Roleplaying Rules

This site is a roleplaying site. As such, there are roleplaying standards and procedures that we must follow.

Character: Before you can start roleplaying, you must have an approved character. All applications pending approval may not be used in threads. There is an OOC section in which you can use to test out your character, but you cannot post IC.

When making your character, refrain from giving him any definite advantages. These advantages include immortality (agelessness is fine, but your character must be capable of death), enhanced sense, enhanced strength, and the like. Try making a dimensional character, instead of a flat one. Nobody likes a Gary Sue, after all. Once you have created your character, you can finally post.

Topics (Chronology): When entering a topic, please keep in mind that your character storyline follows a chronological order that is slightly affected by real time. Make sure that you know exactly when each topic happens when creating a story so that you may act accordingly.

Say Topic A was created by you today.
Topic B was created by your friend two days ago.

You enter Topic A to interact with your friend who created Topic B.

The next day, you decide to enter your friend's Topic B. Chronologically, Topic B happens BEFORE Topic A, so all the events that happened and will happen in Topic B will have already happened in Topic A, so you must RP in Topic A with the assumption of what already happened in Topic B.

It sounds a little confusing, but just imagine that the date a topic was create was the day the events in the topic happened. So if you join a topic that was created in an earlier instance, that is in the past and already happened.

Posting: Please try to make legible posts. Do not use acronyms like "lol" or "wtf" in your posts. Use proper written English. Please keep your posting length to a minimum of 100 words (with the exception of topics requiring word counts less than 100).

Refrain from posting in dead topics (no reply within a month) in an attempt to revive them. It is not going to happen. The dead topics will stay dead.

God Modding: God Modding refers to the act of controlling another person's character without their permission. It is forbidden to do so and is frowned upon. God Modding also refers to your character never getting tired, ignoring pain, and anything that makes them seem godlike. They are human (or at least most of them are).

Vague Manipulation: A form of God Modding that refers to somebody using a lack of information to their advantage. Setting a distance against an opponent to be right next to you so you can have a point blank shot? That is vague manipulation. Setting it thirty meters, where both you and your opponent can actually react to things and have a fair fight. That is not vague manipulation.

Making your post extremely vague and hard to understand is vague manipulation. To understand the difference between a vague manipulation post and a regular post, we must understand the intention of a vague post. Here is a comparison of two posts, one that uses Vague Manipulation, the other one being a lazy post with no detail.

Vague:"He stuck his hand out and moved forward."

Lazy: "He punched with his hand."

What is the Vague person doing? What are his intentions? We don't know. It could easily be manipulated to his advantage.

As for the Lazy post, well that guy is just plain lazy and the other post can simply help our poor lazy friend out by saying which hand he punched in, obviously PROBABLY not the one he is holding a giant lamp with, right?

Word Maniplution: A comical form of vague manipulation that involves interpreting a post differently from the original poster's intentions. Although very funny, it is not allowed. To show you what Word Manipulation looks like, we'll have to use John again.

John: John swung his sword towards him to cut his arm off.

Joe: Joe watched as John swung his sword in order to cut his own arm off and laughed at his stupidity.

As you can see, it is comical, but it makes no logical sense. Not let's heal up poor John.

Meta-Gaming: Meta-gaming is the act of taking OOC information and using it IC when your character has no justifiable way of knowing such information. Doing this is shunned on.

Auto-hitting: Auto-hitting refers to the act of not allowing the other person to avoid your in combat or in other situations. This goes hand in hand with god-modding. Assumptive based roleplaying ("He punched John in the face with his right hand and then proceeded to kick his left shin") is fine because the post is making an assumption that the hit connected. However, not letting the opponent dodge is is another matter ("He threw a punch at John so fast that John wouldn't be able to see") is auto-hitting, because it does not give John any window space. Let's let poor John relax now.

Plagarism: Plagiarism of any form is not tolerated. This means copy and pasting things you found on the internet or even paraphrasing them. Open source content, like the bible, is also prohibited from copying as well.

D Genin - Basic : You have just begun your adventure right now! Beware of the strongest ninjas, for they might tease you a while. However, don't give up! Keep training and someday, you may even surpass them.

C Genin - Novice: (5,000 EXP) It appears that you have gotten used to being a shinobi. Good job. Keep on training, you'll definitely get stronger. You're making some decent progress here.

B Chunin - Intermediate: (10,000 EXP) Great job! It appears that you have become a full fledged shinobi now. Be nice to the weaker ninjas, for you were once among them.

A Chunin - Experienced: (25,000 EXP) Wow, you've gotten some fame as a shinobi. People know about you now! You're able to battle well and fend for yourself. You even have a high chance of winning a battle. Just remember there are even stronger mages out there. Don't get cocky now.

AA: 50,000 EXP
AAA: 100,000 EXP
AAAA: 250,000 EXP

S Jonin - Expert: (500,000 EXP) You're the real deal. You're famous among shinobi and known by most to kick ass. You're also able to finally take those S-rank missions! Tip: Don't threaten your Kage to take over the village by defeating everyone, cause you'll get kicked out! Just ask Sasuke.

SS: 1,000,000 EXP
SSS: 2,500,000 EXP
SSSS: 5,000,000 EXP

Z Kage - Hero/Villian: (10,000,000 EXP) You are one of the most famous figures in your village. When your name is mentioned, they either cheer with joy or shiver in fear. You are a truly heroic symbol, or you are a symbol of terror.

ZZ: 25,000,000 EXP
ZZZ: 50,000,000 EXP
ZZZZ: 100,000,000 EXP

X Legend - Legendary: (250,000,000 EXP) Finally, you've made it. You're a living legend. You are one of the strongest ninjas around now. Perhaps you are a part of the Legendary Ninnjuni? Leader of a village? Congratulations for making it this far.

XX: 500,000,000 EXP
XXX: 750,000,000 EXP
XXXX: 1,000,000,000 EXP

Ω - God: You are officially a walking deity. Perhaps you are one of the most powerful shinobi that would have ever existed. You will go down in history as one of the greatest ninjas of all time. Congratulations, I have nothing more to teach you.

Unlocks 1 Ω-rank jutsu

In order to get from point A to point B you must RP your travel. This can be done by walking, taking a train, a boat or even use the runic teleportation circles. Each method will be explained here.

Walking:

Walking from point A to point B is free however it requires the most words. It's also quite dangerous therefore it is advised to travel in a group. The reason that its dangerous is that travel topics are always open. Other people that travel on the same road may enter your topic.

Traveling requires a different word count depending on where you are traveling to. If you travel to a town in the same region, it will take 200 words to get to the next town.

If you happen to travel to an adjacent region, it will take 400 words to go there.

Traveling to the region across will take 600 words.

From any region, traveling to The Land of Iron (Capital) will take 400 words.

Chakra Train:

Sometimes you might not want to type out so many words and/or wait that long, that's why there are train stations spread around most industrial areas. By paying 5,000 Ryo and 5 chakra you can hop on a train and travel to another area, as long as it too has a station. This halves the travel requirements to the next town.

Boat:

Some locations can't be reached by foot or train, therefore there are also small ports with boats that can be used for travel. This costs 5,000 per person and halves travel requirements to the next region. If you plan to go into area not in the continent (such as Gaishi), you will be required to write 200 words.

Chakra Waypoints:

The fastest method of traveling. These waypoints are scattered throughout the continent. This costs 10,000 Ryo and 10 chakra per person and is instantaneous.