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[Jake]

Note: The rules are also posted on the left of your screen and follow you everywhere. There is no excuse for not knowing them. Thank you!

Another Note: In the following message I may come across as a meanie. This is not so. I am no meanie. I just need to be strict on these rules to make the role plays a better place... For you!

DAH RULEZ


ONE
No GM (godmode) or PP (powerplay).
Don't know what those are? Powerplaying is controlling someone else's character. Godmoding is being super super super amazing and powerful. This means no dodging every attack or anything else that makes you seem like you're all that and a bag of chips. Everyone has a weakness!!

TWO
Use some kind of ooc and bic when role playing.
Ooc stands for Out Of Character and is used when you are talking as yourself rather than your character. Bic stands for Back In Character and is used when you are done with your ooc talk and are now talking for the role play.

THREE
No spamming.
It's a simple rule. Don't post nonsense and meaningless crap on the boards. Double posts, bumping your thread, and anything else that's pointless is considered spam.
Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages

FOUR
Do not abuse the Report System.
The Report System is in place to keep Raeo clean not for you to have fun clicking things. Only report someone if they are blatantly breaking a rule.
For more information on the Report System click here.

FIVE
No magical item getting.
Items are to be bought from PheaoMart or given out by NPCs. You may not randomly pull out any item you want at any time. If it's not in your character's backpack, you cannot use it.
For more information about the Item Policy click here.

SIX
Pokemon will have four moves.
Four. Not three. Not five. Four. (Yes. I did, in fact, just make an allusion to Montey Python) We want things to be fair so pick four and move on. If you want less than four, just pick the ones you want, fill in the rest with some other move(s) and just don't use them!

SEVEN
You are not in charge of levels, newly learned moves, and evolutions.
We will be dealing with levels. And by we, I mean the staff. Charlie is in charge of levels. When she decides it's time for your pokemon to level up, evolve, or learn a new move, she will let you know. You do not change the level of your pokemon, nor can you change your moves, NOR can you evolve them; so just don't try. Charlie does this. Not you. I hope I said that enough times. (CHARLIE) ALSO. The only time you decide what move to be added on is with a TM, BUT, BUT, BUT!! You cannot have ANY TMs with you or a Pokemon that knows a TM move!! YOU CAN ONLY HAVE TMS GOTTEN IN RAEO, AND THEY CAN ONLY BE GIVEN TO YOU BUY THE STAFF. ALSO, IF THE POKEMON CAN'T EVEN LEARN THAT MOVE IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU CAN NOT TEACH IT TO THEM VIA TM. >( (/CHARLIE)

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EIGHT
There is to be NO arguing Out of Character.
We will have none of that here.

NINE
There will also be NO flaming/crashing/bashing/insulting here either.
I will not have people harassing others on this forum. You should be polite and courteous to each other when Out of Character.

TEN
THIS. IS. LITERATE.
Get as close to literate as you can. Just try your best. Typos are understood. One-liners are not. Constant use of one-liners and any other form of less than literate will put you in jeopardy. SCARY!!


Failure to comply with these rules will result in one of the following:

• You will get a warning. If your warning level reaches 100%, you're in trouble.
  
• The staff will make a note about you on whatever it is you have done. That's right. In your profiles there's a place for the staff to keep notes about you. If whatever it is you're doing becomes a constant problem, you may get warning or be banned. It all depends.
  

And there are the almighty rules! They're not hard to follow and no sympathy will be issued nor will special cases be made for anyone. Just follow the rules and enjoy the role playing!

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[Jake]

SUB RULES

ONE
No liquid time! (But Jake! What exactly is liquid time?) I'm glad you asked. Liquid time means that your character is in two places at the same time. Like you're moving back and forth in time. Weird, yes. Cool, yes. Allowed, nope.

TWO
When you leave a role play, don't just disappear. Post a post that states that you left and how you left. Well, not necessarily how, but you have to tell that you did leave.

THREE
When you do leave, you can't go moving around from one end of the region to the other just by walking. You can only move from one place to any other place if you have a pokemon that knows the moves Fly or Teleport. If you don't, you gotta walk the map.

FOUR
There is no number four.

FIVE
You can play as a trainer, wild pokemon, pokemorph, or a Yami no Kaze member.

SIX
Yes. Yami no Kaze is the evil Team of Raeo. Like Team Rocket only... not Team Rocket. Yami no Kaze. Boo!

SEVEN
You can play as a wild legendary, but you cannot OWN a legendary.
There is only one - ONE - exception to this rule and that is not you. No owning legendaries.

EIGHT
My advice to you: Don't just go around from city to city collecting badges and that's it. I mean, don't go get one badge, then immediately go to get the next. Not only is it not fun, but since the four people playing the leaders know this, if we notice someone jumping around badge-grabbing (Yes, the term for this is badge-grabbing) then we will make it extremely difficult for you to win in a match with our leaders. Enjoy the role playing that occurs in between. After all, happiness is found in the journey.

NINE
Raeo is not a place for kids, mostly. We allow swearing. We allow blood and guts. We allow sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. Hell, we allow pretty much anything! So if you don't think you would like role playing with cursing, blood, and other things of the like, I suggest you not join.

TEN
Made-up pokemon. Let me tell you about them. They are accepted. You may play a wild made-up, you can own a made-up, be a made-up morph, whatever. But you must have a very vivid description and you MUST have a picture, so if you own a made-up, you need to fill out a separate application for that pokemon alone. The made-up must also be accepted.

ELEVEN
Only Staff can accept character profiles. That would be the Admin, the three G-mods and the Mod. Noooobody else.

TWELVE
Your pokemon's first moves must be moves that it can learn naturally. You may receive TMs from characters played by staff, but that is the only case they can learn TM/HM moves. Also, TM/HMs can only be used on pokemon that can accept it. You know that. If you do use a TM/HM on a pokemon 1. It counts as a move change and 2. you need to edit your character profile under the attacks part for that pokemon saying that that move was a TM/HM and who you got the TM/HM from
Ex. Squirtle - Bubble, Water Gun, Tackle, Crunch (TM received from Ryan)

THIRTEEN
Moves such as fly and surf and all that DO NOT need to be actual moves of the pokemon in order for them to be used. If your pokemon can fly, it doesn't need to know fly for it to fly. Same with swimming, etc. Just don't be moronic with what you do. A Flareon will not fly or swim. Don't even try that. I will e-hurt you.

Got questions about this stuff? PM a staff member. But don't be stupid about it. Love ya all! ;D