Aereth vs. The Real World

Aereth is set in a time period that loosely resembles Earth's medieval period. However, Aereth is not Earth. Its people (characters) will have viewpoints, morality, and ethics that do not relate to Earth's medieval world. Some of our players might prefer to have their characters more representative of the real world's medieval times.

The Game Managers do not mandate that your character(s) are realistically representative of people from Earth's Medieval period. You will find some technological and cultural anachronisms amongst the various peoples of Aereth.

So, please, do not contact us with complaints that X, Y, and Z would never happen or a person would never do or say X, Y, or Z in Medieval times!

Code of Conduct

Our Code of Conduct comes with a zero tolerance policy.

• Treat all members kindly and with respect.
• Remember to differentiate between a character's views and morality and its player's. The two are not necessarily the same.
• Harassing or bullying other members will get you immediately banned.
• Handle all disagreements in a calm and mature manner in private! Do not bring disputes into the public Discord channels or onto the RPG forums.
• Playbys, even original artwork, under the age of 18 are permitted but prohibited from participating in any threads of a sexual nature.
• No Bad Roleplay. If you don't know what it is, read the definitions at the link provided.

Mature Content Policy

The Chronicles of Aereth RPG is rated 18+ for occasional mature content and you must be at least eighteen years old to join the site. Players are responsible for marking their threads and posts as mature if they feel the content is not appropriate for readers under the age of eighteen.

Trigger Warnings

Aereth does mandate trigger warnings. In fact, we consider that it is impossible to post a warning for everything that someone might consider a triggering scenario. Our Players may add a warning at the top of their thread if they feel the content warrants it.

Guidelines

To view mature content on our site, you must...

1. Be a registered member.
2. Have your birthdate in your profile (this can be set to private).
3. Enable Mature Content in your profile settings.
4. Directions can be found HERE.

When writing content that contains graphic violence, sexually explicit language, or is a sexually explicit scene, you must...

1. Have your birthdate listed in your profile (Only Admin will be able to see it).
2. Have Mature Content enabled in your profile settings.
3. Mark the posts as Mature by clicking the toggle at the bottom of the editor window.

Not Allowed

Although the Chronicles of Aereth is rated 18+ and is set in a medieval-type time period, there are some things we just don't want on the site. The prohibited content list is below. We are aware that these situations were not uncommon in Aereth's timeframe. Aereth just doesn't want to go there! Very vague inferences are acceptable, nothing more will be allowed.

• Graphic Underage Sex: Do not write sexually explicit scenes with characters or NPCs that are under the age of eighteen (18).
• Rape, Sexual Violence: Do not write graphic scenes portraying rape and other violent sex acts.
• Violence Against Children: Again, we realize these things happen in real life and happened in the timeframe that Aereth is set in. However, we do not need to read about it in the roleplay.

Character Drama

The Chronicles of Aereth RPG follows the standard of being a Limited Consent roleplay as much as possible. However, if an admin has to step in to move plot thread forward, that will be done. The admin will attempt to minimize the impact on the character they are having to take control of.

Limited Consent

Limited Consent attempts to strike an even balance between consent and consequence. Certain negative consequences can be enforced without roleplayer agreement. Character death, physical damage, and other severe consequences still require roleplayer agreement. However if the roleplayer is absent without notice and has not responded to admin's attempts to contact them, their characters can be written out in whatever manner the staff sees fit.

Aereth welcomes in-character drama in all of our plots. We prefer seeing a balance of action, drama, humor, romance, and contention. We strongly recommend OOC discussions when planning major character drama. The following guidelines are to keep the players and admin staff on the same page.

Character Death

You may not kill anyone else’s character without permission from the roleplayer. If the roleplayer has left the game without notice, contact admin. They will do what is needed with the character(s).

Character Contention

Please discuss character contention with the other roleplayer(s) involved and notify Admin also. You do not have to provide details, just let everyone know that the contention has been planned. We ask this so that no one mistakes in-character contention for behind-the-posts roleplayer contention.

Actions and Consequences

If your character is seriously wounded on Tuesday, he or she will not be engaging in battle on Wednesday. This goes for almost all in-character overt actions and words.

Character Reactions

Other roleplayers are not required to have their characters react as you think they should.

Requirements

Requirements? We don't need no stinkin' requirements! Just kidding. To keep game play fair and the plots flowing, we do have a few requirements.

Activity Checks

Aereth will not perform mandatory activity checks. However, our site automatically tracks activity. Simply logging in resets the tracker and keeps your account and characters active.

A player's account (and characters) will be marked inactive if...

• The player account has not been logged into in a week.
• The player OR character has not posted in a month.
• Players and characters will be automatically filed into the inactive group (it hides the account and character(s) from all listings, counts, and tallies) when the player account has not posted in a calendar month. No log in for a week just lists their activity level as inactive, but it fixes itself once they log in again.
• If a character has an unanswered thread in the IC boards, the character is considered active regardless of when that was posted.

Character Limits

Except for the characters known as Travelers, there are no character limits. Each player may have as many characters as they want or can manage. However, we do suggest that you get your first character approved and into play before creating more.

Joint-Posting

Joint posting is a type of posting where users can edit one another's posts in joint-post enabled forums to add tag replies. This facilitates direct interaction between characters and reduces the number of very short posts that we have on the site. For more information, read the Joint-Posting section of our Vesta User's Guide.

1. Do not change the content of a JP (joint-post) without the express permission of your writing partner(s), not even to correct a typo without their express permission.
2. Joint-Posts become very long, very quickly. You need to break joint-posts (JPs) into segments of 800 - 1,000 words each. Try to make sure each writer in the thread gets to start a new reply so that all characters are showing activity levels on the site.
3. Posts that are being edited will be locked until the user has finished and saved it. This prevents users from overwriting one another's post.

Word Counts

Currently, since Aereth offers the ability to easily write joint-posts, there is not a mandatory word count. Minimum post allowed is one sentence. However, since our forums are joint-post enabled, it is preferred that our members consider using this method to avoid a large number of one-line posts. In general, all we ask is that a post reply, no matter its length, moves the plot forward and allows the other writer(s) room for a decent response.

Advertising

• Absolutely no advertising in Character Signatures!
• Active Roleplayers may post discrete PG-13 ads in their OOC account signature.
• All images must be static, no gifs / animations allowed.
• No more than one 700px X 250px ad or 4 88X31 buttons.
• Please limit your advertising to RPGs to those that you are an active owner, staff, or member.

Affiliating

The Chronicles of Aereth encourages fellow RPG and RPG resource sites to affiliate with us. It is easy. Below are the rules.

1. Click on the Affiliate Application button, main forum index, bottom-left on sidebar.
2. You must take one of our buttons and post it before we will approve yours.
3. Fill out the form and upload your PG-13 88x31 button (Aereth hosts your button).
4. Read the Affiliating rules on the application page.

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