SIM RULES

GENERAL RULES

• All who enter the sim must be age verified adults and also play a character who is NO LESS than 18 years old. Child avatars, avatars under 5 feet 6 inches tall, and NON GOREAN characters will not be accepted.
   

• The zCS meter must be worn at all times. Do not reset your meter on this sim for ANY reason  other than by the approval of an Admin or Moderator. Sparring must be done in arena mode. If you step away from  your computer at any time, your meter MUST be set to away mode and your character must be parked out of any role play areas.
   

• As a roleplay intensive sim, once you step off the docks, you have entered the roleplay area and will act accordingly which includes but is not limited to:

  • Keeping all Out of Character comments out of Local Chat

  • Engaging in roleplay scenes AFTER becoming aware of the scenario taking place

  • Not using IM's or other Out of Character methods to badger other players

  • Conducting yourself in a Gorean fashion and accepting consequences of your actions

  • Wearing proper Gorean attire at ALL TIMES
     

• The use of ALTS is NOT allowed here in Skjern for the Players already in Sim or Visitors. This -is not- a 'Don't ask Don't Tell' sim which means that the use of an ALT must be disclosed and approved. Violators will be dealt with accordingly and may lose their privileges to roleplay here on any character.
   

• The use of your roleplay dice is encouraged in regards to conflicts or difficult situations. This keeps things 'fair and interesting. However, we will not force you to use roleplay dice.
   

• Once more, Keep away from getting into other Players IMs for any conflict or arguments. Reach for  the Admins to resolve any conflict. Proving a point in argument wouldn't lead to any issues. 

• Mixing IC and OOC : we have several ooc communication tools as Group chat in SL and Discord. These tools are only for OOC chat, conversation, jokes, and to enjoy each other's company. PLEASE DON'T talk about any RP, players, or mention any of your personal feeling about any RP going in the sim. If you have any issues of concern or you see something now right, you can always talk to one of the admins. 

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IN-CHARACTER RULES

• The laws and traditions of our land support the idea that Free Woman of the hold have value and thus must be accorded certain protections. All women not of the hold, who arrive without escort (NPC or Real), however, enter the hold at their own risk and are not held under the protection of the hold without swearing fealty to the Hold Jarl. Therefore, you enter at your own risk as you can be captured, whipped, ransomed, enslaved or kept.
   

• A man may not simply claim a woman as his free companion. A man must approach the woman's father, male kin or the Hold Jarl and discuss the terms of a bride price and be granted permission to have the woman in companionship.
   

• Kidnapping - NPC's may be used to determine evidence of a kidnapping that takes place in order to obtain IC information. When the kidnapper sails with the person in question they have to list in a post saying to the captain of the boat the persons name and where they are sailing too and send a copy of it to an admin on sim.
   

• Deaths - 24 hours (Suicide 7 days but are discouraged) after 30 minutes roleplay. Death requires a notecard be given to one of the owners/mods, who must approve it.

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ROLEPLAY ETTITQUTE AND STANDARDS

Skjern is a role play intensive sim which means that role play takes precedence over raiding and metered combat. At Skjern, creative, fun and interactive story lines between the players as well as between the sims, is encouraged. Because role play is the top priority here, there are a few guidelines to follow.

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PLAY FAIR

Role play is consensual interaction between your character and another persons character. Every physical interaction must be posted as an ATTEMPT towards the other player. This gives the other player the flexibility and change to either accept or deflect the action that your character is ATTEMPTING to do to them

    
RESPECT THE PLAYERS
Not all people who break the rules and conduct of role play are bad role players but rather, inexperienced role players. Most people who commit any type of breach in role playing rules and etiquette are simply inexperienced role players. If you are a serious role player, it is sometimes difficult to overlook the inexperienced form of other role players. In order to do so, keep the following rules in mind.
        

1. Do not overreact in any manner.
        Don't overreact and respond with poor conduct, IC or OOC. 
        Do not message the player and tell them off and do not intentionally tarnish their character or role play as some form of revenge. 
        Keep cool and collected and politely message them to explain the error they've made.
            
        2. Respect the Author and the Player.
        There is nothing worse that creating bad blood between players due to inexperienced role players or even a deliberate slight. The moment you lose sight of the fact that each character is driven by an actual human being is the moment that things get out of hand.
            
        3. Lead by Example.
        We ALL make mistakes. We ALL want to develop our stories and our characters. Make it a general rule to show other role players how things are done by doing them yourself. Be patient, try to politely correct their errors and be forgiving of mistakes.
        Even as a seasoned role player, mistakes can still happen.
            
        4. Celebrate the difference between IC and OOC
        Even though it is difficult at times, you MUST keep your IC and OOC feelings completely separate from your role play. Do not get mad at something valid going on in role play and then take those feelings OOCly and use them to cause drama.

            
ROLE PLAY ETIQUETTE
    Everyone has their own style of role play, be they paragraph role players or one line role players. Since we are all     different in our styles but we all desire to be a part of the story, take into consideration the following:
        
    1. Posting Order:
    Just because it takes you five seconds as opposed to the other person who takes 5
    minutes, does not mean that you get impatient and skip their 'turn' to react and respond to the role play. Be patient and take turns using the appropriate posting order.
    
    2. JOIN a Scene
    Join into a scene that you have walked in on by waiting until everyone involved has made ONE post and then post     into the scene accordingly. Do not walk in and post before anything has been typed and assume you have a clue       what has been transpiring. 
    It is considered bad form to walk into a group of people who are active role playing and say 'Tal everyone' or something to that affect when you don't even know what you have walked in to.
    
    3, Don't Assume
    If you walk up to someone and greet and they don't immediately respond, do not ASSUME that they are deliberately ignoring you. Some people take longer than others to type out their response. Don't approach someone, fire off two words in your post, then walk off.
    If you're going to engage someone in roleplay, even if it's as simple as greeting one another, you must give them ample time to respond and engage. If you don't have the time to be considerate to your fellow role players, then don't engage them.
    
    4. Set Your Meter
If you are available for role play, be certain you set your meter to RP or COMBAT mode so that others are aware you are approachable for role play. If you are going to go AFK, move AWAY from active role play areas and set your meter to AFK.
   
   5. Role Play Areas
Do not teleport people in and do not teleport out of an active role play area. Do not use teleporting as a way to avoid being seen in the village or being questioned. This interrupts the flow of roleplay and the development of stories.
    
    6. Fade to Black (FTB)
There are certain incidents and scenes that some people are not comfortable role
playing out and we can not force them to go through the details of them such as rape, torture, or any other difficult situation. These characters have the right to Fade to Black which means not role playing out the scene with the details but STILL having to acknowledge that the incident DID happen to their characters.
        
        
THE FOLLOWING ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT ALLOWED
    
POWERGAMING
Performing impossible actions and scenarios in order to maximize the positive outcome for your character without the consideration to story telling, role play, or negative affects it may have on other players and their stories is called POWERGAMING. 
    
METAGAMING
The use of information that you have only obtained through OOC means rather than through IC character development and methods is called METAGAMING. This includes but is not limited to tag reading, knowing a characters name without IC introduction, or using OOC information provided in a players 'PICKS' tab in their profiles.
    
GODMODDING
Taking control of another persons character by dictating their reactions and actions is called GODMODDING.
    
NEGATIVE THOUGHT EMOTES
A thought that deliberately causes insult to another player or character which is not physically voiced by your character and therefore, can not be responded to. DO NOT
use thought emotes for the sake of insulting someone and avoiding the consequences.
The other player has the right to take your negative thoughts and bring them out into
the open air of role play so that you must face your actions. If it is something you are not willing to say verbally for everyone in the scene to hear, then it is something you should not be thinking either.
Last BUT not least:
There are RP moderators on sim, ones that will always be willing to resolve a conflict you might face.
Nonetheless we encourage you to find a solution ICly before contacting a moderator. As a fact, once a moderator it's called by the same player all the time, then the player failed following the basic rules of the RP.