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.
