This Forum's Purpose First and Foremost: "Is to provide a safe and positive environment for the young and old alike to participate in a play-by-post roleplaying game, to enjoy a feeling of community and an outlet for creativity. We also have a secondary focus as a writing community to encourage each other to greater heights of writing ability and storytelling."

Play-by-Post: A play-by-post game an online text-based role-playing game in which players (also called roleplayers, or writers) interact with each other and a predefined environment via text. It is a subset of the online role-playing community which caters to both gamers and creative writers. PbP games may be based on other role-playing games, non-game fiction including books, television and movies, or original settings. This activity is closely related to both interactive fiction and collaborative writing.

Responsibility of Staff
"It is our responsibility as the Staff not to abuse our power and to remember that running this forum doesn't mean we are the overlords of all we see, but the guardians and caretakers. As Staff it's our responsibility to supply a game you'll enjoy and find interesting, to continuously struggle to improve format, features, and quality of product. These are not responsibilities we take lightly, we are always thinking about how to best improve things here for the members. We as the Staff are also responsible for our own actions and we promise to not react emotionally to allow our egos to control us, or to ever for any reason allow ourselves to become bullies and trolls on this forum. We will not target members, we will not antagonize or troll, we will certainly not allow ourselves to react to antagonistic messages or trolling, we always attempt to act with the utmost level of maturity and understanding, we will always do our best to mediate with wisdom and close arguments in non-destructive way to any party involved. It is our responsibility as Staff to make this a safe haven for players both young and old to come together and work together creatively to make new and wonderful stories. WE ARE NOT DICTATORS IN ANY WAY WE ARE CARETAKERS, OR GLORIFIED GARDENERS THAT IS IT!!!!"

Responsibility of Members
It is your responsibility as the Members not to abuse your position either, not to think that just because the Staff here understands it's responsibilities and position and wishes to be understanding and helpful to it's members doesn't mean that you get everything you want all the time. When you say 'jump' we won't always be saying 'how high', and if it feels that 'jump' is all we're hearing from you we'll probably start losing patience after a while, especially if you're not intending to do any 'jumping' yourself. (In this case 'jump' has become a metaphor for work.) You as the Members are responsible for participating in your community, promoting fellow members to be creative and to understand that this is meant to be a positive, friendly, and family environment. Minors are allowed to join the forum and participate in games, so understand that certain adult themes aren't welcome here. You are not allowed to be antagonistic, troll, or flame your fellow members, you really shouldn't be doing that with staff either, but we have a higher level of maturity expected of us and are less likely to react in a negative way. Your fellow members though may not have that expectation and that sort of behavior usually generates the same behavior back, then it's not just one member, but two that are going at it. (So if you really need to lash out at someone, Yes here we prefer you do that lashing out at the moderators and staff so we can help you cool down before you do something stupid. We're here to be helpful in a wise and mature role, so please if you need a punching bag with an ear there here.)

Denial of Ownership
This Forum is technically owned by Storyteller, but the site itself is proboards which of course Storyteller has no ownership of at all. Still we are stating here both as Storyteller and the rest of Staff that this forum will never be treated as the legitimate property of Storyteller, the way I see it this Forum is owned by all who participate in it. I will always remember this going forward and whatever this forum may become or grow into, whatever we turn our games into. As I see it every acting member of this forum owns a share of whatever lies in the future.

That is some basic information for you, you could easily go forward and create your account, log-on and post without knowing much more.

Terms of Use

The above terms of use are subject to update and change for as long as they are up, this isn't so we can just be wily and change this on you at any given time. We'll always announce an upcoming update or change to the terms of use the best we can and discuss thoroughly with members the subject of changes and updates before the official update and change. When these terms are updated and/or changed in anyway we will always send a notice to all members both through email and message and hopefully they will make themselves aware of the update and/or change to the terms. Continued use of this forum after a change and/or update to the terms indicates an understanding and acceptance of the change and/or update to terms.

Use of Forum

When posting try to keep on subject and not to post things that are inconsistent with the threads original subject matter or purpose. Especially when posting in the games, always keep out-of-character posting out of in-character threads. Abuse of fellow members is rarely tolerated, we attempt to mediate conflict the best we can and we always try to come to a peaceful and positive resolution, but if not capable of doing so there is unlikely to be allowances made for anyone who participates in flaming, trolling, baiting, or being antagonistic in anyway. Those who participate in these types of behavior will be given less leniency the higher their status on the forum, and any admin who participates in such behavior will immediately and mercilessly be revoked of their status.

This Forum is owned under the name of Storyteller a.k.a. Matthew Back, yet it will be treated and considered communal property of all members and staff of the Forum. No content from this Forum may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way without the express permission of the Original Posters and the Forum Community.

All content published to this website remains the copyright material of the original author, as per copyright laws.
If the poster is not the original author then normal copyright law must be obeyed.

If the rules are abused it will commonly lead to a restriction of privileges on the forum, unless a peaceful and positive resolution can be accomplished. What constitutes abuse or infringement of the rules is up to the discretion of staff, but it is their responsibility to always work towards the best resolution for all parties. We will not ignore what we feel is abuse or infringement, you have our word though that we will communicate a polite warning and we hope that you will be considerate and not try to purposefully break rules for selfish reasons and will communicate to us if there is a pressing issue for you that instigated the rule abuse or infringement and we hope we might rectify that issue.

If you are in fact intentionally breaking rules just for the hell of it, continue to do so without remorse or intention of working out whatever is causing you to be so troublesome we may be forced to remove your account, if the problem persists we can remove and ban your IP and etc. We hope that it never comes down to this for anyone, but if worse comes to worse, understand that we are the caretakers of this site and will protect the community if we must, even from a malignant member.

Use of Contact Information

We would appreciate it if contact information presented on this site is not used for the purpose of sending people viruses or attempting to spam them, or bots or whatever. Nothing that would abuse the privacy of that individual or the sanctity of their contact information. Anyone who infringes upon this, are permitting us to use their contact information to make certain the authorities and the law are well aware of their hobbies.

We will not however, ever post your information publicly no matter what you do, we will never post your IP address or personal information publicly even if you're account has needed to be removed and your IP Banned we will never make this information public. Be aware that some sites allow this, and that releasing someone's IP information to the public can be incredibly dangerous, be aware what site's might allow if you break their rules. I assure you that your IP Address will never be made public on this site.

Staff does not and never will reserve the right to post to the public your personal information, like IP Addresses or ISP Details.

Staff does not however have control over your own actions. We aren't held responsible for the personal information you share of your own volation on this site, and what is done with that information once you've posted it is beyond our control. Please be intelligent when posting things like your email, and never never share something like your social security number with anyone you don't know online. You really shouldn't put that information out on the net no matter what really.

This forum is a free-web based service, we do not charge to join this forum or ask for money for anything we do on this site. If someone asks for anything along the lines, of 'pay us' then please report them immediately for they are not a legitimate member of staff or they won't be very much longer.

Always be careful when clicking on links that take you off the forum, if you leave the forum we can no longer be held responsible for what you see or what happens to you. Only the pages of the forum are under our jurisdiction, you leave the site and you are no longer bound to these terms and we can't protect you or control what you do or what you see.

Copyright

All things in this forum are free-copyright which means that it's technically the property of the original poster at all times, but the forum community as a whole has some claim to everything posted on these forums. Meaning that although some stuff can be shared among the community most stuff is the property of the original poster. Things like characters can only be used by the original creator of the character without express permission, a game is owned by the game master unless stated otherwise and anything that is already copyrighted by other sources of course is here for the sake of the community and not to redistribute elsewhere or to use in anyway to make money or to be claimed by anyone other than the original authors.

Disclaimer

We the staff will always do our best to maintain a efficient and productive forum that satisfies and pleases it's members, we however are not perfect we disclaim any responsibility to perfection, we won't accomplish it, we can't. We cannot promise you that there won't be errors and sometimes there will be problems with the site, sometimes members will fly off the handle, and sometimes an admin will forget themselves and do something stupid, we all make mistakes. We ask for forgiveness and patience when we fall short. We disclaim any responsibility for third-party sites that you might find following links, we also disclaim responsibility for the members that may decide to break rules by spamming or attempting to send viruses, although we assure you that they will be dealt with. We also disclaim any responsibility to a full-satisfaction guarantee, sometimes people will have problems with how we do things, perhaps they'll want us to be a little harder on other members or other admins, they may want to see a game that we can't provide or they'll want adult content to be available something we don't really provide. I hope that what we provide is good enough for whatever RP itch you need to scratch, but that won't always be the case. We also disclaim now and forever any responsibility to a specific creed or religion or pattern of believes that belittles or promotes prejudice against any other creed, pattern of believes, or especially sexual orientation or minority group. Do not expect this sort of thing to be tolerated and we don't have to now or ever to tolerate it, or even to respect it.

Limitation of Liability

Unfortunately we're broke and we don't try to make money out of this, so please don't sue us.

We can't promise that there won't be viruses, glitches, temporary set-backs, and moments of inane stupidity, we can't guarantee that this site will be here today or tomorrow or the day after, and we certainly can't guarantee that somebody might not go crazy and decide to try to unload a bunch of viruses into the forum or try to spam us like crazy and destroy the sanctity of this forum. We can say that we will always do everything in our power at all times to keep things active and efficient, working and safe and we hope that these things don't happen and they might.

Adult Policy

This forum is intended to be family oriented and minor friendly, for this reason our policy on things of an adult nature is limited to no sexual content. (Romance, kissing, and snuggling are okay, but when the hanky panky starts take it to fade to black, and skip it.) There are Mature themes like violence and sometimes gore, members and staff should try to keep gore somewhat non-descriptive. When a Member is a Minor they should feel free to let staff know so they can watch out for them and make sure they remain safe on the forum.

Due to the rules and terms of service for Proboards this Forum will never intend to include Adult content.

Considering Others
One thing this Forum will pride itself on and will always pride itself on is going to be the acceptance we have for others. Prejudice is not tolerated, bigotry is not tolerated, except for the case of in-character and purely for the sake of plot or story development, there will be no ooc behavior that even sort of smells like bigotry, people are accepted here regardless of sexual orientation or creed, and this forum will remain this way. There will be no flaming or hate-speeches for any reason, understood?

Hosted by Proboards
This forum is being hosted by the lovely free web-service proboards. This information is for their rules and terms of use, and probably isn't a bad read in it's own right.
www.proboards.com/tos
www.proboards.com/community-guidelines
www.proboards.com/developer-guidelines
www.proboards.com/privacy