"I accept you into my pack," said The Alpha. "But here, you are on my lands, and you will follow my rules." ___ If you are a victim or a witness in any of these situations, please report it to an available Administration member. Don't be shy, and don't be afraid. We are here to help you and we have the power to take action, as well as answer any questions you have. The admins are the "police" for this chat server. Do not worry if you mistakenly report something. It is better to be safe than sorry. ___ "But I didn't know!" is not an acceptable excuse on WolfPact. As soon as you have registered, you have agreed to be subject to these rules as well as our Terms of Service. Before you participate in this site, you must read them all the way through. Also bear in mind that you are responsible for whatever happens on your account so keep your password a secret. If someone uses your account and gets banned, this ban will count towards you in the future - no exceptions. Bans can be as short as 12 hours or as long as forever depending on your behavior and counting strikes. We typically go by the 3-strikes rule, but some special people manage to earn permanent bans on their first or second try. ___ As we all know, rules are to help keep everyone safe and happy when anywhere or on any site. Rules must not be taken lightly on any site. Not following rules will result in either temporary or permanent bans. ___ Other Characters They belong to their owners, whether their owner created them or adopted them. Do not play other people's characters. Unless you have been given permission to do so by the owner, playing characters that do not belong to you will result in loss of privileges. The only exceptions are adoptable, which can be played by any member - within reason. Any post that includes an adoptable should only mention that character, not be written from that character's point of view, or have that character carrying on a lengthy conversation. This is what you do with your character. Do not do it with any character that is not yours unless specifically directed to do otherwise by the owner of the character in question, or by us. ___ We also reserve the right to move your character if that character is holding up the RP for everyone else. If the entire tribe is ready to start rearranging the wolves furniture, and your character is frolicking in the bushes with a toothsome wench, it will be moved by us to join the rest of the tribe. We don't want to have to do this, so please don't hold up the RP. If we cut off any RP it may be by doing this, feel free to RP it between those involved and post it as a story. ___ When possible, avoid posts that are one or two sentences long. If you honestly can't think of anything to post, then it is acceptable, but this will not be acceptable on a regular basis. Be creative, describe what your character is thinking or feeling, make mention of that squirrel that just fell off a tree. ___ When making a comment that comes from you rather than your character, please label it so in color OOC posts should be attached to an in-character post, usually at the end of it. Someone else may reply to the OOC portion of your post as well as the IC; however, no thread unless started by one of us should be strictly OOC. In some cases, a single OOC post explaining a leave of absence or something similar is acceptable, but if it becomes a conversation, you will be asked to continue it in private. ___ Roleplay Content Do not start any major RP story lines without permission from us first. It may conflict with a storyline we already have in place. However, do not hesitate to contact us with ideas. This is your home as much as ours; we need your input and ideas to keep it going. If your idea won't work at the moment, chances are it will work at some point later on, or we can incorporate it somehow. This does NOT mean that you need our permission to do anything. This only applies to plot lines that will involve the entire tribe or a significant portion of it. _____ If you have a complaint to lodge against another member, please bring it to our attention and we will deal with it as we see fit. ___ Keeping Player Knowledge Separate From Character Knowledge There may be points in the RP where a secret is revealed and out for everyone to read about. However, if Wolf A told wolf B this secret while they were alone, no one else should know it. If you are unsure about whether your wolf could have overheard, please ask before throwing this piece of information out as a topic of conversation around the dinner table. This also falls into implied secrets. For example - we all know the drill. A guy character hangs out with a girl character, it's assumed by the players (often correctly) that these two will soon embark upon a romantic relationship. However, if they have done nothing in the RP to indicate romantic feelings for each other, the den should not be talking about how these two are madly in love. This requires discretion, and again, if there are any questions don't hesitate to ask them. ___