RULES! (Know them)

[Sifvalia]

Welcome to the Ghost Lanes!

• This is a mature Riddickverse RPG. Those playing here will be required to be at least 18 years of age or of the age of majority in their country. Of course we have no way of really monitoring this however if you are found to be underage you will be banned. Please be honest. This will not be the fluffier PG-13 style that Chronicles were. There will be graphic violence, mature themes, swearing and other R - NC17 rated themes here. In other words folks, this is not for the squeamish.
  
  
• Keep in mind that sex related threads will likely happen. Due to ProBoards policy such scenes should do the traditional 'fade to black' once things get hot and sweaty. They do not allow those things even in PMs. (Kinda scary that they can crack into your Private Messages isn't it?! ) If you want to continue the play, please take it to an IM of some fashion (AIM, MSN, whatever). You can gloss over the details like a movie would pull the old Fade out and then Fade back in after the deed is done. Also please put a warning in your thread title if things are going to be or turn out to be more mature in theme to warn those that might not want to see that.
  
  
• Be good to one another. We're all here to have a fun, creative outlet as a break from the Real World. This isn't a competition and no one 'wins'. There are no points awarded. Work together and let's weave this tapestry of fiction. K?
  
  
• No God Modding. What is that you say? Well it's like this. I pose into a scene and with my huge fiery blasts from the palms of my hands I send your character flying across the room before you have a chance to react or speak. My hits always land and I never, ever take a hit myself. I pose for you what your reaction and actions are in my pose and basically leave you at the mercy of my whims. Now does that sound like fun to anyone? I didn't think so. Unless you have the permission of the other player to assume anything pose only the attempts that they make. Give the other players a chance to react to your actions. Very simple.
  
  
• No Mary Sue, Gary Stu, or any other totally irritating character. They will be squashed and pureed by Staff should they appear. No one is good at everything. No one always wins. No one causes everyone else to fall in love with them at first glance. Even Riddick took hits and got captured. No one is perfect or perfectly flawed (ie: burdened by their overwhelming beauty or intelligence or yadda yadda yadda, Get it? Good.).
  
  
• See the Species Info thread prior to submitting an application to avoid wasted time. We will be abiding by those strictly for now. This is subject to change at the discretion of the Admin.
  
  
• This is a text based forum. That means that we expect you to be literate. Chatspeak (OMG LOL L8Tr) will not be tolerated in any IC board. Do not post one liners or two liners to threads. Aim high. At the very least try to aim for a good two paragraph pose. Give description and something for the others that are threading with you something to reply to. Try to get the spelling correct. There should be a nifty feature that underlines misspelled words in red here. Use it. I'd be lost without it. I feel your pain.
  
  
• No personal intolerance, racism, or other personal prejudice will be tolerated here out of character. IC your character hates Furyans or blue eyed peoples? Fine. But do not victimize, brutalize, harass, or flame anyone out of character. It's not cool and you will be warned or banned depending on the severity of the infraction.
  
  
• It is encouraged for you to play more than one character here. However, please make a separate login for each one. Each Character must have their own account. At this time there is no limit to how many characters a person can have but this is subject to change at any time. Do keep in mind though that while you might have super great wonderful ideas for a ton of different characters that are all so cool....it's not kosher when you are more consumed in character creation than you are in character development. If you start having trouble keeping current with posting then you may be asked to scale back your character count.
  
  
• While you can make as many characters as you want at this time each player is restricted to only two Canons. All Canons must post at least once a week but more often is encouraged. Failure to do so without notifying Staff of an absence of more than a week will result in the character being stripped from you and offered to the general populace for application. Rule of thumb here...do not bite off more than you can chew.
  
  
• No long lost relatives of Canons. Sure, it's an interesting concept but it's a little twinkie. By this I mean, no mother of Riddick suddenly appears from no where, no illegitimate children of Toombs (or Riddick, or Johns, or...you get the picture) by a hooker popping up. No older siblings to Jack, no long lost twin of Fry (or any other character!!) showing up. This doesn't mean that you couldn't have had some prior contact with one of the Canons but make it believable and to where it fits into the storyline of Pitch Black with out disturbing the canon facts of that film. Also, it's usually a good idea to run the idea past the person playing the character, canon or original. The pass word is shivfest.
  
  
• Playbys. Oh aren't these fun? All those pretty pretty people up there to look at and drool over. Yes, we all love them. But...please keep all playby's (PBs) true to Canon if you play a canon character. All PBs must be real actors or actresses or models. No Anime, cartoon, video game, or otherwise non-real PBs allowed. Also keep in mind a few that are way overused in RPGs such as; Angelina Jolie, Miranda Kerr, Adriana Lima, Zack Efron, Any Jonas flavored Brother, Miley Cyrus, etc... This isn't to say it will be denied because of the PB but it sure will make us cringe and say eeewwww! Any character created using a Justin Beiber PB will be pureed. Heh...Here at Ghost Lanes we strive to provide a Beiber-free Zone.
  
  
  
• Also upon acceptance you must post a Face Claim on the appropriate board. Please be sure to use a person that has put themselves in the public spotlight already. It's not cool to steal someone's Facebook pic (or any other public forum) and use their likeness. Besides, it's harder to find pic to use of them. Known Actors/Actresses, Models, Musicians, etc... only please.
  
  
• All Avatars need to be 100x100 pixels. No bigger. Signatures should abide by the standard 500x300 rule.
  
  
  
• All decisions of Staff are Final. Do not get argumentative and rude when you are told something you might not agree with. Any decision will not be made lightly and all factors will be considered before a ruling is made. So if you get a ruling it is the final word on the matter.
  

Now that you've read the rules of this world get out there and play!!