Rules
All players, applicants, and mods are expected to abide by these rules. If there are any questions or concerns regarding these rules, please reach out to the mods in the server.
General
- IRK is a server meant for adults which provides a safe space for our members to explore mature themes, pertaining to social critique, grave injury or trauma. The mod team asks you to refrain from romanticising triggering topics or mentioning them unprompted without warning OOC and IC.
- Upon entering the preserver, the mod team assumes that you have read our informed consent form and that you are aware of and ready to handle IRK’s content.
- Please don’t create any external servers of IRK (For AU, NSFW, etc). If you need more channels to chat or RP, you are more than welcome to ask a mod! Mods reserve the right to kick members participating in these activities.
- Respect the privacy of everyone in the server, please do not share personal information / DMs / Screenshots / Recordings from any of the VCs without permission from the involved parties.
- Please do not discuss other RP groups, references/jokes pertaining to other RP groups or any RP-related drama in the server.
- Please make sure to remain civil and respectful of other people on the server. Always ask for consent and be mindful of people’s discomfort.
- Please keep negativity out of the server, including venting personal problems, heavy political circumstances, vague posting, fandom discourse and negative jokes (excessive self-depreciation, suicidal ideation, nihilism, depressiveness, self-harm).
- Homophobia, transphobia, transmisogyny, racism, antisemitism, ableism, and any deliberate forms of bigotry will not be tolerated. We will warn you, but it’s not our job to educate you.
- Please ensure you have read and understood the rules, you may always ask for clarification in the QnA. Being oblivious to a rule won’t excuse breaking it.
- As IRK is a highly experimental and ever-expanding project, there may be elements in IRK that need improvement or replacement. The mod team asks for your patience and understanding. Applicants and members are more than encouraged to report loopholes, exploits or elements that otherwise need fixing.

Art & Roleplay
- Roleplay in IRK is Paragraph style. During Events, we recommend writing one or two paragraphs of about 2-3 sentences to maintain the momentum of the RP. Script style is not allowed.
- We consider 1 week to be the longest a player may go without replying to an ongoing RP outside of events. We ask that members inform their RP partner or mods ahead of time if they are unable to reply within this time frame.
- RP and HC may only be done within the server. Anything that happens in DMs is not canon to IRK’s story progression.
- Heavy themes and grave injury are present in IRK’s narrative. Certain scenarios might harm or otherwise kill your OC, but mods will announce this ahead of time. It is up to you to decide if you want to participate.
- Players are allowed to opt out of any RP scenario if it makes them uncomfortable OOC. Please communicate this with your RP partners and the mods.
- Injury, gore, violence and death are allowed to be depicted in RP and art. Members must spoiler and tag this content with the necessary trigger warnings.
- Your RP is collaborative and a give-and-take experience. Try to avoid main characterism and give every OC an opportunity to shine.
- IC does not reflect OOC. Please don't presume that a writer shares their character's thoughts and beliefs.
- No Godmodding / Powerplaying. Godmodding/ Powerplaying is taking control of another person’s OC. You do not decide how another mun’s OC reacts, what they are/were doing or what they feel like, you only control your own OC.
- No metagaming. Your character only knows about things that happened to them directly in RP or were told to them in RP by another character.
- Strategising and discussion must be done IC, your characters cannot read each other's minds. Leave OOC discussion to OOC matters.

NSFW
- NSFW that is okay to share in IRK only refers to tasteful nudity and lighthearted innuendos. The mod team considers anything further (Mentions of smut, pornographic art, sexual fetishes, and kinks) to be beyond the scope of our vision for the group.
- Refrain from mentioning any heavy, triggering or disturbing topics such as [[ suicide, self-harm, paedophilia and grooming, incest, sexual violence, etc]]. Though it can be part of an OC’s biography, please do not discuss or RP this in graphic detail!
- Please do not make sexual jokes about another player or their character without their permission, or if they are not present to give consent.
- Gratuitous gore and sexual content are not allowed. Graphic descriptions or images of assault or sex will result in a ban.

Violations
- Bigotry and unsolicited provocations of any kind will not be tolerated. Mods hold the right to interfere when there is evident harm. Mods will shut down any disagreements that are unproductive and have no helpful resolutions. Members will be timed out or banned when persisting after being asked to stop.
- Mods will expect members to solve personal disagreements themselves, especially regarding RP. Mods are not responsible to step in unless you can provide evidence of harassment or manipulation after personal attempts to resolve the issue.
- Mods will always do their best to be as approachable and unbiased as possible. We’ll do our best to help if you approach us about an issue.
- The mods employ a minor and major offence system, where three minor offences or one major offence will result in an immediate ban from the server.
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Minor offences include:
- Posting unsanctioned NSFW
- Bringing up triggers unprompted
- Excessive negativity that affects server members
- Escalating disagreements
- Exclusionary behaviour
- This list might be expanded in the future
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Major offences include:
- Bigotry
- Harassment and manipulation
- Guilt tripping
- Doxxing server members
- Shittalking and gossip circles
- This list might be expanded in the future
