While you are a member of this site you are required to keep to the following guidelines in your Roleplaying. This is intended to keep the standard of the Roleplaying as high as possible and to help you to develop your own writing skills.

Please read each of the following guidelines carefully before Roleplaying on the site. If you do not understand anything, feel free to contact a staff member.

1. No Mary-Sues or Larry-Stus.

May Sues are characters that possess unrealistic or unlikely traits above and beyond those expected of the average character. They are nearly always exceptionally attractive, with said attractiveness often being described in great detail and typically noticed frequently by the other characters.

She will instantly be have an incredible talent - she will able to change the color of her fur or eyes, be able to do more magic than Mistofelees, and will be a better dancer than Victoria. She'll fall in love with her creator's favourite character. She usually have the majority of the male characters drooling at her feet.

Mary Sues normally have exceptional physical and personal characteristics, including unusual and (typically) tragic backgrounds. They may have uncommon eye or fur colors that change with their moods, or come from a race or species which is uncommon or unknown in the story's setting. They may have exotic names, pets, or possessions, often ones with great perceived mystical or magical significance. They usually have dark or traumatic pasts, although they never suffer as a result of it, and they are generally portrayed as misunderstood or unfairly persecuted. They are often abandoned as infants or young children, from a famous or infamous family, or related somehow to all of the author's favorite characters.

The male version of Mary-Sue is referred to as a Larry-Stu or in some places, a Gary-Stu. He can also be distinguished by his his brooding, solitary behaviour, matched by his maverick disregard for authority. He is likewise endowed with amazing powers and abilities, and has the majority of the female characters falling at his feet.

For a free test to see if your character is a Mary-Sue or Larry-Stu, visit the Mary Sue Litmus Test.

2. No One-Liners.

It is generally considered to be good manners, when replying to a Roleplay, to write roughly the same amount in reply to the other members taking part. Imagine how disappointing it would be if you wrote something that took an hour only to have a single reply of: "Mary-Sue walked into the room 'OMGZ Hiiii!'" in return. Non-RP threads are required to have at least three sentences of relevant content in the first post. Roleplays, on the other hand are required to have a paragraph of at least seventy five words / five sentences in all posts. Any posts below this level will not receive Dazzles and will be removed.

3. No God-Moding or Metagaming.

God-Moding is a practice whereby a character automatically has everything they do work perfectly. If they cast a spell it works first time and always hits its target. When Roleplaying such a thing as a duel, always give the other player a chance to dodge the spells being cast in their direction. For instance:

"Larry-Stu shot a look at him, shooting lasers from his eyes and slaying him instantly."

Would be an example of this.

Meta-Gaming is the use by a character in a Roleplay of information that they have never learnt. For instance, knowing someones name and full history before they have been introduced to them. Just because you know something or someone, it doesn't mean that your character automatically does too.

5. One character only / No Autoing.

Autoing is an extremely irritating occurrence. It is when a player takes control of a character which does not belong to them, usually without permission. Please control only your own characters.

While you are a member of this website you may only have two characters at any one time. The character described in your profile must be the one you use to RP with.

6. Keep to Canon situations.

Every talent has its limitations and conditions. Noone's magic is going to be more powerful than that of Mistolefees. Macavity will not fall in love with your character and instantly become good.

7. Only accepted Vampires / Shapeshifters may Roleplay as them.

If the species on your profile says 'human', then that's what you are. Both vampires and Shapeshifters are relatively rare. It's still a human world and we have a special points system so that members may later be bitten or begin to Phase later on. You may only play your own accepted character. If you wish to change something about your character, you need to enter the new information under the profile tab on "your page" which is near to the bottom of the navigation bar.

8. Closed and Open Roleplays.

An Open Roleplay is one that anybody can join. A Closed Roleplay is one that only those who have been invited by the creator may join in with. If a Roleplay has a specific name in the title, it means that that thread is closed to its creator and the characters who's names have been added. "Closed to (name)" means the same thing.

The majority of RPs on Jellicle Moon will be open. If you wish to restrict who can taken part, please add (Closed) to the thread's title. If you see a thread with this title, it means that you can't post in it unless you have been invited by someone taking part in it already. Please don't post asking if you can join - if you're interested, send a message to the member that started the thread.

9. OOC Posts.

Please keep OOC (Out of Character) notes out of the Roleplaying. They disrupt the flow of the Roleplay and also make it difficult to determine what is and isn't said by the characters themselves. If you wish to ask a question or inform someone that you have to go, it is better to use messages rather than post it. OOC threads separate to the Roleplays are fine as long as they are placed in an OOC forum.

10. Posting Limits

Canon characters are required to post a minimum of six times per week. For major Canons at least three of these must be Roleplays, for minor Canons at least two of these must be Roleplays.

12. Site Rating

The site is currently rated PG-13 in almost every area. However for some characters, mainly Canon characters, it is a little difficult to stay completely in-character with this rating. Therefore we will allow occasional threads to contain PG-15 content in order to help rectify this problem. ALL threads with this rating MUST contain a warning in the title. Anything reaching PG-15 that does not include a warning in the title will be deleted without notice and there may be further consequences depending on the severity of the infringement.

If any characters or plots seem to be getting out of hand, changing them WILL be a requirement. We reserve the right to remove the PG-15 rule at any time if it has any negative effects whatsoever.

The PG-15 rule does NOT include language - you still may not swear anywhere on the site. Amd this is not an excuse to go overboard. If anything is inappropriate, or too explicit in content the staff will remove it without warning. That includes posts, signatures, private messages - anything on the site at all.

Finally in order to be able to post anything at all with this rating you must either actually BE 15 years of age or older, or else have parental permission to take part.

12. Canon Links

As it would clash with Canon, and we would probably be swamped with them, we do not allow any characters to be related to Canons, unless they are Canons themselves and there are enough similarities between them for them to pass as relatives. This includes family links, romantic relationships and friendships. This means that you can't be a mate, child etc. of an existing character.

If your character has lived in the Junkyard for their whole life, they will probably know some of the Canons by sight and/or name. But any friendships will have to be developed while Roleplaying.

If you play a Canon character who is single, then finding them an original character for a mate is fine once original characters are opened up.