Post by Sasori on Jan 4, 2016 5:49:01 GMT
General Rules:
1. Be kind to other members. Even if you can't tolerate them at all, you don't need to say anything. If you can't say anything nice don't say it at all. Be do not bully here on FOTH
2. No swearing without censoring. You don't know how another member may feel about it, and there are lots of children on the site who may not be allowed to see swearing.
3. No spamming. It's annoying, pointless, and only wastes topic space. If you need to talk to a member or need them to post in a topic please pm them and they should get back to you when they have time.
4. No double posting in roleplaying topics. If you have something to say, it can be said in one post. You can always go back and edit it before another member posts. Double posts are now allowed in off-topic boards and announcements. As said before please pm a member and they will get back to you when they can. If they don't get to you right away they might be busy.
5. Don't give out your or another person's personal information. First names are fine, but this is just common internet safety.
6. Don't give out your or another person's password. This is to protect your account from being hacked, and again, it's just common internet safety.
7. Only have one account. One is all you need and why would you ever need another? If your account was deleted awhile ago out of in-activeness, feel free to come back. Be honest about if you had an account here before and who you were, though! Double accounts will be deleted and the original member put on a three day ban.
8. Only role-play as your approved cats. No extra characters outside the ones you've made creations for, unless they are being controlled as part of a prophecy, as dictated by an Administrator.
9. Don't join just to join. If you join, please participate in the site and have fun! Unused accounts get deleted. And you will not be allowed back on if you continue with an account you will not use.
10. Do not attempt to circumvent the rules. Don't try to find or create loopholes, because it doesn't work that way. If you're knowingly breaking a rule, you're breaking a rule, no matter the technicalities. Such as making a cat go missing just to make another cat and then bringing the missing cat back later will not be allowed.
Roleplay Rules:
Cat Creation Rules:
Cat Creation Template:
Cat Name: The name of your cat. Note: certain prefixes are disallowed, such as the Clan prefixes, Star-, and things cats would not know about like, say, twoleg things.
Tom or she-cat: Your cat's gender.
Clan: What Clan is your cat?
Origins: Is your cat NPC-born, or born from existing characters?
Rank*: The rank your cat begins as. *All cats will begin as kits unless an admin approves of a cat starting as apprentice or beyond.
Personality: Your cat's personality.
Skills*: Your cat's skills. *Only applicable if your cat begins as an apprentice or beyond.
Appearance: Please leave a photo here or describe your cat.
Parents*: *If applicable, add your cat's parents here.
-Father:
-Mother:
Siblings*: *Add littermates here, if your cat has any.
Notes: When creating your cat, the title should be "blank of blank" or "name | clan | gender" or anything that involves your cat's name and is easy for staff to readily look at. Example (not canon to this site, though) "Eaglestar of EagleClan" or "Eaglestar | EagleClan | Male"
1. Be kind to other members. Even if you can't tolerate them at all, you don't need to say anything. If you can't say anything nice don't say it at all. Be do not bully here on FOTH
2. No swearing without censoring. You don't know how another member may feel about it, and there are lots of children on the site who may not be allowed to see swearing.
3. No spamming. It's annoying, pointless, and only wastes topic space. If you need to talk to a member or need them to post in a topic please pm them and they should get back to you when they have time.
4. No double posting in roleplaying topics. If you have something to say, it can be said in one post. You can always go back and edit it before another member posts. Double posts are now allowed in off-topic boards and announcements. As said before please pm a member and they will get back to you when they can. If they don't get to you right away they might be busy.
5. Don't give out your or another person's personal information. First names are fine, but this is just common internet safety.
6. Don't give out your or another person's password. This is to protect your account from being hacked, and again, it's just common internet safety.
7. Only have one account. One is all you need and why would you ever need another? If your account was deleted awhile ago out of in-activeness, feel free to come back. Be honest about if you had an account here before and who you were, though! Double accounts will be deleted and the original member put on a three day ban.
8. Only role-play as your approved cats. No extra characters outside the ones you've made creations for, unless they are being controlled as part of a prophecy, as dictated by an Administrator.
9. Don't join just to join. If you join, please participate in the site and have fun! Unused accounts get deleted. And you will not be allowed back on if you continue with an account you will not use.
10. Do not attempt to circumvent the rules. Don't try to find or create loopholes, because it doesn't work that way. If you're knowingly breaking a rule, you're breaking a rule, no matter the technicalities. Such as making a cat go missing just to make another cat and then bringing the missing cat back later will not be allowed.
Roleplay Rules:
- Topics going at the SAME TIME do not relate to each other.
- No paradoxing. Only once a topic is finished does a cat have a memory of that topic in new topics. But only ones created after the first was finished. It may sound confusing, but topics shouldn't last all that long.
If a member was, for example, a kit when posting in a topic but had their ceremony and is now an apprentice, they are still a kit in that topic, NOT an apprentice. They need to finish that topic how they started it-as a kit. - Please don't post in old topics. Check the date on the latest post if you are unsure if it's recent. After about a month, it's considered an old topic.
- Don't control another member's cat in topics.
- If they're not posting, wait. Give them time, you don't know how their life works. For all you know, they only get two hours of time a day to go on, or they're on vacation, or they had an urgent matter to attend to, or they forgot to log off, etc., etc.
- Give members a chance to post. If there are more than two members involved in a topic, give everyone a chance to say something, to get a word in edge-wise, ya' know? You never know when someone may have a really good reply.
- Go with the flow of the topic. Whoever started it had something in mind when they made it, so don't just have a fox come out of nowhere to attack you, or interrupt a member when they're addressing another cat. It's rude and makes the topic-starter feel bad.
- Maybe most important of all, ACT YOUR RANK. If you're a kit, act like a kit. You don't know anything! You've barely even been around! If you're an apprentice, act like an apprentice. You know some things at first, sure, but that's only what you were able to gather from living for six moons inside your camp. You need to LEARN what ShadowClan smells like. You need to LEARN what death berries are. You need to LEARN the proper hunting position. You need to LEARN what the Thunderpath is. Please don't act like you know everything just so you can get your warrior name-it doesn't work like that, it'll just take longer. When you're a warrior, I'd assume you know a lot by now, but if you haven't seen something in a topic, you don't know it.
- Role-play in third person. Because you aren't actually the cat, they're just your character. Ex: (Not what to do) I walked through the bushes and pounced on the mouse. Ex: (To do) Doveheart walked through the bushes and pounced on the mouse.
- All role-playing topics are in past-tense. Like the actual Warriors books. Ex: (Not what to do) Doveheart walks down the Thunderpath, and she sees the intruders a couple of fox lengths away. Ex: (To do) Doveheart walked down the Thunderpath, and she saw the intruders a couple of fox lengths away.
- Please try to write with good grammar and spelling. It's sometimes hard for others to read someones post if it doesn't have punctuation or all the words have typos. Ex: (Bad) dvoehart rann threw the bushese ot the noyse whats going on she mewed.
Ex: (Good) Doveheart ran through the bushes to the noise. "What's going on?!" She mewed. - You may have up to four characters. Preferably, each character should be in a different Clan, but they don't have to be.
- You may have one elder that is not counted as one of your five characters. They must have reached the rank of Senior Warrior to be eligible for retirement and to be allowed to take up position in this slot. They will also not be allowed to have kits, regardless of gender.
- You may not make any prophecies without an administrator's permission.
- Absolutely no Godmodding. This is when one plays a character that can never be destroyed, harmed, is avoiding impossible amounts of damage, etc. The character, however, can hurt and/or kill the other characters without giving the other characters a chance. It is also when your cat knows knows information that they shouldn't. Do not be a Godmodder.
- StarClan reveals warnings and prophecies to leaders and medicine cats, though mostly medicine cats. Prophecies may be shown to cats of lower rank with the permission of an administrator.
- All cats hoping to move/join a clan must ask the leader of that clan for permission before joining, regardless of age. Even if a warrior hopes to adopt a Rogue/Loner/Kittypet kit, they must have the permission of a Clan leader. Whether this is RPed or dealt with through PMs is up to you.
- Absolutely no mating scenes. This includes implying that your cats mated and force-mating. No mating whatsoever.
- All cats must wait until they are warriors to have kits.
- There are no Missing Cats allowed. If you want to make a new cat and decide to have a cat go "missing", they are automatically considered dead from now on. They are not allowed to ever return, or be RPed in any capacity.
- All kits with a forbidden heritage must have parents that exist on WCC. We do not allow NPC Parents with complex backstories such as being a former deputy, being in a cross-clan relationship or having run away from the clan. If you wish for parents with complex backstories, you must arrange for this with a fellow RPer.
Cat Creation Rules:
- All of the aforementioned rules apply to cat creation.
- Sacred prefixes (the Clan prefixes) + Moon-, Star-, non-native animals, and twoleg things are disallowed. And NO Twistedsoul!
- Cats older than kits MUST be approved by all staff members.
- All kits or cats with NPC parents are pure.
Cat Creation Template:
Cat Name: The name of your cat. Note: certain prefixes are disallowed, such as the Clan prefixes, Star-, and things cats would not know about like, say, twoleg things.
Tom or she-cat: Your cat's gender.
Clan: What Clan is your cat?
Origins: Is your cat NPC-born, or born from existing characters?
Rank*: The rank your cat begins as. *All cats will begin as kits unless an admin approves of a cat starting as apprentice or beyond.
Personality: Your cat's personality.
Skills*: Your cat's skills. *Only applicable if your cat begins as an apprentice or beyond.
Appearance: Please leave a photo here or describe your cat.
Parents*: *If applicable, add your cat's parents here.
-Father:
-Mother:
Siblings*: *Add littermates here, if your cat has any.
Notes: When creating your cat, the title should be "blank of blank" or "name | clan | gender" or anything that involves your cat's name and is easy for staff to readily look at. Example (not canon to this site, though) "Eaglestar of EagleClan" or "Eaglestar | EagleClan | Male"