Rules for unnatural

Last Updated: December 19, 2023

 

Welcome to Unnatural’s rules - We’ve done our best to keep these clear and concise, but these rules are subject to change as we deem necessary. Updates will be shared with the community via Discord and in-world notices.

 

Privately Owned Sim

Linden Lab Terms of Service (TOS) and Community Standards apply at all times. However, Unnatural is a privately owned sim, and as such, these rules, as laid out on this page, must be abided. While Unnatural’s sims are open to the public, they remain in private ownership, and we reserve the right to deny entry to any person at any time as deemed necessary. 

 

Definitions

• Player 

  • That's you! The OOC individual behind the keyboard, look at you go!

• Account 

  • Your SL account.

• Character 

  • Your IC manifestation, that badass! You can have multiple characters (currently two per Account), each with their own story, personality, and individual needs and wants.

• NPCs

  • Non-Player Characters, or NPCs, are any character that is not controlled by a player. See ‘NPCs’ for more.

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Be Cool!

Roleplay, have fun, don’t be a jerk. That’s it, that’s the most important rule. The rest of the rules outlined here are to ensure that roleplay follows a common lore and that disputes can be easily resolved. Bending the rules, finding loopholes, and pushing limits ruin the fun for everyone. Don’t do it. 

 

The Lore

When you first join Unnatural, you agree to follow these rules and the sim lore. Sim Lore allows everyone to relate to a common theme and traits.

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Two (2) Characters per Account

We don’t care how many “alts” you bring, and you do not need to disclose them, of course, but you may only play two (2) characters per SL Account.  Please be mindful of possible conflicts of interest between characters and situations where metagaming could occur.  

 

Storylines and information must be distinct per character. Players may not share storylines or information between their characters that could be considered metagaming. Example: You may not be both the victim and the perpetrator of the same crime or be the police officer investigating your alt's crime. All stories must be kept separate and individual.  Any issues arising from this could result in the loss of a player’s ability to run multiple characters.

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Adult Human-like Avatars Only

No child avatars or underage players ever. Simple. Ageplay, CSAM, or anything related will result in an immediate ban. All avatars must be realistic and human-looking, even for non-human races when in human form. That means no furries, anthropomorphic, cartoon, or anime avatars are permitted.  Pregnancy, NPC prim babies, and child NPCs (off-screen) are permitted. If your character’s age is questionable, Unnatural’s administrators reserve the right to seek clarification and alteration. 

 

Unnatural is an adult sim with adult situations. While NPC children are permitted, at no time and under no circumstance is any roleplay allowed that causes harm, physical or otherwise, to children, which includes feeding or turning of NPC children. In the case of pregnancy, do not RP harm or abrupt/spontaneous termination when it involves other characters without clear and explicit agreement on the outcome or IC consequences for all those involved in the story/scene.  For example, do not roleplay that another character’s actions caused a miscarriage without OOC discussions and agreement.

 

No Disruptive Gestures or Attachments

Gestures, attachments, or objects that create excessive or disruptive sound or that spam chat, including objects in your rental unit, vehicle, or body, are prohibited. Be courteous to your fellow players and avoid excessive scripts that may cause lag. If found, you will be asked to remove them.

 

Keep it IC

Roleplay is meant to be fun; even if your character is a jerk, don’t be one in OOC spaces. That said, the use of blatantly offensive language (‘slurs’) attacking another player’s race, sexuality, religion, national origin, disability, or age is prohibited IC and OOC - No matter how much of a jerk your character is, such language is not tolerated. IC animosity and conflict do not equal OOC animosity and conflict.  

 

Be Respectful

Be OOC respectful to other players when discussing IC.  While we understand that certain scenarios, characters, stereotypes, and personality types are completely plausible and happen in real life, we ask our players to refrain from roleplaying sensitive real-life issues that might offend other players. 

 

The use of blatantly offensive language (‘slurs’) attacking another player’s race, sexuality, religion, national origin, disability, or age is prohibited IC and OOC - No matter how much of a jerk your character is, such language is not tolerated. Playing a character that hurls racist insults at vampires and werewolves (think True Blood “fanger,” “fang-banger”) is okay.  Playing a character that is bigoted and hateful towards the LGBTQIA+ community or other human races is not okay.  

 

Bad Things Happen

Consider your environment. Murder, theft, rape, prostitution, human trafficking, bombings, kidnapping, drugs, etc are all admissible in RP.  If any of these situations (or similar) are a problem for you, please take steps to avoid them.  Be clear about your limits and respect other people’s limits.

 

Consequences

Bad things happen to good people, sure, but even more bad things happen to bad people. Unnatural is a consent-based sim and asks others to respect limits; however, players may not use this fact to hide behind their "right to life" or their own limits to get out of consequences, nor should they expect other players to unfairly compromise their characters to accommodate those limits. By involving your character in a situation where they may come to harm, say, by picking a fight or robbing a business, you are consenting to the potential of injury or worse - Should you wish for your character to remain unharmed, the player should not place their characters in a situation where harm could be reasonably expected; similarly, if you do not want your character to die, do not put them in a situation where death is a likely outcome. Don't skip in a minefield and be surprised when a landmine goes off. 

 

Players are asked to abide by a simple rule: ICA = ICC, that is, In-Character Actions have In-Character Consequences. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. And that time might be forever.

 

Consent

Consent is sexy, but when we talk about consent in an RP lens, we're talking mostly about communication OOCly. Gaining consent from other players is as easy as sliding into their DMs and engaging in conversation - Ask questions, give and take, and craft epic stories together. Consent is everything here in Unnatural, and is hugely important to keeping everyone happy and informed and creates amazing stories in turn. Consent, consent, consent!

 

All actions that may affect other characters or their property (including their NPCs, rental property, or place of business) require consent from the business owner or leader.

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