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SYN2 RULES

Updated Dec 16th, 2018.

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• Synthesized Synchronization (henceforth “SYN2”) is a mature group. You must be 16+ to apply.

• Themes that will heavily influence the plot include: Violence and the meaning behind it, death itself, and what it means to be alive. There is a focus on the psychological aspects of death and life, as well as heavy character development. Please keep this in mind before applying.
• Even though there is a story to guide overall, you may do many, many things that you wish. SYN2 is open-ended.
• Despite this, please keep explicit NSFW and heavy gore strictly confined to direct messages. We do not condone either of these with muns below the age of eighteen.

• SYN2 is a Discord-based roleplay group. If you require help with using Discord, please do not hesitate to send a message, and we will do our best to help.
• You do not need prior roleplay experience before joining the group, nor do you need knowledge of any other series. This group is 100% original. Please refrain from taking concepts from SYN2.
• Please follow all official forms when there is one available.
• We reserve the right to reject certain characters with offensive or highly questionable themes. For the comfort of our members, we will not state the themes here; please contact a Moderator or Administrator for more information or to check whether or not a character you plan on applying for is against this rule.
• We work off of a three strike system along with warnings. We will let you know when you have received a strike rather than just a warning.

• Depending on severity, some people may skip strikes or be banned entirely.

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• This group is meant to be a fun, relaxing place where everyone can enjoy themselves. Everyone is expected to at least be cordial, even to those you do not like or do not know.
• Leave no friend behind. If you see someone having trouble getting noticed IC or OOC, try to reach out to them! Nobody enjoys feeling excluded. In the same vein, do your best to avoid roleplaying exclusively with castmates or prior friends, fun as they are.
• Hatefulness will not be tolerated. Be as cruel as you want IC, but OOC, anyone caught sending harassing, hurtful messages or mistreating someone will be removed from the group immediately.

• If someone blocks you, please do not block evade.
• If you cannot solve a problem on your own, please contact the Moderator team.  

• We collect only visual triggers; meaning, anything that can trigger you if you see a visual will be accounted for.

• The exception are the Moderators’ and Administrators’ triggers as well as general “big” triggers: They must not be mentioned anywhere in the server.
• You are free to speak of these triggers outside of the server, and if linking a document that contains such triggers, warn beforehand in the message and the document. Please also remove the embed by surrounding the link with <these>.

• Use your best judgement or simply ask OOC before encroaching upon conversations between characters that look as if they’re important to character development – for instance, a reunion. This is a public chat room, but no one likes to be interrupted when speaking.
• Please do not meta-game (your characters having knowledge when they shouldn’t) or power-play (your characters always win/have powers they don’t have) for any reason unless given prior permission. Please also do not control another person’s character(s).
• Unless your character breaks the fourth wall as part of their personality, you may not bring up the series of a character already on the masterlist in-character.

• An alternative to this may be altering or blocking out the name of a series – “Pokemon” becomes “Pokiman” or “P◼kemon”. If it’s canon for your muse to do this, we ask that you please do it only in moderation.

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• Reservations will last one (1) week, can be cancelled at any time, and can be extended upon request by an extra three (3) days if necessary.

• A single person can have up to two (2) reservations at a time.
• You do not need to reserve before applying, but it is highly encouraged to do so to secure your spot.

• You may have up to six (6) muses at any given time.

• You may apply up to two (2) muses at once and must wait for them to process before applying as more.

• If you drop three (3) characters within any 30 day time period, you may not apply any more for one (1) week. Anyone caught attempting to abuse this rule will be warned.
• We accept characters from most fictional series. We have the right to reject certain characters and series, as stated above already.
• We accept applications for original characters. 
• Doubles are allowed if there’s a canonical reason for them to exist. For example, there could be two Zeldas from different timelines. Before you app a double, you need permission from the original’s mun.
• Please do not app more than two characters from a single series, unless there’s a broad range of characters and/or different universes/a long time period in between (for example, a Zelda and two Links, all from different games, or Kamen Rider characters from different series). Contact a moderator for more information.
• Gijinkas are allowed provided that they are not a canon character creature or object (for instance, you can app a Pikachu, but not Ash’s Pikachu, in gijinka form).
• Fan characters are allowed! They must not have any ties to canon characters. If you are confused as to whether a character qualifies for ties to canon characters, do not hesitate to ask.
• We do not allow alternate universe versions of canon characters or series. This includes genderbends.
• All canon characters apped must have in-canon spoken lines or a semi-canon personality. If you are confused as to whether a character qualifies for this, do not hesitate to ask. For instance, you may not apply as Gentarou Yumeno’s friend from Hypnosis Mic.
• We ask that you include your OOC information on every new character you submit, even if you are already a member of the group.
• We absolutely do not tolerate plagiarism. Anyone caught doing so will receive two (2) immediate strikes for every plagiarized application. You must rewrite your application within two days or face being banned.

• During this lockdown, you are not allowed to roleplay on any of your characters, regardless of the other characters’ applications being plagiarized as well or not.
• You may copy a wiki page for abilities only and you must source by linking to the page that it was copied from.

• You may only age up your character if: 1, there is a canonical reason for an age up; 2, the age up does not go past three (3) years.

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• Activity checks will be held once a month. If a character is not checked in, they’ll be removed from the masterlist. Please see the forms page for more information.
• You must also make 250 messages a month in addition to the form sent to the main account on Discord.

• Please make sure not to spam chats just to make activity. 
• If you do not send in the character check, your character will immediately be dropped by the end of the activity check, regardless of whether or not you’ve made the 250 message requirement.
• If you send in the check but only have made between 100-249 messages, we will allow you one more month with a warning. You must make the 250 messages and the character check next month in order to stay in the group.
• If you send in the check but only have made 99 or less messages, your character will immediately be dropped by the end of the activity check.

• If a character is dropped, either willingly or through the activity checks, they may not be re-apped by the original mun for a period of one (1) week.
• You are allowed to have a character remember another who has dropped up until somebody other than the original mun applies that character. If the original mun reapplies, nothing is retconned unless they wish for it — but if another mun applies, all previous actions of the character are vague, distant memories to the residents of Einsatz.
• Hiatuses last up to four (4) weeks. They cannot be extended unless in special circumstances. Please contact a mod for more details.

• Muses on hiatus are exempt from activity check.
• You may not be active on a muse when said muse is on hiatus.
• You may not request a hiatus one (1) week before the first of the following month, unless you meet the activity check message requirements.