rules of LOAL

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general topics

BE POLITE. Use your manners, we know you have them! Don't do anything on here that you wouldn't do in front of your grandma.

GENRE & RATING. This a Pokemon roleplay in a (fake) region known as Cystellia. Has the same cities, towns, and routes as the Unova region. All Pokemon from every region are found here.

CURSING RULE. Four letter words should be kept to an absolute minimum, though them slipping every so often is alright as long as they're not extremely vulgar words.

USERNAMES & ACCOUNTS. Please, do not use numbers in your names. This site is also one character per account. If you want another character, go make another account; and be sure that the display name is your character's name.

characters

CREATION. Please use the form, and keep to it. Do not change the codes, and try to keep the minimum word counts in mind! Also, do not roleplay until after your character has been accepted!

POKEMON. You must have a starter Pokemon when you create your character! If you have another Pokemon with you, a staff member will see the stats to see if it's acceptable (only the makers of the site can have a reasonably high leveled Pokemon on team, and only one!).

APPROVED CHARACTERS. Your character will be moved to the Accepted board and separated according to it's gender. Within each board, characters are listed by females and then males.

in character

THE GLOBAL RULE. Everyone knows this, no power playing or god modding! This will never be allowed, no matter what the situation is.

POSTING MINIMUM. The word minimum is 100 words per in character post. Quality is better than quantity always, so don't worry if all you can pump out is this much, as long as it is well written (off days are understandable).

LIQUID TIME. Liquid time, where your character can be in more than one thread at a time, is allowed to an extent. You can not roleplay your character in a battle at the same time unless it's with a wild Pokemon.

RELATIONSHIPS. Do you plan on having a wedding with your characters sometime soon? Now that the wife is "expecting" we prefer that you do not make it realistic when the baby comes. Heck, just pretend you've had it for about a year now! This is not a M rated site, if you're looking for one, go somewhere else.

aging and gestation

A whole season is one real-time month.

A whole year in-game is 4 months, but a young kid (ages 1-5) can reach one year in two real-time months to speed things up (if you want).

fighting

BASICS. If you have a problem deciding the outcome of a fight, please ask for assistance from a staff member. They will look over each reply to decide the winner. Descriptive fighting is allowed. Three dodges and two attacks are allotted per fight.

KEEPING TRACK. At the end of each attack reply, please note how many dodges and attacks you used in that post.

WILD POKEMON. If you feel like battling a wild Pokemon, then put (MOD) in your thread so we can see that you're wanting to fight/catch a wild Pokemon. Then they'll reply with this table (which will be messaged to staff) and use the random Pokemon image they choose.

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