1) abide by the aging system.
2) pregnant cats give birth after two weeks minimum.
3) mentors and apprentices must spend time together at least once a week.
4) when making a new cat, be sure to read their respective Clan's information page.
5) wait a few days before having your kits open their eyes.
6) no godmode, powerplaying, or metagaming is allowed.
7) on same-sex couples and litter rolls.
8) liquid time rules.
9) thread rules.
10) event rules.
13) try not to repeat already used names, and don’t use the names of major canon characters.
- the aging system in Árdegi is one moon every two weeks. kits age up one moon every week.
2) pregnant cats give birth after two weeks minimum.
- if you would like your cat to carry for longer than that, feel free - but a cat cannot give birth after one week. two weeks is the minimum.
3) mentors and apprentices must spend time together at least once a week.
- in order to build a solid enough relationship between mentor and apprentice, they should train at least once a week. while it can be assumed they will train more than that off-screen, they should try their best in aiming for weekly training in character.
4) when making a new cat, be sure to read their respective Clan's information page.
- having a cat that fits into its clan is very important, but exceptions can be made if you're willing to plot things like these out!
5) wait a few days before having your kits open their eyes.
- kittens IRL typically open their eyes after 5 - 10 days!
6) no godmode, powerplaying, or metagaming is allowed.
- please ask permission before doing anything to another roleplayer’s cat. metagaming is when you apply your knowledge of in game events to the roleplay that the cats may not know. ex. OOC, you were told how many lives a leader has and your cat suddenly knows, despite not being told IC.
7) on same-sex couples and litter rolls.
- for same sex couples who would like to have kits, there are several options - with surrogation and adoption being the two most common, however, if both parents are put down in the litter request, it will be assumed a sire or dam with the same appearance was found for them!
8) liquid time rules.
- your cat can only be in two places at once.
- camp is considered the present - please do not liquid time your cat somewhere else if they’re in camp and instead just have them go there in-RP. camp is considered all dens.
- don’t liquid time your cats if they’re in an important roleplay. ex. you liquid time your cat to go hunting while their kits are being born in another thread. LT is now limited to unimportant roleplays.
9) thread rules.
- a post can be of any length and how fast you post is up to you, but if you are in a roleplay with 3+ people then a post order is now mandatory.
- an event ex. valleyclan traveling back to east camp does not require one big post order because it is not one massive thread - it is multiple threads in one territory taking place at the same time. the same goes for camp roleplays, but be courteous and do not post so fast that other players have to scroll to see what they’re responding to.
- if a person does not respond for a long period of time, reach out to them and ask them if they want to be skipped instead of just skipping them. if they ask you to wait, wait.
10) event rules.
- an event should last a decent amount of time so that everybody has time in character to react to what is going on. an event should not last less than a day and it should not be rushed to the point where people cannot catch up. events are opportunities for good development for a character and to miss that may mean missing out on integral development.
- to be able to play another, it must make sense plotwise. there are some rules to this, and of course people without high ranks will be prioritized.
- these applications can be denied for any reason.
- requires staff approval.
- leaders cannot apply to be another leader. they can apply for a deputyship as long as the the deputy or leader is guaranteed to die or retire.
- deputies cannot apply for a leader if they intend to see their deputy to leadership. they cannot apply for another deputy if they already have two deputies. they must kill off or retire one of their deputies if they plan on having the other deputy become leader. they may apply for a medicine cat as long as it is outside the Clan.
- medicine cats can apply to be deputy outside their Clan. they cannot apply for another medicine cat/medicine cat apprentice.
- determining whether someone should have a second high rank will be based off of...
- activity
- previous performance of past high rank.
- a person who wants any high rank needs to be a member of the server for at least a month
- second high rank cat must be pre-existing — cannot be created just to fill the purpose of the high rank
- from now on, if you decide to use a prefix already present in the roleplay, the cats cannot be in the same Clan. this is to avoid confusion with tagging, allegiances, and biographies.
13) try not to repeat already used names, and don’t use the names of major canon characters.
- please be sure to check the allegiances to make sure a name isn’t already in use.
- when a kit is born with a prefix nobody else has used, that prefix is banned until they reach warriorhood. ex. there can’t be two Redpaws and there can’t be two Bluekits.
- major canon character names ex. Needletail, Squirrelflight, Fireheart, Spottedleaf are disallowed.
- in the case that an Árdegi leader ends up with the same name as a canon leader [ex. Firetalon becomes Firestar] an exception will be made.