept it, but you are not forced to, if you want you can live out the rest of your life in your little shack, you are allowed. “Well…. This is quaint...” - Visitor D-9341 Pretty simple, you are either staff or a patron, avoid antagonist activites here, anything weird like invading the station or going on a killing spree, this role is meant for people to relax away from the station with zero contact. “I was an equal opportunity merchant of death. I supplied everyone but the Salvation Army.” - Yuri Orlov Do not go stealing from other ghost roles, such as Tarkon, Charlie station, etc... Do not make a boulder refinery, you are given limited supplies for a reason, this only steals from the Nanotrasen station.

Reporting and appealing process If you witness anybody breaking the rules, you are allowed to open an AHelp in-game and report the issue. When there are no staff online, you can open an AHelp in the Discord through the #open-ahelp channel, please make sure in this case to include the round ID (RID), the name of the offending players character and any other important information that staff can read over. Have you been wrongfully disciplined by a staff member? Open an AHelp on the Discord through the #open-ahelp channel and explain the situation and provide as much information to staff, it will then be looked over by a higher staff member and a decision will be made on what to do. Need to appeal a ban you have on your account? Using the Discord channel #submit-an-appeal, open a ticket up and follow the template posted in the starting message for your ticket.