This is the most important section, everything in this section takes priority over anything you do.
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.
At minimum you need to understand these rules, if you are confused, please ask a staff member in #staff-questions.
0. Server safety
This is an 18+ server, it is meant for adults, we do not allow any content that could be interpreted as violating laws in most countries or activity that would promote harmful content on our server.
Activities or content that is banned in most countries such as the usage of underage characters or interactions with real life animals is not allowed here at all.
If you are found to be underage, you will be promptly removed from our community. If staff suspect that you may be underage, you will be age-vetted, failure to respond will result in an age-vet ban till you go through the process.
Examples and exceptions.
Examples:
1. Violating either Discords terms of service (ToS) or BYONDs ToS is prohibited.
2. Talking about or using any sort of underage content, in any way on the server is prohibited, check character ages before using their art as a headshot image.
3. Interacting with creatures from real life or animals that resemble real life creatures are not okay to interact within an ERP manner.
4. Using slurs through IC chat or L/OOC is not allowed here, especially if it is used as an insult towards another user.
5. Spreading hate speech towards 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.
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.)
2. Using slurs within a private area between consenting parties is allowed, so long as it makes sense, used for ERP purposes and if outside of a dorm, using anti-subtler ghost.
1. Malicious behavior
Interacting with another player with the intent to harm or ruin their experience on our server and make their overall experience here worse, this includes using non-direct methods to avoid detection.
This is a server for adults, we expect you to behave as such, be open to reasoning and talking out your issues with other players and staff.
Examples and exceptions.
Examples:
1. Harassing someone over their character, kinks, grammar or preferred roleplaying style, is not accepted here.
2. Meta-grudging someone for their past actions against you, by either killing them, griefing them or being problematic with them in L/OOC.
3. Revealing someone's CKey, Discord account or list of characters they play for the purpose of other players to retaliate towards them.
4. Lying to staff about what another player did with malicious intent, in order to get them in trouble.
5. Preventing a player from engaging with the round without a valid reason.
6. Abusing bugs, quirks or exploits in a disruptive manner to get the upper-hand against another player.
7. Type-baiting people is strictly prohibited, this is when you bring someone into a conversation and as they go to reply, you take hostile action against them.
8. Using size changing quirks or gear to make your character smaller for mechanical advantage against a player.
8.1. Characters naturally smaller than half a tile cannot play as a role expected to end up in combat, this includes command, security and antagonist roles.
2. Impact
Activities that impact the server or player base in a negative way, 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, 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 and exceptions.
Examples:
1. Griefing the station without a valid reason.
1.1. End of round grief (EORG) outside of the permitted area or too early.
2. Creating server lag through the use of spawning mass mobs, items, liquid or gas.
3. Bringing IC information into OOC chat, it is not fair to other players and can ruin peoples time.
