General rules

These are the rules of the Dark Mists. Disobeying is grounds for deletion. For other matters, use your common sense, people.

* Remember that this is a roleplaying atmosphere. In general, if it is extremely bad roleplaying, it is against the rules. Dark Mists is not a Chat Room or a dating service.

* If an immortal imposes their will or themselves upon you, you must bend to it. Do not ask a wizi-invis god 'who they are'. If they want you to know, they will tell you. Your presence here is a privilege, not a right.

* Immortals often make announcements via notes, and you are required to follow accordingly. Not having read the notes is not an excuse.

* MULTICHARRING: You may play more than one character, BUT you may only have one logged in at a time. PERIOD. You may not roll more than one character at a time, you may not play a character and roll another at the same time, you may not drop equipment with one character and pick it up with another. In fact, no character may have first-hand knowledge of another in any fashion. see also help multicharring.

* Anyone who assists people in multicharring, i.e. holding equipment while they transfer it, 'looking the other way', etc, will be punished harshly. Multicharring of any form is not tolerated whatsoever.

* Switching in between two or more characters in rapid succession can constitute bad roleplaying. You cannot realistically play by logging in, who pk, where pk, and quit. That is a dedicated PK character, not
a roleplayed character.

* Player stealing and killing is permitted and encouraged. Continually killing singled out players can, at times, constitute harrassment and be handled as such by an immortal. This includes using a bunch of your characters to hunt down the singled out player; this makes the hunt entirely out of character and bad roleplaying. Use common sense when enough is enough.

* Do not build characters solely for the purpose of PK'ing: even serial killers have a story and a purpose. Entire worlds are not made up of serial killers: they are a very small percentage of the population.

* People PK'ing who do not have descriptions will be severely punished. A one-line description doesn't count as a description. For more information on playerkilling, see help pk.

* Descriptions are mandatory here; they help define your char, who you are, what you are and what you believe. Read 'HELP DESCRIPTION'. Those found to be past the 5th rank without a desc will be sat in an empty room for hours and hours until it is finished and decent.

* Committing suicide to a mob or player to lose a CRIMINAL flag will result in slaying and purging of equipment. If done too much, you will be denied. This includes dropping your equipment somewhere for this purpose.

* Paladins and Monks of lawful ethos are never to break the law under any circumstances. You will be slain the first time and denied the second if caught badly roleplaying like this.

* DO NOT, in any way, shape, or form, exploit bugs. Exploitation will result in possible denial. Report any bugs you find.

* SPAMMING IS ILLEGAL. (Spam is filling up someone's screen with needless repetition of anything.) You will be given one warning and then deleted. Don't do it.

* Sexual harrassment will not be tolerated. If both parties do not consent to the socials/emotes, then don't do them. If you sexually harrass someone, you will be denied.

* Useless characters will not be tolerated. This includes people who log on just to shout obscenities, advertise other muds, store equipment, or anything else that is indicative of them wasting our time and your time.

* LINK DROPPING: Dropping link to avoid a PK, or immediately quitting after you loot a corpse or PK someone is EXTREMELY bad roleplaying and will be punished accordingly. In fact, quitting or dropping link to avoid consequences of any kind is a mark of bad roleplaying. A 20 tick timer will keep you from quitting soon after being in a fight with another player. Drop link and you'll still be vulnerable for a while, so be careful.

* OBSCENE/PROFANE LANGUAGE: Yelling bad words (you know what they are, we don't have to list them) will result in a smiting, possibly a slaying, and in some cases, denial. Use of this type of language in any public channel (group, house, yell, auction, etc.) is forbidden. Use of this language in private channels (tell, ooctell) might result in severe punishment if the recipient of your message is offended by the language you use. Best way to avoid punishment is to keep your language clean.

* Immortals will not do for mortals what mortals can do for themselves. Always consider if another mortal can help you out of a bad situation before praying for help from the gods; this most definitely includes rescue from rooms without exits.

* These are simple, clear rules. If you violate them you WILL be punished. Punishments may vary, depending on previous rules violations and the situation. Be prepared for the worst if you are caught breaking these rules. Please report any rules violations made by others, but do not harass us or them about it: we will handle the violators.