RULES, YO!
1) Be Respectful
Treat each other as you would like to be treated (also known as: kind and friendly). This is sparkly shiny pokémon guys, let's leave out the hatred and anger and "omg my pokémanz is better then urz" nonsense. Don't spam, harass, or flame each other. If there are any problems of this sort, please take them to the mods; we'll gladly sort it out for you.
2) IC =/= OOC
For clarification: you are not your character. Please do not bring out of character drama into your in character situations, or cause unnecessary dislike because you may not like a mun. You are, as always, allowed to choose who you roleplay with, but please do not judge others based on their characters. In addition, comments and remarks about your character are not necessarily aimed at you, the player. Do not take things said about your character too personally.
3) Be Active.
Please play your character. Even though the requirements are simple, it takes two to have a thread. Your activity will help others stay off of the activity check, and in turn they will help you.
**Activity checks will be held from the 1st to 8th each month unless otherwise stated. There is a check-in system, meaning you will have to link your posts.
Full Requirements are one post and two threads, two posts and one thread, three posts, or three threads. All must be ten comments long. (Meaning you will need at least 15 comments from your character.)
Half Requirements are one post, and one thread of any length, or two threads, one of 10 comments and one of any length.
Each thread linked must be at least 10 comments long (meaning 5 from you and 5 from another, or with threadjacking, etc.) and in a different character's journal or a log. Action tagging and logs also count as links.
Full requirements are for those who have been off hiatus for over half of the month. Half requirements are for those who have been on hiatus for half of the month but have returned over a week before the activity check. Characters who returned from hiatus within a week of the activity check or are still on hiatus are exempt from the month's check. Characters applied during the latest application cycle just need to link one thread or post of any length once they've introduced themselves.
4) No Godmodding / No Metagaming
You play your characters only. This means you cannot automatically have another character do something without that player's permission. Nor can your character do something to another person's character without the player's permission. This also goes for information. Just because you know it OOCly does not mean your character will; your character's knowledge is limited to what they know in canon or find out in game.
Fourth walling is only permitted with the pokémon world up to 150. Because it is such a big-name game, Gameboys and Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow are allowed to be 'known'. For other canons, fourth-walling is ONLY permitted with permission of the player. This means you can't have Wolverine running around going "Pokémon look just like Digimon! I watched that on TV!" unless it is permitted.
5) Age Limit
To clearly fit LiveJournal's Terms of Service, the minimum age for Route 29 is fifteen (15) years of age. We expect all of our characters to join this game with a good dose of maturity about them. We'll trust you to abide by LJ ToS. We're not asking this in the application, only because we trust you enough to be honest!
6) Mature Content
Because we're not banning this, we've decided to stick with the please friends-lock all yer pr0nz rule. Meaning if there's inappropriate material unsuitable for minors or excessively excessive violence, please put it under a friends-lock.
7) Character Limit
The Character Limit is Five (5) Characters per Mun. This is subject to change in the future. You are only allowed to reserve and apply for one character per week (from Sunday to Saturday app cycles) as well.
8) Drama and Wank is a No-No!
We're not going to outlaw being seen in the anonymous memes or places like roleplay!secrets. We just would like to keep the game free of people waging war through secrets or trying to bully or wank someone out of the game, attempt to bully/wank the game into closing. If you are caught causing severe wank, depending on the severity, you will receive a warning or a suspension up to three months. If you're caught a second time, you will be either given a second suspension up to three months or asked to leave the game. But I know I don't have to worry about this, right? Because we're all mature and can act like adults and have fun, right?
Needless to say, using these sites in order to 'reach a mod' will be questionable at best. Seeing as they are not part of the game, they will not be treated as viable means of reaching the moderators.
9) Linking apps is for spoilers only!
In the interest of clarity and app processing speed, we now ask that potential applicants post their application in comments rather than linking. If the app contains explicit references to 'hard' spoilers (think big reveals, like 'Dumbledore dies', I SEE DEAD PEOPLE, I am your father etc), players should put the application in their own journal or their character's journal and link it, making sure to mention the presence of spoilers within. If you link an app, and don't mention that there are spoilers? We won't process it. Fair warning!
10) HAVE FUN!
Thanks for reading the rules! This one's most important, because it's the key to roleplaying everywhere. Your first of two codewords is "Taco". Go read the F.A.Q. for the second.
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