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.

1. Players may have up to 6 characters.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Players may not (usually) play two closely-related characters, like Dr. Wily and Megaman or Dumbledore and Voldemort.
5. 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 Characters sufficiently out-of-date may be unapproved and require re-approval to re-enter play.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.
6. The Fetish Rule: If it appears that you want to (or do) play a character for reasons of sexual interest, you may be denied that character or have approval for an existing character withdrawn. Individual character traits may also be denied for the same reason.
7. Character Sexuality: A canon character's core sexuality may not be altered, and where canon sexuality is undefined, characters are assumed to adhere to biological norms established by their source material. Ambiguous cases may be discussed with staff.
8. Rule 63: Canon characters may not have their genders altered, and in certain circumstances (jokes, one-offs, etc.) may not allow it even if it occurred in canon.
9. Really 700 Years Old: All characters on MCM are expected to be mentally and physically young adults, especially if they're going to be romantically involved. 700 year old ten year olds aren't acceptable.
10. Pregnancy in RP: We're not the place for this. If you insist on an arc like this, inquire to staff and be prepared to defend the necessity of it. We will probably say no.
11. 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.
12. 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.

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Patch Notes

10/1/18: Alt slots are now limited to 6 instead of 7-8. No further exceptions.