[General Conduct]

Respect
This is very, very simple. Treat fellow RP'ers as you would have them treat you. Do not abuse other members of the board in any way on Mere Mortals. If you do have an issue with a board member, it would be best to bring it to the attention of the board administrator. Do not have off-board scuffles with members of the board and then bring it to the board, that is subsequently unacceptable.

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[The Application Process]

1) Please register for an account with your planned character's codename. For each new character that you are applying for, please register a new account. If your character does not have a codename, you may use their first and last name for your account ID.

2) Please note that simply registering with a codename/name does not reserve the character for you. In order for you to place a reservation, if you intend to make the application at a later point, you must specifically contact the admin to do so. Your reservation will be saved for one week, but you should make the application as soon as possible.

3) You must apply for your character in the first week after making your account. All accounts that are not applied for will be deleted after one week.

4) To apply for a character, simply post a complete-to-specifications bio in the Applications forum and wait for it to be approved. You will know that is approved when it is moved to the Cerebro files. Until that point, you are not allowed to post with that character unless you have special permission from the board administrator(s).

5) You may apply for one to two character at a time, however, at this time a maximum of five characters per RPer is in effect. Additionally, if you have five characters, all five cannot be of the same affiliation. Exceptions only with explicit Administrator permission.

6) At least every other character applied for must be a Canon Marvel. In other words, if you end up with a full five characters, you may have no less than two Marvels. If you have two characters, you would have one of each.

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[Avatars & Signatures]

1) Avatars are mandatory, signatures optional. If you do not know how to or wish to make one yourself, post a request in the General boards and someone may help you out. Alternatively, request help from Avalanche with a PM.

2) Avatars and signatures must be celebrities portraying the characters as play-bys. All avatars must be 150X150(pixels) in size and of acceptable content (no explicit language, gore, sexual content, etc.). Additionally they must not be animated.

3)Signatures must be no larger than 500X200 (widthXheight in pixels) and the same rules for avatars applies to signatures.

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[Posting]

1) Once accepted, make sure you are posting at least once every other day. If you are going to be gone for more than two days, please let a moderator/ administrator know or post it in the Activity & Vacation forum where we will see it.

2) We are an intermediate/advanced board. IC posts should be a reasonable length; the general rule is at least three paragraphs, one paragraph consisting of six sentences.

3) When posting IC, please do not change the default text. Colors are fine as long as the text is easily legible.

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[In Character Rules]

1) Do not "God-mode" or power-play. This simply means that you do not kill, seriously harm, or act for another player's character without their explicit permission. Everyone should know what this means.

2) Keep swearing and sexuality tasteful. We're all capable of handling a little sexuality and profanity. Just make sure that is true to the character and isn't questionably pornographic.

3) Anything that will drastically alter the plot line of this board or send it in a distinct direction should be run by an administrator.

4) You may not use one character in more than two threads at one time without administrator permission. I'm sure you can imagine how confusing it can be to have one character in ten different places at once. Try to keep some continuity, for records' sake.
Temporarily the thread count limit has been raised to three to promote more activity on the board.

5) If you want to keep a thread closed, label it so. If it is open, it is courteous to label it so as well, but not required. If a thread is not labeled (closed) or clearly marked in some way, then please treat with courtesy any other member who might try to jump in. However, please note that if an open thread has already been replied to, it is courteous to ask about joining if you should wish to do so.

6) Again, please make sure that your posts are a reasonable length. We are not sticklers for this, but no one paragraph posts absolutely and as a general rule they should hit around three or higher. A paragraph should be at least six sentences long.

7) Have fun! And yes, that really is a rule here.


Questions?
PM Avalanche or Mel for any questions, comments and etc.