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                  In a land of military dogs and contrived lies, where everyone smiles at you in person but behind those white teeth lay words poisonous enough to sell you and your grandmother's hearts for a slice of wealth for themselves, lives an equally greedy, manipulating man named Maximilian. Along with his partner Adelle, they have conspired against the system to bring the people of Saltaire something only money can buy them... Lots and lots of money. Welcome to Royalty Bound.

                  Step inside and join our community, perhaps one day you'll come back to pick up your own Prince charming. Make sure to say hi to our thread regulars, they've been beaten into submission and are only too happy to act as doormen and greet newcomers! So no excuses, don't be scared--We don't bite but the Princes may occasionally flick their tongues at you. Ignore them, if you find yourself in such a situation, some of them aren't very well behaved..

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                  ▶ 28.02.2010.
                    Fem-inja's Prince has advanced to tadpole stage on page 701! Congrats!

                  ▶ Older.
                    01.02.2010. The Valentines' Day surprise has come and gone and we congratulate ladyumbra for finding the mystery frog!
                    30.01.2010. There is now a thread title standard for the Quests subforum in the Guild! Read for more information.
                    24.01.2010. The surprise flatsale is officially closed! Congratulations d o m i n o - c h i l d for her winning entry, you deserved our hyla wrightorum! To all of those who missed out, please do check out our "availability" post (in particular the last option) and go crazy! All of you were so close!
                    05.01.2010. The opening contests are closed! Congratulations to Luafien and lilstalkerrr for their fantastic entries, you two deserved the top prize! Watch out for the surprise flatsale event taking place on the second page!
                    02.01.2010. Contests are officially opened! Check out the second page for more details.
                    01.01.2010. Thread opening!! Stick around and join one of our opening contests, and enter our community!
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                  ▶ General.
                  1. There is no blacklist. If you behave in an excessively rude manner or mess up otherwise, you will be ignored by the mule and not allowed to return.
                  2. There is a limit of one Prince per person. Co-owning is not allowed. The only exception is joint custody through breeding.
                  3. When visiting the guild, each subforum has its own set of rules which you must also be aware of.
                  4. This is a drama-free zone, do not force the staff to step in to resolve your conflicts for you.
                  5. Please adhere to common thread etiquette--this means trimming quote towers, not advertising your own b/c, and typing in full English, please!

                  ▶ Roleplay.
                  1. This shop is RP-required and as such, any pets who have not been played in months will be frozen and only retrievable through a roleplay with Maximilian.
                  2. User ImagePlease follow the Daisy Code (accessible by clicking the flower to the left).
                    This is just common courtesy towards other players!
                  3. Every owner must keep and look after their own journal--this should go without saying.
                  4. All formal roleplays must be held in the guild in the appropriate subforums, not in the thread.
                  5. Owners will need to leave note about any and all hiatuses from Gaia.

                  ▶ Flatsale.
                  1. Flatsales will be conducted through an RP prompt contest.
                  2. All entries are to be submitted to the shop mule.
                  3. One entry per person.
                  4. The quality of writing you submit to the contest must not be ridiculously better than the writing you do for your Journal or any roleplays once you have won a Prince.
                  5. No gold, no pet.

                  ▶ Auction.
                  1. Retracting bids will not be tolerated with the exception of issues occurring to your account that are out of your hands.
                  2. Bid only what you have.
                  3. Item bids are allowed, so long as they are reasonable and under the limit that trades allows.
                  4. To prevent snipers, bidding will be prolonged six hours after the last bid.
                  5. Discouraging others from bidding via petty cheerleading or bragging about funds will not be tolerated and you will be Ignored.
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                  By the year 3100, Nuclear Winter has come, leaving the human population to deal with the lasting effects on the ecosystem. Many animals have become endangered, and some extinct thanks to the actions of the homo-sapiens. A young professor by the name of Maximilian Y had been studying the results of certain species dying off, and found that amphibians played a delicate role in maintaining the ecosystem. Because of the harsh and stressful conditions of the winter, most amphibians could not survive, frogs being one of the only groups left, and quickly reaching their extermination. Maximilian then determinedly sought a way to save these animals, as well as the ecosystem. Gathering as many different breeds of frogs and even toads, Prof. Y began to experiment with human genes in attempt to enhance the amphibians enough to survive colder climates.

                  At first, the genetic serum worked, allowing the frogs to be stronger and adept to the cold, or at least until they overpopulated. Eventually they began to die out again, and Prof. Y was left with a sense of discouragement… but also a little bit of hope. Diligently, he revised the formula used to enhance the frogs, certain now that it would last long enough to keep the species alive. Much to Prof. Y’s surprise, this new formula managed to not only further strengthen the frogs, but cause a rapid transformation to occur within them, turning the amphibians into human-like hybrids capable of several tasks that some humans could not perform. The formula was still not flawless, as the genes used to protect the creatures from the harsh weather only attached to Y chromosomes, thus bringing a steady end to the females. When reproduced by cloning, however, enough chromosomes were left over by the females which caused some of the males to possess certain feminine characteristics to develop and adapt with as well as the regular males.

                  Prof. Y’s original experiment had become somewhat of a mutated success, and it wasn’t long before the scientist realized how exploitable his workers were. The humanoid amphibians were excellent at all sorts of chores and tasks, ranging from domestic talents, such as cleaning and cooking, to outdoor tasks, like lifting and constructing, and Maximilian could see the workers becoming an excellent source of manual labor… and money. It didn’t take long for wealthy, fat-pocketed connoisseurs to show a growing interest in his “frog prince” project…

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                  ▶ ▶ ▶World.

                  User ImageThe role-play will be set during an era very similar to during the times of the Cold War. The country, which has been long occupied by Eastern Europe, is former England and the story is set in the little village of Saltaire, with a population of less than a thousand heads, surrounding a lake and mostly hidden from the rest of the country by a large mountain range. There is one main road that passes over the lake and out of the village but since there are a few supermarkets and a hospital inside the village itself, seldom anyone comes nor goes, except for the Military Officials who occasionally visit the small town to check for stowaways and signs of suspicious behavior.

                  Most of the town residents come from a mixture of communist and socialist countries who have immigrated from the East, though sometimes the town receives capitalist guests, most of which have been discovered (due to the numerous security measures installed throughout all homes and streets in Saltaire) and promptly beheaded. So far, these (to the right) are the only countries that have been allowed free passage through former England's borders--all others are perpetrators that must be reported to the authorities immediately for fear of treason charges.

                  Due to the ruling style of the country, the honest, hardworking citizens of former Britain had to fight for their meals, earning only a few thousand gold pieces a day (which, due to overwhelming inflation during The War, had become quite a small deal of money, barely enough to buy two loaves of bread). Saltaire however had been renown for the cracks within their population, with a large chunk of citizens former Military employees during the war and thus had been bestowed with large amounts of gold, most of which had been since hidden and stowed away, below floorboards, buried under gardens, frozen into outer walls of the house. This was just as well because the Military, as soon as the war was over, declared all surplus funds to be returned so that it could be used to restore and rebuild the former glory of the Motherland. What an Orwellian regime..
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                  ▶ Egg.
                  1. You receive a little egg enclosed in some sort of porous material embedded on a brooch. If you look closely enough, you can see your little Prince growing inside it. These pins must be worn above the heart on a regular basis until it is time for them to hatch; since the Princes will be growing into rather humanoid-looking children, allowing them to recognize you as their parent and guardian will ensure that minimal problems are encountered during the time spent with your experiment.

                  ▶ Tadpole.
                  2. Your egg begins to develop and the shell is cracked open to retrieve a little tadpole--he continues his growth inside a jar. Frequent interaction with the little creature growing inside is recommended to minimize their rebellious stage during adolescence. A well-looked-after Prince is a behaved Prince.

                  ▶ Princeling.
                  3. Your prince has began his transmogrification into a human-like creature, showing very distinctive human traits but keeping several amphibious features, including a small tail to help it swim with his more delicate limbs. You, as their guardian, must ensure that the special clothing designed to keep them alive is constantly worn, and that they receive plenty of water. Allowing your Prince to dehydrate will ensure that Adelle will never allow you to claim another one.

                  ▶ Prince
                  4. By now your Prince's metamorphosis has nearly reached an end, leaving the creature with a much more human-like structure and the ability to move around outside water for longer periods. Amphibious traits left over include webbed feet and fingers, longer legs, slick skin and colorings of the Prince's original breed.

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                  5. Who knows what these creatures are capable of..

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                  ▶ Egg.
                  1. Set up journal
                    Finished introductory RP with Maximilian and/or Adelle
                    At least one solo journal entry post purchase to display levels of pet/human interaction
                    Time requirement: 2 weeks for growing
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                  ▶ Tadpole.
                  2. RP with Max and/or Adelle so they can release your pet from the pin
                    At least 3 journal entries post hatching that include thoughts from the owner and/or any interaction roleplays with other owners
                    A surprise post in your Journal from Djubre describing your Tadpole's growth (to make the transition more natural from tadpole to Princeling)
                    Time requirement: 2 weeks for growing
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                  ▶ Princeling.
                  3. RP with Max for an initial healthcheck
                    RP with Adelle for the creation of your pet's wardrobe
                    Naming of your pet
                    Involvement in at least 1 metaplot
                    At least 15 journal entries including interactions with other owners and pets, owner's thoughts, and owner/pet interaction
                    Time requirement: 8 weeks for growing
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                  ▶ Prince
                  4. RP with Max for a healthcheck
                    RP with Adelle for clothes developments
                    Involvement in at least 2 metaplots
                    Further requirements unknown.
                    Time requirement: 8 weeks for growing
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                  5. Well when you get up to this stage, you don't need any more advancement.

                  Please keep in mind that these are just minimum guidelines for your pet's growth. We look over your activity very closely and if we find that your completed requirements are very obviously your bare minimum of what you're capable of, you will have to wait a little longer for your pet to grow.
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                  When at their adult stage, Princes can breed through 'cloning' methods. Due to the difficulty presented in attaching the resilience gene to the x-chromosome, all Princes are male. Considering their humanoid physiology, however, scientists in the field decided it would be unfair to disallow the mating of homosexual hybrids and developed a process that allows the offspring to carry both male's characteristics. Through the cloning process.

                  The SCNT (somatic cell nuclear transfer) process starts with an unfertilized human egg, or oocyte. We remove the oocyte's nucleus, which contains the egg's genes, or hereditary "instructions." What remains after removal of the nucleus is a cell that contains nutrients essential for embryo development and other cellular machinery waiting for a new set of instructions. A somatic cell from the animal to be cloned--or in some cases, just the cell's nucleus--is cultured in an incubator and then injected under the coating of the unfertilized oocyte. (Somatic cells are any cells of the body except sperm and eggs.) Stimulated by a mild electrical pulse, the oocyte cytoplasm (everything in the cell but the nucleus) and the genetic material from the donated somatic cell combine. If fusion is successful, the resulting fused cell divides just as if it were a fertilized egg and produces an embryo. The embryo is placed in an incubator with similar environmental conditions to where ordinary frogspawn is laid and, if development proceeds normally, an offspring is born.

                  To put it simply, we remove the DNA information from an egg and insert the information from one of the males into the egg while allowing the other male's sperm to fertilise the egg. Male pregnancies in themselves are ridiculous and physically impossible, therefore, the eggs produced from this union will be grown the normal way from stage one.
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                  There are only a few certain ways in which you can purchase a Prince of your own.

                  ▶ Flatsales.
                  1. Flatsales occur on an occasional basis. During this time, you will receive more information of the nature of the flatsale, but they are usually held in contest form. Flatsale Princes cost 20k.

                  ▶ Auctions.
                  2. Auctions are held on a rare basis at the artist's whims.

                  ▶ Events.
                  3. Usually (but not always) held in a seasonal manner, you know, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, etc. We say "not always" because sometimes Princelets (the elusive stage between Tadpole and Princeling) will be given out, which are non-RP experiments unless the owner applies (and wins) custom slots through events, auctions, or otherwise.

                  ▶ Bribes
                  4. These are usually very steep, and Djubre will most likely only consider large bribes like nm minis or ports or other high-end items such as 2003 collectibles (which is why it's probably better to wait for a flatsale or auction). They're always opened, but only ever for semi-customs (i.e. choosing of species and genotype).

                  ▶ Roleplaying
                  5. These are the much rarer alternatives to flatsales. If King or Dju notice (and they will) that you are producing a consistently high standard of roleplay in our guild, we may surprise you with the opportunity to buy your very own quested-for Prince! These will only cost you half price of a normal flatsale (only if we pick you!). Click on the above link for more information.
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                  ▶ Egg.
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                  ▶ Princeling.
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                  ▶ Prince.
                  4. None yet.

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                  5. None yet. Thankfully.
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                  User Image▶ ▶ ▶Professor Y.

                  Professor Maximilian Y (last name concealed to protect identity) started off as a committed scientist during The War, researching ways to immunize soldiers from hybrid diseases unleashed by the enemy, devastating effects caused by nuclear warfare. Within a few short months, nuclear winter had wiped out most of the earth's resources and soldiers could no longer keep up arms, with both sides of The War vanishing to their respected countries and attempting to stabilize the ecosystems in their countries before they launch another attack in a last bid to wipe out their opponents.
                  Maximilian was one of the leading scientists in the hospitals so the commanders placed him in charge of his own personal underground laboratory, Rheinfels, in charge of preventing the decline of amphibian species, a role which he is bitter about to this day.

                  ▶ ▶ ▶Madame X.

                  Madame Adelle X (last name also concealed to protect identity) worked in the scientific field as well during the lingering days of The War in genetic studies primarily for researching ways to aide and speed the healing process of soldiers by any technological means neccesary. Her work was cut drasticaly short by an alleged affair that got her kicked out of the workforce. With her remaining money and funds, Adelle started up her own business in functional fashion for mostly the noble public. Before her erradication from the science workforce, Adelle had began a side project of developing a material called Madexo that would heal burn victims through constant moisture to the wound yet block the growth of dangerous fungi at the same time due to such conditions- this project became a crucial part Maximilian's plan and the ensured the survival of the Princes.
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                  ▶ ▶ ▶Djubre.

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                  ▶ ▶ ▶King Inversitle.

                  Assistant director, in charge of advising Djubre on all B/C-related matters and designing outfits.

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