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rules

1. No drama. We will throw you into a scorpion pit, and then we will throw ourselves in after you. It's unpleasant for everyone involved and should be avoided at all costs. Civil, face-to-face discussion? That still exists. Whoa. If you need a mediator to help so things don't turn sour, our mods will be happy to help you resolve the issue.

2. Be thoughtful! Be polite! Make sure you bear in mind that everyone is a human being just like you, and I'm sure this rule won't ever be a problem. Remember: everybody has feelings that can be hurt. Everybody can get upset. Everybody has a nose that will leak snotty fluid down their face if they cry, because their tear ducts are linked to their nasal cavity. Be nice. Or we will throw you into a scorpion pit.

3. Stay IC. We understand that a character you love may be quite hard for you to play! And that's where practice makes perfect. In the event of practice not making perfect, we urge you to make sure your character journal has a HMD, or "How's My Driving?" post - preferably with anonymous commenting allowed. This lets people leave you feedback on your characterisation and roleplaying conduct - very helpful stuff! If you're leaving feedback, please remember rule 2. Phrase things carefully. Be constructive, not cruel.

4. Stratos Drop is panfandom. We allow characters from all canons, and original characters too! However, fan characters are not allowed. Harry Potter is all clear! Malfoy's Hot Topic girlfriend Enoby Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, however, is not. Sorry, Enoby. AUs are up for debate - bloodswaps and genderswaps and such, as well as any other established AU characters, may be apped - as long as the app is well-written and gives us a good understanding of the AU, you may be accepted.

5. Stratos Drop will change. As more terras appear or are discovered or explored, your characters uncover more secrets, or game-wide plot events occur, things may become a little different. If it changes and you don't like it, that's your problem. We warned you! You may feel free to contact us and complain if you think we jumped the shark so hard we broke the sound barrier, but chances are what's done is done.

6. There will be activity checks. Please try to keep up with them. These will occur on the first day of each month, and must be done for each character you play. Comment HERE and link us to at least 1 post you have made, or to 2 threads with at least 10 comments by your character. Failing to meet an activity check means you'll be given a strike. Three strikes, and you will be required to drop that character. This is only fair - if you're sitting on a character and not using it, you're unnecessarily depriving someone else of a chance to play that character!

7. Hiatuses and slowatuses may be called. A hiatus can go on for 1 month without seeking further permission from a mod. A slowatus may go on for 3 months without seeking further permission from a mod. We're lenient, and we understand the real world can get in the way of our fictional character shenanigans. But we're here to have fun, and less activity means less fun.

8. Play smart. Don't godmod. Don't play a Mary Sue. Don't use OOC knowledge to make your character know something they shouldn't logically know. Don't bring OOC issues into IC play. Don't spend all your time muncesting. And for the love of throwing people into scorpion pits, please do not get us in trouble for something really awful. Use your noggin.

9. Moderator discretion exists. If something nasty isn't expressly covered by these rules, you still probably won't get away with it. We're real people, not computers, and we will notice if you deliberately dick around whilst dancing a sprightly jig around our rules. That said, we will be fair. No one is going to get banned just because a mod decides they don't like them. If a mod tries, they will be thrown in the scorpion pit twice as hard. There will also be worse scorpions. Like, big scorpions that give birth to little baby scorpions when stepped on. Power abuse is taken very seriously.