Official FoN'S Rulebook (Don't post here)

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The official rulebook for the guild. Please follow them for they will be enforced.

The Three Strikes Law

First chance: You will be given a warning, meaning that the illegal action you are performing must stop.

Second chance: If the action does not stop and you have already received the first strike, Orich the God of Death shall bear down upon your rpc and feast upon his/her flesh.

Third chance: Orchid shall BAN you from the guild

The Gaia Rules & Guidelines:

We all obey these, these are the ground rules that Gaia it self have laid out. If you have not see them, I suggest you look at them…
]http://www.gaiaonline.com/info/index.php?info=rules  

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General Rules

1. No Advertising of other guilds unless spoken with the Guild Captain

2. Discussing and having debates is great, but we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. The Crew and VC decision is final in these matters.

3. Killing peoples characters IS allowed, however if your opponent has no intention of killing you, then you CANNOT kill them. In other words your opponent must have killing intent for you to be allowed to kill them. For example:

Orchid and Panthers get in a fight, both of them trying to kill the other, and Orchid beats Panthers into a bloody mess rendering him helpless. Because Panthers was trying to kill Orchid, Orchid is fully within her right to slit the traitors throat right then and there.

But!

If Panthers and Orchid get in a fight and Panthers is so afraid of Orchid that he does nothing but try to escape, Orchid cannot kill him. She can still beat him into a bloody mess, and she can then do whatever she chooses to Panthers, except kill him. So Orchid could cut off both of Panther's hands, rendering him incapable of performing jutsus, or if Panthers had a doujutsu Orchid could steal them for herself, rendering Panthers blind. So if you lose feel free to keep your character, but keep in mind that if you lose you might not have a character worth playing anymore.

4. Please wait a reasonable amount of time before complaining about nobody replying, in some cases not all the members will be online to respond instantly so please be patient. Now, if you're in the middle of a battle and the other person does not post for more than 3 days without reason then you have the right to just walk away, no auto killing though. If the person does not post for 9 days without reason and are fighting to the death, you have the right to auto kill.

5. Which brings me to the next rule, HIATUS LOG...USE IT! If you are going to be gone for more than 3 days, then post so that we know that you're going to be gone and no one will have to wait for you.

6. If your rpc is killed...get over it! Your dead. Rather than seeing it as an ending think of it as a new beginning, a way to experiment with a different village, clan, bloodline, elements and make your rpc stronger than the last.

6. Keep it PG-13. Hugging and kissing is allowed, but no cyber-sex

8. No discussions of Illegal activities

9. Crew reserves the right to remove offensive posts, meaning try and keep cursing to a minimum.

10. To keep realism, your character upon being promoted from rank to a higher rank does not immediately gain the chakra bonuses. You character will have a trial period of a week(IN RL TIME) in which they can train,build up their relations with other chars. and etc. During the seven days,the user will have to make at least three posts per day. [If there are circumstances that prevent this we can understand. No one can control life] But,for everyday a post hasn't been made another will be added until the user completes the full seven days,they will THEN get the chakra increase of their appropiate rank.

NO DOUCHEBAGGERY!

This is vague I know...but basically don't be a douchebag, or we will call you out on it!  

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RP rules

1. Follow the rules of your village

2. Godmodding, Metagaming, Autohits, and Auto learning will not be tolerated, so don't do it.

3. You can not beat someone 2 ranks higher then you alone

4. All fights outside RP must be taken to Private Message or the Complaint Forum. Remember, don't spam each others inboxes as that is rude. If the need arises, someone will be banned.

5. No portals

6. Pets are limited to pet-oriented clans. They are only allowed to perform taijutsu. They feed off the owner's jutsu. They are part of the owner's turn. They are subject to genjutsu, as well as their owner's genjutsu except for insects

7. When entering an area post where your character is coming from. When exiting an area, state where your character is going. Ex:

From Kazekage tower

Panthers arrived at the market as he looked around, not able to find Orchid anywhere. He sighed as he decided to go search the hospital instead. With her being a medical shinobi she could be there...

Exit to Suna Hospital

RPC Rules

1. Everyone starts out in the Academy. To graduate to genin each Academy has certain requirements for you to fill out. Once you fill out the requirements, speak with the kage of your village to take the Academy Test.

2. When you create your profile, you start out with ONE element. So think carefully. Please follow our profile guidelines

3. Chuunins can:
-leave the village
-Learn summoning
-learn a second element
-you can teach yourself jutsus as long as you attain the scrolls

4. Jounins can learn a third element but can only learn up to jounin of the third one and can't master it.  

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Villages:

1. If you abandon your village or leave in order to go another one, you become a missing or rogue ninja and will be hunted. The Kage of said village has the right to flat out cut your head off.

2. Killing a member of your village will count as treason and you will be immediately hunted and given missing ninja status. Killing a member who is threatening the safety of your village or someone else's will be an exception. Basically self-defense, unless you were the one that had ill intent.

3. If you do not have a village or a member of an organization, you can not rank up. Cause Missing nins don't really follow the ranking system

4. All members must take tests to rank up. There are some exceptions, but those will be reported by the crew and tested/examined appropriately. If you failed a test, you must wait three weeks before asking to retake it.

5. Upon joining the organizations such as Akatsuki you are not automatically ranked up to S-rank, you must earn that rank.

Entering a Village

When entering a village one has either two options: Entering normally or sneaking in.

If you choose to enter normally, you must speak to the guards and they will ask you to fill out a form:

-Name:
-Rank:
-Village
-Reason for Visiting:
-Equipment: (Including custom weapons and their explanation)

Once given this form, the guards will let you in, unless you say I'm here to take over.

Option 2: Sneak in the village.

In order to sneak in the village you must come up with an elaborate way of sneaking in. If I see:

-John snuck past the guards

I will send Orchid to feast upon your flesh. What I want to see is this:

-As Saito stepped up to the gates, he watched the chuunin guardsmen carefully. He noticed that each one had a sword strapped to their back. With a devilish grin on his face, Saito unsheathed his own sword, the point of the blade aimed at one of the guards. Using his chakra, Saito proppeled himself forward, stabbing one in the heart. As the other guard went in for a downawards assulat, Saito merely parried the blade and twirled his body, appearing behind the guard. Saito skillfully twirled his blade in his hand slashing the back of the guard as he fell to the ground. Spitting on the bodies, Saito went through the gates and headed towards the village.

You're shinobis darn it, do something with style.

Countries

1. Before even posting at a village, you must first post entering the country. In reality, it takes several days for one to be able to travel between villages. So the way it works is that the first post is leaving your village, then the second post is leaving your country, then the third post is entering another country, then the last post is entering the other village. Not only will it seem more intune with the anime, it'll also promote rping in the countries rather than the villages themselves.

Ex:

Leaf Village gates > Fire Country > Water Country > Mist Village Gates

2. All attacks and Invasions begin in the country first, then if you choose to, it will move unto the village.  

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Akatsuki and Demons:

1. No Demon shall be given to anyone chuunin or above.

2. No Host can have a bloodline or clan. The fact that you have a demon not only gives you a higher chakra than everyone else, it gives you special abilites as well...use them. Transplants are the only exception to this rule since you have to kill someone

3. Demon hosts must be taken alive

4. If the Host dies, the demon dies with it and returned to the Crew

5. Removing the demon does not kill the host

6. Once the demon is extracted you must leave the owner alone, he is to be unharmed and not killed or taken elsewhere.

7. It takes 3 in real life days to fully extract a demon. Regardless of number of members.

8. In order to seal a demon into another host, they must find an S ranked sealing master

9. Being in Akatsuki does not grant you S ranked status. You must earn that S by training hard  

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Bloodlines/Clans/Implants

1. Clans and Bloodlines must be purchased in order to be able to rp with it. Please send a trade to the Guild Captain. This money is not for personal gain, it will be used to put into the guild. Until I see your trade I will not put you on the list, and if you're not on the list then you can't use the bloodline or clan

2. Each person is allowed 1 clan OR 1 bloodline.

3. Obtaining an additional or Implant Bloodline must be taken from another person. Which they can give up willingly, or you can take by force.

4. Any additional bloodlines must be implanted by a Jonin or above Medical Ninja

5. All implants are to be approved by the Guild Captain

6. Implant Bloodlines are not as strong as Natural Bloodlines, and drain more chakra. Meaning that if you activate your transplanted sharingan, you waste double the chakra when using it.

7. The only transplants acceptable is one that involves the eyes, or doujutsu. Ex. the sharingan, byakugan, ranmaru's.  

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Summons:

1. Each person is allowed up to 1 Summon

2. Once obtaining a Summon you may not change

3. Obtaining Summons is done by being taught by the Original Summoner in the Summon Land, or going though the trials of the summoning land. To do so, you must ask your kage for permission to travel to the lands of the summoning. NOTE: YOUR RPC RUNS THE RISK OF DYING DURING THIS TRIAL SO THREAD CAREFULLY!

4. You may obtain a summon at Chunin Minimum, Unless you have a Demon then you may obtain one at Genin. Also note that if you're Shinobi Type is Summoning then you can obtain summons at genin

Summoning Lands

1. Somewhere in the guild threads lies a gateway to the summoning lands. You can't just show up at the summoning lands you must first post getting there by crossing the specified field, forest, mountain etc.

2. Once you go through that specified area, you must then go to the summoning land thread and post there ^_^  

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Medical and Sealing Jutsu:

1. Anyone can learn medical jutsus, but you can only learn up to chuunin rank medical jutsus.

2. If your shinobi type is Chakra Control, you can master up to Jounin medical jutsus. If your shinobi type is Medic, then you can master all medical jutsus.

3. Medical jutsus count as an element, meaning if you are a medical shinobi, your first element will be Medical. Your second element you gain at chuunin, and then the third at jounin.

4. Sealing jutsus count as an element meaning if you're a sealer you start out with sealer as your element.

7. In order to learn sealing jutsu you MUST be taught by someone, no self teaching.

8. Only the Sealing Shinobi Type can learn sealing jutsus.  

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Transplant Rules:

1. You cannot get implants from those who have had the bloodline implanted.

2. If you get an implant that is beyond the basic level, for example mangekyo sharingan, it reverts back to the base sharingan and you have to start from the beginning. This means that all those implants like sharingan, or byakugan, you will always get a base implant.

4. Limit one implant per person. This is simply to ensure someone doesn't go around getting multiple implants and overly abusing the fact that they have multiple bloodlines.

5. You can't turn them off and on.

6. The eye can be covered and it would negate the effects of the implant. Meaning, the chakra drain is shut off, and you can't see with it.  

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Auto Ranking

1. To balance the power between villages, each Kage is allowed to have at least 1 saanin, 1 jounin, and 1 chuunin at a time. The 3 must be approved by the Guild Captain in order to auto rank.

2. If your saanin or jounin or chuunin dies and you have no more, a kage can do one of two things. A) promote the next person in line, ie: promote jounin to saanin, chuunin to jounin, genin to chuunin. The promotion must be approved by both the kage and the guild captain. B) Invite someone to become your saanin, chuunin, or jounin who is not a member yet.

Note: that if you at one point have two saanins and one dies, you can not auto rank someone to take the dead one's place.

Jutsus for Auto Ranks

Just because you are now a saanin doesn't mean you know everything about everything. These are the rules for an auto ranked character.

Kages:

A) You are allowed to be a master of only 1 Taijutsu style of your village. If your specialty is taijutsu, then you can be a master of all the village taijutsu styles.

B) You can be a master of 1 element and 1 element only If you specialize in ninjutsu, if you specialize in genjutsu then you can be a master of the genjutsus of your element.

C) In addition to being a master of 1 element, you can add a total of 30 jutsus that are not your mastered element. Taijutsu styles and Genjutsu Don't count. (only for NInjutsu specialist)

D) If you specialize in taijutsu or genjutsu you get 10 jutsus that can be used towards your elements

Saanins:

A) You are allowed to be master of only 1 Taijutsu style of your village. If your specialty is taijutsu, then you can be a master of all the village taijutsu styles.

B) You can be a master of 1 element and 1 element only If you specialize in ninjutsu, if you specialize in genjutsu then you can be a master of the genjutsus of your element.

C) In addition to being a master of 1 element, you can add a total of 25 jutsus that are not your mastered element. Taijutsu styles and Genjutsu Don't count. (only for NInjutsu specialist)

D) If you specialize in taijutsu or genjutsu you get 10 jutsus that can be used towards your elements

Jounins:

A) You are allowed to know up to the final JOUNIN stage of 1 Village Taijutsu style. If your specialty is Taijutsu then you are allowed to know the jounin stages of all the taijutsu styles of your village.

B) You can know up to jounin of one element. If you specialize in ninjutsu you can be a master of that elemental ninjutsu. If you specialize in genjutsu then it will be up to jounin of that elemental genjutsu

C) In addition to that you can add a total of 20 jutsus that are not of your mastered element. Taijutsu styles and Genjutsu Don't count. (only for NInjutsu specialist)

D) If you specialize in taijutsu or genjutsu you get 10 jutsus that can be used towards your elements

Chuunins:

A) You are allowed to know up to chuunin of 1 village taijutsu style. If your specialty is taijutsu then you are allowed to know up to chuunin of all the taijutsu styles of your village

B) You can know up to chuunin of one element. If you specialize in ninjutsu you can be a master of that elemental ninjutsu. If you specialize in genjutsu then it will be up chuunin of that elemental genjutsu

C) In addition to that you can add a total of 10 jutsus that are not of your mastered element. Taijutsu styles and Genjutsu Don't count. (only for NInjutsu specialist)

D) If you specialize in taijutsu or genjutsu you get 10 jutsus that can be used towards your elements



Note: You can not add jutsus that are above your rank ie if you're a jounin you can't add kage jutsus.  

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Learning Jutsus

When learning a new jutsu one must have a certain number of posts in order to learn that jutsu. The number of posts needed is based off of the level of the jutsu in question (see below). A training post must be at least one good paragraph of at least 4 sentences in length. If the posts are not of good enough quality then your teacher or a crew member has the right to tell you to either re-write said post(s), or simply have you write more posts.

Academy: 3 posts
Genin: 5 posts
Chuunin: 8 Posts
Jounin: 12 posts
Kage: 15 posts

A special note, unless your character is of at least chuunin rank, you cannot learn jutsus on your own. There are a few exceptions to this rule which are as follows:

1. You are trying to learn clan/bloodline techniques, but you are the only member of your clan/bloodline, meaning that no actual player could teach you, in this case you may have an NPC, played by a crew member , teach you the techniques.

2. If you are trying to learn elemental jutsus, but no one in your village can use your element, then you may learn from an NPC, played by a crew member, to learn the techniques. (Note there must literally be absolutely no one in your village that can teach you the technique for you to learn it from an NPC)

3. If you are trying to learn a custom technique or taijutsu/weapon style of your own creation, then obviously there would be no one else to teach you and so you can learn it from an NPC, played by a crew member, or a scroll. (note: if you are learning it from a scroll you must get special permission from a VC or the guild captain explaining why you want to learn from a scroll)

A special note, once there is an NPC for a village that teaches a certain style/ specific elements jutsus/ clan techniques, then that same NPC must be played by the same crew member everytime, and must remain in that village. (if you have a reason why there should be an exception to the NPC teaching you please PM a VC or the guild captain with your reason why to get permission)

Areas of Technique Training

*The idea is simple. Not all areas cater to training needs, whilst others do far better then others. This will either increase or lessen the posts necessary for learning and teaching techniques.

When outside a village: The area is unfamiliar, the terrain lush, rough, and far from kept. Training is rather difficult. It is now necessary for +1 post for learning and +1 post for teaching.

Within the home village or other village: The area is familiar, but provides nothing unique. When within a home village or a regular village, there are no changes to the normal RPC's teaching and learning.

When in a training ground, or a training-specific location in any village: Here it is ideal to train. With a perfect area, and a wide-open space, ninja are able to easily train. Due to the unique area, it is now allowing for -1 for learning and -1 for teaching. (learning refers to learning on your own, teaching refers to when being taught by someone of at least chuunin rank, these two learning bonuses are the only learning bonuses that can stack)

When in a training ground at a home village: The area is very familiar. It is easy to traverse, and is very appealing to the needs of the ninja. It is advantageous in many ways, making training far easier. This allows for -2 learning and -1 teaching.

The learning bonuses cannot stack with learning bonuses from shinobi type, the greater of the two bonuses stack. For example the chakra control shinobi type gets a -2 post learning bonus, when training in a training ground in their home village with no teacher they still only receive a -2 post learning bonus, but if they have a teacher they get a -3 post learning bonus because the stacked bonus of being in the training grounds and have a teacher is greater than the bonus just from chakra control.

Note: This does not apply to the Academies.  

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Sand Element Jutsu Rules

1. Must be in Suna!
2. Must have Sand Element! (because sand has so many jutsus im only allowing 2 elements for users who chose sand, meaning you get your 2nd at jounin)
3. No being like gaara! >.> come on you not a host...
4. you may have a bloodline with it that is not a elemental bloodline.
5. Must carry around a gourd. (ill post gourd here later)
6. cannot be auto ranked!

Anything else ill post later.