Characters
Characters are the "Roles" in "Role Play". This news file covers Multiverse Crisis MUSH's character policies, including alts, alt interaction, idle policy, etc.
- Players may have up to 6 characters. 7th and 8th characters may be requested, but approval is case-by-case, and you must ask again each time you apply beyond the normal cap.
- Players may have secret alts, but this is a privilege that may be revoked. Staff will ALWAYS know who you are, and facheads are often told. Special circumstances may see other people informed.
- Limited alt interaction is allowed, but discouraged. It shouldn't give either alt an undue or unfair advantage, or deprive other players of RP. Don't self-RP or use alts for self-promotion.
- Players may not (usually) play two closely-related characters, like Dr. Wily and Megaman or Dumbledore and Voldemort.
- Idle Policy: Except for OCs, we expect a minimum number of logged scenes per month. Unless there's a specific complaint or the character is in-demand, we won't usually act on idleness for a while. If your idleness is an obstruction to another player, being removed is on the table. Characters sufficiently out-of-date may be unapproved and require re-approval to re-enter play. We do clean up accounts that haven't been logged in for a long time, occasionally including OCs.
Notes
Aging: On a themelist-by-themelist basis, players have the option to elect for the people in their theme list not to age, or to age at a dramatically reduced rate. This is to allow settings to retain their tone where characters might otherwise grow up and experience a genre shift, like Cardcaptor Sakura or Nanoha. This option applies to ALL characters in a themelist though, and is not available in settings where mortality and death are major themes, such as Harry Potter. While this is a phenomenon that is known to occur in the Multiverse, it shouldn't be examined too closely or discussed at length.
Character Death: Permanent damage or death to a character is consent-based. Unless you do something outrageously stupid (it has happened), your character won't die without your say-so. In the case of FCs and OFCs you will be expected to have discussed the matter with Admin and your cast mates in advance, and it may not always be acceptable for a character to be permanently removed from play in a given theme listing. With OCs it is entirely up to the player, but Staff does want players to discuss it with them to make sure they know what they're getting into. Lastly, unless a death is set up with resurrection in mind, character death is permanent.
Want to report a CharSquatter?: It's pretty easy to tell if somebody's done something recently. You can +scene/old <name> to see a list of time stamped logs.
