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= Main Roleplay Rules =
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Additional rules made for our roleplay servers (Manuel/Campbell). If roleplaying isn't your style, every other server still abides by only the Main Rules.
'''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.  


'''Please note that a ban on the low roleplay servers is a ban on the medium roleplay servers, and vice versa.'''
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.
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{{Rule
|title=0. Actions should be consistent with the role play environment.
|body=Officially each round is "another day at work on a research station", and should be treated as such.  There is no reason to expect an attack, until there is.  While you as a player will be more contextually aware, your character would not be, and should play out accordingly.


:[[#RP Rule 0 Precedents|Rule 0 Precendents.]]
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.
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{{Rule
|title=1. The roleplay servers have a higher expectation of roleplay.
|body=The purpose of the roleplay servers is to provide a higher quality environment for roleplay. The roleplay rules are intended to promote more interactions between players so more roleplay moments can happen. They are not exhaustive, and admins have a very broad discretion to intervene where behaviours or actions could, if left ignored, contribute to a lower roleplay environment.
}}
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{{Rule
|title=2. Escalation and roleplay.
|body=Modified standard escalation applies to instances of player conflict. Players may escalate as per standard escalation policy on MRP where they have legitimate in character reason to do so. Players acting without legitimate [[IC]] reasoning (for example: randomly or unnecessarily attempting to steal items from departments or other people) void the right to escalate to lethal self-defence if it is employed reasonably by the wronged party.
}}
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{{Rule
|title=3. Chain of command and security are important.
|body=If you're in the Chain of Command or in Security, you're expected to put in the effort and do your job as a departmental leader.


If you're not in the Chain of Command, your department head is your boss and they can fire you. Security officers can arrest you for stealing or breaking into places. Demotions and short brig sentences for actions that would get you fired or arrested in real life are roleplay opportunities.
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.  


:[[#RP Rule 3 Precedents|Rule 3 Precendents.]]
=== 0. - OOC Roleplay Rules ===
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{{Rule
|title=4. Non-security may only actively hunt global or round-ending threats.
|body=You should not act like a vigilante if a security force is present unless you have a good in-character roleplay reason to believe a global or round-ending threat exists. Restricted antags that are not automatically global or round ending threats may still become so through their actions in the shift, the stronger your reasoning the more action you can take against them.


You can always defend yourself and others from violent antagonists.
:0.1. Roleplay, and in doing so, play a reasonably sane and mature character and stay in character.
::0.1.1. You must roleplay in a manner realistic to real-life, reasonable for your current circumstances and the current setting.
:::0.1.1.1. This is with respect to the lore and world setting. While Nanotrasen technology isn't real, you must act as a reasonable person would in the setting.
::0.1.2. Your character cannot have any special powers which are not possible via game mechanics, except in private dorm roleplay. For example, you cannot canonically be a sorcerer.
::0.1.3. You are expected to adhere to the roleplaying setting and maintain suspension of disbelief even when game mechanics contradict.
:::0.1.3.1. For example, you will not automatically know another player is a xenochimera because a tooltip says so; likewise, repairing a broken bone isn’t simple because it takes 3 clicks.
::0.1.4. You must not use netspeak in your messages in-character (IC), except in contexts where it would make sense, such as PDA messages.
::0.1.5. This is the major, blanket roleplay rule that enforces our medium roleplay standard. As a bare minimum, it should be believable for a real person to commit any In-Character event through some justification. Roleplay trumps most.
:0.2. You must not play as characters that imitate real-life figures.
::0.2.1. You may not play as any character from media other than Space Station 13.
::0.2.2. You may play as species from other media, but may not link yourself to the lore of the source of said species (or mention it in-character), and must follow 0.2.1 while doing so.
::0.2.3. As such, per 0.2.1. and 0.2.2., meme and licensed media characters are prohibited.
::0.2.4. Staff reserve the right to rule a character as too 'non-differentiated' from a pre-existing character from another piece of media, and thereby ban said character under rule 0.2.1.
:0.3. Characters may not have non-differentiated, or difficult to tell apart names. For example, 'E-4245' for an expie is banned, but 'Sebastian' is allowed (so long as they're not all called Sebastian, or different spellings thereof).
: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 are expected to forget the events leading to death.
::0.8.1. Should you die and be later revived, you are expected to forget the events leading to your death. This applies even to rounds without antagonists.
::0.8.2. Death during ERP is an exception if all involved players agree to letting you remember.
::0.8.3. You must not remember the name or appearance of your killer after being killed.
::0.8.4. If you were knocked unconscious, you may remember the appearance of your killer (species, clothes), but not their name.
::0.8.5. Cyborgs are exempt from these rules, but may not remember the name or appearance of their killer. They may remember the events surrounding their deaths and all other related information.
:0.9. You must not be antagonistic while not an antagonist.
::0.9.1. 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.
::0.9.2. 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.
:0.10. Do not play to win
::0.10.1. Better known as "powergaming". Powergaming/playing to win consists of acquiring items, assets, etc. for the sake of being powerful. Common examples include adding extra access to ID’s without reason, stealing powerful objects from other departments, or doing the job(s) of other departments when said department is available and willing to do the job itself.


Players that choose to act as security will be held to the same standards as security.
=== 1. - Role-specific Roleplay Rules ===


:[[#RP Rule 4 Precedents|Rule 4 Precendents.]]
:1.1. You are expected to fulfill the basic responsibilities of the job you sign up for.
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::1.1.1. Repeatedly failing to do the bare minimum required by your department may result in a job ban. The specifics vary from job to job while Heads of Staff are held to higher standards than other staff.
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::1.1.2. Your character must be physically capable of performing the job. For example, most jobs require at least one functioning hand. Security needs to be physically capable of subduing criminals and thus lack easily exploitable traits such as lightweight or dirt weakness.
{{anchor|RP Rule 5}}
::1.1.3. Heads of Staff are expected to be knowledgeable in their department. The bare minimum number of hours to play a role is not a license to take command of a department you have never played.
{{Rule
::1.1.4. As a Head of Staff, abusing your authority against players you dislike is prohibited and may violate other rules.
|title=5. Antagonism and roleplaying as an antagonist.
::1.1.5. This rule does not apply to failing a job due to not knowing said job. You are expected to make mistakes frequently while learning a new job.
|body=The goal of antagonists on MRP is to create stories and make rounds interesting, for both antagonist players and crew-sided players alike. Antagonists are expected to put in at least some effort towards playing their designated role, though may break with it given sufficient in character reason. Some antagonists are restricted in the ways and quantities they may lend themselves to visiting death and destruction upon the crew.
:1.2. As security, you must not enforce space law outside of the station Z-level or within 22 tiles of a lavaland mining outpost.
::1.2.1. 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).
:1.3. You must not leave the station Z-level as a member of command.
::1.3.1. You may do this if you have clocked out and surrendered all unique or irreplaceable gear.


:[[#RP Rule 5 Precedents|Rule 5 Precendents.]]
=== 2. - Escalation ===
:[[#Restricted Antag Death and Destruction|Restricted Antag Death and Destruction]]
}}
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{{Rule
|title=6. Deal with the bad guys in proportion to their crime(s).
|body=Restricted antagonists (or crewmembers) should be handled in proportion to their committed crimes. The decision to execute an antagonist should have good in-character reasoning based on their crimes and the state of the shift. Punishments against antagonists that repeatedly commit minor crimes may be escalated. Only antagonists that have committed the most severe crimes may be met with immediate execution.


Security members are expected to consider the full range of punishment options available when dealing with antags. This includes (but is not always limited to) pacification, implants, timed brig sentences, gulag sentences, permabrig, forced borging and execution. Forced borging is considered equivalent to execution in punishment severity.
'''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.


Explicitly friendly antagonists do not have this protection and may be treated as the crew or admin team see fit.
'''In general, escalation should follow a linear path''', although this will not apply to all situations: <br>


:[[#Security Policy & Precedents|Security Policy & Precedents]]
'''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)
}}
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{{Rule
|title=7. Do not powergame.
|body=Powergaming is using an in-game mechanic or game knowledge to give your own character an advantage at the expense of everyone else. Powergaming can take several forms, but it is generally rooted in playing-to-win or a focus on playing the game instead of roleplay. Playing your character should always be more important than playing the game.


:[[#RP Rule 7 Precedents|Rule 7 Precendents.]]
'''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.  
}}
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{{Rule
|title=8. Play as a coherent, believable character.
|body=Space Station 13 is a space opera parody. You're on a space station that employs clowns and mimes, has cargo gorillas, people are eating deep fried clothes and sometimes there's a dozen Captains. Your character should fit within this game world.


Childish or infantile characters should be avoided, whilst silly characters should be roleplayed properly. There's a good chance your character still wants to have a job at the end of the day, so you should probably act like it.
'''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.


:[[#RP Rule 8 Precedents|Rule 8 Precendents.]]
:1.1. You must not kill someone for verbal attacks without serious escalation prior, and may never round remove someone regardless of future escalation.
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:1.2. You must not kill someone over being denied access from an area
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{{Rule
|title=9. Stay in your lane.
|body=This means that you should do the job you signed up for and not try and do other people’s jobs for them or lay claim to their department. If you need something from another player you should attempt to ask them to get it for you instead of just taking it. Straying from your lane at the expense of another player should only be done where strictly necessary.


:[[#RP Rule 9 Precedents|Rule 9 Precendents.]]
=== 3. - Validhunting ===
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{{Rule
|title=10. Roleplay and Repetition.
|body=There are a great many gimmicks, dramas and plans that result in excellent stories beloved by many, and part of idea of the higher roleplay environment is to make space for this to happen. Many of these experiences fade with replication however – constant repetition of the same tired jokes and stories is both boring and stifling to new ideas. The administrative team collectively have the discretionary power to request that players, or the server collectively (in the case of mass spam of the same high impact strategies such as plasmafloods) find new gimmicks or make changes to their playstyles in the name of keeping experiences fresh for the server.


:[[#RP Rule 10 Precedents|Rule 10 Precendents.]]
Validhunting is defined as the undue pursuit or harm to an antagonist. For undue pursuit or harm to a non-antagonist, see self-antagging.
}}
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{{Rule
|title=The not-so-secret rule of sticky situations and mayhem.
|body=Please be considerate of other players, as their experiences are just as important as your own. '''If you aren’t an antagonist''' and yet you really want to play out a hostage situation, or turn someone into a living cake-cat abomination, or just dick around a little, confirm with the involved and affected players [[IC]]ly first. If everyone agrees to being subjected to whatever terrible atrocities you have in store, then you’re good to go.  


Keep in mind that this rule does not protect you from [[IC]] consequences, such as getting arrested by security. If you are going to RP as a rude dude, given that your victims have given you the okay, you still have to own the responsibility that comes with your decision. This means, no, you can’t kill a security officer because they tried to arrest you for murdering the clown, even if the clown agreed to being murdered.
:2.1. You may defend your own person to a reasonable degree. If someone is attempting to kidnap or murder you, you may reply with lethal force.
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::2.1.1. Players are expected not to respond to non-lethal force with lethal force, unless the situation demands it. For example, getting shoved by a traitor does not mean you can kill them, but getting attacked by a traitor with a contractor baton means you may fight for your life.
:2.2. You may defend the lives of others to a reasonable degree.
::2.2.1. If there is no threat to life, you may not engage.
::2.2.2. You must be at the scene of the attack or antagonist action while it is happening: you may not witness something on cameras or from afar and then engage.
::2.2.3. This rule principally applies to attacks and physical harm enacted by antagonists.
:3.1. You may defend your department to a reasonable degree, including material assets within a department.
::3.1.1. While you may not kill an antagonist for stealing, you may attempt to incapacitate them.
::3.1.2. You may only defend your department in your department, and must disengage the moment any antagonist interactions leave your workspace or your department as a whole.
::3.1.3. If an antagonist is clearly attempting to leave, and are not subject to rule 3.1.1., you must let them, and may not use lethal force to stop them.
:4. Staff reserve the right to apply violations of validhunting rules to the spirit of the rules, and not necessarily the wording. Abusing the wording of any of the validhunting rules leaves you subject to malice and validhunting rules.


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=== 4. Fuck around and find out ===


= Precedents & exceptions: Examples and exceptions to the main rules. =
'''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.
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{{anchor|RP Rule 0 Precedents}}
{{Rule
|title=Rule 0 Precedents
|body=#The Central Command threat report may not be used as a justification to deviate from "another day at work".
}}
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{{anchor|RP Rule 3 Precedents}}
{{Rule
|title=Rule 3 Precedents
|body=#The internal chain of command for security is Head of Security > Warden > Officers & Detective.
#Security are expected by default to follow the orders of their superiors, especially when determining the punishment of those you apprehend. When determining severe punishments such as permanent incarceration or execution, make an effort to contact a superior if the situation permits it.
#You are allowed to disobey a superior's order with appropriate in-character roleplay reasoning. Complete disregard for the chain of command as a member of security is not tolerated.
}}
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{{anchor|RP Rule 3 Precedents}}
{{Rule
|title=Rule 4 Precedents
|body=#Actively hunting a threat involves seeking out or pursuing that threat outside the bounds of your normal reasonable play area. Players are not expected to ignore antagonists during the normal course of play and may engage with antagonists who are active within their sphere. (Examples: A medical doctor knowing the identity of an active traitor could attack that traitor if that traitor came armed into medbay, likewise an engineer could attack a traitor they spotted breaking into the engine room). Players choosing this route should not attempt to chase down or finish antagonists who retreat from these engagements (unless they have reason to believe that the antagonist constitutes a global or round-ending threat or have a personal reason to do so under other precedents)
#The dead dog litmus test: Players may hunt specific threats or antagonists who have identifiably done something to wrong that particular player, the Ur-example being that players may seek revenge against those who harm their departmental pets. Players who choose this path are empowered to act as security in regard to that specific threat, but as per the main rule must also follow related restrictions on security play. This can also be applied to an assault of a character you've had significant interactions with, in the current round, and it does not apply to cross-round or [[OOC]] friendships.
#Security are freely empowered to deputise players as they will or to declare states of emergency if they believe themselves unable to handle ongoing issues within the round. These calls should be backed up by the chain of command where possible, and non-security players are free to enquire with security to see if they require assistance if concerned. As per the main rule, deputized players are acting as security and held to security’s standards. (Players consistently asking to be deputized or doing so with little in-character reasoning may be asked to knock it off and just play security)
}}
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{{anchor|RP Rule 5 Precedents}}
{{Rule
|title=Rule 5 Precedents
|body=#Objectives are suggestions, and antagonists are free to ignore them if they have a preferred or more interesting idea for their course of action.
#Actions as an antagonist do not have to be nefarious or evil, but should make an effort to influence the story and meaningfully impact the shift. Explicitly friendly antagonistic play or siding outright with the crew is restricted – players must have good in-character reasoning behind the decision or an antagonistic goal in mind by doing it.
#Roleplay rule 10 applies to the actions of antagonists – extremely repetitive antagonistic actions repeated over the long term may draw an administrative request to tone it down or try something new, if most of the people on the server can immediately guess what you’re going to do when made an antagonist, it might be time to come up with a new plan.
}}
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{{anchor|RP Rule 7 Precedents}}
{{Rule
|title=Rule 7 Precedents
|body=#RPR 10 applies to powergaming, cool things that have a side benefit of player-character empowerment, or just cool methods of empowering your character are acceptable when done sparingly, with an understanding of the health of the community at large, but when repeated to excess have serious negative impact on the health of the server.
#Playing-to-win includes pre-emptively stacking smaller competitive advantages without good in-character reasoning based on the current shift. It does not include empowering yourself to achieve personal goals or reasonable steps taken to survive against confirmed threats to you or your department.
#Combat-focused players and roles, such as Security, taking a few items beyond what they need to do their job is usually fine, especially if the items are not needed by anyone else. Gathering items intended to counter unrevealed threats is not okay, but once the round contains reason to gather such counters, this is justified.  Gathering station resources when excessively equipped for combat may still break this rule and be handled administratively.
}}
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{{anchor|RP Rule 8 Precedents}}
{{Rule
|title=Rule 8 Precedents
|body=#RPR 10 applies to character design and roleplay, drug-addled assistants, kleptomaniac mafia cargo technicians and somewhat negligent station engineers are all a core part of the tone of the setting, but playing these stereotypes continually is detrimental to the experience of the setting – if you’re screaming about your meth factory over common enough times to make a habit of it, it’s probably time to stop.
}}
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{{anchor|RP Rule 9 Precedents}}
{{Rule
|title=Rule 9 Precedents
|body=#This rule is rooted in the experience of the players behind the characters you will interact with, remember this when playing and avoid justifying stamping on other’s experiences for personal gain.
#The total absence of someone working the job which you require is always a legitimate reason to stray from your lane. Players simply being busy or unwilling to assist is not, however.
#Where possible players straying from their lane should hand off their assumed responsibilities if another player becomes available to do it instead (if for example a missing roboticist returns to the lab after being revived while a paramedic is trying to handle a cyborg related issue)
#Players are free to seek alternate routes that do not impinge on the games of other players to obtain the things they want where normal routes are closed to them. (An assistant that wishes to help a cyborg get upgrades while a roboticist is busy making mechs for security or augmenting patients may freely make use of a maintenance robotics bay, for example)
}}
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{{anchor|RP Rule 10 Precedents}}
{{Rule
|title=Rule 10 Precedents
|body=#This rule is not intended to result in application of bans or general hard restrictions against players – invocations should be limited to preventing specific actions, not actioning against players in general unless they’re ignoring previous directives.
#This rule should be invoked with the backing and/or consensus of other admins, opinions will always vary in a game as freeform as this and this rule isn’t intended to stamp on player creativity and freedom.
}}
<!-- ------------------------------ RP SEC PRECEDENTS ------------------------------ -->


= Security Policy & Precedents =
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.
{{anchor|Security Policy & Precedents}}
{{Rule
|title=Security and Punishments.
|body=#When dealing with the crew and antagonists, make sure their punishments are in proportion to their crime(s). Minor crimes such as departmental break-ins, stolen equipment should be met with short, but increasing sentences depending on recurring visits by the apprehended. Stealing critical station equipment and items such as the hand teleporter, Chief Engineer's hardsuit, or AI upload boards are more severe crimes and should be met with longer prison times, or potentially permabrigging if the crime is deemed severe enough.
#Murder and Major Sabotage rank amongst the most severe of crimes and can generally be met with permanent imprisonment or death, though leniency can still be offered. These are all general guidelines, and the particular context of a situation can vary greatly, so you are given some leeway as to how harsh or lenient you can be.
#You should make an effort, if the situation permits, to contact a superior as to their thoughts when a situation arises in which a prisoner may be executed or permanently imprisoned.
#The overall status of the station factors in to the severity of committed crimes and the proportionality of security response, an assault on an officer resulting in an arrest is unlikely to be worthy of execution while the station is in perfect shape and security are otherwise unoccupied, but is reasonably worthy of an on-the-spot field execution if it occurs during active assault by war-ops with comms down and half the station torn in half by explosions.
5. Security are fully allowed and encouraged to use non-standard or lesser punishments such as community service, mandatory psychological visits or other interaction-focused less punitive punishments where relevant and fun – crimes do not have to be met with standard punishments where other options are more interesting.
}}


= Restricted Antag Death and Destruction =
'''Consider this when deciding on your actions in-game and how you decide to act'''.
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{{anchor|With Objectives}}
{{Rule
|title=With Objectives
|body=Antagonist objectives are the core of what antagonists are allowed to directly do with no or limited roleplay reasoning. Actions taken to directly accomplish an objective do not have to be proportionate.
 
Causing death and destruction to help with indirectly accomplishing objectives must have an in-character roleplay reason. If questioned about a chain of events involving indirect actions, the antagonist should be able to clearly explain what events in the current shift led them to their course of action without resorting to hypotheticals.
 
If a player or department directly interferes with the completion of an objective, this is no longer a hypothetical as the antagonist can now point to specific events in the shift to justify their actions.
}}
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{{anchor|Without Objectives}}
{{Rule
|title=Without Objectives
|body=When wanting to cause death and destruction not related to objectives, restricted antagonists may instead rely on extremely relaxed escalation.
 
They may escalate lethally sooner and with less justification, may use more lethal methods to escalate and may rely on antagonistic reasons for escalating. Such reasons may include escalating against people who are excessively polite or helpful as well as being mean or rude, escalating against groups of people who exclude them or escalating against people who ignore or avoid attempts to communicate entirely.
 
They have no obligation to treat their victims but escalating over minor issues should not result in the antagonist taking steps to permanently round-remove the other player unless escalation policy would otherwise permit it.
}}
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{{anchor|Mass Sabotage Exception}}
{{Rule
|title=Mass Sabotage Exception
|body=There exist some antagonistic actions which are so indiscriminate that they can never form justification for directly accomplishing an objective, but are also so disproportionate that no IC reason can allow for using them to indirectly accomplish an objective. This has the potential to make dangerous areas of the station safer than intended, because the crew know common antagonists can't take full advantage of those spaces in dangerous or deadly ways.
 
To avoid this, mass station sabotage that is likely to kill people is allowed so long as the antagonist does not take any direct and specific personal actions to maximise the bodycount beyond what the sabotage itself causes.
 
The test for mass station sabotage is to consider only strategies that a restricted antagonist could never justify using to complete a standard kill objective. Examples include plasma flooding, causing a supermatter delamination and spacing the station, although this list is not exhaustive. An example of a strategy which does not fall under mass station sabotage would be uses of bombs or other explosives, which can form justification for completing a standard kill objective and follow those rules instead.
 
}}
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{{anchor|Is this antagonist role restricted in how it can deliver death and destruction?}}
{{Rule
|title=Is this antagonist role restricted in how it can deliver death and destruction?
|body=This table covers which antagonists must abide by restrictions in how they deliver death and destruction to the station under [[#RP_Rule_5|RPR 5]], as well as any partial or grey-area exemptions.}}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|'''Antagonist'''
|'''Restriction exempt?'''
|-
|[[Traitor]]/Blood Brother
|No.
|-
|[[Changeling]]
|No.
|-
|[[Malfunctioning AI]]
|Yes.
|-
|[[Nuclear Operative]]
|Yes.
|-
|[[Wizard]]
|Yes.
|-
|Blood Cult/[[Revolutionary]]
|In general no, conversion should take priority, however if the situation is dire you are allowed to kill as many as required to accomplish your goals.
|-
|Ashwalker
|Yes, however the nest should remain defended.
|-
|[[Revenant]]
|Yes.
|-
|[[Blob]]
|Yes.
|-
|[[Abductor]]
|No.
|-
|[[Space Ninja]]
|No.
|-
|[[Xenomorph]]
|Yes.
|-
|[[Pirate]]
|No.
|-
|[[Nightmare]]
|Yes.
|-
|[[Obsessed]]
|No.
|-
|[[Heretic]]
|Yes, however it should only occur after ascension.
|-
|[[Lavaland Elite]]
|Yes.
|}

Latest revision as of 18:40, 20 June 2026

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. Roleplay, and in doing so, play a reasonably sane and mature character and stay in character.
0.1.1. You must roleplay in a manner realistic to real-life, reasonable for your current circumstances and the current setting.
0.1.1.1. This is with respect to the lore and world setting. While Nanotrasen technology isn't real, you must act as a reasonable person would in the setting.
0.1.2. Your character cannot have any special powers which are not possible via game mechanics, except in private dorm roleplay. For example, you cannot canonically be a sorcerer.
0.1.3. You are expected to adhere to the roleplaying setting and maintain suspension of disbelief even when game mechanics contradict.
0.1.3.1. For example, you will not automatically know another player is a xenochimera because a tooltip says so; likewise, repairing a broken bone isn’t simple because it takes 3 clicks.
0.1.4. You must not use netspeak in your messages in-character (IC), except in contexts where it would make sense, such as PDA messages.
0.1.5. This is the major, blanket roleplay rule that enforces our medium roleplay standard. As a bare minimum, it should be believable for a real person to commit any In-Character event through some justification. Roleplay trumps most.
0.2. You must not play as characters that imitate real-life figures.
0.2.1. You may not play as any character from media other than Space Station 13.
0.2.2. You may play as species from other media, but may not link yourself to the lore of the source of said species (or mention it in-character), and must follow 0.2.1 while doing so.
0.2.3. As such, per 0.2.1. and 0.2.2., meme and licensed media characters are prohibited.
0.2.4. Staff reserve the right to rule a character as too 'non-differentiated' from a pre-existing character from another piece of media, and thereby ban said character under rule 0.2.1.
0.3. Characters may not have non-differentiated, or difficult to tell apart names. For example, 'E-4245' for an expie is banned, but 'Sebastian' is allowed (so long as they're not all called Sebastian, or different spellings thereof).
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 are expected to forget the events leading to death.
0.8.1. Should you die and be later revived, you are expected to forget the events leading to your death. This applies even to rounds without antagonists.
0.8.2. Death during ERP is an exception if all involved players agree to letting you remember.
0.8.3. You must not remember the name or appearance of your killer after being killed.
0.8.4. If you were knocked unconscious, you may remember the appearance of your killer (species, clothes), but not their name.
0.8.5. Cyborgs are exempt from these rules, but may not remember the name or appearance of their killer. They may remember the events surrounding their deaths and all other related information.
0.9. You must not be antagonistic while not an antagonist.
0.9.1. 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.
0.9.2. 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.
0.10. Do not play to win
0.10.1. Better known as "powergaming". Powergaming/playing to win consists of acquiring items, assets, etc. for the sake of being powerful. Common examples include adding extra access to ID’s without reason, stealing powerful objects from other departments, or doing the job(s) of other departments when said department is available and willing to do the job itself.

1. - Role-specific Roleplay Rules

1.1. You are expected to fulfill the basic responsibilities of the job you sign up for.
1.1.1. Repeatedly failing to do the bare minimum required by your department may result in a job ban. The specifics vary from job to job while Heads of Staff are held to higher standards than other staff.
1.1.2. Your character must be physically capable of performing the job. For example, most jobs require at least one functioning hand. Security needs to be physically capable of subduing criminals and thus lack easily exploitable traits such as lightweight or dirt weakness.
1.1.3. Heads of Staff are expected to be knowledgeable in their department. The bare minimum number of hours to play a role is not a license to take command of a department you have never played.
1.1.4. As a Head of Staff, abusing your authority against players you dislike is prohibited and may violate other rules.
1.1.5. This rule does not apply to failing a job due to not knowing said job. You are expected to make mistakes frequently while learning a new job.
1.2. As security, you must not enforce space law outside of the station Z-level or within 22 tiles of a lavaland mining outpost.
1.2.1. 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).
1.3. You must not leave the station Z-level as a member of command.
1.3.1. You may do this if you have clocked out and surrendered all unique or irreplaceable gear.

2. - 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

3. - Validhunting

Validhunting is defined as the undue pursuit or harm to an antagonist. For undue pursuit or harm to a non-antagonist, see self-antagging.

2.1. You may defend your own person to a reasonable degree. If someone is attempting to kidnap or murder you, you may reply with lethal force.
2.1.1. Players are expected not to respond to non-lethal force with lethal force, unless the situation demands it. For example, getting shoved by a traitor does not mean you can kill them, but getting attacked by a traitor with a contractor baton means you may fight for your life.
2.2. You may defend the lives of others to a reasonable degree.
2.2.1. If there is no threat to life, you may not engage.
2.2.2. You must be at the scene of the attack or antagonist action while it is happening: you may not witness something on cameras or from afar and then engage.
2.2.3. This rule principally applies to attacks and physical harm enacted by antagonists.
3.1. You may defend your department to a reasonable degree, including material assets within a department.
3.1.1. While you may not kill an antagonist for stealing, you may attempt to incapacitate them.
3.1.2. You may only defend your department in your department, and must disengage the moment any antagonist interactions leave your workspace or your department as a whole.
3.1.3. If an antagonist is clearly attempting to leave, and are not subject to rule 3.1.1., you must let them, and may not use lethal force to stop them.
4. Staff reserve the right to apply violations of validhunting rules to the spirit of the rules, and not necessarily the wording. Abusing the wording of any of the validhunting rules leaves you subject to malice and validhunting rules.

4. 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.

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