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 Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:00 pm
Rules 1 - Follow the TOS 2 - Think Before you Act or Speak 3 - Do Not Converse in 1337. 4 - Pretend to be literate. I understand English may not be your first language, but it is my only language, and while I will try to work with you, when in doubt use a dictionary. 4 - Unless in Designated OOC or Plot Threads do not converse OOCly. 5 - Use OOC brackets if needed. 6 - Play Nice 7 - Foul language is not accepted. Keep it PG-13. My definition of PG-13 Follows the American Motion Pictures Association.  Motion Picture Association of America A PG-13 rating is a sterner warning by the Rating Board to parents to determine whether their children under age 13 should view the motion picture, as some material might not be suited for them. A PG-13 motion picture may go beyond the PG rating in theme, violence, nudity, sensuality, language, adult activities or other elements, but does not reach the restricted R category. The theme of the motion picture by itself will not result in a rating greater than PG-13, although depictions of activities related to a mature theme may result in a restricted rating for the motion picture. Any drug use will initially require at least a PG-13 rating. More than brief nudity will require at least a PG-13 rating, but such nudity in a PG-13 rated motion picture generally will not be sexually oriented. There may be depictions of violence in a PG-13 movie, but generally not both realistic and extreme or persistent violence. A motion picture’s single use of one of the harsher sexually-derived words, though only as an expletive, initially requires at least a PG-13 rating. More than one such expletive requires an R rating, as must even one of those words used in a sexual context. The Rating Board nevertheless may rate such a motion picture PG-13 if, based on a special vote by a two-thirds majority, the Raters feel that most American parents would believe that a PG-13 rating is appropriate because of the context or manner in which the words are used or because the use of those words in the motion picture is inconspicuous. In This case the Rating Board is the Guild Crew, and any NON PG-13 content can be edited for content but will not be deleted, in order to keep guild content within the confines of the TOS. 8 - No Cybering, explicit Sexual content will be edited and or deleted. Take it to MSN or AIM where we don’t have to read all the details.
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:03 pm
Repercussions
- What Happens when we break the rules? - Throughout most of the United Stated we have an understanding, and since 1994 it has been a national understanding as well as a California State Law, known as the Three Strikes Law [1]. In 1994, voters approved what is now a controversial law known as the 3 Strikes Law. This law was designed to control the recidivism [2] rates. Basically the law states that after the third felony, an offender is eligible for 25 years to life in prison. Any violation of the TOS within this Guild qualifies as a strike. Three strikes laws are statutes enacted by state governments in the United States which require the state courts to hand down a mandatory and extended period of incarceration to persons who have been convicted of a serious criminal offense on three or more separate occasions. These statutes became very popular in the 1990s. They are formally known among lawyers and law professors as habitual offender laws. First Strike: Your First Offense will cost you 5% of all RP XP earned over the course of 30 days. Second Strike: Your Second Offense will cost you 25% of all RP XP earned over the course of 60 days. Third and Final Strike: Your Third Offense you Strike Out. You will be banned from the Guild and all offensive posts or activities will be reported to a GaiaOnline Moderator. [1] The name comes from baseball, where a batter has two strikes before striking out on the third. [2] Recidivism: relapsing into crime: the tendency to relapse into a previous undesirable type of behavior, especially crime.
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:04 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:05 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:05 pm
Three Strikes - Banned - Black Listed
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:48 pm
The Behon Laws While human laws have become more and more elaborate and refined, Fae law is exceptionally simple, keeping with the laws that have governed them since before they crossed the ocean. The Brehon Laws were the statutes that governed everyday life and politics in Ireland during the Gaelic period. They were partially eclipsed by the Norman invasion of 1169, but underwent a resurgence in the 13th century, and survived in parallel to English law over the majority of the island until the 17th century. The word "Brehon" is the Irish word for a judge. The laws were written in the Old Irish period (ca. 600–900 AD) and are assumed to reflect the traditional laws of pre-Christian Ireland. These secular laws existed in parallel, and occasionally in conflict, with Canon law throughout the early Christian period. The laws were a civil rather than a criminal code, concerned with the payment of compensation for harm done and the regulation of property, inheritance and contracts: the concept of state-administered punishment for crime was foreign to Ireland's early lawmakers. They show Ireland in the early medieval period to have been a hierarchical society, taking great care to define social status, and the rights and duties that went with it, according to property, and the relationships between lords and their clients and serfs.
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:17 pm
Women and MarriageThe right of women to have greater freedom, independence and rights to property.
Divorce provided either party be impotent/barren or homosexuality on the husband's part, after which property is divided according to what contribution each spouse had made to the household.
A husband while legally permitted to hit his wife to "correct" her, but if the blow left a mark she was entitled to the equivalent of her bride-price in compensation and could, if she wished, divorce him.
Property of a household could not be disposed of without the consent of both spouses.
However, in the event of suit from an outside party a spouse is not permitted to act as witnesses, their testimony being considered "biased and dishonest." KingshipThe basic unit of political organization provided for was the tuath (tribal or petty kingdom), headed by a rí (king). Kingship of a tuath was not inherited by primogeniture: a new king would be elected by the aristocracy of the tribe from a number of eligible candidates.
Any adult who was the child, grandchild or great-grandchild of a previous king, in direct line, was eligible, although one with a physical "blemish" (e.g. a missing limb) was not eligible. This led to many contenders intentionally blinding their rivals for the succession.
Often, a king would choose a tánaiste (heir apparent, literally "second") who would be best placed to succeed at his death. Kings were themselves subject to the law and had little power to create laws or issue edicts except in emergencies.
These tuatha were, by convention, grouped into four over-kingdoms or provinces: Leinster, Ulster, Munster, and Connacht. Each province had a king, normally chosen from among the kings of the tuatha, who exercised some power over the other kings in the province. The provincial kings were supposedly subject to a High King, who ruled from Tara in the "fifth royal province" of Mide. ClientshipA member of the property-owning classes could advance himself by becoming a "free client" of a more powerful lord. The lord would make his client a grant of property for a fixed period of time.
The client would owe service to his lord, and at the end of the grant period would return the grant with interest. Any increase beyond the agreed interest was his to keep. This allowed for a certain degree of social mobility as an astute free client could increase his wealth until he could afford to have clients of his own, thus becoming a lord in his own right.
A poorer man could become a "base client" by selling a share in his honor-price, making his lord entitled to part of any compensation due him. The lord would make him a smaller grant of land or livestock, for which the client would pay rent in produce and manual labor. A man could be a base client to several lords simultaneously. GravelkindGavelkind was a species of tribal succession, by which the land was divided at the death of the holder amongst his sons. Illegitimate sons, but not daughters, were included in the division. The Normans gave this Irish inheritance law the name Gavelkind due to its apparent similarity to Saxon inheritance in Kent.
Often the father prescribed the division before his death. A variant occurred whereby the youngest son divided the land into equal parts. The eldest chose first, followed by the second and so on until the youngest received the remaining land.
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