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Aurealan Realms Immortal Handbook
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Updated: June 21st, 2001

General rules of immortality:

Fellow Immortals, we realize you all are fully developed, independant human beings with your own opinions and lifestyle. By no means are the following rules intended to insult anyone's intelligence or do they intend to take away from anyone's personal RL freedom. During RoA's existence, however, situations have forced us to create and now strictly enforce rules concerning immortal behavior on AR. In ML, here on AR, as an immortal... you are required to follow the following guidelines as best you can. We believe them to be rather straight forward, but, if you have questions... simply ask. New Rule: "You may have your immortal on at the same time your mortal(s) are on, but your imm MUST be in builder-mode the entire time you have mortals online. As always, any immortal found to be using his/her powers to aid any other mortal in any way, shape or form, will be deleted. If the immortal is using their powers to aid their own morts, all characters involved will be deleted." 1: The Bottom Line. No giving ANY physical help to mortals. In other words, no loading money, objects, no healing, no transferring, no teleporting, no summoning, no statting mobs/objs for mortal benefit, or anything else that isn't N O R M A L immortal behavior. 2: Mob Loading. No loading mobs without a legitimate reason or permission. 3: Immortal EQ. Other than normal building activity, you may only load EQ for yourself for personal immortalish attire. 4: The Immortal Philosophy. Immortals exist on AR to make the mud a better place to play. That is your sole reason for existence here. Please remember that during your day to day activities here. 5: Common Sense. Use common sense and maturity (to a point of course). What mortals see you do, reflects what they think about the mud. 6: Decisions Regarding the Mud. Top level decisions related to AR are usually made by a majority vote which includes votes from every Immortal here. However, please remember that some decisions will be made without consultation of some or all of the general Immortal staff. Opinions are always welcome. 7: Image. All immortals here reflect the image of AR itself. Any and all decisions you make must take this fact into account. If it is deemed that your actions/attitude is inappropriate for the image of AR, you will be disciplined. Please be aware of this rule, it will be enforced much more than before. 8: The "snoop" command. The snoop command is a very powerful and potentially dangerous command. Unless you have permission from the person to be snooped, or you have _very_ good reason to suspect significant rules violations are in progress, do not use this command. Note: this also applies to standing invis in a room with people talking for any extended length of time. 9: Use of the Award Command. Those immortals given the Award command have a responsibility to both support and encourage Role-Playing on the mud, but must use this command wisely in order to keep it. Awards for Role-Playing must be given out for only the most EXCELLENT of Role-Playing. Think of it as the Aurealan Realms Academy Awards for best performance in a mud-role. As an immortal, you may be called to justify any/all awards given, and risk losing the ability if it is found that it was used improperly. The Head of RP will determine how/when the award command is to be used, as well as any guidelines for point amounts, etc. AR Immortal Ethical guidelines: 1: Act in the best interest of AR. 2: Protect the image and reputation of AR AND its Immortal staff. 3: Always consider the appearance of your actions. 4: Disclose potential violations by another Immortal immediately. 5: When in doubt... ask! Remember, it is your responsibility to follow these guidelines, not our responsibility to prevent you from breaking the rules. ALL action taken as a result of questionable behavior is PURELY at the discretion of the ADMINISTRATOR of Aurealan Realms. To save yourself from unnecessary scrutiny and guilt, simply refrain from any action that could be seen as a means of cheating or poor/unacceptable behavior. AR Intellectual Property Policy (IPP): -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Areas (mobs/objects/rooms/mobprocs/etc) are considered to be intellectual property and are "owned" by the builder who creates them. However, AR reserves the right to maintain a copy of ALL areas built on AR. In addition, RoA reserves the right to alter its version of all areas whenever it deems it necessary and/or appropriate without the original author's consent. However, AR does not reserve the right to solicit or exchange any areas on AR without the author's consent. All builders must agree to this IPP before they can build on AR. Implementors ------------ | Aurealan | | .Realms. | ------------