♫The Rules♫

[Cyan Nizou♥]

♫General Rules♫

1.] When you register as a member here, you commit yourself to being active and a friendly user. A member should always go by Probroads TOS and follow our own rules. You should be active. Those who cannot keep active or think they cannot keep active should not join. If we find that you are not active we will allow you one chance before we post an activity check. If you haven't post in it, then your account is deleted. Feel free to make another account and all your other characters. This is site is also rated NC 17+ but we'd like to keep it at PG 13+ for gore, violence, drug usage, sexual behaviors and the usual, so if you have these things please put a warning in the title!

2.] Please stay away from excessively cursing on the boards--in the out of character areas or in the actual roleplay. We won't mind a 'damn' or 'what the hell' occasionally but if it gets out of hand the staff will be involved.

3.] We advise members to stay away from double posting and spamming. Double posting is when you post immediately or after a short amount of time in a thread where you have just posted--this is not acceptable. Proboards offers us the gift known as the edit/modify button on posts which allows the members to edit the post as needed. We ask of you to use that. Spam is when a person repeatedly sends messages or posts something that has nothing to do with anything and just gibberish. We ask that you do not do that, for we will ban you for the rest of your life and will not allow you to come back. (Yes, we can do that.)

4.] We obviously allow members the use of avatars and signatures. The staff suggests that you use an avatar of your character and have a signature--it just makes the profile more interesting. Do not have a signature that stretches the page or you will be asked to remove it. If, for some reason, you cannot find an avatar or signature of your play by then please feel free to ask someone to make one for you. Request someone at the GFX board and they may offer you one. But if you have experience in photoshop, gimp or any programs like that then you should be able to make one for yourself if not for another person. Avatars must be the standard 100 x 100 and signatures can not be bigger than 450 x 450.

5.] Please, please do not ask us staff members if you can be staff. This annoys us greatly and will just make us think you are not staff-worthy. We will ask for more members if appropriate, but we think heavily on this decision for we would like the best of the best to part of our staff. People who have experience in certain areas such as graphics and coding are very much needed--then again, the current staff members could always learn.

6.] We do have a 300 word limit on posts and the posts will not be able to be made unless they hit that limit. I am working on removing the code that does this as soon as I can find it. This was due to an angry staff member.

[Cyan Nizou♥]

♫Profile & Character Rules♫

1.] Because we allow custom characters here, because we'd be very boring with just the canon, we allow people to claim and reserve face claims. These are play bys of people's characters, who are characters from another series. Because there are many, many characters that are in high demand, we would appreciate if you would so kindly post in the face claim thread--so we don't get any arguments and stuff like that. We will not allow anyone to use actual, real life celebrities for face claims--we're an anime forum. You don't expect to see celeb. pictures here, and on high school/uni forums you don't expect to see anime characters there. Got it?

2.] You are allowed multiple characters on here, but you must make a new account for each character. It's less unorganized that way. It also lets the staff change the member group of the profile to fit accordingly to the role of the character (i.e. a student or a teacher).

3.] Please wait to be accepted when posting a profile. The staff may be busy with other things such as their outside lives, forum-wide events or staff-related things and may not have the time to look at it right away just as it was finished. If, for some reason we do not see your profile and had not looked over it yet you may remind the staff one time.

[Cyan Nizou♥]

♫Role Play Rules♫

1.] All in character posts should be at least over three hundred(300) words all the time. We are a very literate place and we feel that our members should be literate role players as well. We will not accept posts that are one-liners or three-liners for that is just a little bit of one fourth of an actual role-play post. If you are stuck, then think of your character's emotions, movements, dialogue and all those things that you would use to write in a story. We do understand, however, if you get writer's block or run out of muse but that doesn't mean your writer's block or you being out of muse excuse will work all the time. We will know if you are lying or not--this will result in one warning. ~We would really prefer though if your minimum could be five hundred words plus.

2.] Posts should be in third person, past tense. This is because it is just the basics of role-playing. Third person role-playing is using words such as 'They, Them, He, She' and etc and should be in past tense--such as, looks would be looked and hears should be heard. Example 1: Kouichi looks over his shoulder, and sees his friend and waves at him. Example 2: I look over my shoulder, watching for my friend to wave at me. In example 1, there is present tense when there is suppose to be past tense. We will not allow that. In example 2 there is first person with a bit of present tense. This will not be tolerated either.

3.] When posting in a role-play thread, please be courteous and add things in the title such as [open], [closed] [for -name- and -name-]. This is to allow members to know who is allowed to post and who isn't allowed. When thread says it is open, it means anyone can post. If it says it is closed and has names next to it, then it means that only that person can post in that thread. Please also put a rating in the thread if it contains any sexual, gore or violent scenes so that our members will not look at it and be disgusted with themselves. We have younger members on this board and we do not want to get in trouble with showing them graphic scenes. Putting this like [M] in the thread title, as well as putting a warning in the first post would be helpful.

4.] As always, there is no godmodding or powerplaying allowed at all--which means no super-super-duper-strong attacks and one hit KOs or controlling another person's character. If the staff catches any of that then you will receive one warning and we will tell you to redo your post.

5.] Here at Nonbiri Ichimei, we do allow members to role play in liquid time--which means you can be in more than one thread. However, please try to refrain from being in so many threads that you cannot keep up with. If they get inactive or go dead they are moved to the archive so that the boards aren't cluttered up with old threads. If, for some reason, you feel the need to post in that thread still to make up for your lack of a post in it, you can tell a staff member to move it back to the appropriate board.