ICC Rules

[Atia Fayte]

The other admins and myself have had a lot of trouble with people ICCing and it's limits in the past, so we have devised a set of rules for the ICC that must be obeyed.

1. In regards to romance in the ICC, keep it to a level in between PG and PG-13, please. Kissing is fine, but don't go full-out smut in the ICC. There are some RPers that don't want to read that, and you are blocking their ICCing because they don't want to read it. This isn't a smut roleplay.

2. Please do not godmod in the ICC. The ICC chat is the same as regular RPing in this sense. For instance, if Billy said he threw a punch at your character, it is up to you whether or not it hits your character. If Billy says "*punches your character, and they fall to the ground*" That is called godmodding in the ICC.

3. This rule is special for the magic user characters of the RP. It basically goes back to the godmod rule. I know of several instances in which RPers have abused their characters magic usage. So, what are the limits? Don't "float" into the ICC, don't conjure every little thing your character wants, and mostly don't turn people into anything unless it's a random NPC. Even then, think before you do that. Every magic community has rules about magic use. Think of Harry Potter. If they couldn't do it in front of muggles, think about if your character should do it.

4. Please, please, please don't ignore anyone that comes into the ICC. You might not think this is a big problem, but that actually makes RPers leave forums. It's because they don't feel welcome. Try to include them in some way, please.

5. The location of the ICC is not set. It could be at the Poison Apple one ICC, then the Neptune Hotel the other. There are no limits to the location. Just as long as it's not at someone's residence.

6. Since this is an ICC chat, try to keep the OOC talking to a minimum. That's what we have the OOC cbox for. Don't spam the ICC with stuff that looks like this. ((Oh, that's cool. Well, how was your day?)). Save if for the OOC chat.


See? That wasn't so terrible, was it? Make sure you follow all of these rules, and if you see someone breaking one of these rules, don't call them out in the middle of the ICC, please. PM myself, or one of the other admins, preferably with their text that is breaking one of the above rules.

One rule break gets you a warning. Two, and myself and the other admins will further discuss what to do.