The Rules

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[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 400px; height: 200px; border: 5px solid #9E7E81; padding: 0 10 0 10px;] lay down the law general By joining Chasing the Dawn, you agree to follow the rules and the Proboards TOS Our golden rule is to respect everyone, and we mean everyone. Don't make any racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, or otherwise offensive remarks. This site is intended to be a friendly, positive environment and the staff takes that very seriously: your safety is our first concern. If you encounter any problems or witness anything that makes you uncomfortable, please don't hesitate to PM an admin and we'll work to sort it out discreetly. For now, we are limiting members to 12 characters max. If you believe you can handle more than that, you may discuss it with a staff and we will evaluate whether you have an equal amount of activity within your characters. We don't have a female/male ratio restriction as of now since we don't want to be too restricting on our members, but if it does get out of hand, we will enforce it. Due to the Proboards Terms of Service, threads cannot contain sex scenes, excessive violence or anything that details or glamorises drug use. It's a shame to have to impose limits, but we've seen too many boards get deleted to take the risk. If you must RP it out, take it off-site to email or IM. We're counting on you to obey the TOS. Feel free to PM the admins or post in the SUPPORT & FEEDBACK board at any time. We're constantly striving for improvement and want to make the site the best that it can be! registration You may register with any name you like, but you must change your display name to FIRST MIDDLE LAST upon posting your application. Please refrain from roleplaying until your application has been approved by the staff and you have done your claims. Each character must be made on a separate account. face claims and graphics Play-by's/face claim is on a first come first serve basis. If the play-by you wanted is already taken, please choose another or you may ask the player using the pb if they could use a twin. There will be no use of play bys under the age of fifteen years old. In all honesty, with this being a more advanced site, you really shouldn't be playing a character younger than that anyhow. This is all a matter of child rights. This is non-negotiable. Avatar sizes are 150x300 We're not putting an actual numerical restriction on graphics, save for the width of the graphic. Nothing greater than 500px. Be mindful of your signatures though. No one wants to scroll through three feet of graphic to get to their post. If your graphics are ridiculously large, you may be asked to remove them. in game/posting As usual, no god-moding, no power-playing, no mary sues or gary stus, etc. Characters must be completely fictional: don't make them relations of real life public figures, including royalty. In addition, please try to avoid too much similarity between your character and, for example, a character their play-by portrayed in a TV show. Be original! It's more fun that way! In terms of post length, we do ask members to keep up with a 300 word post including proper grammar and spelling. Long posts and 'rapidfire' are equally acceptable, as long as you and your partner are agreed on it. in character chat Our ICC should be treated as a chat room for all intents and purposes. The ICC is only meant for people who have registered their characters, their character has been accepted, they have posted in all of the claims and the character is up in their plot page. Failure to do any or all of these things will result in a temporary banning from the ICC until the above items are complete. The ICC is meant to be fun and an interesting way for characters to interact. Keep this in mind at all times. You must remember to post to your threads in game. Failure to post to threads simply because you're lingering in the ICC too much will result in a banning from the ICC. [/style]

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