General House Rules

All Game Questions

Approved Books

Only the books listed on the approved book page are available for use in this game. We will not take copies of powers that are typed up or copied to show us. It must be from an approved book. If you would like to suggest a book, let us know. This list of approved books can be found here.

Languages

All language use is, by default, English. If you are using another language, you must use a tag. Typically, it's "<language name> blah blah blah" and after a line or two you can shorten it to 2-3 letters (remember, <s> is softly and <w> is whisper and <p> is phone, so don't shorten a language to that if it starts with those letters).

Example:

Bob: How are you?
Jane: <Japanese> I don't speak English.
Bob: What?
Jane: <Jap> I don't speak your silly language.

If you are in a scene with someone or someones else and you have the entire conversation in another base language, you can state "((the rest of the conversation is in X until otherwise noted))" in the channel log and go from there. If someone new comes into the channel, you must inform them of this. At that point, typically the non-English langauge must be tagged again.

Freezing Scenes

If a fight breaks out and an ST is unavailable, it is preferred that you wait for an ST to run the scene. HOWEVER if everyone is ok with going on, then the STs can review and alter/fix scenes as necessary. If someone looses connection from the server during a fight scene, or a fight scene is running too late for those involved, it is possible the ST will freeze the scene to be continued later. It is equally possible the ST will dictate ending terms to the scene (people get away somehow, everyone lives to fight another day). Normal social scenes, in general, never need to be frozen. If a scene has run long, simply have characters leave and continue later. Reality does not allow for an 18 hour conversations, so having to stop at some point and continue later makes sense. If a non-combat scene needs to be frozen for whatever reason, an ST must be informed and must ok the freeze. STs MUST know about frozen scenes because BPs/WPs have to be reset typically, and must be reset again after the scene is over. If you do not immediately report the freeze, it wil be voided. Please do not freeze scenes without a very, very good reason.

Phone Calls

All phone calls must be handled in a game channel. We have set up two channels specifically for phone calls: #phone and #cell. You can have your entire conversation there. If you are in a game channel while the call happens you are still required to paste your side of the call. If those channels are full, feel free to move to any other general channel. If you are already in a channel and prefer to do the call there, that is fine. Just make sure, both sides of the phone conversation happen in a channel. Please do not have calls in private message. If you do so, the call will be voided. Text messages can go both ways. If you send someone a quick, non plot related text, it can happen in message. If you send a plot related text or have a full text conversation, it has to happen in #phone or #cell. This means that there should be no IC happenings in private message with the exception of a text message, like i'm at the beach.

Mind Reading

If you are in a channel alone with someone and use Empathy, Auspex, Mind Reading or any power where you find out information it must happen in the channel you are in. If you are in a public channel when it happens, you can choose to either have it in that channel or come to #help. If this is not followed,then the item will be voided. Feel free to come into #help to do an entire use of Mind Reading or telepathy. It allows us to catch mistakes in real time and make the usage go smoother.