the_librarians | ooc rules

DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE DONE UNTO YOU.
Be respectful and courteous to one another. ICly your character can be as much of an ass as he or she wants, but OOCly remember that jerkiness is not approved and can get you booted.

✍ So don't be an asshole. This should go without saying. Don't be threatening, insulting, and/or harassing the other players. It's not 'just a joke' when it hurts someone. If someone is bothering you please contact the mods and get things sorted appropriately like mature human beings.
✍ No godmoding, metagaming or grandstanding. Your character can't be all powerful. They have weaknesses and at worst, someone can always attack your Book. You must be given OOC permission to control another character's actions. Also, if your characters do get into a fight, make sure you ask before you go horribly maiming characters or killing them, otherwise you might be asked to rewrite your tag.
✍ Put proper warnings on posts/use lj-cuts. This isn't a smut or gore game, please remember not everyone had a stomach of steel. Put clear warnings on posts and threads that get into dangerous nsfw areas, and if characters are going to have sex make sure to move the thread to a f-locked post. Do make sure to stay within the legal guidelines of the site for character ages and activities written on site. This goes for memes as well.
✍ Players must be 16+ to play. Mainly because of the rule listed above, but also because this game will include a lot of darker themes. We would like to keep a mature audience for the game, as well as avoid any fumbly legal situations that include showing pornography to minors. We don't want to be sued, we don't want our players sued. Please wait until you are 16 or older to app a character to this game. If you are under the age of legal consent in your state/country of residency, please do not engage in smut writing within the game.
✍ Don't leave us hanging: post your hiatus/drop please. We won't think any less of you for needing time off for any reason or for having to leave the game altogether. Make sure you post in the hiatus and drop post so the mods know what's going on, even if you don't decide to make a post to the ooc comm. We do ask if you're going to go on hiatus to not leave people hanging on serious CR threads.
✍ Let other people have their turn on the swingset. You can't be the center of attention all the time. Make sure not to make too many posts in a row before someone else has the chance to make their own posts. Player-run plots are lovely things but don't force the plot to center only around your character constantly--other people want a turn, too.

FICTION IS A LIE; GOOD FICTION IS THE TRUTH INSIDE THE LIE
To make it a little easier to find the truth. These things are helpful to the community and the mods.

✍ Please put your app somewhere visible, like on a post in your journal or on your profile. This helps out people who aren't familiar with your character to know what they can expect when they tag and how to get the best CR with them. Plus if your character's Book is lost and another character finds it, the player has to know what their character can figure out about your character from the text.
✍ If you need to revise something let us know! Huge revisions need mod approval anyway, but small revisions, especially for characters whose backstory is still being released in canon, are usually fine--just make sure to contact us first and tell us what you're changing!
✍ Remember IC actions = IC consequences! In this rpg, particular actions (yelling loudly, destroying things, etc.) will get your character a Punishment. You don't have to ask a mod to have your character receive a Punishment, or several of them, but don't forget to give them to your characters! If your character breaks one of the IC Rules, we expect them to deal with the consequences (unless metaplot dictates otherwise) and we don't mind a character receiving several Punishments in a short time period--have fun with them, no really.
✍ Player-run plots are a-okay, just make sure if the plot affects a lot of people to let us know! For the most part player-run plots will be fine and dandy, but do let us know if you're going to destroy a whole floor of the East Wing or something. Just remember that destroying parts of The Library will get you Punishments.
✍ HAVE FUN! The most important rule, of course. If the game isn't fun for you, it may be a good idea to talk with players you share CR with or to think about dropping the game. We want to keep this as happyfuntimes (for the players anyway) rather than a job to stress over.