Rules

O1. Respect, yo’.

I’m not asking you to get on your knees and pledge your allegiance to anyone, all I’m asking for is something that isn’t constant OOC fighting. Your characters will have beef with other characters, that much I can guarantee, and there will be drama. Just try not to make it such a big deal that it consumes the entire plot and drags everyone into the mess. Yeah? Yeah, that’s cool.

 

O2. Get real.

This is a post-apocalyptic universe, as stated in the beginning. This is a zombie-infested world where governments have collapsed and anarchies have risen up. This is not some fantasy high-school book where you get to breathe fire and have superhuman strength. Unfortunately, this world is not your oyster- it’s a feeding ground for zombies. There will be a set lore for this universe, and I don’t want alien-hybrid-zeds (or anything similar)  being pulled out of anyone’s ass. I have seen it happen before and what happens next is not pretty. Don’t be a damn Mary-Sue or Gary-Stu who’s somehow good at everything, either. Don’t godmod your way out of shit. Be an actual damn person and take a few falls every now and then.

tl;dr- This is a realistic setting and your characters are expected to be realistic as well.

 

O3. You only live once (?)

Each of your characters has one life, and one life only. If you get bit-and-or-die in any fashion, then that character is out of the game. It makes sense that you’re going to want to live a little. Fight. Make relationships. Fall in love. Fall out of love, heck, whatever makes it interesting. Your characters are central to moving the plot forward, so do your best not to make it stagnant. (By the way, self-roleplay is acceptable as long as you’re not controlling anyone else’s characters). On that note, you can have up to three disposable characters as you like at one time, preferably all unrelated, but that’s up to you.

 

O4. Follow the system.

And by system I mean the general “keep OOC apart from IC” thing along with a few other general rules. Denote your OOC talk with either strikethroughs ([s]) or parentheses/brackets, and don’t metagame. What you know and what your character knows is entirely separate.

On that note, try to keep in the same area as everyone else. It’s a little difficult to roleplay with two separate groups, so preferably keep together. Of course, shit will hit the fan, so I can’t prevent anything from happening, but it’s just a small tip.

 

O5. Go wild and have fun. Or not. Your survival rate’s pretty low, to be honest.

Also, did I say literacy? Because literacy’s important. Capitalization, punctuation, all that good stuff.