Site Rules

[~Ice Blitz~]

Site Rules--Please read all content before posing your character application for review.

OOC Rules:

• Basically, be kind and courteous with other members while OOC. Your characters can hate each other, but if I catch you being rude, mean, or cussing out another member OOC, it will be grounds for immediate banning.
  
• One account per player.
  
• Pics (posting pics and signature pics) may not be so large that they stretch the boards. If they do, you will be asked to remove and resize them.
  
• Admins and Mods are to be listened to regarding site rules. Disobeying said rules can lead to your account being put on a temporary hold, or even permanent banishment.
  
• Character bios are to be posted under the Character board, not under a sub-board.
  
• If they are accepted, they are moved to the appropriate sub-board by an admin or staff.
  
• If not accepted, the posted must fix the bio, and then post a reply saying the fixed the problem.
  
• Only the admin, or the global mods can accept a new member that applies. It is however, up to the alpha of a pack said member is requesting to be in, to distribute rank.
  
• Ranks are only given -after- the bio has been accepted.
  
• Your 'avatar' image can be up to 150px wide by 200px tall. You may set that yourself in your profile (I know it still says 100x100, just ignore it and set in the other values).
  

Activity Rules:

• You are expected to be an active member of this site. That means logging in and posting at least twice, if not three times a week. If you fail to log in, and do not let us know you are leaving, you will be deleted.
  
• There will be random activity checks. If you do not respond in the time given, you will be deleted.
  

Posting Rules:

• You are expected to post at least 2 paragraphs, or 200 words. Its really not that hard folks, and it gives us more to respond too.
  
• In-character posts should be in third person. Posts (of any kind) must be in business English.
  
• Liquid time is allowed. Your character may be in more than one thread at a time, but keep track of where they are and which threads come first please!
  
• If you use images in your post, please make sure that they are not copyrighted. Stock images only.
  
• No god-moding. You cannot make another persons character do anything. Its up to them.
  
• If fighting, you cannot land every attack, or miss every attack aimed for you. Fights will be moderated to make sure there is no god-modding or power-playing.
  
• Swearing is allowed, though in moderation. Only in-character can one swear at another member.
  
• Graphic mating scenes are allowed, but must marked in some way, so that people who don't want to read that don't have too.
  

Wolf Stuff:

• This is a semi-realistic/mutant wolf RP. You must have a base of a normal wolf, but you can have a mutation. One mutation is allowed per character for free. Extra mutations must be bought in the store.
  e.g. you can have wings, but you cannot have wings and pink fur.
  
• Eye color does not count as a mutation, but fur color does.
  
• No extinct wolf breeds.
  
• See the stickied thread on wolf stats. If your wolf is larger or smaller than average, you must pay for that as a character enhancement or have it count as your mutation.
  
• Plot suggestions that involve all the characters go in the plot board. Plots between individual characters that do not affect the whole pack, can stay between the character's they affect directly.
  
• Loners can form groups, bands or gangs. They cannot however, have established territory unless they apply for it. There will be a separate rule page on this later.
  
• The admin is in charge of creating or deleting established packs. You may not just go off and create your own pack. If you want to create a pack, you must read the rules on doing so and fill out the application form.
  
• Also, it would be appreciate if your first post in wolf territory is a request to join the pack. If you would like to write your history in with the pack, so its as if you already joined, you must send a PM to the alpha of the pack with your request. If you do not do this, and you still post as if you belong in the territory, you may be treated as an intruder.
  

Mating/Pup Stuff:

• Wolf pairs may mate during any season. If they are in a pack, they should let their alpha/pack leader know, or risk suffering any consequences.
  
• You must have a mating thread in order to create a thread in the 'Expecting' sub-board (under characters).
  
• Pups are born 1 season (2 months) after the last post in the mating thread.
  
• Pups are determined randomly by the admin. Pup stats (health, gender and color) are also determined by the admin (via dice roll).
  
• People can request to play pups in threads on the 'Expecting Board' but ultimately it's the parents who decide who gets a pup and who doesn't.
  
• If you want to play a pup character, you must either purchase one in the store, or have one of your wolves have a litter.
  
• For every week, a pup ages 2 months until they are a year old. Then they age normally (2 months is a season, so 1 year every 8 months).
  

If you have any other questions, please post in the Questions/Comments/Suggestions board.