This game has a split-rating.
EDIT: Note that now ratings apply to chats as well as the game. Don't go posting NSFW material in chat.
Sex stuff is PG-13. That will actually let you get away with a lot, given how most PG-13 movies are. If you're really hankering for NC-17 stuff, take it off comm to your character journal. We request that you cut and warn if you write out smut, even in your character journal, and try not to have boob icons in the first post or something, so someone can look over their character's friendslist from work without boob icons or smutty writing in their face, but that's just a request.
In general, this game is not about the sexins, though, people. Remember where they are and how dangerous their situation is. Plus, Stacy's always watching. Sex itself will be allowed to happen under certain circumstances, and as long as it's fade to black, it can be in the main comm, but please try not to let it be the main focus of the game. We're here to pretend to be superheroes and wizards and ninjas, not to cyber.
Writing NC-17 material with Under-agers. We probably don't even need to say this, but it's good to have it down because we don't know who will come along: since we do allow a few almoooost-legal players into this game, if we find out an older person is writing NC-17 material with another player who's under 18, even in their character journals, we'll boot the older person from the game. If the younger person does it again with someone else, we also boot them too (along with THAT older player). If we find out a younger player is lying about their age, we...boot both players (the older player should know that there's always that risk that the person is lying about their age and take that into account).
That's kind of a duh. This is to maintain a safe and friendly atmosphere for younger RPers, and also, um, because it's, y'know, illegal.
We want younger RPers with skittish parents to be able to look in here and read the game and the rules and understand that their teeny is not gallivanting about with freaky internet perverts, and that they're just hanging with nerds who still pretend to be wizards and stuff (which is dorky, but harmless). And to understand that we're providing a safe atmosphere for said teeny to hang out in and would kick any potential perverts out on their ass (because we would).
P.S. Yes, we allow teenies in. Not really young people, but if you absolutely can't play in a game without writing stuff that's illegal for a 16 or 17-year-old to read, we're not the game for you.
Violence is R The Alien movies were rated R, and that's about the level of violence in this game, and it won't even be consistently that violent. We know some things may push the rating up a little higher sometimes, but just make it sometimes, please. Your fellow players would love to see your amazing powers of description, but they don't really need to see them demonstrated while describing someone's intestines getting ripped out in excruciating detail.
Language is...tricky. Some of these characters drop the F-bomb like crazy canonically. Problem is, some players--including one of your intrepid mods, check in from work when there's dry spells of boredom, and some younger players have parents that might peek over their shoulders wonder what the heck it is they're doing.
Rather than name a specific rating, players are to use warnings, and cuts if the main post has cursing. Whoever popped up the first post, edit in [R for Cussing] somewhere in the subject or the body at the bottom if it gets curse-heavy. That's for just interacty posts in the comm.
For group posts, like a mission, or podpop, or a plot post where there's a large group of people and everyone needs to be able to see the thread, we're going to request that players censor. Yeah, it sucks, but #@%$ing #@$hole still gets the message across and won't ping on anyone's work's computer monitoring software.
We know another option is "Don't RP from work," but even some of the mods pop in sometimes to help out with npcing from work or school computers with monitoring software, and if censoring isn't done in group stuff, they won't really be able to help by doing that anymore.
"Trigger" issues. Suicide, sexual abuse, rape, cutting, etc. We hope we don't see those overdone, but if they do show up, 1) test the waters and make sure what you're planning won't freak out someone who would have to deal with it because of character relationships between your and their characters or something, 2) Cuts and warnings.
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