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- Clear Communication: It is on occasion necessary for staff to answer a request with a simple and unequivocal no. In such cases, Staffers should clearly cite either a book reference or a wiki reference substantiating the denial, or otherwise explain the extenuating circumstances necessitating the denial.
- Default Rulings: Staff must enact the rules hierarchy set forth in this document. Houserules supercede published errata which supercedes the most recent published version of a rule which supercedes older versions of a rule. If a houserule is not currently in place on the wiki, the rule defaults to the rules as written according to the above hierarchy. Unclear rules without clarifying errata or houserules should be arbitrated by the scene's ST be they a player or a staffer and submitted for clarification after the scene is over.
- Impartiality: Staff are forbidden from involving themselves in any matter relating directly to their PCs, their PC's player group, their PC's family, friends, rivals, enemies, or IC partners. They may not process XP requests, equipment requests, action requests, or any other request for such individuals, or any other request that would directly benefit their character in any fashion. Furthermore, they are forbidden from taking part in discussions about such matters with other staffers, or even viewing requests relating to their characters or their character's circle of influence. Actions violating the spirit of this rule, even if it doesn't violate the letter of the rule will be taken with equal seriousness. TL;DR: Staffers should go out of their way to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest.
- Staff Role and Player Role Divide: Staff forums, discords, and direct messages are in place to facilitate staff communication about matters pertaining to staff. Staff should not discuss their player side intentions and actions in staff only spaces. While such discussions are permissible in player spaces, the intention here is to keep staff from unintentionally excluding players from avenues of fun, and to prevent any notion of influencing other staffers to favor another staffer's IC activities.
- NPC Scenes: Any actual RP with an NPC must happen on the server, and must be logged onto the wiki and linked to the NPC's page properly. It's okay to like, 'Artje would tell the Sakima where to get good shoes,' 'great, the Sakima thinks that's cool.' in DMs, but anything that's actually RP'd has to be in public, where it can be seen as it's happening, and then go up on the wiki for documentation.
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Player Policies
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- Conflict Resolution: All players of From Dusk Till Jawn are adults, and we ask that you treat one another as peers. Not everyone can get along with everyone else at all times, and conflicts will naturally arise. If someone is upsetting you, presume positive intent as detailed below and reach out to them directly to ask them to change their behavior. This is the first step anyone should be taking. If you have approached the other player about their behavior and the behavior continues, or they simply refuse to change their behavior, then you should be reaching out to staff to request our help in arbitrating the manner. The exception to this would be behavior that is deliberately antagonistic or violates our harassment policy; in such instances, contact staff immediately.
- Courteous Practices: All players should read and follow our site's courteous practices guidelines.
- Harassment: It is never acceptable to disparage another player on the basis of their age, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, appearance, body type, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It is never acceptable to contact another player with unwanted sexual advances. It is never acceptable to run a whisper campaign against another player. It is never acceptable to contact another player to attempt to coerce, intimidate, or harass them into changing their IC actions. You can contact another player to attempt to cooperatively discuss mitigating the potential fallout of IC actions, but if they state they prefer to keep the matter entirely IC, that request must be honored.
- This Is Our Living Room: And staff won't tolerate any behavior in it that we wouldn't tolerate in our real-life living room: racism, sexism, queer/homo/trans/bi/acephobia, classism, ableism, fatphobia, antisemitism, Islamophobia, and any other structural biases we forgot to list are not welcome here. It's okay to ask people to spoiler images or text which upset you in OOC channels. For IC situations, see Safe Hearths, Safe Tables below. We want everyone to enjoy hanging out here.
- Presume Positive Intent: Online communication lacks tone of voice and body language, so very often our words fall flat. We ask that you assume the best of both staff and your fellow players. If someone says something that upsets you, by all means bring it up, but do so in such a way that presumes the other person didn't mean to upset you. And similarly, if someone suggests something you did or said has upset them, be gracious and apologize for it. Open and honest communication helps keep the game fun and casual during easy moments, and makes it possible for tense moments to take place without hurt feelings and in a continuum of trust.
- Safe Hearths, Safe Tables: We attempt to emulate the Safe Hearths doctrine in Changeling: The Lost, pp302-304. During tense scenes, players and staff are encouraged to check in with the other people in the scene using the Stoplight system. Red means too intense, please dial it back and/or talk about it OOC. Yellow means the intensity is great where it's at, keep it there. Green means the current intensity level is fine and could even be dialed up a bit. Similarly, in keeping with the Lines and Veils system, players are not obligated to RP through any scene they are no longer enjoying. There are no exceptions to this rule. Once a player has stated they wish to fade to black, all other players in the scene must immediately stop roleplaying and decide if the scene must be resolved entirely without further RP, or if the player who wishes to leave can simply have their character step out of the scene, allowing play to continue for the others once they've stepped out. Players cannot use this rule to escape IC consequences. While the roleplay can and should end if a player is no longer having fun, the negative events happening to the character must be resolved on an out of character level. Players should feel free to involve a staffer in arbitrating this resolution.
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