Rules & How to Join

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RULES

Table of Contents

• General Guidelines
• How to Join

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GENERAL

• Be respectful of all members, moderators, and guests within the group. We have a zero tolerance over disrespectful behavior, unsolicited provocations, or drama in any one of our group spaces. AWAFL is a roleplay group built for fun writing and art sharing, and people we feel violate this guideline will be removed from the group indefinitely.
• If at any point you feel uncomfortable with a member, character, rule, admin, or event, feel free to message the staff through the deviantArt page, the forum, or by asking for a room in the Discord. Please refrain from messaging any administrator directly unless absolutely necessary.
• Please keep any public content within deviantART’s and/or Proboards’s guidelines for mature content; under no circumstances will we accept/endorse any content above this on the group or the forum. However, you are free to do whatever you like offsite! Just keep it out of official groups spaces for anyone who doesn’t want to be exposed to that kind of content.
• All members are required to register on our forum, in addition to their acceptance into the deviantART group. It is the primary hub for roleplaying, to partner with the group Discord. While you are not required to roleplay on it, there will be an expectation for you to at least maintain your character information on the forum itself.
• Please refrain from making a forum account until you are a member; any other pending registrations we receive will be ignored.
• We discourage advertising of any kind on the group page, forum, or in the group chat locations. If you wish to advertise a roleplay group, please submit an affiliation request instead.
  

ROLEPLAYING

• Refrain from godmodding, powerplaying, or metagaming of any kind. Accidents happen, which is fine, but please be ready to change your post to something more acceptable if asked by your roleplay partner/s or a staff member.
• Be mindful of separation between character and creation; a character’s personal thoughts, opinions, and/or actions do not always reflect those of the roleplayers. Confronting someone ooc over a dispute ic will be taken as an unprovoked attack.
• All roleplays should be kept within the AWAFL setting. The group works on liquid time, meaning that it plays parallel to a real-life calendar (the local time can be found on the forum sidebar at any time), but individual roleplays are more than allowed to take place in the near or distant past, or near future!
  • Do note, however, that timeskips will likely occur within the group’s timeline. We expect all members to observe the timeskip in relation of their characters when they arrive.

COMPLICATIONS

• Even if you or someone else checked “yes” to one or more of the options in the Complications field of your/their application, any harm against a character must be approved by the character’s player; no one is allowed to force any kind of harm on your own character.
• In strictly the case of causing any kind of harm to your own character, though: you can do anything you want!
• The damage from any kind of attack, accident, etc, occurring in an rp should be based on the context of what is happening in the roleplay; anything under or over exaggerated is discouraged.
• While character death is possible, it is exclusive to Panic Events, which are limited windows within events during the plot. While we do not encourage killing off characters, it is achievable with staff permission, provided that a good reason, setup, and follow-through is pitched. Read more about Panic Events here!

SUBMISSIONS

• All submissions to AWAFL’s gallery must be created by members of the group, for the group. As stated, please keep submissions to the gallery within deviantART’s guidelines.
• Any submissions on the forum, if not yours, should be credited appropriately.
• Any art dumps submitted should contain majorly, if not entirely, AWAFL content.
• If drawing characters that are not yours, please credit their owners!
• Collabs between members in any forms is both allowed and encouraged.
• When submitting to the group, be mindful to submit to the correct folder! If unsure of where something might go, feel free to ask for help.

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HOW TO JOIN

INVITES

• AWAFL has shifted to a Private group, meaning enrollments will not occur, but prospective members can be invited into the group.
• Check back here in the future for more information!

JOINING

• If have been invited to apply for the group, please review all of our guides before making a character! Once you have, you'll need to fill out an Application Template (found here)and a Survey (found below). When they're completed and you're ready to apply, post your completed Application to the Citizenship Requests board (you'll be posting as a guest; use your deviantART username for the name!), and send in a join request to the group with the following information:
  
  • Character Name:
  • Character Application:
  • Survey Link:
• The AWAFL staff will review your application after it has been submitted. If we feel you and your character will make a good fit for our group, you will receive a link to the group's private Discord, and permission to make your forum account and post your application to the main Census board on the forums!
  
  • Posting your application to the forums is absolutely mandatory--it does not need to be in the Artist's Comments of the app art on deviantART (we won't be looking at that); you will not be considered if the application is not in the board. AWAFL is a forum-based roleplay, and as such all members will be required to participate in the forums.
  • If your application is accepted during/at the end of the enrollment period, you will have both access to the Discord as well as to make your full account on the forums.
    
    • All applications in the Citizenship Requests board will be archived, so you'll have to repost your application on your full forum account (to the Census board); make sure you save your code!
  • AWAFL staff will not be following up with any rejected applications due to the frequency of our enrollments. If you did not make the cut, please review your character carefully before trying again.

SURVEY

We’d like to learn a bit about you before you join! Please include a link to your completed survey in your join request when applying (do NOT fill out the survey within the join request itself); you can have your completed survey in sta.sh, Google Docs, or whatever works best for you. Your survey will be kept entirely private; your answers will not be shared, and will not be viewed by anyone other than our staff. Please be honest in your responses!

NAME: (the name you normally go by, vs your username)
PRONOUNS: (what you’re most comfortable with)
AGE: (for reference, all of our staff are working adults)
BIO: (give us a quick description of what you're like!)
RP PREFERENCE: (how do you like to rp? What’s your rp style?)
RP INTENTIONS: (what do you look for out of rp groups? Why do you like to join/participate in them?)