Anwethia MUX - anwethia.mushpark.com 3498

Welcome!

Introductions

Hark, I herald out to thee, a realm of mystery and intrigue.

Great bards of Liosliath spin words of delight and hidden designs for you to uncover.
Take heed we seek creative adventurers only.
Strive we aim for all to enjoy the plenteous variety of roleplay to reap and plunder.
A sleight of hand that is not seen and plots that need help to unfold. Join in all the bounty we offer.

--- Join in the adventures of Anwethia - Opened Jan 2008 ---
ROLE Play, not ROLL Play. A world crafted where you and your fellow RP'ers creativity and inspiration to craft stories that will grow as Anwethia grows. A world crafted where everyone's stories matters and will contribute to how it develops. A world crafted where you have the opportunity to play high-ranking feature level characters.
We are looking for motivated players for :

Master Healer - Merchants - Craftspeople - Nobles - Magistrates - City Guard
Anwethia offers a +roster or players may make their own characters.

Website - http://members.cox.net/anwethia Connect - anwethia.mushpark.com 3498
Wiki and Forum - http://anwethia.wikidot.com/
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Anwethia Theme

Our goal for Anwethia
Anwethia is a original fantasy medieval theme MUSH - a world where everyone's story matters, where everyone can contribute as hero or villain. The theme and world has been crafted and presented so players can find inspiration and opportunities for their own characters development. Our aim is to be unique and flexible, within the bounds of theme, allowing players to find their own place in cooperative role play. The printing press has yet to be invented. Majority of the population is illiterate. Travel is by foot, horse, ship and carriage. Weapons are traditional medieval, being swords, daggers, bow and the such. Feudal system (Nobles, commoners) is the political and social structure.
Politics - both internal and eventually external to Liosliath, intrigue, mystery, conflict, merchant, magic are all part of or planned to be part of the world. The darker side of medieval times such as slavery, torture, forced sex are not.

The Story

The known world is comprised of many lands and peoples, including but not limited to: the Polar Regions, the Plains, Garragg, Keranna and Liosliath. One thousand years ago, the medieval world of Anwethia was almost destroyed by the misuse of powerful elemental magic's. The wisest of these mage's came together to save this world and they formed what would be known as the Guardians. Under their guardianship, gateways to other worlds were discovered. From the guardians, the best called Ley Riders were chosen to guard these gateways. At this time in Anwethia's history there is no dominating power, a void that cannot last. A void that the others are jostling to fill. The Plains tribes war with Garragg at its northern borders. Liosliath in the southeast area of the continent has freed itself from its conquerors and seeking to rebuild itself. Liosliath is ambitious and maneuvering to be that power. But first it must rebuild itself while facing dangerous challenges such as rogue mage's, pirates, coastal and border raiders, politics and infighting, natural disasters add their destabilizing presence. The port city of Carraig is just re-establishing itself as a trading crossroads.

Welcome to Anwethia.

Where we ROLE Play and not ROLL Play. No sheet, no skills/stats. Anwethia is Creativity, the inspiration to craft stories that will grow as the individual characters and Anwethia grows. A world crafted where everyone's stories matters. A world with a dedicated inspired staff. A world offering new players the opportunity to play high-ranking feature level characters. Role Play will be focused around Carraig and Caer Glas, the Thanes keep.
Liosliath has a roster of characters or players may create their own. We also offer a unique QuickGen for those wanting to quickly experience the IC world with a limited character concept.

Current Member Pages:

- > A Diy: A Do It Yourself Page < -

Ceridwen

Cuiorne

Deirdre Uladh

Duncan Arinos

Ebahr Theatis

Iagan Clachan

Lovel DaLady

Maidhc Uladh

Meghan McDaid

Niahl Docartaig

Rian Melaghlin

Sephie DaPerfect

Shado DaStaffer

Tamara Clachan

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AUP-Must Read!

Every player will be required to read and +accept the AUP – Acceptable Use Policy - as part of character generation. In addition all players shall read these files.

Topic	Summary
AUP	- Acceptable Use Policy.
Consent	- ICA - ICC
Harassment	- Don’t harass
Homosexuality	- Not an issue here
Spying	- No spying and no hidden logging objects
TS	-Get a room! TS is unwelcome in public places
TP	-Tiny Plots and RP
Quotas	-For those players interested in building and objects
Purge	-Character Inactivity Purge

Disclaimer

This MUSH is an adult rated environment. By connecting to the MUSH, you are taking full responsibility for your own actions, absolving the mush, its users, admin and owners legally from anything you may do on the mush while connected. You also agree to abide by the laws of your jurisdiction while connected to the mush. It is, at all times, your responsibility to ensure you are in compliance with local law.

Acceptable Use Policy

Accepting this policy means that without reservations you will not hold the MUSH ownership or other players responsible for any violation of your laws.
You agree to adhere to the in game files (described below):
news ts
news spying
news consent
news Harassment
Any deliberate provocation (particularly in the form of flames, fight picking and rudeness) will not be tolerated.
While we cannot, and will not, dictate someone's OOC (Out Of Character) attitudes, we can and will stress that within Anwethia each individual is fully expected to show OOC respect to all other players. Degrading homophobic comments in any manner will not be accepted and will be treated as, and dealt with as, Harassment.
Violation of this AUP may result in any or all of the following:
- suspension of access resources for a time to be determined by the administrators
- removal or confiscation of your character
- notification of your site and/or system administrators and civil and/or law enforcement authorities.
If you do not agree to abide by these rules, this mush is not for you and we wish you happiness wherever you decide to go. -

Consent

Anwethia is a consent-based mush. We cannot stress it enough: NO character may in any way harm another character, or start any kind of scene, without first receiving OOC permission from other characters player to do so.
Consent also means that during RP you should not force your actions to other players. If your actions involve something happening to other players, you should request their permission in page first.
An example: Niahl is in a scene with Caitlin and suddenly wants to toss snowball at her face. There is three ways to handle this action.
1) Niahl poses in a way that leaves the result open, like this: "Niahl tosses snowball at Caitlin, aiming at her face." Caitlin is free to describe in her own pose the result of Niahls action. This is typical of consent-based RP which does not use skills or stats to determine the result.
2) Niahl requests Caitlins OOC permission (consent) before his pose, like this: Niahl pages, "I'd like to toss snowball towards your face, is that ok with you?" Caitlin pages back her reply, determining if she accepts the action at all, and whether it hits or not.
3) Players refer for the staff to GM the result. In this example, this might happen if players agree to toss but for some peculiar reason can not decide themselves, whether snowball hits or not.
What Niahls player can not do, is simply have Niahl toss the snowball and have it hit Caitlin, without her permission, posing like this: "Niahl tosses snowball and hits Caitlin straight in her nose." Of course, no-one can actually prevent you making such poses, but this is called power-playing, i.e. posing in a way that forces things to happen to other player. That is very impolite and irresponsible behavior in a consent-based game, it should never be done.

ICA = ICC

Consent does not mean you are free to do anything you want, subject to above rules. That is because this Mush is also ICA = ICC - in character actions equal in character consequences. What this means is that you can not hide behind consent to avoid RP consequences your actions may have. When you use consent to do something, you consent other characters to respond with their own actions.
Put simply this: when your character makes IC action, the player must consent to face IC consequences. Continuing the example above, Niahl should be ready to accept that tossing snowball at Caitlin may get her ICly mighty angry. She may immediately walk away, have angry words with him or respond with hostile actions (even if she OOCly gave her permission happily).
So while your character may request and receive consent from Thanes player to hit the Thane character, ICA = ICC means that you give Thane consent to respond to that action. Thane would be in his rights to toss your character into jail to cool off for some time.
Consent rule on the other hand suggests that when your character asks from Thanes player permission to hit him, Thanes player should warn the player of possible IC consequences of that action.
So think first, then do silly things if you want to. Common sense is usually enough to apply both consent and ICA = ICC rules. The Staff has always the final judgment of the IC consequences when players are not able to find agreement. If player refuses to cooperate with Staffs decision of IC consequences, then Staff may power pose said consequences.
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Harassment

It is our hope that everyone who comes to play on Anwethia is a mature, responsible adult. Treat others like you would wish them to treat you, and never ever forget the Consent rule. That in itself goes a long way.
However, we are only human. Subsequently the following rules apply to harassment.

Forms of harassment

Harassment can take many forms, such as intruding on privacy, anger and sexual harassment.
- OOC Privacy - Respect the OOC privacy of others. Not everyone is comfortable with sharing RL information; don’t dig for it. This goes both ways. Be certain that the other party wishes to know what you wish to share - before sharing.
- Paging - If someone asks you to stop paging them, do so.
- Anger - Don’t use foul language or degrade another player. This includes com
channels.
- Sexual harassment - Paging and/or trying to maneuver a character (either OOCly or ICly) into TS when the other player has made it clear they are not interested.

Dealing with harassment

When player feels being harassed, he/she must *specifically* speak out and state his/her objections for harassment to be considered. We understand sometimes people do not get along with each other IC or OCC, still we fully expect all to respect each other.
Players being harassed are to log the situation as it is happening and @mail or email the complete unedited log to admin. This log must include at least one request to cease the behavior by the harassed.
When harassment has occurred, the Staff will take steps to assist the harasser in correcting his/her behavior.
If harassment still continues, the Staff will not be forgiving.

Homosexuality

IC - Liosliath is a gender-neutral society. This includes marriage, inheritance, adoption, and other laws related to relationships. Homosexuality is not an issue in society or in law, and is not a subject of general prejudices. This does not mean there may not be homophobic characters within the world if such attitudes make IC sense to the specific character. However, such attitudes would be contrary to social norms of Liosliath. Note: Other lands have not been defined.
OOC - While we cannot, and will not, dictate someone’s OOC attitudes, we can and will stress that within Anwethia each individual is fully expected to show OOC respect to all other players. Degrading homophobic comments in any manner will not be accepted and will be treated as, and dealt with as, Harassment.

Spying

Spying - No. Not allowed.
By this, we mean it is forbidden to have locations set broadcast without a clear OOC NOTE in the location.
In addition - Logging objects (those which log or record poses) are not allowed without an obvious OOC note in the description. Such objects shall not be set dark under any circumstances.

TS

The MUSH policy on Tinysex is, put simply: Get a room.
While TS is not forbidden, but a matter of personal choice and role-playing preference, we believe that it is not a vital part of in public MUSH life.
For those not sure what we mean by TS (tiny sex), it is sexual acts or conversations performed online between PCs.
TS in public rooms is *NOT* acceptable.
Public TS is defined as behavior of a lewd sexual nature in a public place. A public place is a room where you would not ICily need invitation to go. The city square is public; a characters bedroom isn’t.
Any on-camera rape scene, whether in private or in public, whether with or without consent, will lead to an immediate and irreversible site ban for the players in question. This is not negotiable.
NOTE: We can’t control the level of TS on the MUSH - nor do we wish to! This said, don’t let it get in the way of your public RP. Spending all, or the majority of, your time in a private room will be frowned upon.

TP

Staff will from time to time run TPs ( Tiny Plots), we will make every effort to involve as many people as we can and who express interest in being involved in TPs. We can’t read your minds, if you are interested in TPs make that known. If you are involved with a TP, make all efforts to be online and active when scenes are scheduled. We understand, as you do, RL must come first. The staff person running the TP will make all possible arrangements to be online during scheduled scenes or to have someone fill in for him/her - we and your fellow players expect the same consideration from you.
Players are free and encouraged to run TPs with or without staff involvement. We do ask if the player run TP will have any far reaching impacts that TP is discussed with and cleared with staff.
Staff is not and cannot be expected to drive all RP, by being part of this mush your PC has responsibilities in generating and participating in Role Play.

Quota

Players will be allowed private rooms; of course, spending all your time hidden away in a private room defeats the entire purpose of the game and will be frowned upon.
Any building ideas for public RP must be approved by Staff before you start. If the project is deemed, by staff, in the best interests of the game then additional arrangements can be made.
On objects - any object that logs conversations must be made known in the object description with a OOC note. Such objects will never be set dark.

Purge

Characters will be subject to purging within the guidelines below. There are three classifications of character purge being;
1. A character who has been approved, has been IC and does not login for 30 days. We understand RL may require absences for greater than 30 days, if such is the situation the player must contact staff and arrangements will be made.
2. Character has accepted the AUP, has not submitted a background and does not log in for 10 days.
3. Character has not accepted the AUP.