Policy

Haven is a MUSH for roleplaying and social interaction as well as for building, and coding. We are an open and friendly MUSH, and we try to be helpful to all whether they are new users or old.

Although Haven is not purely a sex MUSH, we do have areas in it that are only appropriate to adults. Therefore, we do not allow any users under the age of 18. Haven reserves the right to nuke the account(s) of users we have good reason to believe are underage and ban them from coming here again. If your country defines the legal adult age to be 21, we ask that you do not come here until you have reached that age.

By connecting to Haven and creating a user account, you automatically concede that Haven and its administration will not be held responsible or liable for minors (users deemed not of legal age by the country they reside in). Any damages or compensation to the wounded parties incurred by Haven are equivalent to $0.00.

Sexual practice is welcome at Haven, but we ask that you restrict adult sexual behaviour to areas designated for such practices and within private areas away from the normal flow of user traffic.

We accept all genders, race, nation, sexual orientation, religious faiths, and those with disabilities. Discrimination against anyone because of their gender, race, nation, orientation, religion or disability will not be tolerated on Haven. If anyone is caught engaging in this behaviour and it is brought to the attention of the staff, the Haven administration will deal with them as we see fit.

When naming your character, please keep in mind that the overarching theme of the Mush is Celtic in nature. Names like 'Luke Skywalker', 'CoolDude', etc., are inappropriate. You can rename your character at anytime by typing @name me = <newname>. A good source of Celtic names and their meanings can be found at http://www.babynameworld.com/celtic.asp.

All characters are required to follow Haven's theme. It is a self-contained world dominated by the Celts. Characters from other worlds and cultures are not allowed. The only exception to this are Norse characters due to far to the North of all the Celtic realms there being Norse regions. The only true Gods in Haven are Celtic and to a lesser degree Norse Gods, all others simply do not exist and should any character follow a false God they will get no power from them. For further information on theme see http://www.oocities.org/HavenMUSH/theme.html.

Haven absolutely will not, under any circumstances, tolerate the depiction of sexual acts with or by minors (characters under the age of sixteen). This is inclusive of characters whose actual age is under 16, their race equivalent to being under age 16 and/or bodily representing or otherwise physically portraying a character under 16 (i.e., "My character is really 16, she just /looks/ 12).

This is retroactive, effective immediately, and applies to /all/ characters, regardless of how long they've been here.

Due to the problem we have had with people playing sexually active minors in the past, we must now ask everyone to seek admin approval of their character concept BEFORE creating ANY character under the age of 16. You ARE still allowed to play child characters, start an IC family, etc., you simply must first talk to staff before engaging in any RP. This is also effective for all pre-existing characters. You MUST see a staff member as soon as possible to discuss your concept BEFORE you engage in any more RP with your underage character.

Following is a list of intolerable acts and behaviour:

- Non-consensual emotional or physical abusive to users.

- Stealing code

- Shouting on the chat channels. (Please refer to the following web site on MUSH chat etiquette: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~claire/texts/netiquette.html)

- Users advertising of their own MUSH, MUD, talker, MUX, MUVE, MUCK or any other similar place (MU* or ElseMU*).

- Giving money to other characters who have not earned it. If they provide a service in which they can receive payment then giving money is allowed. If both parties simply pretend a service was provided then both parties shall receive a fine. Should both parties attempt to get around this rule by making it such a simple and quick service that little effort needs to be made then both parties can also expect a fine. The service most be something that takes effort. Sharing money between the alts of the same player are never allowed and a strong fine will be given to both alts should this occur.

- Trolling for sex. By this we mean constantly asking various people for sex or using the channels over and over to ask for sex.

- Underage sex. Although underaged roles are permitted, roles under the age of 16 or the characters race equivalent are not to engage in sexual situations.

Haven has no limit to the amount of characters a player may have. However, Haven staff should be informed when you create a new character. Players are allowed to have more than one of their characters on at the same time however should you decide to roleplay both characters in the same room as each other with other players we ask that you let the other players know. It is forbidden to reveal the alt of another player without their express permission unless it is to a member of staff.

Staff reserve the right to review conversations of players should they suspect any of the players have harmful intentions towards another player, staff member or to the MUSH as a whole. They shall respect players privacy on all other occasions.

We are a friendly and open MUSH and by sticking to this policy we hope to stay that way. The owners of Haven also reserve the right to change and modify the policy as they see fit to suit the best interest of the administration and its users.

Enjoy your stay here and thank you for your patronage.

Sincerely,

The Haven Administration
 
 

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