pinned Rules of Conduct 4.1

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Submitting an application means you understand and will respect these rules. In effect 6/2/2017. Last updated 6/21/2020.

I HAVE HIDDEN A WORD IN THE RULES. If you read through the rules I promise you won't miss it, but it is necessary for you to input it on our application for you to be approved.



OOC Rules
1.0 Respect & Appropriateness - Rules on respect & appropriateness in the guild
1.1 Member Inactivity - What happens if you're inactive
1.2 Members & Leadership - What to do if you need help/ have suggestions
1.3 Ruby Bound & Other Guilds - What to do when in contact with another guild
1.4 Discord Usage - Rules to our Discord server
1.5 Account Name Changes - What to do when you change your account name (@name)

RP Rules
2.0 General - Basic rules
2.1 IC Criminal Activity - What criminal characters should expect
2.2 Sexual Content - What to do and what not to do

Officer Rules & Protocol

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1.0 Respect & Appropriateness

• Always be kind OOC.
• Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, religious and political discrimination and intolerance, bullying, and all other forms of prejudice and harassment are STRICTLY FORBIDDEN OOC. Your characters can be any of these, but you as a player CANNOT.
• Slurs or derogatory words towards any groups of people, including but not limited to race, sexuality, religion, etc., are STRICTLY FORBIDDEN both IC and OOC. This means that these words are not allowed at all, even in the form of jokes. (Though non real world insults targeted only towards made-up TES universe groups of people are allowed, ex: "Ash Skins" for Dunmer).
• If you and another member want to discuss political and religious matters, you are welcomed to do so in private chats between yourselves. Said discussion is to be kept respectful. All involved must be alright with the conversation.
• Every member has the right to call fade to black (FTB) in any RP circumstance and their rights to do so MUST be preserved.
• While this is an M rated game, we are an all ages guild. As such, adult content, including but not limited to graphic/continuous sexual jokes and erotic roleplay, ERP, should be done in a private channel, or closed housing zone. All participants must be of age for their country of residence, and fully and enthusiastically consenting.
• When deemed necessary, particularly hot arguments may be brought out of public channels and into a private one for an officer to mediate calm, respectful discussion, and help offer solutions.
• Do not spam in emote/say/yell/guild chat. This includes advertisements that are not relevant to RP.
• 3 Strike System - If any of the listed rules are broken, you will receive a strike. Any first offenses in chat appropriateness will result in a warning, second offenses the person must talk to an officer or the guild master directly, the third offence will result in a conversation on whether or not Ruby Bound is the right guild for the person. If the officers determine that Ruby Bound is not a good environment for the offender, they will be kicked from the guild. Some offences will be met with by instant removal from the guild, and a report to Zenimax Online. These include, but are not limited to, ERP with non-consenting players (including ERP with a minor), OOC harassment, blatant hate speech, and purposely posting malicious links to viruses or illegal materials.

1.1 Member Inactivity

• Full members will be removed if absent from the game for six months without notice. DM an officer if you know that you will be gone. No need to list the reason(s) why, but do be aware that we will not hold you in the guild for more than eight months inactive.
• All new members start as Trial Members. To keep our roster filled with active roleplayers, we ask a few things from our Trial Members in their first few weeks. First, you must fill out the required forms as provided in the #start_here channel in Discord. We ask that Trial members also talk to one of officers about our bank rules to prevent abuse of the guild bank, and third, that they talk to an officer about any factions they are interested in. These conversations can take place in game, or on Discord. We do kick trial trial members after two weeks if they have not done these things, so please get those done as soon as you can!
• Faction leaders must be active in the guild, but especially in RP. They must look at the newsletter and reach out to new members if they are interested, as well as recruit for their factions ICly. They are in charge of running regular events to keep their faction members engaged.
  
  1.2 Members & Leadership
  
  • If you have an issue with a certain person of the leadership, contact any of the officers, senior officers, or guild master. Whoever you feel most comfortable talking to.
  • Please contact an officer with questions if you wish to apply for leadership. The officer application will be DMed to you, should you be interested in an application.
  • Faction leaders must be an active member of the guild. Faction leaders CANNOT make auxiliary guilds for their factions due to possible issues with overstepping recruitment boundaries and interest conflicts.
  
  
  1.3 Ruby Bound & Other Guilds
  
  • You MUST be polite and respectful to guests and other guilds.
  • We do not consider partner/friend/sister/rival guilds. For more information, contact the Guildmaster.
  
  
  1.4 Discord Usage
  
  • Use private chats for any and all conversations that could be considered Mature, Vulgar, or Offensive by any means.
  • All rules listed and relevant apply in Discord and the Discord Voice Channels.
  • There is a two week guest policy in the discord server. All guests are invited to join our guild to remain on the server for longer than two weeks.
  
  
  1.5 Account Name Changes
  
  • We ask that players that change their account names (@names) contact an officer (preferably a roster one if available) to notify us of the change as soon as possible. Players get a week to do this before the guild administration takes action. We like knowing who's who, and this prevents people with strikes from attempting to wiggle free of them. Previous account names should be listed in their guild roster notes. A roster officer will update this as soon as you notify them.
  • The players are responsible for changing their account names on all character sheets or threads with our information. This will help us stay organized and know what characters go with what accounts.
  
  
  
  

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  Roleplaying Rules
  
  
  2.0 General IC
  • No Metagaming. This means, no taking information you've learned out of character and bringing it in character. This can be something as simple as reading a person's name and addressing them as such, when in actuality your character has never been introduced.
  • No Godmodding. This means, no player killing (PK), injuries, etc. without consent of all parties involved. This also means, you cannot force something onto another character without consent of all parties involved.
  • To make actions that might change the guild's in-character/faction structure, contact a senior officer, or the guild master before doing them.
  • To make actions that might disrupt the natural flow of town (i.e. daedra attack the town/disassembling a faction), contact a senior officer or the guild master before doing them.
  • Dark and heavy, sensitive subjects like rape, dismemberment, torture, killing and the like should be done in group chats, and not involve the entire guild. If you want to make it public, contact a senior officer first. This is handled on a case-by-case basis.
  • If you cannot agree on how to RP your combat, default to dice to keep things fair, or don’t RP combat. If there is any combat RP that cannot be resolved with dice or words, an officer will step into moderate. In this case, the moderating officer makes the final call on the combat RP.
  • All characters who use magic are expected to understand the lore around magic. They don’t need to know everything, but they should at least know the basics. Magic should not be a quick fix to any RP. Overpowered mage characters will be considered to be godmoding.
  
  
  2.1 IC Criminal Activity
  
  • Town Laws may be referenced for a list of punishments.
  • If you have a dark, evil character, expect guards and lawful characters to enforce town rules. By creating an unlawful character, you understand that they are subject to the punishments of our town laws depending on the crime committed.
  • You ARE potentially able to escape jail if an officer is online to help DM it.
  • Please put the word "pineapples" in the "Did you read and do you agree with the Rules of Conduct?" field of the application.
  
  2.2 Sexual Content
  
  • As stated before, adult content (including but not limited to graphic/continuous sexual jokes and in this case specifically erotic roleplay, ERP) in game should done in a group chat, whispers, or in a closed housing map and not displayed to public. Take it to a private chat as soon as possible.
  • All parties involved must consent, and be of age to consent to ERP. All players involved MUST maintain the right to revoke consent at any point and stop the RP, or choose to fade to black. Failure to abide by this rule results in immediate banishment from the guild.
  
  
  
  

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  Officer Protocol
  
  
  Officer Inactivity
  
  • Inactive officers on leave who have given notice will be removed, but given the option to regain their position once they are back.
  • All officers will be DMed through Discord if they have been inactive for a week, in order to determine how long they will be inactive and if the time designated is long enough to consitute temporary removal. Officers are reserved the right to rejoin the Officer Team on a case-by-case basis, should they leave due to temporary inactivity.
  • Officers are required to be present in the Discord chat, and attend the weekly officer meeting. If an officer cannot make a weekly meeting, we ask that they give as much notification as they can.