Note: This page is to be used by both players and staff when playing on the server, ignorance is not an excuse to break a rule, if you have any questions about a rule, please ask in the Discord at the channel staff questions.
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.
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. 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.
1.1. Harassing someone over their character, kinks, grammar or preferred roleplaying style
1.2. 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).
1.3. Revealing someone's CKey, Discord account, or list of characters they play for the purpose of other players to retaliate towards them.
1.4. Lying to staff about what another player did with malicious intent in order to get them in trouble.
1.5. 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.
1.6. Abusing bugs, quirks or exploits in a disruptive manner to get the upper-hand against another player.
1.7. Baiting someone into typing before attacking them, also called Type Baiting.
1.8. Using size changing quirks or gear to make your character smaller for mechanical advantage against a player
1.8.1. The current minimum size for Command, Security, and Antagonists is 0.8 or 80%.
1.8.2. 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.
1.9. 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.
1.10. 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.
1.10.1. 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.
1.10.2. 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.
1.10.3. 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:
2.1. Griefing the station without a valid reason.
2.1.1. End of round grief (EORG) before the shuttle has landed, or on/in impermissible areas.
2.1.2. 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.
2.2. Creating server lag through the use of spawning mass mobs, items, liquid or gas.
2.3. Bringing IC information into OOC chat either to disseminate this information, or to escalate an IC issue into OOC. This is termed as "mixing".
2.4. 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.
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) -> Major Aggression (non-damaging physical acts, such as stunning) -> Non-lethal (soft-crit) -> Lethal (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.
Read over these rules before erotically roleplaying with anyone to make sure you don't accidentally break a rule, we takes these rules seriously.
0. Consent
If you plan to engage in any erotic roleplay (ERP) with anyone, get their consent before, this can be achieved either through in-character (IC) methods, L/OOC or if consent is given in a players OOC notes.
Ensure you are aware of everyone's preferences before you interact erotically with them, this means reading over their OOC notes if they have any, make sure to communicate with your potential ERP partner.
For whatever reason you need to end the scene, just voice it in L/OOC, your partner is to comply with your request, regardless of your reason.
Examples and exceptions.
Examples:
1. Using ERP mechanics, such as stomping on players who did not consent, we don't allow this to happen, accidents may occur, but using ERP mechanics to attack someone who did not consent is not acceptable.
2. Interacting with creatures from real life or animals that resemble real life creatures are not okay to interact within an ERP manner.
Exceptions:
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, physically fighting back, calling for help and fleeing is not allowed (unless all involved parties are okay with it). This does not mean they can violate your preferences or OOC notes, if this does happen make sure to speak up in L/OOC.
Getting security or bystanders involved in a non-con scene is forbidden, unless all parties involved including the security/bystander consent to it as well, in which case keep it amongst yourselves and make sure everyone agrees before acting out punishments, etc...
There are plenty of standards that you are expected to follow, whilst most should be handled in-character (IC), there are times when blatant failure to follow even the most basic of standards or procedures will be met with staff intervention.
The round cannot succeed if those in charge and those who hold important jobs are not held to some level of responsibility, therefore fulfilling your jobs basic tasks are important, this does mean that abusing your job is punishable.
Examples and exceptions.
Examples:
1. Using jaws of life to break into places outside of an emergency, this is an emergency tool, unless you are an antagonist, usage for the sole reason of access and not to rescue someone is not a valid reason.
Important pages
Below you will find the link to pages that lead you to various standards and procedures, these are important to read up on generally so you can confidently play without the risk of IC or staff intervention.
OpFor standards: These are a great resource for learning how to make an OpFor and what is generally acceptable per chaos level.
Space law: Plan on playing security or maybe even want to know how to avoid breaking the law, here is what you need to know.
Standards: Has the command, security and silicon standards, one of the more important pages.
Antagonist rules
You're not expected to win, do not expect it, just have fun with it.
Plan to be a friendly antagonist? It is allowed on any chaos level, but doing so does not grant you protection by staff in-case you are killed or arrested, due to the chaos of the rounds, it's tough for us to allow this with protection. The best time to be a friendly antagonist is during 'Extended' when you AHelp or make an OpFor, by doing so if it is accepted, you are granted protection by staff so long as you don't act hostile.
These are the standards all antagonists need to follow, if you are looking for the OpFor guidelines, please look here.
If you do not require a body mechanically, leave it alone if they died somewhere open, otherwise if you kill them somewhere they will not be recoverable from, you need to move them back to a safe position for the crew to recover.
Planning on round-removing (otherwise known as RR) someone? First check if they have RR set to 'On', if they do, then once they are dead you are free to RR them, if they have it set otherwise, then you must make sure their body is recoverable in some way.
When you lose a fight, don't resort to being salty and insulting people in L/OOC or OOC.
You are not entitled to getting AHealed by staff and it is at the discretion of the staff member on duty.
Your goal should never be the dismantling, destruction or mass murder of the entire station, unless otherwise stated by your natural goals or role.
The interlink and infi-dorms are protected from anything relating to antagonists, do not use it as a hideout or to complete your objectives.
When giving yourself custom objectives, make sure they are clear and specific objectives that have a certain goal in mind, vague and wildcard objectives will not be tolerated.
Marooning someone does not mean you can murder them multiple times or RR them if their preferences are set to 'Off', if your target has RR set to 'Off' you can AHelp to have your target changed.
Using ERP as bait before killing someone is not allowed unless both parties consented through L/OOC.
False-flagging is not allowed, if you tell people you will be friendly, do not turn around and murder them for no reason.
As an antagonist, if you are being pursued1 by people hunting you, then you cannot leave the station Z-level, this includes lavaland.
1 - This is when either the station crew is running after the antagonist or the antagonist has just recently (up to a hour) committed a crime that would have caught crews attention but is not being chased.
While you are an antagonist, you are not allowed to go out into space to loot ruins.
Caught someone as an abductor? Already made some eggs as a spider? Follow these rules:
Roleplay (otherwise known as RP) will take priority over mechanics. If you want to RP with someone in any capacity during captivity and they agree, then you are entitled to RP it out. Valid-hunting or otherwise interrupting the scene is punishable.
If you require bodies mechanically, you can hold them up to 15 minutes without crew knowing their location, after which you no longer mechanically need the body and follow the general guidelines on holding bodies (although this is a loose rule and it may or may not be enforced depending on the scenario). Do not guard bodies from recovery, crew must be allowed to recover it or else it is counted as RR.
Got captured and it has been over 15 minutes and nobody is coming to get you? Make an AHelp and staff will look over the situation and decide on the next action.
Use common sense, roleplaying in the middle of a hallway as an antagonist will result in crew murdering you. Take it to somewhere private to avoid getting hunted by the crew.
“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.
Putting stuff up for sale on the black market is fine, just do not abuse it, sell your round start stuff, actual equipment you need or supplies you cannot get again.
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.
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.
Discord rules
Can be accessed through this channel for the most up-to-date rules.
1. You must be over the age of 18 to be a part of this Discord & Community, and you need to follow Discord ToS and Community Guidelines.
2. We don't allow inappropriate or unsafe content; for example underage, bestiality, gore. IRL porn is not allowed on this server as well. Any Extreme kinks not posted in porn channels specifically made for them need to be spoilered and tagged appropriately. Alongside that, discussing inappropriate things in general chat is also disallowed; anything to do with the aforementioned topics, heavy historical subjects, deep political debates.
3.Use the appropriate channels and avoid spam; Do not misuse our channels or spam memes, images, ect outside of their channels. Don't send Discord server invite links or codes in the server, including malicious links and advertisements. Noise spam or mic spam is also covered by this rule.
4. We do not tolerate Drama or Harassment; things that would fall under this would be harassment in DMs, bringing drama from other servers, pinging unnecessarily, Raiding our server or other servers.
5. Do not discuss meta knowledge in general chat or in public VC. Streaming the round is fine so long as it does not impact the round, and meta knowledge acquired in it isn’t used.
6. Report any bugs you find, do not discuss any hacking or cheating in public, doing so will result in an immediate ban.
7. Impersonating other players, staff or their characters is not allowed.
8. Language; We expect all of our players to use English to speak on the server, it makes it easier for us to moderate and overall communicate as it is this server’s central language.
9. Do not try to bypass blocked words by the bot, doing so will result in the same punishments as simply saying the word, alongside that we do not allow slurs of any type.
10. Art section; Do not copy or claim other people’s art, characters, ect, and make sure to post Art in the appropriate channels, for example; do not post AI art outside of the specified channel for AI
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.
