Rules
All staff decisions are final. If you feel a decision is wrong, you are welcome to open a support ticket and have an appeal made. All decisions are in effect until an answer is given to the appeal. We follow the Three (3) strike rule. If the matter or situation has been dealt with prior, it will not be revisited after the Third (3rd) time.
Vulgarity: We’re not uber strict on this, but we do ask that you do not use strong vulgar words (i.e., slut, cunt, etc), racial slurs, etc. You can break certain words like A** or F**k for emotionally charged scenes but ask that it’s not repetitive. Sometimes certain things slip out, but please monitor yourself.
You can easily emote /me shouted F**K three times after stubbing my little toe on the coffee table.
No bullying
No racism.
For the sake of sanity, please, avoid discussing heated real life topics such as: religion, politics, covid, etc.
These things may come up in roleplay and it’s fine, just make sure you’re able to dissociate your real feelings to prevent it from becoming something a member of management would need to step in on.
We do not allow covid or school violence roleplays.
No terrorist events (school shootings or school related violence with mass casualties, no mention of real life terrorist groups or operations or roleplay around it, no bombing school or hospital [this includes the surface school office above Whalemart], no replication real life terrorist events)
We do not allow covid or pandemic level roleplays. We may have the normal flu and cold season, a supernatural ailment, or other community wide roleplays but this is done at the discretion of Grimlocke management and the Director of the Hospital.
No voice. You can use private calling, discord, or various other methods to talk to someone if you need.
Voice is turned off except on home parcels, fire department, and select areas.
All voice Role Play (RP) is voided, only exceptions under approval by management.
You have a situation where typing is extremely hard – being drunk is not an excuse. Go to bed.
Please clean up after yourself. Do not keep items rezzed out that are not on your rental property with the exception of a crime or roleplay scene. Please notify a member of staff if you are leaving items out for longer then you will physically be at the scene. Rez is left on for photography and visitors to roleplay but if this becomes an issue, we will lock it to closed rez.
Crime boxes – if you do a roleplay crime or setting up a scene, you are required to leave a crime box detailing what would be seen/found. You are welcome to set it up as a scavenger hunt and have it investigated. But a crime box must be left. You can get a crime marker from the welcome center.
Characters can not “NPC” check-out of the hospital or jail after a roleplay where they were In Character (IC) placed. This requires interaction with the appropriate agency. If you are finding yourself unable to roleplay this, one of our moderators will help you fade to black. This does not apply if you were transported to the hospital and no medical was available. In that case, it’s an automatic fade to black and you’re free to go. However, if you choose to be admitted and no one is online, you can check in via Discord.
Roleplays:
Voiding roleplays -this is generally disapproved of as it affects multiple people. If you’ve laid a scene and it’s been investigated or if you’ve done a roleplay that involves more than just you – you will need management approval to void. The only firm denial for voiding roleplays would be trying to get out of the roleplay consequences. You do an action, you accept the reaction.
Mimic roleplays: Mimicking is the best form of flattering but this is discouraged as this tends to burn out emergency services and others who are pulled into it. If group 1 has a kidnapping happen, group 2 should not be having a near identical roleplay either during or right after. It’s advised you wait a few days before starting your own arc out of respect for the emergency service staff. You are welcome to reach out and ask if you want to do it at the same time and verify there is manpower to handle it.
Roleplays involving all emergency services: We heavily discourage repeating the same roleplay on repeat (ie, group 1 has a runaway, runaway is located, runaway #2 leaves) in close succession. We have a 2 week cooldown between heavy style roleplays that involve police or other emergency services to prevent burnout on our small departments.
Before setting a fire or needing immediate emergency services, please verify in OOC group chat we have active duty available.
Just because someone is online does not mean they are actively on duty.
If you want to leave an offline 911 to point towards a crime scene marker - you can use the #ic-communications channel in our discord, tag as a 911 call.
Please do not teleport in and out in public places when it’s avoidable – create landmarks off to the side of the buildings or inside a room like a restroom.
Do not go into someone’s active rental without permission or following the notecards if they have a Roleplay OK sign. See 5:1
Clothing – Chest (women) and pelvis must be covered at all times with bits and bobs removed when possible. Child avatars must be fully clothed at all times. We’re aware real life toddlers run around in their diapers most of the time, but this is a game not real life. As per Linden Labs TOS, all child avatars (under 18 years old) must wear BOM undergarment(s) at all times as well.
Slappers or other similar attachments (that represent bedroom style behavior) that speak in local chat– These are to be removed as they are disruptive to roleplay and some people tend to troll avatars who wear them.
What we had figured was a no brainer, we now have to add to our rules. No sex or sexual talk outside of your rented privacy parceled home. This applies to all businesses, Correctional and Medical facilities, cars in the forest, and any area that is not a private residence that is privacy parceled. Both the OOC and RP group chats have this applied as well. Mentioning adult/sex related activities in the chats is not appropriate in a family community.
IC actions have IC consequences. Do a crime, be prepared to go to jail. There is no such thing as a perfect crime, you will eventually be caught.
You will not be placed in jail longer than 7 RL days. If you find yourself still in jail or it’s been longer than 2 weeks since arrest and trial - please contact the Sheriff or a member of staff.
You may be released from jail with parole or probation depending on crime.
Your character will maintain their criminal record
Events tagged as SPN or 18+
SPN - Supernatural only
If you are a human and you go into an area marked as a SPN location or to an event that’s advertised as SPN, you are agreeing to supernatural roleplay.
18+ - NO MINOR AGED AVATARS.
This is non-negotiable. You are not allowed to attend or “accidentally” stumble into an area where this is happening. While we do not permit XXX roleplays within the public areas of Grimlocke, child avatars do not need to be involved in every event.
You are welcome to switch into an adult form - either as a fully appearing adult or another character.
Abusing Roleplay Chat
We are not a telenova but a stage for all to tell their story. We have had people comment it’s hard to break into roleplay because they feel unable to step in.
You are welcome to use Roleplay chat when your group is outside of local chat range
It is heavily encouraged to take your roleplay to local when everyone is within that 19m (yes 20m but 19m is a safer number) distance from each other.
If there is no activity in Roleplay chat - you are free to use it for your stage but follow a post order if someone else posts and keep your posts limited to one every several minutes.
Use Roleplay Chat to let others know where you’ll be at to encourage roleplay - but do not use it to say you’re going to a location and not show up.
Ghost emoting (emoting you are somewhere that you are not physically at) is prohibited without permission from those it affects. (ie, Jane is going to Whalemart. Billy is elsewhere on the grid or using the relay and says he’s at Whalemart and tries to interact with Jane’s character by emoting in a way that forces Jane to respond. This causes disruption and is unfair to the person physically there. Always seek permission before ghost emoting and accept a denial with grace.)
Last Updated 01/10/25