Roleplay
This news file is a compilation of Rulings that were previously posted on our bulletin board system on the MUSH. Going forward, these spot rulings will be located here, or on the MUSH's corresponding news file.
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Advantages: Consent-Only Advantages
Advantages that require consent to be used on other player characters are ICly known to have a significant failure rate. This is very similar to One Hit KO attacks simply not working due to ambiguous universal "spell resistance." It is highly inappropriate to pressure other players about refusing to be subject to consent-only advantages, and it is not regarded as a breach of etiquette, or "no-selling" to decline such abilities being used on your character.
A similar idea extends to actions that require consent more universally, such as breaking the default rules of the combat system. Don't EVER shame somebody for refusing requests that require their permission to go forward.
Advantages: Immortality
Immortality is not something that can be considered concretely reliable in the Multiverse, but barring an immediate reason for an immortality +advantage to fail, it won't. That aside, it IS ICly known that immortality isn't foolproof, even if it usually takes a lot more legwork to kill somebody who has it than it does to kill a relatively ordinary person. As a point of clarification, because the destruction of souls is not permitted in Multiverse Crisis MUSH theme, characters who can only be killed by this means are assumed to be kill-able by any means that would kill an immortal from any given setting. For instance, special weaponry intended to kill immortals.
From an OOC standpoint, immortality will only concretely fail when condeath is revoked. On the incredibly rare occasion that this occurs, the immortality advantage is usually disregarded wholesale. It bears noting that the last person to have their condeath revoked possessed an immortality +advantage, and the reason for the revocation had a lot to do with that player powergaming with their immortality extensively.
Characters w/o +Flaws/+Disadvantages
Approved Legacy Characters who did not have +flaws or +disadvantages were required to update their characters during 2014. Those that did not update were set unapproved, and will be turned into Guest characters or deleted at Staff discretion.
TP Characters are not required to have disadvantages filled out.
FacHead Permission
FacHead permission is required for factional betrayal/defection, and long-term infiltration. Strictly speaking, Staff has overriding authority on whether or not these go forward, but if a FacHead is uncomfortable with the idea, it's strong grounds for denial. It is possible to petition Staff for permission without consulting the FacHeads, but we will require a fair explanation as to why we should allow this, and it is likely that we will say no and tell you to go speak with the relevant FacHead(s) anyway.
Probation
Occasionally, Staff or the FacHeads will put a player on a probationary period for some purpose or another. This is usually to see if they're improved enough to have certain things that were taken away, or denied to them. For example, re-introducing them into a faction that they were kicked out of. Just to be clear: Disappearing or going inactive for the stated or perceived probationary period won't end your probationary period. We want to see improvement, not a non-presence. If we have reason to believe that you're deliberately laying low so that your probationary period will end without incident, bare minimum response is to lengthen the period, and automatic failure isn't out of the question.
Running Gags
Sometimes characters have recurring jokes attached to them, like Edward Elric being short, Roy Mustang's obsession with miniskirts, GLaDOS's association with cake, etc. While it can be amusing to play with these gags, it can become incredibly obnoxious for the player(s) involved and some people have had their running gags driven into the ground so hard they've quit.
In summary: If somebody asks you, individually or as a group, to stop it with the memes/running gags as pertains to them, DO IT, and don't make them ask you to stop again.
