Rules of Deliciae
Any updates to these rules will be posted in an announcement.
You are responsible for keeping up with them!
Please read carefully.
Failure to follow these rules will result in immediate detention, loss of house points, or perhaps expulsion!
All offenses will be evaluated by the crew.
Any updates to these rules will be posted in an announcement.
You are responsible for keeping up with them!
Please read carefully.
Failure to follow these rules will result in immediate detention, loss of house points, or perhaps expulsion!
All offenses will be evaluated by the crew.
General
- Follow all of Gaia’s rules in the ToS.
- You must be a member of the guild to post in our forums.
- Do not create threads in the Main Forum.
- You may advertise this guild, but do so in a civil manner. Do not harass people into joining.
- Observe all posted stickies and announcements.
- Check the Room of Assistance subforum for guides and other useful information.
- Drama, coercion, harassment, and rudeness are unacceptable in the forums or chatroom. Contact a crew member if a member is causing problems.
- Check the regularly. The Captain and the Vice Captains will communicate with the whole guild via Guild Announcements.
- Times used in this forum are in the Central Standard Time or CST.
- Semesters are one month of real life time. Therefore, a whole Deliciae year is equivalent to a two month time span in real time. The third month is used for the “summer” in the guild.
- You must post in the guild. Inactive members will be removed every three months. If you know you will be absent, post in the Absences thread. If you are waiting for your student to be accepted, keep yourself from going inactive (e.g. posting in the Muggle World (OOC & Chatterbox) subforum, make a Magical Creature or a Tabernae Storeowner).
- Users must sign these rules prior to roleplaying.
Crew
- Before PMing crew members, make sure to read the Who Do You Talk to? (Read Before PMing Crew Members!) thread.
- Do not impersonate any Crew member of this guild in the chat rooms or forums. Doing so will result in an automatic and permanent removal from the guild.
- Obey all instructions given to you by a crew member/Vice Captain/Captain in guild and chatroom. Refusal to cooperate will result in removal from the guild. If crew members/Vice Captain/Captain are witnessed breaking the rules or being unfair (e.g. abusing their power, being unnaturally cruel, etc.), do not hesitate to PM a Vice Captain and provide your claim. It will be evaluated thoroughly by the Captain and the Vice Captains. The Captain, however, will have the final say as to what must be done. All issues will be discussed between the Captain and the person(s) involved, unless the Captain is absent for longer than a week or if the Captain asks a Vice Captain to step in or if the issue is about the Captain. All such events will result in a Vice Captain’s involvement.
Roleplaying
- Unless otherwise stated, all subforums should be treated as roleplay areas.
- When you wish to talk out of character (ooc), please use a form of brackets to show others. Ex: ((Hey, I’m gonna log off now. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.)) )
- When posting, students must provide: name, house, year. Professors must provide: name, class they teach. Shop owners and shop assistants must put their names and the shop they own/work at. Magical creatures must state what creature they are and their names (if applicable).
- This is a Semi-Lit to Lit roleplay (3 sentences minimum).
- Guild members should refrain from quoting other members' posts in roleplays, as it unnecessarily lengthens threads.
- Keep it PG-13 (e.g. cussing and intense romance to a minimum, cybering is absolutely not allowed).
- Stay in character. Do not godmod. That means taking control of another’s character or forcing them to do something with their character without giving them a chance to post. You must respect other roleplayers (Mary Sues are a form of godmodding).
- First-person roleplaying is not accepted in the guild (e.g. “I went towards the professor”. Using ‘I’, ‘me’, etc.). Use third person (e.g. “Linda walked towards the professor”). Also post in past tense (e.g. instead of posting, "She walks to the wall", we ask that you write, "She walked to the wall").
- If you would like to have a plot for your character and/or other characters, please read and request . Anyone who does not post will have their plots nullified. For guild-wide plots, please contact a Vice Captain.
Characters
- Before making a student, read Student Basics and Information.
Professors [x]
Magical Creatures [x]
Tabernae [x]
Follow all instructions in the Basics and Information thread for the character type you’re making. Links and information are provided for your convenience.
- You must be sorted into a house in this guild if you are a student. You cannot pick your house.
- We want original characters. Please see here for names unacceptable in our guild. The exception to this rule are the magical creatures of Hogwarts.
- Pay attention to the title of your character thread. More on titles here.
- Each character must only possess one More-Than-Average trait. The only exception is twins.
- If your character will be using an actor/actress’ face, please see the Face-Claim List to see if someone else has already used that actor/actress. Please avoid having multiple characters with the same celebrity face.
List Of Knowledge and Classes
- Classes are based on the List of Knowledge system. The List of Knowledge is to be copy and pasted into a new post in your character's student profile. Every student must attend (be posted in) each of the lessons for every one of their classes (core classes and requested electives) in order to check off the respective boxes and receive the "knowledge" taught in that particular lesson. All boxes must be checked before graduation (year seven). Example: If Max attends all of his Charms I lessons (Wingardium Leviosa, Locomotor, Incendio, and Spongify) during his first year, he can check each of those lessons off in his List of Knowledge, and he has therefore "learned" those spells.
- Those who miss lessons and fail to receive the corresponding knowledge must re-attend that particular lesson the following year (on top of all current classes) in order to acquire all of the knowledge for each class taken (which is required for graduation). Example: If Betty misses the Incendio lesson for Charms I in her first year, she must re-attend that same lesson for Charms I during her second year, on top of all of her Charms II lessons, in order to check off the Incendio box in her student profile to show that she has acquired that particular knowledge.
- List of Knowledge boxes are not to be filled with a check-mark (in order to illustrate a student’s knowledge and attendance of that lesson) if the student did not actually attend the respective lesson. This is based on the honor system, although verification of attendance may be acquired by checking for your student's post in a classroom during a particular lesson's time-frame. All guild members are responsible for keeping their own characters' Lists of Knowledge updated and accurate. Please be honest and only check off topics if your character has attended that lesson!
- If you are active in the guild and have attended all of your classes regularly, but the professor failed to teach you each of the List of Knowledge subjects for that year, you have permission to mark those subjects as completed. Make sure that during the end of the year Professor Evaluations that are to be sent to Violet the Maestro, you mention which teachers did not teach the required material for that year.
- Every year, Professors will be subject to Professor Evaluations. This means students will be rating the performance of each professor and how well they did that year. Poor performance may result in staff removal.
- If you have not taken the first level of a class, you may not continue to the next level. For example, if you have not taken Alchemy I, you may not take Alchemy II, even if the class was not offered the year before. You still must take Alchemy I before or at the same as Alchemy II for it to be an acceptable credit.
- Third years and up can pick two electives or more, but, if they have failed to make up 8 or more lessons in their List of Knowledge, they are not allowed to take elective classes. The elective classes will not be mandatory, but, if you slack off, the professor has the right to remove you from their class.
- Please see Course Selection Guide guide to find out what your required classes are and what elective options you have for each year.
- Elective professors, simply PM the Professor Manager, if you have a student you would like to remove from your class. Please state the student's name, their Gaia Username, your class name, and the reason why you are removing them. Should the Professor Manager, approve your request, the student will be removed from your class.
Chatroom
- Here is the thread for our chat rooms.
- Follow all guild rules in Chatzy.
- Please only use usernames in Chatzy.
- The chatrooms are provided for the use of members of our guild. Non-members are welcome as long as they follow all the guild rules.
- Should you argue/coerce/threaten/etc. a member of guild while in the chat or if the chatrooms are abused in any way or form, all guilty parties involved will be banned from the chatrooms.
- Do not post any pictures of yourself in Chatzy.
- The chat should not be used to discuss other guilds (with the exception of brother/sister guilds).
School
(this is for roleplaying purposes and are welcome to be broken)
(this is for roleplaying purposes and are welcome to be broken)
- This is a roleplay guild for the school invented by J.K. Rowling. We are set in Post-Second Wizarding War times, continuing the traditions of Deliciae in a Semi-Literate to Literate roleplaying fashion.
- Prefects and Caretaker will wander the hallways. Anyone who is causing trouble will be shooed along, may lose house points, and/or receive a detention.
- Students are rewarded points for good performance and answering questions correctly. Points are also deducted for bad behavior and breaking the rules.
- Only Professors, Prefects, and the Head Mistress have the ability to deduct house points and give detentions. If a Prefect gives out a detention, the student will be forced to attend the detention with the Caretaker.
- No student is allowed to wander the Crystal Woods without a teacher. It is strictly forbidden!
- No student is allowed to swim freely in "The Pond".
- First and second years are not allowed in Tabernae. Students may only be allowed with parents, guardians, holiday events, during class field trips, or if they are third years. Third years require a Parent or Guardian's signature on a permission parchment to get into Tabernae.
- Students must not use magic as they are under-age.
- After hours starts at 11pm Central Standard Time. Not sure what time that is for you where you live? Check. Anyone caught outside of their Common Room during this time will be sent straight to their room along with a deduction of house points or a detention or both.
- Deliciae is full of surprises, so don't be surprised if one day a guild announcement claims that there is a kidnapper inside Deliciae.
