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The Rules
On Joining the Game
1) Your character(s) must be approved once submitted to the moderator's CU email address.The character submission format is elsewhere.
2) After the character you've submitted is accepted, then you should make a character journal for the character and to post in the community roleplay threads as well. Please email me once again with the IJ you will be using for the character, and then request to join the community. I will then know to accept the IJ account’s request. If you do this before your character is accepted, the request to join will be deleted and ignored. (And if you make a mistake, it’s okay! Just do it right the next time.)
3) After joining, you need to post in a thread at least two times a week. More than that is encouraged and highly appreciated, but the moderator does understand we all have lives. You are highly encouraged to post under your character's journal as well. As long as you show that you're active, the moderator won't get concerned, so don't worry about the numbers - they only come into play if you're so inactive it becomes a problem.
Characters
4) Your character may not be an overpowered God. The moderators of the group are the ones who decide if your character is too powerful or not. Your character can be skilled, but they cannot be unbeatable by everyone in the worlds.5) Your character(s) must not immediately be a supreme, all-knowledgeable character after a simple few days of entering the realm. Also, though it is YOU who has the ultimate choice in what your characters do, please do not make them the ultimate evil without a) proper cause and b) consulting with the moderators. If six characters all decide on doing one similar thing, that wouldn’t be very fun now, would it?
6) Respect the Non-Player Characters, played by the moderators. These do not count towards the moderators character count, and they may still have their designated maximum of three characters to create. NPCs, however, exist to continue moving the story along, whatever it turns out to be. Lucifer and Metatron are NPCs that you cannot kill. This is because of their potential plot value, and the fact that they're there to referee the characters and stop them from killing each other within the story. In other words, if you attempt to kill them, you may end up with a nasty surprise – IF they’re the kind of character who wouldn’t let you off the hook.
7) For the sake of keeping things interesting for all players and characters, things shouldn't focus on one character alone. People are encouraged to have different characters interacting with each other in different ways so that everyone has a part to play and a way to participate. If I see that someone is monopolizing everyone's time and harrassing people if they don't focus on them alone, I will inquire as to what is going on.
8) YOU MAY NOT IGNORE CHARACTERS. Seriously, i've seen this problem a lot in RPGs. If you don't like someone outside of the RPG, DO NOT bleed it into the RPG. The game is about having fun with your CHARACTERS. You are not playing yourself - so don't ignore someone's character entirely just because you don't like the character. It's immature and ridiculous.
9) You may have up to three characters. Your characters can be anyone from any realm - be it a book, a movie, a tv show, an anime or a video game, you get the point. If you choose a godlike character for any reason, you must tone the character's abilities way, way down. If you wouldn't enjoy doing that to a godlike character? Don't play one.
You are only allowed to have, at most, two original characters. It will, however, be very hard to get more than one original character accepted. You are allowed to choose not to have any original characters as well and have three characters. You do not have to play the maximum number of characters.
So, you can have any combination of original and not original characters, but the minimum is two. The exception is only if you have proved yourself time and again of capable, interesting OCs that interact well within CU. For a third to be approved, you would literally have to amaze the moderator with your character concept - while at the same time she is going to be strict about it. However, again - in general, there will only be two originals per person allowed maximum, and it will be extremely hard to get more than one accepted due to the fact that this is intended to be a MULTIVERSE roleplay game, not an original characters only game.
10) If your character is male, unless they are cursed or have a Malfunction Day befall them, they cannot become pregnant. I'm not sure why someone would want to get pregnant in a game like this, but if your character is male? He doesn't have the parts for it. It is impossible. Thus, while Chaos Unraveled accepts heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, and whatever kind of behavior, Chaos Unraveled asks that you remember that your character cannot somehow be able to bear children and have male organs. Unless the story they come from specifically gives them that ability. If you want to roleplay a guy getting pregnant at random you might want to look elsewhere.
On Writing in General
11) The community will be using a post and comment system of roleplaying on the community page. One character begins a scene and other characters may reply and interact. Please make your posts more than a sentence or two long. Go into detail on what your character is doing, thinking, whatever. You can have short posts, but having multiple one-sentence posts frustrate other players and are difficult to interact with. You will receive warnings. 12) When it comes to the lj posts on each character's individual journals, their entries can be as short as desired, or as long as they want. As they're the journal entries, they must be done in first person (unless the character talks in third person or something), while the community RP threads must be in third person.
13) Spelling counts when you post – keep this in mind. If you dedcude ta tlk liek this (if you decide to talk like this), I will be forced to kick you out of this particular rpg after three warnings. You don’t have to be perfect, spelling mistakes happen. All I ask is that you do not speak like this: I r not total n00b. I don't expect perfection, nor am I grading you!
14) Do not control other characters, either NPC or another player character, without that character’s specific agreement. If a player character you decide to “take control of” for a post or two informs me that it was done without their permission, you will get a warning. If you continue to do so, you will eventually be kicked out of the roleplay. If I hear no complaints however, I will assume that players have consented.
As an example:
Mariabelle’s player character writing upon meeting Chronos:
Chronos was shocked at meeting Mariabelle so suddenly. His jaw was open slightly.
That’s not very fun for the person writing Chronos, as it makes him lose the option of reacting to what’s going on himself.
15) No character may be an expert on every competition or task that comes up and areas of experience they would not have had in their own storyline unless given express permission by the moderator. The same for a player character unless given permission by the controller of that character. For example, Jim may not know everything about Tony if he's never met Tony before in his life.
16) You may not kill each other's characters without reasoning. While it is possible for characters to die, it is extremely difficult as the entire point was for God and Satan to have an entertaining contest to see who wins. Simply having everyone kill each other wouldn't be as amusing as this. If, for whatever unlikely reason (and with the OK of a player), a character dies, then the player may submit a new character to play from then on.
17) Relationships of any type is tolerated. Non-canon pairings are supported as well. However, if a player does not want to write a relationship between your character and his or hers, please respect that.
18) Also, as I heard this is sometimes requested of games: This RP allows R rated content but not NC-17 content. Anything smutty that you and another character wish to write, however, must be written and shared only with an IJ cut of warning, for example: SMUT ALERT, CLEAR OUT. This way, people who don't want to read it, don't have to. CU currently has a 'smut' tag, and the mod expects this to be used in these cases.
19) Your character cannot be in two places at once, unless your character is of some very, very unique nature involving two bodies or something. While your character may be posting in multiple threads, they cannot be taking place at the same time.
20) Please be aware that OOC knowledge does not match IC knowledge. You will undoubtedly know more about what's going on than your characters do. Keep track of that.
How to Post in a Community Thread
21) When you want to start a scene of your own, it's important that you follow the WHO, WHERE, WHEN, RATING, WARNINGS, SUMMARY method in the beginning of the post before having an lj-cut to the actual paragraph(s) of a thread starter. An example: WHO: Lezard and Lenneth
WHERE: A large lake
WHEN: April 11th in the evening
RATING: PG
WARNINGS: None, except Lezard being Lezard
SUMMARY: Lezard bothers Lenneth as she tries to have a moment of peace by a lake.
After that, it would be followed by an lj-cut to the actual paragraph(s) of a thread starter.
Also, don't forget - if you want to mark the thread as open to other people joining in, put [Open!] beside the list of names currently in the thread.
22) When there's more than two characters in a thread, try to keep a rough organization to the thread. There will not be a tag system employed due to how it can involuntarily shut out other characters in the thread. In general, try to make it so that the comments cycle in a rough order, 1st person 1st, 2nd, 3rd, repeat 1st, 2nd, 3rd, repeat. Etc. However, feel free to break this on occasion when people feel that a certain character needs to respond next. Rough order, but not so strict that things can't flow. If you're confused, just ask the people you're RPing with!
23) Be careful about threads! To make sure no one gets overwhelmed, you can only have two threads going on for a character at a time at maximum. Also, if you want a thread to end or think it's dying down, talk to the other player about it! There should be an eventual end to threads, don't just have them die without communication. You can always have another thread involving more interaction later.
How to Post in a Character Journal
24) You post as you would in any online journal, except as the character would. Should you wish to post heavy, detailed, smut-style thoughts about another character, LJ-CUT this with a warning. No one who doesn't want to read about it should need to. 25) ALL entries for your character must be public. If you want it to be a "private" post, LJ-CUT the entire entry with "Private" as the title of the cut. If your character wants to have a "secret" journal entry to share only with a select number of people, use an LJ-CUT and for its title say "PRIVATE TO [Whoever]"
For example, if Lezard wanted only Lenneth to be able to read a certain entry, he would use the lj-cut title of "Private to Lenneth."
General Conduct
26) Respect other players time constraints. Having a life is fully encouraged, and this game is meant to be fun, not stressful! If a person is having a busier week, don't start whining about how they're ignoring your characters. 27) Don't harrass players into writing things they're not comfortable with. If they're okay with having a situation happen, but not comfortable with fully writing it out, simply post journal reactions to the event or whatever. If they're not, then don't! Players should feel comfortable to write what they want, experiment with what they want, but they also should not feel that they have to write material they don't desire to. Another example would be not wanting to immediately pair up one of their characters with yours - attraction is fine, but if a player doesn't feel that their character would ICly like yours at the point you want them to, then let it go! The story may eventually change it, or it simply won't happen.
28) Passive aggressive or general pain in the assery about players, personal attacks on them, etc. are not welcome. Problems may happen, but try to work them out with the players or talk to the mod about things IF you need a mediator (I have faith in people's abilities to solve things on their own, but i'll also extend a hand if you feel it's necessary), but actually being cruel to people can and will probably get you kicked permanently from the game. Again, this is only a game, and meant to be fun - not a way for anyone to vent their frustrations on people.
However, if there's a problem, even if you're dealing with it and whatnot on your own, don't be afraid to drop the mod a line. I like to know what's going on so I can try to make sure everything's working, but I won't jump in and start smacking heads together unless it's necessary, I promise. <3
29) This game is, again, meant to be fun. People of all writing abilities are welcome as long as they can write clearly and understandably AND follow the rules. Mistakes in typing can happen, sometimes even just through being overly eager to write a character's response! I don't expect everyone to excel and be literary geniuses, and harrassing or ignoring characters or players for such reasons is considered, quite obviously, harrassment and unnecessary.
30) If you're ever confused about something, ask around! Keep the communication lines open with other players and feel free to discuss and plot things together, as well as turn to each other when confused about something. Someone'll be able to help you out! Don't be embarrassed, it's quite possible that what you want to ask was on someone else's mind already.
Everything Else
31) If at any point life seems to be troublesome and you need some time away from the game or you just plain won't be available for a long period of time, do your best to clear up the RP threads you're in (or at least your involvement in them), and then alert the moderator that you need to leave the game temporarily. Your character(s) will be held for a specified period of time, during which there will be a plot excuse for why your character(s) are out of play for the time being. If you need to or just want to leave the game eventually, PLEASE, don't be afraid to talk to the moderator about it! Let us know, and that way we can take care of things so that everything works out as best it can. Also, if at some point you get rid of a character and want to try another because of a loss of interest, just talk to the moderator about it. Things might be able to be worked out.
If you have questions after reading this section carefully, please feel free to make a thread on this page. OR, if you feel intimidated at the thought of others being able to read your questions, email your questions to me through the aforementioned email address.
Eventually, there will probably be a FAQ if people have questions that warrant in-depth explanations.
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